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

Submarines.

As well as motor launches, submarines were used to take personnel and stores to and from Crete during the occupation. Submarines were mainly used in the earlier part of the occupation.

Two of the submarines that were famously involved were H.M.S. Torbay and H.M.S. Thrasher. Both of these made daring trips to collect allied personnel. Details to follow.

In the meantime follow this link to read a report on ExploreCrete about H.M.S. Thrasher and the escape of many allied personnel.