Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction xi
Chapter 1 Before There Was a Hitler 1
Winterarbeiten 1
Confrontation at Manila 5
The Great War Invasion Plan 6
Chapter 2 Adolf Hitler, America, and the World 10
A Product of the Great War 11
Underestimating America 12
Hitler's View of the United States 13
Fuhrer of the World 16
Chapter 3 The Plan to Bomb America 19
The Man with the Plan 20
"Tasks for Long-Range Aircraft" 22
Chapter 4 The Race to Build the America Bomber 39
"Chuck a Few Bombs at Them" 39
General Wever and the Uralbomber 44
The Race for the Bomber 49
Messerschmitt-Me 264 51
Junkers-Ju 390 57
Heinkel-He 277 60
Focke-Wulf-Ta 400 62
Horten Brothers-Ho 18 64
Chapter 5 Family Ties 65
The Birthplace of the Missile 66
The Luftwaffe's V-1 70
From Buzz Bombs to Loons 74
The Wehrmacht's V-2 78
Making a Missile Intercontinental 83
America Rockets at the Death Factory 87
Mission Aphrodite 90
From Peenemunde to Midway 92
Chapter 6 U-boats to America 95
Drumbeat and Pastorius 100
Towing Missiles to America 104
From U-511 to Operation Teardrop 109
Chapter 7 Target: New York City 117
The Symbolic City 117
The Piggyback Bomber 119
The U-Boat Fuel Bridge 121
The Great Mystery Flight 123
Attack from the Azores 126
Chapter 8 Dr. Sanger's Space Bomber 130
A Man before His Time 130
The Silverbird Bomber 132
Chapter 9 Invasion from the South 137
Looking for a Soft Underbelly 138
America Stands Firm 140
Rubber Plan: The Invasion of Brazil 142
Chapter 10 Italy Targets New York 148
Pigs to New York City 148
Midget Subs up the Hudson 157
"Special Flights" to New York 160
Chapter 11 Why They Failed 164
The Incomplete Air Force 165
Squandered Resources 166
Notes 168
Bibliography 179
Index 185
About the Author 196
