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  1. Midway Lost

    Very unlikely. That would require the U.S. to actually capitulate and resume supply of oil and metals to Japan, along with unfreezing Japan's hard assets. That sort of action would leave China more or less on its own, and in that circumstance anything might happen.
  2. Optimal military size?

    Big enough to win and small enough not to bankrupt.
  3. Midway Lost

    I actually worked with a few WW II vets when I was a kid. Those were some TOUGH bastards. One guy was a Honest to God survivor of Bataan, another was a Mustang Officer (wound up as a Captain) in the 442nd (actually there were three Nisei WW II vets there, but I am not sure where the other two...
  4. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    I am going to TRY to keep things a bit more likely.:p
  5. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Interesting response, thanks! Regarding the stations and "modules". Module and modular are not the same term. A module is a separate part of a spacecraft to perform a specific task, a synonym would be section or unit. This is also the terminology used for the Apollo vehicle (Command module...
  6. Midway Lost

    We drafted between 10 and 11.5 million people. 6,500,000 million volunteered, with that number being artificially low because the military eventully virtually stopped accepting volunteers since the Selective Service System was providing a nice steady flow into the training system. This was with...
  7. Midway Lost

    I have to disagree with this part of your post. We went about 20% in Vietnam, and about 10% into Iraq. We fought with both hands behind our back in the 'Nam (not sure that more effort would have mattered in the long run, given the realities on the ground) but in the short term Hanoi, Haipong and...
  8. Midway Lost

    I think you vastly underestimate the utter hatred that was felt toward the Japanese. The feelings toward the 9/11 plotters in the days immediately after the attack on the Twin Towers was MILD compared to venomous view of the Japanese by Americans. My Grandfather, to his dying day, wouldn't...
  9. Midway Lost

    The USSBS transcript says Nagumo, and it didn't even click that he was seriously dead at the time until you mentioned it. On rereading it, the transcript is a translation of Nagumo's after action report. http://ibiblio.org/hyperwar/Japan/IJN/rep/Midway/Nagumo/index.html
  10. Midway Lost

    The #4 scout aircraft of the Tone and it was the aircraft that found TF 17 (Yorktown). Nagumo stated in his post war interrogation by the USSBS that a Soyru D4Y spotted the other two U.S carriers, but the timeline given doesn't match up with other records and some of his other statements do not...
  11. Midway Lost

    Just as an extra aside... The Japanese NEVER found the Enterprise & Hornet, they literally did not know the carriers were even there. Nagumo assumes they were in the area due to the number of attacking aircraft, along with the fact that he assumed that his attacks had disabled two Yorktown...
  12. US intervenes in Hungary in 1956

    Based on what? The U.S. was routinely testing above ground in Nevada at the time. In 1956 it tested 18 devices, in 1957 25, in 1958 it was 57. In 1956 the Soviets tested 9 devices above ground, in 1957 , in 1958 36. People in Vegas used to go outside to watch the damned things. To get the...
  13. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Thanks for your service. Glad you enjoyed the T/L.
  14. Midway Lost

    The Japanese lacked the logistical lift to maintain a long term presence in the Indian Ocean. The strike there was exactly what it was called, a raid. There is no conceivable reason that the Japanese would even attempt to hold any part of the Red Sea or deny it to the Allies. The Japanese were...
  15. US intervenes in Hungary in 1956

    Actually not nearly as bad as you might think. The Soviets didn't really have the stockpile, or more importantly, the delivery systems, to hit North American. The total Soviet inventory was around 400 weapons in 1956 and they lacked a practical delivery system to get at North America. The Tu-95...
  16. Challenge: As the president of Russia..

    NATO may have lost a bit of the edge it had when it expected the Soviets to try the Fulda Gap any day now, but the Russian military isn't exactly the Red Army either. There is also the fact that satellite intel is now leaps and bounds better than during the recent unpleasantness. In the days of...
  17. US loses Vietnam even worse

    First the NVA would have to arrange for the U.S. military to be using a lot of armor to allow the ATGM to have a target. Than the NVA would have to put itself into a place where it would actually decide to take on the U.S. military in a straight up fight (they tried that once, you know, it was...
  18. WI: No Pocket Battleships?

    What you are actually discussing is a Reich built Alaska class (aka: the biggest waste of steel in the history of U.S. shipbuilding). The U.S. and UK were more than capable of designed/constructing ships of this or superior design. The G3 fast battleships (battle cruisers my eye) with 14' guns...
  19. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    A quick word about the post war part of the T/L. Obviously the butterflies here are the size of zeppelins. The future I am running with here is just one possible result, clearly not the only one possible. It will unquestionably be different than what many expected. To tell the truth I am...
  20. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    What he said... I have Pacific War Redux on deck. After or in concert with that... who knows.:D
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