Castles - Greece

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Edge, Spence :Photographs used to illustrate "No Honour, No Glory"

Date: 1941-1944

By: Edge, Spence, active 1940s-1980s; Great Britain. Commonwealth War Graves Commission; Imperial War Museum (Great Britain); United States. Air Force; MacKay, Colin, active 1980s

Reference: PAColl-0716

Description: Photographs used in the book "No Honour No Glory" by Spence Edge and Jim Henderson. They include photographs of the Porpoise and its crew; the Jason; prisoners on the deck of a cruiser arriving at Piraeus harbour; the Alamein Memorial in Egypt; the Phaleron War Cemetery in Athens; an American B-25 Mitchell Marauder bomber; and the harbour at Methoni where the Jason ran aground. The Sebastiano Venier, an Italian merchantman, was torpedoed off the coast of Greece by the British submarine Porpoise in December 1941. It was carrying 2000 Commonwealth prisoners from North Africa and 500 died including 45 New Zealanders. Eight months later, also off Greece, the Nino Bixio, another prisoner of war ship, was torpedoed by the British submarine Turbulent 117 New Zealanders were killed. Quantity: 9 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 colour original photographic print(s).

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Castle at Platamon, Greece

Date: [ca Apr 1941]

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

Reference: DA-11831-F

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

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Castle at Platamon, Greece, and World War II soldiers in foreground

Date: [ca Apr 1941]

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

Reference: DA-11836-F

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative