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09-01-2012 06:54 PM
# ADS
Circuit advertisement
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Re: Crete this August.
Nice helmets, you should have tried to buy them!
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Re: Crete this August.
amazing.must go to Crete soon
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Lol. I'd definitely try to buy them as well, but it's always nice to see relics like this in the environment where they were left behind. This just breathes history.. Impressive reminders of the battle on Crete!
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It did cross my mind believe me, but the owner was an old guy who treated his bar like a living museum. I'm sure he was the type (like myself) who wouldn't part with a thing and became quite shifty at my interest in the helmets until I sat down and bought a few beers. I was quite surprised actually that no other tourist pointed at them while we were sitting there, but I suppose it's not everyones cup of tea. There is a museum to the Battle of Crete and Resistance in Heraklion but I didn't get the time to go and see it unfortunately.
Incidentally my uncle Tommy, a wireless operator in the RAF was captured on Crete and spent the rest of the war a prisoner. I believe he was in North Africa before that. I did get the opportunity to ask him some questions about it all before he died but have no idea where on the island he was caught. I know from Crete he was sent to Thessaloniki and then I believe from Thessaloniki to Stalag VIII B in Silesia because I still have his dog-tag.
He gave this to my father on his return to blighty after the war, and I've only just discovered that there is quite a lot of information regarding this camp.
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Re: Crete this August.
Wow! absolutley fascinating Ronnie, thanks for posting. Where on the Crete coast is the site of this wreck?
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I must get to Crete soon under the guise of a family holiday I'd absolutely try and buy that barman's stash!
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great video.very interesting
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