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  1. WI: "Overlord" in North Germany/Denmark?

    The Reich had somewhere north of 400,000 troops (3 full corps + 20th Mountain Army totaling 20 divisions, a "fortress division"and four "reserve" divisions), with full equipment, in Norway when it surrendered in May of 1945. Those troops just sat there for the entire war. Enough men to make up...
  2. WI: "Overlord" in North Germany/Denmark?

    The combat RANGE of the F6F is 1020 NM on internal fuel at 200 MPH, somewhere north of 1,200 if you use a centerline 150 gallon drop tank in place of bombs, which give a combat radius of around 400 miles once things like take off from a carrier, form up and a few minutes of combat. The figure...
  3. Larger 1914 BEF

    Short answer is no. Slightly longer answer is that the issue wasn't simply too few troops available, it was leadership. More troops would simply result in even more severe losses or even worse decisions by John French.
  4. WI: "Overlord" in North Germany/Denmark?

    There is no way the USN would have put carriers into the waters off Denmark. Too restricted, too easy to mine, WAY too exposed. You couldn't leave carrier forces in those sorts of waters, not for any length of time. Worse, all you need is a couple decent days of high seas and you lose ALL air...
  5. WI: Denmark joins WW1 in 1915?

    Why would they? The war was already a demonstrable bloodbath for all involved. What possible gain could the expect?
  6. WI: "Overlord" in North Germany/Denmark?

    It would have failed. Too far to sail for it to be a surprise, no real tactical air cover possible, turn around time for cargo ships/transports is too long to properly reinforce at the rate needed. Utter disaster.
  7. WI: British SAS Did Assassinate Princess Diana

    I should just close the thread after this gem. One of the great lines of the year. :D
  8. No Ichigo offensive

    Not a chance in the world that the Japanese get anything more than the Emperor staying out of the docket. Even that was a fortunate break, had the Communist victories in China would do zip to FDR in the election (Stalin was our "buddy", and the enemy of your enemy works just as well in...
  9. AHC:Second American Civil War

    If you want to blow a valve, go to Chat. Do NOT do it here.
  10. Air Force One Really Hijacked in 2009

    That would be one hell of an acting job. He'd have to start at age 11-12, get straight A from that point onward, manage to get an appointment to the Air Force Academy, make it through there without slipping up, go through pilot training, spend two decades in heavy multi-engine piloting for the...
  11. Air Force One Really Hijacked in 2009

    Well if he's on board the POTUS (any one, just to get this out of current politics) will be deemed incapacitated under the 25th Amdendment and the VP will take over. It is vastly more likely that the U.S. would blow the aircraft out of the sky than negotiate with any terrorist organization...
  12. WI: Soviet Union invaded Britain in the Cold War?

    Perhaps. What I was trying to illustrate was that the UK was effectively invulnerable due to its nuclear deterrent. Nation States with substantial nuclear deterrents and reliable SLBM delivery systems deployed on SSBNs are quite literally untouchable unless a potential enemy is willing to court...
  13. Would no nukes mean WW3

    No nukes = WW III ~1960 WW IV ~1985 WW V ~2010 Somewhere along the way someone rechecks the math and nuclear weapons appear and end the chain of wars.
  14. WI: Soviet Union invaded Britain in the Cold War?

    Uh... Could they invade? Perhaps they could get a few men in, probably from the air, but the British had an INDEPENDENT nuclear deterrent force. Short version: Land in the UK = Moscow, Leningrad, Murmansk, Kiev and a dozen or so other Soviet population centers become green glass.
  15. If You Were A DR. WHO Writer !

    You INTENTIONALLY necro'd a 7 year old thread? REALLY? Do it again and you will have some time to try other digging pursuits since you won't be here for a week.
  16. Bothnian Crisis

    Do this again and you will be dropped into the Abyss.
  17. AHC: WMDs are never created, war remains conventional

    It took the losses because, frankly, it could, and because it was on a relentless, broad front offensive. Units on the offensive against trained opponents will always suffer more losses than the defender. Stalin's demands that his troops win the "Race to Berlin" ensured that the Red Army would...
  18. AHC: Hapsburg-Hohenzollern Dynasty

    Get off the Grammar Police motorcycle. It's been a century. Chill.
  19. AHC: WMDs are never created, war remains conventional

    Of course WW I happens. It happened IOTL and neither side was really thinking in terms of chemical weapons (unless you choose to go the "well gunpower is a chemical reaction, so..." in that case you need to create a Dies the Fire world). World War Two happens, maybe a half decade or more sooner...
  20. AHC: WMDs are never created, war remains conventional

    Really? The Red Army was, comfortably, the most powerful ground force ever to take the field. The WAllies had the advantage in the air, but not to a sufficient degree th negate the size and quality of the Soviet formations. Conventional airpower in the 1940s-50s could stop offensive...
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