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- 大象传媒 Open Centre, Hull
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- Alf Smithard
- Location of story:听
- Crete
- Background to story:听
- Army
- Article ID:听
- A4157291
- Contributed on:听
- 06 June 2005
(Told to Christine Barker at the VE Day Commemoration in Beverley 2005)
As a young man I served, was wounded and was a prisoner of war on Crete.
If it hadn鈥檛 been for the Battle of Crete Germany would鈥檝e won the war because for one thing we destroyed his paratroops, he never used them again after the Battle of Crete.
We also delayed the invasion of Russia by a few weeks, it wasn鈥檛 the Russians that beat the Germans, it was their winter. They were at Stallingrad when they froze to death. They ought to have all bloody froze to death.
People don鈥檛 realise that if it wasn鈥檛 for what happened on Crete Germany would鈥檝e won the war.
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