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3rd May 2005, 07:11
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Yet ANOTHER German nickname for the IL 2...
I was reading Franz Kurowski's book "Luftwaffe Aces" & came across yet another nickmame the Germans used for the IL2 Sturmovik: 'the butchers'; sounds like a pretty cool yet scary nickname but I was wondering if that expression is less due to the casualties the IL inflicted on the German Army & more related to the German expression for slaughterhouse work, "schlacht", which of course, is also the term used to refer to German ground attack units? Well what say the experts? Or is this just a figment of Kurowski's overheated prose?
NickM 
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