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===Greece and Crete=== By the end of May, the [[Greece|Greek]] island of [[Crete]] had been captured in the [[Battle of Crete]], providing the ''Luftwaffe'' with more airfields from which to attack Allied shipping and protect their supply convoys and troops in Cyrenaica; delaying Battleaxe could mean stronger Axis opposition.<ref>Hall, p. 189</ref> The British Chiefs of Staff stated that it was imperative that control be wrested in the area between Sollum and [[Derna, Libya|Derna]] and British air power be re-established there.<ref name="MedII163"/>
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