
The fall of Greece and Crete 1941
Explaining History
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The Importance of Airborne Invasion
Wabel was convinced as the signals intelligence from London shown him that the Axis weren't coming by seaborn. The troops under his command were referred to as Kreeforce and the British were defending the airfield of Herakian along with an Australian battalion. An ultra-decrypt on the 6th of May showed that two divisions were going to be landed by air which was more than twice as many troops as Wavell had predicted. Threiberg also imagined that there might be an amphibious landing with tanks which was purely something that he'd been told. So part of this is a story of failed communications and failed intelligence analysis. Intelligence flights taking account reconnaissance photos overcrete by
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