Diary April 24, 1941

04-1941, War Diary, Year 1941 / 1 minute of reading

Evacuation of British soldiers from Greece — Evacuation of exhausted British soldiers from Greece to the island of Crete.

Diary for Thursday, April 24, 1941:

Sea War

Mediterranean – Evacuation of British and Commonwealth troops from Greece (Operation Demon): 51,000 troops transported to Crete and Egypt (April 24-29). German aircraft sink destroyers Diamond and Wryneck and 4 transports.

Politics

Hitler and Hungarian leader Admiral Horthy confer and dine in the Fuehrer’s train near Graz (Austria): Horthy lavishes praise on the Fuehrer, but Hitler refuses to be drawn into promising major territorial concessions in return for Hungarian participation in Operation Barbarossa .

Balkans

Germans penetrate Pass of Thermopylae against British rear-guard.

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Kretaner

My name is Norman 'Kretaner' and since my childhood I am interested in history and strategy games. Later, I have learned programming and the development of computer games, and finally with the Internet, also web design. I'm in the fortunate position to combine all my interests with my work and to live on a place of my choice, on Crete. All information, figures, specifications and statistics used here had been compiled from a variety of sources and the large, over decades collected, library of the author about military history, WW2 and weapons.

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