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Even if you found Fort Knox you won't get in. From what I understand it would take a nuke to get inside. Then gold is heavy. Even with large trucks moving any appreciable amount will be difficult.

"Pussy Galore? I must be dreaming!"

They were, and were running out of manpower on top of that. And the troops in Europe would NOT be happy now having to fight the Japanese (including my late uncle), they felt they'd done their part and wanted to go home. Personally I see the air raids continuing as well as the submarine...

I wonder just how many practicing dentists there will be after this mess sorts itself out. Most will probably become medical personal of some kind as that's where they are needed more.

The Japanese actually built these and some were used at Gualdacanal. Success rate was marginal at best and the towing subs were vulnerable...

Gold would only have value if someone else wanted it either for its properties or felt it would regain its value sometime in the future. Currently the items with the greatest monitary value would be ammunition, food, water and gasoline. Medicine is of some value but only a doctor would be able...

The Russians had a design for a torpedo battleship with 4 triple 7.1-inch turrets and something like 84 submerged TT's (most on the beam). Never left the drawing board.

Just building the boats isn't enough, you need crews. And not everybody is submariner material - I know I'm not...

No proper landing boats and no amphibious tanks (the US had a few Stuart's on Midway).

In one word...NO. Even if Japan managed to seize Midway they could never have held it for long, they would be forced to abandon it. At the very best Operation Watchtower (the invasion of Guadalcanal, also known as Operation Shoestring) gets pushed back a few months. And invade the US? Not a...

According to a video I saw the Chauchat wasn't as bad as it's reputation says it was, but it needed to be handled carefully...

For the Med they're not bad but the cruisers are tinclads designed for speed they could not maintain in service. Putting them in the Atlantic or anyplace else rough and they're going to have troubles. Can the Soviets even supply ships? They were dependent on Italy and Germany for a number of...

As a traitor...

Quite an order. Well, for tanks I would go for Italian or Japanese. Small arms I would go Japanese. For ships buy Italian. For aircraft go to France.

Exactly. Money will quickly be worthless as what can you spend it on? Things like food and ammo will quickly become the standard barter elements of any catastrophe.

I wonder how BLUCHER would have fared with turbines and superfiring rather than beam turrets... The biggest problem with AC's in my opinion is that (with 2 exceptions) none carried turbines. Mixed-firing turbines giving them an additional 1.5-2 knot speed difference would make them more useful...

I must agree, but there was some national pride involved that can't be discounted.

1. The radio will become important quickly. The airplane must do some substantial evolution before becoming useful to the fleet, much less a threat. 2. Agree with slow acceptance of the turbine, but it is there and the higher speeds it allows cannot be ignored. 3. Agreed, but it did show the...

One thing that must be remembered is that this is an age of massive technological advancement. Among other things: - The turbine has been invented and is starting to come into common use - The use of oil-sprayed coal - Better fire control - The torpedo is now becoming a weapon to be dangerous...

Had the Soviets stolen the plans for the proximity fuse by this point?