>ITT: operational fuck-ups Operation Ivory Coast is

>>31361981
This is neither a particular fuck up nor is it "fucking hilarious".

Are you autistic? Or trying to bash the US while simultaneously being an idiot?

I'm not even against bashing the US, but you'd think you would choose an actual spectacular failure, like for example the one time a flight of B-17s dropped their load over a friendly city.

Of course this too isn't a good example because by stroke of luck literally all of the bombs fell on a hidden German encampment. I swear I'm not making this up.

>>31362074
>This is neither a particular fuck up nor is it "fucking hilarious".
>Are you autistic? Or trying to bash the US while simultaneously being an idiot?
butthurt burger

>>31362074
>I swear I'm not making this up.
please post the story then, that's the idea of the thread

>>31362074
> but you'd think you would choose an actual spectacular failure, like for example this story that reeks of being either war time propaganda or just otherwise made up

Top kek

>>31361981
Not sure how this is hilarious. Only thing that is a fuck up is bad intel, but the plan worked out like they wanted it to anyways.

You want hilarious, all you have to do is look at Egypt's 777.

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>>31361981
If you insist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cottage

>>31362174
>Not sure how this is hilarious
>>31362074
>This is neither a particular fuck up nor is it "fucking hilarious".

>land in the heart of a hostile enemy country
>everything is going according to plan
>walk up to Objective
>it isn't fucking there

that's pretty funny.

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>>31362611

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>>31362086
It's not really a fuck up. A fuck up would've been finding out the "prisoner camp" was really a sewage facility or something.

Or the Russians killing dozens of people by suffocating them accidentally.

>>31363095
it was an intelligence fuck up you stupid mongoloid

>>31363053

Not really. The intel wasn't really even bad, just outdated by the time they initiated the operation. Furthermore, this sort of shit happens all the time, even outside of the US.
There are a plethora of other operations/wars that are infinitely more funny and interesting. OP is just a kid who gets entertained easily.
I'm gonna come up with a list of operations/wars that way better than the one you chose:

>Emu War
>Kettle war
>Operation cottage, where Allies invaded an empty Island with 35,000 troops and Killed 300 of their own soldiers in a firefight that never needed to occur
>German submarine U-1206, where a crew member flushed a toilet and effectively sank the craft

I agree with
>>31362074
this anon. I have nothing against roasting burgerfats, but the example you chose is absolute shit.

>TL;DR OP IS A FAG

>>31363053

>land in the heart of a hostile enemy country
>everything is going according to plan
>walk up to Objective
>it isn't fucking there
>kill some guards anyway
>take no casualties
>hilarious failure

Try harder, but. It isn't that funny.

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>>31361981
Possibly the worst tactical fuck-up in history that doesn't involve trying to invade Russia without adequate winter equipment.

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>>31363677
hue

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>>31363741
There is no evidence that ever happened.

It's likely made up for propaganda purposes, just like the story of Catherine the Great dying during an attempt to fuck a horse.

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>>31361981
>have literally everything in your favor
>still get horribly BTFO

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>>31361981
Never5get

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>this butthurts the vatnik

>>31363285
>outdated
>not bad

Dude, we're talking about people. Ok, a river might be "It was there 2 years ago, good nuff intel" but "This man was there 2 days ago" is nowhere near sufficient. It is a huge intel fuck up.

>>31363285
outdated intel is a subset of bad intel.

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>>31364326

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>>31362611
> (not present)

>>31363285
>German submarine U-1206, where a crew member flushed a toilet and effectively sank the craft

Wow. Pardon the pun, but that must've been a legit shitty way to go!

>>31361981
Whats ITT mean?

>>31367247
In This Thread

>>31362086
You'll have to do that work yourself senpai.

>>31362136
This post is intelligent and certainly refutes/confirms a previous post using trustworthy citations!

>>31363053
It's a war. Coherence was out the window from day one.

If you are going to bash the US find some of the real fuck ups.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_Point_disaster

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>>31367442
forgot pick
>take 14 brand new destroyers out for a leisurely peactime cruise
>lose 23 sailers, 7 of the destroyers and damage two others.

>>31367442
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exercise_Tiger

>rehearse your amphibious landing
>more people die during the exercise than on the beach

>>31367531
only the strong survive

>>31361981
unit 777

>>31363203
>itt operational fuckups
>it was an intelligence fuckup

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Do_Ab

>>31363285
>Killed 300 of their own soldiers in a firefight that never needed to occur
Most of the kills were from a DD hitting a sea mine.

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Soviets couldn't into Kharkov until the Germans withdrew at their own discretion.

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The Kholm Pocket was the name given for the encirclement of German troops by the Red Army around Kholm south of Leningrad, during World War II on the Eastern Front, from 23 January 1942 until 5 May 1942. A much larger pocket was simultaneously surrounded in Demyansk, about 100 km (62 mi) to the northeast. These were the results of German retreat following their defeat during the Battle of Moscow.

The air supply of Kholm and Demyansk, while successful, lead to an overconfidence in the German high command in regards to the Luftwaffe's ability to air supply encircled forces which would lead to disastrous consequences at the Battle of Stalingrad in late 1942 and early 1943.

At the small Kholm pocket, 5,500 German soldiers held it for 105 days. The pocket was supplied by air, but was too small for planes to land; therefore, supplies had to be dropped in and recovered by the German defenders. Among the airdropped supplies were 35 of the first 50 prototype MKb 42(H) rifles.