A different name for Operation Sealion

DMA · Apr 28, 2008

What if our favourate marine mammal was known by a different name. What would this be?

And far more importantly, would it have any more success, using a different operation name, than our beloved Sealion?

Discuss

Zyzzyva · Apr 28, 2008

DMA said:
What if our favourate marine mammal was known by a different name. What would this be?

And far more importantly, would it have any more success, using a different operation name, than our beloved Sealion?

Discuss

The german generals staff switches to a british-style random codename generator.

Fall Weiss is named Unternehmen Seelöwe. AH.COM explodes.

kojak · Apr 28, 2008

Operation Rhine Barges Try To Cross The English Channel Without Capsizing

Blue Max · Apr 28, 2008

Operation One-in-one hundred-Million?
Operation Dream?

Analytical Engine · Apr 28, 2008

Operation It will never work, Adolf, so don't even bother...

kojak · Apr 28, 2008

Analytical Engine said:
Operation It will never work, Adolf, so don't even bother...

Operation Even Adolf Wasn't Mad Enough To Attempt This

Howzat?

Elidor · Apr 28, 2008

Operation Unicorn

Zyzzyva · Apr 28, 2008

Elidor said:
Operation Unicorn

Operation Beluga Caviar?

Theodoric · Apr 28, 2008

Operation Wolkenkuckucksheim?

(If I recall correctly, some German Generals actually said that Hitler lived in a http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cloud-cuckoo-land)

aktarian · Apr 28, 2008

Operation Göring (i.e. big, fat, clumsy animal)

Grey Wolf · Apr 28, 2008

Well, it WAS Operation LION but some dimwit added Sea to the front

Best Regards
Grey Wolf

Atreus · Apr 28, 2008

Operation Suicide has a nice ring to it.

Operation Seal.
Operation Insanity.

Grey Wolf · Apr 28, 2008

Well, the Imperial German panzers have just invaded Sussex in 'The Terrible Thirties' as part of Operation Adler

Best Regards
Grey Wolf

Analytical Engine · Apr 28, 2008

Operation this will only work if done by a steampunk revolutionary France...

(With thanks to Thande...

)

Tocomocho · Apr 28, 2008

Operation Armada.

Same target, same fate.

Grey Wolf · Apr 28, 2008

I was always amused by Halder's comment that no, he was not particularly impressed at the idea of crossing the Channel at half the speed managed by Julius Caesar two thousand years before !

Best Regards
Grey Wolf

tallwingedgoat · Apr 28, 2008

Operation Saxon

Operation Wolf

Operation Werewolf

Operation Brynhildr

Operation Valkyrie

Operation Odin

Operation Götterdämmerung

Operation Mephistopheles

Operation Singing Fat Lady

Theodoric · Apr 28, 2008

Grey Wolf said:
Well, it WAS Operation LION but some dimwit added Sea to the front

Best Regards
Grey Wolf

And ofcourse, the Germans all spoke English, like in the movies. (The bad ones, at least)

bard32 · Apr 28, 2008

I can't think of a different name for Operation Sealion.
"On land, I am a hero. At sea, I am a coward."
Adolf Hitler

Ynnead · Apr 28, 2008

Operation: sea dragon (get the refrence?)

Operation:running joke

Operation: bear calvary