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While I would love to have the first team up front right away, reasonably there is trial and error with generals and admirals

I attribute part of that to the trauma of losing the Hood and to Pound's health issues until his death

I have, enjoying it

you may have noticed I am not a fan... at least I didn't kill him TTL this time so far in three time lines... I sacked him and sent him to Panama and eventually West Point and retirement (Gorings Reich), killed him off (Ike in the Pacific) and this time off to China he goes seriously not a...

they cannot do much in the Pacific either.... not enough tankers for the carriers AND old battleships the Standard BBs are also far less fuel efficient than the newer NC/SC classes

He got a DSM in World War I on IV Corps staff as part of the planning staff for the St Mihael offensive.

it was a bad idea that King seriously pushed but FDR overruled in favor of the Philippines

that is my opinion as well there will be some TTL effects of this however regarding the Burma Campaign

It will be an interesting dance.... and more importantly, somewhat peripheral to the war effort. But for my purposes the goal is to justify ultimately Macarthur getting the job as 'Proconsul" for Japan while manuevering him out of the Pacific campaign. After all, the Navy doesn't want to...

Chiang (and his wife) are politically astute enough to make the most out of MacArthurs connections to the GOP in the United States, and in particularly make sure Claire Booth Luce (and Time Inc) focuses attention on the General so that attention is focused on China. His arrogance is not much...

Diadem was masterfully planned... Alexander picked a good staff and knew how to get the most out of them. Diadem should have bagged an entire German Army and Clark and Leese screwed it up. Alexander could not fire either, although he did manage to get rid of Leese and promote Clark to a...

it should be remembered that the Dutch East Indies Air Force had Royal Netherlands Indies Army (KNIL) 83 Glen Martin B10 bombers 71 Brewster Buffalo F2A Fighters 17 Curtis Wright W21 Fighters 13 Curtis 75A Fighters 40 Various recon and trainers and were wiped out just like everyone else... sad...

current strength for Auchinleck Mideast/Persia 8th Armored Division, 10th Armored Division*, 56th Infantry (London) Division, 6th Australian, 7th Australian, 9th Australian, 2nd New Zealand, 5th Indian, 6th Indian, 7th Indian, 8th Indian, 9th Indian, plus Arab Legion brigade, (one division...

authors notes: still busy with Grandchildren this week but details and additional developments likely next week OTL Japanese deployments unless otherwise indicated and OTL British deployments except less at Malaya in terms of initial ground troops, Wavell is present on the scene and sees how...

The Pacific Onslaught December 1941 The Japanese move south The Pacific War begins between the Japanese Empire and the United States, British Empire and Dutch Empire at 00:30 hours on December 8 when Japanese landing forces from the Takumi Detachment begin landing covered by artillery support...

actually going back and reviewing the post.(I hadn;t had my coffee yet when I first responded to you) . the Corps HQ and its administrative and logistics elements are headquartered at Fairbanks deliberately.. The Alcan Highway was built from both ends meeting up with each other. Fairbanks...

Commander US Army Forces British Isles and Northwest Europe ... as soon as some actual USAAF forces reach the UK that is He will go over with the initial wave of aviation engineers and liaison officers in early 1942 aboard one of the Queens at which point General Drum goes home

so noted for the future.

authors note: gamed this one out just before the weekend using Operational Art of War III (and editing some units to replace them with what is here in TTL). Had the British move slowly and launch grinding infantry attacks supported by artillery and armor, while avoiding some of the costly...

Fall 1941 The new British Generals In August 1941 General Alan Brooke arrives in Egypt to take control over the situation. The costly (in terms of assets committed) sideshows in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Italian East Africa have been won by Wavell, who was also blamed by Churchill for the failure...