CRETE, GERMAN PARACHUTE TROOPS LAND ON THE ISLAND. MAY 1941. THE GERMAN BOMBING OF THE HERAKLION AERODROME, NEAR CANDIA WAS FOLLOWED BY GROUND STRAFING BY MESSERSCHMITTS. WHILE THESE FIGHTERS PATROLLED THE BOMBED AREA, TROOP-CARRYING AIRCRAFT FOLLOWED IN, ESCORTED BY BOMBERS. PARACHUTE TROOPS, OF WHOM 60 TO 70 PERCENT WERE DESTROYED BEFORE REACHING THE GROUND, WERE THEN DROPPED. - British Royal Engineers exploding land mines destroying German supplies

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