Luftwaffe over America : the secret plans to bomb the United States in World War II / Manfried Griehl ; translated by Geoffrey Brooks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Griehl, Manfred.

Contributor:

Brooks, Geoffrey.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations, German.

World War, 1939-1945.

World War, 1939-1945--Technology.

Aeronautics, Military--Technological innovations--Germany--History--20th century.

Aeronautics, Military.

Aeronautics, Military--Technological innovations.

History.

Germany.

Physical Description:

256 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Secret plans to bomb the United States in World War II

Secret plans to bomb the United States in World War Two

Secret plans to bomb the United States in World War 2

Place of Publication:

London : Greenhill Books ; Mechanicsburg, PA : Stackpole Books, 2004.

Summary:

The plans that Nazi Germany had to raid - and bomb - New York and the eastern seaboard are revealed in this book. They were based on the use of transoceanic aircraft planes, such as the six-engined Ju 390, Me 264 or Ta 400, but the Third Reich was unable to produce such machines in sufficient numbers. If the Soviet Union had been conquered, however, these plans would have become a reality. With the seizure of vital resources from the Soviet Union the Wehrmacht would have had enough fuel and material to mass-produce giant bomber aircraft: it was a near-run thing. The collapse of the Wehrmacht infrastructure and the end of the Thousand-Year Reich ensured that plans for long-range remote-controlled missiles never got off the drawing board and were never manufactured. Manfried Griehl makes it clear that until the collapse, numerous secret research laboratories seemed to have worked in parallel seeking nuclear power and explosives.

ISBN:

185367608X

OCLC:

56454796