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Target America : Hitler's plan to attack the United States / James P. Duffy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Duffy, James P., 1941-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1939-1945--Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--United States.
- Military weapons--Germany--History--20th century.
- Airplanes, Military--Germany--History--20th century.
- Airplanes, Military.
- History.
- Military weapons.
- Germany.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 178 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2004.
- Contents:
- 1 Before There was a Hitler 1
- Winterarbeiten 1
- Confrontation at Manila 4
- The Great War Invasion Plan 6
- 2 Adolf Hitler, America, and the World 9
- A Product of the Great War 10
- Underestimating America 11
- Hitler's View of the United States 12
- Fuhrer of the World 15
- 3 The Plan to Bomb America 17
- The Man with the Plan 18
- "Tasks for Long-Range Aircraft" 20
- 4 The Race to Build the America Bomber 37
- "Chuck a Few Bombs at Them" 37
- General Wever and the Uralbomber 41
- The Race for the Bomber 46
- Messerschmitt
- Me 264 47
- Junkers
- Ju 390 53
- Heinkel
- He 277 56
- Focke-Wulf
- Ta 400 58
- Horten Brothers
- Ho 18 59
- 5 Rockets, Missiles, and the Nazi Icbm 61
- The Birthplace of the Missile 62
- The Luftwaffe's V-1 65
- From Buzz Bombs to Loons 69
- The Wehrmacht's V-2 72
- Making a Missile Intercontinental 77
- America Rockets at the Death Factory 81
- Mission Aphrodite 83
- From Peenemunde to Midway 85
- 6 U-Boats to America 87
- Drumbeat and Pastorius 91
- Towing Missiles to America 95
- From U-511 to Operation Teardrop 99
- 7 Target: New York City 107
- The Symbolic City 107
- The Piggyback Bomber 109
- The U-Boat Fuel Bridge 110
- The Great Mystery Flight 112
- Attack from the Azores 115
- 8 Dr. Sanger's Space Bomber 119
- A Man before His Time 119
- The Silverbird Bomber 121
- 9 Invasion from the South 125
- Looking for a Soft Underbelly 126
- America Stands Firm 128
- Rubber Plan: The Invasion of Brazil 130
- 10 Italy Targets New York 135
- Pigs to New York City 135
- Midget Subs up the Hudson 143
- "Special Flights" to New York 145
- 11 Why They Failed 149
- The Incomplete Air Force 150
- Squandered Resources 151.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [165]-170) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0275966844
- OCLC:
- 53476807
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