History, Politics And Current Affairs

Nachtmahr or Nightmare has an incredibly good ring to it, and is utterly suitable for a surprise strike plane upsetting careful plans and balances. From a morphological or semiotic point of view, it is balanced with two four letter sections centring on long As split up by a harsh T, and that is something visceral and evocative in its own right.

Nightmare Squadron.

As a title, again to use the words of Todd Howard, it just works.

Consider it locked in for a short story, and potentially use down the line in the event of…stuff happening…

You'll hear no complaints from me.
Years and years ago, a poster on althist.com produced a Finlandwank timeline which had the - I kid you not - 666th bomber squadron of the Ilmavoimat (whom I designed the squadron crest for...you can imagine what it looked like ), an absolute elite outfit, kill Stalin during the May Day Parade - or was it the anniversary of the October Revolution? - on the iconic balcony observing the parade.
Would that designation (666th Special Tactics Wing/Taktisches Luftwaffengeschwader zbV 666, nicknamed the Nightmare squadron) be a step too far?
The base could be just off the Harz mountains with its witchcraft connotations (look up the myths of the Harz's highest mountain, the Brocken (which means chunk or lump in modern German). If you got it, milk it, right?

The whole 666 designation and witchcraft angle might not work in a world where witches are real life horrors and dangerous to life and soul to boot, rather than simply illustrative imagery; I would imagine that in this case, getting such a designation past the German cabinet when the Chancellor is an actual paladin might be a bit of a stretch!

I do like the idea of a secret underground mountain air base, but the occult connotations of the Brocken might be a bit too much again; the Sonnenberg provides a bit more shelter and distance without the issues of the name.