[Closed] interesting story......

Interesting news so is the tooth fairy, Santa Claus, Wall Street, Banks and politicians. Did I leave anything out ??

Even with my limited knowledge, it's not difficult to shoot holes in this fabrication.

I only need to say this:
Heavy Water technology the path Germany took towards nuclear: Fail.
Nuclear Fission the method of construction used by the US for the first successful nuclear weapon: Pass.

This story requires us to believe more than a couple of JU-390s were built....

.....and that Germany was successful is fully developing a 'fission' weapon. One of my favorite reads ever is 'The Making of the Atomic Bomb', a well researched, Pulitzer-winning book by Richard Rhodes. Germany's progress towards a nuclear weapon is covered in the book, and it is clear that Germany did not succeed. The best reference I have on the JU-390 is Willam Green's 'Warplanes of the Second World War, Volume Ten, Bombers and Reconnaissance Aircraft' (long out of print) which states the preproduction JU-390 V1 and V2 were the only two examples of the type completed. The JU-390 V2 did make an operational evaluation flight from Mont de Marsan in France to a point about a dozen miles from New York before returning to its base. The range of a JU-390 production variant without bomb load was estimated at just over 6,000 miles. Worth noting is that another long-range bomber design, the ME-264 would have had a range of around 9,300 miles based on the manufacturer's calculated figures. Clearly, Germany was thinking about how best to strike the United States from the air. I have not yet found any corroboration of the details the story gives on the crash near Owls Head, Maine. If anyone can dig up any related factual information on that I'd love to learn it.

JU 390

Interesting that it did in deed go that close to N.Y. and that the ME could have reached N.Y..

PIX Germany did have a four engined bomber quite early in the war. This was the FW-200 Condor, originaly designed and built for Lufthansa as an airliner. The Condor could fly to the United States east coast, but why would they and for what purpose when there was ever only conventional bombs? Surely, Britain would have been the more logical target for a nuclear attack? That brave little island was where the war in Europe was being conducted from.

Instead the Condor was used in Maritime patrol with a special focus on the PQ shipping convoys supplying war materials to Russia through the ports of Murmansk and Archangel.

Besides, even the USAAF B29 a far superior aircraft to any bomber fielded by the axis powers at the time had to be stripped out for the long flight from Tinian in the Marianas to Hiroshima and Nagasaki carrying just one nuclear bomb and extra gas to deliver the bomb to its target and return via China, I believe, for refueling.
Sorry, I'm just running from memory here.

FW 200 Condor.
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