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359. What was meant was probably the Me 210, which the Luftwaffe planned to introduce in 1940. The schedule was continually put back because of technical problems, and the model was ultimately abandoned. Rüdiger Kosin, Die Entwicklung der deutschen Jagdflugzeuge (Bonn: Bernard & Graefe, 1990), pp. 135–38.

360. SRA 117, 12 June 1940, TNA, WO 208/4118.

361. SRA 117, 12 June 1940, TNA, WO 208/4118.

362. SRA 3273, 16 October 1942, TNA, WO 208/4128.

363. SRA 3069, 30 August 1942, TNA, WO 208/4127.

364. SRA 4516, 11 September 1943, TNA, WO 208/4131. The stories refer to the He 219.

365. SRA 3069, 30 August 1942, TNA, WO 208/4127.

366. SRA 3307, 26 October 1942, TNA, WO 208/4128.

367. SRA 3943, 13 April 1943, TNA, WO 208/4130. In December 1941, a private spoke of having seen the He 177, the aircraft that was supposed to fly to America. SRA 2371, 6 December 1941, TNA/WO 208/4126. See also SRA 5545, 29 July 1944, TNA, WO 208/4134. See also Room Conversation, Krumkühler–Wolff, 26 August 1944, NARA, Entry 179, Box 566. The talk there is also of an aircraft supposedly to be used to drop propaganda leaflets on New York. Navy Lieutenant Josef Bröhl of U-432 spoke of a jet plane that would be used for the leaflet mission. SRN 1629, 11 April 1943, TNA, WO 208/4145.

368. See Karl Kössler and Günther Ott, Die großen Dessauer: Die Geschichte einer Flugzeugfamilie (Planegg: Aviatic-Verlag GmbH, 1993), pp. 103–5.

369. Peter Herde, Der Japanflug: Planungen und Verwirklichung einer Flugverbindung zwischen den Achsenmächten und Japan, 1942–1945 (Stuttgart: Steiner, 2000).

370. SRA 3950, 17 April 1943, TNA, WO 208/4130.

371. SRA 2992, 12 August 1942, TNA, WO 208/4127.

372. SRA 3465, 30 December 1942, TNA, WO 208/4128, mentions the principle behind the flying missile Me 163.

373. SRA 4235, 20 July 1943, TNA, WO 208/4130.

374. SRA 4709, 15 December 1943, TNA, WO 208/4132.

375. SRA 4880, 27 January 1944, TNA, WO 208/4132.

376. SRA 5114, 29 March 1944, TNA, WO 208/4133.

377. Ibid.

378. SRA 5531, 26 July 1944, TNA, WO 208/4134.

379. SRA 5456, 15 July 1944, TNA, WO 208/4134.

380. SRA 5732, 15 January 1945, TNA, WO 208/4135.

381. Jeffrey L. Ethell and Alfred Price, Deutsche Düsenflugzeuge im Kampfeinsatz, 1944/45 (Stuttgart: Motorbuch, 1981), p. 70ff.

382. Ralf Blank, “Kriegsalltag und Luftkrieg an der ‘Heimatfront,’” in Das Deutsche Reich und der Zweite Weltkrieg, Vol. 9/1, pp. 433–36. See also Heinz Dieter Hölsken, Die V-Waffen: Entstehung, Propaganda, Kriegseinsatz (Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1984); Ralf Schabel, Die Illusion der Wunderwaffen: Die Rolle der Düsenflugzeuge und Flugabwehrraketen in der Rüstungspolitik des Dritten Reiches (Munich: Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 1994).

383. SRN 1559, 25 March 1943, TNA, WO 208/4145.

384. SRN 1622, 11 April 1943, TNA, WO 208/4145.

385. SRN 1986, 25 July 1943, TNA, WO 208/4146.

386. SRX 1532, 24 January 1943, TNA, WO 208/4162.

387. SRM 263, 27 October 1943, TNA, WO 208/4137.

388. SRX 1617, 11 March 1943, TNA, WO 208/4162.

389. SRN 2989, 3 March 1944, TNA, WO 208/4149; SRN 3379, 20 April 1944, TNA, WO 208/4151.

390. SRM 601, 25 June 1944, TNA, WO 208/4138; SRM 655, 18 July 1944, TNA, WO 208/4138.

391. SRM 263, 27 October 1943; SRM 291, 9 November 1943, TNA, WO 208/4137; SRN 2636, 4 January 1944, TNA, WO 208/4148; SRM 499, 21 March 1944, TNA, WO 208/4138; SRM 680, 26 July 1944, TNA, WO 208/4138; SRA 5199, 27 April 1944, TNA, WO 208/4133.

392. SRM 639, 8 July 1944, TNA, WO 208/4138.

393. SRM 491, 14 March 1944, TNA, WO 208/4138.

394. SRN 2851, 25 January 1944, TNA, WO 208/4149.

395. SRA 5196, 25 April 1944, TNA, WO 208/4133.

396. Hölsken, Die V-Waffen, p. 131ff.

397. Ibid., p. 103.

398. Ibid., p. 104ff.

399. Ibid., p. 109.

400. SRN 3922, 8 July 1944, TNA, WO 208/4153.

401. For example, Otto Elfeldt (SRGG 988, 24 August 1944, TNA, WO 208/4168) and Erwin Menny, Tagebuchblätter aus der Gefangenschaft, BA/MA, N 267/4.

402. SRM 655, 18 July 1944, TNA, WO 208/4138.

403. SRM 847, 30 August 1944, TNA, WO 208/4139. See also SRM 960, 10 October 1944, TNA, WO 208/4139; SRM 1077, 29 November 1944, TNA WO 208/4139; SRX 2075, 29 December 1944, TNA, WO 208/4164.

404. SRN 4130, 16 August 1944, TNA, WO 208/4155.

405. SRX 2048, 4 November 1944, TNA, WO 208/4164. See also SRN 4031, 4 August 1944, TNA, WO 208/4154. A V2 had the explosive capacity of two to three thousand bombs.

406. Lieutenant Borbonus of SS Junkerschule in Bad Tölz refers to such a speech by Hitler. SRM 914, 20 September 1944, TNA, WO 208/4139.