By Pierre Kosmidis Photos © Ntinos Mpampakos, submitted to www.ww2wrecks.com and used by permission The Greek Civil War, lasted from 1946 to 1949 and was a fierce and costly war, that claimed the lives of thousands of Greeks, killing each other. Mr. Ntinos Mpampakos has identified, with the assistance of respected aviation researcher Mr. Ioannis Mylonas the […]
By Pierre Kosmidis Photos © Ntinos Mpampakos, submitted to www.ww2wrecks.com and used by permission Kypseli is a mountain village in the prefecture of Kastoria. It is built at an altitude of 1,080 meters on the slopes of Mount Voio and is one of the most mountainous settlements in the prefecture of Kastoria. Kypseli belongs to the municipality […]
By Pierre Kosmidis Photos © Ntinos Mpampakos, submitted to www.ww2wrecks.com and used by permission Mr. Ntinos Mpampakos, 29 years old, has shared the photos he has shot, during his numerous visits on the mountains, on the northwestern borders of Greece with Albania, showing the beauty of Nature, but also the relics of War. Mr. Mpampakos found a war relic on […]
By Pierre Kosmidis Photos © Ntinos Mpampakos, submitted to www.ww2wrecks.com and used by permission Mr. Ntinos Mpampakos, 29 years old, has shared the photos he has shot, during his numerous visits on the mountains, on the northwestern borders of Greece with Albania, showing the beauty of Nature, but also the relics of War. Although few, if any, of […]
By Pierre Kosmidis Photos and info submitted to www.ww2wrecks.com by Konstantinos Kirimis, used by permission Konstantinos Kirimis, a respected researcher and author visited the Anatolia College WW2 bunkers, which were designed and constructed by the German Occupation Forces. During the occupation of Greece (1941-44) the German forces stationed in Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece, used the Anatolia College, as […]
By Pierre Kosmidis Photos © Ntinos Mpampakos, submitted to www.ww2wrecks.com and used by permission One of Nature’s wonders in Greece, is the mountainous region on the northwestern part of the country. Now serene, a haven of wildlife, which attracts trekkers from across the world, these mountains were once the setting of fierce fighting, during the Greco […]
By Pierre Kosmidis Photos and info submitted by Konstantinos Kirimis, used by permission In the years leading to WW2, Greece ran an extensive modernization project of its armed forces. From 1936 to 1940, on the eve of the Italian failed invasion of Greece, the Royal Hellenic Navy, acquired new naval units and built a series of […]
By Pierre Kosmidis Information, research by Photos by Giannis Arseniadis, submitted to www.ww2wrecks.com by and used by permission Salamina island (known as “Salamis” in English, based on the name of the island in ancient Greek), is known all over the world, as a naval battle fought between an alliance of Greek city-states under Themistocles, and […]
Information, research and photos by Konstantinos Kirimis Mr. Konstantinos Kirimis, a respected researcher and author, is a regular contributor of www.ww2wrecks.com and prepared a feature on a World War 2 bunker complex. During 1943, the German occupation forces in Greece, were expecting an Allied landing. In fact, this was deliberately circulated by the Allies, codenamed “Operation Animals”, as a distraction of […]
By Pierre Kosmidis Research and photos by Konstantinos Kirimis, submitted to www.ww2wrecks.com and used by permission Among the various bunkers and fortifications built by the German occupation forces all over Greece during World War 2, this specific “cave-shelter” (Hohlgangsanlage, according to the German technical terminology of the time) is located in the Northern Fortress of Aegina (see Note 1, […]
