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oddessa · Post by **oddessa** » 03 Jan 2007 05:47

was Cyprus ever attakced by germans

farrelly · Post by **farrelly** » 04 Jan 2007 08:38

Thats a vey good question. I cant find any detailed record of air attacks but this website says there was some. Probably the Italians did a few small raids and possibly the Luftwaffe too;

http://countrystudies.us/cyprus/10.htm

oddessa · Post by **oddessa** » 04 Jan 2007 10:35

thanks alot. that very interesting that several nations used cyprus as a training point before the war and that 30000 greeks from cyprus served in the british army during the war.

oddessa · Post by **oddessa** » 09 Jan 2007 03:44

would there be any information on the italians attacked Cyprus juring the war by land sea or air??

Jon G. · Post by **Jon G.** » 12 Jan 2007 16:40

oddessa wrote:would there be any information on the italians attacked Cyprus juring the war by land sea or air??

Well, you can probably rule out Italian land forces attacking Cyprus. Raids by sea seem slightly more likely, although the Italians were generally reluctant to operate their sea forces without air cover. I know of at least one case of Italian aircraft overflying Cyprus en route to more distant targets - namely SM 82 bombers on their way to bomb British oil refineries at Bahrain in 1940.

There were also some Vichy French air raids on Cyprus in connection with the British invasion of the Vichy-held Levant in June 1941.

Anyway, your query is so generic that you may be better served by trying a search engine instead. In the forum format, the discussion has a better chance of leading somewhere if you contribute something to the discussion yourself, rather than highly generally-worded questions.