abstract:The Amerika-Bomber project was an initiative of the German Reichsluftfahrtministerium, to obtain a long-range strategic bomber for the Luftwaffe that would be capable of striking the continental United States from Germany, a distance of about . Though the concept was raised as early as 1938, plans for such advanced, long range strategic bomber designs did not begin to appear in Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring's offices until 1942.