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Great Timeline @LumineVonReuental; with regards to the last update, the only issue I would point out is that you may have overestimated the supply problems the Allied Expeditionary Force faced IOTL, at least as far as August 1944 is concerned. If the territory under Allied control in Brittany...

Initially as mobile firepower, with Mounted Rifles being the proper term. Mounted Infantry in the British and Empire context referred to infantrymen taken from their battalions and given basic training in riding a horse, pony or mule (or camel!), and expected to simply use it to get to wherever...

I would say underrated at the time, and definitely underrated today by historians of the war. I'd made a post about the role of cavalry in the war on Reddit a month ago, and it gives some idea of how cavalry contributed during the war: Cavalry exploitation secured final victory over the Central...

The calm before the storm... I imagine we'll still see the famous order, "To-Ra! To-Ra! To-Ra!":) Keep it up Johnboy, this is an awesome TL!

*Guitar starts playing* I left alone ... my mind was blank ... I needed time to think, to get the memories from my mind ... But seriously, this has been a very enjoyable timeline Johnboy! I don't think the Germans are close to the end of their tether just yet, but if the Italians get...

Perhaps an adjustment of the border, so that the areas along the border that are largely Hungarian populated can be ceded, without handing over ALL of Northern Transylvania as IOTL? It feels a little odd to me, considering Romania's oil reserves, and all of it's other natural resources, that...

Bakker-Shut and Oder-Neisse. Give France the Saarland, Luxembourg and Belgium whatever territories they had wanted. Palatinate, Baden, Wurttemberg, Bavaria and Austria form South German Confederation, rest of Germany forms North German Confederation, both are neutral, non-aligned as Germany IOTL...

It could be interesting, considering this still only a few weeks after Dec. 191th, 1941, when Hitler sacked Brauchitsch and many other Eastern front Generals, and basically took direct command of the OKH. A subsequent purge of German intelligence, based on the fear that the meeting was revealed...

I have a feeling that 'Blue Day', May 10th, 1940, will be the day the world shall hold it's breath, just like June 22nd, 1941; here's hoping the Russo-Polish losses won't be the same as Soviet losses IOTL!:eek: (though I doubt they will) I'm guessing we can also expect the same or similar...

A Jewish homeland in the Russian Empire, perhaps?

Great updates Johnboy! I have a question regarding the Russian Army post war: Will there still be developments in strategy, doctrine and tactics towards the 'Deep Battle' concept of the OTL Soviet Armies? Triandafillov, Tukhachevsky and Frunze all served in the Russian Army during WWI IOTL...

Polikarpov, Tupolev AND Sikorski are working together, Bennie's bit the dust, Louis' settling down as King of Finland. I feel safe saying that things are looking up for the Post-War world ITTL. excellent stuff Johnboy!

More cowbell? I am the Fuhrer, the voice ... of Germany! Schweinhund, you must be silenced. -Stauffenberg, executing Hitler

If there IS such a German leader (Hitler certainly was IOTL), I'll have what he's smoking!!!:eek::D

Not sure if sarcasm, or serious... If it's the latter, you and me both!:D

Except that was Frederick the Great ... over 200 years ago ... and even then, if it weren't for the Miracle of the House of Brandenburg, the Prussians would have been in BIG trouble. Without a Fascist Italy as an Ally, stuck in the middle of Europe, surrounded on all sides by MUCH more...

Please, please, PLEASE, tell me the Saudis don't take over!:(

I wouldn't say necessarily. With Britain, France, America, Italy AND Russia in charge, the peace will probably still be roughly the same as OTL, but with the (now) Big 5 in much better shape than they were OTL, they may actually be able to PROPERLY ENFORCE the treaty, while making the...

Building on the previous posts, the Treaty of Bucharest (1918) gave Romania Bessarabia, but in return Austria-Hungary annexed the Carpathian Passes, stripping Romania of the defenses on it's longest border, while all of dobruja was to be given to Bulgaria, in return for an adjustment of borders...

That Izzard bit was hilarious btw! I agree with the point about the coup, the Dynamic Duo (Hindendorff, not Batman & Robin) seems to have shot themselves in the foot. When the war ends, the Military will be left holding the bag, but hopefully that will entail a complete purge of the system...