The German advantage was particularly noticeable at the beginning of the war, and towards the end of the war, with a diverse series of innovative weapons, commonly referred to as German secret weapons by The Allies, and Wonder Weapons by the Germans. How the offloading of fuel from the ship or boat to shore was accomplished or how the trucks were filled is not known with any amount of certainty. The tops of the drums were stamped with a number of German words including the date 1943. The aircraft warning installations and anti-aircraft emplacements were also to be abandoned. Why did all the US Army generals visit this small camp and no other? One of the men who had a rudimentary use of English told my uncle they were Japanese, were testing soil samples for radioactivity, and had been left off in Mexico by submarine. "(source) 6, dated January, 1944. During World War II, Germany conducted an unsuccessful project to develop nuclear weapons. However, by the time the flight was to be put into motion the Azores had already fallen well within the sphere of the Allies and unavailable to the Axis. By then my uncle was wanting to beat a hasty retreat but before he could one of the men shot him in the back point blank. My uncle, after using the healing properties of indigenous plants he gathered up, soon found the man up and around. Sometime in the mid to late 1990s a scuba diver came across what appeared to be a radial aircraft engine laying on the seabed some distance off the cliffs from the Owls Head lighthouse and traced it along with other pieces of wreckage strewn across the sand back to the main body of the craft the engine and pieces apparently came from. Confirmation of this is that RC+DA displays the white North Africa service fuselage band used up to May 1945 by LTS.290. The next day his fellow artist went through his morgue and came up with a series of three or four pencil sketches he drew dated August 1943 of a huge six engine plane with a German insignia on the fuselage he saw flying by his high perch window one day in the sky over New York. Romersa (1917-2007) was the last known witness, at least to have come forward, to what he and some historians have said was the detonation of a Nazi nuclear device. As usual the Germans had a plan --- or at the very least an ace up their sleeve, no matter how unplayable it may have appeared on the surface. NOTE: If you go to the Gunson link above please note that two of his major areas of interest, and quite by coincidence by the way, match two of my areas of interest as well. They were able to free themselves but couldn't get out of the shed until someone came across them and let them out." Did he just happen to look up from his drawing table on the afternoon of August 28, 1943 and see the fly over of the six-engine Junker and simply incorporate them into his story published January 1944 as though they as a bomber were an everyday German plane? After North Korea announced a resumption of its nuclear program in 2009, former Finance Minister Shoichi Nakagawa gave a speech saying that Japan should develop nuclear weapons as a check, though the government condemned his statement. Confirmation of this is that RC+DA displays the white North Africa service fuselage band used up to May 1945 by LTS.290. By the end of the war the Germans were on the ropes and willing to try almost anything. At first he thought they were going to be made to get on the plane, but just short of doing so they were forced to their knees and he was sure he was going to be shot in back of the head. Marie canal had, as depicted above, a triangular shaped configuration of three interconnecting over 5,000 foot long concrete runways. The source for the majority of the airfield use by the German bomber is from a personal interview with an actual eyewitness to the event, a former airman doing routine guard duty the night the plane swept on to the base. As usual the Germans had a plan --- or at the very least an ace up their sleeve, no matter how unplayable it may have appeared on the surface. The existence of the Ju-390 over North Africa in November 1942 was not widely known even in the theater of operation and being kept a secret outside of it. At first he thought they were going to be made to get on the plane, but just short of doing so they were forced to their knees and he was sure he was going to be shot in back of the head. Before the year 1943 was half over the War Department ordered that by September 1st the entire Sault area contingent be reduced to less than 2,500 officers and men. The tops of the drums were stamped with a number of German words including the date 1943. It could not develop them as war-winning weapons, both because of the demands of … With a slight assist from a fellow artist in the same building the answer is yes. Because of the nature of the secrecy surrounding the plane, working there required me to obtain a confidential clearance. by. Soon, out of the dark a huge six engine bomber-like plane with a ton of wheels and later to be seen close up as being painted in a dark camouflage pattern with an iron cross insignia on the side of the fuselage, set down on the runway right in front of him hardly making a sound --- as if it was making an engines off landing. There are as well many comments, both pro and con, about the possibility of the photo being "photoshopped." The Soviet atomic program during the war was puny compared to the Manhattan Project, involving approximately twenty physicists and only a small number of staff. Here, troops in the 11th Airborne division watch an atomic explosion at … Interestingly enough, the exact same way Campbell was in on the U.S absconding with all kinds of German stuff related to the Nazi bomb that I have presented above, in a tit-for-tat duplication of the American efforts, except this time they got away with it, the Russians swept down on the Japanese test site in North Korea and took all the Japanese stuff, including their scientists, back to Russia before we could. In 1943 he was biosearching alone in the then largely uninhabited mountainous and desert-like terrain in the central section of New Mexico between the New Mexico and Arizona border on the west and the north-to-south flowing Rio Grande on the east when he came across two men, and unusually so, both Asian. The two other ships trailing behind immediately raised altitude beyond the range of the fighters and escaped. Approximately 150 U.S.non-strategicgravity B-61 warheads. In the end what I have presented about the German bomb being the first or not doesn't impact the overall thesis in what I have presented elsewhere about the American bomb being first. Kelly Johnson of the Lockheed Skunk works was his friend as well as Howard Hughes. Since nobody was excessively over interested in drawings done by some low level cartoonist, he just stuck them away in his morgue. With a few minor changes such as the tail section, from two vertical stabilizers to one, Ramsey used the same low level cartoonist's drawings for his own bomber inspiration. He could hear the engines start up and the plane begin to taxi, then it was gone. The Germans had a six engine bomber, the Ju-390, a model that was reportedly never seen before it was photographed by a person onboard a convoy ship supplying the beachhead during the Allied invasion of North Africa in November 1942, a photograph that didn't show up for public viewing until well after that date. Documents unearthed in an American archive suggest that Nazi Germany may have tested an operational nuclear bomb before the end of the Second World War. Even before the outbreak of war in 1939, a group of American scientists–many of them refugees from fascist regimes in Europe–became concerned with nuclear weapons research being conducted in Nazi Germany. That is to say, somewhere between the time it left wherever it left and it was to get to wherever it was going, it never arrived. Top-ranked generals and pilots from all over the world would come by to pay him homage. On my page, as part of what I present regarding the shoot out, I used the four pages. "This highlights perhaps the biggest difference between the German and American nuclear research programs. For example, during World War I, except for fate intervening they came close --- and their method for their planned attack was within reason. One day at lunch or over coffee or drinks, and still struggling with his dilemma to complete the story, he mentioned his bomber problem to a fellow artist who just happened to be a cartoonist drawing comics day-to-day for the same publishing company. According to the well researched work of Sy Gunson as so sourced at the end of this section and pretty well backed up elsewhere by others in their own research, the Ju-390 aircraft marked RC+DA was in fact attached to LTS.290 and was involved in the ferrying of freight to Tunisia in 1943. The … The first nuclear weapon was created by the United States of America during the Second World War and was developed to be used against the Axis powers. The United Kingdom started working in 1939, but it took too much money, so they gave up in 1942. The report was prepared by countless American and British intelligence officers and also includes the testimony of four German experts - two chemical physicists, a chemist and a missile expert. With Strasser dead and the L-70 gone the New York raid was shelved. Compared to a strict bombing run on New York and back, flying in over Canada and exiting directly out over the Empire State Building would put somewhere in the vicinity of 1,200 additional miles on a round trip flight --- meaning of course, ending up with a major fuel deficit of at least 2,400 miles returning to Europe. Because of the nature of the secrecy surrounding the plane, working there required me to obtain a confidential clearance. The difficulty most historians have with such a claim is that the Ju-390's first flight is officially stamped into the records as happening two months later, on October 20 1943. As soon as it emptied a second truck pulled up just as quick. The second one circulates around the Japanese setting off a nuclear weapon at a test facility in Japanese occupied North Korea within days of the Hiroshima bomb. RACO ARMY AIRFIELD, RACO MICHIGAN If so, why weren't they used? The publication unit for the comic book was based in the city of New York with the art work for that particular story attributed to a man named Harry Ramsey, of which below is one of the pages: "A copy of his photo of RC+DA was long held by the Museum in Vienna and published by German test pilot Hans Werner Lerche in his own autobiography. However, somewhere along the way, in or near the far reaches of Arctic Siberia, either while still on the train or after it had been transfered to vehicles, it disappeared. … How the offloading of fuel from the ship or boat to shore was accomplished or how the trucks were filled is not known with any amount of certainty. Home of … Some years prior to my uncle becoming my guardian he was biosearching in the back country of New Mexico not far from the top secret Los Alamos nuclear facilities when he came across some rather alarming Axis-induced fifth column activities, and having done so, being shot point blank by foreign operatives and left to die because of it. He was tied up and gagged and put with a couple of other G.I.s he knew that were also pulling guard duty, all closely watched over on the tarmac by a guy with a grease gun looking weapon. Notice the three engine tri-motor configuration, a big difference when compared to the six engine plane depicted by the artist. For example, during World War I, except for fate intervening they came close --- and their method for their planned attack was within reason. The publication unit for the comic book was based in the city of New York with the art work for that particular story attributed to a man named Harry Ramsey, of which below is one of the pages: Ramsey has done a fairly good job on his rendition of the P-40s, but note the German bombers --- they are all six-engine models. Like the Germans they were making strides, but just enough behind the U.S. efforts they were not able to use theirs first. If my uncle knew any more than what I have written up to this point he never revealed it to me in an out-and-out blatant fashion. The first five powers to join the atomic club also happen to be the United Nation Security Council’s permanent members with veto power. ", The above graphic depicts a JU-52, the type troop transport that was on the recipient or loosing end of P-40s during the 100 plane North Africa "Goose Shoot." World War II. As recently as 2014, anonymous statements from government officials confirm that Japan has “a bomb in the basement,” i.e. The truth is that National Socialist Germany could not possibly have built a weapon like the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima or Nagasaki. Evidence has surfaced in some quarters the attack would not have been conventional in nature either but possibly nuclear. The source for the majority of the airfield use by the German bomber is from a personal interview with an actual eyewitness to the event, a former airman doing routine guard duty the night the plane swept on to the base. The above graphic depicts a JU-52, the type troop transport that was on the recipient or loosing end of P-40s during the 100 plane North Africa "Goose Shoot." It has been reported that Luigi Romersa, an Italian correspondent during World War II, was personally dispatched by the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) to the island of Rugen to witness the weapons test. They took his truck and although they left him to bleed out he survived. I was in Germany after WW2 saw the destruction and smiled well you Germans started it, and we did a better job to Finish it A ship or a boat with fuel obtained or loaded in Canada from a mother ship would meet the trucks somewhere along the shore near the outlet of Pendills Creek offloading the fuel however difficult, albeit giving a direct easy access through the woods to the airfield. THE GHOST AND THE HAUNTED B-29 Document 22: Memorandum from … It was hoped for by the Germans that they could use the Azores as a refueling stop either coming or going or both. I have a page on the web called the P-40 Goose Shoot that describes an air battle that occurred over the southern Mediterranean and the coast of North Africa on April 18, 1943. Did he just happen to look up from his drawing table on the afternoon of August 28, 1943 and see the fly over of the six-engine Junker and simply incorporate them into his story published January 1944 as though they as a bomber were an everyday German plane? Before he had a chance to put the attack into motion, what was to be the lead ship, the L-70, was caught coming in over England at the low altitude --- for a Climber --- of around 17,000 feet and shot out of the sky with Stasser in command. The whereabouts of a handful are … About what she observed she has stated: "It was about 9:30 when I suddenly saw something ... it was as bright as hundreds of bolts of lightning, red on the inside and yellow on the outside, so bright you could've read the newspaper. He could hear the engines start up and the plane begin to taxi, then it was gone. By the end of 1944 there was only one company of men left at nearby Fort Brady. The aircraft would still be carrying some fuel when it set down, just not enough for a complete round trip, and knowing it would take thousands of gallons to top it off and, although there was a possibility the airfield had a store of aviation fuel somewhere, not wanting to take a chance the Germans wanted to ensure not only its availability but that the total control was under their own hand by not tipping their hand. The photograph of the JU-390 a few paragraphs above-back, said to have been taken from a convoy ship supplying the beachhead during Operation Torch, the Allied invasion of North Africa in late 1942. Hitler is pictured above The first nerve gas, tabun, was invented by the German researcher Gerhard Schrader in … Captain Alois Liethen was a U.S. Intelligence Officer assigned to Ohrdruf to investigate the camp for the military. At the time we were talking I didn't know the difference between one German bomber and the next, and for the most part still don't to this day. Both sites do however, involve my uncle with the first one also involving a man of some mystery by the name of William Lawrence Campbell (linked below), as well as the Russians, the Nazis and arctic Siberia. It's first test flight was well before October 20, 1943 which is asserted by authors Gunther & Ott. The following is fairly typical of what is found written about the sighting and photograph: "Interestingly the photo snapped of RC+DA was taken during an attack on a Malta Convoy in 1942, suggesting this aircraft was possibly operated by LTS.290 in North Africa. He could hear the engines start up and the plane begin to taxi, then it was gone. LTS.290 used a number of early Ju.290 prototypes and Ju.90 aircraft to ferry supplies to Tunisia in the closing stages of of the North Africa campaign. Depending where the plane lifted off, a round trip bombing run from somewhere in German occupied Europe, say Mont-de-Marsan near Bordeaux to New York as it has been reported and back during World War II, would have been in the 7,200 mile range. Soon, out of the dark a huge six engine bomber-like plane with a ton of wheels and later to be seen close up as being painted in a dark camouflage pattern with an iron cross insignia on the side of the fuselage, set down on the runway right in front of him hardly making a sound --- as if it was making an engines off landing. With a slight assist from a fellow artist in the same building the answer is yes. "The officials there told me we had to remain in the bunker for several hours because of the effects of the bomb. What was most intriguing for me was that when (Ramsey) was creating the drawings for the story neither did he. For years reports have surfaced that the next year, sometime around September 17-19, 1944, a large six engine aircraft painted very dark green and black paint crashed in the sea off Owls Head Lighthouse, Maine. As quick as the plane come to a stop than a tanker truck pulled up and started refueling it. … There is certainly now several sources which suggest they did have nuclear weapons. According to the well researched work of Sy Gunson as so sourced at the end of this section and pretty well backed up elsewhere by others in their own research, the Ju-390 aircraft marked RC+DA was in fact attached to LTS.290 and was involved in the ferrying of freight to Tunisia in 1943. One of men was flat on his back all but unconscious and visibly quite ill after apparently having been bitten by a rattlesnake with the bite being left untreated. As to any standing military use or dis-use of the airfield during the time period refered to for the German black ops refueling of the Ju-390, the following has been adapted and presented here from the much longer multi-page article so cited: They were able to free themselves but couldn't get out of the shed until someone came across them and let them out." The newer Height Climbers had even greater range. A USN Intelligence report in June 1945 asserts the Japanese already had full performance details for the Ju-390 by October 1943. The aircraft warning installations and anti-aircraft emplacements were also to be abandoned. Hoover Dam was another thing. Gunson states it is not a photo montage at all. He could hear the engines start up and the plane begin to taxi, then it was gone. A USN Intelligence report in June 1945 asserts the Japanese already had full performance details for the Ju-390 by October 1943. Spicer, press briefing, April 11: We didn’t use chemical weapons in World War II. That air battle involved 46 P-40s shooting down a fleet of 100 fully loaded German Junker troop transports flying just above sea level escorted by 50 Messerschmitt fighters, apparently all fleeing Tunisia in a concerted last ditch effort to reach Sicily. Today, Japan's nuclear energy infrastructure makes it capable of constructing nuclear weapons at will. That would make the Ju-390 coming up short by at least 1,200 miles, running out of fuel someplace over the north Atlantic on its return unless it was refueled somewhere, somehow along the way. Since nobody was excessively over interested in drawings done by some low level cartoonist, he just stuck them away in his morgue. Now, the question is, is any, all, or none of the above true or not. The aircraft would still be carrying some fuel when it set down, just not enough for a complete round trip, and knowing it would take thousands of gallons to top it off and, although there was a possibility the airfield had a store of aviation fuel somewhere, not wanting to take a chance the Germans wanted to ensure not only its availability but that the total control was under their own hand by not tipping their hand. RACO ARMY AIRFIELD, RACO MICHIGAN Because of that clearance I met a person called "Harry the Man," who, at that time was considered to be the top-rated high altitude breathing equipment specialist in the world. The plan was to use the airfield for a refueling stop. Evidence has surfaced in some quarters the attack would not have been conventional in nature either but possibly nuclear. One of the witnesses states he saw one body in a uniform later identified as a German Luftwaffe Signal Corps Uniform, (grey-blue with yellow/brown collar tabs). 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