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Certainly for ground forces, you are correct. And thank you for the further reports regarding Greece's role in WW2.1940,
with a telegraph from Mussolini, asking Greece to allow Italian troops to march and take strategical positions and navy to control some ports.
the answer was ΟΧΙ - No - and as Grazzi writes in his book 'Alos est la querre'
the following days Italian army attack from Albania Greece,
Albania already was under Italian control, since they gave willingly 'land and water'
that time Italy had a modern European army, were only the number of mortars was able to create fear to enemy,
yet Pindos and VIII Greek division Hold the line,
that hold gave time to 3rd Greek Army Corp to organised and attack at 22 November 1940
at 24 November, Moschopolis changes hands and is under Greek control,
Historically that is the first Victory of allies against Axis.
Not that I agree, but the British maintain that its air battle with the Germans - Battle of Britain - was the first defeat of German forces. The wiki article below uses these dates, 10 July – 31 October 1940, which the Germans dispute, and are in reality arbitrary. The Germans use May 1940 - August 1941. If the latter dates are accepted as more realistic, then your assessment is correct in all respects. The article even notes (towards the bottom) that the biggest raid came in December 1940, "....with one of the largest single raids on 19 December 1940, in which almost 3,000 civilians died."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Britain