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  1. Japan wins at Midway?

    The Japanese had READ the Two Ocean Navy Act. They knew EXACTLY what was coming. I am, unfortunately, beginning believe that you are trolling this thread with the constant adherence to this unsupportable (uttterly unsupportable based on OTL or by any realistic POD) belief that the Imperial...
  2. Yamamoto lives

    Yamamoto gets to see his beloved Navy obliterated, his operational exposed for the total failure it was, and likely fet dragged into the dock post war.
  3. Japan wins at Midway?

    There is also the fact that Japanese naval history had a single moment that shaped all IJN strategic thought. Admiral Togo's legacy shaped everything that was taught at Eta Jima for 40 years.
  4. Japan bypass the US

    Have to rather vehemently disagree on this last point. Killing, through a combination of induced famine, slave labor, and outright murder of non combatants, between 700,000 & 1,000,000 or so a month (depending on source used), which was what Japan was doing by 1944, is a fairly impressive bit of...
  5. WI: No Pearl Harbor, but war still happens

    In the end it comes down to one thing - When does the U.S. enter the War with Germany? Once that event happens, sooner or later the U.S allies (all three of them) who have been attacked by Japan will start to press the U.S. to engage the Japanese. Combined with the national security...
  6. Japan bypass the US

    Just a small correction. While the U.S. (and independently the UK) had broken into the Japanese codes the Pearl Harbor operational plan was never transmitted, being sent by land line or by courier, along with face to face meetings. The evidence that existed regarding a possible attack came from...
  7. WI: No Pearl Harbor, but war still happens

    By mid 1943 the U.S. is quite literally beyond challenge in the Pacific, arguably by early 1943. Japan might as well simply open the bilges on her fleet and pile up all her aircraft and set them ablaze. While not quite as dramatic a difference as exists today, 1943 Japan going to war with the...
  8. Ten Commandments literally have "you shall not kill"

    Yep. They will also be unable to obey the Lord's command to put the populations of the various conquests "under the ban" (i.e. kill everybody). This will undoubtedly cause the Old Testament Lord to smite the pougies out of them.
  9. Japan wins at Midway?

    Why the fixation to the IJN magically deciding to devote considerable resources to ASW? There is ample evidence from OTL that they simply wouldn't, regardless of the pain submarines caused them. There is also the reality that the IJN simply didn't have the resources in their pocket to change...
  10. Japan wins at Midway?

    Vo Nguyen Giap
  11. Wierdest Possiblle Royal Houses

    So many zombies, so little time.
  12. Japan wins at Midway?

    Actually doctrine was supposed to be a fairly tight Combat Box formation with all bombers salvoing when the lead ship dropped. This would have created multiple bomb streams that, with natural dispersal, would act like a shotgun's pellet pattern (except made of 500 pound bombs). Unfortunately...
  13. Consequences of BEF lost at Dunkirk

    You just used the critical word. Churchill is the key. If he remains PM its still game on. He loses the position, well, things get twitchy.
  14. Japan wins at Midway?

    Well beyond the obvious degree of ASB involved, especially the Japanese managing to actually take the island, there are several reasons this isn't viable. The first is that U.S carrier construction was a primarily East Coast effort (100% East Coast in the case of the "fast carrier" types) so...
  15. Japan wins at Midway?

    This is a gross over simplification of the attack, as well as a major misstatement. The series of attacks by the Midway based defenders were, at best, piecemeal. Sweeney's B-17s arrived separately and were engaged by at least two groups of Japanese fighters from Kaga and Soryu, neither attack...
  16. Japan wins at Midway?

    The Luftwaffe never achieved 50%, not even for a single raid, much less on average. Even Black Thursday only yielded a 26% loss rate and that was with the Luftwaffe throwing every fighter in Germany at them (fighters that were far more capable than the A6M is the bomber intercept role like the...
  17. Japan wins at Midway?

    Wake is somewhat questionable comparison. The defensive positions there were not completed and even of they had been were no where near the hedgehog that was Midway. Issue here start with the fact that the Japanese escorts couldn't remain on station that long. This is followed up by the reality...
  18. AHC: Union between Canada and the United States

    What she said. CalBear in Mod Mode.
  19. DBWI: Gates Doesn't Resign in 2010

    Remember what this is folks. DO NOT turn it into a current events debate.
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