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  1. Singapore holds?

    The problem is that they ALL need to hold on. only one of the holding isn't going to change anything. The DEI has to hold, something that is pretty unlikely, and Malaya has to hold (something that was less unlikely, but given the training levels of the troops and the general incompetence shown...
  2. Singapore holds?

    I do very well understand cause & effect. In this case I would suggest that the butterflies would be the size of bluebirds and not 747s. I can't really go into any sort of depth as to the reasons (which, BTW are legion) "as quite a bit of my statements are either fake, or known inaccuracies"...
  3. Luftwaffe jets in the war

    The C had just about the same range as a Mustang if both carried drop tanks (the Mustang capped it by about 80 miles). The C was ~1200 miles on internal fuel alone.
  4. How Inevitable was The End of Biplane (and Triplane) Era?

    Uh... Some folks from the Red Air Force http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilyushin_Il-2 RAF http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawker_Typhoon and USAAF http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-47_Thunderbolt would like a word. For that matter, so would Henschel...
  5. How Inevitable was The End of Biplane (and Triplane) Era?

    Biplanes were doomed by advances in engine design. As soon as you have a big enough engine to provide addtional speed that generates lift, the biplane's days are numbered. As soon as better internal wingstruts, wing spars and practical all metal constuction are introduced the biplane become a...
  6. Singapore holds?

    Actually, being in a bubble is an excellent analogy. Singapore WAS in a bubble, as was Bataan & Corrigdor. They were besieged and there was absolutely no way that they could be relieved. Any attempt to relieve them would have resulted in overwhelming defeat for the Allied naval forces. The...
  7. Russian or western allies air force?

    Why would this be any sort of a surprise? The U.S. provided 4 out of every five trucks the Red Army uses (467,000 total, including 104K 6x6 2 1/2 ton Studebakers), 900,000 TONS of explosives,9 MILLION artillery and tank rounds, 34 million uniforms, two MILLION sets of long johns, 14 MILLION...
  8. Baseball WI: Best year for Cubs WS victory?

    Just a second... consults with nearest Billy Goat. Never!
  9. WI: Corwin Amendment

    Huh? Don't drag Chat subjects into Pre-1900.
  10. Was there ever any chance of Barbarossa suceeding?

    I advised you to be less insulting. Yesterday Ian give you an official warning about being insulting. Clearly thse lesser actions were less than effective. Let's try this. Kicked for a week for insulting members who disagree with you. When you come back please try being civil.
  11. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    I am SO not going to debate the design of a sub I made up. Your Type XXXIV boats may not snort, but MY Type XXXIV boats do. :p The U-boats were snorting to be fully charged and readt before they attempted to attack the Allied naval units. They didn't expect a boat with 30+ knot underwater...
  12. World War III in The Man in the High Castle

    I warned you at 7:30 in the morning about being rude and you post this 12 hours later? I so don't thing so. Kicked for being rude and insulting. See you in a week.
  13. Hitlers bomb

    1965. It is sometimes useful to use the search feature. You will find a wealth of threads on this subject.
  14. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    The actual strike was on the defensive fortification that commanded that part of the river. The city itself was damaged but not totally obliterated. It is fairly "hot" since both weapons were ground bursts with the accompanying higher level of fallout.
  15. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    It was a combination land/amphib. As I discuss at the start of the update the allies had already broken through the Reich's defenses west of the Rhine after they had been able to relaunch their broad offensive in mid April. This included the land fortifications along the Dutch/German border...
  16. WWII: Japanese interment camp becomes death camps

    No. It was an off the wall speculation. Those are head scratchers, not reportable offenses.
  17. December 7 1947 a day of infamy

    This is exactly the sort of T/L that really raises my hackles. The POD is utterly senseless. It raised obscure political leaders to heights they would never have achieved without OTL events (Truman was made the Democratic VP candidate BECAUSE he was a political Zero. That he turned out to be an...
  18. The Bait and Diversion of 1941

    Thing about Stalin was that, evil and brutal as he was, he tended to follow treaties (unlike his fellow mass murder Hitler, who never signed anything he intended to follow). He would have been more than happy to wait until the Molotov Treaty ran out before he acted. That would have allowed him...
  19. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Update! 53 The Allies had expected that the German practice of scorched earth would at least begin to subside once they crossed the “tradtional” Germany border and entered the Inner Reich. This had of course not been the case, as flame and explosions continued to obliterate the work of...
  20. feedback-WWIII alt hist story

    Please remember to post it with a link to a discussion thread in post-1900.
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