Operation Eisbär


Military history records three Operation Eisbär, all conducted by the Germans in 1943. The name means Polar bear in German.
They were:
  1. German evacuation of the French island of Corsica on 3 October 1943.
  2. The German amphibious and airborne landings on the British and Italian-held Greek island of Kos on 3 October.
  3. An anti-partisan operation conducted in January 1943 in the area between Bryansk and Dmitriyev-Lgovsky, Russia.
  4. 12 June 1944 initiation of German V-1 flying bomb missile attacks on London.