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And with Nazis not benefiting from looted gold reserves of the most of Europe, this will hit them badly.

Are we replacing operation Shingle or operation Dragoon (or maybe Accolade)? Any way, you need to take a port first, so it's either Split, Šibenik, Zadar Rijeka, Pula or Trieste. Support by partisans would be critical for success of the plan and while Tito did promise Stalin that his forces...

Not for now, but we'll see how strategic situation develops. No matter what supplies were lost, the loss of so many transports will hurt their ability to resupply their army in Malayay forcing them to rely on ''gifts'' from the enemy even more. Not to mention that these losses stretch their...

Stalin planned for the war against Germany somewhere between 1943 and 1944, when rearnament and reorganisation of the Red Army was complete. Before that was the rematch with Finland.

Well, pdf27 is exploring this possibility in his Blunted Sickle. Some things are certain, Red Army would continue with rearnament and reorganization, there would be another attempt to conquer Finland in 1942 or 1943, Stalin would also continue to find new groups of people to purge.

Yeah, but now the Long Lances are coming into play. And Kondo is most certainly dying, arterial bleeding at the shoulder is very hard to stop.

It's not often you see air force sinking a ship to be tied or even worse in personnel casualties.

My guess is, that the Japanese will try to inflict maximum damage with torpedo bombers and launch combined destroyer/battleship attack after dark, something they were well trained and equipped for. The British don't know that, but I thin the Japanese also don't know about Fleet Arm being trained...

He was also nearly killed or captured at Eylau, his staff and some stragglers holding of the Russians long enough for Guard to intervene.

They have a task force of battleships, supported by land based torpedo bombers, trying to defeat the Singapure based fleet.

Interesting. So his reforms would have courtailed the ambitions of his son and the junkers. Still, Wilhelm's buffonery would probably be still enough to alienate most of Europe.

Renissance was set to the background of constant wars between Italian states. Greek classic period was set to background of frequent wars between polis. Wars and preparations for wars spur advances in some fields of science, with aircraft, electronics and medicine being the main beneficiaries in...

Aircraft technology might be some 20 years behind the OTL and computer technology a decade or so. Barring no territorial change, Alsace and Lorraine would be a firmly German territory and century of germanization would all but expunge the Polish language from German territory. In Russia, no...

Well, the Serbian leadership was not keen on starting war with AH soo soon after devastating Balkan Wars, soo if they found out what Apis was planning, they would have nipped the conspiracy in the bud, which would have removed one excuse for war, moving the crisis to a later date. We could have...

In other words, A Blunted Sickle. https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=287285

I'm sure that's just an isolated incident and won't happen too often :D With attackers at Pusan losing element of surprise, the capture of the city is bound to be a bloodbath, rivaling the OTL battle for Shangai in ferocity.

I'm quite sure they would still produce their own light arms, artillery, trucks and light armour. Tanks and aircraft would most likely be built under licence, but maybe the first generation tank would still be their own design. They would probably make a Hetzer II (with proper Czech name that...

Yugoslavia was liberated with Soviet assistance, liberation of Belgrade and Serbia in general were combined operations. Poland could not liberate itself without outside heavy support, this was proven during Warsaw uprising.

It would be quite a blow if one of the Russian gun submarines could surface near one of the Japanese refinaries and set the fuel reserves there on fire.

Berlin, despite being ruined, is a certain target due to it's symbolic value.