Trypiti Beach
On the night of June 23–24, 1942, commandos George Jellicoe and Kostis Petrakis escaped by naval vessel (HMS "Porcupine") via this beach to Marsa Matruh, Egypt. The rest of their SAS commando unit had been killed or captured.
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- SIBARD, J. L., Mission En Crete, Societe des Etudes Historiques Cretoises, 2006.
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