Luftwaffe USAAF bomber rammers - April 1945 missions

[Liberator]

I am reading a book about the dying days of the Third Reich in Germany in WW2 and the Luftwaffe sought out desperate measures to stop the advance of the USAAF bombers.

The only really workable result was a plan to use lightly armed, lightweight BF-109F fighters to dive down and ram into the bomber formations hoping to take down hundreds of the USAAF aircraft in 1 mission thus forcing the USAAF to think about its bombing campaign.

Due to issues the force of Luftwaffe fighters was never large enough and tho some bombers were hit and crashed as a result, the overall mission failed.
The Luftwaffe tho planned for its aircraft crew to bail out just after the impact with the bomber's tail or elevators or wingtips, so they could hopefully survive.

Would this be called similar to Japanese Kamakazies?
A friend gave me this book and its the first ive heard of this Elbe"Kommando" mission.

New ME-262s were also used it seems in the mission overall and lost many aircraft.

Anyone have thoughts on such desperate measures?

[Jesse C.]

The History Chanel had a series called Dogfights and they did an episode on this subject. Check it out!

http://youtu.be/UifTLUJ3u4A