Messerschmitt Me 264 Amerikabomber
The Messerschmitt Me 264 was designed as part of the Luftwaffe’s Amerikabomber project, for a strategic bomber capable of bombing New York from bases in France or the Azores. Three prototypes were constructed, with only V1 RE+EN undergoing flight tests. The V2 and V3 were destroyed in bombing raids before they were complete.
A bombing raid on 18 July 1944 damaged V1, which was operating with Transportstaffel 5. It was not repaired.
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Messerschmitt Me 264 V1 after the port-side oleo leg collapsed at the end of its 17th test flight on 23 March 1943. 
Messerschmitt Me 264 undercarriage 
Messerschmitt Me 264 Close-up of two oxygen supply units in the fuselage compartment 
Messerschmitt Me 264 looking back through the fuselage from the cockpit 
Messerschmitt Me 264 Cockpit 
Messerschmitt Me 264 side fuselage wall
