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Originally Posted by Franek Grabowski
I am reading this thread confused but with some amusement.
The idea of attacking aircraft on the ground was neither new nor stupid. The problem was in execution … Alternately, there was a plan of Galland, that has been cancelled.
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I think there's another thing, the Luftwaffe was very taken with the idea of striking some big psychological blow that would make their enemies at least pause for a while. Bodenplatte and Galland's Großer Schlag were examples, also the plans for Eisenhammer (Soviet hydro-electric plants), Drachenhöhle (the Royal Navy at Scapa Flow) and Werwolf (Hajo Hermann's 7 April 1945 ramming operation).