[Wulfmann]

From the book “Hellenic Wings” the Greek Air Force official history:

“On December 2nd (1940) the RHAF received from the British government 8 Gloster Gladiators of the MK II version.”
It then goes on to tell of Blenheims and more fighters being turned over to the Greeks but Dec 2, 1940 is the first known verifiable date for aircraft being delivered

British units began to transfer to Greece in January 1941 and this hurt the North African effort and, of course, ended up not saving Greece anyway.
The RAF scored its first kills on Feb 2, 1941.

The American press and British propaganda had a field day with the Greek trouncing of the Italian army driving them back deep into Albania while the tiny air force denied the vastly superior Regina Aeronautica control of the sky until the Germans showed up and ruined all the fun the Greeks were having. The Luftwaffe decimated the Greek air force in two morning attacks and wiped the sky of all aircraft in short order.

Churchill paid one of the highest compliments to the Herculean effort the Greeks had made for all those months when at a party a British general said to him. “Those Greeks fight like heroes”
Churchill promptly replied: “My good sir, Greeks don’t fight like heroes, heroes fight like Greeks”

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