Crete

List of Illustrations

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Landing stores for the British garrison in 1940	British Official	116
Lewis gun overlooking Suda Bay	British Official	116
General Wavell, GOC-in-C Middle East, during his visit to Crete in November 1940	British Official	116
New Zealanders from Greece enter Suda Bay	NZ Army	116
March to the transit camp	C. R. Ambury	116
Meal-time under the olives	E. K. S. Rowe D. M. Burns	116
Cleaning up	E. K. S. Rowe	116
Men of 19 Army Troops Company resting	E. K. S. Rowe	116
Group of 20 Battalion on day of arrival	C. E. Thomas collection	116
5 NZ Infantry Brigade HQ at Platanias		116
New Zealanders in a village street	NZ Army	116
7 General Hospital, showing Red Cross ground sign	A. H. Thomas	116
German paratroops on a Greek airfield	Dr K. Bringmann	116
Wrecked Junkers 52 troop-carriers at Maleme	German source	116
‘For each man dangling carried a death, his own if not another's.’	Dr K. Bringmann	116
Crashed German glider	NZ Army	116
Junkers 52s dropping paratroops	E. K. S. Rowe	116
A dead paratrooper in 19 Battalion area	N. E. Andrews	116
Looking towards Canea from the west	NZ Army	116
Smoke clouds over Canea	NZ Army	116
Smoke pall over Suda Bay	S. B. Cann, AIF	116

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General Freyberg watches the landing from his Battle Headquarters	J. C. White	116
Troops of 5 Mountain Division ready to embark from Greece	Dr K. Bringmann	116
Aerial photographs of Maleme area and airfield	British Official	116
Infantry counter-attacking Maleme airfield	I. E. Dawson	116
Junkers troop-carriers burning at Maleme	E. K. S. Rowe	116
Crete News		116
Ack-ack fire scores a hit at Heraklion		116
Bombing at Heraklion		116
Ay Marina	E. K. S. Rowe	252
A German machine-gunner covers the advance	German source	252
‘The Galatas Heights’ from the Alikianou-Canea Road	E. A. Vedova	252
The Church at Galatas	German source	252
Farran's disabled tank in a Galatas street	German source	252
Germans enter Galatas after the attack	German source	252
British destroyer hit by a bomb		252
Brigadier Hargest during the battle —from an 8-mm cinematograph film by John Gray		252
Brigadier G. A. Vasey after his return from Crete	Australian Official	252
The withdrawal from Stilos	W. W. Mason collection	252
Askifou Plain from the north	NZ Army	252
Filling a water-bottle from a well	R. T. Miller	252
Pushing a truck over the bank at the end of the retreat —from an 8-mm cinematograph film by John Gray		252
Sappers after the march over the mountains	P. B. Wildey	252
Ravine leading down to Sfakia	NZ Army	252
Moving down towards the beach	N. E. Andrews	252
Sfakia		252

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Sfakia from the air	RAF Official	252
The village of Sfakia at the time of the evacuation		252
Creforce HQ cave at Sfakia		252
Inside the cave, General Freyberg in centre	J. C. White	252
HMAS Nizam returns to Alexandria	British Official	252
On board a destroyer	V. C. Gordon collection	252
Back in Egypt	British Official	252
Vice-Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham and Rt. Hon. Peter Fraser meet returning troops	NZ Army	252
Brigadiers E. Puttick and L. M. Inglis		252
Staff-Sergeant T. Moir, who returned to Crete in February 1943 to help escapers	J. McDevitt collection	252
Ravines in mountainous country crossed by escapers	J. McDevitt collection	252
Cove where Royal Navy picked up Moir's party	J. McDevitt collection	252