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In May 1941 Germans launched operation Mercury in order to capture Crete...
In this attack many airborne divisions were used...
However paratrooper corpses suffered heavy losses from the combined forces of British, remnants of the Greek army and local resistanse...
Hitler captured the island a month later but he was so frustrated by the almost total annihilation of his airborne divisions and forbade their use ever again turning them to infantry units...
WI he wasnt so frustrated and allowed paratroopers to be used again? I guess that they would be useful in the attack against USSR... especially in the siege of Leningrad... Any thoughts?
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