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January 2nd, 1944
Today the cruisers Helle and Kriti begin a partial reconstruction to bring them to modern standards. The ships will be fitted with the most modern Teledetection equipment France is willing to sell as well as 2 of the recently delivered LeO-400 float planes. The rebuild will replace the 8"/50 Model 1909 guns with the new 8"/55 Model 1941 gun used by the Hydra class (which was designed to share the same roller path and barbette diameter as the old gun) as well as remove the 4x1 5" and 4x1 4" and replace them with 4x2 5"DP and also replace the old model 1.5" AA w/ the latest model Greek 40mm AA guns as well as adding some 25mm for close in work. The engines will be replaced with new ones rated for the same SHP/Speed. The superstructure will be rebuilt to make best use of the teledetection equipment as well as provide for more room for additional staff needed to use it. The end armor bets will also be removed and the ship retrimmed to compensate for the new topweight of the teledetection equipment and the heavier turrets of the 8"/55 model 1941.

January 3rd, 1944
In an effort to extend the Navy's operational areas as well as the time units can spend at sea away from their bases two more units of the Apollonis class fleet support tankers are to be laid down this quarter. The first ship, Hypate is laid down today at Patra Naval Yard and her sister Borysthenis will be laid down tomorrow at Attica.

January 5th, 1944
Three more of the Type 42 fleet tug boats were laid down today. Two at Thessaloniki and one at Attica.

January 13th, 1944
Today the aircraft carrier Thermopylae progressed another step forward in her refit, returning to the water for the first time since she was drydocked last July.

February 18th, 1944
The sereine drone of the 4 Bristol engines made these flights almost bearable for Anthypoploiarchos (Lieutenant) Iosif Antonopoulos and his crew. The occasional squeak and screech that the old Sunderland made, on the other hand, always kept them on their toes. It was one of these screeches that drew the attention of the starboard observer. As he looked out towards the number 2 engine a glint of light below caught his attention. Peering downwards there was a clear wake of something heading south/southeast. The observer radioed Antonopoulos, who had his co-pilot check to see if any ships Greek Naval ships were scheduled to be in the area. Slowly turning the ungainly Sunderland to approach the wake from the north took some time, and by the time the maneuver was the list had been double checked and confirmed that no Greek vessels were scheduled to be in the area. As the ships became clearer the books were checked. After a minute or so, the co-pilot looked up and said "Looks to be one of the Srbija's and some destroyers. Probably just doing some exercises. I'll radio it in." About 5 minutes later the call came back to resume normal patrols since the ships were clearly Yugoslavian. Antonopoulos turned the big Sunderland back onto course 270 and tried his best to do a little waggle of the wings for the Yugoslav ships. "Well, that was probably our 'excitement' for the day gentlemen. Who brought the soup this time?"

*slowly hides knife behind back* You saw nothing...

Monday, April 3rd, 1944

It appears that the news of the Yugoslavian Government increasing border patrols and even closing the border it shares with the Italian enclave of Vlore has emboldened local citizens to join their Yugoslavian counterparts in protesting against the Italian Government holding lands that they claim are the rightful lands of other nations.

When asked what exactly they were protesting for, the common answer amongst the townsfolk was that they feel that the Italian Government should allow the citizens and territory of Epirus, which the Italians refer to as Vlore, to return to Greece.

When asked, Greek officials had no comment, nor official statement or position on the protesters.