Smoke rises from an airfield during the Battle of Crete in World War II. German troops advance on rugged terrain in Crete away from airfield after landing in troop carrier planes. A German Luftwaffe aircraft takes off from the captured Maleme airfield, west of Chania.
German troops capture Greek and Allied soldiers during the Battle of Crete in World War II. A German soldier with a bicycle guards a line of Allied prisoners. Faces of Greek and British prisoners. German airplanes and troops at the Maleme airfield Captured British soldiers raise their hands as they surrender near a bridge. A deep gorge or channel in Crete with destroyed bridge in water. German soldier driving a vehicle. Driver’s view of a mountainous road in Crete. German Army vehicles driving on the road, passing by tanks and destroyed trucks.
Map of Crete showing its distance to Athens (Greece), Tobruk (Libya), Alexandria (Egypt) and Beirut (Lebanon) during World War II. Luftwaffe Junkers Ju-52 aircraft parked on an airfield (likely Maleme airfield). German military officer points to the area near Chania on a map of Crete during a meeting with troops. German officer briefing soldiers and pilots. Allied prisoners of war march in Crete. A medic applies medicine to a British soldier’s wounded hand. A German soldier points to captured British prisoners. A prisoner sits on the ground and leans on a wall near a German guard.
Men shoveling pile of coal near a factory during World War II. Pile of coal outside a factory or power plant. A locomotive train transporting coal cargo. Mass of oil derricks on oil field with pumpjack working in the foreground.
German troop movement to Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia just before World War II. Mercedes Benz heavy trucks are parked on air field as lines of German Wehrmacht soldiers stand at attention on the other side of the field. A German officer reads instruction from a booklet. Wehrmacht troops marching on the field, toward aircraft. Two Junkers Ju-52 aircraft parked in airfield. A German officer salutes to a flight crew, who then board an aircraft. German soldiers marching to the airplanes. German soldiers climb aboard transport plane. A soldier hands over rifles to his comrade inside the aircraft. Nazi soldiers take their bicycle and belongings with them to the aircraft. German soldiers push a motorcycle into a transport plane. Crewman closes the door of the aircraft after the last soldier boards the plane. Junkers Ju-52 aircraft taxi and takes off from airfield.
German soldiers bring their equipment and bicycles as they leave an airfield in Germany for Liberec, Sudetenland (Czechoslovakia) prior to World War II.. German medics walk toward a Red Cross Ju-52 plane (with Swastika emblem on the empennage). A Ju-52 plane taxiing. German medics and soldiers crowd near the aircraft. Transport planes flying over an airfield and after landing. Aerial view of Liberec. A group of Ju-52 transport planes approach and then landing on airfield. German soldiers unload supplies and materiel from the aircraft. A group of German aircraft in flight over Liberec.
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