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In OTL prior to the germans taking Crete there wasn't enough troops, transport, or air power to even consider it. After the germans took crete there was no point. And churchill's leros advanture in 43 was one of his dafter ideas, and by that time strategically pointless. In TTL there is an...

Patton could create a violent argument in an empty room. Slim being calm and reasonable would, in my opinion, just wind him up. Is it possible to have a one-sided rivalry?

Is the TTL Lancaster significantly more effective than the TTL Manchester? Lancaster in OTL was only developed because the Manchester wasn't up to it. If in TTL the Manchester is effective then one of these: 1) The Lancaster never gets developed, and the Manchester numbers include all the...

Not sure you did get it wrong. The text is sometimes confusing, as the same factory can have different names. As far as I can see all Austin aircraft were built at a shadow factory close to the Longbridge plants, which was called Longbridge, the south works, and Cofton Hackett. The battles and...

It's on this link http://www.austinmemories.com/styled-20/index.html The caption on this picture is "Hurricane ready to be lifted from the flight shed to the airfield." Getting a stirling or lancaster up that ramp could have been a bit tricky. Site also says "Because of the short runway at...

Just done some research. The Austin motors shadow factory made Battles, then Hurricanes (IIb I think), then Stirlings, then Lancasters. When they went from Hurricanes to Stirlings, they had a major problem. The runway next to the factory wasn't long enough for the bigger aircraft. So they made...

And another choice. If the supply of main guns (e.g. 2pdr) cant keep up with production, then either 1) Do something else with the chassis, e.g. SP gun, SPAA, etc. 2) Turn out more spares.

The original was a punishment for failure or disgrace on the battlefield. The legionaries would draw lots, and 1 in 10 would draw a bad one, and be killed by the others. Meanings change - hasn't been used as a punishment for a while, and doesn't mean 10% any more.

And the bank vaults are very capacious, and very secure. Also the bankers will accept any items of value, and not tell anyone.

Apologies for posting here with a request for information. I'm trying to find a set of production numbers, and all my usual sources are failing me. Hopefully someone her can help. I'm looking for aircraft production by factory by month for the UK, for 37 to 45. Or any part thereof. Dominions &...

And mines on the 16th. Nyah, nyah, nyah.

Except the most in OTL sonnenblume was 1 german division - 5th light (which wasn't much more than brigade strength), and 3 italian - Ariete armoured, and Brescia "motorized".

And no fighter cover for the heinkels and junkers. Having a reconn or bombing raid met by even a small number of hurricanes, or even gladiators in early '41, is going to give them pause, with the BoB only 3-6 months earlier.

Not necessarily - depends on how it was done. e.g. 193n - cross departmental "standardisation and cooperation" committee set up. Establishes standards for 1) Army/navy/air force vehicles - similar to Canadian Military Pattern, but empire wide. For stuff as simple as spark plugs...

The issue is not with the number of aircraft the allies can put on crete, which as you say isn't many. It's that the axis will have too many priorities, and not enough aircraft to cover them all. Interdicting supplies to Crete isn't going to be a high enough priority to keep large number of...

Only until '42, when the number of planes the axis can put up is outnumbered by those of the allies, and they have to make hard decisions on where to put them.

Going back to the railway... Got hold of a download called the desert railway, on the New Zealand Railway group. The railway was standard gauge (4' 81/2") According to another source on a single track railway a "normal" train in 1940 would be 60 cars, capable of carrying 4,400 tons of cargo. Or...

The italian 10th army was pretty much destroyed in operation compass. The other italian army in libya, the 5th, had contributed a lot of units transferred to the 10th. The only oob I can find for the 5th is for july 1940. Subtracting from that the units known to have been destroyed in compass...

Just looking at battle of tobruk on wikipedia (yes, I know). States that by then the supplies captured at sollum and capuzzo had been used up. And that supplies through the port of sollum were running at 350 long tons per day in early january, and 500 long tons later in the month. No mention of...

Looks like this might be useful: https://www.jstor.org/stable/20029827 "Behind the British Victory in North Africa:The Story of Supply" Looks like it is a 1944 propaganda piece masquerading as information. On the other hand it does have, on the 1st page: When the war began a good metalled road...