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  1. DBWI: Truman decides to nuke Japan

    A recently declassified study that was done as part of the USSBS was published in a War College Journal a couple months ago. It claimed that Japanese would have folded up with as few as 10 Bombs uses (four against cities and six as part of shaping the Kyushu battlefield). Considering that we...
  2. How effective were Kamikaze attacks during ww2?

    Last sentence does when you read the rest of the post.
  3. Marshall getting his invasion of France in 1942

    Welcome! :) I would agree about Dieppe. Not quite as sure about D-Day. It is also not really likely that the Red Army would push all the way to the Channel, mainly becuase Stalin really had not interest in doing so. He would have been perfectly happy with supporting an independent French...
  4. How effective were Kamikaze attacks during ww2?

    Actually some of the most successful attacks were by singletons flying very old aircraft with low metal content. Many of the others were mass strikes on picket destroyers, but they were generally of the pall-mall variety where masses of untrained pilots gravitated to the first target they saw.
  5. How effective were Kamikaze attacks during ww2?

    No, the difference is a highly trained pilot taking a damaged aircraft and making the Last Great Act of Defiance or making a low probability but vital strike and sending swarms of pilots with 10 flight hours off to crash into something. No one here has questioned the courage of the Kamikaze...
  6. The timeline of God

    Mostly it was violating the dead. Profit from their example.
  7. How effective were Kamikaze attacks during ww2?

    Depends on how you gauge effective. From late 1944 onward they were the only effective weapon the Japanese deployed, which makes them very effective. On the other hand they had about a 2% success rate, which is pretty lousy. Kamikaze's caused more USN casualties than any other weapon.
  8. Hussein get’s lucky

    Allow me to be the first (which rather surprises me) to call bullshit. This is one of these sensationalized statements that does not bear close examination. It presupposes that: 1) The warhead would cause a massive sympathetic detonation of all the artillery rounds. Unlikely, especially since...
  9. What if Germany used it U-boats instead using them enforce blockade

    You seriously need to use a better translation program. Your posts are so garbled that they are nonsensical. CalBear in Mod Mode.
  10. 'Strike North' question

    I really can't improve very much on my 2010 post, so I'll just copy/paste it here: If Japan attacked the USSR in June of 1940 1) Warned by Sorge spy ring, Soviet forces are waiting for Japanese attack. Kwantung Army suffers series of utterly crushing defeats at hands of Far East Front. 2)...
  11. The Madagascar Plan

    You have ONE chance to explain yourself on this. The Madagascar Plan would have resulted in the death of at least half of those transported. I am giving you the benefit of the doubt, for the moment, and assuming you are simply clueless and not malignant. Given your thread about the French...
  12. Salary Cap in Baseball

    What a wonderful idea. Use minor league players to destroy the game (they are in the minors for a reason) so the Billionaires who own teams can increase their profits even further. Salary caps in sports are the dumbest thing on Earth. If the owner of a team wants to pay somebody $100 million a...
  13. The Raid on Scapa Flow or WI Germany had Aircraft Carriers in WWII

    Well, this sounds a LOT like admission of trolling. Let me lock this for now whilst I get some input from my fellow Mods on whether this deserves further action.
  14. WI/PC: B-71 Blackbird

    Actually, it wasn't, it was a purpose built Intel platform. There were plans to adapt the SR-71 (aka A-12, YF-71) to carry nuclear weapons. Several aircraft received the modification.
  15. WWII PC & WI: the Allies take Berlin

    I think the "at that point" pretty much covered the scenario under discussion. If one puts in sufficient POD that the entire world is different, then anything is possible, that, however, isn't how this sort of scenario is reasonably discussed. Given the OP question it is clear that OTL's war is...
  16. WWII PC & WI: the Allies take Berlin

    After 1942? Divine intervention. The USSR was not going to have an economic collapse, not while the U.S. was pumping massive quantities of raw material and finished products into the country. Since the rest of the Economy was fully controlled, that removed the only possible stopper (and it...
  17. WWII PC & WI: the Allies take Berlin

    A massive Soviet defeat in January of 1945 coupled with a total collapse of the Wehrmacht in the West (probably a linked event with virtually all the Western Troops moved to the East) would allow this. That is about it. It has to happen before Yalta and the Soviets have to be in a much weaker...
  18. JFK Survives, Loses To Goldwater

    OTL's 1964 Goldwater was utterly unelectable. Facing JFK would make this worse since Kennedy had already faced down the Soviets, which would make Goldwater's rhetoric seem both more over the top dangerous and less credible.
  19. What if Germany used it U-boats instead using them enforce blockade

    I'll second that. Not quite sure what's being asked.
  20. Japan wins the Battle of Leyte Gulf, then what?

    No where near sexy enough. No where near black/white enough. Not famous enough. It isn't really a last stand, it isn't really a surprise victory, its a bunch of grunts doing their job and moving on. In the era when WW II moveis were popular, it wasn't glorious enough, most of the Pacific War...
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