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Mediterranean theatre of World War II

  • Axis occupation of GreeceThe early morning hours of the 28th of October 1940 marked the beginning of a catastrophic chain of events for Greece. Italian ambassador Emanuele Grazzi…
  • Operation AchseOn the 9th of May 1943, two days after the fall of Tunis to Allied forces, the German High Command informed the Italian Supreme Command that three new units…
  • Operation MincemeatOn the 29th of September 1939, Rear Admiral John Godfrey circulated a paper titled the Trout memo. This document compared deceiving an enemy to fly fishing…
  • Spain during World War IIOn the 19th of June 1940, Francisco Franco wrote to Adolf Hitler offering to join the war in exchange for help building Spain's colonial empire.