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  1. AHC: create the WAllied long range fighter force

    The Mosquito was a fine Night-fighter, Reecee/photo platform, and intruder, but it was not, in any way, shape or form, a suitable platform to provide daylight escort. Single seat fighters would have torn it to bits (and did, when it was used in the roles I just mentioned, and caught in daytime)...
  2. AHC: create the WAllied long range fighter force

    But they were really, really good guys.
  3. AHC: create the WAllied long range fighter force

    The F4U was a NAVY aircraft. The Marines got their greedy mitts on them because the Fleet could get the damned monsters deck qualified (took the FAA to finally figure that one out). As was noted, change the Alpha-Numeric (P-48 for the win, it appears) and keep repeating the terms Navy, Lt...
  4. AHC: create the WAllied long range fighter force

    The Marines did a hell of good job with the press. Perfect example is the Battle of Bella Wood. Almost everyone hears the name and thinks "Marines" and/or "Retreat, Hell! We just got here!" There was ONE USMC Brigade attached to TWO Army divisions at the battle (along with both British and...
  5. AHC: create the WAllied long range fighter force

    Huh? CORSAIR F4U Already in combat approved and qualified operation. Need to plumb two wing hardpoints. P-51 isn't going to happen that fast and the A-36 wasn't gonna feed the bull dog, not in mid 1942. The first Merlin equipped Mustang didn't fly until October of 1942. The aircraft DID NOT...
  6. AHC: create the WAllied long range fighter force

    Key with Marshall was to keep any possible imaginable sign that there was ever a Marine in the room hidden. He despised the Corps (he felt that the Marines had "stolen all the glory" from the Army during WW II), even refused to consider allowing a half squadron of Marine Corsairs into the ETO to...
  7. Does Japan still attack Pearl Harbor without the Fall of France?

    The killer would have been, as was so amply detailed in the book, that the U.S. effectively had a lock on all of Japan's hard currency and was tightening that control every day. No one would have wanted to barter the quantity of silk the Japanese needed to move for trade without hard currency...
  8. AHC: create the WAllied long range fighter force

    The good news regarding training is that the aircraft was very similar to the Thunderbolt (same engine, similar performance) so getting AAF pursuit pilots up to speed would be fairly simple. Most important thing is to leave them unpainted, and make damned sure no one says "Marine Corps" anywhere...
  9. Queen Elizabeth class carrier

    Except you have a COD using as much spaces as two, maybe three, combat aircraft, on a ship that already has a small air wing. The Clemenceau class only managed around 40 aircraft as was, and that was with aircraft the size of the Alize and Super Entendard aboard (you could put 3.5 Crusaders in...
  10. AHC: create the WAllied long range fighter force

    Time to go just a stride or to outside the Box. Try the Corsair. The F4U in "deck qualified" configuration had a combat radius of around 350 miles. Knock off a few hundred pounds by eliminating the carrier landing gear and that puts you close to the 400 mile mark. The aircraft's range as quoted...
  11. Does Japan still attack Pearl Harbor without the Fall of France?

    The second phase of the occupation, namely that of Vietnam (which put a number of Western assets at risk, from Malaya to the DEI to the Southern Philippines). The decision and the attempt to use it to reverse/prevent Imperial action is mentioned in numerous sources. One I have at hand is...
  12. DBWI: Have Germany not be the world's main superpower

    Oh, HELL no. 80 years is STILL too soon.
  13. Queen Elizabeth class carrier

    BTW: For anyone who wants to see the difference between playing the ball and playing the man- Compare this post to the one that got Admiral Beez tossed. Both expressed the same point, only one didn't include needless personalization.
  14. Queen Elizabeth class carrier

    If this was the first time you had needlessly insulted another member this would have been a warning. Unfortunately you already have a kick for insults. See 'ya in 7. Please work on playing the ball when you return.
  15. Nuclear powered Iowas - BB-65 and BB-66

    Biggest problem I see is double the machinery in an era where the goal is to reduce personnel numbers, and loss of JP-5 bunkerage. Even if you use gas turbines that run on JP-5 the ship's machinery will still be reducing the volume of fuel available for air operations. The next step, of course...
  16. Alternate Wikipedia Infoboxes IV (Do not post Current Politics Here)

    Congratulations. You are the latest to get an Official Warning for not reading the title of the bloody thread before posting. Since you had a clear record to this point it is just a warning. Had you ever had any action this would be a kick.
  17. Does Japan still attack Pearl Harbor without the Fall of France?

    THe Japanese did jump from one place to another, but you need to look at distances. The operations were generally only a few hundred miles apart.
  18. Does Japan still attack Pearl Harbor without the Fall of France?

    Almost certainly not. It was the, in hindsight, idiotic decision to invade/annex French Indochina that set off the Oil Embargo. That in turn put the Empire into a position where it could either withdraw and lose face (with a couple of the civilian members of the Council almost certainly paying...
  19. Nuclear powered Iowas - BB-65 and BB-66

    Actually a CVN makes a lot more sense than simply the unlimited range. The biggest difference is during air ops. The JFK used to lose 5 knots +/- during operations due to the amount of steam being diverted to the cats (I read somewhere that the ship could fall as low as 25 knots, which is barely...
  20. Could European Colonialism in Africa Be Hindered by Prolonged Chinese Contact?

    Wow, how remarkably edgy! You seem to be posting a lot of these sort of comments, all very edgy. You probably need some time to patch up all the nicks from those edges. Very understandable. Take a week. Strike Two. See 'ya in 7.
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