Corfu experienced the Dantes inferno during the Second World War. The city was bombed a total of 195 times. In the early hours of September 13-14, 1943, the Nazis mercilessly bombarded the city with incendiary bombs, with German Junkers 87 Stuka and Junkers 88 bombers. Innocent victims, pain and hea
The eponymous Battle of the Forts began on April 6, 1941 with the unprovoked German attack on Greece. The missing Greek forces covering Eastern Macedonia fought with unimaginable heroism. The center of the Greek formation was guarded by the 14th Infantry Division (MP) having organized its forces in
The excitement from the victorious battles in the Greco-Italian war, the faith in the final victory, the animation of the relatives who are in pain, the descriptions from the war front, but also the hospitals, dominate the letters sent by the Achaean soldiers to their families, in the late 1940s. Bu
The visitor to the plain of Paramythia, where the area is called airport, will hardly realize that about seven decades ago, the quiet of the small valley was awakened by the hum of engines and that some of the most brilliant pages of the Aviation History of the Second World War in Greece. There was
Sebastian Visconti Prasca was a peculiar case of man and general. Born in Rome, in 1883, into a noble family that traced its descent from the Dukes of Milan, he graduated from the military academy in 1904 with the rank of second lieutenant. He fought in the Italo-Turkish War of 1912, where he was de
What to write about the War of 1940? This War is much more than a succession of war events, battles and operations. Anyone who attempts to treat such an amazing event, a real religious ritual, with such disrespect is far from reality. The War of 1940 escapes the realm of reason, of rational examinat
Minimum tribute to our heroic dead in the war of 1940-41 is the publication by the GES of their names. The whole of Greece must remember and honor the lavenders who gave their blood for Freedom and Honor with a smile on their lips. SEE HERE
On October 28, the Italians marched into the Pindos sector with the 3rd Alpinist Division Julia. The Italian Alpinists pushed back the Greek part of the Pindos Detachment and created, within the following days, a very dangerous enclave for the Greek formation. The Greek headquarters reacted by sendi
At the beginning of March 1941, the Greek Army was in front of Tepeleni. The 1st Army Corps had ordered the famous II Infantry Division (MP) of Lt. Gen. Lavdas to clear the Goliko mountain complex with the aim of overtaking the Lekli location. II MP was reinforced with the 11th Infantry Regiment (2
We denounce to the people of Thessaly and all of Greece the treacherous acts of General Sarafis and Major Kostopoulos, fully proven by the confiscated file of both Officers. 1) Commander Sarafis had a permit to travel throughout Greece, signed by the service of Tzelozos and traveling legally as f
The Battle of Florina was one of the catalyst conflicts of the Greek Civil War. The battle began on the night of February 11-12, 1949 and was sealed by the heavy defeat of the DSE. It was a defeat so important, that the leadership of the DSE - the vice-general Giorgos Gousias (real name Giorgos Vodi
In August 1947, the GES approved the formation of 7 cavalry squadrons with a strength of one hundred (100) soldiers and the formation of the 74th Cavalry Detachment. In April 1948 the 74th Mounted Detachment was deployed to Ili. For the formation of the Iles, hoplites of the Cavalry of the old class
NOF was not a simple separatist organization. Its members began attacks against the Greeks before the official outbreak of the Civil War, while during it they thickened the ranks of the DSE. According to some sources, the NOFites constituted up to 60% of the DSE forces on a case-by-case basis and ar
On June 30, 1944, the II/16 guerrilla battalion of the X division of the EOEA of the EDES was under the then captain Ziogas. The battalion had the 5th Company under Lieutenant Christos Christopoulos, the 6th Company under Lieutenant Petros Grivakos and the 2nd Machinery Company (heavy weapons) under
The German occupation of our Greece was not just cruel, but murderous. The Germans and their Italian and Bulgarian allies committed horrific war crimes against the Greeks, to whom they appeared – otherwise – as “friends” who attacked Greece to “drive out the English and the pro-British regime”.
On December 5, 1946, the 4th Company of the 501st Battalion of the Rimini (3rd Mountain) Brigade, under Captain Sotirios Liarakos, was ordered to move from the village of Ampelonas Larisis to the village of Rodia, which is 7 km from Ampelonas and 20 from Larissa. The company had just 74 men, half it
The Germans, during the Occupation, proved to be equal, if not superior to their Gothic ancestors in the art of killing innocents. In Greece they caused huge disasters and bloodshed cities and villages throughout the country. The murders started early, from the first months of the occupation. Crete,
Greece is eating its children. This sad, general truth could not be true in the case of one of the great heroes of the Greco-Italian War of 1940-41 and not only, lieutenant colonel Mordochaios Frizis. Another forgotten hero of Greece, fellow fighter with the hunted Charalambos Katsimitros, with the
The leadership of the Armed Forces in Greece, in 1974, has serious responsibilities for the non-reinforcement of Cyprus after the invasion of Turkey on the island. They are also responsible for the fact that with the coup they left gaps in the islands defense. Political responsibilities also arise f
At a distance of only 1,000 meters from the Vietnam - Laos line, there was a series of hills, overgrown and inaccessible. The four hills, 937, 916, 900 and 800 had absolutely no military value. They were not the crossing point of any road. It could never have been thought that a deadly battle could
On this occasion we will deal with the reasons why Augusto decided to create a new forum. The political and propaganda ideology to elevate his role within the history of Rome, using symbolic sculptural language for this purpose. The Roman historian Suetonius enlightens us once again with his immort
Having performed an incredible march, the Myrians managed to reach the Greek city of Trebizond, on the shores of the Black Sea. There the inhabitants asked for their help in order to prevail against their opponents. The main enemy was the Driles, another barbarian race, who lived in the area between
The film «The Revenant has recently been released. «, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu . It is not the first time that the story of Hugh Glass is brought to the big screen, in the seventies Richard Harris gave life to Hugh Glass in the film «The man from a wild
Rodrigo was a Visigoth king who ruled from 710-711. He was the son of Teodofredo (son of King Chindasvinto), and Count of Baetica. In the civil war that followed Witizas death, his supporters defeated him and elected him king after overthrowing Agila II . The history of this king is very short, be