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British Cyprus was bombed by the Axis powers on several occasions during World War II. The island was weakly defended against aerial attack. It had no anti-aircraft artillery and very few aircraft. [1] The main threat came from the Italian Dodecanese.
18 Ιουλ 2019 · Alongside pictures and other artifacts such as letters of worried mothers searching for their missing sons, the exhibition provides recorded messages of the Cypriot soldiers who survived the...
13 Νοε 2021 · Whether evading capture, and serving the Commonwealth in Cyprus, Egypt, Crete, Italy or Palestine their sense of duty made them risk their lives when staying at home in Cyprus would have been the easy and safer option. The total Cypriot contribution in WW2 as part of the Cyprus Regiment was 20.000 personnel.
14 Αυγ 2020 · On this day 46 years ago, the second Turkish invasion of Cyprus resulted in the capture of approximately 37 percent of the island. Around 150,000 people were displaced from the occupied...
This picture shows men of Cyprus, serving with the Allied Forces in their country, receiving instruction in gunnery. Cypriots were the first Colonials to serve in France in 1940. Two men of a Cypriot company on the look-out for enemy aircraft in the Western Desert.
30 Νοε 2018 · The British acquired Cyprus for strategic reasons in 1888, and the island has provided a valuable strategic base up to this day. During World War II, Cyprus faced the danger of a German invasion. The loyalty of the Greek population on the island could not be taken for granted.
21 Απρ 2013 · Video No. 2 shows firstly a news video clip found on the public domain of the internet and this is followed by 100 photographs taken with Derek’s little Ilford 120 roll film camera and represents a lot of aspects of the time he spent in Cyprus in 1958/59 which were the dark days of Cyprus past.
