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The photograph of L84, a similar type destroyer to ADRIAS shows how much of her bows was blown off by the collision with the mine. German sabotage at the Cable & Wireless station at Pallini, Greece, in World War II. As the German army was pulling out of Greece in October 1944 its engineers carried out extensive sabotage to installations of a strategic value.
At Pallini, not far from Athens, an attempt was made to destroy the transmitter hall by dropping one of the antenna towers onto it, but the equipment was not damaged. They were more successful at the Royal Navy transmitting site at Votanikos. Here they tried to destroy six 300 foot tubular masts. One remained standing and also the lower part of another.
When the army arrived within a hundred seventy yards from the wall, the artillerymen from the bastions of San Marto fired their first salute, to which the Chasseurs de Vincennes responded so well that the Roman Narducci, Major Pallini, and several of his men fell mortally wounded at their guns.
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