Difference between revisions of "1948"

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February 18: The CISM is founded by member states Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg, Denmark and France in Nice, France. Greece will become member on March 8, 1950.
February 24: American General James Van Fleet arrives in Greece to assist the national forces against the Democratic Army of Greece in the Greek Civil War.

April 15: The Greek A Army Corps, under Gen Thrasyvoulos Tsakalotos, conducts a mop-up operation, throughout Central Greece, against the Democratic Army of Greece, during the Greek Civil War. This operation was codenamed "Dawn".

May 1: Justice Minister, Christos Ladas, is assassinated during the Greek Civil War.
May 8: American journalist, George Polk, is murdered in Thessaloniki.
May 16: The body of American journalist, George Polk, who had been missing for days, is found by fisherman, Lambros Antonaros, floating in the Thermaic Gulf.

June 14: Operation Coronis is put into effect during the Greek Civil War by the national forces. Its aim is to drive out the Communists from the northern Pindus mountains.

July 3: The Corinth Canal, which was rendered useless by the retreating Germans, is put into operation again.

August 21: The national forces abandon "Operation Coronis" in the Greek Civil War.

October 31: The last entry in Greek armored cruiser Georgios Averof's log reads: «Συνήθης εν όρμω υπηρεσία. Κινήσεις συμφώνως τω πίνακι. Εκτακτον ουδέν»

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 ===June===
 *[[June 14]]: Operation Coronis is put into effect during the [[Greek Civil War]] by the national forces. Its aim is to drive out the [[DSE|Communists]] from the northern [[Pindus]] mountains.
+===July===
+*[[July 3]]: The [[Corinth Canal]], which was rendered useless by the retreating Germans, is put into operation again.
 ===August===
 *[[August 21]]: The national forces abandon "Operation Coronis" in the [[Greek Civil War]].