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The military history of Greece during World War II began on 28 October 1940, when the Italian Army invaded Greece from Albania, beginning the Greco-Italian War. The Greek Army temporarily halted the invasion and pushed the Italians back into Albania. The Greek successes forced Nazi Germany to intervene. The Germans invaded Greece and Yugoslavia ...
List of Greek military equipment of World War II. This is a list of equipment of the Greek/ Hellenic Armed Forces during World War II. This list does not include weapons used by the Greek resistance during the occupation of Greece.
FN M1900. FN M1903. Colt M1907 Army Special. Mannlicher M1901. Chamelot-Delvigne M1873. Colt M1927 Official Police. Nagant M1895. Bergmann Bayard M1908.
Made by the Greek vehicle manufacturer ELBO, includes 90 upgraded Leonidas I. [33][68] 1,995. M113A1/1E. United States. 1,034 M113A1, 313 M113A1G (German variant of the M113A1) and 648 M113A2. Most equipped with a M2 Browning heavy machine gun, a number will be an equipped with a GMG grenade launcher.
The occupation of Greece by the Axis Powers (Greek: Η Κατοχή, romanized:I Katochi, lit. 'the occupation') began in April 1941 after Nazi Germany invaded the Kingdom of Greece in order to assist its ally, Italy, in their ongoing war that was initiated in October 1940, having encountered major strategical difficulties.
Over 500 Greek civilians executed by Axis soldiers. The Battle of Crete (German: Luftlandeschlacht um Kreta, Greek: Μάχη της Κρήτης), codenamed Operation Mercury (German: Unternehmen Merkur), was a major Axis airborne and amphibious operation during World War II to capture the island of Crete. It began on the morning of 20 May 1941 ...
In 1931, the Hellenic Air Force Academy, the Icarus School (Greek: Σχολή Ικάρων), was founded. At the end of 1936, Greece ordered 36 Polish PZL P.24 fighter aircraft, which entered service with the 21st, 22nd and 23rd Pursuit Squadrons and after completion of deliveries in 1938, formed the core of the RHAF fighter force.