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  1. WI: Nagumo's recon planes get lucky at Midway

    Nagumo was actually in a hell of bad position after the second strike. He had not one, but TWO U.S. carrier groups that he KNEW were in the area, and he had to be concerned about the location of a third (USS Saratoga). He has statements from his pilots that the airbase was wrecked after the...
  2. Greatest defensive Battle of the Twentieth Century

    If the IJN victory over the Russian fleet wasn't significant I'm not sure what qualifies. Denying the Afrika Corps a major supply base several hundred miles closer to Egypt wasn't exactly a little thing either.
  3. WI: Nagumo's recon planes get lucky at Midway

    The thing is that you are still taking sticking power away from the potential attack. IJN doctrine was to make a mass strike with full deck load strikes, not to make piece meal attacks. This was why the strike against TF 17 was delayed, to make it a massive stroke against a single carrier (at...
  4. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    This is absolutely correct. The SS has plenty of potential hostages, although the Italians have significantly fewer by percentage than most of the other, later "allies" to the Reich thanks to Italy's true junior partner status (not that Italy thought it was junior at the time) and the movement...
  5. Greatest defensive Battle of the Twentieth Century

    Based on the OP requirements Verdun, Stalingrad, Leningrad, Berlin, Shuri Castle, etc do not qualify. They were all epic defensive stands, but none of them could be characterized as having low, or even reasonable, losses to the defenders. One of the reasons they are so well remembered is that...
  6. Sturmgewehr 44

    Much less than the question indicates you imagine. Assault weapons aren't all that special or spectacular an improvement, especially the early models, over conventional combat rifles in most combat roles. The StG 44 was an interesting weapon, but it was also heavy as hell (at 11.5 pounds EMPTY...
  7. WI: Nagumo's recon planes get lucky at Midway

    The H8K miisions were scrubbed because the U.S. already had forces at French Frigate shoals, where the flying boats were supposed to refuel from a sub. This was why the Japanese didn't know the birds had already flown out of Pearl.
  8. WI: Nagumo's recon planes get lucky at Midway

    Even if Tone's No. 4 search aircraft departs on time the difference will be minimal. One of the great myths of the Miday action is that the Japanese were caught with bombs stacked on their flight decks. Simply not true. For that matter their decks were not crammed with fully fueled and armed...
  9. How far could the Western Allies push into Europe in WWII

    One thing that needs to be kept in mind is that if there had not been any sort of agreement for th post-war landscape Stalin would have been utterly convinced that the West was going to job him. Rather than more or less stop and put two FRONTS into position to assault Berlin, Stalin could have...
  10. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Thanks for the kind words. To answer your questions: 1. There had been during the Warm War period. The St. Patrick's Day attacks cleared that right up. Nothing like an eney actually dropping bombs on you to get the 'ol blood up. No one on the Allied side can figure out why the Reich...
  11. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Well... Its about yea by yea (insert proper hand gestures :D) with a knob...
  12. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    This was touched on earlier (must be a couple months ago). But that is a while, and the issue is important, so... The Pope is in a fairly bad spot, He is stuck in a Nazi sea, and has had the "opportunity" to see the result of the defeat of the "Godless Communists" in some detail, most of it...
  13. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    More than one. :D
  14. So the Germans break through the Ardennes...

    I always figure that the Heer came out of the Wacht am Rhein about as well set up as was possible given the stupidity of the plan. They blunted the Allied push into Germany for at least six weeks, which gave the Heer time to shake out some sort of defensive line, and didn't get too...
  15. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Manstein is the most prominent, but he isn't in a field command, not likely to get one either. Some Heer senior officers were kept around to help with evaluation of new equipment, but they are not given the chance to advise on tactics. Hitler is obviously a better General than any of the "Staff...
  16. WI: Yom Kippur War turns nuclear?

    SAC was already cocked and locked. All it would have taken was a raised eyebrow and thing would have gone seriously sideways.
  17. WI: Yom Kippur War turns nuclear?

    Simply put: GAME OVER MAN, GAME OVER! I'm short and now I'm gonna buy it on this rock! Any use of nukes in the October War brings the likelihood of a U.S./USSR exchange to 95%+. As was, Nixon took the strategic forces to DEFCON 2 IOTL. At that point any error in judgement or preception of...
  18. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Didn't see this before I made my last post, but the Allies have gone to some lengths to create "all for one, one for all" mindset.
  19. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    The British, Americans, and the rest of the "United Nations" have Jews in their forces, but they are integrated into the regular formations. For that matter there are some Jews in the Free Polish Army, many of them coming from the Allied states immigrant populations. The Reich, ably assisted...
  20. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Prauge is still there thanks to its link with the HRE & Vienna is already "German" enough for the Austrian born German nationist madman. Danzig survives, again thanks to a century+ of Prussian/German control; its Slavic population didn't fare as well. Warsaw was the first city on Hitler's OTL...
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