War, occupation, civil war · War and occupation · Harbour and pier
General Mackay leaves by flying boat at dawn
25 April 1941 Probable
Early on 25 April 1941 Major-General Iven Mackay, commander of the 6th Australian Division, flew to Crete in a Sunderland; the New Zealand official history says he left 'from Miloi'. At dawn the bay was full of smoke from ships bombed at Nafplio, and the pilot made a blind take-off through the smoke. This was a day before General Wilson's own departure.
Note: The departure by flying boat is confirmed by several sources; only McClymont names Myloi as the place (Long says 'the Argos area').
- Where
- Myloi (the village)
- Who
- Iven Mackay
- Threads
- War and occupation, Harbour and pier
- Certainty
- Probable likely, but not fully proven
Sources
- W. G. McClymont, To Greece (Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War), Wellington 1959, p. 401 Open (opens in a new tab)
- Gavin Long, Greece, Crete and Syria, Canberra 1953, p. 152 Open (opens in a new tab)
- AWM52 1/5/12/16, 6th Australian Division General Staff war diary, March–April 1941, fol. 35–37 Open (opens in a new tab)
- Chaz Bowyer, Sunderland at War, London: Ian Allan 1976, pp. c. 107–108 Open (opens in a new tab)
Also in this period
-
13 December 1940
A soldier from Skafidaki falls on the Albanian front
The Greek Army's roll of the dead of 1940–45 records Sokratis Papanastasopoulos, born in Skafidaki in 1916, killed at Golemi on the Albanian front on 13 December 1940.
-
28 December 1940
A soldier born in Myloi dies in the military hospital of Mesolongi
Private Panagiotis Lymperopoulos, son of Epameinondas, born in Myloi in 1915, died in the military hospital of Mesolongi on 28 December 1940, during the Greek-Italian war. He is listed in the Greek Army's roll of the…
-
1941–1942
A second German reconnaissance flight photographs the bay
A German strip flight of 1941–1942 (film 93) photographed Myloi again: the curve of the bay, the village along the main road at the foot of Pontinos, the station and the pier.
-
1941–1943
A coastal gun near the tower of Bouboulina
Among the occupation defences of Myloi was a coastal gun next to the tower known as the tower of Bouboulina. The base of the gun emplacement could still be seen in 1994.