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  1. April 1942 Alternate Indian Ocean

    True, but none of those are carrier aircraft. Even if they could find the capacity to a rough conversion of those Hurries in Sea Hurries, they still lack attack and torpedo aircraft. I think Rocs were pulled out of service by this time and were used a trainer tugs, so they may be...

  2. April-June 1940 Can Allies lose in France but win in Norway?

    RN's answer to BoB? I don't know enough about the topic, so maybe someone can work it with me, but could have the RN pushed for a Norway campaign as a counterweight to the RAF ambitions? To be seen as doing something? The RAF was always screaming for more time, more time to build fighters...

  3. April 1942 Alternate Indian Ocean

    Operational tempo I have to wonder if the fleet has the supplies to attack again. From what I understand the British Indian fleet was at the bottom of the supplies list, after the Convoy units and the Med. They are burning through airframes fast, and the ammunition almost as quickly. I...

  4. The Whale has Wings

    There is a TL somewhere about Canadian escort carriers. The research behind it may be useful. It has gone through several revisions.... One version is the Can Do Carriers, another THE ‘ESQIMALT NELL’ CARRIERS: CANADA GOES TO SEA timeline on this board.... Bill

  5. A Blunted Sickle

    It was my understanding that virtually everyone on the Allied side realized that demanding an unconditional surrender was a mistake about ten seconds after FDR included it in a speech off the cuff. Now, maybe they would layer so many conditions on the surrender that it would be functionally...

  6. Harry Potter and the Small Screen

    Updates Brainbin, I can see you are still working on the Wacky Redhead TL, what can we do to encourage you to work on HP and the SS again? -Bil

  7. What if Goddard never withdrew from public life?

    IO9.com had an interesting article today about Goddard's role in the history of rockets and space travel. Full article can be found through this link Basically, while Goddard pioneered rocketflight, in 1926 he published several papers suggesting the possibility of moonshot. While some...

  8. Can Germany win the Battle of the Atlantic?

    I was looking up some figures for What has Wings AH elsewhere on this forum, when I came across something that recast some of my thoughts about Germany's declaration of war on America. Never mind the whole America was going to get into the War sooner or later issue due to the Battle of...

  9. What If - Finland had been prepared for the Winter War?

    War is Boring post on the Winter War War is Boring, a blog that is usually about modern military procurement and practices, just posted a short bit on the Winter War. https://medium.com/war-is-boring/8f7d7a6142c5 One thing that is new there is the pic of Soviet aerosani... Bil

  10. What If - Finland had been prepared for the Winter War?

    Actually, for the purposes of the Finns, having Norwegian and German forces deadlocked at a position that was sufficiently far enough away from the port would be fine. The Norwegians in this scenario don't have to win, they merely have to keep the Germans far enough away from Lygenfjord that...

  11. What If - Finland had been prepared for the Winter War?

    No actually, I was wondering more along the lines of why Estonia pre-war responded so much differently to Finnish diplomacy, while in comparison Latvia and Lithuania seemed much more willing to buy what the Soviets were peddling and later were unwilling to fight. In the US, the Baltic states...

  12. What If - Finland had been prepared for the Winter War?

    Well, the reason that I included Norway in it was I figured that no matter how you cut it, Norway would feel a big debt to Finland for saving part of their army, and giving the Norwegian government in exile a place to build up their army during the war. In the original timeline, the Norwegian...

  13. What If - Finland had been prepared for the Winter War?

    That brings up something interesting. When the Finns go to the Tehran Conference (I think that is the one you mentioned) and agree to declare war on Germany along with leading an invasion of Estonia, won't Germany suspect that something is up from leaks or other intelligence gathering...

  14. What If - Finland had been prepared for the Winter War?

    Yeah, I went through and did a reread, trying to find bits of the Estonian Landing, but it is scattered. You know, there is the whole issue of Norway. Norway had a very small Free Norway Army, mostly because the surviving units at the end of the invasion had nowhere to run to and no one to...

  15. What If - Finland had been prepared for the Winter War?

    Well, I see it more as an attempt by the Finns to create a joint military/industrial alliance with the Nordic and Baltic countries. I know there is a term for it, but there is a term for multiple armies using equipment that is interoperable with each other. That way, they were efficiencies of...

  16. What If - Finland had been prepared for the Winter War?

    One idea that you can do in order to get around the language barrier for workers is that during the buildup to the war, several factories either become joint projects with another nation, or deliberately looked to hire from a specific country. What they could do is say that one specific factory...

  17. What If - Finland had been prepared for the Winter War?

    Wouldn't some of that manpower be diverted for the much more robust naval and aviation forces that this Finland maintains? Sure, a lot of the shore and air base establishment can be kept up with Lottas, but at least some of the manpower has to be spent on maintaining those new air and naval...

  18. What If - Finland had been prepared for the Winter War?

    I didn't see a listing for Japan under the Foreign Volunteers. That might have changed, but I think you mentioned that there was some Japanese Volunteers at one point... -Bil

  19. Harry Potter and the Small Screen

    Filler Segments During one of the tv specials about Harry Potter (HP and me, Christmas 2001), Rowlings flashed a list of everyone in Harry's school year, so she knows who all of them are, even those that were not explicitly introduced in the novels. In fact, there are several places online...

  20. Harry Potter and the Small Screen

    TV Butterflying the Novels Could the making of the TV series actually influence the later books as JKR is influenced by what works and doesn't work in the show? I doubt any of the major plot points would change, but would how she looked at the characters, how the actors react, change her...
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