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  1. How do the US and UK respond?

    Unfortunately nukes were not that accurate at the time (At Hiroshima the weapon missed the IP by 240 meters but at Nagasaki it missed the targeting point by three kilometers/1.9 Miles) nor were they sufficiently potent (Little Boy had a "sure kill" of hardened bunkers of ~340 meters and a...
  2. Map Thread XIII

    Really? Don't do this again.
  3. How do the US and UK respond?

    Italy was a disaster. The German forces there held out until the very end. Give then two additional Panzer divisions and they hold until 1946 D-Day was a success due to the massive battlefield prep and air supremacy, but also because the Heer had, just to face the Soviet Bagration offensive...
  4. WI the D-Day invasion failed

    Worst part is that when I typed it out I thought it looked wrong. :o The landing at Okinawa was almost an Administrative one. That was, in part, due to the Allied success at Normandy. General Ushijima and his planning staff are said to have concluded that if the Atlantic Wall had been so...
  5. WI the D-Day invasion failed

    Tarawa? Sure, for a start Saipan Guam Pelieu Iwo Jima (2,400 casualties from a smaller initial landing force)
  6. WI the D-Day invasion failed

    First, welcome to the Board. :) However... No, we can't simply assume that D-Day failed. That isn't how post (or pre) 1900 works. There need to be a at least low order of possibility Point of Departure (POD). It is up to the individual presenting the scenario to either have it in the OP or be...
  7. WI Soviet embassy in Iran held hostage in 1979-'81 instead of the US embassy?

    Back when the takeover happened a reporter asked the Soviet Foreign Ministry this question about a week after it started. He said something to the effect that if it had been the Soviet Embassy it would be back in Soviet control already. It is worth remembering that, at the time, the USSR...
  8. Some facts about Adolf Hitler, WW2 and Soviet Union

    Note to self: Check ferret flap. Latch may be loose.
  9. Some facts about Adolf Hitler, WW2 and Soviet Union

    Wow. An actual, Honest-to-God Nazi Fanboy. We see you folks so rarely, yet no where near rarely enough. I used to do a big spiel on the evils of the Nazis for you lot. I realized eventually that you didn't care about truth, so I will save the typing. We Divorce you.
  10. Anglo-French Alliance Post World War 2

    When do you see the occurring? Is is before or after the Marshall Plan contributes $2,296,000,000 to the French recovery and $3,297,000,000 in 1948 dollars ($44.6B in 2014 dollars)? Or is is after Britain ended rationing in 1954?
  11. No Golden Horde, Kiev-Muscovy rivalry

    Is there anything even remotely approaching a point to this thread?
  12. Pacific Ordeal

    They did, but not at that location.
  13. Pacific Ordeal

    Not what they found there. Mainly a bunch of metal tubes with fins on one end a pointy bit on the other.
  14. PC/WI V-3 "Millipede" Gun used on UK ports pre OVERLORD

    That would be the one. The one with no traverse or elevation adjustment and the size of a battleship once the mount and bunker comes into the picture.
  15. From Marienburg to Vienna: a Teutonic Timeline

    Gone until this is determined to be a troll or a hack
  16. PC/WI V-3 "Millipede" Gun used on UK ports pre OVERLORD

    Problem with the weapon was that it was mounted in a fixed location unlike the V1 & V2 which were mobile, or semi-mobile and as soon as it was fired it would provide a flaming data point. The Gun tube 3/4 the length of a WW I Dreadnought type battleship (430 feet) and both the elevation and...
  17. Pacific Ordeal

    To be covered shortly. As general reminder to all: Only three post so far guys. Much story to come. (You don't want to read the last page first do you? :p)
  18. Pacific Ordeal

    As is generally the case with major POD like this it is a low probability event. What actually happened IOTL is, in the main, the plausible course of events. There are elements of the narrative that have not yet been posted that will, IMO address this, at least in part. Thanks for the...
  19. AHC: British strategic bomber

    About all that is left of the original B-52s are the wing spars & basic air frame, and from what I have been told, the in flight toilet facilities. Every other part has been replaced multiple times, the avionics are ripped out and totally replaced every few years as tech advances. Even then...
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