{"id":22544664,"date":"2026-09-15T15:41:41","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T13:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/messerschmitt-me-264-amerikabomber-new-york\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T15:42:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T13:42:06","slug":"messerschmitt-me-264-amerikabomber-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/es\/messerschmitt-me-264-amerikabomber-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Me 264 Amerikabomber: The Aircraft Built to Bomb New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\r\n\r\n<p>On 23 December 1942 a very large four-engined aeroplane with a glazed nose and twin fins lifted off from Augsburg. It had bunk beds in the fuselage and a galley with hot plates, because the flight it was designed for would take the best part of a day.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The destination it was designed for was New York.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>It never got closer to America than a German airfield, and it never carried a single bomb.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f5f5f5;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:20px 22px;margin:24px 0\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 10px;font-weight:700;font-size:17px;color:#222\">Quick Facts<\/p><table style=\"width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:15px;line-height:1.6\"><tr><td style=\"padding:4px 12px 4px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>Aircraft<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:4px 0;color:#222\">Messerschmitt Me 264, Amerikabomber contender<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:4px 12px 4px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>First flight<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:4px 0;color:#222\">23 December 1942, prototype V1, code RE+EN<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:4px 12px 4px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>Engines<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:4px 0;color:#222\">Four Junkers Jumo 211J, about 1,340 PS each; later four BMW 801G radials of 1,750 PS<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:4px 12px 4px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>Crew<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:4px 0;color:#222\">Eight, with bunk beds and a galley<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:4px 12px 4px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>Wingspan<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:4px 0;color:#222\">43.00 m; maximum take-off weight 56,001 kg<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:4px 12px 4px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>Range<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:4px 0;color:#222\">About 15,000 km at 333 km\/h; 3,000 kg of bombs at 14,400 km, or 6,000 kg at 8,600 km<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:4px 12px 4px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>Built<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:4px 0;color:#222\">Three airframes; only the V1 is recorded as having flown<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:4px 12px 4px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>Competition winner<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:4px 0;color:#222\">Junkers Ju 390<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:4px 12px 4px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>Cancelled<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:4px 0;color:#222\">Development stopped October 1943; project formally closed 23 September 1944<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:4px 12px 4px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>Fate<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:4px 0;color:#222\">All three destroyed in Allied bombing, the V1 and V3 in the same raid on 18 July 1944<\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The idea came from the top, and it came early<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>The Amerikabomber was not a late-war fantasy dreamed up in a bunker. The concept was raised in 1938, the same year a Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor of Deutsche Luft Hansa flew direct from Berlin to New York.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7\"><em>&ldquo;I completely lack the bombers capable of round-trip flights to New York with a 4.5-tonne bomb load. I would be extremely happy to possess such a bomber, which would at last stuff the mouth of arrogance across the sea.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Hermann Goring<\/strong> &mdash; Speech of 8 July 1938, as quoted in James P. Duffy, <em>Target America<\/em><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Hitler&rsquo;s interest was less strategic and more lurid. Albert Speer, writing in <em>Spandau: The Secret Diaries<\/em>, recorded what Hitler used to describe.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #d32f2f;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7\"><em>&ldquo;He described the skyscrapers being turned into gigantic burning torches, collapsing onto one another, the glow of the exploding city illuminating the dark sky.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Albert Speer<\/strong> &mdash; <em>Spandau: The Secret Diaries<\/em>, as reported by The New York Times, 31 August 1975<\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The practical obstacle was arithmetic. Bombing New York and coming home meant a combat radius of about 11,680 km with no refuelling. The longest-ranged German aircraft actually flown during the war, the Me 261 Adolfine, managed around 11,025 km in total.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Hence the Azores. Hitler repeatedly came back to the Portuguese islands as, in his words, the &ldquo;only possibility of carrying out aerial attacks from a land base against the United States&rdquo;. Salazar let German U-boats refuel there until 1943, when he leased bases to the British instead, and the idea died.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n1pTSMPQ8r0\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">What Messerschmitt actually built<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>The Me 264 was a clean-sheet design and it looked the part: high wing, 43 metres of span, four engines, tricycle undercarriage, and the stepless fully glazed nose that German designers loved and Allied ones never adopted.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Six prototypes were ordered in early 1941. Three were built. The V1 flew on 23 December 1942 on Jumo 211J engines, which were not powerful enough, and was re-engined with BMW 801G radials in late 1943.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/09\/messerschmitt-me-264-v1-test-flight.jpg\" alt=\"The Messerschmitt Me 264 V1 on a test flight\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">The Me 264 V1 airborne. It flew with no guns and no armour fitted, which flattered its performance considerably. Photo: Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The numbers that killed it are in the wing loading. At roughly 356 kg per square metre, the Me 264 was more heavily loaded than a B-29 at 337 and far worse than the Ju 390 at 209. That meant poor climb, poor manoeuvrability and high take-off and landing speeds, in an aircraft that would have needed to carry guns and armour it had never flown with.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The verdict that mattered came in 1942 from Generalmajor Eccard von Gablenz, asked by Erhard Milch to assess the options. His conclusion was that the Me 264 could not be usefully equipped for a genuine transatlantic bombing mission, but would make a decent very-long-range maritime patrol aircraft working with U-boats off the American coast.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The plan itself still exists<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>The Amerikabomber plan was completed on 27 April 1942 and handed to Goring on 12 May. It ran to 33 pages, ten copies were made, and a copy was later found in Potsdam by the historian Olaf Groehler.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>It lists 21 targets. Nineteen in the United States, one in Vancouver, one in Greenland. Almost all of them are factories feeding the American aircraft industry: Pratt &amp; Whitney and Hamilton Standard in Connecticut, Sperry Gyroscope in Brooklyn, Bausch &amp; Lomb in Rochester, Curtiss-Wright in Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey, Alcoa&rsquo;s aluminium plants, a cryolite refinery in Pittsburgh and the cryolite mine at Arsuk in Greenland that supplied it.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>That last pairing tells you the plan was written by people who understood industrial warfare. It also tells you they were planning to bomb an aluminium supply chain from six thousand kilometres away with an aircraft that did not exist.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/09\/junkers-ju-390-abandoned-airfield.jpg\" alt=\"An abandoned Junkers Ju 390 with its propellers removed\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">The Ju 390, which beat the Me 264 for the Amerikabomber role and got no further. Two were built. Photo: Imperial War Museum via Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The one that involved a submarine<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>Among the schemes considered was a Huckepack arrangement: a Heinkel He 177 would carry a Dornier Do 217 fitted with a ramjet as far across the Atlantic as it could, then release it. For the Do 217 crew it was a one-way trip. They would bomb their target, ditch off the east coast, and be collected by a waiting U-boat.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>It was abandoned on 21 August 1942, and the reason is recorded in the diary of Air Staff General Kreipe: the Kriegsmarine could not supply a submarine to pick up the aircrew. The navy and the air force would not cooperate, and the plan died of inter-service politics rather than physics.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8hWLp0g7jYk\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The myth worth killing<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>Several post-war authors claimed that the second Junkers Ju 390 flew a transatlantic reconnaissance mission in early 1944, coming within about 20 kilometres of the north-eastern United States.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>It did not happen. The Ju 390 V2 never flew at all. The story has been thoroughly discredited, and it persists mainly because it is a better story than the truth.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The truth is that the Amerikabomber project produced five prototypes across two designs, no operational aircraft, and a target list. All three Me 264s were destroyed by Allied bombing, two of them in the same raid on 18 July 1944, by which time the V1 had been reduced to flying transport tasks for Transportstaffel 5.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9NXx5_Ns7GE\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Germany could not build a reliable combat aero engine above about 2,000 horsepower, had no central authority coordinating advanced weapons, and was losing the fuel and the factories it needed. On 23 July 1943, the day the Heinkel firm was asked to propose a six-engined He 277, the United States Army Air Forces signed a letter of intent for the first hundred Convair B-36s.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>One of those two programmes produced an aircraft that could cross an ocean with a bomb load. It was not the German one.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<style>.mfq{margin:34px 0 8px}.mfq h2{font:26px\/1.3 \"Gilroy semiBold\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#0d1117;padding-top:22px;margin:0 0 6px}.mfq .qa details{border-top:1px solid #5C91FF;margin:0;padding:0}.mfq .qa details:last-of-type{border-bottom:1px solid #e2e7ee}.mfq .qa summary{cursor:pointer;list-style:none;display:flex;justify-content:space-between;align-items:center;gap:16px;padding:22px 26px;font:18px\/1.7 \"Gilroy semiBold\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#0d1117}.mfq .qa summary::-webkit-details-marker{display:none}.mfq .qa summary::after{content:\"+\";font:24px Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#3568e0;flex:0 0 auto}.mfq .qa details[open] summary::after{content:\"\\2013\"}.mfq .qa details:hover summary{color:#3568e0}.mfq .qa .a{font:16px\/1.7 \"Gilroy regular\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#454e5e;padding:0 26px 24px}.mfq .qa .a a{color:#3568e0}@media(max-width:680px){.mfq .qa summary{padding:18px 14px;font-size:17px}.mfq .qa .a{padding:0 14px 20px}}<\/style>\r\n\r\n\r\n<section class=\"mfq\"><h2>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h2><div class=\"qa\"><details open><summary>What was the Messerschmitt Me 264?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">The Me 264 was a four-engined long-range bomber designed to reach the United States from Europe, Messerschmitt&rsquo;s entry in the Luftwaffe&rsquo;s Amerikabomber project. It had a 43-metre wingspan, a stepless glazed nose, twin tail fins, tricycle landing gear, and a crew of eight with bunk beds and a galley with hot plates for the very long flights intended.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Did the Me 264 ever fly?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">One of them did. The V1 prototype first flew on 23 December 1942 on four Junkers Jumo 211J engines, later replaced by four BMW 801G radials. Three airframes were built in total, but there is no record of the V2 flying and the V3 was never finished.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Could the Me 264 have actually bombed New York?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Almost certainly not as a bomber. Its stated range of about 15,000 km was achievable only with a light load; a meaningful bomb load cut the range sharply. Generalmajor Eccard von Gablenz assessed in 1942 that the Me 264 could not be usefully equipped for a genuine transatlantic bombing mission from Europe, though he thought it would suit very long-range maritime patrol alongside U-boats off the American east coast.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Why did the Me 264 lose the Amerikabomber competition?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">The Junkers Ju 390 was selected instead, largely because it reused Ju 290 components and was therefore quicker and cheaper to build. The Luftwaffe also came to prefer the Focke-Wulf Ta 400 and Heinkel He 277 by May 1943, and the Kriegsmarine lost interest the same year. Erhard Milch cancelled development in October 1943 and the project was formally closed on 23 September 1944.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Did a German aircraft ever fly close to New York?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">No. Several post-war authors claimed that the second Junkers Ju 390 flew within about 20 km of the north-eastern United States in early 1944, but the claim has been discredited: the Ju 390 V2 never flew at all.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>What were the Amerikabomber targets?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">The 33-page plan submitted to Goring on 12 May 1942 listed 21 targets, nineteen in the United States, one in Vancouver and one in Greenland. Almost all were factories supplying the American aircraft industry: Pratt &amp; Whitney and Hamilton Standard in Connecticut, Sperry Gyroscope in Brooklyn, Bausch &amp; Lomb in Rochester, Curtiss-Wright plants in three states, Alcoa&rsquo;s aluminium works and a cryolite mine in Greenland.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>What happened to the three Me 264s?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">None survived the war. The V2 was destroyed in a bombing raid in late 1943. The V1, by then attached to Transportstaffel 5, was damaged in an Allied raid on 18 July 1944 and never repaired, and the unfinished V3 was destroyed in the same attack.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Was there a six-engined version?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Only on paper. Messerschmitt drew an Me 264B with a 47.5-metre wingspan and six BMW 801E radials, a response to Germany&rsquo;s chronic inability to produce reliable combat engines of over about 2,000 hp. It was never built, and neither was the equivalent six-engined He 277 proposal.<\/div><\/details><\/div><\/section>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@type\":\"FAQPage\",\"mainEntity\":[{\"@type\":\"Question\",\"name\":\"What was the Messerschmitt Me 264?\",\"acceptedAnswer\":{\"@type\":\"Answer\",\"text\":\"The Me 264 was a four-engined long-range bomber designed to reach the United States from Europe, Messerschmitt\u2019s entry in the Luftwaffe\u2019s Amerikabomber project. It had a 43-metre wingspan, a stepless glazed nose, twin tail fins, tricycle landing gear, and a crew of eight with bunk beds and a galley with hot plates for the very long flights intended.\"}},{\"@type\":\"Question\",\"name\":\"Did the Me 264 ever fly?\",\"acceptedAnswer\":{\"@type\":\"Answer\",\"text\":\"One of them did. The V1 prototype first flew on 23 December 1942 on four Junkers Jumo 211J engines, later replaced by four BMW 801G radials. 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