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  1. Tirpitz v. King George V

    Best guess is a draw with both ships taking a pounding. The 14" gun of the KGV simply isn't up to the job of killing the Tirpitz, the men who allowed a 1940 design out of the design phase with that weapon should have been flogged. The RN ship has a huge advantage in its gunnery radar (10 cm...
  2. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Latin America has forces either pledged or involved, especially ground forces (which we haven't really addressed in any depth yet). As IOTL the big player is Brazil, with smaller, almost token in some cases, units coming from most of South America. There is far less interest in the Nazi cause in...
  3. Iowa vs Tirpitz

    You seem to be laboring under the impression that the U.S. carriers (and their IJN counterparts) lacked ANY armored decking at all. This is not the case at all. Both nations had armored decks, the USN and IJN simply put the armor under the hanger deck. This armored deck worked very well, as can...
  4. Iowa vs Tirpitz

    I have to disagree here. If the decision is to send out a ship with 30 aircraft or 95 aircraft it seems the answer is simple, especially since the additional aircraft allows for far more fighters to keep the enemy at arm's length. Until the advent of the kamikaze the armored flight deck was...
  5. Iowa vs Tirpitz

    Not at all. However, the comment was related to the usefulness of armored flight decks against kamikazes not combat in general.
  6. Iowa vs Tirpitz

    Continuing to restate a falsehood will not make it correct. It simply illustrates that there is no support for the initial position. The Bismarck class was NOT, again NOT, better protected for a gunfight than other, more well thought out designs. The Nazi ships were built to fight WW I, not WW...
  7. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    That is a possibility, but, especially in the Channel area, as the Reich loses control of the air space the bases for these sorts of light forces are also regular targets for air raids.
  8. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    The Nazis have begun a lot of the rebuilding that they had envisioned, but, as you noted, it is more a few show pieces than anything else. The Reich has virtually unlimited manpower to do construction work thanks to the slave labor provided by the General Government areas, but the grandiose...
  9. Iowa vs Tirpitz

    Just a quick note about Damage Control and the USN. The USN was the undisputed king of D/C during WW II. this was in no small part to the fact that the U.S. saw it as a genuine specialty and trained in it to the point that it was as well drilled as any other combat skill. USN vessels also had...
  10. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    They didn't. Just a bit of sanity prevailed. That and the fact that the new yard that was required to produce the monster kept getting the pogies blown out of it by the RAF.
  11. Peleliu ditched for Iwo Jima

    No Bomb = Soviet Hokkaido & an extra 10 million dead Japanese civilians and God knows how many more dead Chinese civilians. Japan was already starving in August of 1945, the data on that is beyond verified. The 8th AF was almost ready to begin missions against Japan in B-29's (8th AF fighters...
  12. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    They never really got that close to Iceland, it is simply the name that the battle was given by historians because there were already actions named after equally close locations in Norway. When the Kriegsmarine broke out the Allies forces at sea were assigned different hunting zones in case...
  13. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Told you it wasn't dead! :D As always, comments are encouraged. 5. Even with the destruction of the Syktyvkar complex, and other major German manufacturing facilities across Europe, it was two years before the Anglo-American forces had gained air superiority in the skies above Greater...
  14. Iowa vs Tirpitz

    In mid-1943? NOT a chance in hell. There wasn't an American (or British or Japanese) officer above ensign who hadn'ty figured out that the math problem was no longer in their favor. In open water, with the right orders, then you bet an American or British SBG officer would be on the...
  15. Peleliu ditched for Iwo Jima

    Peleliu was, in retrospect, maybe the biggest mistake the U.S. made in the Pacific after December 31, 1941. Everyone agreed that the mission had been overtaken by events, but it was so far advanced that there was institutional momentum to simply be done with it. No one on the American side...
  16. WI Luftwaffe Develops into an Effective Anti-Naval Force

    The Luftwaffe didn't develop as a anti-ship force because attacking shipping is a specialized skill set that is best done with specilized equipment. For the most part it is low level (or dive bombing) and into isolated but concentrated AAA fire as each ship has the defensive forepower of a...
  17. Iowa vs Tirpitz

    I would disagree regarding the specific data regarding shell and armor performance being biased in any way. Data is data, the math is involved but very straight forward as is the post war test data. As far as armor and the RN & USN exchanging information the data would be flowing out of...
  18. Iowa vs Tirpitz

    I would agree with this 100% She was a threat that had to be honored, one that absorbed far more Allied effort and planning than would have ever been the case if she had actually sallied forth with a SBG. The idea of the massive naval battle is more stirring, but the fact that the British had...
  19. Iowa vs Tirpitz

    Iowa in a walk. 1. The American armor scheme was the best ever devised, as was the armor itself. Kreigsmarine AP shells would have been decapped prior to penetration of the armor itself, and the internal armor scheme of the Iowas was both unique and robust, with an interal armor around...
  20. Nazi long-range naval surface battlegroups

    The difficulty for the Germans in building a surface force was always the same, they were starting a 100 meter race with their opponent having a 98 meter head start. The British have 10-1 advantages in heavy units and closer to 20-1 in cruisers. The Kreigsmarine never recovered from the losses...
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