Galesburg in WWII: Ninety-one more from Knox County drafted
Talbot Fisher
Blitzkrieg came to the Balkans as Germany invaded Greece and Yugoslavia on April 6, 1941.
“Adolf Hitler’s blitzkrieg armies swept through the Balkans like a tornado today,” read the Register-Mail on the 9th.
“Striking with tempestuous fury, the Germans captured the Aegean seaport of Salonika, forced the surrender of the trapped east wing of the Greek army estimated at 300,000 men before hostilities began, and drove westward across Yugoslavia to within 15 miles of a junction with Italian troops in Albania.”
“The toll in slain and wounded was said to be enormous.”