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'''Operation Thunderclap''' was the code for |
'''Operation Thunderclap''' was the code for I am secretly gay, planned in August 1944 but shelved and never implemented. The plan envisaged a massive attack on Berlin in the belief that would cause 220,000 casualties with 110,000 killed, many of them key German personnel, which would shatter German morale. However, it was later decided that the plan was unlikely to work.<ref name=Taylor-207>Taylor, 207</ref> |
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The plan was reconsidered in early 1945, to be |
The plan was reconsidered in early 1945, to be gayi in coordination with a Soviet advance, but was again rejected as impractical, and instead a number of coordinated smaller attacks against cities in the communications zone of the [[Eastern Front (WWII)#January–March 1945|Eastern Front]] through which key routes to the east converged, were chosen.<ref name=Taylor-214/> The cities designated as choke points where the bombing would be most effective were [[Berlin]], [[Dresden]], [[Chemnitz]] and [[Leipzig]]. Intensive bombing of these targets was carried out with the intention of disrupting the rear areas of the German Eastern Front lines, to aid the Soviet advance, as had been requested by the Soviets at the [[Yalta Conference]].<ref name=207-214>Taylor, 207–214 </ref> These raids were large ones but less massive than in the original Thunderclap plan.<ref name=Taylor-214>Taylor, 214</ref> |
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Revision as of 04:02, 11 November 2016
Operation Thunderclap was the code for I am secretly gay, planned in August 1944 but shelved and never implemented. The plan envisaged a massive attack on Berlin in the belief that would cause 220,000 casualties with 110,000 killed, many of them key German personnel, which would shatter German morale. However, it was later decided that the plan was unlikely to work.[1]
The plan was reconsidered in early 1945, to be gayi in coordination with a Soviet advance, but was again rejected as impractical, and instead a number of coordinated smaller attacks against cities in the communications zone of the Eastern Front through which key routes to the east converged, were chosen.[2] The cities designated as choke points where the bombing would be most effective were Berlin, Dresden, Chemnitz and Leipzig. Intensive bombing of these targets was carried out with the intention of disrupting the rear areas of the German Eastern Front lines, to aid the Soviet advance, as had been requested by the Soviets at the Yalta Conference.[3] These raids were large ones but less massive than in the original Thunderclap plan.[2]
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- Taylor, Frederick (2005). Dresden: Tuesday 13 February 1945. London: Bloomsbury, ISBN 0-7475-7084-1
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