Did Luftwaffe Really Fly Over Mainland U.S.?

The U.S. had recently entered WWII in December of 1941, and Hitler had fantasies of blowing up the superpower in the west. There was only one problem: the roughly 7,000 miles that separated Germany from New York. Hermann Göring asked top German aerospace engineers for a long-range heavy bomber that could manage the transatlantic flight. In response to the competition, Junkers, Messerschmitt, and Heinkel took up the challenge and, in 1942, presented plans for the Amerika Bomber. Although there are debates about the veracity of the evidence, there are reasons to believe that the bomber may have secretly flown to the U.S.