Jacklyn Lucas. He enlisted in the Marines at 14 , then at 17 fought in the Battle of Iwo Jima where his unit was ambushed by the Japanese. When one of the Japanese soldiers threw a grenade amongst them he dived on top of it, then spotted another grenade lying nearby and dragged that one...
Serial killers more prolific than Zodiac and Jack the Ripper have appeared on crime dramas before. Between them they only had 10 confirmed kills, and a maximum count of about 50. So a more prolific serial killer would be plausible enough that I wouldn't consider it fantasy.
I do take your point...
I'll add a vote for Charles Upham. Also Daniel Daly (double MoH winner), Chesty Puller and Arthur Champeny. If you want a sniper to rival Hayha then perhaps look at Ivan Sidorenko, who fought on the Eastern front and racked up more than 500 confirmed kills.
Twilight: Edward declares he is a vampire. Buffy, Blade and Van Helsing show up to kill him. Dracula and a cadre of vampires from decent vampire stories also show up to kill him. The good guys and the proper vampires team up to annihilate the abomination that is twilight in an incredibly violent...
Nice work, enjoying this a lot. Is Japan staying pretty much as OTL? If so does that mean a Pearl Harbour like event against Russia is in the not too distant future, perhaps at Vladivostok?
He'd have been tried by someone. Not sure if the Soviets would have brought him along to Nuremberg to let the West try him or would have staged their own trial for him. The problem with trials for people like Hitler is that it can give them a soapbox to stand on and preach their message from and...
I've done a couple of brief looks from time to time to see what the odds of missing Soviet nukes turning up are. While the fact that we haven't seen any attacks using old Soviet nukes is promising, apparently quite a few nukes were 'misplaced' during the cold war, and things didn't get better...
If the Germans were delayed by the forced rebuild, would they continue with the invasion of Russia as planned? If they have too little time before winter (or if the rebuild is particularly slow winter begins before they're ready) would they continue anyway or would they cancel they invasion...