Recent content by baldy46

Oh, the German army will certainly take casualties, but probably a lot less than they absorbed in the battle for the tractor factory, etc. Plus this strategy gets the 4 PzArmy out of city fighting, for which it is ill-suited and not trained, and into open country warfare, for which it is world...

Absolutely nothing has happened to the above forces, and they're still available to hit the extended German northern Stalingrad front. In an alternate time line, something (POD? Turkey joins the Axis???, original Case Blue plan followed and the 2nd (?), German tank army is not diverted to...

Somehow get the Whites to make a deal with the Greens and/or some elements of the Reds? Massive intervention by the British, Americans, etc on the side of the Whites.

Yeah, the only problem with the "hard stop" is that if your postulating that earlier, better, and greater numbers of Me262 really does make a difference, than the single B-29 never gets near Berlin. As to earlier, I doubt it: everybody (Germans, British, Americans, presumably the Russians)...

I've wondered about the HAVE to. I don't think they were bound by treaty. What I've heard through the grapevine is that they thought the Germans were getting "uppitty" and had to be put in their place, which was not projected to be all that hard. The British Army and Navy were thought to be the...

One example: I was watching the History Channel on the "happy time" the German U-boats were having off the US East Coast right after war was declared. The way that they would aim the torpedos was to wait until ships had blocked out the lights from shore. When the Navy tried to get the lights...

I knew that Japan in general was short of fuel, the oil embargo by the US was the reason Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, but I had no idea the fuel situation was that bad for Nagumo's fleet. At the risk of being obnoxious, I've got to "call" on the fuel drums lashed to the decks: where did you get...

I agree that charging an enemy fleet having five carriers with only one carrier is absurd, but let me restate: there's a reason that Bull Halsey got the nickname Bull. As for ignoring orders, it's amazing how often radio reception can go down at the most inopportune time. The situation in...

The Enterprise will probably be going away but if Bull Halsey is in command...There's a reason he got the nickname Bull. As for being in the area, let me repeat: go FIND the carriers, especially if Nagumo is going west towards Japan. Plan for refueling and reloading at sea. East towards San...

Presumably have it on board? I don't have the fuel logs for Nagumo's fleet but it's hard to believe that there wasn't some kind of "safety factor" and/or planning for "emergency" refueling at sea.

And the Russians for that matter. The factories in Stalingrad were producing a fairly short time after the battle. If the fuel tanks are blown, my guess is that the Japanese lose the war in 46, mostly for the same reasons you gave. The reason why I gave a later date is that everything slows...

I agree with all of the above, especially the industrial support for a big navy being utterly decisive in a long war. That's why from Japan's view the war has to be short and over before the US can mobilize. The way to make the war short is to inflict as many casualties as possible as quickly as...

Your judgment is clouded by the fact that it's 65 yr after the defeat of Japan, which produces vast overestimates of American resolve. For example, what happens to morale on the home front if Midway is a "draw" or a Japanese victory, rather than the one-sided American victory that it was in OTL...

The only problem with hanging around until the 8th or later is that unless the Enterprise commander is a complete idiot, he won't enter Pearl until it's clear that the Japanese are gone. Plus sooner or later (presumably sooner) Nagumo is going to run out of gas and ammo. The estimate I've...

Somehow stop the Hispanic "invasion" from Mexico and Latin America, or at least NEVER let the Hispanics become voters. I have no idea how you'd accomplish the former, but the latter is legislative. Back in the day, California voting Republican used to balance New York voting Democrat. Then the...