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  1. A much more ambitious Torch

    An additional issue is the rate of advance of the transport headed to Toulon.Transports had a top speed of 9-13 knots (10-15 mph) that puts them inside the range of aircraft flying from southern France for at least a full day, more likely a day and a half after they leave the harbor (lets just...
  2. Japanese target oil farm

    Not to mention the planet's largest economy, one with virtually unlimited resources and a veritable ocean of money available to exploit them.
  3. Japanese target oil farm

    Term is impossible. West Coast is a THOUSAND miles further from Japan than Oahu is and to get to Oahu the Japanese did things that were, quite literally, insane, up top and including deck loading fuel barrels on the hanger decks of carriers. Operationally, it would have been suicide. The...
  4. Japanese target oil farm

    The oil farm was not quite the easy target that is often imagined. While not nearly as rugged as the system that was being drilled into the lava to replace it (a replacement that was invulnerable to conventional weapons until the introduction of PGM in the late 80s), each tank was bermed, which...
  5. A much more ambitious Torch

    Logistically this is a non starter. The WAllies lack the sea lift to pull it off, lack the surface warships necessary to provide escort that far East, and would be utterly incapable of providing even elementary air support. Carriers going that far east, especially if they were tethered to a...
  6. Is it plausible for the Soviets to be defeated - WW2

    The number of divisions is also somewhat deceptive. A number of the divisions claimed by the Heer were actually little more than cadre due to combat losses. This was particularly true in France, where the entire Wehrmacht, not just the Heer, sent units to reconstitute after being mauled on the...
  7. Oahu invasion plan

    Please tell me you didn't join just to take credit for this POS. Locked.
  8. Is it plausible for the Soviets to be defeated - WW2

    Yugoslavia provided significant material, but not in the summer of 1941, not even into the winter of 1941/42. In the Summer of 1941 it was nothing but a needless diversion of resources, even if most of the diversion was for occupation duties. It certainly didn't supply anything in sufficient...
  9. Stop the decline of black culture.

    I'm closing the racially tainted discussion. If someone would care to post a thread asking how we could avoid the abandonment of the U.S. urban centers and/or the damage that the "War on Drugs" has had on society in general, feel free.
  10. Stop the decline of black culture.

    WTF? Black culture is a mess? Well, at least you didn't drop the "N", if so you would be beyond gone. You are only kicked because these is a slight chance that you simply misspoke and meant to ask "What could be done to prevent the poorest parts of society from being abandoned by the...
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