Another photo in front of the white tower. It seems that every Greek family has one. From left to right: Dimitrys daughter Anastasia, his wife, Dimitry with my brother, my mother, my father and Dimitry's daughter Maria. 1972.
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Another photo in front of the white tower. It seems that every Greek family has one. From left to right: Dimitrys daughter Anastasia, his wife, Dimitry with my brother, my mother, my father and Dimitry's daughter Maria. 1972. |
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Kalos returns: from Kalos second trip in 1986, L to R : Unknown, Dimitry, Gerhardt Kalos, Milka Kalos, Dimitrys wife, unknown. |
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Me and Mitso, 1998. |
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Mitso at his house in Salonika in 1990. |
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Dimitry's grandson also named Dimitry, who is currently serving in the Greek armed forces like his grandfather did. |
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Father and son: Dimitry and his son George Statharos. |
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Dimitry and Kalos stuffing their heads with food while camping in 1981 or 1986. |
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Kalos and Mitso: Old friends from opposite sides of the war reunite. |
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Old guerrilla fighters; From left to right: George Papavasiliou (former message runner for EDES guerrilla leader Napolean Zervas), Kostas (Parthena's second husband, escaped from a German prison and stole a German supply truck loaded with food and weapons), unidentified associate, Zanetta Papavasiliou (George's wife and Parthena's sister who was taken in by the Germans when the family was arrested), and Parthena on the end (whom you already know about). |
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Me in the sea at Platamona; note in the background the castle on the hilltop and the railway tunnel which Mitso saw attacked by the submarine in 1942. |
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Me in 1994 on top of a makeshift german gun emplacement. This gun is located at a place just to the right of where the above photo ends. This gun was put there to protect the railway entrance. The turret looks like a Panzer II turret but I could be wrong. No doubt this turret with its machine guns probably sprang into action when the submarine surfaced, though range may have been an issue. On April 16, 1941 100 Panzers tried to pass down the beach only to be cut off by the mountain which (as you can almost see) breaks into the water cutting off the path along the beach. New Zealanders held the castle and knocked out a few tanks. I assume the turret was taken from one of these tanks which was deemed to be beyond repair. This past year I went to Platamona only to find, sadly, that the turret had been removed, only the blockhouse remains. |
