WI allies did better in the Aegean?

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Possible what-ifs -

Brits and Greeks resist on mainland for longer.

Brits hold Crete, spring 1941 and after?

Brits hold Crete and most Aegean islands, 1941 and after?

British occupation of Dodecanese in 1943 succeeds? (How hard would it be for it to succeed, the failure to hold the islands from German counterattack in October 1943 is quite embarassing actually)?

WI Allies advanced via Greece rather than Italy after Torch?

Benghazi-Crete-mainland
 
A continued Allied presence on Crete would put Ploesti in range of Allied bombers earlier in the war, and create additional supply problems for the Axis in North Africa.
 

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A comparison of distances from

Tunisia to Sicily and Libya to Crete

Sicily-Crete comparison.jpg
 

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an extrapolation of range of allied aircraft from

..Egyptian bases, shows they could range at least southwest Crete once the allies captured bases in Libya.
 

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It always struck me that the attempt to retake the Dodecanese was doomed to defeat once it was somehow concluded that a demoralized Italian garrison on Rhodes would somehow round up the German division on the island...
 
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