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During the German invasion of Greece on 6 April 1941, Allied forces were sent reeling from Macedonia and Thessaly, Greece. The British fleet stood by at various ports in the south of Greece to evacuate any remaining Allied troops, the Allied ground forces in the face of dangerous German ground and air units. A critical point was the Corinth Canal that divided the Peloponnesus from the Greek mainland. == Operation Hannibal == The attack on the Corinth Canal was named Operation Hannibal and was focused around the Corinth Canal Bridge. The Germans considered that if the bridge could be captured and held, Allied evacuation plans would be delayed if not stopped. The bridge was defended by British troops and had been wired for demolition, but the Germans wanted to capture the bridge intact rather than in bits and pieces. A simple plan was devised. German Fallschirmjäger assault engineers would seize both ends of the canal in a surprise glider assault. Both battalions of the 2nd Fallschirmjäger Regiment were to parachute to the north and south of the bridge in order to neutrilaze any Allied forces stationed at the canal. The Air Assualt Forces consisted of: * 80-100 Bf-110's * unknown number of Ju-88's * unknown number of Ju-52's * 20-30 Ju-87's * 2nd Fallschirmjäger Regiment under command of Lt. Teussen * 6th Company under command of Hauptmann Schirmer * 230 gliders under command of Lt. Wilhelm Fulda * 52 Fallschirmpionere under command of Lt. Häffer total German soldiers: about 800 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Battle of the Corinth Canal」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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