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7.398.000 metric tons in the DEI, 907.000 metric tons in British Borneo. For comparison Romania produced 6.603.000 metric tons.

Problem number 1 is retooling the industry. It is already set up to produce the SMLE, it will take time for it to retool to a new rifle during which it will produce little to nothing. It's the same reason why the British kept the 2pdr anti-tank gun in production far longer then it was useful...

Market-Garden? Fallschirms Panzer-Division Hermann Göring, was an armoured division, the Fallschirmsjäger-divisionen were light infantry without organic armour. Why wouldn't it get the lions-share of equipment compared to the other FJ-divisions? Now granted some of the FJ-divisions had for...

That's a true scotsman fallacy. A) Germany had large formations of Fallschirmsjägers all up to the end of the war. B) They fought continuously on all fronts. C) They were paradropped after Crete, though in small formations.

Umm yes they did, they even used Fallschirmsjägers during Wacht am Rhein.

More or less nothing, six months or two weeks makes about as much differance. You need time, engineers, equipment and supplies to fortify antyhing beyond two weeks. Guam and Wake is undefendable and anything and anyone sent there will either get destroyed, killed or captured. Samoa is to far...

Wake is too small and too isolated to be effectivly defended by the US, it is also within range of Japanese land based planes from the Marshalls. It'd need at least a brigade sized unit to defend the atoll and it is to small to effectivly hold that many troops. It doesn't even have the...

Depends I'd say, if war breaks out it gets swept under the rug, if not, courts martial for officers in charge. But then again, I'm not a military lawyer.

The Phillippine divisions artillery was still mobilising and was badly trained and with old equipment, some artillery battalions even lacked artillery guns altogether. The infantry was a at 2/3 strength, with what existed 1/3 having 13 weeks of training, 1/3 having 5 weeks of training and 1/3...

So where does the huge US armoured pincer movement the encloses the Japanese forces at Manila come from?

Comparing an incident with at most the loss of a US cruiser or two with the following diplomatic crisis and possibly angry US public to the attack on Pearl Harbor and the outragous fury that followed is quite disingenuous. They're not even closely similar and will have vastly different public...

However such an incident will not become a "day of infamy". The US publics will to fight a war with Japan over European colonies will be much less then OTL.

1st. Quoted for truth. 2nd. All the issues that the Red Army had in the west such as including but not limited to badly trained personel, lack of signal equipment, lack of fuel and ammunition, inflexible command system, lack of spare parts, lack of motorised logistics, lack of personal command...

Hmm the SKS was actaully tested during the war, I'd go with that instead of StG 44 or the M1 Garand to be honest.

I wouldn't, but I would take a Mk. 16 over a Type 95.

You shouldn't, primarily beacuse it causes confusion since those of us that prefer accuracy don't. While the Type 95 (submarine version) was developed from the Type 93, the Type 95 wasn't the only japanese submarine launched torpedo.

Why are you bringing up the Long Lance when you're talking about subs? The Long Lance (or Type 93 as it's designation was) was a surface ship torpedo.

Since Japan didn't surrender until September 2nd I don't see the issue with the IS-3 to be honest.

Why do so many people insist on US mortars? They were at best average. Best heavy mortar: Finnish 120 Krh/40 Mortar Best medium mortar: Italian Mortaio da 81/14 Modello 35

You could just have one of the four (?) boys that died as infants survive to adulthood instead. Much easier.