October 16th, 2007, 03:28 PM
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Join Date: May 2003
Location: Where Iron Crosses grow
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Re: "Dumbest" attack?
That's a good one, Squeeth!
My offer is Unternehmen Bodenplatte.
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Operation Bodenplatte was a well meant but ill conceived plan to destroy Allied air craft on their landing fields. The plan was to have most of the remaining Luftwaffe Jagdwaffe pull a mass surprise attack on the morning of January 1, 1945. This was to cause havoc and eliminate Allied air power which was doing a great deal of damage to German forces during the Battle of the Bulge. Well as plans go, so did this one; awry, that is. Few fields were properly damaged and the losses of valuable Luftwaffe fighters was high. Many were either unable to find their targets, were shot down by friendly AA, or were late in arrival so met an alert and ready enemy.
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