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And IJAAF activity in Burma was by that time essentially nonexistent. Defense measures against Allied air attack almost exclusively came in the form of concealment and AAA. That brigade wasn't airlifted behind the Japanese, it was sent in to bolster the surrounded 17th division at Meiktila...

As I said, the war was lost. Ultimately it wouldn't have made a difference but strategically the situation would have been improved. Compared to the opposition and the size of the theater it was proportionate; the Japanese had just 64 aircraft to the RAF's 1,200. With such a force the British...

Agreed.

Britain was about 2/3 as strong as Germany from the economic point of view (excluding her external Empire) but at least had a stable economy. In terms of raw production it was more or less even, though the Germans had to deal with constant bombardment on a daily basis and devoted proportionately...

Slim was never one to boast, and in the case of the Germans (even considering the Hitler factor) failure to withdraw over the Rhine was still a serious strategic error. Any damage to the Ruhr industry (it went down anyway very rapidly following the OTL Rhineland campaign and crossing of the...

The Ruhr industrial area was mostly on the east side of the Rhine. Had von Rundstedt made his stand there it would have been far more costly to the Allies to seize it than the giant encirclement it was in OTL (granted he had his hands tied by Hitler, but still). Plus, the original comparison is...

If anything, Meiktila-Mandalay (or the Battle of the Irrawaddy as it is known in Japanese historiography) demonstrated just what the IJA was capable of under good leadership. After Masakazu Kawabe was sacked following the disastrous invasion of India he was replaced by the far abler Lt. Gen...

1 September 1939.

He was exposed to anti-Semitic materials during that period and certainly developed some biases, but such an attitude was not uncommon and it was only after joining the Nazis that his hatred reached a fever pitch. Prior to that outside observers noted that he publicly got along with (or at least...

He was exposed to anti-Semitic materials during that period and certainly developed some biases, but such an attitude was not uncommon and it was only after joining the Nazis that his hatred reached a fever pitch. Prior to that outside observers noted that he publicly got along with (or at least...

Probably not. Hitler being Hitler there would have been an all-out effort to smash the USSR even if they had Abrams tanks.

There are many competing theories as to the exact point Hitler became a raging anti-Semite, most likely sometime between the end of his WWI service and joining the NSDAP. As time went on, of course, his attitudes only worsened as he was gradually self-radicalized even farther from his own...

As were the Kongos, and Alaska's modern 12"/50 main armament was somewhat more effective in terms of armor penetration than the old 14"/50s used on the New Mexico and Tennessee classes, which in turn were better than the 14"/45s that equipped the Nevadas and Pennsylvanias.

I meant that as well; the USSR was in horrible shape throughout the 1920s and it took until the early 30s before something like that could even be attempted. If anything the Soviets' industrial development might have been hamstrung even farther by a permanent foreign presence in the Far East to...

If only the Alaskas were around for the close-up slugfests around Guadalcanal, maybe they'd be remembered more fondly. Indeed they probably could have held their own against a Kongo. Personally I just like them because they looked like toned-down North Carolina class battleships