greek squadrons fight in Afrika
 

Three greek desert squads, the 335, 336 fightersquads and the 13.th light bombersquad faught in Afrikas skys, 80 airmen died there.

The following pics are taken from the book "greek desert squadrons"
writen by veterans of that wartheater.

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Is this book available in English?

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I do`nt think so Graham; if you wish, i can send you a link to upload it, if you give me your mail. There are a lot of rare pics there from the actions of the greek squads in Afrika and than in Italy

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In fact there is much more pictures in this book than text , nd due to just the picture it's greatly worth to hv it

many thks Byron

Remi

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Some more pics from that book.
On the first are pilots of the greek 13.th squad together with british collegs of RAF infront of a Martin A-30 Baltimore MK V with code Nr. L.G. 91

second pic, a message of the hadquarters to the 13.th squad

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Hello Byron,

does this book cover the Squadrons service in 1944?

Did they lose as aircraft, Baltimore FW335 on August 22 1944.

This ought to be in the Allied forum shouldn't it.

There's an Italian gent looking for the names of the crew of a Baltimore lost on this date in GENIVOLTA, PO river valley.

He would appreciate any help.

Dennis Burke
Dublin

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Hi,
Marco Gueli's Martin Baltimore in Italian Service will give you most info on there Italian use. Includes a list of known a/c but the one you mention is not in the list.Italian/English text. My copy came from Midland Counties at £16.95 +pp.

Alex

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Thanks Alex,
I'm guessing its a Hellenic aircraft at this stage.

here is the RAF Commands forum:
http://www.rafcommands.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1610

It would be nice to help these men set up the memorial I think.

Dennis

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Hi Byron.
Thanks for these photo's.
I see the 109 that was discussed at length before re maybe belonging to Rodel features on the 3rd page of the first thunbnail.
Does it say where that photo was taken.
Can you please email me the link as well to stefaan.bouwer@gmail.com as well.
13H shared some Bisleys and Baltimores with 15 SAAF.
Do they give serial no's in the book.
Thanks

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Hi Stefaan!
In also noted the presence of "Tripple Chevron 4" why I asked Byron for more info! Interesting how photos continue to surface.
I can not see any finer details from the file Byron kindly provided me access to, why the W.Nr is still unknown. Would be very interesting to know where and when the photo was taken though.

This photo reveals the starboard engine cowling which is void of any unit emblem why I believe we now can be pretty sure it did not carry any unit marking. This is again in line with my theory that this is a Stab/JG 77 aircraft.

Many thanks to Byron for posting these photos and assisting with the file!

Cheers
Goran

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Hi,

I can`t give any answer to that question.

I am posting three Photos of monuments in memorial of the killed greek airmen in Africa and Italy

1. Photo: monument in the greek cemetary in Alexandria in memorial of the airmen who fell in action on african soil
2. left Photo: monument in El Alamein in memorial of all the greek combatants who fell in Africa. right photo: the greek war cemetary in Prindesi - Italy
3. Photo: above: "for ideals worthy to live dont hesitate to die"
below: names of the dead airmen in Prindesi