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Ioannis Fytas, pre-war, WW2 and post-war album
Creator
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Date1928
Medium40 photographs
Credit LineAnonymous gift, 2020
Object number2021/254
ProvenanceGreek pre-war, WW2 and post-war album of Ioannis Fytas, a Greek General. Photographs document his 1928 graduation and WW2 operations during the Italian and German occupation of Greece. Of note are portraits of Fytas on horseback, in the mountains, with a radio, in front of a crashed Italian Savoia Machetti bomber and with groups of fellow servicemen. Also includes snapshots of British officers (c.1940) and a post-war military ceremony (c.1956). Greek military albums are rare.
Ephemera includes a 1957 postcard to Fytas.
LocationNot currently on display
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