Metaxas Season

The Metaxas Line was a 90 mile chain of fortifications built by the Greeks in the 1930's along their border with Bulgaria. In the spring of I941, it fell to the German XVIII Corps to assault the Metaxas Line at …

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The Metaxas Line was a 90 mile chain of fortifications built by the Greeks in the 1930's along their border with Bulgaria. In the spring of I941, it fell to the German XVIII Corps to assault the Metaxas Line at the outset of hostilities against Greece and Yugoslavia. The defenses were too tough to affect a worthwhile breakthrough for the bulk of the attacking armies so, as with the Maginot Line in France a year earlier, it was eventually just outflanked through southern Yugoslavia. Here we have elements of the 5th Mountain Division assaulting yet another fortified position held by garrison troops of the 2nd Greek Army.

Kilkis, Greece

The Battle of Greece (also known as Operation Marita) is the common name for the invasion of Allied Greece by Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany during World War II. The Italian invasion in October 1940, which is usually known as the Greco-Italian War, was followed by the German invasion in April 1941. German landings on the island of Crete (May 1941) came after Allied forces had been defeated in mainland Greece. These battles were part of the greater Balkan Campaign of the Axis powers and their associates.

Wikipedia: Battle of Greece

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