Gorgopotamos Bridge

Completed in 1904, the Gorgopotamos Bridge is a modern viaduct in the region of Phthiotida, Central Greece, now protected as a building of national significance. Its place in history, however, comes not from its engineering but from its destruction. On 25 November 1942, during the Second World War, British Special Operations Executive agents joined forces with the Greek Resistance groups EDES and ELAS to blow up the heavily guarded structure in a mission codenamed Operation Harling, one of the first major sabotage acts in Axis-occupied Europe.