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Good point, and Göring was a much more prominent nazi than Speer was in public. From 1942 Speer probably was much more important person to the nazi war effort than Göring, and Speer most likely knew much more about the atrocities than he admitted, but the public in general had no clue and many...

Were the Ranger 440 engines known for unreliability? Suggestions for an alternative? Compared to the Kingfisher I'm not at least impressed by the Widgeon's 4-5 seat capacity, would be very handy in scouting and SAR - and then of course the extra engine. The Ranger 440 appear to be a rather old...

Very interesting. I suppose you need some strengthening of the point where the catapult grabs the plane and that the folding wing will have to add some weight too. Do you think the extra weight could be limited to under 200 lbs (90 kg) or approximately what the 5th passenger of the original...

Until mid WWII it was common for battleships and cruisers to have one or more catapult planes onboard. Originally mainly for gunnery spotting but as radar became better this role vanished and as carriers also were along the general reconnosaince and liason role was taken over by carrier planes...

I usually follow threads on this board with great interest as a lot of knowledge and data etc. usually is revealed. I will still do that, but I must say I'm very surprised about the more or less hidden agendas driving some posters argumentation usually ending up in absurd cherry picking to...

So, a schoolboy handling shells at a stationary AA battery count the same as a veteran Panzergrenadier in action at the East Front? And how many Reichsmark spent on concrete in AA positions equals a fallen soldier on the East Front? The Soviets fought the Nazi from June 41 to May 45 in a...

Cherry picking is exactly when you present sources picked specifically to underline one point, but omitting other sources that would have pointed to something different. BTW it is very usual, not at least in politics - as nobody can say you're lying, but you present a so limited view of the...

Please just answer the question: Where was the main part of the German war effort focussed - the Western Allies or the Soviet Union?

Try counting Divisions and losses in men and materiel. Do you seriously claim that the majority of the German war effort was spent in the West?

Items like flak towers indeed were resourcedrains, but not so much on resources relevant for the East Front. But the materiel and Labour spent on a flak tower couldn't be spent in the Atlantic Wall. Similarily the personell manning the AA defences were primarily personell not fit for field (East...

Seriously - are we here to cherry pick our way through debates? Do you claim that most of the German war effort was spent in the West and do you consider you post as a proof of that?

I don't recall having seen anybody claim that the bombing had NO effect, but rather the discussion is about how many bangs for the buck the bombings gave. I'm not in doubt that bombing were a very expensive way to wage war, and very rarely decisive. But seen from the wallied camp it really was...

What is AANW?

Any scenario that keeps the KuK Armee intact, no matter who wins the war, will drastically increase the chances of A-H surviving. Until the KuK armee dissolved in OTL October 1918 the independence movements in various parts of the Empire were still weak, but after the dissolution of the army...

I agree that the Imperial Russian navy had its problems but nothing that prevented it from simply being lucky and winning an important battle. Russian gunnery actually was quite good and Togo's flagships was hit 30 times during the battle, 15 of the hits inside the first five minuttes. If one of...

Of course bombing had an effect, if not for other reasons then because thousands of fighters, hundreds of thousands of high velocity guns and millions of shells were diverted to air defence (most personnel were not fit for field service though). The cost of keeping up the bombing offensive was...

I think we only need butterflies to have the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-05 end in a humiliating Japanese defeat. The Japanese had almost spent all their resources when some lucky hits at the battle of Tushima took out the Russian leadership and gave the Japanese a crushing victory. My basic...

You can't bomb Germany into submission if Germany has control of the European continent and its resources. Sure some cities would be leveled and production would be reduced, as in OTL, but in OTL the main factor to break the back of German war effort wasn't the bombing campaign but boots on the...

O him, yes he watched the British Army perform the first terror bombardment in 1807, very brave, while the Danish Army was in Holstein because we thought the enemy was the French...

Yeah, he met the toughest opposition he had met yet, and he was even only meeting the reserve... :p