Editing Battle of Crete (section)

==Notes==
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* {{note label|Note|a|a}} The following forces were present on Crete as of 20 May 1941: Armed Forces: 15,063; Royal Navy: 425; Royal Marines: 1,941; Royal Air Force: 618.<ref name="Davin, p.480">{{cite web |url=http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-WH2Cret-b4.html |title=The Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939–1945 |author=Daniel M. Davin |year=1953 |page=480 |publisher=Victoria University of Wellington |access-date=22 November 2018 |archive-date=5 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181005093343/http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz//tm/scholarly/tei-WH2Cret-b4.html |url-status=live}}
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* {{note label|Note|b|b}}From 20 May to 2 June: 4 Cruisers, 8 Destroyers, 2 Minesweepers, 5 Motor torpedo boats were sunk and 3 Battleships, 1 Aircraft Carrier, 7 Cruisers, 9 Destroyers and 2 assault ships were damaged.<ref name="Naval H">{{cite web |url=http://www.naval-history.net/WW2BritishLossesbyArea08.htm |title=British Vessels Lost at Sea, 1935–45 |year=1947 |publisher=Naval History |access-date=22 November 2018 |archive-date=8 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190908145831/http://www.naval-history.net/WW2BritishLossesbyArea08.htm |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://navymuseum.co.nz/the-naval-battle-for-crete/ |title=The Naval Battle for Crete |author=David A. Thomas |year=1972 |publisher=National Museum of the Royal New Zealand Navy |access-date=20 December 2018 |archive-date=21 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181221000656/http://navymuseum.co.nz/the-naval-battle-for-crete/ |url-status=live}}</ref>
* {{note label|Note|c|c}} Between 13 May to 1 June 147 in combat, 73 non-combat, 64 written-off and 125 damaged.<ref name="shores403"/>
* {{note label|Note|d|d}} Italian submarines: {{ship|Italian submarine|Nereide|1933|2}}, {{ship|Italian submarine|Tricheco|1930|2}}, ''Uarsciek'', ''Fisalia'', ''Topazio'', ''Adua'', ''Dessie'', ''Malachite'', ''Squalo'', ''Smeraldo,'' and {{ship|Italian submarine|Sirena||2}}.<ref name="Bertke, Smith 2012, p. 505"/>
* {{note label|Note|e|e}} After the King had escaped to Crete on 22 April and issued a defiant memorandum to the Germans, Hitler responded by attacking him in a speech on 4 May. The British feared a propaganda coup if a sovereign monarch under their protection were to be captured, and helped him to escape.<ref>{{harvnb|Buckley|1952|p=211}}</ref>
* {{note label|Note|f|f}} Participants on the battle included [[David Coke]] • [[Roald Dahl]] • [[Roy Farran]] • [[Bernard Freyberg]] • [[Clive Hulme]] • [[Robert Laycock]] • [[Patrick Leigh Fermor]] • [[John Pendlebury]] • [[George Psychoundakis]] • [[Max Schmeling]] • [[Theodore Stephanides]] • [[Evelyn Waugh]] (the battle forms an important episode in Waugh's novel ''[[Officers and Gentlemen]]'', part of the [[Sword of Honour]] trilogy) • [[Lawrence Durrell]] • [[Charles Upham]] • [[Geoffrey Cox (journalist)|Geoffrey Cox]] • [[Dan Davin]] (New Zealand Official Historian of the battle)<!--should an elitist list like this really be here? I don't think so-->

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