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  1. Equip Your WWII Army

    Well, it sort of worked for the Finns.
  2. Equip Your Post-WWII Army

    This sort of thing can turn into a RP. Please take care it doesn't.
  3. Equip Your WWII Army

    I understand that. Most people understand that better than the U.S. did during WW II, where you would find two rifle, (or at least one rifle 30-06 and one wanna be rifle .30 Carbine, caliber) at least two pistol calibers, often three (.38 special, .380, & .45 APC), and a separate shotgun shell...
  4. Equip Your WWII Army

    Interesting perspective. I find it to be exactly the opposite. The a la carte method allows you to select the best of each country's systems. It shows that no country did everything right, no matter how much they did well.
  5. Three Mile Island American Cherynobl

    Only if you hit it with a nuclear weapon.
  6. Iraqi ASAT ability

    The Planet stops rotating due to the massive ASB assault. If ASAT was that simple, the ICBM would never have been fielded.
  7. Equip Your WWII Army

    Well, I gave the Enfield a shout out since it was probably the ultimate expression of the bolt action rifle. The Garand was simply the best personal weapon of the war, hands down. Sub guns in the American calibers were simply God-Awful, but sub guns are too handy to ignore. The U.S. also...
  8. Equip Your WWII Army

    Depends on what you want a carrier to do. If you expect it to be an offensive platform, you need a big airwing. On CVE's the Commencement Bay class were able to carry almost 2/3 the airwing of full size RN fleet carriers. Again, if the reason for the carrier is to carry enough aircraft to handle...
  9. Equip Your WWII Army

    Interesting… Ground Pistol – M1911 .45 Rifle (bolt action) Enfield .303 Rifle - M1 Garand Submachine gun – PPSh-41 Light squad MG – MG 42 Heavy MG – Browning M2 .50 (air cooled) Light anti-tank weapon – RPzB 88mm Panzershreck Light anti-tank gun – PaK 38 50mm Anti-tank Gun – PaK 43/41 88mm...
  10. Aircraft comparisons

    The Allies flew the hell out of each other aircraft. The British were looking to buy early on, and continued to do so throughout the war (hence the FAA flying version of the 4F, F4U, and TBF) and the U.S. was always looking for what it could stea- er... improve.
  11. The requirements for an independent post-WWI Poland

    Not quite sure what your issue is with Germans, but ALL your posts scream racism toward Germans. Kicked for a week.
  12. Ten Years Late: a TL

    It is likely that Bush winds up a 1 term POTUS (like his father) and that the Democrats win in 04. Who that would be is something of an open question, but Gore having a second go can't be discounted.
  13. Ten Years Late: a TL

    You have fallen into the classic trap of most ATL. There is NO CHANCE that Obama becomes President in virtually any ATL that lacks 9/11 in the exact or slightly more severe manner than IOTL. A much worse attack and Bush loses in '04 because he gets the blame hung around his neck, a much weaker...
  14. If No Watergate, who wins 1976 election?

    Don't resurrect four year old threads. The dead deserve to Rest in Peace. CalBear in Mod Mode.
  15. WI 8th Air Force follows Bomber Command's lead?

    As an aside, the USAAF was bombing targets from February of 1942, under the umbrella command of VIII Bomber Command. The 8th AF was mainly a book keeping change that was occasioned by the inclusion of VIII Fighter & VIII Air Support Commands with VIII Bomber Command into a single organization...
  16. WI 8th Air Force follows Bomber Command's lead?

    Actually that was ordered by General Doolittle (yep, that Doolittle). :) The great fallacy of the Bombing Offensive is that the USAAF took losses far more than they would have at night. In actual fact the USAAF took a total of ~6,800 four engine bombers (B-17 & B-24) in the ETO during the war...
  17. If Doug MarArthur had been killed 1942...

    MacArthur (who, BTW, I utterly despise) was at his absolute BEST from late 1945 to 1950. He accomplished a miracle during his time as Military Governor of Japan, changing a semi-feudal, top down dictatorship run by the military to a fairly liberal democracy that has non-aggression built into its...
  18. If Doug MarArthur had been killed 1942...

    The thing about Inchon was that, due to the tides, you had to leave the landing force more or less totally isolated for half a day. It worked out brilliantly, but it had the potential to be an utter FUBAR.
  19. British after Sealion

    What the hell? Don't resurrect dead threads. Especially don't violate the dead with this sort of apeshit crap. CalBear in Mod Mode.
  20. The Final Revolt: A Revolutionary Alternate History

    You are running headlong into the worst trap for ATL, making the same person President six decades after a massive POD. Simply would not happen. The manifold unique situations that allow any individual to reach the White House are so fragile that their is virtually no chance of ANY political...
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