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  1. ATL Naval Development

    AHHHH.... Violating the long dead!!!!! Kill it with fire!!!! Or at least lock it.
  2. Pear Harbor on Christmas day 1941

    You are assuming that the fleet would be in port. There is no reason to make that assumption. The U.S. was in catch up mode, with the carriers getting more work than they could handle. In fact the only reason the Battle Line was in port was that the old BB were too slow and the carrier forces...
  3. WI the Italian navy had build the AQUILA by 1940

    A single carrier is not of that great of value, at least at first. Any navy needs to learn how to use the weapon system, the operation of a carrier is perhaps the most complex bit of instant battle management that existed before real-time satellites that allow for true theater coordination. You...
  4. How would an early post WW2 invasion of USSR go?

    I would agree with most of the other posters. The question is too broad as presented. The reason would be the key to the how. There is also the not insignificant matter of how the war has gone to the point when the Soviet frontier is reached. If the West has gutted the Red Army with tactical...
  5. Map Thread X

    That is rather uncalled for. If you can't be constructive, consider the wisdom of posting a'tall.
  6. WI: Tactial Nukes a Conventional Weapon?

    Let the dead lie. All you get when you do this is action from a Mod and a locked out thread. STOP!
  7. The Golden Age of Norðhymbralond

    FOUR YEARS? FOUR? To ask this? Don't do that.
  8. AHC/WI: Greater Israel, successful United Arab Republic, New Palestine

    Really? 15 months and and revived to debate with a Banned member? Really?
  9. A defense of Husband E Kimmel

    Some of us are not adept swimmers. Or spellers. :o
  10. A defense of Husband E Kimmel

    Absolutely. The difference between having it happen at sea and having it happen where you have 100 years to get to dry land and some medical care (not to mention, at least in Hood's case, having water 35 degrees warmer to swim through for those 100 yards) is huge. Actually, when you consider...
  11. Best Case Scenario for Germans at Kursk, 1943?

    Burns to death while drowning? Hmmm... Might still be too good an ending for the bastard, but not bad.
  12. A defense of Husband E Kimmel

    Ships that sink in 5,000 feet of water tend to lose far more men than if they are in 22 feet. The Oklahoma lost 422 men out of a crew of ~1,700 IOTL, despite turning turtle, while the Arizona, which suffered a high order magazine detonation, lost roughly 3/4 of its crew (1177 out of 1512). HMS...
  13. A defense of Husband E Kimmel

    Well, a few things need to be mentioned. Firstly you missed the 8 radar directed 90mm batteries, which were probably the most lethal guns involved in the action, followed by the 3" mobile guns. THe ships in harbor were almost exclusively firing their 5'/25 under local control, this greatly...
  14. Luckier IJN at Leyte

    Luckier? That the Yamato and as many surface combatants survived Leyte as did iss close to the 1st Order Miracle. That Admiral Kurita had a single ship escape Samar is remarkable, given the huge number of American aircraft able to strike at him from the Taffy formations and the fact that TF...
  15. A defense of Husband E Kimmel

    The Japanese aircraft never found the fleet. The Japanese battle orders were specific, if you don't find the carriers in port, cruisers and battleships were to be the target, if the entire fleet is absent, you will search out for 30 miles around Oahu. Kimmel had been headed more or less straight...
  16. A defense of Husband E Kimmel

    Not really a spoiler, since the post was self contained, but Kimmel was [SIZE=2]following the basic axiom: Sitting in port and letting your ship be sunk at the quay is just about the worst fate that exists for a naval commander. Ships are always better off at sea and underway than in port. In...
  17. A defense of Husband E Kimmel

    Never happen. All anyone has to do to rebut the effort is replay the footage of the Harbor at 1400 on December 7th or show the Wall at the Arizona Memorial. Good bye media support, good bye public support. Kimmel and Short screwed the pooch. The may not have been alone in the failure, but they...
  18. Unusual Balkanization Candidates

    No it isn't. It is NEVER time to violate the dead. Keep it in mind.
  19. Halsey Strikes First

    Well, Wake was more or less 180 degrees from where the Kido Butai was. The Japanese approached the Hawaiian Chain from the Northwest, with most of the approach running along a line at approximately 43 degrees North and then moving Southeast to the launch point at ~24 North. Wake is at 19.15...
  20. Japan bypasses the oil embargo.

    Short answer is no. The Japanese lacked pretty much everything necessary to actually exploit an oil find, even if they stumbled across one. There is a reason that, even today, oil fields are generally opened and expanded by a handful of companies. The skills and equipment are remarkably...
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