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  1. Charles Dickens

    Moved to proper Forum.
  2. "December 7th, A Day that will Ring with Victory!"

    The U.S. had two subs off Wake, USS Tambor (SS-198) and USS Triton (SS-201, lost on her 6th patrol on or about 3/15/43) neither ship was able to impede the Japanese in any manner, although Triton did make an unsuccessful attack against one of the IJN cruisers involved in the initial landing...
  3. "December 7th, A Day that will Ring with Victory!"

    Okay, before any discussion about the rest: FDR allowing the attack to take place is an ASB level event. It would also allow FDR to be the answer to the follow Final Jeopardy question: "Name the only man to be elected to the U.S. Presidency three times and also be impeached and then hanged for...
  4. American Coup d'etat?

    Zero probability event. The U.S. military is not a wolf in sheep's clothing, it is the sheepdog. EVERY member of the military takes "The Oath". The really funny thing is that they mean it. Protect and defend the Constitution against all enemies" is real to them. The military would have...
  5. The British Pacific Fleet in 1944: Why did they bother?

    But the RN had one thing that the USN would have killed for. They had a floating brewery as part of their fleet train. Yes, they had a BEER SHIP!:D
  6. Land Of Confusion: The Wild Ride of the 2012 IRNA Presidential Election

    Should have listened to BKW. He is wise in these things. Maybe this will work. Kicked for a week.
  7. Could a Pope have decided women should be ordained?

    Absolutely. If he does it ex catherda it is, quite literally, considered to be an absolute law, one that no Roman Catholic could ignore without effective excommunication. (This, BTW, is why ex catherda statements are so rare, with only two instances in the last couple centuries, and less than...
  8. Could China have collapsed during the Cultural Revolution?

    This doesn't quite reach Banning level, since you didn't flat come out and say that a couple hundred million Chinese casualties would be a good thing, but it is close enough to warrant a vacation. Advocating an actual war, something that would involve unmeasurable suffering, is generally...
  9. Space craft questions.

    Technically there was no reason the Space Shuttle couldn't have reached lunar orbit. Practically there are tons. Specifically, 1,950 tons. That is the difference in "dry" weight between the Shuttle at roughly 2,000 tons and the roughly 50 tons for the combined CSM/LEM package. The boost...
  10. WI Canada retains CV capability?

    Necro = Locked
  11. DBWI:California Doesnt Get Las Vegas

    What if you stopped duplicating threads? Ah, I know. The duplicates wouldn't get locked.
  12. How to sink the Rodney ...

    If that is the best response you can muster, perhaps you need to fall back and retrench
  13. What if Stalin was as bad as Hitler?

    2009? Really? Let the dead rest. BTW: Necro = locked.
  14. Germans adopt chemical warfare in World War 2

    The same kind of idiots who build 40-50,000 nuclear weapons and PRAY that they will never be used?
  15. Able Archer 83, global or theatre nuclear war?

    Escalation WAS inevitable. The systems in use around the world more or less guaranteed it, even if the two top powers tried to throttle back. Launch on warning was real, on both sides. It is a "capital M" Miracle that the world didn't end with moonrise that September evening in '83. Every...
  16. German Nuclear Missile

    Literally anything since the handwave auto writer is out of the holster. My guess is that the Cloverfield monster appears in Berlin and eats Hitler and his evil minions. This causes a lethal allergic reaction for the poor creature and the monster flops over and crushes the Reichstag in its...
  17. ATL USN carriers.

    Add in Steam catapults to replace the hydraulic versions used in the war, and you have the design that has been the centerpiece of the USN since the mid-50s.
  18. ATL USN carriers.

    The light (20-25mm and odd .50 cal machine gun) and medium (40mm) AAA was meant to be part of the "wall of steel" that would dissuade enemy aircraft from making a close approach. While it worked fairly well before the onset of the kamikaze war time testing indicated that you were far better...
  19. AHC - Battlecarriers?

    The concept of a "battlecarrier" isn't far from what was on the minds of many naval architects in the immediate post war period. What killed it was the Washington Treaty since it limited carriers to guns no larger than 8" (Article X of the Treaty). Carriers were seen as part of the scouting...
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