Talk:ramrod
Latest comment: 3 years ago by Equinox in topic Ramrod as WWII code name
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Also a type of car? edit
Seen in Stephen King's Needful Things: "Nope, but you can't miss the car. Puke-green Dodge Challenger — what the kids call a ramrod." Equinox ◑ 18:16, 17 December 2019 (UTC)
Ramrod as WWII code name edit
I've removed this sense because it's capitalised (Ramrod) and seems to be a mission/operation code rather than a general-purpose dictionary word: "(military) A World War II code name for short range fighter and bomber attacks to destroy ground targets, similar to circus attacks."
- 2004, Mark Zuehlke, Juno Beach: Canada's D-Day Victory June 6, 1944
- To force the Luftwaffe into battle while simultaneously crippling northwest Europe's rail system, the size and pace of Ramrod missions was stepped up. These missions sent bombers, heavily protected by fighters, against important ground targets that the Germans could not easily allow to be destroyed.