Like so many of Germany’s great aircraft designs, the Amerikabomber never got past the prototype stage. The inside-and-out resemblance to the B-29 was uncanny. Unfortunately, the premise (pour out vast treasure to build a fleet of bombers that could carry one decent-sized bomb apiece all the way to the U.S. and fly back) was ridiculous and an utter waste of resources.
The German Mosquito as I read it had only an accidental resemblance to the Brit Mosquito and was developed specifically as a night fighter. It worked fine but German aircraft manufacturers were reluctant to take on a wood aircraft because wood is such an inexact, unpredictable material for engineers.
The main problem for the Germans were that their efforts were so divided and random. Unlike us, they did not field a few good designs and then churn them out in mass quantities.
Actually the Germans did “field a few good designs and then churn[ed] them out in mass quantities. Think ME 109, Ju 87B, Heinkel 111K, Dornier 17, FW Condor. The problem was they were ALL first generation aircraft, designed and put into production BEFORE the war. The only tweo truly successful designs the Germans developed and produced on anything near a mass scale during the wwar were the FW 190, and 190D, and the JU 88.
The German Mosquito was built on Goering’s direct order. And he insisted it be a virtual copy of the British plane. The problem in production wasn’t the wood. It was the glue,which the Germans had a hell of a time developing, and which they couldn’t produce in quantity, or on a schedule yo allow aircraft production.
German aircraft were also hampered by Goering’s [and Hitler’s] idiotic requirements for dive brakes [even on the 4 engine jobs], or Hitler’s insistence that fighters be able to serve as fighter/bombers. That delayed the ME 262 going into service for a year.
On the other hand, the Germans during the same time period developed and fielded the first cruise missles [V1 and the anti-shipping rockets they used in the Atlantic], the ballistic missile [V2], jet aircraft [ME 262, and the Arado bomber], rocket aircraft [the Komet]; as well as the best light machinegun the world has ever seen [MG 42], and the world’s first assault rifle [Stg 44].