Comments by "Neil of Longbeck" (@neiloflongbeck5705) on "The Messerschmitt Me 264; Nazi Superfortress" video.

@Tiberiotertio short for gasoline. Remember petrol is the name of a solvent produced by Carless, Capel and Leonard. This solvent could also used as a fuel and bybthe time the original manufacturers came to trade mark their solvent's name it had become the generic name for a fuel for cars.
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The potential impact on support for the war amongst the American public should never be under estimated. The American public's reaction to Sputnik is a good example of this.
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@PalleRasmussen the fighters would be the long range maritime aircraft patrolling the seas off western France dealing with the German U-Boats. These would be the Beaufighters and Mosquitos, but they would have to spot the Me-264s visually. The Germans would have had to take Iceland off the Americans first to land there.
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@PalleRasmussen yes, it would have been too little, too late. Unless they had used weapons of mass destruction like one of the early nerve agents they had developed (they had created Sarin in 1938 and had tested it as a weapon in 1939, by the end of WW2 they had between 500kg and 10,000kg of the stuff, they also ended the war with 12,000 tonnes of tabun plus some soman) or a radiological bomb (a bomb that used conventional explosives to spread a radioactive material and not one like used on Hiroshima or Nagasaki).
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@PalleRasmussen but at that time we didn't have nerve agents, unlike the Germans. Both the Iraqis and the Iranians had WMDs and used them on each other during their war at the height of the Cold War. The Americans stockpiling gas in North Africa in WW2 brought stocks of German poison gas to Italy until someone realised the Americans were stockpiling gasoline. It's that easy to escalate an issues until someone make a mistake, such as portrayed in the film The Bedford Incident.
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@brettcoster4781 got a source for that?
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@brettcoster4781 thanks. I already knew the story of the discovery of sarin.
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@teacherdude depends on what each Me264 dropped. Standard bombs or nerve gas filled ones or even radioactive material filled bombs (not as nasty as a proper nuke but nasty enough). Might even be enough to revive isolationism in the US or to spur the total destruction of Germany.
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