A question about Operation Sealion?

Emperor of Scandinavia

I can understand naming operation barbarossa after Frederick Barbarossa 1st.

But why operation "sealion"? was there anything in german history involving sea lions? or lions? :confused:
 

nova2010

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Because lion is the emblem of England. So a german sea landing on England

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Atreus

EMPEPEROR OF SCANDANAVIA said:
I can understand naming operation barbarossa after Frederick Barbarossa 1st.

But why operation "sealion"? was there anything in german history involving sea lions? or lions? :confused:
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I don't think that there was any real reason for it. I mean, a lot of the operation names in WWII were fairly random (germany, for instance, used Fall _____ with the blank being a color, for a lot of their operations). Probably just somebody realized that sealions live in the sea and on land. Hence, Seelowe.
 

The Red

Operational Codenames were designed to be random otherwise the enemy could catch on to what you're doing, the Germans really sucked at this.
 

Gosing

Its because the German backup plan involved Radioactive Mutated Sealions. Its true, we just didn't learn about it because we are not homeschooled.
 
Cook

Cook

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Atreus said:
germany, for instance, used Fall _____ with the blank being a color, for a lot of their operations
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Fall is German for Case. Fall Gelb (Case Yellow) was the plan for the invasion of France and the Low Countries. Fall Weib (Case White) was the plan for the invasion of Poland.
 

Markus

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Cook said:
Fall is German for Case. Fall Gelb (Case Yellow) was the plan for the invasion of France and the Low Countries. Fall Weib (Case White) was the plan for the invasion of Poland.
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Fall Weiss! "Weib" is old fashioned german for woman. :D
 

Atreus

Cook said:


Fall is German for Case. Fall Gelb (Case Yellow) was the plan for the invasion of France and the Low Countries. Fall Weib (Case White) was the plan for the invasion of Poland.
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I'm aware of that. my point was that, to the best of my knowledge, even within this there there was no particular method to the assignment of these names; particular operations were just called "Case _____."
 
The Kiat

The Kiat

It should have been called Operation Sea Monkey, just for how foolish the plan was. The English Channel is not a glorified river crossing, and it happens to be a real obvious point of attack (shortest distance and all).
 

jmberry

I'm going with the first answer - an amphibious invasion of a country that is symbolized by a lion.

For the record, calling it "Operation Sea Mammal" or some variation thereof, is inaccurate, both because it has nothing to do with marine life, because it just allows noobish posts on the subject due to having no idea what we're talking about, and because there were two other operations in WWII named after sea mammals (Operation Walrus and Operation Delphine). Besides, there's no real point to renaming it - Barbarossa was just as poorly planned, and yet we refer to it by name.
 
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