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Originally Posted by JCFalkenbergIII
And how would you suggest that the Germans would have gotten sufficient or ANY "modern weapons" in enough numbers to Latin America? The German Mechant ships? And What would the US Navy be doing?
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I can see few possibilites, which are long bets.
1. German special ops. With the active support of a South American government large numbers of German agents and sabatouers get into the US. Historically the German effort at this was lame and most agents captured. To actually do any stratigic damage it would have required many hundreds of 'Sucessfull' agents.
2. HIstorically the Germans managed to get a Luftwaffe squadron to Iraq. It bombed the British army for a few weeks, until the lack of logisitcs support grounded all the aircraft. Some Luftwaffe aircraft and crew could have been smuggled into a secretly friendly Mexico and made a few token raids on the US. This would have required the conivance of nuetral Spain as well as thats the only practical route for getting diassembled aircraft onto merchant ships and past the British blockade.
3. The Admiral King scenario. Luftwaffe aircraft and ground combat battalions stage through Vichy colonys and base on Brazilian coastal airfields. From there they can harras Allied ships and recon for the German submarines.
4. Submarine resupply. Placing smuggled in German crews on cargo ships purchased from nuetrals and converting them to armed raiders.
5. Organizing pro nazi German nationals in Latin America to attack the US. The nazis actually tried this in the form of recruiting them as agents or sabatours. But as I remarked earlier the effort was a failure.
Of course when the Allied intel people get the slightest hint of these ops they are going to be all over them in a search and destroy mode.