ILL Met By Moonlight

The story of the abduction, in 1944 from Crete, of General Kreipe, and of "In the footsteps of heroes", two expeditions in Crete remembering and honouring both the Greek and British heroes involved in the original operation.

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Operation Bricklayer

Operation Moonstruck 

In the Footsteps of Heroes

Location references

A conundrum

OFF SITE LINKS

The War Graves Photographic Project

John Dillon's Crete site

Paul London's site

Hellenic BookService

ExploreCrete

U.K. Crete Veterans and Friends Society

Hughes Syndrome

Find Maddy

Location References from various written sources.

These references, in the form of a letter followed by four or six numbers, are not conventional map co-ordinates in the form of degrees, minutes and seconds North and East but are specific to maps used at the time which had a grid overlay printed upon them. They come in two scales, 1:250,00 AND 1:50,00.The former are known as the series GSGS 4410, later as M.D.630. Two maps in this series cover Crete, G19 and G 20 (west and east respectively).

In the 50,000 series, there are 19 maps covering Crete the bulk of Crete  (not the extreme east) There series is known as M.D.R. 408.

If any of you have any of these maps that you might wish to part with or be happy to copy, then please contact me.

		Map References (to be checked 19/11/07)	
			
Grid Square		Place	Doc Reference		Source Code	
a	8026	Paliochora		KOK113		PLF = Unpublished papers
a	9431	Koustogerako		KOK73		KOK = The Cretan Resistance 1941-1945 N.A. Kokonas	
a	9450	Deres			KOK109		NA/---	National Archive File No
a	9728	Toumba					
a	978262	Trypti 		KOK60			
a	9832	Rodovani		KOK79			
a	9931	Akhlada				
b	0150	Alikanou		KOK91			
b	0444	Lakkoi			KOK79			
b	0544	Meskla			KO76			
b	1646	Kampoi			KOK113			
b	1844	Kyriakosallia				
b	1946	Samonas		KOK78			
b	2246	Neao Khorion				
b	2539	Vaphes			KOK113	
b	3135	Klima			KOK115	
b	3340	Georgioupolis	KOK105	
b	3527	Vourvoure		KOK35	
b	3530	Asy Gonia		KOK80	
b	370203	Rodakino		KOK87	B3722 KOK71
b	4036	Episkopi		
b	4124	Mt Tsilivdikas	KOK71	
b	5116	Preveli Monastery	KOK32	
b	525166	Limni Preveli	KOK87	
b	5133	Rethymnos		KOK91	
b	6111	Saktouria		KOK49+86	
b	7110	Agia Galene		KOK113	
b	7323	Phourfhouras		KOK60	
b	7510	Xerokambos		KOK91	
b	7616	Apodoulou		KOK52	
b	8737	Yeni Gave	
b	8945	Mylopotamos		KOK125
b	9338	Damasta		KOK92
b	9800	Anogia			KOK44
c	0021	Ano Asites		KOK36
c	0224	Pyrgou	
c	0322	Siva			KOK91
c	0523	Daphnes		KOK97
c	0922	Kanli-Kastelli	KOK98+
c	1232	Villa Ariadne 	1532?	
c	1525	Ano Archanes		KOK84
c	1723	Peza			KOK97
c	1727	Abduction Point	KOK84
c	1829	Skalani		KOK85
c	2723	Anapoli	
c	2723	Apostoli		KOK91
c	3420	Kastomonitsa		KOK66
c	3705	Vianos			KOK67
c	4207	Amalos			KOK66
c	520166	Katharo		KOK84
c	4504	Kato Syme		KOK67
c	494318	Agios Geogiou Selinari KOK66	
c	5525	Drasi			KOK91
c	5528	Neapolis		KOK91
c	6038	Mirabello		KOK125
g	7691	Cape Lithinon	KOK37
g	7892	Martsalos		KOK?
g	9693	Trofalos (below Krotos (Tin)) ???	KOK41
h	1294	Tris Ekklises	KOK35
h	1898	Ethia (Cave nearby)	KOK71
h	266982	Vato	
h	2797	Tsoutsouros		KOK
h	295977	Dermato	
h	2998	Dermato	
h	350995	Keratokambos	
h	4198	Arvi			KOK