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  1. What if: Stalingrad won by Nazi's?

    Stalingrad is one of the more interesting WI of the WW II era. The most likely result is still OTL's Allied victory (probably 9 out of 10 times). The Reich simply bit off more than it could chew. This being said, a rapid victory, say by mid September, has the potential for some big...
  2. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Thanks for the comments and support. I can understand that some new readers of the T/L may have some questions (this T/L is almost insanely long at over 100 pages of actual MS Word text, something I never envisioned when it began) but it does get a little frustrating to get very similar...
  3. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    I think everyone will find the next few updates quite interesting.
  4. Ted Kennedy

    Dead Man walking. Reagan's PR machone would have torn him into furless bits.
  5. The Republic of Indonesia - Nazi Occupation - DISCUSSION

    Where to even begin... Indonesia is FULL of sub-humans based on Nazi racial theory. At least South America could claim most European stock. German aggression was aimed to provide additional land for the German Volk. How would this sort of movement support that. The secondary goal was to wipe...
  6. Paulus disobeys Hitler

    If the 6th Army was going to break out it needed to be as soon as they were cut off. At that time they were still in very good shape as far as ammo and rations. By the time the Red Army defeated the relief attempt 6th Army was nothing but scarecrows.
  7. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Be surprised what you can do in almost 20 years. WW II IOTL wiped out around a third of Poland's pre-war population (it is hard to be exact because of border movements) but the depopulation itself is staggering in 1939 Poland had 35 million citizens; in 1945 the total was 24 million. That is...
  8. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Thanks for the feedback. It is the sort of thing I need to hear to improve the current project as well as later efforts. I would mention that the destruction of the Axis forces was previously discussed, so it wasn't new, just brought up again in this context.
  9. The Republic of Indonesia - Nazi Occupation - DISCUSSION

    This is a joke thread right? Do you have even the slightest inkling of what National Socialism actually preached?
  10. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    There is not a French contingent operating as part of the Allied Armies. The Viet Minh have been trying to develop a serious underground movement along with select LRRP and Alamo Scout units for well over a year. The effort has been, at best, mildly sucessful. There have been a few breakthroughs...
  11. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    The warnings came from several Philippines Scout officers who were conducting their operations in Normandy. With their experience as guerillas fighting the far more numerous and better equipped IJA in the Islands they had gained a slightly different perspective for terrain features from most...
  12. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Axis Combat troops, including Fortress troops, but excluding logistical tail was 2.5 million before the Allies landed. The Allies have close to the same number available, but the REich is at a disadvantage because a good portion of their total forces are either along the Eastern frontier or are...
  13. The Decisive Battle of Pearl Harbor

    Try The Pearl Harbor Papers: Inside the Japanese Plans by Donald Goldstein and Katherine Dillon (1999) as an easy to find source Quoting from there: Akagi had 300 tons of drummed oil overloaded aboard 2nd Carrier Division (Hiryu, Soryu): 100 tons of drummed oil, 200 tons of canned oil...
  14. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Here is the latest update. Comments???? 27 Maverick is often referred to as “the Forgotten Invasion”, and with good reason. Taking place in the immediate aftermath of the Battle of Arras and well away from the established Gravel landing zones, as well as in the shadows of the October...
  15. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    In the East there are a fair number of "settlers" who have been set up on farms and to oversee the exploitation of the natural resuorces of the Region. Many of the settlers are ex-soldiers from the Heer. No serious settlement has happened in the West. Strong military presence yes, but not much...
  16. The Decisive Battle of Pearl Harbor

    The Kido Butai didn't have a fuel margin. None. They had been forced to leave Japan with fuel drums lashed to the decks of the smaller ships just to pull off the mission. Even then the IJN had to dispatch a replenishment group to a position off the Hawaiian Islands within the known patrol radius...
  17. The Decisive Battle of Pearl Harbor

    There are lots of ways the raid can go better. None of them make a damned bit of long term difference, but there are lots of things ranging from Kimmel having the fleet out looking for the Japanese to the Enterprise being in port to Halsey getting killed in the raid, etc. that can improve the...
  18. The Decisive Battle of Pearl Harbor

    Except, as noted, the Enterprise had Wildcats on board. She was also on the wrong side of Ohau for the IJN to find her. Taking the giant analogy a step further, you can't slit the Giant's throat of you are the Japanese because you have a knife with a 2" blade and the Giant's skin is 5' thick...
  19. The Decisive Battle of Pearl Harbor

    Better than held their own. the "First Team" managed a positive kill ratio 14 Zeros & 3 A5M (with 16 pilots KIA) vs. 10 Wildcats (7 pilots KIA). At Midway the kill ratio was 3:1 in the 'Cats favor.
  20. The Decisive Battle of Pearl Harbor

    Yorktown (VF-42)and Hornet (VF-8)all had full squadrons of Wildcats assigned while Wasp (VF-71, VF-72) and, oddly enough, Ranger (VF-5, VF-41) had TWO full squadrons on board. The only two carriers without full F4F squadrons were Lexington & Saratoga (and the Sara was going into San Diego to...
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