HISTORY. The Battle of Crete was a battle fought in WW2 between the Nazis and British Commonwealth soldiers with Greek support. It was fought from 20 May to 1 June 1941. The battle began in the morning of 20 May when German paratroopers began Operation Mercury. The battle was fought on the Greek island of Crete.

Constructed of white cotton, with machine embroidered script “Kreta” in lemon-yellow threading, flanked on both sides by Acanthus designs in the same color; the top and bottom edges ordained with matching horizontally running lemon-yellow braiding; measuring 520 mm x 35 mm. Excellent++

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