6 Oddly Named U.S. Government Operations
Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Composer Glenn Miller probably didn’t have an Allied air offensive in mind when he wrote the song “Chattanooga Choo-Choo,” but in 1944 that’s exactly what occurred under the same name. The goal of the offensive was to limit Germany’s access to locomotives that could be used as a transportation method for reinforcements to northwest France. British and U.S. fighter planes targeted railways in the western portion of German-occupied France. It was extremely successful, drastically decreasing railroad operations and, in turn, the speed of reinforcement...
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