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Losing Stephen Colbert is a possibility though, and that would have been a great loss indeed. He would have been in high school at the time as he went to Northwestern in 1984

chuckle, I saw this movie live on network TV at the time. Reagan would have likely remained in office, and there would have been even a harsher backlash against the Left (and Liberal Left too probably) than we were already seeing after some of the terrorist activities by the Radical Left in...

I am enjoying this story and the discussion and learning a lot. For one thing apparently the way I postulated an attack on the Panama Canal in my "Gorings Reich" story a few years back is thoroughly flawed.

use "bail out", not eject. Ejection seats are not a thing yet for Allied aircraft (and experimental only for the Germans).

I want to see the Eastwood movie AND the HBO series now I am thoroughly enjoying this and am a bit embarrassed I have only recently found your story.. Nicely done sir.

I loved both books and reread them every couple of years. (Sam Houston is a lifelong personal hero of mine). At the end of the last book, while the Americans were likely to grind down Arkansas (coming in around the flanks via OTL future Kansas City and south to Joplin into OTL Fayetteville...

I own it,, its called "S-Day", author is James Stewart Thayer, copyright 1990, It has some flaws (for one thing, the American divisions are square divisions), but its a pretty good read The US commanding General is indeed having an affair with an English noblewoman, and it fits your...

The British Commonwealth ground forces December 1941 Over 2 years of war against the Germans have forced a lot of changes upon the British Army and its offshoots. For the first year severe shortages in equipment and arms along with staggering losses of both in France, Greece and North Africa...

yeah... and a huge budget sink while they developed it. As pretty as the Alaska class ships were, they lacked a mission aside from carrier escort and there are plenty of carrier escorts available that are either cheaper or will be more capable (when the fast battleships hit the fleet)...

The Colorado class and Tennessee are getting the modifications and upgrades the historical West Virginia and California got post Pearl Harbor, and will be subject to some delays not reentering service until the end of 1943 as other priorities will rear their head. The Vanguard will not be...

A new era in naval warfare In a twelve month period beginning in November 1940 ending in November 1941, the supremacy of the battleship has been called into serious question, and now for many American and British naval leaders, the power of the carrier task force as the Japanese carriers strike...

historically the reliefs were due to lack of aggression, although in some cases competence was an issue. In a few extreme cases actual psychological breakdown occured. I don't have an answer to your question but my guess would be they were reassigned to something less important and forced out...

TTL King is already unhappy with the results of the first Pacific war patrols by ComSubPac and is asking questions already. But initially it will see captains being relieved (a lot were initially). It will be at least another couple of patrols and the reports generated by a number of...

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yeah, thats a staggering amount of water coming in. Kind of amazed she didn't sink at her moorings but apparently the pumps just held it at bay