![]() Led by Major Roy Franklin, the team is composed of Captain Keith Mallory, a renowned spy and an officer with the Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) Colonel Andrea Stavros from the Greek Army Franklin's best friend Corporal Miller, an explosives expert and former chemistry teacher Greco-American Spyros Pappadimos, a native of Navarone and "The Butcher of Barcelona" Brown, an engineer and expert knife fighter.ĭisguised as Greek fishermen on a decrepit fishing vessel, they sail across the Aegean Sea, where they successfully overwhelm the crew of a German patrol boat intercepting them. ![]() When aerial bombing efforts fail, Allied Intelligence gathers a commando unit to infiltrate Navarone and destroy the guns. ![]() Rescue by the Royal Navy is prevented by two massive radar-directed large-calibre guns on (fictional) nearby Navarone Island. ![]() In 1943, the Axis powers plan an assault on the island of Leros, where 2,000 British soldiers are marooned, to display their military strength and convince neutral Turkey to join them. ![]() Cliffs of Navarone showing openings to gun positions were portrayed in the film by marble quarries on the island of Palmaria. ![]()
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