Stukas over Panama?
In addition during 1943 plans were hatched to fly two Ju-87B stukas from St Martin Cay near Nicaragua to bomb the Panama canal. These were to be taken there by U-boat.
I read this--on this very forum I believe--a fair wee while ago while hunting around Google for information on the V2's planned intercontinental succesor, and found it intriguing. Very reminiscent of the limited sub-launched Japanese floatplane ops against the American West Coast!
https://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=109947
u-boat with airplane mounted on it
<HTML>There are vague references to \"Operation Pelican\" whereby two were to be dissembled and stowed aboard two U-boats for transportation to the Caribbean, reassembly (where?) and a planned attack on the Panama Canal in Erich Gimpel\'s excellent book \"Spy for Germany\". Never heard of the attack on oil fields. Maybe the plans were related?
https://uboat.net/forums/read.php?3,7463,7473
In addition during 1943 plans were hatched to fly two Ju-87B stukas from St Martin Cay near Nicaragua to bomb the Panama canal. These were to be taken there by U-boat.
I read this--on this very forum I believe--a fair wee while ago while hunting around Google for information on the V2's planned intercontinental succesor, and found it intriguing. Very reminiscent of the limited sub-launched Japanese floatplane ops against the American West Coast!
https://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=109947
u-boat with airplane mounted on it
<HTML>There are vague references to \"Operation Pelican\" whereby two were to be dissembled and stowed aboard two U-boats for transportation to the Caribbean, reassembly (where?) and a planned attack on the Panama Canal in Erich Gimpel\'s excellent book \"Spy for Germany\". Never heard of the attack on oil fields. Maybe the plans were related?
https://uboat.net/forums/read.php?3,7463,7473