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  1. PG-13 rating never exists

    Family friendly.
  2. PG-13 rating never exists

    All that really happens is that "G" is the "safe space" movies. Everything else is catch as catch can.
  3. Strategically Pointless Battles of the First and Second World War?

    The Soviets engaged the vast majority of the Wehrmacht throughout the war from Barbarossa onward. WW II was very much an Allied effort with each partner providing a critical element. However, the land combat element, which was what had to be done to actually win the war, was provided by the Red...
  4. The Silver Knight, a Lithuania Timeline

    Well, in this case you missed. Badly. I strongly suggest you correct, immediately.
  5. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Poles are the "muscle" of the A4 in Europe. They are the primary "peacekeepers", along with Vietnamese troops, in the German statelets. There is considerable dislike of Poles in the statelets, and in France (although that is dropping over the years) because of their role, but not in the A4.
  6. Extent of Japanese civilian participation in Operation Downfall?

    Not questioning it, the dehumanization factor can not be overstated, but can you aim me at a couple primary sources?
  7. What was the final moment that the CSA could've won the Civil War?

    Sharpsburg. There was never much of a chance that Britain or France would recognize the Confederacy, but the minute Lincoln published the Emancipation Proclamation, and made the War expressly about slavery as much as "preserving the Union" the chance that any European Power would intervene was...
  8. What if the Confederates offer to join the British Empire ?

    Wouldn't happen, for the same reason they seceded in the first place. The South becomes part of the Empire and Slavery is gone. The British outlawed slavery almost everywhere (the exception being areas in the control of the East India Company) in 1833. The exception were given an extra 10 years...
  9. WI: The Empire of Japan never attacked the United States of America

    Hawking disproved (and comprehensively disproved) Conspiracy BS is unacceptable here.
  10. WI: Stalin betrays Hitler in Poland and invades the Reich

    Unfortunately for you, Mods can see what you posted, even if you edit it. Sometimes edgy and insulting snaps back. Like now. Kicked for a week for insults and trolling.
  11. Extent of Japanese civilian participation in Operation Downfall?

    Most of them. Worst case would be 20-25% KIA, more likely 25% casualties with 1/3 of that KIA (so around a million WIA of one extent or another with 300-350,000 of that total KIA). A decent guess is that of the 4M who actually decide to turn out half never get close to the landing beached due to...
  12. Extent of Japanese civilian participation in Operation Downfall?

    The data comes from a number of different sources, and does include a degree of estimation, but most estimation is intentionally on the low side. Some of the sources: http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/war.term/olympic.html...
  13. Would the Wallies have made peace if Stalin dropped out of WW2?

    The last fighter the U.S. deployed that couldn't engage the Me-264 was the P-26. The P-36 had a lower max speed, but the Me-364 was only able to hit top speed in unladen condition. The P-40 could get to 29k, but it handled like a pig at that altitude. Even the Brewster Buffalo could manage it...
  14. Would strategic bombing work today as well as it did in WW2 against cities?

    Which lasted for under three weeks and was all done with PGM.
  15. Would strategic bombing work today as well as it did in WW2 against cities?

    Unless you are referring to the "War of the Cities" during the Iraq/Iraq War, or the IED attacks, you are very much wrong. In 2003, DURING the "shock and awe" phase of the attack, CNN had a camera set up in Baghdad. Folks were going to work, traffic signals worked, etc. Anything but prolonged...
  16. Would the Wallies have made peace if Stalin dropped out of WW2?

    The issue is delivery. The ONLY delivery system is the V2, maybe the V1. The Wallies are the ones with the delivery systems capable of massive delivery against population. The evacuation of industry, while helpful in protecting it, would not be all inclusive, even the Soviets didn't manage that...
  17. Would the Wallies have made peace if Stalin dropped out of WW2?

    It's hard to say, he wasn't exactly the most predictable guy, but IMO he would have loved nuclear weapons It is pretty clear that his beliefs on CW were, at a minimum, strong influenced by his experiences in WW I. Nuclear weapons, on the other hand, would be new, exciting, and very much "Ooh...
  18. Would the Wallies have made peace if Stalin dropped out of WW2?

    The real problem is that this isn't matter of MAD. Not even close. When the WAllies had 50,000 TONS of CW, the capability to make more on an industrial scale and can, even in the most advantageous condition that can be created in this scenario, hit any city in Germany with 200-1,000 TONS of...
  19. Extent of Japanese civilian participation in Operation Downfall?

    Spruance with Fifth Fleet (Downfall was going to be the only time in the war that Third and Fifth Fleet actually operates as different formation, rather than the fast carrier force swapping numbers depending on who was at sea in command) would have been the primary gunfire support force. He had...
  20. Extent of Japanese civilian participation in Operation Downfall?

    Actually the Red Army gets a decent share of that credit as well. This is true, as far as it goes. There were 26 million members of the Volunteer Corps. Not all of them were going to be waiting behind the beaches., but the IJA expected many would be once the invaders arrived There would have...
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