Hitler's Amerika Bomber - How Germany Almost Reached America 

I know, right!

1,000 year Reich! Laughs in Russian: "almost"

@@-Zevin- At least we tried and had the courage. It took not less than the whole world to bring us down. What about the russian party in Afghanistan? Wasn`t a big win, was it?

@@pesthizid Take your literal Nazi apologetics somewhere else. Disgusting. Also what an incredible comparison, the Russian party of Afghanistan? You are considering that an equal failure as compared to the Germans loosing WW2 and getting 8 million of their own people killed in the process?

@@-Zevin- I don`t apologize, for what, i have no reason. But i strucked the cord. Russians laughing about germans, afghanis laughing about russians, i`m laughing about you. Btw. Stalin killed a lot more of his own people than little shitler did.

Hitler did actually order a viability study into whether a V2 could be fired from modified U Boats off the US coast. As far as I'm aware, it didn't get past the drawing board.

@@Brian-om2hh Watch a bit of Mark Felton do we? :)

He would've loved most current mayors of major American cities, frankly, especially the antisemitic one in New York.

@@BaseDeltaZero1972 Not as such. I have a fairly small but informative collection of books here, some of which I think are now out of print. One in particular deals with the last few months of the Nazis plans to attempt an attack on the US, New York in particular. A few schemes and plans were considered, one of which was to launch V1's or V2's from submarines. Not that easy, as you might imagine. The Germans did shell the Eastern US coast from U Boats though, along with sinking some coastal shipping.

If Hitler had an obsession with seeing US cities destroyed the Me 264 would have been funded. It wasn’t. The Me 264 V1 with Jumo 211 engines flew in 1941, it languished with insufficient hangers space, draughtsman and engineers being provided by Erhardt Milch. The Me 262 V2 with BMW 801 would have had the range to reach the east coast but lightly armed. It was fast at 340mph and suitable for reconnaissance and perhaps a nighttime mine laying raid or the occasional nuisance raid at night. The takeoff run was a probelm, nearly 2500m of sealed runway was needed. It wasn’t till 1945 till the DB603H with 2400hp or DB603L would have allowed heavy remote controlled canon armament and a descent takeoff run, range and bomb load. If they were serious the Luftwaffe would have funded the Me 264/6m, a 6 engine stretch (also known as the Me 364) , which could have done the job with plain Jumo 211 engines as early as 1942/43 with the range, takeoff, bomb load and armament (b24 liberator Style tail turret with twin 20mm guns). The reality is the Germans, including Hitler, didn’t put the money into it. Goering flatly told American journalists before the war that the idea of bombing the USA was absurd due to the costs, the minimal effect and the provocation it would be seen as by America.

lol no, they knew it was possible, they just thought theyd be able to overcome any issues with air superiority, which they did, until they lost their air superiority, even then, from the start till the very end, they were occupied with preventing and then attacking allied bombing runs. in fact, they were more prepared for air attacks than they were ground attacks, they turned their 88 flak into an anti tank gun, not the other way around.

"Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning." - Erwin Rommel

I mean they didn't do too bad considering they were fighting half the world at the same time.

@RDLONG500 @Michael F

@RDLONG500 "they" were outnumbered 5:1 whats your point?

xD

LOL

Thanks Cheggy: I was wondering where I could get my hands on one of them. I would just take it on a joy ride, looks like New York has destroyed itself, no real bombers needed, ha ha!

@@argumasch663 The bomber existed, but Felton does not say it reached NYC- he say there is a hotly disputed claim about that. Anecdotal evidence, but no documents, including squadron logs, support that.

@@argumasch663 nice! love mark felton videos :D

Germans had 3 operational Junkers JU390’s stripped down and loaded with extra fuel which had enough range to get from Europe to South America; I’m not sure about air defenses and such but they could and did do it (flight to New York & South America).

A lot of variables. Considering German engineering, it’s not really out of question. As for the aaa and defensive capabilities of their targets, that’s just war games.

They were lucky to have never attacked America's homeland. U see what happened with Japan for hitting Pearl Harbor.. how much worse do you think America would have taken revenge on Germany

@@eddyheredia8194 I understand your thinking but I don't think it was relevant to the situation. Hitler didn't make any sense in his strategy to attack both the Eastern & Western fronts....as well as Africa. I don't think retaliation meant anything to him.

If 911 is any indication of our air defense, they more than likely would have bombed us.

Actually, there wouldn't have been enough room for HIM :)

@@thorerikkarlsen plenty of room, in the bomb bay. New York would have been destroyed completly with one Göring. The ultimate G-Bomb

Goering was a very rotund man. He looks like a character from a Mel Brooks movie. Lol.

Sure you’re joking… what about his opium paraphernalia? 😁

LMFAO

Fun fact, when the western Allie’s captured him they put him on a strict diet and a rehab program so he would live to be at Nuremberg, but he committed self forever sleep :/

@D R He didnt get executed

@D R Goering was cremated after his execution, ashes scattered in order for neo-nazis not to make his grave a martyr place.

Make sure they don't operate when it's raining.

You will need to spend a lot of time on the OBD2 scanner killing all the warning codes lol

I have an old BMW aircraft engine from 1939. Doesn’t work tho. It also has almost the entire back half missing. Including most of the cylinders.

I think that they were as big of assholes in the sky as they were on the road.

These were made in Germany!

That was, I believe, the code name of the project while it was being developed.

@Hi-Fidude66 there never was an “Amerikabomber” project, that’s just more made up bullshit that the allies concocted to villainize the Germans in the eyes of the American public.

@@redbluesome2829 I'm afraid you are misinformed. Prototypes were built by the companies who were competing for the contract, but both shortages of materials and supplies, brought about by the advancing allied army, brought the project to a halt. Photographs of both the construction and flight testing do exist. There was little need to villanize the Nazis. They managed that quite successfully unaided............

Hitler’s, before the war.... Armored train was called “Amerika”

Rammstein should use it as a name for an album, maybe including a cover of the MOTORHEAD classic 'Bomber'

Was also never referred to as the America bomb......

Was that the 2-stage V-2 rocket? I heard there were plans for a longer range rocket to smack places like New York, Boston and Buffalo.

@@hawkeyeten2450 the v2 was not designed to reach the US, and the A-9 wasn't called the america bomb, but the america rocket. Duh.

Yeah, but it would be their best choice to make one that could.

@@thomashaeyen6942 The A9 would have worked, eventually, but there was major work to complete in guidance. The Germans had the beginning of inertial navigation in platforms such as SG-66 with schuler loop tuning and radio becon navigation but a lot of work. They had an option for a manned version with the pilot parachuting out.

Lol yeeeees

Fckin German bias

@Prestallar they have a way too low br

@@hansthegermansoldier7550 They’re doesn’t exist any Bias

@@noelblack8159 bruh I mean seriously twin mustang in rank 4???

Are you serious? Any so-called "Amerika bomber" would have been detected and intercepted over the Atlantic Ocean and blown out of the sky before it ever got to the coast of America.

It appears some people haven't crawled out from under their rock for a decade or so. Captain America: The First Avenger

Everyone r/woosh

@@DEPARTMENTOFREDUNDANCYDEPT are you special? Or do you live under a rock? Imma go with both

Ken Kaneki “Imma go with both?” Really? Is English your second language or do you just make up words? I’m not “special” but it seems you might be, as in “Special Education” and “short bus!” You need a better hobby than annoying adults on the Internet with silly, inarticulate, meaningless questions.

This guy is high on something.

@@Frank119811 Mr.bigbrain he meant the range of the bomber was so close for reaching the US

@@apple222sickly Almost reached means. . . wait for it. . .ALMOST REACHED! None of the few prototypes ever came to the production stage, and anecdotes don't prove anyone ever came close to "reaching" the US, even with prototype patrol aircraft, much less with a non-existent Nazi nuke. . .The title is way overexaggerated, but hey, it got our attention, didn't it?

@@paulcrumley9756 Even tho i was jugging you have really good points

I'm not saying it was Nazis...... But it was Nazis!

For a bot

Nah, Hitler knew the limitations of Germany. He wasn't even that enthusiastic about attacking Britain.

If he hadn’t invaded Russia it might have been a different outcome. Luckily he was foolish enough to think he could defend two fronts.

The problem with this kind of statement is that it assumes everyone would have sat back and watched without doing anything themselves. Which is a pretty lazy way of looking at things. Let us take Britain for example, what do you think Britain would have done had Hitler instituted the Z Plan for the Kreigsmarine? You think that a nation that lived and died on the strength of its Navy would have done NOTHING? Not by a long shot! They would have enacted the escalation clause of the Naval Treatie and started an expansion of the Royal Navy, including the planned N3 and G3 Battlecruiser and battleships. They would have massively expanded their destroyer program to include far, far more Tribal Class, and give the timescale may have brought in the Battle and Daring Class by the start of a 1946 war. Unlike Germany, Britain had the Naval Construction infrastructure required to comprehensively outbuild the proposed Z Plan in both quantity and quality. Then you have the Royal Air Force, which by a start date of 1946 would be seeing aircraft such as the de Haviland Hornet, the Hawker Fury, and other late war aircraft designs entering service at the start of the war. As for the army, the mid war saw the major problem with British Tank design solved, lack of a decent engine, with the advent of the Meteor engine, a de rated merlin specifically designed for tanks. That led by 1944 to the Comet, and by 1945 the first Centurions were entering service, albeit with the 17 pounder rather than the planned 20 pounder. You see the problem? Fact is other nations would NOT have stood idly by and watched Hitler ramp up his forces to the extent he had planned. They WOULD have reacted. The Royal Navy had literally decided that 1944 - 1946 was the most likely period for a major war to start and had plans for a full 12 Fleet Carriers and fully replacing all current RN Battleships with modern designs by 1945. Not to mention a quadrupling of the Tribal Destroyer Force from 28 to over a hundred of those superb ships.

austin1839 - The arms race and Hitler's insistence on autarky, both set in stone, meant the timetable was forced on Hitler. Things would have REALLY been impossible (but reallygood for everyone else) had Hitler waited.

@@greenmtroamer33 There was no waiting. If the russians invaded Romania to take the oil fields the germans would of lost before the battle even began. He stayed neutral in finnish war for guaranteeing the soviets wouldn't invade romania.

The B-29 came first.

@@apis_aculei I meant it as a joke because the cockpit looked similar

@@packr72 fun fact good to know

The Me 264 was basically a failed strategic bomber prototype and development program. The B-29 gave some serious headaches, but the experience and supporting industry was there - Boeing had already brought into service the B-17 (in 1938).

Goeing G-29 Süpër-förtrëss

Oh, and the XB-19 had the coolest nickname; The Hemisphere Defender.

And yet it's technology has been continued to bring people to the moon

-The V2 was not more expensive than the B-29 or atomic bomb project. As a percentage of military expenditure however it was about the same proportion but still 15% or so the cost since German military expenditures were much less. The V2 would have been a success within about 6 months. It was launched using the interim LEV-3 system that offered a CEP accuracy of 4.5km. However the SG-66 system with a stable platform and additional cross range accelerometer was testing and designed to achieve an accuracy of 500M CEP. There was a beam riding system called vollzirkel that should have achieved 300m CEP and the winged A4b with accuracy of 80m using "Wasserspiegel" radar guidance. -The numbers are also misleading. The Most V2 that were built were never launched and costs were going down from 16000 hours per missile to 4000 hours. -It has to be remembered a V2 didn't require a crew of 7-10 that was trained at great expensive of which half would die. The V2 didn't require escort fighters. The V2 didn't require an airfield that needed defending. The V2 didn't require a ground crew bigger than the air crew. -The Germans could produce 6-7 V2 for the same cost as producing a Lancaster but they could operate the V2 for much cheaper than the Lancaster. The 20 ground, air and airfield crew needed to keep an telecaster operating provide enough man hours in themselves to produce a V2 every month. -The other thing is the Lancaster or B-17 couldn't operate over over German except in large numbers to saturate German defenses and even then needed escorts. There is no way Germany could put 500 aircraft and 500 escorts over the UK. They could put 1000-4000 V2 a month.

Well, this episode is sheer speculation and failed to impress me. I will be wary of future productions from this outfit.

Nah, he was pretty spot on

John Techwriter except for the part of about fascination of burning cities

Dragomir Ronilac Not Really. It was a totally real event that was close to happening. If the Japanese had reached the US pacific coast and had even sent men to bombard it, It won’t give me a hard time to believe this videos title.

uh wot he has a PhD on history I think

I don't think the BV-238 had the range. 4110 miles is only half the range needed and refueling a flying boat in the middle of the Atlantic not realistically possible due to both weather and allied patrols.

Such a tense staccato speech pattern is quite off putting. Take a break ! relax.

@David Parry Should have called it Russia then.

He later changed its name to "Trainy McTrainface"

Was it wunderbar?

Yes

*yes*

How has somebody already liked my reply to this comment

lol

It's a robot.

As an aside to this, one-third of American fighter production came from Long Island (Grumman, Republic.) Plus the air bases in the NE and the fighters being shuttled to Europe via Canada and Iceland..

Pearl Harbour is near Singapore and was being used by the USA as a major pacific navel base. Not sure if America and Japan had even declared war on each other when Pearl Harbour was attacked. One of the more sensible Japanese leaders is reported to have said (of the attack) we have awakened a sleeping giant. It all ended with atomic bombs being dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

@@BryanBurdettTOTbox Pearl Harbour is 18299 nautical miles from Singapore! Scarcely near! Japan did declare war - after the attack had started! The US replied soon after. It was Admiral Yamamoto who made that famous quote.

Ikr if Hawaii wasn't a State there would have been no way the Japanese could've reached us at least not without running out of Fuel lol

The Me 264 is unlikely to have worked despite good speed and performance. It would have been able to lay mines and make the occasional night raid using ground mapping radar. In general it would need to attack in numbers of several hundred in order to saturate American defenses. It would be quite difficult to keep 500+ aircraft operational. -By 1945 it would have had 2400hp DB603H engines of 2400hp with a speed something like 420 mph but that would simply not have been enough.

Sounds interesting . Thanks

Fitting name

Had Hitler kept his agreement with Stalin and directed the Nazis towards America, can you imagine the havoc they would have caused?

Very important information. Totally would have never known

A slowing of the delivery would also help. It is improving though👍 Mind you, I would probably be shit at making a RU-vid video😂👍👍

thats kinda his thing

Yes. It was predicated on the idea that Britain could fall and the US would have to bomb Europe from North American bases.

Wasn't the B 36 built in case Britian fell and we had to bomb Germany from the US?

@@franktreppiedi2208 Yup. It was to be our first transatlantic bomber. But WWII was over before it was ready for the Air Corps. It did manage to come into its own in the early years of the Cold War.

The XB-15 and XB-19 were started and completed well before the Me 264 and could have bombed Europe from at least Labrador. The Me 264 was started after the American Lend Lease Act was signed. Both the B-29 and B-36 program started before the Me 264.

The winner writes history... and things are then quite one sided afterwards.. remember... power corrupts all things.. including the truth

A facist have a mental breakdown in Berlín city

@@DerUfo the first proper historian (Thucydides) was on the losing side. In fact if you look beyond that cheap throw away line you'll see it's not really the case at all. Eg. How many Germans wrote books after the war.

Could of sworn it would of been Churchill and FDR. Anyone remember Dresden? The allies COMPLETLY LEVELED Germany. Hitler didn't want any of this. People need to read what the leaders wrote, and watch the speeches instead of being told by people who weren't there. Even Churchill said "the air opened paths along which death and terror could be carried far behind the lines of the actual enemy; to women, children, the aged, the sick, who in earlier struggles would perforce have been left untouched" - The Great War Vol 3. Page 1602 Many more quotes as well. People need to realize the truth.

Hitler also liked to watch films of political prisoners being hanged.

They didn't understand the UFO tech at the time, it worked like magic..

Holy sh*t!!!

the Amerika bomber was very true

Joseph Heaney - What would it have done?

@@coachhannah2403 I know , but they were close to developing their own weapons of mass destruction with a bomber that could deliver them

Joseph Heaney - What WMD might that be? And, no, they were nowhere close to developing, let alone producing, the Amerika.

@@coachhannah2403 well, the Third Reich did try to develop its own nuclear weapons, using dideuteriumoxide, or heavy water, from the Hydro-plant in Norway.

@Mark Gaiennie Yep! What I wrote here is only a small percentage of the people I grew up with. Today, most of these people has passed away.

Actually this came first so the b29 would be the American B29 ahhaha

design follows function

@@aljayrankin8353 i guess it is the americaN bomber then?

@@aljayrankin8353 Came first? The XB-29 flew first and was already in production before the 264 flew. The B-29 was ready for combat first too.

Bjørn Nordgarden it was posted a minute ago

@@weirdbritishperson9542 still great tho

Yea I was just saying sorry

@RoughneckMP didn't they tested with an radar that was obsolete by 1942?

besides, the test was with a fully wood model, the actual aircraft would be less stealth due of the steel components

@@marrvynswillames4975 Perhaps... But if the Germans had more time and resources they probably could have worked around that somehow. Its Germany for cryin' out loud.

The Germans had. a real talent for drawing cool-looking airplanes.

Also a great read-Luftwaffe Over Americ by Manfred Griehl

three more words. . . "and mass-produced." It would take hundreds if not thousands of these dream machines to "reach" the US. A significant percentage likely would have simply crashed into the North Atlantic from glitches in the newly introduced technical stuff; another large percentage would have had to fight their way through the coastal defenses, and if the US could produce enough fighters to use in Europe, diverting a small percentage to homeland defense would have been trivial.

@@paulcrumley9756 Yes, and after the first attack with 10 of the 24 bombers dispatched getting to the target and having managed to drop a combined 20 tons of bombs, many of which would have exploded, over the greater NYC metropolitan area, any future raids would have been met with swarms of Corsairs and Hellcats from hastily-redeployed escort carriers starting about 1,500 miles offshore and shot into the Atlantic in droves. That's assuming the Germans had the capability to produce hundreds of bombers, which they didn't, or to provide them with trained aircrew, which they couldn't, or to provide the fuel for them, which they couldn't either. Several of these prototypes were destroyed in Allied air attacks; why would anyone think they could produce a strategically important bombing force unmolested? They'd be bombed into dust.

@@modelm77 Yep, it would have been an ineffective one-and-done. Besides starting a genocidal, unjustified war of aggression upon millions of innocent people, the second mistake was expending one's air force with insufficient resources to replace in the Battle of Britain in 1940. Putin is experiencing a similar fate with his tank army in the Ukraine. "Where are my T-90's!?"

Someone in Germany actually did the math Figured the cost of materials and fuel and potential damage then came to the conclusion that shorter range bombers gave them a better return on investment

And of course getting back! Cheers!

Now thats alota damage! Of course it would have been way to easy to shoot down over the atlantic

A lot of these imaginary planes have spectacular specifications. They take the same horsepower as a B-29 and purport to fly a heavier plane further, higher and faster with a heavier payload, as if they had the ability to produce those powerful engines or scrounge up the fuel to fly them.

Well, it had to land and be refueled, hadn't it?

Zerzayar yes, but some people were so fanatic, they would have died if „necessary“

Cool. Now turn around and fly back after having carried 4,000 lbs of bombs on the outward journey.

All the “Dark” series are awesome, “Dark Skies” and “Dark footage” are my favorites...

This

Trump Super Majority 2020 yes... I wonder that constantly... they do a very good job at staying “dark”

It's not real clear but with aircraft it normally refers to the mounting position of the wing.

The Me264 was a LOT smaller than the B29 . It was never a feasible transatlantic bomber .

same

Amerika ist wunderbar.

@@senorpepper3405 nein

@@senorpepper3405 America is underbar

@@laurencethornblade1195 Ist es nicht unterbar? Ich denke. Das ist der text zum lied.

Horten 229?.. Horten 229.. oh you mean the prototype for Jack Northrop's YB-49 and the B-2. Yup!

@@puremaga17 no he means Ho 229 you stoopid freeaboo

@@farmazoniarz Joking sarcasm sometimes does not come across via text.. just like your post.. But how the heck did you know I was a freeaboo.. that's classified 😜

When you writing an essay like: