Reports warned that Germany might seize Dutch airfields and launch heavy bombers against Britain. German forces lacked both a suitable heavy-bomber fleet and enough large airliners that could plausibly be converted at short notice. Cutting bomb bays into an airliner would require major structural and weight-distribution changes, making the alleged rapid conversion technically implausible. The gap between the plan and Germany's material capabilities offered a way to test the story, even as it occupied British strategic attention.
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The Dutch airfield scare and strategic deception
The Dutch airfield scare paired a supposed German plan to attack Britain from the Netherlands with a heavy-bomber force that Germany did not possess.