By Lt. Gen. (ret.) Androulakis Giorgos On the north sandy coast of Kos Island, approximately 600 meters east of Marmari, a shipwreck is laying a few metres off the beach. It is a WW 2 shipwreck, destroyed shortly after the occupation of Kos by German invasion troops in October 1943. The boat is the F-131 (Ferry-131) landing […]
By Pierre Kosmidis Photos by Anthony Rogers Acclaimed author Anthony Rogers painstakingly researched all WW2 aircraft crash sites in Malta and wrote a detailed account of the circumstances of their loss, as well as the fate of their crews. The Siege of Malta was a military campaign in the Mediterranean Theatre of the Second World War. […]
By Pierre Kosmidis Photos submitted by Dr. Peter Schenk and used by permission Dr. Peter Schenk is an acclaimed author, whose research has shed light on a rather obscure chapter of World War 2, the War in the Aegean Sea, which resulted in the last victory of strategic importance for the Germans in 1943. Dr. Peter Schenk’s book […]
By Pierre Kosmidis Photos, documents and additional information by Lt. Col. (ret.) Hans Peter Eisenbach, used by kind permission. Το Ju87 “Stuka”, το οποίο ανελκύσθηκε στη Ρόδο πριν από μερικά χρόνια και έκτοτε βρίσκεται στις εγκαταστάσεις του Μουσείου Πολεμικής Αεροπορίας στην Αεροπορική Βάση Δεκελείας στο Τατόι, έχει μια πολύ ενδιαφέρουσα ιστορία. Χάρη σε δύο πολύ αξιόλογους ερευνητές, […]
By Pierre Kosmidis SWASTIKA OVER THE AEGEAN is a limited edition book by acclaimed author Anthony Rogers, a photographic record of events that occurred in and around the Dodecanese in the autumn of 1943. Those events resulted in the last decisive German victory of the Second World War. The Eastern Aegean was the setting for […]