You know why Operation "Iron Hammer" sounds Nazi like?

Because it IS. It was a German plan in 1944 for using "Mistel" planes combined with manned V1 suicide bombs to attack Soviet factories deep in enemy territory.

it's too much -trying to keep up with daily shock & awe!

Luftwaffe's Secret KG 200
http://history1900s.about.com/library/prm/blsecretkg3.htm

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As early as 1942, researchers also began to develop Mistel (mistletoe), a piggyback aircraft--a smaller aircraft mounted above a larger, unmanned aircraft such as a medium-sized bomber. After a series of false starts, the combination settled upon was a Messerschmitt Me-109 or Focke-Wulf Fw-190 fighter atop a Junkers Ju-88 bomber. The machines were joined by a three-point strut apparatus, which was fitted with explosive bolts that would sever the connection when the carrier aircraft--armed with an 8,377-pound hollow-charge warhead in the nose--had been aimed at its target. The warhead would detonate on impact in an explosion that could penetrate 8 meters of steel or 20 meters of ferroconcrete.

By May 1944, the first operational Mistels were delivered to 2/KG 101, a unit closely affiliated with KG 200. The unit was originally slated to attack Scapa Flow in northern Scotland, but the Allied invasion of Normandy changed that plan. On the night of June 24, 1944, Mistels were dispatched against targets in the Bay of the Seine, in the English Channel. Although one of the Ju-88s had to be jettisoned prematurely, the remaining four pilots had successful launches and sank several block ships.

Luftwaffe planners placed all Mistels under the aegis of KG 200 and Colonel Joachim Helbig, an expert Ju-88 pilot. Task Force Helbig was handed a daunting and audacious plan--it had been decided that the Mistels would be used to single-handedly cripple the Soviet war industry. The operation, known as Plan Iron Hammer, was the 1943 brainchild of Professor Steinmann of the German Aviation Ministry, who had pointed out the benefit of raiding selected points in the Soviet infrastructure in order to damage the whole. Iron Hammer was meant to attack the Soviets' Achilles' heel--their electrical generation turbines.......snip..

Thanks for the info.

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o.k. all you clever du'ers. the next military operation does not have a name yet. here's your chance to help mcpoopiebrain delight his minions with a clever ditty. here's some of mine:

"operation dismember brown guys"
"operation petrol seizure"
"operation second coming"
"operation i want that alot"
"operation shut up and die

After that, get ready for "Operation Shut Up and Die"

Desert Fox trinkets for AWOL to steal the name from.

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It wasn't the name of a Nazi war maneuver. Methinks some people would be much better off reading books than burning them.

Three posts (and two on the same asinine topic) and boom! Way to go, mods. They seem to be pretty bent out of shape lately, don't they? I wonder if it's the fail-ibuster in the Senate or Chimpy's ongoing ineptitude that has them wanting to come here to disrupt?

embarrassment to them as he is to us now.

he hasn't done a damn thing right since he stumbled into washington

operation like AWOL's "iron hammer" was.

sorry, clinton didn't cotton to those nazi's like AWOL's family did. try somewhere else, fella.

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

Apparently the 1st Armored Division is the lead HQ for "Iron Hammer" so they get naming rights. Since the unit's nickname is "Old Ironsides" they probably name everything with "Iron" in it. Some staff officer didn't have time to check for historical use of the same name before they started using it.

name of the invasion of Iraq, that being Operation Iraqi Liberation, OIL.

when I heard this term this morning, I thought

--oh no they're going to bomb Iraq back to iron age, or
--Iraq went communist?

the Nazi explanation makes more sense : )

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Hope someone in the media picks up on it.

Kinda like the first name they were gonna use for invading Iraq:

Operation Iraqi Liberation.....heheheh ("OIL")

in the Pentagon is making up these names. Remember when troops were going door to door terrorizing Iraqi civilians and they called that Operation something SYRINGE? There have been alot of other names that I simply can't recall, but remember at the time thinking... WTH, could these bozos be anymore arrogant and insensitive.

"phony companies".. This is the SAME crew.. They love to play war and make up fantasy war games.. only they are using real soldiers

I think it's going to be between Operation Smashheathen and Operation Killemall.

Lil George needs to hand out some more Iron Crosses to some more generals. He so enjoys playing dress up!

Maybe that's what happened to Jessica Lynch's rescuers.

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