 Editor in Chief Bill   | 06 Mar 2018 1:54 p.m. PST |
What is your favorite military operation of WWII? (Must include the word Operation in the title. For example: Operation Halyard) |
| thosmoss | 06 Mar 2018 2:01 p.m. PST |
Operation Market Garden. Coolest toys, most epic combination of combined arms and cross-nationality. Shakespearian flaws in key personalities. Exciting moments of action, heroism, and even noble respect from opposing sides. A few great one-liners. Compassionate civilians doing what they can for humanity's good, while their homes are being shot apart. Great resources for interviews, to talk with the people who were there. Even Sean Connery was merely one of a cast of hundreds, in the movie. |
Joes Shop  | 06 Mar 2018 2:13 p.m. PST |
Operation Watchtower (Guadalcanal) |
| JimDuncanUK | 06 Mar 2018 2:16 p.m. PST |
Battle of the Atlantic. All the rest would have been pointless had we lost this one. I'm sure it had at least one 'operation' but it was so much bigger than that. |
| Bob the Temple Builder | 06 Mar 2018 2:16 p.m. PST |
Operation Uranus (Russian counter-stroke at Stalingrad). |
| foxweasel | 06 Mar 2018 2:29 p.m. PST |
Operation Chastise. Incredibly brave men, a slightly better than a 1 in 2 chance of survival. Never mind the revisionist nonsense that the raid didn't achieve much, it lifted the spirits of the allies and is still a much loved and talked about Op today. Also a really good film, with a genuine war hero playing the lead, does it really need a remake? And my local pub is named after it "The Dambusters" |
| DeRuyter | 06 Mar 2018 2:34 p.m. PST |
Given the two recent (award winning) films: Operation Dynamo |
| rhacelt | 06 Mar 2018 2:42 p.m. PST |
Operation Barbarossa, it started off so many things. |
| Frothers Did It And Ran Away | 06 Mar 2018 2:57 p.m. PST |
Chariot. Classic British wartime combination of pluck and ingenuity. |
| Bashytubits | 06 Mar 2018 2:58 p.m. PST |
Operation Watch on the Rhine, a.k.a. the Battle of the Bulge. |
 ColCampbell | 06 Mar 2018 3:26 p.m. PST |
Operation Neptune – "the beginning of the end." Jim |
| Bunkermeister | 06 Mar 2018 3:42 p.m. PST |
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| Old Contemptibles | 06 Mar 2018 4:14 p.m. PST |
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| KSmyth | 06 Mar 2018 5:17 p.m. PST |
Another vote for Operation Chariot: The Raid on St. Nazaire. An incredibly gutsy operation that actually achieved its ends despite the losses. My friend Dave and I ran a St. Nazaire scenario at Enfilade a few years back. It was cool. |
| Lascaris | 06 Mar 2018 5:51 p.m. PST |
Operation Watchtower. Combines surface action, carrier battles, ground and air combat. One stop shopping. |
| 14th NJ Vol | 06 Mar 2018 5:53 p.m. PST |
Operation Wacht am Rhein. Tanks, lots of tanks. |
 Saber6 | 06 Mar 2018 6:43 p.m. PST |
Overlord followed by Cobra |
| William Ulsterman | 06 Mar 2018 6:55 p.m. PST |
Operation Compass – there was still life in the old dog. |
| Editor in Chief Bill | 06 Mar 2018 7:01 p.m. PST |
Battle of the Atlantic. Not an operation Operation Barbarossa Unternehmen is not Operation Wacht am Rhein ditto |
| BW1959 | 06 Mar 2018 7:25 p.m. PST |
Operation Torch link Allied invasion of Vichy-French north Africa Brits and Yanks vs Vichy French, German, & Italian forces |
| Pizzagrenadier | 06 Mar 2018 8:15 p.m. PST |
Fall Gelb, hands down for me. |
| JimSelzer | 06 Mar 2018 8:32 p.m. PST |
anything north Africa Torch
Compass
Crusader |
| Festerfest | 07 Mar 2018 12:32 a.m. PST |
Petticoat. I especially like when they steal the pig. |
| langobard | 07 Mar 2018 2:17 a.m. PST |
Operation Citadel. Anything with so many tanks has to rate high! |
| Richard Baber | 07 Mar 2018 2:20 a.m. PST |
BW1959 – no Germans or Italians involved vs Torch – they weren`t even in that part of North Africa until it was over. Then they were rushed into Tunisia ;) My personal favourite is – Operation Exporter (Syria/Lebanon 1941) |
| 4th Cuirassier | 07 Mar 2018 2:20 a.m. PST |
Operation Warboard and the epic fight at Pont de la Croix between Panthers and Shermans, all 1/87 and none of them painted. |
| Gunfreak | 07 Mar 2018 3:54 a.m. PST |
Operation Gunnerside. Operation Gunnerside was later evaluated by SOE as the most successful act of sabotage in all of World War II. But I also second market garden. |
| deephorse | 07 Mar 2018 4:04 a.m. PST |
Unternehmen is not Operation It pretty much is. Unternehmen
(ʊntɐˈneːmən )
neuter noun
Word forms:Unternehmens, genitive
Word forms:Unternehmen, plural
(= Firma) business, concern, enterprise
(= Aktion, Vorhaben) undertaking, enterprise, venture
(military) operation collinsdictionary.com |
| Fingerspitzengefuhl | 07 Mar 2018 6:43 a.m. PST |
Unternehmen = Operation
Fall = Case/plan My understanding case is a scoping excersise COA and Unternehmen refers to a fully staffed plan capable of execution |
| Rich Bliss | 07 Mar 2018 8:53 a.m. PST |
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| Old Contemptibles | 07 Mar 2018 9:05 a.m. PST |
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| jurgenation | 07 Mar 2018 11:01 a.m. PST |
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| dvyws9 | 07 Mar 2018 11:47 a.m. PST |
Operation Mincemeat. Simple, devious and brilliant. |
 miniMo | 07 Mar 2018 3:28 p.m. PST |
Operation Totalise Canadians birth the Kangaroos! |
| Old Contemptibles | 07 Mar 2018 4:53 p.m. PST |
Operation Centerboard It ended WWII. |
| GreenLeader | 08 Mar 2018 12:13 p.m. PST |
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| Mooseworks8 | 08 Mar 2018 8:23 p.m. PST |
1. Operation Torch
2. Operation Barbarosa
3. Operation Sea Lion (Glad that never happened.) |
| mysteron | 09 Mar 2018 4:12 a.m. PST |
Crusader- First Brit victory over Rommel's DAK |
| Russ Lockwood | 09 Mar 2018 2:04 p.m. PST |
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| Walking Sailor | 10 Mar 2018 10:27 a.m. PST |
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| catavar | 10 Mar 2018 11:21 a.m. PST |
Market-Garden in the west.
Operation Berlin in the east. |
| Last Hussar | 14 Mar 2018 5:32 p.m. PST |
Chariot – fantastic piece of daring – "The greatest Raid of all"
Market Garden – It does indeed have everything. But especially
Mincemeat and Fortitude.
Battles are battles are battles. These were 3 dimensional chess |
| GoodOldRebel | 16 Mar 2018 11:15 a.m. PST |
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| Monophagos | 28 Mar 2018 1:17 p.m. PST |
Operation Jericho. Mosquitoes bringing down the wall of Amiens prison so inmates could escape… |
