Lazarettschiff Brigitte and Torpedo Boat Lira in Thessaloniki, by Vincenzo Giacomo Toccafondi

By Vincenzo Giacomo Toccafondi I recently found on a well-known online auction website a very interesting image of the port of Thessaloniki 1. It shows the French ocean liner Theophile Gautier in the background, and two units that were directly involved in Operation Merkur: The small hospital ship Brigitte and the Regia Marina Torpedo Boat Lira. Photos of Brigitte are quite rare […]

Identified! The Martin Maryland Mk. II, crashed on 25 May 1941 in Crete.

By Pierre Kosmidis Research and documentation: and Photos: ECPAD Previously unpublished photos of a crashed aircraft, with German soldiers inspecting the burned cockpit area, possibly by her own crew, as was standard procedure, were successfully identified, thanks to two respected researchers and . Looking at two photos of the crashed aircraft, the two experts managed to […]

Then and Now: 1945-2017, the Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor of Rodos Island, Greece

By Pierre Kosmidis Photos submitted by Panagiotis Brokos “Then” photo source: Bill Marshall, “Now” photo source: Panagiotis Brokos Rodos island, Greece, was one of the last bastions of the 3rd Reich in Europe, as on 8 May 1945 the Germans, under Otto Wagener, surrendered the island as well as all of the Dodecanese to the British, who soon after […]

1941-2017: Η “Μακεδονία” φλέγεται, 22 Απριλίου 1941

By Pierre Kosmidis Έρευνα, ιστορική τεκμηρίωση: Γιώργος Καρέλας READ THE STORY IN ENGLISH: Then and Now: Stuka attack on Greek steamer “Macedonia”, April 22, 1941 Ο διακεκριμένος ιστορικός ερευνητής και έμπειρος αυτοδύτης Γιώργος Καρέλας έχει συμμετάσχει σε πολλές έρευνες ναυαγίων πλοίων και αεροσκαφών του Β’ Παγκοσμίου Πολέμου στην Ελλάδα. Παράλληλα, έχει αφιερώσει πολύ χρόνο στην […]

Battlefield Archaeology: Discovering relics of the 1943 battle in Rodos

By Pierre Kosmidis Photos by Panagiotis Brokos Following the Italian capitulation in September 1943, the Dodecanese (a word deriving from Greek, meaning “twelve islands”) became a highly contested area, which was strategically important for both the Germans and the Allies. Rodos island, on the crossroads of Europe, Asia and Africa The biggest island in the […]

Battlefield Archaeology: The WW2 Italian submarine base in previously unpublished photos!

By Pierre Kosmidis Photos by Panagiotis Brokos  CLICK ON THE RED LINKS BELOW FOR FURTHER READING The Greek Dodecanese Islands were under Italian occupation from 1912 to 1943, when fascist Italy capitulated and swiftly changed sides, abandoning their nazi masters and taking sides with the Allies. The Germans then moved on to neutralise the Italian […]

A 1944 Willys MB Jeep restoration from A to Z. Akiss Paraskevopoulos and his WW2 legend

By Pierre Kosmidis Internationally acclaimed photographer Akiss Paraskevopoulos is the happy owner of a historic WW2 vehicle, a legendary 1944 Willys MB Jeep, equipped with a 2.2 lt. engine (55 hp), which with great effort, commitment and above all love, managed to bring it again to perfect working condition. Akiss Paraskevopoulos unfolds the thread of the myth that […]