Company of Heroes: Battle of Crete#27 - Chania

This is the Twenty-Seventh video in game Company of Heroes.It's a real-time strategy video game series developed by Relic Entertainment. It's release on 12 September, 2006. Company of Heroes: Battle of Crete is a modification for Company of Heroes. Mod based on real historical event during WW2 between May 20 and June 1 1941 as known as "Operation Mercury".

Today I'm have mission to capture 'Chania'. It's Part of the Battle of Crete in the Battle of Greece and the Mediterranean theatre of the Second World War.

Chania (Χανιά),the capital of the Chania regional unit. It lies along the north west coast of the island Crete in Greece (Ελληνική Δημοκρατία).

On May 22nd 1941, German paratroopers, jumping out of dozens of Junkers Ju 52 aircraft, landed near the town of Chania. The Germans suffered many casualties a company of III Battalion, 1st Assault Regiment lost 112 killed out of 126 men, and 400 of 600 men in III Battalion were killed. Most of the parachutists were engaged by Greek forces near Chania. Many gliders following the paratroops were hit by mortar fire seconds after landing, and Greek defenders almost annihilated the glider troops who landed safely. An Axis convoy of around 20 caïques, escorted by the Italian torpedo boat Lupo, tried to land German reinforcements but they got intercepted. So the convoy turned back with the loss of more than half of its boats, despite Lupo's defence. About 2 of 3 of the German force of more than 2,000 men was saved by the Italian naval commander, Francesco Mimbelli, against an overwhelmingly superior Allied naval force. Eight caiques were caught and sunk, while at least another six managed to get away, along with three Italian escorting motor-sailing boats. Only one caïque and one cutter from the convoy reached Crete. The caïque landed 3 officers and 110 German soldiers near Cape Spatha, while the cutter arrived safely in Akrotiri, where her crew was engaged by a British Army patrol and took heavy casualties. Of the German soldiers who landed at Akrotiri, only one managed to get through the British lines and join the German paratroopers already fighting for Chania.

Battle of Chania (22 May 1941)
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