 Nyorai kuenderera mberi kweiyi ndima - Chikamu ichi chakazoendeswa kuCrete kunoshanda mu Fortress Crete uye mabasa ekuchenesa muAegean, achitamba chinzvimbo chikuru muHondo yeLerospasi pokutungamirirwa kwaGeneralmajor Friedrich-Wilhelm Müller. Mukati maSeptember 1943, masimba echikamu akaita utsinye hwakawanda muViannos. Musi wa 26 Kubvumbi 1944 mutungamiri wechikamu, Major General Heinrich Kreipe, akabiwa nechikwata cheBritish Special Operations Executive chakatungamirwa naMajor Patrick Leigh Fermor naCaptain Bill Stanley Moss. Motokari yaKreipe yakamiswa usiku munzira kubva kumuzinda wedhipatimendi paAno Archanes kuenda kuVilla Ariadne kuKnossos uye akaendeswa mhiri kwemakomo kumahombekombe ekumaodzanyemba uko iye nevasungwa vake vakatorwa nechikepe cheBritish padyo neRodakino musi wa14 Chivabvu. Basa iri rakazotsanangurwa mubhuku rinonzi Ill Met by Moonlight 1950 rakanyorwa naMoss zvichibva pamabhuku ake omunguva yehondo, akazoshandurwa kuva firimu rine zita rimwe chete. Mukupera kwezhizha ra1944, mauto echikamu akabatanidzwa mune humwe utsinye muAnogeia neAmari. 