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Aphrodite and Anvil were the World War II code names of United States Army Air Forces and United States Navy operations to use B-17 and PB4Y bombers as precision-guided munitions against bunkers and other hardened/reinforced enemy facilities such as those targeted during Operation Crossbow.The plan called for B-17 aircraft which had been taken out of operational service – various nicknames existed such as robot baby drone or weary Willy – to be loaded to capacity with explosives and flown by radio control into bomb-resistant fortifications such as German U-boat pens and V-weapon sites.
