Challange -> Buzz Bomb US

I stepped out my Door this morning and a little Piper Cub was Droneing across over head.
As soon as I heard It --I thought Buzz Booomb, [I think I'm spending to much time on this Site]

?So How can whe have Buzz Bomb Attacks on the US.?

Bonus points if the US also uses them, against the Axis.
 
Its more realistic then using a V-2 to attack America.

I'm not sure if the German's built any of those submarines that wanted to be an aircraft carrier like the Japanese did. (carried three float planes (wings folded of course) in a hanger on the deck). If they did, load a few V-1's and wield on a launch rail.

The hard part is actually HITTING something worth the effort instead of causing a crater in some poor bastards plot of dirt. (i.e. coming down in New York, Boston or Washington rather than Joe Smoe's favorite fishing pond in the Middle of Nowhere)

As for hitting a specific target smaller than a city, you can forget about it.
 
I had this thought one time along such lines. Italy had a plane to bomb the US using modified SM.79's to land on water and submarines designed to simply refuel the planes along the trip over the atlantic.

Now assume they wanted a lot of bang for their buck and tried to place a V-1, or a guided bomb underneath. So ten or more planes fly over and when 100 miles from the coast they set off the missiles and head back home. Now do this a few times and its not a America ending action, but it will create a pretty good panic, and pull back some resources from Europe for a few months to a year.
 

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Yes V-1s were launched from He-111 when the launch ramps in France were overrun . It wouldn't be to hard to attach them to a long range plane.

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Subs like the Surcouf and X1, or the laid down but cancelled Type XI uboat could have come in to their own as V1 launchers, since they were useless for everything else.
 
Yes V-1s were launched from He-111 when the launch ramps in France were overrun . It wouldn't be to hard to attach them to a long range plane.

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Well, yea, but the idea is to hit a target like New York, Washington, or Boston; not Edinburgh (sp?) or Glasgow. The German's didn't have any (operational) planes with long enough ranges to get near the American East Coast except maybe a seaplane that was refueled via U-boats a half dozen times on the way in
 
A German version of the Japanese Aircarft Carrier Sub sounds good, or a long range aircraft. However do the Nazis have any aircraft that can reach the Eastern Seabord?
 
The V1 could be launched off one of the larger subs (Type IX, etc) with enough engineering work on designing a waterproof container, but it would really degrade performance, and the V1 can't hit much of anything anyway, since you need to launch well off from the target to avoid being sunk by the USN. The closest thing to this would be the submarine-launched V2s, which seem fairly plausible for a napkinwaffe.
 
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