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Originally Posted by Rifleman
In WWII, the British had a plan to kill Hitler at Berchtesgaten. They were going to parachute two SOE agents dressed as German mountain troops into the Bavarian Alps for a sniper mission. The sniper team was going to shoot Hitler on the path he used for his morning walk.
Anyone know what that operation was codenamed?
Make a great movie too, huh?
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I have a book titled "World War II Super Facts". In it it lists 266 code names begining with OPERATION from Operation 7 to Operation Zeppelin. Yes, I counted every damned one of them. Sped read through them THREE times today (instead of taking care of other business.).
It lists Operation Flash that was the first attempt on Hitler's life to take over the German Government (I think that was explosives disguised as bottles of wine to be taken aboard Hitler's airplane).
It lists Operation Valkarie as the second attempt to take Hitler's life (bomb in the bunker).
It lists Operation Long Jump that was an attempt by the SS to assassinate Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchil at the Teheran conference.
But it lists nothing like you described.
Found only that SOE stands for Special Operations Executive to encourage guerilla activities against the Nazis.
BUT. It did remind me very much of a movie Gregory Peck did. He was an expert marksman and actually sighted in on Hitler (before the war) with an empty rifle just for the thrill of the hunt. After the war started and his girl friend was killed (by Curt Jurgens) the end of the movie shows him parachuting into Germany with his high-powered, telescopic sighted rifle.
You sure you weren't thinking of that movie?