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well, how bout if the 1st Australian Armd Div gets equipped with AC1 Sentinels then sent over to fight in Normandy as part of 21st Army Group ?

OK, during WWII, the biggest mass surrender of US forces in ETO was during the battle of the Bulg,e with the capture of 2 whole regts of the green 106th GOLDEN LIONS Inf Div at Schonberg on 18 Dec 1944, while in PTO 70,000-odd American & Filipino personnel surrendered at Bataan in April 1942...

I like that 1, mate- I also have the following: Korean War- either US Army goes into action MUCH better-prepared OR the war escalates as MacArthur wanted it to- wioth use of nukes & intervention of ROC forces Iran & Guatemala- no CIA-orchestrated coups Vietnam- US & Ho Chi Minh come to a...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_von_Seeckt Extract: After the Allies sent the German government a list of "war criminals" to be tried Seeckt called a conference of Staff Officers and departmental heads on 9 February, 1920 and said to them that if the German government refused or was unable...

I also reckon: F-21 Tigershark- at least in an aggressor role- or sold off as planned to India or Taiwan H&K G-11 & G-41- now, why the heck were these 2 fine assault rifles discontinued ?

Just read in the book on the biggest lies in hist bout the Compromise of 1850 which was drafted to avoided secession in the aftermath of the Mexican-American War- now, WI there'd been no such compromise between the North & South ? Could full-blown CW have broken out 10 yrs earlier than OTL ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_O._Davis,_Sr. OK, during WWII, despite being the 1st black promoted to general rank in the US Army, Benjamin O. Davis Sr remained pretty much exclusively a special racial relations adviser to FDR & inpsector-general of black troops, due to the Army's Jim...

hmmm, slightly off topic but- just today read a book on History's most popular lies- which included a chapter exposing the myth that Mao & the Communists were the force most responsible for defeating Japan in China- which was shown as being completely false due to the fact that Mao actually...

hmmm, a movie on 1453 will of course include some quite horrific scenes such as the capture & impalement before the city gates of the hapless 70 Genoan sailors who ended up on the wrong shore after their failed fireship night attack- followed by the garrison's retaliatory hanging from the city...

Is tehre any way that, given the promiennce of socialist leanings among American workers by 1919- both black & white- that they could've made common cause against govt forces, by- at least in the north- setting aside their own ethnic differences re job competition, housing etc- so that the likes...

OK, given the massive social unrest in the US caused by socialist & anarchist violence during the 1880s & 1890s- such as the Haymarket riot (1886), Bay View massacre (1886) & May Day riots in Cleveland (1894)- what prospect could there have been for a fullscale anarchist revolution in the US by...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Peace_Conference,_1919#The_racial_equality_proposal So, WI Japan's proposed racial equality clause in the League of Nations Conference had been accepted ? How would the rights of non-white ppls have been affected in the post-WWI Period, esp the subjects of...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_occupation_of_Veracruz WI the US Marines' occupation of Veracruz (April 1914) had in fact led to full-scale war between the US & Mexico ?

http://thedagger.com/archive/conquest/cholula.html WI the Cholula massacre hadn't been perpetrated by Cortes ? WI the official version for the massacre had been true- ie the pre-emptive strike before the Spaniards & Tlaxcalans themselves were ambushed by the Cholulans then massacred or...

Schlieffen Plan I'd say the Schlieffen Plan- too complicated & inflexible- whose implementation inexorably plunged the world into war since, as AJP Taylor put it, once mobilisation started, it couldn't be reversed...

Is there any way that the Copperheads in the old NW- under Clement Valladingham have seceded to form their own pro-Confederate country ?

Is there any way that the protracted Liberian CW with associated atrocities could have not broken out in 1989 when Charles Ghankay Taylor & the NPFL invaded from Burkina Faso to oust Samuel Doe ? WI Taylor hadn't managed to successfully escape from US custody in 1984 at Somerset County jail in...

I very much doubt the CSA can expand north at all even in the event of a victory during the ACW- hell, they'd very much be opposed in MO by the anti-slavery Jayhawkers, KY & MD would still be pretty well held by Union forces, aplus any CS expeditionary forces attempting to go into NE or CO would...

My faves in this regard: XM-8 Buford RAH-66 Comanche TSR-2 B-70 Valykrie AC-1 Sentinel CAC Woomera plus the mother of em all : USS UNITED STATES

WI the 9th & 10th Cav, together with 24th & 25th Inf, had somehow been able to benefit from the command of greater nos. of black officers such as Henry Flipper or Charles Young ? How conceivable could it have been for black officers in the Buffalo Soldier regts to have attained higher rank than...