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  1. RAF conducts the WW2 Bombing offensive in daytime.

    P-51 would make it with about 20 minutes of gas to spare. Mustangs made regular escort missions as far as Prague. On one memorable occasion the escorted the 2nd Bombardment Group from Italy to Berlin and back. If fact if you take the Spitfire and Fw-190 and do a relay (they are both good for...
  2. RAF conducts the WW2 Bombing offensive in daytime.

    Okay. Have any one of them take off from Moscow, full combat load. The Mustang will take off from England, same set-up. Lets see who manages to land at the other guy's base. I suggest the RAF, Luftwaffe, and Red Air Force pilots have freshly packed parachutes and their inflatable dingy's are...
  3. Planes that an Airforce must have

    Depends so much on goals. If it wants to project force it needs heavy bombers, if it intends to do any amount of serious heavy/heavy ground fighting it needs dedicated attack helos, some sort of ground attack fixed wing platform (A-10/Su-25). Do you have a navy with carriers? Or intel...
  4. RAF conducts the WW2 Bombing offensive in daytime.

    Well, they lost 55,000 men at night. In daylight, with the relatively low armor and weak defensive armament, including no useful ventral turret? Total bloodbath. If you add more guns all you do is reduce bomb load (although there are a few studies that indicate that B-17s shot down more...
  5. The politics of the US after Confederate Independence?

    We've had previous discussions. Nonetheless, Hi. The Morrill Tariff had been in effect for exactly six weeks when North Carolina seceded. (Effective date was April 3, 1861, NC seceded May 20, 1861.) Undoubtedly, that six weeks was enough to cause them to make a Rebel Stand and take up arms...
  6. National culture?

    Political, so definitely not for any thread but Chat. Absolute flame bait. Think we'll just shut this one down.
  7. WI: Al-Qaeda never existed

    Oh, please do expand on this.
  8. The politics of the US after Confederate Independence?

    They fought against the Morrill Tariff did they? Interesting, since seven states had already seceded by the time it was brought up for a vote in the Senate. Had their senators been there, rather than sitting back home the Tariff would have failed (it passed 25-14, add 14 votes to the no side and...
  9. WI: Nixon gives Egypt nuclear plants

    Closed at OP request.
  10. AHC: American carriers serving WW2 in Europe

    This covers the OP request. Wasp was a Yorktown subtype.
  11. WI Paul Wellstone didn't die?

    Six year old zombie sighted. Zombie terminated. Kill team enjoying victory toast with a 12 year old scotch.
  12. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    I couldn't stomach writing what life under the Reich was like in the east, especially the ATL East.
  13. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    The poster you replied to have been Banned for a couple years.
  14. Lack AIM-9L and much more Exocet in Falklands war

    Oops, wrong. Insults do not equal polite debate.
  15. WI :Lonesome Dove made into a movie in 1972

    It would have been a poor replacement for the TV version. The long-form limited episode TV "mini-series was, and actually remains, far and away the best manner of bringing a novel to the screen. Lonesome Dove is an 800+ page book, a motion picture script runs about 200 pages of triple spaced...
  16. Avoid WW2

    They already HAD started it. The 2nd Sino-Japanese War started in July of 1937. WW II started two years earlier than is often stated. The European part of the War stated On September 1, 1939, by that time the IJA had already sacked Nanking (the Nanking Massacre started on December 13th, 1937 and...
  17. Avoid WW2

    That is altogether too clever. (Translation: I wish I had thought of it.)
  18. Suez 1956. Usa attack UK forces.

    Not unhinged. A combat veteran talking to another combat veteran. He had people at sea, potentially in harm's way. Who is the enemy? Whoever the hell shoots at you or whoever the NCA designates. Don't get caught with your pants down. These are pretty much the same orders give to every USN...
  19. Avoid WW2

    World War II or the European Phase? If it is WW II Munich is far too late. You can delay the war in Europe, maybe even butterfly it away, although the series of action needed are breathtakingly difficult to achieve since you need to both change the end of WW I, the desire for vengeance by the...
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