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Great to have you back, Know this will be a great TL>

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4th Marines as Cadre? As well as more forces/arms landing by submarines, 350K forces well trained by USMC veterans in the upcoming battles. The Japanese will have a real nightmare.

Sorry about your Dad my prayers are with him and your family

Carrier Airborne Assault The OV-10 could launch with 4 Recon Marines with minimal equipment. Very interesting insert on the deck with #1 with Knees in the breeze literally, then a vertical pop up to 1250 and you fell out. Again SOF recon insert only. S/F

Carrier Airborne In the 70's the aircraft to be used in Pre invasion Recon Parachute insertions (maybe not classified as an assault for sure) was the C-1A Trader the COD aircraft at the time. Jumped one once, not from a carrier however and remember it carried about 7-8 Marines and was a...

Please Vote This Timeline deserves a Turtledove! Well done on the Update, forgot all about the Sittang disaster in OTL "Vote early and often it's the Chicago Way!!!"

Superb update. Great way to go in a new direction!

Humans flying the TARDIS what! Perhaps one of them would be the Dread Pirate Roberts

gomen asai In reference to previous msg, gomen asai = so sorry I completely missed your comment about the 442 RCT, Deveraux devils very cool way to show what one Man can do. please keep this up

Part VIII Sorry to hit the wayback machine, but you have Thach arriving at Wake and being unceremoniously welcomed by one of the Leatherneck Garrison. Having met a couple of gentlemen of the "Old Corps" early in my career, those gentlemen having the very First Presidential Unit Citation and a...

Smedley D. Butler "Old Gimlet Eye died in 1940, if he had been around and the Nazi's attacked the USA you would probably find a large statue in Philadelphia probably near the Tun Tavern of a 60+ year old guy with a .30 cal Machine gun in his hands killing Germans. Butler was that kind of guy...

ELITE Marines of the Irish Republic in the defense of Northern Norway 1940-1943 Collins is not killed, takes Ireland in a whole new direction in the 30's

Return of PWR Please!!! PWR has a great following!

Too late In a single word answer to your question NO! The Army's amphibious efforts were just taken from the Corps Playbook. WPO planning for the central pacific Drive was developed by one Earl Hancock Ellis for advanced base operations in the 20's/30's and in order to support the Naval...

Outstanding, now if you were to couple this with a reinforcement of Wake and then would the "victory disease" be riding as high?

Tribute? Of course This is your T/L. Your work is superior.You have this all wrong was only trying to show respect because, your placing MacA in China was outstanding and a real twist. Did some research and offered some ideas for comment to the Board. Learned a lot about this part of the war...

Mac in China options 2 There are a number of Senior Officers of all services with experience in China with the 4th Marines, Yangtze Patrol, and 15th Infantry. If this is not a “throw away” option for PWR like OTL this could make the Pacific War more interesting and play into what post war China...

MacArthur in China options? Although PWR has quite a spell between updates the Mac Arthur /China option has generated a lot of comments. Having done some research on this, there is a great opportunity for a spinoff or subsidiary TL on what craziness could arise BTW Mac and Chang and all the...