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Hitler’s greatest gamble: The airborne invasion of Crete that nearly ended German paratroopers
In May 1941, Germany launched the first full-scale airborne invasion in history, attempting to seize the island of Crete entirely from the sky. Gliders and paratroopers descended onto airfields under ...
Hominid footprints found on Crete date back 5.6 million years, making them by far the oldest ever discovered in Europe.
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