Operation Washing
Destruction Operation
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Greek resistance
Mainland Greece
- Drama
- Ryka
- Mikro Chorio
- ESPO bombing
- Leivadi
- Gorgopotamos Bridge
- Fardykambos
- Meritsa
- Porta
- Animals
- Kournovo Tunnel
- Asopos Bridge
- Sarantaporos
- 22 July 1943 Athens protest
- Execution of Josef Salminger
- Kokkinia
- Menina
Crete (Cretan resistance)
- Albumen
- Trahili
- Damasta
- Kidnapping of Heinrich Kreipe
Operation Washing was the successful destruction of the railway bridge over the Asopos River in Central Greece by four British SOE saboteurs. It took place on 21 June 1943, as part of Operation Animals.[1]
References
- ^ Meyer 2009, p. 138.
Sources
- Meyer, Hermann Frank (2009). Von Wien nach Kalavryta: Die blutige Spur der 117. Jäger-Division durch Serbien und Griechenland [From Vienna to Kalavryta: The Bloody Trail of the 117th Jäger Division Across Serbia and Greece] (in German). Mannheim: Bibliopolis. ISBN 978-3-941336-10-0.
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