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Old December 18th, 2007, 02:22 PM
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Default Re: The Graf Zepplin's effectiveness

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Originally Posted by TA152 View Post
... Bomb the US and land in Mexico and make their way back to Germany. If you can get B-25's off a carrier then you could get He-111 or Ju-88's off a carrier.
If they launch from a carrier would either of these planes have the range to reach Mexico? It's 1000+ miles from the Atlantic coast to Mexico mostly over the US. Also I suspect that the catapults would have made life interesting for the German bombers. The Germans used a cradle system not sure it would have even handled them.
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