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  1. WI:The Japanese only declared war on Britain and the Netherlands?

    It is EXACTLY because a minority felt that way. You needed 64 votes (2/3 of the Senators voting) in the Senate to cut off debate or move things to the floor between 1927 and the mid 1960s all eleven attempts to stop filibusters failed. In 1975 the Senate (at the time 61 Democrats +1 independent...
  2. WI:The Japanese only declared war on Britain and the Netherlands?

    Well this would be correct, IF JAPAN WAS ATTACKING THE USSR. If the USSR was already engaged in a full embargo of Japanese goods, refused as a matter of course to allow sale of any "war materials" to Japan, and had frozen virtually ALL of Imperial Japan's international exchange currency, the...
  3. AHC: Japan attacks British & Dutch Territories

    A lot of the boats in the PI were also using older, slower, but pretty much 100% reliable Mark 10. The Mark 14 was in short supply (prewar production was 1.5 torpedoes a DAY, with three shift working round the clock, even with three factories going full bore there were only 2,000 Mark 14...
  4. WI:The Japanese only declared war on Britain and the Netherlands?

    This always proceeds from three false assumptions every time it comes up 1. The U.S. was utterly isolationist. Not True. The U.S. had a very strong minority that didn't want to get caught up in Europe again. Once had been, the thinking went, enough. Hitler managed to alter that bit by bit...
  5. WI: Holocaust never happens, and nazis not anti-semetic

    Quite literally by definition they are no longer Nazis. This question proceeds from what is a surprisingly common assumption, that Antisemitism was not the actual foundation of the National Socialist Party. It was, from the very start. The Party began as a anti-communist movement in the...
  6. AHC: Japan attacks British & Dutch Territories

    Asked before? Two of the top five threads on the Forum as I type this are on the same subject.
  7. Midway bombardment

    Zombie sunk.
  8. What if Japan invaded Hawaii during Pearl Harbor?

    Ease back there big guy.
  9. An extra Yorktown in 41 is worth 2 Essex in 43

    What you actually need is something earlier to scare the crap out of Congress. IOTL it took the Fall of France for the folks up on the Hill to realize that shit was about to get real. Until then they money wasn't there to do much. Congress, much like Parliament, used the Treaty as a cost...
  10. What if Japan invaded Hawaii during Pearl Harbor?

    I usually see the posts in question as our Board's version of "honey badger don't care". Somebody has to call it what it is, regardless. :p
  11. Were The Japanese Ocean Liners Converted To Aircraft Carriers A Waste Of Resources?

    The reality is that the Japanese had no choice but to approach things like they were fighting a single round fight, if that. A reasonable case can be made that the idea was to conduct the wold's largest smash and grab robbery along with a couple muggings. Knock the other guy on his ass and have...
  12. What if Japan invaded Hawaii during Pearl Harbor?

    The Kongo class were hyped up battlecruisers, based solely on their Deck armor (2.75", even after being improved it never exceeded 4" anywhere on the ship). There is a reason that the San Francisco was able to chop the Hiei upper works to pieces and disable her to the point that she was unable...
  13. What if Japan invaded Hawaii during Pearl Harbor?

    The timescale for Pearl was 100% dictated by the readiness dates of Shokaku and Zuikaku, nothing more and nothing less. The operational plan required six full sized decks to succeed. Zuikaku completed her shakedown cruise on November 7, 1941. TWELVE DAYS later she took on additional cadre to...
  14. What if Japan invaded Hawaii during Pearl Harbor?

    True, as far as it goes. The rest of the truth is that the mission was to engage the Pacific Fleet near Formosa, inside JNAF land based air cover, after the U.S. fleet had been damaged by carrier and submarine attack, in a big gun duel. IJN doctrine also effectively forbade warships engaging...
  15. American strategic options vs a Nazi-dominated Europe?

    Except for the Eastern Front? None worth considering. I have to disagree with the folks who state that Stalin would allow U.S. forces into the USSR. His paranoia was so great toward ALL "capitalists" that it simply wouldn't happen. His security apparatus even harassed WAllied crews (both...
  16. Israel in danger in 1948 - US response

    None, or close to it. We were the first country to grant them full recognition when they declared independence, but there was not a chance in Hell that we would directly intervene. The region was considered to be the Brit's patch and the American people were very war weary. At best they...
  17. Even more infamous Nazis

    Actually, they were that dedicated. They planned to erase Saint Peterburg/Leningrad, Kiev, and Warsaw as well. The goal was to literally eliminate "Slavic" culture from the pages of history, along with that of the Jews and Roma. Generalplan Ost makes for remarkable reading. The degree of lunacy...
  18. What if Japan invaded Hawaii during Pearl Harbor?

    True. There were, however facilities at least equal to those on any number of islands where the Japanese did manage to develop airfields, not the least being Guadalcanal. There was very little military force on any of the Hawaiian Islands outside of Oahu (and, technically, Midway) with the...
  19. What if Japan invaded Hawaii during Pearl Harbor?

    Chuuk Lagoon is around 3,500 miles from Oahu. At a constant 30 knots it is 103 hours one way. At a reasonable rate of advance, allowing time to refuel destroyers, of 20 knots, it is 152 hours, one way. If there is weather, it is an easy 8-9 days each way. Assuming the Japanese want to keep at...
  20. What if Japan invaded Hawaii during Pearl Harbor?

    Somewhere north of 50K. I've said in previous threads that the only amphibious force that would have been able to pull it off at the distances involved was the USN circa late 1944/early 1945. You would need a force roughly the size of the one deployed at Leyte or Okinawa, even the Saipan...
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