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ANZACs Blocking a Blitzkrieg: the battle of Vevi, 10–13 April 1941 Part 2

SdKfz 231 armoured cars of the LSSAH advance into the Balkans Kurt Meyer during the Battle of Vevi (1941) For close-fire support, the Leibstandarte had the StuG III assault gun, a kind of turret-less tank. A brute of a machine, with its pushed-in nose the StuG III looked uncannily like a bull terrier, and for […]

ANZACs Blocking a Blitzkrieg: the battle of Vevi, 10–13 April 1941 Part 1

The Battle of Vevi, April 12th 16:30 – 18:00. The Allies have fallen back, the Germans advance through Kleidi Pass and shell the retreating Dodecanese Regiment. Codenamed Operation Marita, the German invasion of Yugoslavia and Greece sent the German Second Army, composed of four army corps and a panzer group, into Yugoslavia from Bulgaria, Hungary, […]