The Dodecanese campaign of World War II was an attempt by Allied forces to capture the Italian Dodecanese islands in the Aegean Sea following the Armistice...

The Dodecanese (UK: /ˌdoʊdɪkəˈniːz/, US: /doʊˌdɛkəˈniːz/; Greek: Δωδεκάνησα, Dodekánisa [ðoðeˈkanisa], lit. 'twelve islands') are a group of 15 larger...

unconditional surrender to the Allies on 2 May 1945. The brief campaign in the Italian-held Dodecanese Islands resulted as both Germany and the Allies scrambled...

story takes place within the real historical context of the 1943 Dodecanese campaign. The Guns of Navarone brings together elements that would characterise...

Ege'deki İtalyan Adaları) were an archipelago of fourteen islands (the Dodecanese, except Kastellorizo) in the southeastern Aegean Sea, that—together with...

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Italian colonists were settled in the Dodecanese Islands of the Aegean Sea in the 1930s by the Fascist Italian government of Benito Mussolini, Italy having...

occupy the Italian-held Dodecanese, but they and their Italian allies were defeated in a short campaign (see Dodecanese Campaign). Throughout late 1943...

the Mediterranean and spearheaded the last German campaign-sized victory in the Dodecanese campaign in autumn 1943. The wing redesignated to Schlachtgeschwader...

central event of the Dodecanese campaign of the Second World War, and is widely used as an alternative name for the whole campaign. After the Armistice...

movie. The novel had been inspired by the Battle of Leros during the Dodecanese Campaign of World War II but the guns on Leros were 152 mm (6 in), not the...

Brigadier Robert Adolphus George Tilney, CBE DSO TD (2 November 1903 – May 1981) was a British Army officer who served during the Second World War. Robert...

forces for control of the Greek island of Kos, in the then Italian-held Dodecanese Islands of the Aegean Sea. The battle was precipitated by the Allied Armistice...

the spot. As Commander-in-Chief of Army Group E, Löhr oversaw the Dodecanese campaign. On 26 August 1944, with the Allies driving on Germany on three fronts...

for the control of Rhodes, a Greek island in the Italian (1912–1943) Dodecanese islands in the Aegean Sea. The Italian authorities in Rome had been negotiating...

Name From To Location Notes Accolade Rhodes Cancelled, part of the Dodecanese campaign, World War II. Banner 1969, August 2007, July Northern Ireland Military...

July 1942 and from 10 August 1942 to 1 November 1942. During the Dodecanese Campaign, Kleemann commanded the 7,500-strong Sturm-Division "Rhodos" during...

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invasion of the island (known as the Battle of Kos, part of the Dodecanese campaign). Kos was occupied by Italy since the Italo-Turkish War of 1912,...

(/roʊdz/ ; Greek: Ρόδος, romanized: Ródos [ˈroðos]) is the largest of the Dodecanese islands of Greece and is their historical capital; it is the ninth largest...

German forces in their victory over the Italian-British forces in the Dodecanese Campaign. On 6 October 1943, on the island of Kos, under his orders, German...

British Army soldier during World War II. He was killed in action on the Dodecanese island of Leros whilst commanding the Long Range Desert Group in 1943...

Italian Islands of the Aegean were occupied by the Germans (see Dodecanese campaign). During the German occupation, the islands remained under the nominal...

Italian allies and ended Italy's rule. During the Dodecanese Campaign, an Allied attempt to take the Dodecanese with the cooperation of the Italian troops ended...

the Royal Corps of Signals in World War II; he died in the 1943 Dodecanese campaign. Baker went to Pope Street School, where he was considered "one of...

is based on Operation Anglo that took place during World War II in the Dodecanese islands where special forces attempted to disrupt the Luftwaffe and Regia...

Ο Tολμών Nικά O Tolmon Nika Engagements World War II Tunisia Campaign Dodecanese Campaign Greek Civil War Dekemvriana Turkish invasion of Cyprus War in...

Ju 87 participated in the last campaign-sized victory over the Western Allies, the Dodecanese Campaign. The Dodecanese Islands had been occupied by the...

failed Dodecanese campaign. The squadron returned to the United Kingdom in April 1944 and served with the Second Tactical Air Force during the campaign in...

Rogers, Anthony (2019). Kos and Leros 1943: The German Conquest of the Dodecanese. Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1472835093. Ambrose, Stephen (1997). Citizen...