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If anyone would humour an idle thought of mine, particularly those with specific, technical aviation knowledge, I'd appreciate it. Now in OTL the Armstrong Whitworth Whitley was the oldest of the bombers available to the RAF at the outset of the war. Yet it remained in production until 1943...

In OTL the USAAF sent out a bunch of sorties to try and locate the IJN in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor but none succeeded in finding them. I know the odds are low, but what if one of the early ones did? I'm assuming that the USAAF would throw whatever they could at the fleet. A few B-17s and...

OTL: The Buchanan administration sends supplies and 200 reinforcements to Fort Sumter on board the civilian vessel Star of the West. Upon arriving at Charleston, they find that the navigational lights have all been put out forcing them to wait until morning to approach the fort. As they make...

Pretty much every scholarly assessment of the Battle of Perryville that I've read states that though Bragg managed to score a tactical victory, he narrowly escaped a decisive defeat that could have happened had the other 2 corps of the Army of the Ohio been more actively engaged. With this in...

Prior to November 1941 Bell was working on a pair of piston engined twin boom fighter designs the XP-52 which later evolved into the heavier XP-59. Here is an artist's rendering of what a completed XP-59 might have looked like. Now, in OTL these designs never got past the mock-up stage...

Just a thought from reading Galveston Bay's wonderful Shoestring Warriors TL. In OTL some officers saw the strategic importance of the Bataan peninsula and tried to allocate forces to secure it before the American retreat and subsequent siege. Of course in OTL they weren't listened to but WI...

Eden and Empire Preface What follows is an excerpt from this timeline’s thirteenth volume of the eleventh edition (1910) of The Encyclopædia Britannica taken from pages 864-867 (1)... HUGUENOTS, the name given from about the middle of the 16th century to the Protestants of France. It was...

Hey Everyone, Though we've talked about the consequences of the Atomic bomb being ready earlier on this board, as far as I can tell we haven't really dealt with the means by which it could be made ready. This is odd, because from just a casual survey of the literature, one of the most glaring...

Alright, what kind of POD(s) are necessary to make one of the worst sci-fi movies of the past two decades, Wing Commander (1999) a success. Regular number of points for improving it enough so that it makes enough money to cover it's production costs. Extra special bonus points for having...

In order to get some more South American ideas going here's an idea based off my travails in the British National Archives. From my observations (not thorough ones mind you, I was looking for something else...) it seemed to me that there was a persistent effort from at least1923 to 1939 to...

A True and Better Alamo Redux Part I: Moreel’s Gambit (From: “The Rock of the Pacific: Wake Island During World War II” by Arthur Devereaux) ...Most discussions of the pivotal battles of Wake Island focus on the multiple naval engagements that took place around the atoll during the early...

When the HMS Prince of Wales pulled into Rosyth for repairs following the Battle of the Denmark Strait repair crews discovered a 15 inch undetonated shell that had penetrated the armor below the waterline and had embedded itself deep within the vessel. In addition during the battle an 8 inch...

Lancaster Bombers that is...in World War II. I was reading up about the Manhattan project and came across a tidbit that said that one of the alternatives to having the B-29 Superfortress carry the Atomic Bomb was to have the Avro Lancaster with it's carnivorous bomb bay do the job. It was...

Hey Everyone, Recently I was going through the files on my computer and I came across a bunch of my old TL's. Not only did this remind me how long I've been doing AH, but it also made me want to return and try and salvage some of my old TL's. This one was egregiously awful...in an effort to...

I can't remember the origin of the quote but it has been said that "After WWI borders moved people didn't. After WWII, the borders remained largely the same and the people moved." Anyways, I was thinking the other day about Hungary, and how it still doesn't recognize the Treaty of Trianon and...

Ok here's an idea that popped into my head, wanted to know what the rest of y'all thought. One of the issues that faced the Eastern Orthodox Church during the initial centuries of the Ottoman Empire was the dire lack of clergy. Indeed in some areas this lack was never fully rectified. Given...

Just saw a list of the 10 worst video-game adaptation movies which got me thinking... What kind of POD would be needed to create a world in which video game adaptations are regarded as excellent or at least not awful... at least en par with regular action/adventure movies etc. So your goal...

Now, a cursory glance at the German Invasion of Denmark and Norway reveals that the Germans were incredibly lucky in achieving the level of surprise they did. In fact there have been several timelines in which the Germans did not achieve a similar level of surprise leading to a prolonged...

Alright here's an interesting, if somewhat obscure POD... Let's say that the assassination attempt on George I of Greece that happened in OTL on February 14th 1898 is successful. I haven't been able to find the exact details of the attempt but bear with me but I don't think it's too much of a...

At long last a South American WI! What Actually Happened: Tensions between Chile, Bolivia and Peru steadily mounted over the 1870's over the nitrate rich Atacama desert eventually culminating in the War of the Pacific 1879-1883. The Chilean forces, due to their stronger navy, won the war and...