Real Time WW2 Tweets

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  Allied counter-attack on Crete being bloodily torn apart by Germans armed with airdropped machineguns & flamethrowers http://t.co/bVJGE8QcB4

  May 22, 2013 - 3:40 pm
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  Luftwaffe dive-bombers have sunk 3 cruisers, over 1000 dead; sky over Crete now black from burning British ships. http://t.co/PPL7xsOET0

  May 22, 2013 - 3:21 pm
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  Royal Navy have stayed to long in the daylight hunting troopships: 7 British warships are being savaged by German bombers north of Crete.

  May 22, 2013 - 3:16 pm
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  Allied Gen. Freyberg "jumped up & down like a schoolboy" watching troopships sunk: "Crete is saved!" Germans still hold west of island

  May 22, 2013 - 11:55 am