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Project Danny was a plan to use Marine Corps F4U Corsairs to bomb V1/V2 launching sites with Tiny Tim rockets. The Corsairs were to be launched from Escort carriers in the North Sea. The plan was briefed to George Marshall in the summer of 1944. General Marshall shot the plan down when he declared that no US Marines would fight in the ETO. The Navy then went with Operation Anvil using radio controlled bombers. That operation resulted in the death of Joe Kennedy Jr.

Would Project Danny have done damage to the German rockets or would it have resulted in a lot of shot down planes and dead pilots?

What would it take to get the plan approved?
-Project Danny becomes a pet project of Admiral King. When Marshall says no King Says the Navy will do it anyway.

-Political pressure. Maybe by luck a V-1 hits the American Embassy in London and kills the ambassador or the British find out the project like it and demand that the Americans do something about the rockets.
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