The Battle for Crete

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Sound Clip: Donald Haddon
Sound Clip: Denis Sampson
Sound Clip: Allan Robinson
Sound Clip: Peter Wildey Part 1
Sound Clip: Bert Dyson
Sound Clip: Peter Wildey Part 2
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Images in this feature

Farewell
27 Battalion Photo
German Paratroopers
German Paratroopers over Heraklion
Damaged Truck
Field Engineers
Honoured Guests
Heraklion Attack
Maleme
Crashed Glider
Dead Paratrooper
Paratroop Landing Area
German Mountain Troops
Axis Destroyers
German Anti Aircraft Battery
Attack on Hospital
10 Brigade, Galatas Map
Living Quarters
Mess Queue
Destroyed Tank
The Germans Enter Galatas
Troops Sheltering
The German Advance
Clearing the Road
Filling the Water Bottle
Evacuation by Ship
Charles Upham
Awaiting Evacuation Near Sfakia
Evacuating the Wounded
Thankyou
Army Thankyou Flyer
Capitulation
Prisoners of War
Shepherds
Three key Commanders
The German Assault on Crete
Maleme Canea Sector, May 1941
Naval Operations Map
Disembarking at Suda Bay
New Zealanders before the Invasion
Maori Battalion
Resting Up
En Route for Egypt
Dive Bomber Attack
Paratroopers Descending
New Zealand 5th Field Ambulance
Relaxing at the Beach
YMCA Van
German Paratrooper
POWs on the Move
British forces Newspaper
HMS Phoebe
Maori Battalion in Egypt
Paratrooper at 2000 Re-enactment
Flag Raising Ceremony
Major John Plimmer's Grave
Veterans at the 2000 Ceremony
Suda Bay Cemetery
Suda Bay Cemetery
2001 Commemorations
A German Veteran
Captain Kendall Langston
The Last Post
NZ Defence Force Guard
NZ Defence Force Guard
'Lest We Forget' Rose
German War Cemetery
Wreath
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