For the first time in history, an invading force used the air as its medium to invade an island fortress.
Thousands of monuments dot Greece’s islands and mainland honoring those who paid the ultimate price to fight so Greece —
A 17-year-old boy named Mathios Potagas from the village of Vytina in the Arcadia province of the Peloponnese stared the
Two days after German forces invaded Athens, an American newspaper editorial praised the people of Greece not only for their
On Sunday April 27, 1941 German troops entered and occupied the city of Athens after facing strong Greek resistance in
On this day in 1941, the Nazi German army entered the Greek capital of Athens, signaling the end of Greek
War was raging in Europe and the Nazi Germans had just invaded Greece. Meanwhile, in the United States, Ziegfeld Girl
Today in 1941, U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt took note of the Greek people’s World War II heroism. During a
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