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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Gemas The battle of Gemas, fought on January 14, 1942, was a rare Allied victory of the Malayan campaign against the Japanese. An Australian battalion managed a successful ambush of a Japanese column coming over a bridge, blowing the bridge, trapping a...

Off hand, say things go differently and/or longer in the Chinese Civil War, mainland China somewhat balkanizes, and as a result of this, eventually leads to Britain retaining Hong Kong.

A week earlier would have been Sunday, November 30. The 1st was a Monday, and war or not, things would have been a lot busier and more people would have been at work or around to begin with. While the attack would still have been damaging, the Japanese would have likely met more resistance...

Fighting between the British and Japanese started a few hours before the bombs started raining down on Pearl Harbor.

Even without a DOW in December 1941, the US and Germany had been fighting an undeclared naval war for some months already, with several US merchant vessels and US Navy destroyers having been attacked, at least one US destroyer sunk, and a number of US Navy personnel killed. Even if Hitler...

Other minor differences that could have an impact. OTL at the same time as the Japanese where inbound, a flight of B-17s where inbound from the mainland US. Move the attack up to Christmas, and there might not be anything scheduled to be flying in at the time. While not a major impact...

Even if Pearl Harbor is delayed, this could have serious consequences elsewhere. As Calbear mentioned, and I never knew, delay a few weeks, and Japanese forces at Wake now have twice as many Wildcats that they might have to fight, and the very real possibility that Wake might have a radar set...

While the tide had turned by 1944, the US didn't gain access to a lot of the forward bases they would need for further operations against the home islands until late in 1944 and early 1945. Furthermore, at this time while the Japanese where inferior in number to the US, they had managed to...

Even if the attack itself was launched sooner, it might not be possible to up the timetable on landings and operations elsewhere, save some operations conducted in China or near the Mandates. Guam might also be doable sooner. But operations in Malaya, Thailand, and against the Philippines...

Even if the war doesn't go nuclear, the Soviets will still win, but depending on how long the war lasts, they'll probably still come out battered and brused themselves. Not enough to cripple them, but the chances of Soviet formations rolling over the German border will probably go way down for...

I wouldn't say the OP is ASB in nature, but it is stretching the suspension of disbelief. Here's an idea, what would happen of some member of the Royal Family(through marriage, not a blood relative) where to decide to run for a local election, and ended up winning? Or is that even legal?

That would take a POD at least a good 5 to 10 years or more before the start of the war. It wasn't just poor quality equipment, the Italian leadership, especially in North Africa, was a joke compared to what the British and Germans had. Unless you can have someone with more basic common...

And yet they still managed to put up enough of a fight in OTL to shoot down 29 aircraft and damaged 111 more, of which 20 where written off after the battle. http://www.navweaps.com/index_oob/OOB_WWII_Pacific/OOB_WWII_Pearl_Harbor.htm With three hours warning, if Kimmel and Short take it...

Hornet was under Halsey during the Doolittle Raid, and at Midway was under Spruance, with Fletcher being in overall command as he was the senior of the two. In OTL, USS Lexington and TF 11 where under the command of Rear Admiral Aubrey Fitch at Coral Sea, and Fitch later brought Saratoga to...

Basically Yorktown same as OTL, Lexington being lost at Pearl butterflies away Saratoga's January torpedoing, and she takes the place of the Lexington, and the Doolittle Raid is butterflied away, but Hornet is still sent to the Pacific as general reinforcements anyway and can help in the battle...