
Episode 186 - The Greco-Italian War Part 2: The Battle of Crete
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Airborn Battles - The Battle of the Crecian Villages
The germans were mostly unarmed because a lot of their canisters misdropped right into nearby villages where the cretians end grabbed the rifles and armed themselves. And remember, they only had 493 planes to start this whole thing, and that number rapidly went down with every sort of recreat as the notses rushed to get more reinforcements into the battle when they realized that this might not be going so good. Within the first few hours, te plan looked like it was going to fail completely and be one of the most disastrous airborn operations in history. Even though they they end up winning eventually, it still is whon of the most focked up airborn battles everfor is
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