1. #11
    Huh, I'd never heard of Morrison Field, which was an air base in Palm Beach County, Florida (where I grew up) and was a major departure point for bombers being across the Atlantic such as B-25's to Russia and B-29's to India and China. I had no idea.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morrison_Field
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    Hmmm, could've worked only if Britain had been conqured. As I see it, even cut off and surrounded British Naval and Air power would've cut Nazi supply lines, disrupted communications and basically wrought hob with any air or sea armada to the States. Also that kind of invasion would require great communication and coordination. Germany wouldn't have an England to base and gather it's invasion forces, no "Channel Dash". As they learned in North Africa and Stalingrad, an untenable supply line is no supply line.

    Also, who says the Russians would "stay put" while this was going on? They'd have to get some combat ready Divisions from the Eastern Front. Sure most Russian counterattacks in '42 were outright disaster's but they were learning and rearming quickly. Well, while a nice mental exercise, we're armed with 20/20 hindsight. I'm sure this article looked a lot more plausible in 1942.

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    Its no coincidence these routes coincide with the weather patterns.
    I'm less familiar with water currents, but that would also be a big factor for fleets.
    You might decide the shortest route is not always the quickest route by sea or air.

    My grandpa was on B-17s and in his notes he mentions the effect of winds on one of his missions.
    It made getting to the target easier than returning in some cases. He mentions flying into a 80-100 mph head wind, reducing ground speed to a mere 80mph.

    An attack from the North by Germany would be going against both wind and sea currents.
    The more ideal route would be the one shown from North West Africa to the Eastern US.


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    waffen-79's Avatar Senior Member
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    Is Cool viewing those old maps and all but it's totally faked, and it'd never work...

    because that wasn't "ze plan"
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    Obviously there was no such plan even the wildest daydreams of the most fanatic Nazis, but it was an important part of FDR's domestic PR to gear the unwilling American population towards entering the war. From the hindsight these propanganda stunts look almost bizarre, IIRC once they even published a 'secret Nazi plan for World domination' in the newspapers, which had various parts of the globe, and of course the US littered with little Nazi flags, as proof that America is in danger.. In the hindsight, he was not the last President create a false threat to drive that country into war that the President saw beneficial
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    Instead of "Invasion of America 1942" I thought you meant "Invasion of America 1492".
    When Columbus discovered America.
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    The "Nazi Invasion Threat" looks pretty comical in hindsight, but must have seemed real at the time.

    If anything, the Japanese threat had more credibility, as they had proven that they could reach out across thousands of miles, and strike at will.

    The Germans had a hard time even sailing to Crete.
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