April 1942 Alternate Indian Ocean
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From memory, a lot of the Australian export business back then was in fortified wines. Yates' Wine Lodge in the UK was a major customer, taking a shitload of ruby, tawny and 'white' port. (Generally known as 'white lightning'.
I once managed to get a flagon of white port from the cellar door shop at All saints Winery back when the Sutherland Smith family still ran it. They seemed very surprised I wanted it, as it mostly sold to the 'paper bag on a street corner' clientele! But it was actually rather like a decent fino sherry, quite dry and best served lightly chilled with a plate of things to nibble. I managed to defeat a few wine buff friends on identifying what it was. They'd never heard of it, let alone tried it.
The only other white port I came across was in London, from Harvey's I think, and was called 'White Fang'! But they seem to have stopped making that years ago.
Cockburn's do a good one, as do some of the other makers though the names escape me.
Not very widely sold though - in the UK I need either big supermarkets or specialist wine merchants.
Yes, but if it wasn't being exported, it wouldn't be well known. At least not compared to the cheap fortifieds that were. This was true right up to the 70s/80s, when bottled (and cask) wines started to be marketed, and the country's reputation as a winemaker improved.
Not really different from OTL at this time, only Zuikaku was not damaged OTL. Pilot losses have been worse and the Allies are not really in much better shape, especially since both Indomitable and Yorktown will be departing for badly needed refits in the coming weeks, as much from high usage as from battle damage. It's also hard for the Allies to exploit things too much mainly due to shipping and supply issues (you know, boring stuff). What all of this really means is that the foundations are in place for the Allies to be a better position this time in 1943.
I think yet again people are mixing this up with Keynes Cruisers.
Right now Japanese losses are slightly worse then OTL, having lost 4 fleet and 5 light carriers, plus damage to others.
Right now HMS Indomitable and a still afloat HMS Hermes are holding the line in the Indian Ocean.
The US lost Lexington at Coral Sea same as OTL, Hornet traded places with Yorktown at Midway, and Wasp was recently sunk. Right now the US Pacific Fleet has a fully operational Saratoga, a damaged but operational Yorktown, and a damaged in need of repair Enterprise, so one deck above OTL so far.
Why don't you all exchange info and mix and match plots and changes.. to confuse it even more..
This is not going to relieve the Bengal Famine, which killed 3M people. The 30,000 tonnes or so of food that six freighters could carry would feed those people for at most 20 days.
Besides which, the Chittagong area contains less than 5% of the total population of Bengal (BanglaDesh + West Bengal).
Sen claims that 1943 was a FEE famine not a FAD famine ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theories_of_famines ). That there was food for the having, but no having for the food. FEE (can’t buy or be rationed food) famines are common in modern societies like 1930s Ukraine or 1940s Bengal.
This is to say that it depends on how many trucks, trains, ships and men with guns Slim can and will choose to use. One problem with choosing to solve a political-economic problem with state force is that it delegitimises the existing political-economic situation, legitimises radical political economic change, and legitimises force.
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