HITLER part 6 "super weapons"

One day after the German retreat begins, the Japanese attacked the American fleet at Pearl Harbor. Hitler is surprised, he is been trying unsuccessfully to convince Japan to attack Russia from the rear. Four days later on Dec 11 1941. Hitler declared war on America. America's vast resources are now mobilized to defeat Nazi Germany as well as Japan. Hitler's act also set a two stage front land war. Something that German military doctrine must never be allowed to happen. With in a year American bomber from England started bombing Germany. In June 1944 America and Britain invade the continent and drive inland sticking a significant blow on German morale. In the first three months after D-day. Germany loses one and a quarter million men on the western and eastern fronts. By fall after a costly American and Allied victories American troops enter Germany from the west and Russian forces from the east. As the war turns to Germany a desperate Hitler calls for a miracle weapon to save the Third Reich.The ironic fact is that he had this on his finger tips...This part of the story is the amazing one and few people today knew this...It was the Messerschmitt Me 262 the first operational jet fighter. It could fly a 159 miles faster than the allied fastest fighters, three times faster than the B 17 bombers . The luftwaffe (Germany air force) founds what he need after all new fighters so fast and so powerful it can ignore American fighter escorts and shoot down American bombers. With this ME 262 German pilots plead they can stop Americas daylight bombing. But Hitler want a weapon for attack not for defense and he says no. Forbidden to use, the super planes might stop American bombers. The A's (Germany Pilots) rebel and they are fired. The German A's are not Nazi. under military rule German soldiers must not belong with a political party, they are highly disciplined warriors and even the thought of mutiny is extraordinary. The German pilots is so eager to use the plane that they risk their life to be shoot by the SS. Before the battle of Britain the A's are victorious they conquered territories in Europe and now their cities are bomb by the Americans. Finally Hitler allow to form a single squadron of jet fighters but most of the pilots are colonel, majors or a highly decorated. Their mission is to avoid or not be allowed their cities of being destroyed. But engine problems prevented the aircraft from further operational status. And the lack of fuel also reduced the effectiveness of the aircraft as a fighting force. The end of ME 262 had a negligible impact on the coarse of the war due to its late introduction and the small numbers that were deployed in operational service.

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