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  • January 18, 2010 at 7:23 am #1888 Reply
    scout1067
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    I watched a very interesting show last night on N-TV, a German News/Documentary Channel, about a Luftwaffe unit that the Germans formed in the last months of the war called the Sonderkommando der Elbe.  There mission was to attempt to ram allied bombers and then bail out of their aircraft so they could go back up and do it again.  They only went up once and took out around 20 American bombers.  In the show they interviewed a couple of the German pilots who successfully rammed American planes.  There is a youtube video that briefly talks about it that is from the beginning of the show.I had never heard that the Germans put something like this together but I guess it does not really surprise me.  By the end of the war the Germans were desperate to do something, anything, to slow down the pace of the bombing.  Even the town I live in got bombed in the last month of the war and there was absolutely nothing military in the town.

    January 18, 2010 at 7:50 pm #18132 Reply
    Phidippides
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    What do you mean by “ram allied bombers”?  Why could firing on them not have been a more viable option?

    January 19, 2010 at 8:13 am #18133 Reply
    scout1067
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    They wanted to kamikaze the bombers but still be able to bail out.  Literally run their aircraft into the American bombers.

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