Panzer Abwehr

 Mainly due to my health, although my age is a factor, my sense is that I have reached the end of the line with blogging on the Panzer Abweh...

 OI the Germans in the barracks, most were killed by the men of Captain R olfe's company from the 2/4th Battalion. A German tossed a gre...

 After 5pm on 20 May transport aircraft started to drop paratroops. Over a period of two hours, paratroops were dropped in time periods of t...

 Heraklion was fortunate enough to have twelve 40mm Bofors anti-aircraft guns distributed around the airfield. To the southwest of the airfi...

 Brigadier Chappel commanded the troops defending Heraklion. He had three regular British battalions as well as the Australian 2/4th Battali...

 The Germans from Suda arrived at Retimo in the afternoon on 29 May. They pushed back police from Crete and Greek infantry. They joined Wied...

 Men with Colonel Sturm landed among strong Australian positions. They were "completely destroyed". Kroh's group on Hill A was...