342: Operation Marita


Demonstrators in Belgrade celebrate the coup of March 27, 1941.

Erwin Rommel was sent to North Africa with a German panzer corps to assist the Italians against the British. Germany also planned to intervene and aid Italy in its war against Greece in Spring of 1941.

But when a coup in Yugoslavia installed an anti-Axis government there, Hitler ordered the German military to invade that country as well.

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Fanfare

Opening War Theme

“Farewell of Slavianka”
Composed in 1912 by Vasily Agapkin. Public domain.
Performed by the United States Coast Guard Band. Public domain recording. Source.

Closing War Theme



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