campaign, major, interwar and Second World War
Dodecanese Campaign
Dodecanese Campaign was a campaign fought in 1943 at Dodecanese, in what is now Greece. Its exact site is not recorded; the atlas places it at Dodecanese. It was part of World War II, which ran from 1939 to 1945. The recorded result: German victory. Recorded strength: Rhodes: 7,000–9,500 troops; smaller garrisons on other islands; Fliegerkorps X against Italy: 55,000; Britain: 5,300.
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Where it sits in World War II
Record
| Date | 1943 (year precision) to 1943 | |
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| Place | Dodecanese, Greece 36.450N, 27.300E | |
| Kind | Campaign, interwar and Second World War | |
| Territorial change | German occupation of the Dodecanese | |
| Strength | Rhodes: 7,000–9,500 troops; smaller garrisons on other islands; Fliegerkorps X | Italy: 55,000; Britain: 5,300 |
| Casualties and losses | 1,184 killed, wounded and missing; 15 landing craft destroyed | Italy: 5,350 killed and wounded; 44,391 captured; 1 destroyer sunk; 10 minesweepers, coastal defence ships sunkBritain: 4,800 killed, wounded, captured and missing; 115 aircraft destroyed; 4 destroyers sunk; 2 submarines sunkGreece: 1 destroyer sunk; 1 submarine sunk |
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Nearest engagements
- Battle of Rhodes 1912, 11 km SW
- Battle of Cnidus 394 BC, 27 km N
- Battle of Kos 1943, 43 km NW
- Battle of Cos 255 BC, 45 km N
- Raid on Symi 1944, 50 km E
In the same war
- Before: Operation Achse 1943
- After: Operation Zitronella 1943
- All 1155 engagements of World War II
Elsewhere in 1943
Dodecanese Campaign is one of 4,429 engagements of the 20th century in the atlas and one of 529 in present-day Greece.
Sources
Identity, coordinates, dates and the war from Wikidata Q708173, released under CC0. Result, belligerents, commanders, strength and casualties from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Dodecanese campaign, revision 1371161335, read 2026-11-15, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the article's text is not reproduced here. Present-day country and state from Natural Earth. Dates before 1582 follow the Julian calendar as recorded.