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.