Decapitation strikes in WW2?

[DougRichards]

Dang beat me to it. Even those the resistance fighter died in the building, the effect on the civil population must been one of quiet celebration of seeing those murdering bastards offed. I suspect the Gestapo were always looking over their shoulder after that one. To bad the Allies didn’t have something like JDAMs at the time.

 

I wonder if the technology existed in a small enough state to have a 1,000lb hone in on a radio signal?

 

Have an agent plant a transmitter that had a clock timer that it would start broadcasting an hour or two before the attack, the plane flies in beams onto the signal, when the bomb has it and within range, release and fly away.

 

Some WW2 bombs were surprisingly accurate. When testing the Tallboy penetration bomb it was decided to use a ground mounted camera to record the dropping of the bomb.

 

It was considered that the place that the camera would be safest at would be the centre of the target, as no-one expected any bomb to be accurate enough to hit the centre of the target.

 

Well, the camera was destroyed by the bomb, wasn't it.

[Marek Tucan]

I think you can say the surgical strikes against Gestapo HQ's late in the war was kind of decapitation, aming at destroying archives and personel and to release captured Resistance fighters.

Victoria Palatset in Oslo, Shellhuset in Denmark and something similar i Brussels (seen the statue, but fails to remember the name)

 

Cheers

/John T

 

Also kinda anti-decapitation precision strike that was op Jericho, bombing of Amiens prison so that the prisoners (incl. some high-profile figures from the Resistance) could attempt to escape.