The Greek Marathon WW II

Warrigal

Warrigal

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I'm not a veteran but my Dad was during WW II in New Guinea.

I have always been interested in the history of this conflict and today I stumbled on the story of the Allied retreat from the Greek peninsula as the Germans were sweeping south towards Athens and the beaches of the Peloponnese. The evacuation from Gallipoli in 1915 is well documented and fairly widely known. The retreat from Greece in 1941 is less well known and often referred to as the Greek marathon, implying that the Australians ran before the enemy.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

I hope that I'm not out of line posting in this forum. The link below tells the story with a lot of military detail and I thought some of the US vets might find it interesting. Some of the fighting was at Thermopylae where Leonidas and his three hundred Spartans had held off the Persian hordes some 2,500 years before.

Battle of Brallos Pass: Anzacs Hold the Line
 
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Warrigal said:
I'm not a veteran but my Dad was during WW II in New Guinea.

I have always been interested in the history of this conflict and today I stumbled on the story of the Allied retreat from the Greek peninsula as the Germans were sweeping south towards Athens and the beaches of the Peloponnese. The evacuation from Gallipoli in 1915 is well documented and fairly widely known. The retreat from Greece in 1941 is less well known and often referred to as the Greek marathon, implying that the Australians ran before the enemy.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

I hope that I'm not out of line posting in this forum. The link below tells the story with a lot of military detail and I thought some of the US vets might find it interesting. Some of the fighting was at Thermopylae where Leonidas and his three hundred Spartans had held off the Persian hordes some 2,500 years before.

Battle of Brallos Pass: Anzacs Hold the Line
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Good read. (y)(y)
 
I'm not a veteran but my Dad was during WW II in New Guinea.

My Dad was was stationed in New Guinea during World War II also. Army Airborne. His brother, my Uncle Vic, was there for awhile also. I have old photos of my father and my uncle in the jungle. Every picture, even when he was wearing shorts, my father was wearing boots. I always thought that they had to wear boots was because of rattlesnakes in the jungle. They had plenty of mosquitoes. My father caught malaria there.
 
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