This was the code name for the German airborne invasion of Crete.
- Operation Blue
- Operation Daedalus
- Operation Icarus
- Operation Mercury
Operation Mercury. Crete proved the graveyard of large scale German Airborne operations. The Germans lost 4,000 killed and 2,500 wounded from an airborne division of just 12,000 men.
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