Slitherine

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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...

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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.

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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.