Operation Albumen

Operation Albumen
Part of the Battle of the Mediterranean, in the Second World War
Aircraft being repaired in Maleme, August 1941
Location
ObjectiveCommando raids on German airfields in the Axis-occupied Greek island of Crete
Date7/8 June 1942
4/5 July 1943
Executed by United Kingdom
 Greece
 Free France
OutcomeAllied victory
Casualties12 German soldiers
Pierre Léostic 
3 Free French captured
62+ citizens killed

Operation Albumen was the name given to British Commando raids in June 1942 on German airfields in the Axis-occupied Greek island of Crete, to prevent them from being used in support of the Axis forces in the Western Desert Campaign in the Second World War. The operations were carried out with similar raids against Axis airfields at Benghazi, Derna and Barce in Libya and were among the first planned sabotage acts in occupied Europe.