Battle of Crete
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The Battle of Crete, codenamed Operation Mercury, was a major Axis airborne and amphibious operation during World War II to capture the island of Crete.
German Fallschirmjäger landing on Crete, May 1941
Major-general Freyberg (right), Allied commander at the Battle of Crete
A Fallschirmjäger and a DFS 230 glider in Crete
German mountain troops board a Junkers Ju 52 for Crete, 20 May 1941.
Kurt Student
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Kurt Arthur Benno Student was a German general in the Luftwaffe during World War II. An early pioneer of airborne forces, Student was in overall command of developing a paratrooper force to be known a
Battle of Crete
…Division. To support the German attack on Crete, eleven Italian submarines took post off Crete or the British bases of Sollum and Alexandria in Egypt.[d] Major-General Kurt Student did not add an attack on Crete to Operation Marita until March 1941; supply difficulties delayed the assembly of Fliegerkorps XI and its 500 Ju 52s…
Student in 1941
German paratroopers landing at the Ockenburg airfield near The Hague, 10 May 1940
Up to 60 Cretan civilians were massacred at Kondomari by Student's Fallschirmjäger in June 1941