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Operation Zitronella
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<p>Operation Zitronella, also known as <i>Unternehmen Sizilien</i> (Operation <a href="/facts/Sicily/E6fug03z">Sicily</a>), was an eight-hour <a href="/facts/Germany/paluuWBX">German</a> raid on <a href="/facts/Spitzbergen/7Q2MHDKp">Spitzbergen</a>, in the Svalbard Archipelago, on 8 September 1943. The <a href="/facts/Battleship/PjjTspo5">battleships</a> <i><a href="/facts/German_battleship_Tirpitz/jzT9MhbQ">Tirpitz</a></i> (in its only offensive action) and <i><a href="/facts/German_battleship_Scharnhorst/cwcRgWrw">Scharnhorst</a></i>, plus nine destroyers, sailed to the archipelago, bombarded Allied-occupied settlements in <a href="/facts/Isfjorden_(Svalbard)/s29bTHDv">Isfjorden</a> and covered a landing party. Six Norwegians were killed and 31 were taken prisoner; sixteen Germans were wounded, one dying of his wounds. </p>