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  "text": "22/5/1941. Off Crete, British ships were engaged in preventing Axis convoys from reinforcing the tenuous German presence on the island. The Luftwaffe had complete control of the air and constant attacks resulted. This would prove to be the most costly day of the campaign for the Royal Navy.\n🧵1/11",
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        "alt": "The Sinking of HMS 'Fiji', HMS 'Kingston' Standing by, 22 May 1941 by John Alan Hamilton (1919–1993).\n📷 artuk.org via Imperial War Museum ART LD 7434\n\n(Painting showing a cruiser sinking at sunset, with rafts making for the side of a destroyer in the foreground. Another destroyer can be seen in the distance)",
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