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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Original Home page

Primary Participants

Participants secondary

Locations

Evidence

Literature-(public)

Literature-(other)

Primary Sources

Outstanding- enquiries

Time Line

Motor Launches

Submarines

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

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Pre and post monument photos of the abduction point on the Ano Archanes road to Heraklion Road.

A car coming from the Archanes direction slows at the junction.

Closer to the junction shows the change in road surface.

A view of the junction with the road to Archanes the higher of those to the left.

The area as it is today.

Some of the team mimic the stopping of the General's car!