OPPOSING FORCES

BRITISH, ALLIED & COMMONWEALTH FORCES LEADERS

Major-general Sir Bernard C Freyberg VC & Admiral Andrew Cunningham

UNITED KINGDOM

17,000

GREECE

10,000 (including 1,000 paramilitary gendarmes)

NEW ZEALAND

7,700

AUSTRALIA

6,500

TOTAL

41,200

ARMOUR

25 Matilda and Mk VIB Vickers light tanks

GUNS

Approximately 100 anti-aircraft and artillery pieces

VS GERMAN AND AXIS FORCES LEADERS

General der Flieger Kurt Student & General der Gebirgstruppe Julius ‘Papa’ Ringel

FALLSCHIRMJÄGERS (PARATROOPERS)

11,000

GEBIRGSJÄGERS (MOUNTAIN TROOPERS)

12,000

ITALIAN ARMY

3,000

TOTAL

26,000

AIRCRAFT

570 (including Stuka dive-bombers, 500 transport aircraft and gliders)