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  1. Seven Days to the Rhine: Conventional WWIII

    Five year old radioactive Zombie sighted... Godzilla has just exited the Baltic Sea. Zombie eliminated. Godzilla re-entering Baltic. Clean-up on Aisle Holland.
  2. Titanic sinks, but not on her maiden voyage.

    I guess we see it differently. I was, and still am, concerned that the alteration changed the post in a negative fashion.
  3. Titanic sinks, but not on her maiden voyage.

    From my perspective (and that of the folks who reported the post) the change was an alteration of the entire post done solely to reflect the post in a negative light. The entire post is short enough that it could have been quoted and the sentence itself bolded.
  4. Titanic sinks, but not on her maiden voyage.

    Don't change people posts when you quote them. You can quote parts of the post and remove sections as long as you use some method indicating that it as been done, such as <snip> or ..., but this sort of change is unacceptable
  5. Question for everyone about MacArthur

    That is as good a landing point as any. There aren't any truly spectacular harbors on Hokkiado, at least on the West coast, and Rumoi is far enough south that you avoid having to fight down most of the Island's spine (Hokkaido has some seriously rough terrain, even when compared to the rest of...
  6. Decisive Darkness: What if Japan hadn't surrendered in 1945?

    You've been warned about this a couple times. I don't know if its an ESL issue or if you actually mean what you are writing, at this point its time to accept that it is what it looks like, nationalist trolling. That violates Board policy. You are kicked for a week. During that time you...
  7. Question for everyone about MacArthur

    Very much untrue. It would have been expensive, but it could very much have been done. Hokkiado had very literally been stripped of every aircraft and military vehicle. Everything had been moved to southern Kyushu to face the expected American assault (and the Japanese did a very good job of...
  8. Question for everyone about MacArthur

    What was the key to the peace move was the combined shock. The Japanese had, correctly, guessed that the U.S. couldn't have more than one or two more bombs, and that the weapon was brand new, otherwise they would have used them earlier. However the reality that the U.S. could erase a city with a...
  9. Question for everyone about MacArthur

    Deny them access to Manila Bay, deny them access to the exportable products on Luzon, and act as potential, if not actual base for U.S. submarines. They will run out of supplies. It will take 10 months to a year. They will be killing the enemy every day. Every company lost on Luzon is a...
  10. Question for everyone about MacArthur

    But you can't attack Corregidor until you have all of Bataan. You can't land on Bataan from the Bay without getting past Corregidor and its satellite forts along with defensive position on the peninsula itself. You have to slog down the peninsula foot by foot, hill by hill. Lousy place to...
  11. Question for everyone about MacArthur

    Seriously? Manila Bay is one of the greatest ports on Earth. It is also where you load all the products produced on Luzon. As long as the U.S. held Bataan and Corregidor they denied the Japanese proper access to everything that could be gained from the Islands. The Philippines, especially...
  12. AHC: MacArthur is a revered and beloved figure on AH.com

    Deny membership to anyone from Australia and Ban anyone who shows the slightest knowledge of the Bonus March, WW II in the Pacific or Korean Wars.
  13. Question for everyone about MacArthur

    The Japanese took better than five months to take Bataan, and that was with the troops having been placed on half rations from virtually the minute the defense of the Peninsula began, that rapidly went down to quarter rations and finally to 250-400 calories a day. The defenders were starved out...
  14. Question for everyone about MacArthur

    Too few aircraft to make it an actual kill shot. Total available bombers were only 35 (odd are that at least three of those were down for engine maintenance or otherwise mechanically unavailable since it was peacetime and there was no apparent need to maximum effort). The Japanese had five...
  15. Question for everyone about MacArthur

    Both Homma and Yamashita were victims of victor's justice. If the example had been followed in the ETO Kesselring, List, von Rundstedt, Manstein, Paulus and a number of others would not have appeared at Nuremberg or been publicly tried for their crimes, but would have received military...
  16. Question for everyone about MacArthur

    Actually, had the mission launched when it was authorization was initially requested it would have caught the Japanese entirely on the ground. Bombing was planned for medium altitude with both 500 and 100 pound fragmentation bombs. It would hardly have been a devastating raid, but it would have...
  17. Question for everyone about MacArthur

    Very interesting link. Thanks for posting it.
  18. Question for everyone about MacArthur

    Not in the United States. Not when the General in question was the Chief of Staff. Not when the General in question was actually ON THE SCENE directly giving the orders. These were men he had SERVED WITH. Commanded in France. He didn't give a damn. He disobeyed a direct order from the...
  19. AHC: Destroy the US Israel lobby

    They tried that. If anything the early Israeli leaders were decidedly "pink" with collective farms and a history of Socialist politics. The nascent state went to the USSR looking for recognition and assistance. The USSR was vastly more pragmatic than the U.S., counted noses, and decided to back...
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