Operation Albumen - The Escape from Crete - WWII
Passengers and Chaperones'. Photograph taken by Colonel David Sutherland of SBS and SAS, was part of a 12-man Special Boat Service unit which made a daring raid on the occupied Greek island of Rhodes. Sutherland then took part in Operation Albumen on Crete, when 29 German aircraft were destroyed for the loss of one officer, and afterwards escaped with several Cretans who feared German reprisals (pictured here during the escape on the 10-ton motor-boat The Porcupine')
Picture No
10724194
Media ID
46539086
Size
5053px x 3487px
(7.0MB)
Credit
Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection
Source
Photograph by Colonel David Sutherland MC Bar (1920-2006) from a family album
Date
1942
