Comments by "Sar Jim" (@sarjim4381) on "Amerika Bomber - The German Plan to Bomb New York" video.

  1. The Germans knew that aircraft carrying perhaps 4,000 to 6,000 pounds of conventional bombs could never mount more than nuisance raids against the US. The real plan was that atomic bombs would have been ready at the same time the Amerika bombers were proven and flying. As we saw with Japan, even a couple atomic bombs dropped on major American cities would have had a devastating effect. The bravery of several small teams of Norwegian commandos and resistance fighters, conducting enough sabotage attacks on the Vemork hydro/heavy water plant, made production grind to a halt by mid-1943. Attempts to transport the surviving heavy water supplies to Germany ended when another team of Norwegian commandos and fighters sank the ferry being used to transport the barrels of heavy water in February, 1944 in the deepest part of Lake Tinn. This put paid to German plans of constructing an atomic bomb, and removed any strategic reason for an Amerika bomber.
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  2. Little Jimmy, real life isn't a video game.
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  3. Little Jimmy, flying in a large formation would have made them more liable to be detected by radar, and detected further out. Given that New York City wasn't on high alert for enemy air attack, the first flight of however many aircraft the Germans could muster may have made it through. That would have been the end, however, as the US had more than enough aircraft, light aircraft carriers, early warning radar, and radar directed high altitude anti aircraft artillery by mid-1944 that it's unlikely any further aircraft would have made it through.
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