TONY ROGERS (GB) - Battle for the Dodecanese

la vita ai tempi delle batterie international meeting, open court of primary school – Lakki, Leros 14th sept 2015

~ Tony Rogers ~ Battle for the Dodecanese

TONY ROGERS Battle for the Dodecanese

Leros War Cemetery.

The German reaction to the Italian armistice in September 1943 was to initiate Fall Achse and disarm Italian forces.

German Panzer, Rhodes.

German invasion of Kos, 3 October 1943.

Kos fell the next day, 4 October.

Portolago (Lakki) in 1941.

German bombs over Portolago.

Battery San Giorgio, Scumbarda.

Italian defensive position before the battle.

Allied warships paid a heavy price during Aegean operations.

Adrias, her forecastle blown away by a mine, arrives at Alexandria, in Egypt.

Junkers Ju 88.

On 12 November 1943 the land battle for Leros began.

German paratroopers emplane for Leros.

German troops attack at Appetici.

German paratroopers and infantry take cover in a gun emplacement at Rachi during a Stuka attack. During the fighting, aerial bombardments were dangerous for all those on the ground.

Ju 87Â Stuka.

16 November 1943: Brigadier Robert Tilney (right) meets Generalleutnant Friedrich‐Wilhelm Müller (left).

After the fighting, for the victors, time for celebration.

Samos is occupied.

Lakki: memorial to those lost with the destroyer Vasilissa Olga.