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You're mature enough to vote, get married and get killed for your country but you can't go out with your mates and have a pint? Insanity.

Dowding's mission was the air defence of the United Kingdom not allied countries and an assessment had been done of the minimum number of squadrons needed to do that. Fighter Command did not have that number of operational fighter squadrons so he objected to his already inadequate force been...

Pork Barrel politics isn't just an American thing, M.P's want to be re elected and Government contracts are good for that whether they're good for the country or not.

He may be able to ignore treaties but until 1938 he can't take Austria or Czechosolvakia by force his military isn't up to it. He doesn't have enough men, guns or aircraft.

This is grossly unfair. The problems BC had were down to the change to night ops, something they had not been trained for and had no navigation or bombing aids for. They were trying to navigate with sextants and star shots. I once saw an interview with a BC navigator that said the best he...

They'd be operating in daylight with fighter cover so things should be better.

Bomber Command will follow the orders of the Government or they will soon have a new Air Officer Commanding.

I agree, retooling a factory for a new aircraft is the work of months.

No No, I worked at Butlins. Lost 2 stone in 8 weeks.

I think that along with industrial limitations the problem was that they had world class engines in the early and mid 30's and got complacent. The result was that when war came they were stuck with engines a generation behind the state of the art.

I've eaten worse.

Not quite, the Hurricane started with a proposal to build a monoplane version of the Hawker Fury with a fixed undercarriage. That soon grew into what became the Hurricane, a much larger and more powerful aircraft with nothing but the method of construction in common with the Fury.

Did any of the friendly South American countries have the funds in the mid war years to buy new Hurricanes, not that Washington would have been pleased by Britain poaching sales in the Americas.

I'm sure it will be well received, toilet paper is always useful.

Have Wayne do a cameo as the old timer.

The only way nuclear weapons aren't developed is if all the major powers agree that ANY nation caught attempting to do so will be immediately attacked by the rest. No major power would make that agreement.

So suppose in the 1890's Imperial Germany manages to make Mexico a client state heavily dependent on German Banks and with its military remade in the Prussian image?

Britain should never have gone back on the Gold Standard in the 20's. Thank You WSC.

I was thinking of just using existing tooling and churning out these for advanced training. Do the gunnery and ground attack training on these before moving onto the O.C.U's for conversion to frontline types.

That was a common name for a black dog in Britain. It was the name of a friends curly furred terrier/spaniel/god knows what mutt in 1979.