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  1. Japan post-Operation Downfall

    Ah, OPERATION ASHIKA (Japanese for Sea Lion) lol. 1. There are no substantial ports on the north coast of Hokkaido. There are also no Division-sized landing beaches. 2. The “amphibious ships” provided to the USSR were all LCI(L) class ships. These are capable of landing 200 infantry troops and...
  2. Lincoln Lives: How a failed assassination changed the course of a Nation and a newly freed people

    @Issei Uzumaki Thank you very much for the shout out. I am happy you are enjoying it. BTW, interesting start here. Following. Best regards,
  3. Keynes' Cruisers Volume 2

    ASW stands for Awfully Slow Warfare
  4. Starting the USA Better prepared for WWII.

    Some observations/suggestions from my own experience for you to take or leave. I wasted a lot of time (and research) until I created a specific definition of "better outcome" for my timeline. "Better performance" can be measured in many ways over short, intermediate and long time periods...
  5. The Pacific War begins without the Pearl Harbour raid. USN actions?

    IMO it doesn't change much. Wake Island could certainly be reinforced, but it might become costly. Not ideal for a base due to small size and poor/non-existent harbor. Expanded ABDA? I believe the answer is no. Same reason as the inability to hold, reinforce or evacuate the Philippines -...
  6. Keynes' Cruisers Volume 2

    Sadly, one of them on virtually every review panel (at least in my experience). Good luck.
  7. AHC: Peerless Air Ministry

    But I wonder ... During OTL, a British purchasing group approached North American Aviation to build P-40s and were offered the NA-73 instead. To which the British agreed based on the promise of a short build time. As we know, the P-51 does not get built without an Air Ministry order and does...
  8. Keynes' Cruisers Volume 2

    Back in the 1970s the Navy conducted a large clinical trial of post-exposure gonorrhea prevention. A single 7th Fleet aircraft carrier making a port call and two 24-hour liberty periods. All sailors were given "the lecture" prior to arrival in port. Condoms were readily available and issued...
  9. Better Outcome In the Phillipines Defense Dec 1941

    Even if Japan can allocate more troops to the PI campaign, they don't have the shipping. As it was, they only had shipping to land 1 Brigade at Lamon Bay, while the remainder of the 16th Army troops sat on Chichi Jima. Allocation of additional forces to the PI can only be done by delaying other...
  10. Better Outcome In the Phillipines Defense Dec 1941

    A plausible POD might be to call the Philippine Army into US service when Japan joins the Tripartite Pact. That puts mobilization on a time frame similar to the call-up of the National Guard. In that event, mobilization could start in late 1940 rather than September 1941. During OTL, the...
  11. Keynes' Cruisers Volume 2

    Fester, your battle of Makassar Strait is one helluva story. Well done!
  12. Keynes' Cruisers Volume 2

    Ditto. This is great!
  13. ...Those Marvelous Tin Fish: The Great Torpedo Scandal Avoided

    I have to second that emotion. Very, very impressed with both the depth of research and the analysis. I am really enjoying this and it is rare to see this level of insight into why things happened. BZ @McPherson please keep up the good work.
  14. Japanese US battles from 1943 to 1945

    The US Military (and others I am quite certain) extensively study casualties, including those in WWII. Military planners have long used the number of troops engaged and duration of combat as the primary predictors of casualties. In these circumstances, the number of troops involved derives from...
  15. Blue Skies in Camelot: An Alternate 60's and Beyond

    How did you guess? Having Janis Joplin survive might relieve some of the pain. Sad to lose Jimi again. I was groovin’ to the music and memories and then BAM! Kicked in the face. However, I now owe some serious money considering interest. I won more than three months pay on that game. Nothing...
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