tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57046682904218183052024-03-14T07:05:44.582+02:00WW2 Wrecks by Pierre KosmidisFierce battles were fought during WW2 and a variety of wrecks -ships, aircraft, submarines and vehicles- remind us today the events of the era.
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I started <a href="http://www.planehunters.be/" target="_blank"><b>Planehunters</b></a> in 2006,i found a Spitfire and started to dig it up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">So then i founded <b><a href="http://www.planehunters.be/" target="_blank">Planehunters</a></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Our first memorial was a Halifax from 51 sqn,because of the work that we did researching this crash i came in contact with 51 sqn History Society. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">They invited me for the anual reunion and from that day i told them i would try and find all the 51 and 150 sqn crashes in Belgium.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">One of our good friends and 150 sqn veteran Robert “Bob” Frost is coming over every year to the comet line reunion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We promised Bob that as long he is in good health and he is fit for the trip we will bring him from his house in Sandwich to Brussels for this reunion. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">One time i found a stopwatch and when i opened it the name of the crewmember was engraved.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Later i saw this family again on the 51 sqn reunion and the sister of that crewmember gave me a card.</span></div>
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Pierre Kosmidishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13398015626403516359noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5704668290421818305.post-73040356346921913592016-10-04T11:03:00.002+03:002016-10-04T11:04:18.721+03:00Greek-Australian Alliance, 1899-2016: The Greeks who served with the ANZAC forces in mainland Greece and Crete, 1941<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">British, German, American, Canadian and </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">pilots from </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">many other nationalities were lost for decades and thanks to the efforts, professionalism and dedication of a team of experts based in Belgium, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">the identities of the young men that once took to the skies and never got back home</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> emerge.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The results of this project led to a unique insight into the air war over Europe - and the people involved.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://users.telenet.be/airwareurope/index.htm"><b>Cynrik De Decker</b></a> is the project leader of BAHAAT, the <a href="http://users.telenet.be/airwareurope/en/start_e.htm"><b>Belgian Aviation History Association and the Archaeology Team</b></a> and he provides us with info and insights on a series of project <b>BAHAAT</b> has undertaken, shedding light on forgotten pages of WW2.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I am fascinated by aviation since childhood, and during my study time (30 years ago…) I realized very little was known about the air war over Belgium. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">So I went to the Public Records Office in London (this was the pre-internet era) and started browsing through the RAF archives and contacting and interviewing veteran airmen, who were relatively active at that time – early pensioners let’s say. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">With my good friend Jean-Louis Roba, who is well known for his research and publications on the Luftwaffe, we became a team writing books on the subject. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I’ve always been fascinated by the way the magazine After the Battle conducts research on WW2, also re. battlefield archaeology: thorough archival work, and studying the then-and-now aspect. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This way recent history is being brought to a large public in an accessible way – very important or me, since I started teaching history at secondary school then. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Realizing that many thousands of aircraft crashed within the boundaries of the small country which Belgium is, I combined my other fascination, archaeology, with my passion for old aircraft. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The preliminary research is as important and enjoyable as the dig itself – interviewing eye witnesses, browsing through old documents, trying to find the surviving aircrew or their families… </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">That’s when with several Belgian enthusiasts we established the </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://users.telenet.be/airwareurope/en/start_e.htm" target="_blank">Belgian Aviation History Association and the Archaeology Team</a></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> (BAHAAT). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The purpose is to share the knowledge about an almost forgotten war with the general public. That’s why we organize exhibitions, even a museum, and write reports, books, articles.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Difficult to say, but I am still particularly proud on the project I started in 1995 on Halifax LW682. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Not so far away from where I live, this bomber came down – the whole crew perished but three of the Canadians were still in the wreckage. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">So with the help of the Canadian government we organized an archaeological investigation, during which the three airmen were found, so they could be buried along their fellow crew members. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Well, last year we had a extremely interesting dig on a FW 190. The pilot bailed out (unfortunately too low), but we found all his personal papers (see </span><a href="http://www.gelbe13.be/" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>www.gelbe13.be</b></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">All of them. But since we’ve published quite a few books on the air war, with information where the plane came down, it’s nice to see that local enthusiasts start their own investigation in order to find the exact spot. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But she ended with “I don’t give a shit what my parents think of it”. We hope one day we might be able to find out who she was…</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">On November 14, 1916 </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">the luxury liner S/S Burdigala, formerly known as "Kaiser Friedrich"</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> struck a mine and sunk between Kea and Makronissos islands.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">2016 marks the centenary of this shipwreck, the second largest in the Greek Seas, after the "Brittanic", which was lost in 1916 </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">too</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Just two nautical miles from the wreck of "Burdigala" there is another important shipwreck of the Greek Seas, that of the "Brittanic" sister ship of the infamous "Titanic", after hitting a mine on November 21, 1916 just one week after the sinking of the "Burdigala".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In December 1915 the "Burdigala" was requisitioned by the French State as an auxiliary cruiser and until her sinking, the elegant ship was serving as a troop and war material carrier to the ill fated "Gallipoli campaign" in the Dardanelles and to Thessaloniki.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The ship started her voyage from the naval base of Toulon, briefly stopped in Malta, before passing Maleas Cape and arriving to Piraeus. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">From Piraeus she sailed through the Straits of Kea to Thessaloniki where on September 16, 1916 the Greek provisional government with the "pro-Entente" Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos was based, after the fall out with the King of Greece who wanted Greece to become allies with the Germans and not the British and the French.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">On the next day, November 14, at 10:45 in the morning, while the ship was about two nautical miles southwest of Cape St. Nicholas of Kea island, a huge explosion rattled "Burdigala". </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Just after 15 minutes, Burdigala broke in two by a second explosion and quickly disappeared beneath the waves, sinking off the northwest coast of Kea at a depth of 75 meters, where she remained forgotten until her discovery in 2008 in a </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">research mission approved and licensed by the Department of Underwater Antiquities of the Ministry of Culture, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">by a team of Greek divers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The ocean liner </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">"Burdigala" was built in 1897 under the name "Kaiser Friedrich" </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">for the shipping company Nord Deutscher Lloyd. She was 183 m long, 19 m wide and was equipped with two five-cylinder engines and two bronze propellers, with a diameter of 6.19 meters each.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Although it was initially thought that the ocean liner was torpedoed, it has been ultimately proved beyond any doubt that the "Burdigala" was a victim of the minefield that was laid by the German submarine U-73, while the same minefield claimed the "Brittanic" </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">a week later</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">When </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">our diving team first visited the then "unknown wreck of Kea", </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">in September 2008 , we saw a particularly beautiful and well-preserved wreck of an unknown large ship.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The shipwreck survey was conducted with the simultaneous research in libraries, files and museums and led to a fully documented identification of the wreck, as the ocean liner "S/S Burdigala", formerly known as "S/S Kaiser Friedrich". </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The ship served as the Greek flagship during most of the first half of the century. Although popularly known as a battleship in Greek, she is in fact an armored cruiser, the only ship of this type still in existence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This mystery, as to the exact origin of this WW2 soldier persisted and the best option would be to contact the John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, which owned this WW2 photo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">"Based on what I've managed to piece together, there is most certainly a Kythera connection, and that connection is via the Freeleagus (Φριλίγγος) family.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">According to this naturalisation documentation, he was born in Lourenço Marques (now known as Maputo, Mozambique) but on a passenger list dated 1939 he quotes the island of Rhodes as being his place of birth. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">O διεθνώς καταξιωμένος φωτογράφος <a href="http://akissparaskevopoulos.com/" target="_blank"><b>Άκης Παρασκευόπουλος</b></a> είναι ο ευτυχής ιδιοκτήτης ενός ιστορικού οχήματος, ενός θρυλικού τζιπ </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Willys MB </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">του 1944, με μηχανή 2.200 κ.εκ. που αποδίδει 55 ίππους, το οποίο με πολύ κόπο, προσωπική εργασία, μεράκι και χρήματα που αντιστοιχούν σε ένα </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">σύγχρονο </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">μικρομεσαίο αυτοκίνητο, κατάφερε να φέρει και πάλι σε άριστη κατάσταση, του... κουτιού, όπως έλεγαν οι παλαιότεροι. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Αφήνω τον</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://akissparaskevopoulos.com/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;" target="_blank">Άκη Παρασκευόπουλο</a> </b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">να ξετυλίξει το μίτο του μύθου που έγινε πραγματικότητα, με τα δικά του λόγια.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">"Συνήθως, η επιθυμία για την απόκτηση ενός ιστορικού Jeep του Δευτέρου Παγκοσμίου Πολέμου ξεκινάει σταδιακά και περνάνε χρονια, ίσως και δεκαετίες μεχρι να φτασει κάποιος στο σημείο να το αποκτήσει. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Στη δική μου περίπτωση, η επιθυμία ξεκίνησε απο την παιδική ηλικία. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Για ενάμιση χρόνο, παρακολουθούσα μια αγγελία πώλησης που αφορούσε ένα τέτοιο όχημα, ώσπου κάποια στιγμή, εν μέσω καλοκαιρινών διακοπών, αποφάσισα να καλέσω στο τηλέφωνο τον τότε ιδιοκτήτη και να του δώσω μια προσφορά αγοράς. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Προς μεγάλη μου έκπληξη, μετά από ενα 24ωρο μου τηλεφώνησε και καταλήξαμε σε συμφωνία. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Έτσι λοιπον, ήρθε στην κατοχή μου τον Σεπτεμβριο του 2011 το Willys MB. Τότε βέβαια, δεν ειχα ιδέα τι μου επιφύλασσε η αγορά του.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Από τη στιγμή που το αγόρασα, έπεσα στα βαθιά, μπήκα σε εναν καινούριο κόσμο. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Σκοπός μου, ήταν η σωστή αποκατάστασή του. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Συγκεκριμένα, ήθελα να επαναφέρω το όχημα στην μορφή που είχε την 06/06/1944 D-Day, την ημέρα δηλαδή της απόβασης των συμμαχικών δυνάμεων στις παραλίες της Νορμανδιας. Ήταν μεγάλη πρόκληση, γιατι ήθελα να παραμείνω πιστός σε ολες τις λεπτομέρειες. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ηταν επικίνδυνο και αναξιόπιστο στην οδήγηση. Με την βοηθεια του ιντερνετ, ξεκίνησα μια τεράστια έρευνα -η οποία συνεχίζεται μέχρι σήμερα- για να μάθω αφ´ενός τι ακριβώς θα χρειαζόμουν, αλλα και πού θα το έβρισκα. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Πέρασε καιρός προτού καταλήξω με ποιους θα συνεργαστώ και απο που θα αγοράσω τα απαραίτητα ανταλλακτικά.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Δικτυώθηκα και έγινα μελος σε διάφορα group και φόρουμ που αφορούν το Willys MB. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Πολλά μέλη αυτών των ιστοσελίδων κάθε φορά που χρειαζόμουν βοήθεια, μου μετάφεραν πρόθυμα τη γνώση και την εμπειρία τους. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Μετά απο ατελείωτο ψαξιμο, ξεκίνησα να αγοράζω ανταλλακτικα απο την Αγγλια και να επαναφέρω το jeep στην αυθεντικη του μορφή. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Κομμάτι-κομμάτι το παζλ συμπληρωνόταν. Αισθητικά, η μεγαλη αλλαγή επήλθε μετά την τοποθέτηση των Combat Rims, των λαστιχων του πολεμου με το NDT προφιλ και του αυθεντικού διαιρουμενου παρμπριζ. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Το 2012, συμμετείχα στον ετήσιο διαγωνισμο της ΦΙΛΠΑ, Concour d' Elegance όπου κέρδισα το πρώτο βραβείο αναπαλαίωσης στρατιωτικού οχήματος. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Η έκπληξή μου ήταν μεγάλη, γιατί η αναπαλαίωση του οχήματός μου δεν είχε φτασει ακόμα στο επίπεδο που επιθυμούσα, αλλά αναμφισβήτητα, η αναγνώριση της προσπάθειάς μου, συνεισέφερε στο να συνεχίσω την αναπαλαίωση ακάθεκτος.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Στη συνέχεια, αφού το έβαψα μόνος μου, με το σωστό ματ Olive Drab χρώμα της εποχής, το όχημα είχε πλέον φτάσει σε ενα ικανοποιητικό επιπεδο αναπαλαίωσης, οπότε είχε έρθει η κατάλληλη στιγμή να ξεκινήσω μια ολική ανακατασκευή στα μηχανικά μέρη. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Εδώ να σημειώσω, ότι ιδανικά, το σωστό είναι κάποιος να επισκευάσει πρώτα τα μηχανικα μέρη ενός οχήματος και μετα να προβεί σε αισθητικές αλλαγές. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Στην περίπτωσή μου δυστυχώς, αυτό δεν ήταν εφικτό, γιατι δεν ειχα δικό μου χωρο, ούτε τα απαραίτητα χρήματα.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Με την πάροδο του χρόνου και με την βοήθεια ενος φίλου βρεθηκε ένας χώρος και μάλιστα κοντα στο σπίτι μου και ξεκίνησε η μηχανική αποκατάσταση. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Καθετί μηχανικό λύθηκε μέχρι την τελευταία ροδέλλα, ανακατασκευάστηκε ή επισκευάστηκε, ή μπήκε καινούργιο ανταλλακτικό.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Για παράδειγμα, λύθηκαν διαφορικά, σούστες, τρόμπες νερού, βενζίνης, λαδιού, καρμπυρατέρ, ντιστριμπιτέρ, κλπ. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Στην μηχανή έγινε ρεκτιφιέ και από 0,40 ξαναγύρισε σε στάνταρ. Τοποθετήθηκαν καινούργια πιστόνια, ελατήρια, μεταλλάκια στροφάλου κ.α. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Το σαζμάν του M38 και το βοηθητικό του αντικαταστάθηκαν από το αυθεντικό Τ84j χρησιμοποιώντας New Old Stock υλικά.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Η διαδικασία διάρκεσε περίπου ένα χρόνο, γιατί μπορούσαμε να δουλεύουμε μόνο τα Σαββατοκύριακα. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Όσο διαρκούσε η ανακατασκευή, οι διασυνδεσεις μεσω διαδικτύου συνεχιζονταν και τον Ιούνιο του 2014, βρέθηκα στην Νορμανδια για τους εορτασμούς των 75 χρόνων απο την απόβαση της Νορμανδιας, παρέα με μέλη από τα διάφορα γκρουπ που παρακολουθούσα.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ήταν ένα αξεχαστο ταξιδι που μου εδωσε την ευκαιρια να συναναστραφώ και να συνάψω φιλίες με ατομα που έχουν το ίδιο χόμπυ με μένα. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Απο τοτε, κάθε χρόνο, γίνεται τουλάχιστον ένα ταξίδι στο εξωτερικο με σκοπό την συμμετοχή σε ιστορικές εκδηλώσεις.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Αξίζει να αναφερω συμπληρωματικά, οτι στο εξωτερικο ολοι οι ιδιοκτητες, οχημάτων ειναι και reenactors, αναβιωτές της συγκεκριμένης ιστορικής περιόδου, με τον κατάλληλο ρουχισμό και εξοπλισμό. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Δηλαδή, οδηγός και όχημα πρέπει να συμβαδίζουν αισθητικά. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Συνεπώς, η απόκτηση στολής Δευτέρου Παγκοσμίου Πολέμου είναι μονόδρομος. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Στην Ελλάδα είμαστε πίσω σε αυτό το θέμα και γίνονται πολύ αργά βήματα προς αυτή την κατεύθυνση.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Το Willys MB μου, εχει πλέον αναπαλαιωθεί ως Jeep πολεμικού ανταποκριτή "War Correspondent". </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Internationally acclaimed photographer <b><a href="http://akissparaskevopoulos.com/" target="_blank">Akiss Paraskevopoulos</a></b> is the happy owner of a historic WW2 vehicle, a legendary </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">1944</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Willys MB </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Jeep</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">, equipped with a 2.2 lt. engine (55 hp), which with great effort, commitment and above all love, managed to bring it again to perfect working condition.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">"Usually, the desire to acquire a historical </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">World War II </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Jeep begins gradually and many years, even decades pass, until the... dreamer manages to make his dream come true. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In my case, I remember myself since I was a kid, wanting to be behind the wheel of such a legendary WW2 Jeep.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It was the dream of a lifetime!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">For a year and half, I looked for such a vehicle until sometime in the midst of my summer vacation, I decided to call someone who was selling his Jeep and offer him a bid.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">To my surprise, after 24 hours he called me back and we reached to an agreement.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">So, in September 2011, I got my own piece of WW2 history, a 1944 Willys MB Jeep. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I wanted to restore the vehicle as it was on </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">D-Day (</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">06/06/1944), the day that the Allied forces landed on the beaches of Normandy. It was a great challenge, because I wanted to remain faithful to all the details.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The vehicle was in working condition, but very neglected and many parts where post war, such as the windshield, while many other parts were just missing. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It was a dangerous and unreliable vehicle to drive. I started an internet investigation around the world, which continues to this day, to learn what was exactly needed, but also where to find it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Piece by piece the puzzle was completed. Aesthetically, the big change occurred after the installation of WW2 Combat Rims wheels, with NDT </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24.92px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">(non-directional tread) </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">profile and the authentic WW2 split windscreen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In 2012, I participated in the annual contest of </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/EOFilpa/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;" target="_blank">FILPA</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">, Concours d' Elegance and my Jeep won the first prize.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Everything mechanical was disassembled to the last bolt. D</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">ifferentials, water pumps, gasoline pumps, oil pumps, the carburetor and everything else in between were thoroughly restored and reconditioned, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">using new old stock materials whenever necessary.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">My Willys MB has now been restored as a "War Correspondent" Jeep.</span></div>
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Pierre Kosmidishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13398015626403516359noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5704668290421818305.post-22212815157512179612016-09-05T12:09:00.000+03:002016-09-06T11:55:15.685+03:00Xenophon Castrisos, an aerial photographer with the RAAF<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Possibly Xenophon Castrisos is one of those Kytherians who found a new home in Australia and fought with his new fellow countrymen against the common foe, the Axis powers.</span></div>
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Pierre Kosmidishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13398015626403516359noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5704668290421818305.post-43015343621208804792016-09-05T10:27:00.000+03:002016-10-10T23:06:59.401+03:00Sabotage in Greece and Operation "Noah's Ark": An interview with author Bernard O' Connor<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">Bernard O' Connor</b><span style="font-size: large;"> is the author of the book </span><a href="http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/coprolite" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">"Sabotage in Greece"</span></b></a><span style="font-size: large;">, which offers a unique insider's view on the Operations conducted in occupied Greece by the Allies during World War II.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Many are aware of the Operation to blow up Gorgopotamos bridge, which was the one and only event that united all Greek guerilla forces under a common goal, to destroy a vital rail transport network that fed the German Afrika Korps in northern Africa. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Relatively few know though that a series of other sabotage operations were constantly organised </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">mainly </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">by British operatives, such as the daring Asopos viaduct destruction and the operations against mines that produced mineral ore, such as chrome, in order to disrupt the German military machine.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">What lied in obscurity for decades, since WW2 ended, was Operation "Noah's Ark", which was essentially a plan to harass the German withdrawal from Greece in the Autumn of 1944.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The author answers many questions, especially regarding the fact that the retreating Germans suffered relatively light casualties while on their way out of Greece, compared to the terrific losses the nazis sustained in Yugoslavia and offers fascinating insight on the events that led to the success of those Operations, from the protagonists themselves, i.e. the official reports that were submitted by the British saboteurs and remained hidden for decades after WW2 ended.</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/coprolite" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;" target="_blank"><b>Bernard O' Connor</b></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> sheds light on Operation "Noah's Ark" and a variety of other Operations and offers his insight on the process of researching the sources for his book.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">On top of these, possibly for the first time, we have the opportunity to read about the German stay-behind sabotage plans, which included a wide variety of personnel, both German and Greek, who were specifically trained and equipped to destroy vital infrastructure after the German withdrawal in 1944. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Many Greek names of nazi collaborators, which are included in the book, will certainly sound familiar to the Greek readers!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Here is what <a href="http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/coprolite" target="_blank"><b>Bernard O'Connor</b></a> told <a href="http://pierrekosmidis.blogspot.com/"><b>pierrekosmidis.blogspot.com</b></a></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Why did you decide to write a book on Allied Sabotage in Greece?</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I live near RAF Tempsford, about 59 miles
north of London and half way between Cambridge and Bedford. Between 1942 and
1945, it was the base of the Special Duties Squadrons which supplied resistance
movements across Western Europe and parachuted in agents. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I researched and
published a number of books on its history, the missions carried out and
accounts of some of the secret agents, focussing on the women’s stories.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">As I give talks to various groups across
the region, I generated a Powerpoint presentation of the buildings used by the
Special Operations Executive and in 2013 published Churchill’s School for
Saboteurs STS 17 Brickendonbury Manor. </span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It included three examples of sabotage
action as my editor considered the original book too long. </span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">So, not wanting my
research to be wasted, I self-published accounts of sabotage in Norway,
Denmark, Holland, Belgium and France and another on blackmail sabotage (French
manufacturers supplying the Germans were told to allow sabotage of their vital
machinery – and be compensated after the war - or have your factory bombed by
the RAF or USAAF).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I then researched sabotage in Greece,
Gibraltar and Britain. </span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The value of self-publishing is being able to update
your account as you get more information. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hence the first edition of Sabotage
in Greece (2015) did not include the
chapter on the Germans’ sabotage plans. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I found that info whilst researching their
post-invasion stay-behind sabotage plans.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>What were your main sources and how long did it take you to go through them?</b></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">My sources were mostly agents’ personnel
files and mission report found in the British National Archives in Kew. </span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The National Archives’ online Discovery page
allows one to search for names, places, dates, missions etc. </span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The files can be
ordered and sent to you (at a price) or read (or photographed) at Kew. </span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">My links
with the SOE user group on Yahoo.com which has copied most of the SOE files
mean that I can request and get sent files on disc or transferred online (and
pay for them) from my armchair.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I also read numerous biographies,
autobiographies, articles in academic journals and historians’ accounts of the
war in Greece. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Most could be ordered and paid for online and all I had to do
was answer the door when the post arrived. </span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I confess not to have read any Greek
or German accounts of the war, hence my account is very British-centred.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>The Gorgopotamos raiding force</b></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I would transcribe interesting, relevant
snippets to my account and then edit and revise. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I’d say it took me just over a
year to complete the first edition but I have to say, I spend several hours a
day typing, editing etc.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Which single operation did you find more interesting and why?</b></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Whilst describing the human story of the
sabotage attacks on the viaducts was fascinating, perhaps the most interesting
section was the German’s sabotage plans. </span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span>
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I found on the CIA website, a similar
searchable database to the National Archives and typing in sabotage or saboteur
and Greece I found lots of files of interrogation reports of captured Nazi
personnel, including the officers sent to Greece to initiate and implement the
sabotage plans.</span></span><br />
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Few persons are aware of the magnitude and complexity of the Allied, mainly British, sabotage efforts in occupied Greece. Looking back at all the information you processed, what are the key lessons learned from a historian's perspective?</b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I felt whilst working on these documents that I was one of the
very few people to have read them since they were written and I could not
imagine anyone would have read them all to get an overview of the German’s
successes and failures. </span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>KIA Allied soldiers in Greece, 1941</b></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">These files also provided links to German sabotage
plans in Italy, the topic of another book!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">As regards lessons learned, it’s very rare
that two sources tell exactly the same story. </span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The more you can find, both
primary and secondary, the better picture you can paint. </span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Just because you find
one account which you know contradicts what you’ve read elsewhere, still
include it and point out the differences, or sometimes leave the reader to pick
up the errors. </span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Make you readers think for themselves or they’ll rely too
heavily on you for the truth. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It’s impossible to tell the whole truth of a war in
a book as no one can know the complete story, only put together the disparate
snippets of evidence as you find them. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I sometime describe my work as being
rather like an archaeologist, piecing together some ancient artefact but from
pieces that are not always from the same site. </span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span>
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The artefact may not look
perfect, it hopefully resembles the original, it’ll have cracks and may well
collapse with no support. </span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It’s like doing a jigsaw but there’s no box, the
pieces are all over the place, there’s no lid so you’re making guesses where
each piece goes. </span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span>
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It might fit but you need most of the pieces before you can
get the overview. My work I have to admit is not 100% accurate as I don’t have
and can’t have all the pieces. I can’t read Greek or German.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I am not a professional historian. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">My work
is not a dissertation for a University degree; it’s not an attempt to test a
hypothesis or disprove another historian’s theory; it’s the human story of the
men and sometimes women engaged in the planning, preparing, facilitating,
supplying and implementing the acts of sabotage.</span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I acknowledge there may be
factual, chronological or spelling errors and invite corrections so that the
next edition provides a more accurate, complete and interesting story for the
general reader.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>The Asopos viaduct and the mines destruction operations seem to have been vital, perhaps more than Gorgopotamos itself. What is your opinion on that?</b></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Few cases of sabotage action produce
permanent destruction. </span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The human reaction is to repair, mend, replace and get
production back to normal. Stoppage would have been days, weeks or months. </span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Asopos viaduct today</b></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Saboteurs knew that so sometimes, once it was repaired, they’d blow it up
again.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The viaducts were repaired, the railway
lines replaced, the bridges rebuilt, the tunnels cleared, railway locomotives,
trucks, ships etc. were replaced. </span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span>
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sabotage was a series of pinpricks,
increasing or decreasing in intensity, which irritated the enemy and drew
troops away from other centres but, in itself, did not win the war. </span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Reprisals
were an issue but it provided knowledge and skills for the saboteurs, a boost
to individual, group and national morale, a sense of purpose, something with
easily observable results, stories to tell family and friends, even write or
tell reporters/historians about. <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Another contemporary view of the Asopos viaduct</span></b></td></tr>
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">You refer in your book "Sabotage in Greece" to a sinking of a ship laden with oil barrels in Sifnos island. Any more details?</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-GB">The Sifnos
attack was referred to in a specific file I researched.</span><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-GB"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-GB">I guess reports were handed in to SOE
and someone compiled them in chronological order. So who it came from I don’t
know.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Copies of the book can be obtained
from:<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Extracts from other historians on </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Operation Noah's Ark </b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span itemprop="name description" style="background-color: white;">THEN AND NOW: Bombing of Kalamaki Airfield (also known as Hassani or Ellinikon), Athens, Greece, seen from the bomb bay of a US B-17 bomber, 15 Sep 1944 and a current image via google maps</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 0px;"> (source of photos: ww2db/google)</span></b></span></div>
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The airfield had a 1800 metre long runway.</div>
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In its first year, it handled about 8,500 passengers and no more than one tonne of cargo.</div>
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During the occupation the airfield was attacked at least 12 times by USAF and RAF bombers and fighters.<br />
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Following the end of World War II, the Greek government allowed the United States to use the airport from 1945 until 1993.<br />
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Known as Hassani Airport in 1945, it was used by the United States Army Air Forces as early as 1 October 1945, as a base of operations for Air Transport Command flights between Rome and points in the Middle East.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Το πλοίο που έχει συνδέσει το όνομά του με τη ναυμαχία της Σαλαμίνας, αλλά και άλλες, "ξαναζεί" μέσα από τις σελίδες του εξαιρετικού βιβλίου της συγγραφέως Κρίστυ Εμίλιο Ιωαννίδου <b>"ΤΡΙΗΡΗΣ: Τακτικό και επιχειρησιακό περιβάλλον στην αρχαία Ελλάδα".</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Απευθυνθήκαμε στη συγγραφέα για να μας απαντήσει σε μια σειρά ερωτημάτων, τα οποία "φωτίζουν" την Ιστορία της Τριήρους, μέσα από το βιβλίο της. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Στον κινηματογράφο η αναπαράσταση μιας τριήρους υπόκειται στους κανόνες εντυπωσιασμού και εννοείται των ειδικών εφέ. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Να ξεκαθαρίσουμε ότι η εικόνα του αλυσοδεμένου δούλου προέρχεται από την ρωμαϊκή και άλλες μεταγενέστερες περιόδους. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Αυτό που δεν είναι ευρέως γνωστό είναι ότι όλα τα πληρώματα μισθοδοτούντο και υπήρχαν και περιπτώσεις όπου έπαιρναν και επιπρόσθετο μισθό. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Σε περιπτώσεις δε κατά τις οποίες δεν χορηγείτο ο μισθός ή ήταν μικρότερος από το καθορισμένο ποσό το μέλος πληρώματος στασίαζε, ηρνείτο να αναλάβει καθήκοντα ή πρόσφερε τις υπηρεσίες του στον αντίπαλο έναντι καλύτερου μισθού. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Θα πρέπει πρωτίστως να γίνει κατανοητό ότι η τριήρης «Ολυμπιάς» δεν είναι πιστό αντίγραφο τριήρους αφού δεν έχουμε αντίστοιχο αρχαίο εύρημα ώστε να αντιγραφεί η δομή, τα βασικά ναυπηγικά χαρακτηριστικά του συγκεκριμένου πλοίου (όπως συνέβη π.χ. με το σκάφος της Κερύνειας ή τα πλοία των Βίκινγκς στο Roshkild). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">«Ο βασικός στόχος των δοκιμαστικών πλεύσεων, ήταν να αποδειχθεί αν το προτεινόμενο σύστημα κωπηλασίας ήταν εφικτό και αν οι επιδόσεις του πλοίου αντιστοιχούσαν με τα στοιχεία που περιλαμβάνονταν στα αρχαία κείμενα». </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Δίχως, λοιπόν να αγνοούμε τους σκοπούς για τους οποίους ναυπηγήθηκε η «Ολυμπιάς» (περισσότερα εξηγούνται στο εν λόγω βιβλίο) πιστεύω πως μπορούμε να θαυμάσουμε το συγκεκριμένο πλοίο σε όλες τους τομείς, τόσο στην ομορφιά του όσο και στη πολεμική του ισχύ. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Είναι το πλοίο που δόξασε την αρχαία Αθήνα, που κέρδισε την πιο σημαντική ναυμαχία στην παγκόσμια ιστορία, στην Σαλαμίνα, είναι το «εν όπλοις» σύμβολο της Αθηναϊκής Δημοκρατίας και ιδιαιτέρως της Ναυτικής Ισχύος της.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Μελετώντας την αρχαία Ναυτική Ιστορία, αντιλαμβανόμαστε ότι η εκμετάλλευση των αδυναμιών του αντιπάλου, ο αιφνιδιασμός, η συγκέντρωση κρίσιμης μαχητικής ισχύος σε προ-ϋπολογισμένο τόπο και χρόνο, η παραπλάνηση, οι ψυχολογικές επιχειρήσεις και πάνω από όλα ο ελιγμός (σε στρατηγικό, επιχειρησιακό και τακτικό επίπεδο), συναντώνται και στις τότε αναμετρήσεις.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Πόσο σημαντικό είναι να παραδειγματίζεται κάποιος από τα λάθη του και πόσο βοηθάει στην αυτογνωσία, αλλά και στην αποφυγή παρόμοιων λαθών στη συνέχεια; </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Μπορεί να ακουστεί υπερβολικό αλλά το πλοίο σύμβολο της αρχαίας Αθήνας διδάσκει ακόμη και σήμερα! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Είναι συγγραφεύς - Ερευνήτρια Ναυτικής Ιστορίας (πρώην ναυτικός Ε.Ν.) με εξειδίκευση σε θέματα και μελέτες που αφορούν τη ναυτιλία στην αρχαία Ελλάδα (εμπορικό / πολεμικό ναυτικό, στρατηγική, τακτική σχεδίαση και ανάλυση ναυτικών επιχειρήσεων, ναυτική τεχνολογία και ναυπηγική). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Είναι δημιουργός και διαχειρίστρια του ιστολογίου Περί Αλός </span><a href="http://www.perialos.blogspot.gr/" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>www.perialos.blogspot.gr</b></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> , επιστημονική συνεργάτις στα θέματα Ναυτικής Ιστορίας στο ίδρυμα ‘The Salamis Foundation’, μέλος του Ελληνικού Ινστιτούτου Στρατηγικών Μελετών (ΕΛ.Ι.Σ.ΜΕ.), του Ελληνικού Συνδέσμου Υποβρυχίων (ΕΛΣΥΒ), του Συλλόγου Ιστορικών Μελετών «Κορύβαντες» και του Ναυτικού Μουσείου Ελλάδος (ΝΜΕ). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Many secrets are revealed thanks to the salvagers of the Hellenic Air Force, the specially trained scuba divers, who salvage </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">World War II</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">aircraft from the depths. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Diving under almost any weather conditions, day and night, in order to achieve their mission, these men are a Unit known as the Mobile Maintenance Team of Underwater and Marine Facilities.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A notable operation of the Hellenic Air Force's Underwater Missions Team was <b><a href="http://pierrekosmidis.blogspot.gr/2011/07/22.html" target="_blank">the salvaging of a Mirage 2000 fighter aircraft in Samos, from a depth of 75 meters</a><a href="http://pierrekosmidis.blogspot.gr/2011/07/22.html" target="_blank">. (CLICK FOR THE FULL STORY AND MORE PHOTOS)</a></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It was an almost impossible task, which with the cooperation of the Hellenic Center for Maritime Research and with the use of an ROV we managed to bring back to the surface large parts of the crashed Chinook for evaluation" says the squadron leader.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"Each mission requires discipline, perfect synchronization, detailed planning and professionalism in salvage operations. There is not the slightest margin for errors".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Since April 1941 a twin-engine aircraft of the RAF was laying off Crete, close to Rethymnon. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Shot down by friendly fire, this Blenheim remained forgotten for almost 55 years, until the moment it was raised from the seabed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In 2003, it was brought back to the surface from a depth of 41 meters, in almost perfect condition. <a href="http://pierrekosmidis.blogspot.gr/2015/10/ww2-german-aircraft-shot-down-in-1943.html" target="_blank">It is currently exhibited at the Hellenic Air Force Museum, but the hope of the citizens of Leros is to see it back to their island.</a></span></div>
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Near Naxos, British Beaufighters attacked the convoy and the Arado was damaged and had to perform a controlled ditching at sea. </div>
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The crew was saved by UJ 2104, but the aircraft sunk shortly afterwards. (See the picture below, shot minutes before the Arado's sinking).</div>
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The crew was reported as "rescued". </div>
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The convoy continued on its way to Rodos, but north of Astypalaia, they were attacked again, this time by allied destroyers. </div>
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The two cargo ships sunk, and UJ 2104 was badly damaged. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>This picture of the Arado D1+EH was taken by an officer of UJ 2104 just minutes before sinking. The picture was hidden for 5 years in a foam soap box during time as POW in Egypt. <br />(Photo: P. Schenk/AK Groener from <a href="http://www.u-air.info/www/uair/uair.nsf/0/D8A7C27055E94FD7C12577AD004C26C9?OpenDocument" target="_blank">http://www.u-air.info/www/uair/uair.nsf/0/D8A7C27055E94FD7C12577AD004C26C9?OpenDocument</a>)</b></span></td></tr>
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Approximately 60 survivors, including the crew of the Arado, managed to reach Astypalaia, which was under Italian control. </div>
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The survivors of the convoy were transferred to the British shortly after and remained POW until 1948.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The wreck was found by Greek fishermen in 1982 at a depth of 91m and was moved in a bay of the island Herakleia. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Acclaimed researcher <b>Manolis Bardanis</b> (<b><a href="http://www.naxosdiving.com/" target="_blank">www.naxosdiving.com</a></b>) is credited with a detailed research on this wreck's history, in cooperation with other historians. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">On 14 November 1943, the crews of two 46 Squadron Beaufighters, Flight Lieutenant D. J. A. Crerar (pilot) with Pilot Officer L. Charles, and Flying Officer B. F. Wild (pilot) together with Flight Sergeant R. W. Gibbons, shared in the destruction of a <b>Heinkel He 111H (8011/6N+EP) </b>of II./K.G. 100. This was shot down north of Leros with the loss of Gefreiter Helmut Grundke (air-gunner).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">According to researcher Byron Tesapsides the crew of this ill fated </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">He 111H (6N+EP, W.Nr. 8011)</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> was: Pilot Uffz. Walter Pink, Fw. Kurt Bruder (MIA), BF. Fw. Johann Sonnenschein (wounded), BS. Uffz. Helmut Grundke (KIA)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://pierrekosmidis.blogspot.gr/2015/11/operation-taifun-battle-for-leros-in.html" target="_blank"><b>READ MORE HERE: Autumn 1943: Operation "Taifun", the Battle for Leros, the tragic end of the LRDG and the defeat of the British</b></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://pierrekosmidis.blogspot.gr/2015/10/ww2-german-aircraft-shot-down-in-1943.html" target="_blank">READ MORE HERE: WW2 German aircraft shot down in 1943 recovered in Leros</a></span></h3>
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