Operation Eisbär
Military history records three Operation Eisbär, all conducted by the Germans in 1943. The name means Polar bear in German.
They were:
- German evacuation of the French island of Corsica on 3 October 1943.
- The German amphibious and airborne landings on the British and Italian-held Greek island of Kos on 3 October.
- An anti-partisan operation conducted in January 1943 in the area between Bryansk and Dmitriyev-Lgovsky, Russia.
- 12 June 1944 initiation of German V-1 flying bomb missile attacks on London.[1]
Reference
- Zaloga, Steven (2008). German V-Weapon Sites 1943-45. Oxford: Osprey Publishing. p. 38. ISBN 9781846032479.
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