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  1. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Are you saying that the British would have sought or accepted terms from the Reich? I have to disagree. There was no reason for the British to do so, even after the fall of the USSR. The Reich was never going to have the ability to invade the UK, not with the U.S. and UK allied. Without that...
  2. Naval Warfare between France and Germany in a 1905 War?

    France get crushed like a bug. The Jaureguiberry and Charlemagne class pre-dreds were far inferior to the Kaiser Friedrich III, and Wittelsbach, much less the Braunschweig class and the Deutchland and barely equal to the Brandenburg class in armor protection. The same holds true for the...
  3. Most wasteful weapons project after 1900

    Biggest problem was that you had the RAF responsible for the procurement process. That meant the planes were either not going to interfere with RAF construction or they were a copy of a land based design (Sea-Hurricane, Seafire). Never a good idea to adapt a ground aircraft to carrier use...
  4. Could Bush have been toppled?

    No. Last time that was remotely possible was 1861 and even then it was less of an uprising than a messy failure of an attempt to run away from home (albeit one that killed half a million people).
  5. Most wasteful weapons project after 1900

    Which action? At Midway they were slaughtered. This is the battle that everyone remembers, but it was only one action. At Coral Sea they lost two aircraft of of 32 TBD engaged. They collected the Shoho. The SBD losses were five aircraft. These number do not include those lost when the...
  6. Most wasteful weapons project after 1900

    The Polish Army may disagree with the assessment of the usefulness of early WW II tanks. French might have a word or two on the subject as well/ Might want to ask the crew of the Oklahoma, Prince of Wales, Repulse, Yamato, Musashi, Shoho, Bismarck, among many others about the effectiveness of...
  7. The US Develops Skipbombing before Pearl Harbor

    Bigger issue than enemy fighters is the aircraft itself. While the B-25 wasn't exactly a sports car it was far more maneuverable than the B-17, especially the "C" & "D" Models available at the time. The B-17 had a wingspan pushing 104 feet and was 74 feet long while a B-25 wingspan was only...
  8. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Thanks. Dumb attack.
  9. Most wasteful weapons project after 1900

    Since some of the most obvious have already been brought up... CV-58 class: Monumentally stupid waste of design resources on the same scale as the Alaskas. B-70: $1.5 BILLON 1960 dollars for a weapon system that was vulnerable to existing Soviet SAM. A-12 Avenger II: What idiot ever...
  10. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    True. I could quit my job and do T/L full time. Oh wait, if I do that I won't have Internet access, or a roof, or food.:eek: Well, it seemed like a good idea for seven and a half seconds. Redux will return.
  11. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    While there are extremists on both sides, they tend to be a voice in thw wilderness, at least for now. The Nazi excesses have had a rather dramatic effect on the acceptance of religious extremism in the rest of the world. There is a war on, and folks who are too strident tend to be considered...
  12. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    The Luftwaffe is still in charge of the PoW camps. How long that lasts is entirely a matter of how long the Party leadership thinks it is a good idea. Galland has been able to win on this one point although he hasn't been anywhere near as successful in convincing the Party to actually let him...
  13. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    The Reich does indeed have resources untapped. This will be touched on in either the next post or the one following that.
  14. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    I did mention in the casualty post that the Allied Air Forces have suffered 35,000 unrecoverable casualties over Europe. That is in the ballpark of what was suffered by the USAAF IOTL. IOTL American bomber crews were 10 men, RAF air crew were generally 7 men; the B-47 has a crew of three, the...
  15. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    We are seeing the results of having senior commanders who are politicians rather than professionals. The Party actually believes that orthodoxy is more important than skills (something that the USSR never really bought, hence the excellent science advances from Soviet labs, even if the advances...
  16. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    I will be covering the Netherlands in the next post.
  17. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    It was the primary night fighter of the Allies in 1954. It has been partily suplanted by newer "all weather" designs, but continues to prowl the night for Luftwaffe intruders.
  18. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    The Axis started the war with around 2.9 million COMBAT troops, including around 500,000 "fortress" troops and what were effectively penal battalions along the Easter Frontier. SS strength was 1.3 million men and 12,000 tanks of all types with the Luftwaffe ground contingent accounting for an...
  19. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Here is the new update. Comments?? 31 The differences in conditions between the Western Allies and the Axis were perhaps never brought into sharper focus than in the days running up to the beginning of the Allied Fall 1958 Offensive. While the Waffen SS was withdrawing forces from the...
  20. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    I mentioned Unit 731 in response to a question some time back. Himmler found them to be kindered spirits.
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