Panzer Grenadier: Parachutes Over Crete visible but sank a British battle

but sank a British battle cruiser and was herself destroyed in a hail of shells and torpedoes

and where the IAF then pounded it into scrap iron

but in the years immediately afterwards the Navy looked at the potential for radical politicians to change France from friend to foe

The maps overlap with that from Eastern Fleet on the west edge

Game pieces represent regiments and a handful of battalions

Panzer Grenadier: Parachutes Over Crete visible but sank a British battleIn late May 1941, the German Air Force launched historys first large scale airborne invasion, dropping a division of paratroopers onto the island of Crete, followed by a mountain division landed from transport planes. For thirteen days the motley Allied garrison of Australian, New Zealand and Greek troops put up fierce resistance before the Germans finally secured the island at a cost of one fifth of their force killed, wounded or missing. Parachutes