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Battle for Crete, Photos 1941, Then and Now

1941: Coast near Chora Sfakion. Rocks and caves gave shelter against German plane attacks

© Mark Cousins, New Zealand

 

2001: Same area

1941: Daratsos (near Chania) and island Agion Theodoron.

"Dick P. sitting on a rock at Kato Doratso"

© Mark Cousins, New Zealand

 

1941: British field hospital near Chania

© Mark Cousins, New Zealand

 

1941: Way to South Coast.

Background is the Askifou plain with the village Gonia (left).

"It was rough and tough going"

© Mark Cousins, New Zealand

 

1941: Above Souda bay

 

 

© Mark Cousins, New Zealand

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See also: '50th Anniversary of The Battle of Crete' in Sfakia 1991

or Erno's '60th Anniversary of The Battle of Crete' in Sfakia 2001

or New Zealand Government documentation Wellington (photos incl.)

 

 

Last update: December 29, 2001.

 

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