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  1. WI - USA doesn't join War In Europe until 1943-1944?

    I propose we call such things "Bardtastic" from this point forward. (Bardwank is just too... well, just too:eek:)
  2. WI - USA doesn't join War In Europe until 1943-1944?

    Bard, Blair, Raygun et al When operating as a sock puppet, especially a sock puppet of a freshly banned member, it is advisable to alter one's posting style. It is also advisable to not respond to posters like you have been debating with them for months. I will give you credit for not...
  3. WI - USA doesn't join War In Europe until 1943-1944?

    The short answer is no because of both internal needs and general economic requirements. The Yen was not an accepted currency for international commerce outside of the Japanese controlled parts of Asia.The British would only accept gold, Pounds or dollars, the U.S. dollars or Gold, and the...
  4. WI - USA doesn't join War In Europe until 1943-1944?

    Japan gets crushed in about two months with Germany following inside of a year. Reality check time. 1. By December of 1943 the U.S. has radar operating in a 360 degree arc around Oahu 24/7. Similar set-up exist in the Philippines, Wake, Midway, Johnson Island and even American Samoa. 2. By...
  5. Consequences of a Stalingrad breakout

    I would have to say that a breakout really wouldn't help unless it was done as part of a general realignment of the German efforts in the south. You still have poorly equipped "allied" units holding significant pieces of frontage just waiting to be wiped out by a Soviet offensive. You still...
  6. Island Base defence scheme finished sooner.

    The first six months of the Pacific War was a Japan wank to a degree that it would be flamed to death here if it hadn't actually happened. Everything they did worked and everything the allies did didn't. Coral Sea ended that. The amazing thing was that Yamamoto called it almost to the week when...
  7. Island Base defence scheme finished sooner.

    Again, that is the big difference in the early war years. If the Japanese screw around in the central Pacific, they won't be able to grab the DEI effectively unopposed. The DEI was the entire point of the whole Pacific lunge. Even if the Dutch only have enough time to really wreck the oil...
  8. Island Base defence scheme finished sooner.

    Guam is actually an interesting case. If the U.S. holds Wake, and Guam has any sort of defenses (such as those envisioned for OTL 1943) Guam is very likely to hold. The Japanese only had 5,500 men available to attack Guam, and they were then moved almost immediately to the south to attack...
  9. Island Base defence scheme finished sooner.

    The writer of such a TL, if such a person existed, has not forgotten it. More will come.
  10. A 'Dolittle Raid' on North America, March 1942

    The guns on a sub needed to be a wet mount. Any sort of turret system, with power needs, hoists, etc. would need to be a dry mount, and would present a major issue with pressure hull integrity. A turret would also be even more difficult to aim than a conventional deck mount, since the gun...
  11. A 'Dolittle Raid' on North America, March 1942

    I was just going to let this whole thread slide by, but... Thousands of caualties, by bombardment with submarine deck guns?:eek::eek::eek: Uh... NO. NO. NO. Subs were, overall, lousy firing platforms. The guns were there to destroy small surface targets that weren't worth wasting a torpedo...
  12. Island Base defence scheme finished sooner.

    As detailed by John Lunstrom in his superb First Team the F4F had a positive exchange rate in combat with the A6M. One reality was that in a one v. one engagement the A6M was at a an advantage, however two F4F could outfight almost any likely number of A6M, and were virtually invulnerable to the...
  13. Why did the Two-Ocean Navy Act include 18 carriers?

    Rather goes without saying doesn't it?
  14. Why did the Two-Ocean Navy Act include 18 carriers?

    Welcome. The reason for the difference, beyond the fact that even in 1940 the future was clearly in the air, is that the carriers were 1. Lighter in tonnage and Congress approved ship types by tonnage. 2. Less costly to build. Iowa & her sisters were $125,000,000 (in 1942 dollars!) per...
  15. WI the US military would have also bought the Christy tank

    The Tucker Armored Car was a deathtrap worse than anything foisted on the U.S. military during WW II. Nothing like a high speed, top heavy, insufficiently armored vehicle to get you a pile of white crosses. The U.S. Army tried a modern version of the Tucker when the came up with the up-armored...
  16. If Pearl Harbor was not just bombed...........

    One of the interesting things is that several of the "sunken" ships were actually still able to conduct some operations despite their overall condition. Specifically: California: Main batteries undamaged, secondary 5" batteries undamaged. Ship engineering plant disabled due to fuel...
  17. If Pearl Harbor was not just bombed...........

    Well, the real problem with Bataan is they they did both, and neither. MacArthur tried to defend everywhere with insufficient forces and thus defended nowhere. Once he finally decided that getting to Bataan was good idea it was too late to move the SIX MONTHS worth of supplies to the Peninsula...
  18. If Pearl Harbor was not just bombed...........

    To allow the Japanese to be successful in attacking and occupying Oahu, the POD will need to be so far back that the rest of the T/L is unrecognizable. This is not to say that it can not be done, I can think of a few POD dating to around 1800 that would do the trick, at at least one around 1860...
  19. If Pearl Harbor was not just bombed...........

    Wake featured one of the very few repulsed amphibious landing of the entire Second World War, and that was by a understrength single Marine Defense Battalion (so far understrength that they couldn't even man all their gun batteries at the same time). This being the case it is hardly an example...
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