After battle of Crete

[Lang]

By sheer coincidence I am in Sfakia right at the moment for the second night. Walked the Imbros Gorge that all the troops came down today.

We went to the ceremony at the Commonwealth War Cemetary at Suda Bay the other night on the 77th Anniversary of the German Parachute drop. A good service well attended run by the Brits with Greek Navy support. The German Para Association laid a wreathe and actually got polite applause. The old timers still have little love for the Germans and let it be known. The Australian ceremony at Rethymnon was the day before and the Kiwi and German ceremonies at Maleme airfield today.The German cemetary at Maleme is a beautifully kept site with nearly all the 4,600 Germans killed on Crete buried there.

Photos from our hotel balcony. The small pier is where 15,000 troops loaded into small boats for transfer onto the naval vessels standing off-shore (at night due to continuous bombing). The harbour is about 100 metres across. Boats can not approach the sea side and all loading is from the end or inside.

The second small harbour you can see behind the hill to the left was not there in 1941

Lang

[Mike K]

Interesting . My uncle was taken POW on Crete, he was in 2/7 I think . He ended up in Silesia in a POW camp but he spent some time in Berlin working in a sheet metal factory as forced labour for the enemy

[Lang]

View from top of the hill. As mentioned the second harbour was built after the war.

[Mike K]

Found the link

http://www.mapleleafup.net/forums/sh...ighlight=crete