Popotlivitsa Fort

21 Fortification Complexes : Popotlivitsa Fort
Bunker Popotlivitsa (Cpt. Thelúnes) falls to the Germans at 1900 hours. Still, the guards manning three concrete pillboxes at the foothill of Rupesko mountain, opposite Popotlivitsa, continue stubbornly to resist.

1./85 Coy was pinned down for two days at Rupesko under heavy Greek arty fire

The rapid German success in southern Yugoslavia, forces the Greek High Command to take back the Greek XVIII Infantry Division (Maj. Gen. Leonidas Sterghiópulos) behind the E and S banks of the Strymón (Struma) River trying anguishly to cover the exposed left flank of the forces fighting in the bunkers along the Metáxas Line after the collapse of the Yugoslavian defence. 
Along the Metaxás Line, the advance of the Gebirgsjäger-Regiment 85 (Oberst August Krakau Aufstellung) is checked and its III./Geb.Jäg.Rgt 85 Btn (Maj. Albin Esch) is badly shaken, suffering 181 KIA or WIA, while I./Geb.Jäg.Rgt 85 Btn (Maj. Erhard Gnaden) reports 192 KIA, WIA or MIA by 1600 hours. A company of I./Geb.Jäg.Rgt 85 Btn 

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