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Greek artillery piece in Albania 1940

 

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Greek soldiers with captured Italian M13/40 tank

 

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Soldiers of Greek 85th Infantry Regiment

 

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Greek soldier with captured L3/35 Tankette

 

[Louis]

The Distomo massacre memorial.

The Distomo massacre was a Nazi war crime perpetrated by members of the Waffen-SS in the village of Distomo, Greece, during the Axis occupation of Greece during WW2.-

On June 10, 1944, for over two hours, Waffen-SS troops of the 4th SS Polizei Panzergrenadier Division under the command of SS-Hauptsturmführer Fritz Lautenbach went door to door and massacred Greek civilians, reportedly in revenge for a partisan attack. A total of 218 men, women and children were killed in Distomo, a small village near Delphi.-

 

[Louis]

An PLZ P24 F fighter of the Royal Greek Air Force has made an emergency landing after a combat with a Messerschmitt Bf109 in April, 1941.-

 

[Louis]

Mt Lycabettus in Athens, observed by a german soldier.

 

[Louis]

Greek soldiers fight the Axis Italian Fascist invasion in the mountains of Albania during the Greco-Italian War, nov 1940.

 

[Louis]

Greek soldiers fend off the Fascist Italian invasion in the mountains of Albania .

 

[Louis]

Greek clarion in northern Greece, 6 Jan 1941.

 

[Louis]

This greek soldiers use a rangefinder to target invading enemy Italian positions in the Pindus mountain range, Greece. Nov 1940.

 

[Louis]

Partisans who fought german invaders during the battle of Crete, may 1941 .

 

[Louis]

Lost images were cleaned.
Except the @Cargol signature.

 

[Louis]

In a hospital in Athens, a nurse reads the weekly to wounded Greek soldiers during battle against the Italians, Jan 1941.

 

[Louis]

Greek and British soldiers operating an anti-aircraft gun, 1941.

 

[Louis]

May, 1941, Greek soldiers mingle with a local civilian on Crete prior to the German invasion of the island.

 

[Louis]

Born in Macedonia, Ottoman Empire in 1906, Dimitrios Itsios was a Greek Vlach reserve non-commissioned officer (Sergeant) in the Greek Army during World War II. In April 1941, he was ordered, as head of five soldiers, to defend and maintain the P8 Pillbox in the Omorfoplagia area of Mount Beles near Ano Poroia Serres. Despite ordering all of his men to escape, two stayed with him and they fought until their ammunition was exhausted, causing great losses and killing approximately 230 enemy German soldiers. When the three Greek soldiers surrendered, Itsios, after saying that he had simply done his duty, was assassinated by a German officer. After the war your wife, Anna, managed to retrieve her husband’s bones and transport them for burial in Ano Poroia.

 

[mTk]

Screams for some details as to how the 3 Greek soldiers managed to kill 230 Germans.
Regardless, it seemed to have really pissed off at least one German officer.

 

[Rico]

Screams for some details as to how the 3 Greek soldiers managed to kill 230 Germans.
Regardless, it seemed to have really pissed off at least one German officer.

I’m guessing a bit of propaganda embellishment?

 

[Gunner]

The pillbox was part of the Metaxas Line, a series of fortifications built on the Greek-Bulgarian border.

A Sergeant, he was head of a 5 man crew ordered to defend a pillbox on Mt Mpelles from the approaching German Army, near his home town of Ano Poroia.
In a fierce battle they emptied all of their rounds of ammunition (over 33,000 bullets) into the Axis invaders and not only did they provide cover fire, but they managed to kill 232 German soldiers in the process.
- greekcitytimes.com

Dimitrios Itsios is a Greek Hero.