With the arrival of former German & Italian scientists & pilots from war-torn Europe to Argentina, their influence allowed Juan Peron's administration to overhaul their armed forces, especially the Fuerza Aerea Argentina. From a brief period of piston-engine fighters to the 1st operational jets in South America, trained and led by the German-Italian Condor Legion. Moving the nation into a new superpower in the southern hemisphere, Peron was able to remain in control by the loyalty of the Legion; even into a conflict to unite his people against a common foe, in the First Malvinas/Falklands War.

The Me-264 was Argentina's first and most numerous of the German-designed "Amerikabombers", capable of reaching long distances to bomb initially hard-to-reach targets across much of South America. Used in large formations and with fighter escorts, their strategy matches that of the World War 2 Allies' strategic bombing campaigns. Despite rising losses to the arrival of Hawker Hunter jet fighters by the end of the First War, the Me-264 remained Argentina's most effective heavy bomber into the 1960s.