Amerika Bomber: Me-264, Ta-400 and others

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He177 pilot Peter Brill born 1924, d.2013 gave a public lecture in Spain in 2005 about the Amerika bomber conversion of an He177 with wings grafted from the abandoned Me. 264 project and DB613 engines producing 3,800hp. Referred to as having 11,100km (5,993nm) range.

The DB 613 was abandoned long before the Me 264 was. In fact, further development of the He 177 was abandoned before the Me 264 though not by a wide margin.
And 11,100km was regarded by the RLM as insufficient for the America mission.
According to deZeng and Stankey's Luftwaffe Officer Career Summaries https://www.ww2.dk/lwoffz.html, Brill's DOB was in June 1924 - which would make him barely 20 years old when the He 177 and Me 264 were cancelled. Also, he appears to have had no connection to the RLM nor any staff posting which might have given him access to what were, at the time, top secret documents. He ended the war as a leutnant and his only posting appears to have been to a fighter unit - JG 77 - rather then a bomber unit.
I would hazard a guess that he read this information somewhere in a postwar article.