The guns of Navarone
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Leros one of the bigest naval bases of the second world war.
Leros was for the Italian ocupators the bigest naval base in all the Mediteranian sea . The guns that the Italians had installed in Leros were some of the bigest naval guns of all the second world war .


The saint George Naval base
One of the bigest naval base in the mediteranean sea and the bigest in the Aegean sea was the Italian naval base of Saint George in the Lakki harbor in Leros.

The guns of Navarone and Leros
I have seen the movie of the guns of navarone several times amd i know that the only place in Greece with modern guns (for th II world war )and with enormus power was only in my island .This guns was electricly moving and they were feede underground . A hall underground city in the montains of Leros ..

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On the mountains.
This guns were on most of the montains of leros and they were a absolutely threat to any ship pasing by .

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The Italian Ocupation
The Italina ocupation started on 1912 and ended the end of 1943 wen the German ocupation started until the end of the war .

This is the image of one of the many guns of Leros
By the size of the shels you unterstand the power of those guns