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  1. An Aircraft Carrier question

    You wouldn't need anything like 30K displacement. A raider could easily shed two of the Tone's four twin 8" gun turrets, leaving four 8" guns (or maybe go to either a 2 x 3 or 1 x 2 & 1 x 3 setup if the added tubes are wanted), and drop the number of torpedo tubes by half (to six). That might...
  2. WI: Germany partitioned?

    You are indeed fortunate that your original post was not seen by one of the Mods before you deleted it and posted this apology. Had it happened otherwise you would have been Banned outright. As is, I will accept that your apology is sincere and that you will not repeat that sort of revenge...
  3. An Aircraft Carrier question

    Carriers have some fundamental problems as raiders, especially in the early part of WW II. They are incredibly vunerable to enemy surface ships if caught in bad weather or at night, always vulnerable to submarines, and use supplies of fuel like there is no tomorrow. None of these are readily...
  4. King Oliver I

    You knew you were necroing a four year old thread and did it anyway? Every time someone digs up one of these moldering corpses the Mods all wind up having to reviewing reports, usually multiple reports, about it. Please don't do this again.
  5. Strafing the oil field at PH?

    Uh... The A6M Model 21 carried two 20mm Type 99 cannon in the wings and two 7.7mm Type 97 machine guns (7.7mm =.303 caliber). The much later (late summer of 1943 deployment) model A6M5 model 52 carried two 20mm and THREE 13.2MM (.51 cal) Type 3 machine guns (this was a truly odd arrangement...
  6. 24 hours notice for Pearl Harbor

    I never heard about this. Who was he? The best I ever heard about was "Swede" Vejtasa who got 3 Zeros at Coral Sea and picked up a pretty impressive seven in a day (along with a navy Cross) at Santa Cruz. BTW: USN pilits didn't at the time, "transfer" between types as in "congratulations...
  7. WI A Different First Blood?

    Not very actually. SPECOPS types tend to be average size, in terrific shape, but not huge.
  8. Greatest religions that never were

    Never mind.
  9. The mass murder of the Jews a reforming Reich

    I am not quite sure what this is all about. I am locking it and the OP is kicked. The PO needs to PM me to explain exactly WTF this is all about. If I do not hear back with an explanation by 0001 GMT Tuesday 8/6/13, this will become a Ban.
  10. What is the best healthcare system - in the event of limited nuclear war

    I was leaning more toward suicide rather than mercy killings. Hence the "Lugar and single bullet" line.
  11. NATO navies in WW3 strategy

    The USN saw CBG as an offensive platform, not a defensive one. The U.S. planned to use the carriers to attack the Soviet bases near the Polyarny Inlet following the defeat of the Soviet navy which was expected to either sail as battle groups centered on major surface units (Kirov BCN, Slava CG...
  12. 24 hours notice for Pearl Harbor

    Possibly, maybe even probably. The SBD was meant to act as an auxiliary heavy fighter against torpedo planes. It was one of those "hey, it makes sense" things that didn't last too deep into the war, although they had some minor success early on, the losses to real fighters didn't justify the...
  13. 24 hours notice for Pearl Harbor

    Actually the USAAF reports for the battle show that there were: On site Operational Destroyed Post attack P-40C 12 9 5 2 P-40B 87 55 37 25 P-36A 39 20 4 16 There were no P40A or P-35s at Pearl...
  14. 24 hours notice for Pearl Harbor

    Well, that is an interesting question. The U.S. aircraft were, as was demonstrated time and again IOTL, remarkably resiliant, the Japanese far less so. Contrary to some popular, if ill informed, opinion, the IJN pilots were not supermen and the Americans a gaggle of babes in the woods. As John...
  15. What is the best healthcare system - in the event of limited nuclear war

    Best health care after a limited exchange? Plenty of Lugars with single bullets.
  16. USN plans and reality vs Kriegsmarine pre-1942

    The U.S. would have brought some of the PacFleet over to hunt, if necessary. Basic U.S. doctrine was very different that that of the RN, which was designed around solitary cruisers making the rounds of the Empire (one reason why the British pushed so hard for no limit on 6" cruisers in...
  17. Jane Fonda's Treason Trial

    Really? FOUR YEARS? This is the second damned one of these today! Back to the grave ZOMBIE!. With Blood, Iron and Power I fix you to the Earth never to rise again!
  18. Quebec secedes in 1983

    Really? FOUR YEARS? Back to the grave ZOMBIE!. With Blood, Iron and Power I fix you to the Earth never to rise again!
  19. Strafing the oil field at PH?

    You can't get bunker fuel oil to burn that easily, it has already had the more volatile factors refined out to make gasoline, kerosene, propane, and lubricating oils. What you have left is about a half step above asphalt, especially the "Special Navy fuel" aka #6 heavy fuel oil. It is literally...
  20. Bay of Pigs under Nixon

    Back to the grave ZOMBIE!. With Blood, Iron and Power I fix you to the Earth never to rise again!
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