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OT: Some thoughts that made me laugh last night
Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2012 7:47 am
by temagic
I was thinking about the mightly Italian warmachine last night and came to think about this fact:
The Germans had their case yellow, case green, barbarossa, etc.
The Japanese conquered all of Malaya, Hong Kong, Singapore, Indonesia, the Gilberts, half of China, the Solomons and parts of the Aleutians.
And the Italians, well, their planned conquest of the small island of Malta was called 'Operation Hercules'
Made me chuckle...
RE: OT: Some thoughts that made me laugh last night
Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2012 8:28 am
by Oberst_Klink
Not really.... but:
Operation Herkules was the German code-name given to a planned but never-executed Italo-German invasion of Malta during World War II (the Italian code-name was Operazione C3).
Klink, Oberst
P.S. The Germans always used 'peculiar' wordings for later operations; things about Operation Leopard for the 're-conquest' of Leros 1943, Unternehmen Rösselsprung, an attempt to capture Tito. One could write an essay about all the ops names
RE: OT: Some thoughts that made me laugh last night
Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2012 3:09 pm
by temagic
You just officially butchered and murdered my joke... You could not let it live, ey? Well, like they say, only truth can never be hidden forever. Thanks for clarifying the factual errors though. I just remembered from memory and didn't google or wikipedia it before I posted.
RE: OT: Some thoughts that made me laugh last night
Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2012 10:55 pm
by Grfin Zeppelin
This will teach you to make jokes in a nerd forum [:)]
RE: OT: Some thoughts that made me laugh last night
Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2012 1:35 am
by filo78
ORIGINAL: temagic
I was thinking about the mightly Italian warmachine last night and came to think about this fact:
The Germans had their case yellow, case green, barbarossa, etc.
The Japanese conquered all of Malaya, Hong Kong, Singapore, Indonesia, the Gilberts, half of China, the Solomons and parts of the Aleutians.
And the Italians, well, their planned conquest of the small island of Malta was called 'Operation Hercules'
Made me chuckle...
wouldn't be better if you sleep at night?[;)]
RE: OT: Some thoughts that made me laugh last night
Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2012 10:29 am
by Oberst_Klink
ORIGINAL: temagic
You just officially butchered and murdered my joke... You could not let it live, ey? Well, like they say, only truth can never be hidden forever. Thanks for clarifying the factual errors though. I just remembered from memory and didn't google or wikipedia it before I posted.
Aww, come on Kamerad! Talking about Ops names; some interesting links:
http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/99559
THAT made me *giggle*
By the end of the war, the practice was well-established on all sides, with code names given for everything from post-war Nazi insurgencies (Operation Werwolf) to psychological mail campaigns (Operation Cornflakes) to fake missions altogether (Operation Mincemeat). In most cases, names were chosen by mid-level officers in charge of planning, but frequent interventions took place when tagging significant campaigns.
Happy Turkey Day btw,
Klink, Oberst
RE: OT: Some thoughts that made me laugh last night
Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2012 11:25 pm
by JeffroK
Churchill ordered his Generals to ensure operation names were "STRONG WORDS'
Men would fight better for "Overlord" or "Supercharge" rather than "Playground" or "Handkerchief"
(Paraphrased, I'll find the exact words)
RE: OT: Some thoughts that made me laugh last night
Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2012 9:09 am
by sprior
Interesting, the UK seems to have shifted since then. The Falklands was Operation Corporate.