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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.
Operation Manna was the codeword for a Second World War operation by the British and Greek forces in Greece in mid-October 1944, following the gradual withdrawal of the German occupying forces from the country.
Greece will start negotiations to buy a fourth Belharra frigate from France to strengthen its navy as it recovers from a decade-long debt crisis, the country's defence minister said on Thursday.
The list includes armed vessels that served during the war and in the immediate aftermath, inclusive of localized ongoing combat operations, garrison surrenders, post-surrender occupation, colony re-occupation, troop and prisoner repatriation, to the end of 1945. For smaller vessels, see also List of World War II ships of less than 1000 tons.
VE-Day: Following news of the German surrender, spontaneous celebrations erupted all over the world on 7 May, including in Western Europe and the United States.As the Germans officially set the end of operations for 2301 Central European Time on 8 May, that day is celebrated across Europe as V-E Day.
12th Infantry Division (Greece) 13th Light Bomber Squadron; 14th Infantry Division (Greece) 16th Infantry Division (Greece) 17th Infantry Division (Greece) 18th Infantry Division (Greece) 19th Mechanized Division (Greece) 20th Infantry Division (Greece) 29th Infantry Regiment (Greece) 41st Infantry Regiment (Greece) 50th Infantry Regiment (Greece)
No. 5 Battery, 2/3rd Field Regiment: No. 6 Battery, 2/3rd Field Regiment: Maj. I. J. Bessell-Browne 90 personnel, equipped with captured Italian weapons: four 100 mm guns and four 75 mm guns. 4th Greek Regiment Col. M. Trifon 1,300 personnel; Rethymno 5th Greek Regiment Lt. Col. I Servos 1,200 personnel; Rethymno Gendarmerie Privates School
The Kingdom of Greece aligned with the Entente powers during World War I and participated in the intervention in the Russian Civil War in 1919. However, the conflict between Greece and Turkey, reignited in the early 1920s, concluded in the autumn of 1922 with a severe setback for Greece, known as the "Asia Minor Catastrophe."