Operation Adler

There were three events in World War II called Operation Adler (Adler means Eagle in German):

  1. A series of Luftwaffe attacks beginning on 13 August 1940 known as Operation Eagle Attack (Unternehmen Adlerangriff) set to begin on Adlertag ("Eagle Day").
  2. An anti-partisan operation centered on the Chechivichi region of Belarus, begun on 20 July 1942.
  3. An anti-partisan operation by German and Croatian units on the north Dalmatian coast, between Karlobag and Zadar in November 1943.
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