“Naughty boy!” — 🇬🇷 Greek cartoon from the Greco-Italian War (1940) showing British and Greek soldiers carrying off Mussolini like a schoolboy by his ears.
The soldier on the right is a Greek Evzone (a member of the Greek Army’s mountain units) and on the left a British RAF soldier, in reference to the Air Force’s role in the conflict.
RAF squadrons stationed in Athens participated in the war from November 1940. Greece’s Prime Minister Ioannis Metaxas was initially reluctant to provoke Germany into open intervention and so refused the offer of any British ground intervention.
However, by March 1941 Hitler’s fears of British gains in Greece prompted invasion. British ground forces were deployed in Greece but were quickly overrun, and the Axis occupation began in April.
Image and info submitted by my pal Hellenic History. Not on Twitter but go follow on Insta where he posts on Greek history, ancient to modern: instagram.com/hellenic.histo…
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