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.

Home

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

Photos 4

Google Earth Images of Locations of relevance.

1. Dermarti, Beach. The beach that seemed at first to fit all the descriptions.

The area of the abduction point on the Archanes Road. Unfortunately the Google Earth image is not high definition in the area concerned at present.

The Departure Beach, Peristeres Beach, Rhodakino.