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  1. If You Could Change One Historical Event, What Would It Be?

    Nationalist insults are frowned upon here. I was going to go with a Warning, but you have already had a previous warning AND a Kick for insults, so you get the Frequent Flyer upgrade. Kicked for a Week.
  2. "Heil mein Führer. Sie sind verhaftet!"

    Defend how?:confused: That being said... There is no reason for this to go into ASB. NONE. ASB is not, despite the way it is sometimes seems, meant to be a place for every single low probability T/L on the Board. This Time Line does not require Divine Intervention, nor is it so silly or...
  3. Instead of the Manhattan project.

    How does a physicist help in producing bombers? Or jet engines? or more shells? I will go back to the question that still requires an answer: How many more dead Americans, British, Australians, Japanese, Chinese, Malays, etc. is acceptable. Allied PoW were dying daily from starvation and...
  4. Instead of the Manhattan project.

    A miserable return? You find 30,000 (as the barest minimum) Americans not dying on a Japanese beach a poor return on investment? Or the 350,000+ Americans who did not lose a limb, their sight, or sanity on Kyushu and Honshu? 400,000+ American family not ripped apart seems to be a poor...
  5. "Heil mein Führer. Sie sind verhaftet!"

    Once more I am forced to come into this thread to tell everyone to CUT IT OUT! I will not repeat all my previous, clearly ignored, words of wisdom and ask for calm and tolerance. I will make it much simpler this time. If you accuse someone of being a racist or a bigot you had better be REALLY...
  6. Could the Third Reich have been more successful than OTL?

    So the Poles STARTED the war? All the Reich was doing was defending itself from the aggressive Poles? Right. Banned for Nazi conspiracy theories.
  7. The Agreement of the Free People of England

    1640 < 1900. :) Moved to pre-1900
  8. Pacific War Stalemate

    This question proceeds from a false assumption. There is no way that the Japanese can take Hawaii. NONE. They could not have achieved it in December of 1941 and could not have done so at any point thereafter. This means that the Allies ALWAYS will have a starting point to strike at the Empire...
  9. Japanese Carrier Victory Coral Sea

    Actually Operation Starvation, the B-29 mining effort, one of the great successes, by any force from any combatant, during the entire war. For the loss of six aircraft the Operation put better than 12,000 mines in place that resulted in the sinking or crippling of 1.25 million tons of Japanese...
  10. Japanese Carrier Victory Coral Sea

    Marine forces present at Midway included: 6th Marine Defense Battalion 4th Marine Defense Battalion - Battery B & special AAA Group (.50 cal MG) 3rd Marine Defense Battalion - (3", 37mm & 20mm batteries) 2 Rifle companies of the Marine Raider Battalion An USMC tank Platoon (5 M3) with...
  11. Japanese Carrier Victory Coral Sea

    At Midway the Japanese would have been OUTNUMBERED by the defenders. The airstrikes at Midway were remarkably ineffective. The 1st, and as it turned out, only strike, resulted in only six KIA among the ground forces and did almost no damage to the defenses. There is no reason at all to expect...
  12. Japanese Carrier Victory Coral Sea

    IOTL it was going to be Okinawa. ATL, if Okinawa was not in U.S. hands, it could have be Saipan (Saipan is very close to Tinian) for bombers and Iwo Jima (or elsewhere) for the fighters.
  13. Japanese Carrier Victory Coral Sea

    Nice summation.
  14. Japanese Carrier Victory Coral Sea

    It took the U.S. weeks or months to "mop up" islands because for most of the early part of the war (until mid 1944) the U.S. was making due with a relatively small force that started with less than 2 Marine divisions and elements of three Army divisions (not including the forces lost in the...
  15. Japanese Carrier Victory Coral Sea

    The reason that MacArthur was such a power was the the war was, until the Marshalls, mainly fought in his sphere of authority. The dual track made sense in OTL, where the U.S. moves out of the Southwest Pacific and through the Central Pacific based on the tactical successes obtained. In the case...
  16. Alterntive History Armoured Fighting Vehicles

    Not a Forum Rule question. Seems like a NP Chat subject.
  17. Mohammed dies at childbirth

    Banned? Not yet, but you are well on the way. Posting this specifically to see how far you can push without suffering a consequence is trolling all by itself. Posting it in response to a thread that has, somehow, managed to keep from turning into a flame fest thanks to the reasoned debate...
  18. Japanese Carrier Victory Coral Sea

    A strongly fortified island can be taken (witness Tarawa) but it requires an enemy with a proper amphibious doctrine to achieve it. The U.S. doctrine (again as shown at Tarawa) was not highly developed but it existed as more than "have them land there", a method that typifies Japanese strategic...
  19. Nazi Germany has Strategic Bombers?

    Okay... Brief reality check. The Urals were a LONG way from Germany. The distance from Moscow to Magnitogorsk (a major steel production site) is 600+ miles and Moscow to Nizhny Tagil (where the T-34 was produced after the works were evacuated from Leningrad) is around 850 miles. That is the...
  20. The Soviet Invasion of Europe, 1945...

    Actually the U.S. did everything possible to get the Japanese to send their kamikazis out after TF 38/58, up to and including sending cruisers and battleships close enough to the Home Islands to bombard factories and other economic targets (as well as one memorable bombardment by destroyers at...
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