Amerika Bombers IV: a fist to stuff the mouth of arrogance across the sea
A wind tunnel model of the "Me 364." By the start of 1942, the development of Amerika bombers by the Third Reich had not produced many results. The most concrete development so far was the commissioning of a prototype, the Me 264. This was under construction - but lack of resources was making even construction of the initial prototypes painfully slow. As the Second World war expanded, so did the demands on the German aircraft industry. Not only did production numbers need to keep climbing, the Reich was now drafting experienced workers out of aircraft factories, creating a shortage of skilled labor. 1942 was also the year the dead raccoon under the Reich's procurement porch really began to stink. The Third Reich had pursued multiple strategies to get around the resources needed for strategic bombers - first, by trying to develop a heavy dive bomber in the form of the Heinkel 177. The second was a similarly ambitious project to develop next generation medium bom...