Crete: The Island Of Doomed Men

Northern Advocate, 21 June 1941, Page 4

Crete: The Island Of Doomed Men

Writing- from a hospital in Egypt, Sapper W. iTpitt speaks of the righting m Crete in a letter to his mother, Mrs. C. W. Unitt, of Onerahi. He says that he has onlv a. minor wound in the left hand but is iikely to remain in hospital for a month or six weeks, .lack Shipman, also of Onerahi, is in hospital with Sapper Unitt

Crete was a Nightmare His letter reads: "Well l got out of Crete alright but believe me it was a nightmare. L hope 1 see nothing like it again I think 'Cord Haw Haw’ was right when he said that Crete was the ’lsland of Doomed Men.’ "1 was attached to the Navy at Sttda Hay driving a truck for them. One of the trucks was hit by a bomb and I was lying down on the road beside it when it was hit. I was covered with dust and debris and it shook me up a bit. f was given a tot o'f rum and was then O.K. "To see the parachute troops landing was a sight worth seeing,” wrote Sapper Unitt. "There were thousands of them hut not many escaped the bayonets. One dav a big formation of fighters came over and injured a number of soldiers round Suda Bay.”