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Amerika Bomber
The Amerika-Bomber project was an initiative of the German ''Reichsluftfahrtministerium'' to obtain a long-range strategic bomber for the ''Luftwaffe'' that would be capable of striking the contiguous United States from Germany, a distance of about . The concept was raised as early as 1938, but advanced, cogent plans for such a long-range strategic bomber design did not begin to appear in ''Reichsmarschall'' Hermann Göring's offices until early 1942. Various proposals were put forward, including using it to deliver an atomic bomb (which Germany ultimately never developed), but they were all eventually abandoned as too expensive, and potentially consuming far too much of Germany's rapidly diminishing aviation production capacity after 1942.
==Background==
According to Albert Speer's book, ''Spandau: The Secret Diaries'', Adolf Hitler was fascinated with the idea of New York City in flames. In 1937, Willy Messerschmitt hoped to win a lucrative contract by showing Hitler a prototype of the Messerschmitt Me 264 that was being designed to reach North America from Europe.〔Elke Frenzel (Hitler's Unfulfilled Dream of a New York in Flames ) ''Der Spiegel'' 16 September 2010〕 On 8 July 1938, barely two years after the death of Germany's main strategic bombing advocate, ''Generalleutnant'' Walter Wever, and eight months after the Reich Air Ministry awarded the contract for the design of the Heinkel He 177, Germany's only operational heavy bomber during the war years, the Luftwaffe's commander-in-chief Hermann Göring gave a speech saying, "I completely lack the bombers capable of round-trip flights to New York with a 4.5-tonne bomb load. I would be extremely happy to possess such a bomber, which would at last stuff the mouth of arrogance across the sea."〔 Canadian historian Holger H. Herwig claims the plan started as a result of discussions by Hitler in November 1940 and May 1941 when he stated his need to "deploy long-range bombers against American cities from the Azores." Due to their location, he thought the Portuguese Azores islands were Germany's "only possibility of carrying out aerial attacks from a land base against the United States."〔Duffy 2006 〕 At the time, Portuguese Prime Minister Salazar had allowed German U-boats and navy ships to refuel there, but from 1943 onwards, he leased bases in the Azores to the British, allowing the Allies to provide aerial coverage in the middle of the Atlantic.
Requests for designs, at various stages during the war, were made to the major German aircraft manufacturers (Messerschmitt, Junkers, Focke-Wulf and the Horten Brothers) early in World War II, coinciding with the passage of the Destroyers for Bases Agreement between the United States and the United Kingdom in September 1940. Heinkel's bid for the project had occurred sometime shortly after February 1943, by which time the RLM had issued the Heinkel firm the airframe type number ''8-277'' for what essentially became its entry.
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