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  1. Worst possible market garden?

    I can honestly say that I have never heard the British airborne blamed in any way. The blame, such as it is laid usually goes to at least the Corps level, if not straight to Monty for failing to believe HUMMIT intel reports.
  2. The Third Reich and the USSR: Which one was the most 'evil'?

    Chat subject (in fact has been done half to death in Chat). Can't move due to poll. Locked.
  3. HMS Ranger-style CV in WWII?

    Leahy wasn't so bad, but having to go and ask for a deck couldn't have been easy. King, of course, more or less despised the British at a level that was almost startling for the era (something that apparently blossomed while serving on the staff of ANTFLT during WW I) so admitting that he needed...
  4. HMS Ranger-style CV in WWII?

    There was minimal storage, some added after construction, but it lacked the spaces for both significant numbers (keeping in mind that the air dropped torpedo was considered to be the biggest ship killer in the quiver) and also lacked the machine shops spaces for on-going repair. There was only...
  5. WW3 in 1945: Japan didn't surrender, Soviet Union continue to go west

    There is a potential for a discussion. In fact it has been done several times. The problem is that the scenario has to have a better set, with a specified time period as a starting point. The other issue with this particular thread is that it is built on a set of preconceptions that are...
  6. HMS Ranger-style CV in WWII?

    That was my thought
  7. Alternate timeline of ancient rome

    Every time someone is a twit on the Board a baby sealion cries. Please do not make baby sealoins cry any more.
  8. The Prophet's Voice Fell to Silence: No Islam TL

    Against my first instinct, which was to flat out Ban out for trolling straight out of the gate, I am issuing an official warning to you for these two posts. You use that sort of term again and I will rectify what may be my error.
  9. HMS Ranger-style CV in WWII?

    She had a TBF squadron, but she wasn't really built to handle torpedoes, although space could be made in the magazines for pretty much any munition. The Avengers were mainly used for ASW (with depth charges)/Level bombing. The easiest way to get something with the same sort of aircraft...
  10. Why was slave labour permitted in Britain after WWII?

    They tried that with the U.S. too. We sent the undesirable ones to Canada where they established Tim Horton's, money featuring furry forest friends, and hockey while becoming extremely polite, even to Americans, except during the Olympics.
  11. WW3 in 1945: Japan didn't surrender, Soviet Union continue to go west

    Struggling? The U.S. was better supplied at Okinawa than any army on the planet had been to that time. Japan is a ghost. Surrounded and starving. Forget the Bomb. XXI Bomber Command was burning down 30 SQUARE MILES of Japan every week. U.S. & Royal Navy surface ships were bombarding the...
  12. WI: Hitler gives Rommel necessary supplies in 1942?

    The problem with this is always the same. It just doesn't matter. Send more equipment to Rommel. Send only German equipment. Doesn't matter. Push hard enough and you delay the Pacific Offensive a couple months because the USN sends forces to reinforce the RN. The Reich isn't going...
  13. HMS Ranger-style CV in WWII?

    Except , of course, for the fact that the Ranger didn't HAVE a torpedo magazine to speak of, nor a torpedo room to work on the cantankerous beasties.
  14. Is it possible for the Germans to achieve a stalemate on the Eastern Front?

    A stalemate is actually much more difficult to manage than a win, and a win is extremely difficult. A stalemate requires things to remain in balance, and there are very few ways to keep things in balance between the Reich and USSR.
  15. wi: the bismarck had encountered the uss texas in the denmark straits?

    Bismarck wasn't the 2nd most advanced battleship in the Atlantic on May 24th, 1941. At best she was 5th (behind both North Carolina class ships and the KGV and PoW).
  16. WW3 in 1945: Japan didn't surrender, Soviet Union continue to go west

    Part of this is determined by the timing. When does the Red Army move? The timing has dramatic effect on the short term. The failure of Manhattan is near to ASB. The plutonium weapon was a technological marvel and it could be delayed. The uranium gun weapon was, to be brutally honest...
  17. Nuclear strike against Argentine airbases 1982

    Well, besides being the military version of killing an ant with a framing hammer, it would make the UK an utter pariah nation while turning Argentina from the aggressor into an epic victim.
  18. wi: the bismarck had encountered the uss texas in the denmark straits?

    This would raise some seriously interesting questions if it led to the declaration of war (and the loss of Texas undoubtedly would). This would put the Reich at war with the U.S. two months before Barbarossa. We all know Hitler was an idiot. Was he enough of an idiot to go after the Soviet...
  19. wi: the bismarck had encountered the uss texas in the denmark straits?

    As far as I know it is accurate. The KM designers took the battle of Jutland and built a ship meant to do well in that sort of engagement, ranges in the 8-15,000 meter range against ships with max gun elevations in to 18-20 degree range and then increased it to match the Bismarck's max gun...
  20. Modern Military vs WWII military

    The biggest issue with the missile is that it was optically guided from the ground. Jamming the signal, even with 1960s ECM, much less the kit on current B-52s would be an automatic. The other huge issue is that the system was designed to deal with 300mph bombers at 26K. It's planned guidance...
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