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What if the newest battleships of the US navy didn't have their propeller difficulties and were completed earlier and therefor would have arrived at Pearl harbour days or weeks before it was attacked by the Japanese? The North Carolina was definitely sheduled to go there, not sure about the...

Can someone tell me why during the New Guinea Campaign the Japanese didn't occupy Wau after they had succcessfully occupied Lae and Salamaua? They took all the territory unopposed and Wau had an airfield that was very usefull. Is it simply because it was up the hill and into the jungle? I...

What if, when the Nazis surrendered in Tunisia and the like in 1943, more German generals escape being captured? Where there any good ones among them that would have made a difference in further fighting in Europe both against the Wallies and the Soviet Union? The Wehrmacht started to lose a...

So i read that Charles V was very close at creating a so called "universal monarchy" as HRE in the early 16th century. What would that even mean if it was fullfilled? Would the reichstag cease to exist? Would there be a true standing army for the emperor to use? Where would be the capital? What...

The first battle of WWII was a pain in the butt for the Germans who though they could take Westerplatte in 10 minutes, it took 7 days. However, i wonder about air cover for the Polish. Why wasn't there any? If there was no airbase in the vicinity that would expalin it but i can't seem to find...

So, What if the helicopters had been invented before the airplane? What i know is the airplane in OTL was officially first flown in 1903, with a much better version of it in 1909, single wing, unaided lift, showing they were very capable of being used(to say it crudely). A very succesfull...

Only recently i have discovered this part of the Battle of France so i don't know a lot about it. At first this idea of a Franco-British Union looked to me like France never actually surrendered to the Germans in 1940, but that a sort of coup happened and Phillip Petain, the collaborator, took...

What if in 1932 France had given their construction plans for the Dunkerque-class battleships to The Netherlands? And what if that prompted the Dutch Navy to start designing the 3 Design-1047 battlecruisers in that year(OTL only in 1938), and make it possible for them being laid down around...

Searched but seen that only Turkey joining Axis has been done before. What if Turkey, after seeing Operation Husky(invasion of Sicily) succeed decided to join the allies on August 17 1943, getting what financial and material aid they requested(as per the Hardihood Agreement) in exchange for a...

I don't post much in this forum and don't nkow much about pre-1900 history but i'll try something: What if in 1518 Cardinal Wolsley manages to have all 20 leading countries(Christian) in Europe invited to London sign the treaty of London which was basically a non-aggression pact. What if...

What if Admiral Wilhelm Canaris(very interesting man), head of the Abwehr and in 1944 executed for treason was instead executed much earlier in mid-1939, for treason as well(they find out about his involvement in attempts of assassinating Hitler, or him leaking info to the British) even before...

So what if Michael Jackson, now 54 years old, had died in 2009 right before his "This is it" tour which didn't go really as planned and was followed by the inevitable "This is really it" Tour wich resulted in total bankrupcy and even more declining health. Would there have been a huge tribute...

Lots of questions at the end of this. What if the Italians had more troops, planes and ships in East Africa when war was declared in June 1940? I know the biggest problem the Italians had in East Africa was poor supply. I don't wish that away as that would make them pretty much win all of...

What if Operation Sledgehammer was carried out in Autumn 1942 and the Allies landed on mainland Europe and actually manage to take Cherbourg and the rest of the Contentin peninsula(with whatever they needed to do that, the maximum amount they could gather in that time)and then waited out. I...

What i want is the Japanese fleet in 1941 not sneaking its way too Hawaii but sneaking over too Australia. I did measure that Australia is much further away from Tokyo then Hawaii is(like 2000 KM more), but imagine then that they launch from Truk. Could they make it too Sydney without...

So, what if instead of attacking China in 1936 the Japanese invade French Indochina? They would succeed of course but, like with Manchuria could they prevent further hostilities with France? What about Siam? I think it would make their position against China better, in OTL they got the region...

Watched a documentary about the Nazis nuclear program under leadership of Heisenberg. What if Hitler and the Nazis where less Antisemitic and they would listen too important Jewish scientists like Einstein and thus taken the taming of the atom more seriously(hitler called it "Jew science")...

At the battle of Tsushima what if Admiral Togo attacks the Russian fleet first and quickly gets a kill on lets say the Borodino as well as most or all the russian cruisers and destroyers causing the Russian fleet to raise the "XGE"(I surrender) flag early and allow the Japanese to capture no...

I've been reading a lot about operation downfall and i found some pretty scary stuff concerning what the American where considdering and planning of doing. But not only that, also what the Japanese where planning and considdering on doing. That combined freaked me out a little bit and i have...

What if American B-29 bomber "Enola Gay", carrying the "Little Boy" nuclear bomb was shot down over Japan(specifically somewhere on the island Shikoku) and it crash-landed, pilots dead with the bomb still intact?(not really sure how ASB that is) Several questions about that scenario: 1...