#greek military

[masonjarhead]

#military #military history #greek #greece #greek military

[nando161mando]

Fifty Years After Polytechnic Uprising: A Look Back at Greek Military Torture, exile & killings

#polytechnic uprising #greek military #greek quotes #greek posts #exile #killings #history #greece #class war #1973 #dictatorship #usa #america #genocide #no pride in genocide #far right #junta #antiauthoritarian #anti cop #anti police #antinazi #antifascist #antifaschistische aktion #ausgov #politas #auspol #tasgov #taspol #australia #fuck neoliberals

[dhampiravidi]

Hi, I’m writing a story about a soldier who served his compulsory time in the Hellenic Military but got badly injured. Does anyone know if Greece has something equivalent to honorable discharge? He has a great record & good conduct.

#admin #greece #military #writing #greek military #Hellas #hellenic military

[leonidassowing]

#soldier #soldiers #greek army #Greece #army life #greek soldiers #uniform #army uniform #military #handsome #brave #warriors

[shadefish]

March of Robots Lancer Edition

Day 4

Cyclopean Sherman

oooo cool links you wanna click on to support me

#digital art #art #march of robots #lancer #lancer rpg #mecha #robot #ttrpg #dnd #cyclops #ogre #dungeons and dragons #greek myth #military #sci fi

[ofswordsandpens]

the chalice of the gods becomes objectively funnier if you head canon that percy and annabeth only stay at New Rome for a single semester before realizing its batshit insane there and running for the hills

#maybe just maybe the society that idealizes a child military #while the fully grown adults are just chilling in a city #might just be a little screwy lmao #also I do think annabeth would lose it #I cant help but imagine everything would be casually anti-greek myth interpretation #or subtly /here is how we the Romans IMPROVED everything/ #and annabeth would sit there seething in class idk #mine #new rome

[blueiskewl]

A GREEK BRONZE CORINTHIAN HELMET LATE ARCHAIC TO EARLY CLASSICAL PERIOD, CIRCA 525-475 B.C.

#A GREEK BRONZE CORINTHIAN HELMET #LATE ARCHAIC TO EARLY CLASSICAL PERIOD #CIRCA 525-475 B.C. #bronze #bronze helmet #military equipment #ancient artifacts #archeology #archeolgst #history #history news #ancient history #ancient culture #ancient civilizations #ancient greece #greek history

[barbucomedie]

Alabastron (Perfume Bottle) from Athens, Greece dated around 470 BCE on display in the British Museum in London, England

This bottle shows an armed Amazon wearing armour and trousers. The Amazons were a group of warrior women whom the Greeks believed to live North of the Black Sea. Unlike Greek women, they are often represented as wearing trousers, a long sleeved top, and a cuirass like the one here. The Amazon on this bottle also carries a shield with an attached patterned cloth and a quiver.

Photographs taken by myself 2020

#armour #armor #art #archaeology #military history #ancient #greece #greek #fashion #british museum #london #barbucomedie

[myluckyunderwear]

#soldier #soldiers #greek army #Greece #army life #greek soldiers #uniform #army uniform #military #handsome #brave #warriors

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Θαρσείν χρη, τάχ’ αύριον έσσετ’ άμεινον. Eλπίδες εν ζωοίσιν, ανέλπιστοι δε θανόντες.*

- Theocritus

You need to have courage, because tomorrow will be better. While there's life there’s hope, and only the dead have none.*

My ex-regiment proudly traces its lineage back to the Glider Pilot Regiment which spearheaded British airborne forces to take Pegasus Bridge on D Day 6 June 1944. During my service I had the privilege to travel there and take part in the commemorative ceremonies whenever D Day came around. I loved listening to the stories of some of the surviving veterans and also some of the local French too. The British taking of Pegasus Bridge - re-named partly after the emblem of pegasus of airborne forces - was one of the stand out events of the first days of D Day by British forces.

Airborne landings in the British Sector were targeted mainly at the Orne River/Caen Canal crossings and the artillery installations of the Merville Battery. The strategic purpose was to secure river crossings for the beach break-out and to reduce enemy defences.

At 00:16 hours on 6th June parachutists and gliders from the Airborne Division, consisting of D Company of the Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, began to land east of the River Orne and the Caen Canal.

The small force of 181 men was commanded by Major John Howard and joined with a detachment of Royal Engineers who landed at Ranville-Benouville in six 28-men Horsa gliders. Having taken off from Dorset, the gliders were towed across the Channel by Halifax Bombers. With perfect navigation and piloting skill, the gliders landed on time and on target within few yards of each other.

Major Howard’s glider landed within a few feet of the canal bridge. The bridge was captured after a fierce ten minute fire fight, the action all over by 00:26, a full six hours before the beach landings.

But the success of the mission was also down to intelligence gathered by locals and passed onto British intelligence through the French resistance channels. 

One of these was Georges Gondrée and his wife, Thérèse. Georges and Thérèse moved to Bénouville where they bought a small café in 1934 on the shore along the Bénouville Bridge, called Café Gondrée. During the Invasion, they had three small daughters: Georgette, Arlette, and the newborn Françoise.

The family certainly hated the German occupation. Among other things, they refused to allow their café to serve as a billet for German soldiers. But they went further by joining the French resistance at great danger to themselves.

As the war progressed, the more risks and dangerous activities they undertook against the Germans. Thérèse, who grew up in Alsace, knew quite a bit of German. Local residents did not like her Germanic Alsatian accent  but she took care to keep her knowledge of German secret from the German soldiers themselves. This often helped her to eavesdrop on conversations of the soldiers and then pass on important information to the resistance through her husband, Georges. There were a few times when they were nearly caught but somehow they survived.

The information gathered by the Gondrée family contributed greatly to the insight of Major Howard and his troops to better assess the defensive positions around the bridge. Among other things, Thérèse was able to pinpoint the exact location of the detonator that was supposed to have detonated the bridge during the attack. Georges was also known to British intelligence and even Major Howard had heard his name mentioned during the planning of the invasion itself.

The importance of the family’s contribution to the success of the British attack can also be seen from an example during early May 1944. When Field Marshal Erwin Rommel came to inspect the bridge, he had given the order to place an anti-tank gun beside the Bénouville Bridge. Within two days Major Howard had been informed that a new structure was being built along the bridge and within a week Georges’ observation had helped to confirm both its function and exact location.

So, just 90 minutes after taking off from RAF Tarrant Rushton in England, Major Howard was able to send the code words “Ham and Jam”, indicating that both bridges had been captured. In this early action of D-Day, the first house on French soil was liberated, and the first British soldier of the Normandy Invasion was killed in action: Lieutenant Den Brotheridge.

It was No. 1 Platoon which knocked out a machine gun position firing from the bridge and rushed across to capture the far side, firing from the hip and lobbing grenades during the charge. Lt. Brotheridge was mortally wounded by gunfire as he made a grenade attack on a second machine gun position. The bridge had been prepared by the enemy for demolition, although the Royal Engineers removed the unset charges.

Within half an hour of the bridge being taken, 6th Airborne parachutists landed to provide reinforcement. The Ox & Bucks were reinforced half-an-hour after the landings by 600 men of 7th Battalion, the Parachute Regiment who were the relieving force to bear the brunt of German counter-attacks to the west of the Caen Canal throughout the 6th of June.

The Battalion distinguished itself in holding a wide bridgehead around ‘Pegasus Bridge’ against constant enemy attacks which were often armour supported. In particular the “A” Company, based in the nearby village of Bénouville, suffered the most severe fighting and were eventually cut off from the remainder of the 7th Battalion.

The first relief in force was from 6 Commando, led by the commander of the 1st Special Service Brigade, Lord Lovat, who arrived to the sound of the Scottish bagpipes, played by the 21–year-old so-called ‘Mad Piper’, Private Bill Millin.

The remnants of the 7th Battalion’s “A” Company continued to hold out until 9:15pm on the 6th June when British infantry, in the form of the 2nd Battalion The Royal Warwickshires, arrived from the invasion beaches and secured Bénouville, and so allowed the evacuation of “A” Company’s many wounded.

In honour of the distinctive emblem of the Parachute Regiment, the distinctive bridge at Benouville was renamed and will forever be known as “Pegasus Bridge”.

Arlette Gondrée being kissed by two veterans who remember her parents.

Over the years, many thousands of pairs of British boots have crossed the threshold of the Café Gondrée. General Montgomery in 1945, veterans paying tribute to fallen comrades and numerous members of the Royal family.  Arlette Gondrée, the daughter of Georges and Thérèse, still recalls with crystal clarity the very first occasion a British soldier arrived at the cafe on the night of June 5, 1944, when she was just four-years-old, cowering with her family in the basement during the start of the D-Day invasion.

Commemorating the landings in 1945, General Montgomery visited the Café Gondrée Pegasus Bridge, renamed after the winged emblem of the British 6th Airborne Division, with some widows of the soldiers lost in the Normandy campaign. Georges produced some of the vintage champagne he had hidden, including a 1926 Pouilly-Fuissé.

Over the ensuing years, the family never ceased to celebrate their liberation. “Daddy would make a large U-shaped table in the café and we would eat together as a happy family, and very, very thankful to the British for what they did for us. And that remains so to this day.”

Life was hard for years, made worse by rationing. The effect of the ordeal on the girls was subtle, but not invisible: in November 1944, the Red Cross visited and told Arlette if she stopped biting her nails, they would give her a real doll to replace her cardboard toy. The café didn’t open properly again until June 1945.

To this day, Mme Gondrée keeps her “little house” as a shrine to the British Airborne forces that liberated her family. She has said that she always felt honoured to have the privilege of being custodian of the memories of that fateful day.

Photo: Major John Howard is flanked by George Gondrée and Lt. David Woods raising a glass to the successful capture of Pegasus Bridge that day.

#theocritus #greek #classical #quote #D Day #DDay #British army #second world war #pegasus bridge #glider pilot regiment #gondree cafe #georges gondree #therese gondree #arlette gondree #major john howard #lt david woods #military history #french resistance #history #courage #bravery

[thegodcyclecomic]

Welcome!

This is the official blog for the webcomic, The God Cycle, a Greek Mythology retelling that focuses on Ares and Athena as the main characters in a military-horror plot. This comic deals with dark themes unsuitable for a young audience such as discussions of war crimes, sexual assault, abuse, cannibalism, mental illness, and disturbing imagery.

Synopsis:

The God Cycle is an all-consuming madness. The goddess of war, Athena, marches unflinchingly through history's battles, stuck in a spiral of bloodshed and violence. The Fire of Olympus is fading, flickering until its embers turn to ash. She must find a way to rekindle it once more, even if it means working together with her sworn enemy, Ares. The turning of the cycle may mean the end of the Age of Gods— and their entire pantheon.

Disclaimer: The God Cycle is a webcomic based on Greek Mythology and the works of Homer, Hesiod, Euripides, and others. While most elements are intended to stay true to the original, there are intentional changes intended to serve the theme of the story.

Link to read comic: [WEBTOON]

#pinned #ares #athena #greek mythology #greek myths #the god cycle #friends to enemies to friends to lovers #Psychological Horror #Dead Dove: Do Not Eat #what if Greek Mythology was a military drama #Expanded Worldbuilding #Cosmic Horror #War Crimes Simulator

[bantarleton]

Circa late 5th century BC Spartan and allied hoplites are surprised by cavalry on a road. Spartan failure to adequately scout or invest in intelligence operations was a factor in much of their military record.

Artwork by Angus McBride from The Bronze Lie. Out now in paperback.

#history #Sparta #Spartan #Spartans #military history #ancient history #Greek #Greeks

[cadmusfly]

the priestess of interface orthodoxy, IO

A technopath supervillain who didn’t have bad intentions, but she didn’t have very good ones either.

She mostly just wanted to make sure she and her brother could survive. And then she was trying to hide her smuggling activities from her brother and girlfriend. Then the relationship broke and before she could apologise, her ex was killed.

So the logical next step was to use forbidden exotechnology to bring said ex back to life, right?

we build a world and burn it down / everything is pretty when we burn it to the ground!

#cad talks about spectrum(s) crash(ed) #cadmus draws #holy fuck it’s not a dead military officer #cad has original characters #cadmus rambles #her codename is a pun on a Greek myth and computer science #she’s one of the recent OCs I quite like

[leonidassowing]

#greece #greek army #soldier #uniform #army life #army uniform #greek soldiers #handsome #military #brave #slidis

[soaps-mohawk]

THE SACRED BAND!!!

You answered an ask that talked about 141s dynamic being something new that was being tested in regards to military pack. That got me thinking and then I remembered The Sacred Band! Was that your inspiration? If not, the similarities are still so cool.

(Look at me! I'm finally putting my degree to use lol)

I'd like to say I was cool enough to even know what that was and claim it was my inspiration, but I fear I am not that cool and this is the first time I'm hearing about this 😭

It is really interesting, the similarities there. God I wish I was cool enough to claim that was what I based their dynamic off of lol.

I will say TF141 will have a much happier ending though.

#the way I once wrote a paper on greek military history in college too #🤡 #answered

[amourcheol]

Hi! I LOVEDDDD your Great War fic and have not stopped thinking about it since. It’s thrown me down a Venetian history spiral and I’m dying to know what century/era/decade you were inspired by? I’m thinking it’s renaissance because of the mention of Medici but that spans over so much time that I was curious if you had a more specific timeframe. Additionally , do you have any resources about Venetian history?

To finish off I just want to rave over how amazing the fic is!!!! It had me kicking my feet and giggling. It was the first scoups fic I ever read and I don’t think anything will ever beat it. Thank you for sharing such an incredible work of art!!!!!

OMGGGG first of all thank u so so much !! 🥹🥹 i feel so honoured it’s inspired u to look into it’s contextual history!!

i actually DID focus on a specific decade, though I tried to make it as general early modern as possible—i based my research around very early 1570s from the battle of lepanto (where it all begins of course) ur right LMAO Medici did have a big ass dynasty but the man i mentioned actually was called Cosimo de Medici, who was ruling Florence at the time !! (Not to be confused with the banker in the 13-1400s, played by extremely hot richard madden in that Medici show) as for resources, I actually used my university notes 💀💀 i did a module on early modern Venetian history and enjoyed it so much that i revised it via writing historical smut 🏃‍♂️🏃‍♂️ but my best option is looking up references on Wikipedia and borrowing those books !! early modern Venetian history is so so interesting, srs i could write a whole universe on it 🙏🏼

FIRST CHEOL FIC ?? feeling super honoured to have been the first one u have read 😞💖 im so happy i could get u kicking ur feet that man makes me eat my tv every night before bed 🙏🏼🙏🏼

#asks #the great war tings #thank u for being so interested in the historical lore !! #im a SUCKER for historically accurate period romances and Venetian history …. PHEWWWWWW #im actually researching for a Greek god au but I won’t be too specific with their lore cause Greek mythology is way too dark #but can u believe this was birthed just cause I thought cheol would look hot in military armour #yes I AM a virgin !