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Nope. Knowing what happened when the Japanese mounted a surprise attack on an explicitly military target, we can only imagine what the reaction of the US would have been to Germany bombing New York - even in token fashion - as an opener to making demands.Most of what is necessary for the US to wage WW2 is well beyond the reach of German bombers, and Germany can't produce enough bombers or send enough at once to do what's necessary to make even the Eastern Seaboard ports inoperable. Allied bombers were able to struggle home to be repaired or save their crews because it wasn't actually that long a trip back. Nursing a plane that's been damaged by flak or US fighter attack all the way back across the Atlantic is a whole different proposition, especially because at no time do you have the option to say "Okay, this isn't working, let's hit the silk and take our chances on the ground/accept captivity." If you bale out in mid-Atlantic, you drown.The problem is that the United States had those resources to spare.
Nope. Knowing what happened when the Japanese mounted a surprise attack on an explicitly military target, we can only imagine what the reaction of the US would have been to Germany bombing New York - even in token fashion - as an opener to making demands.
Most of what is necessary for the US to wage WW2 is well beyond the reach of German bombers, and Germany can't produce enough bombers or send enough at once to do what's necessary to make even the Eastern Seaboard ports inoperable. Allied bombers were able to struggle home to be repaired or save their crews because it wasn't actually that long a trip back. Nursing a plane that's been damaged by flak or US fighter attack all the way back across the Atlantic is a whole different proposition, especially because at no time do you have the option to say "Okay, this isn't working, let's hit the silk and take our chances on the ground/accept captivity." If you bale out in mid-Atlantic, you drown.
The problem is that the United States had those resources to spare.
