Italy invaded Greece on Oct 28 1940 so from that day on the Greeks were enemies for the Germans, although reluctantly as the Germans generally loved Greece and Metaxa was a fascist so they were pissed El Dunce brought them into the war against Germany.
More ships were turned over to the Greeks by Britain than any country outside the commonwealth and they served well being highly regarded as front line equals.
There is a Greek Hunt class in one convoy out of Gibraltar that has seemed to have my number in 1943-44.
It must be the infamous Adrias.
Although SH3 give the Greeks the Hunt class type I they never had one but did have a number of Hunt Type II and III with the type IIIs being transferred as new ships. They also had two DDs that are in the C-Class in SH3.
They also had a bunch of Flower class corvettes.
The Greeks DDs were noted for fearless almost reckless courage moving in close to shore point blank and shooting it out with the enemy land units.
Wulfmann
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