Diary May 20, 1941

05-1941, War Diary, Year 1941 / 1 minute of reading

Diary for Tuesday, May 20, 1941:

Air War

GERMAN AIRBORNE INVASION OF CRETE (Operation Merkur = ‘Mercury’): 490 Ju 52 transports take off from primitive strips near Athens, towing 100 DFS gliders and land 6,000 paratroops and airborne infantry on and around Maleme airfield; bombers pound New Zealand troop positions at Maleme.

Sea War

Atlantic: 4 Italian submarines arrive at Bordeaux on Bay of Biscay (May 7-20) from Massawa (Red Sea), which they had left in early March.

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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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