Well I've just learnt about a battle that I'd never heard of before.
I thought that Crete '41 was the last use of Fallschirmjager too.
I was looking for info on Royal Irish Fusiliers in 1940 on their website and saw mention of the 2nd Bn in Leros in '43.
History of the Royal Irish Rangers* The Royal Irish Fusiliers
Which lead me to look here,
http://leros2002.bravepages.com/leros_war2.html
a pdf file here.
http://www.leros.org/lerostouristhttp/ageanmis.pdf
A few story on BBC Peole's War has this excellent quote.
BBC - WW2 People's War - Leros 1943 and the aftermath Quote:
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The Germans were decent fighting soldiers — they were an elite unit of the regular army. The commanding officer said to us in English ‘Hard luck, good fight. Come and have a cup of coffee’.
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There I was thinking by November '43 everything was going the Allies way and here is a defeat reminiscent of 1941.
Bit of German footage here.
YouTube - Operation "Leopard" capture from Leros 1943
A holiday idea is now taking shape.
