Nice job. I like the concept.
“Often only found in small quantities, they include iron, coal, copper, molybedenum, gold, silver, chromium, nickel, cobalt, platinum, lead, zinc, tin, manganese, titanium and uranium. Since most deposits lie one and one half miles beneath an ice cap, exploration and recovery is not yet economically feasible.”
Fromhere Maybe they’re mining uranium after a chance discovery of a large deposit.
I like your approach, details like those make a good story better. I’ve just flicked through the ton of WWII books my Grandfather offloads here occasionally and I’ve found that the Germans did have large military projects in the pipeline. There were large transport aircraft like the Blohm and Voss 222 and 238. An aircraft carrier was semi complete but later mothballed and destroyed by the Soviets. Towards the end of the war very large Uboats were sent out into the Atlantic to fight. There’s a wealth of “could have” and “why not,” technology when it comes to the Nazi’s. You could take the Indiana Jones approach, remember the V winged plane in one of the films?
I want to thank all of you for the feedback and the ideas. I’m hoping that further research will allow me to develop this into something really good (or, failing that, Something that doesn’t suck).
There is a ‘Factual’ book i have read ‘Blue Fires’ a book which looks into the Nazi’s developing saucer shaped aircraft. There is a lot of general Sci-fi stuff, but the auther does not attempt to force you into believing the really far out stuff… Some of the technologies seem feasable and there are sme documented events.
Part of the study involves a Nazi base in the south Polar continent that continued until after the war and may have been destroyed by admiral Byrds expidition this is far fetched but could give you some ideas…
Perhaps using Flying Saucer Transports to reach the pole?
If you’d like an example of Soviet WIGs, you might check this page, which includes the modestly famous Caspian Sea Monster. However, with an altitude of only ten feet or so, it would be no cake-walk to hurtle over jagged surface ice at 300 mph.