Favorite WWII operation...

[Malarkey]

What is your favorite WWII operation?
Mine is ''Operation Market Garden'', the biggest airborne operation in history... :w00t:

[Pravda]

mine is operation uranus.....just cause im obbsessed with stalingrad

[PZIV]

What is your favorite WWII operation?
Mine is ''Operation Market Garden'', the biggest airborne operation in history... :w00t:

And a complete failure...:icon_wink:

[ColonelChaos007]

LOL! :icon_redface: Yeah, true that.

Mine would probably be Operation Barbarossa, even though I know nothing about it (I would appreciate it if someone could refresh my memory), the name sounds really awesome!

[PZIV]

To gain a foothold on the vast Russian natural resources, Hitler defies the non-aggression pact signed by the Soviet Union and Germany by launching a full scale attack into Russia starting from June 1941 - December 1941 (about).

Ended with Germany failing to take Moscow. Eventually led to the ruin of the Nazi's opening up the Eastern front. I'll get a picture if you'd like...

:icon_wink:

[ColonelChaos007]

Wow. Thank you so much, Toten. Yes, please, that would be really nice of ya. :icon_cool:

[PZIV]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Operation_Barbarossa.png

There you go, good sir.

EDIT: Little fact I forgot to tell you. "Barbarossa" the name, came after a King of the Holy Roman Empire (I forgot his whole name)

[ColonelChaos007]

Wow. Thank you very much, my friend. Well done. Barbarosa sounds really cool too. :icon_cool:

[Dascoo]

Operation Flashpoint *jk*

EDIT: Operation Uranus

[relax 1.0]

stalingrad - not that it was an operation, more of a defenisation

[PZIV]

Pfft. Throwing bodies on a fire to put it out doesn't mean you did a good job of stopping the fire...

[DFC COL TAZZ]

i don't know if this count's,battle of the bulge.

[mnchster67]

My favourite operation was Battle of the Bulge, classic!

[Savage]

Battle of Britain

awesome one

[woowoo]

Overlord.

[Alpha_Pasta]

Overlord.

[Tizmo]

Overlord.

[Alpha_Pasta]

The sheer amount of planning and the huge effort it took to execute it. Its something that will never be repeated.

[PZIV]

And it still wasn't executed that wonderful.

[Savage]

so we still kicked german ass

[woowoo]

I just finished reading D-Day by Stephen Ambrose. According to this book, Overlord had immense planning on the part of the allies with near flawless execution on two of the four beaches. The third beach had significant challenges but were overcome by sheer determination by the Canadians. Then there was Utah where most everything went wrong. However the mission to mislead about where the landings were and the complete air superiority more than made up for the challenges. Considering it was the German plan to stop the invasion on the beachs - nothing went to plan for the Axis.

[PZIV]

The PROBLEM was the air attacks. They bombed too far inland most of the time leaving huge amounts of unharmed enemies at the beaches. Most of the heavy guns were also thought to be in the wrong place. A ranger group (can't remember the one at the moment) had to go really far inland to find some larger guns the Germans had.

[Alpha_Pasta]

Der Totenkopf;138969']The PROBLEM was the air attacks. They bombed too far inland most of the time leaving huge amounts of unharmed enemies at the beaches. Most of the heavy guns were also thought to be in the wrong place. A ranger group (can't remember the one at the moment) had to go really far inland to find some larger guns the Germans had.

You mean the group that hit the pointe du hoc?

The guns there were moved and replaced with telegraph poles - air reconnaissance couldn't tell the difference. Anyhow - when they went looking, they found the guns unguarded in a field. Easy prey.

[Savage]

So we still won? it seems to me that are annoyed that allies won and ur trying to turn it down?

Alot of the bombers hit their targets but because most of the enemy was in bunkers it really did nothing. But shutdown many roads

[woowoo]

For D-Day airstrikes the Air Corp assigned the beaches to different air groups. The tactical bombers (such as the B-26 Marauder) struck at Utah and had a great deal of success in damaging or destroying the fortifications but also the bomb craters created ready made foxholes to seek cover in. The strategic bombers (B-17, B-24, British) were used at Omaha and their bombs landed well inland making no notable military damage nor offering the craters. In other words the Omaha landing was facing pristine fortifications manned by first rate troops. The plan was to bomb the beaches on D-Day only so as to not give away the landing beaches but to hit them with everything the Allies had. ALL bombers, strike planes, and fighters flew multiple sorties on D-Day.

I wouldn't normally know this except I just finished reading it.

P.S. Due to the almost non-exsistant presence of the Luftwaffe around the invasion area the joke in the German army was: How do you tell the difference between American, British, and German airplanes. The American planes are silver, the British are blue, and the German's are invisible.

[Alpha_Pasta]

So we still won? it seems to me that are annoyed that allies won and ur trying to turn it down?

Alot of the bombers hit their targets but because most of the enemy was in bunkers it really did nothing. But shutdown many roads

I get that impression too savage. I mean Totemkopf, you are American - do you feel glad that the Allies won the war?

[woowoo]

Der Totenkopf -
There's a book you would like. It's call 1945 by Newt Gingrich (yes the politican). Newt was / is a history professor prior to politics. Anyway, the premise of the book is if Hitler had not declared war on the US after Pearl Harbor and how history would have been different. Interesting, but everyone can do a "what if" type scenario with history. Actually, I do it every season with my favorite (American) football team.

[PZIV]

How could you say that I would be against them? If I was not wanting the US soldiers to be protected, I wouldn't have said that the PROBLEM was that they were not PROTECTED well enough by the bombings if I wanted them to lose now would I?

Savage: Good common sense. Because I am so anti-American I wanted the beachheads to be more secure from the bombing. Great logic. /sarcasm

Just because I give the Germans more credit than most people doesn't mean I wanted them to win or I wanted the US to win. No one wins in war.

[Savage]

True enough

[Master_of_Puppets]

Unternehmen Seelöwe (Operation Sealion)
-Operation drawn up by Hitler to invade Britain

Was not my #1 favorite, but was up there.

-even though it was eventually scrubbed, I like reading about the plans and how everything would be carried out by the Germans

http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/st/~larson/

Is a decent site about it. Theres plenty of other articles out there, I just chose one.

[Adam Baker]

Operation Overlord.

[darkhen]

have to Say Assault ON normandy.

[Laz]

Operations carried out in the Aegean sea by Major Lassen. The only non-British to receive the VC for Operation Roast.