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  1. USS South Carolina in World War II

    That she was. She was built to the well known Washington Treaty Crusier limitations. In the case of IJN vessels that means she violated the limits by about 30%. Amazing what you can do with an extra 30% tonnage. Hell, you might even be tempted to design a 70,000 ton battleship with...
  2. A Los Angeles class USS Marblehead

    I'd say you have one word too many in this reply. :p
  3. USS South Carolina in World War II

    Langley was a Seaplane tender at the time of her loss. Rochester had been decommissioned in 1933, she was in Manila Bay because she wasn't worth the effort to bring her home for storage. She wasn't even an active part of the U.S. Navy when she was scuttled. I was talking to AHP.
  4. USS South Carolina in World War II

    Having twice the torpedo load out was quite the advantage in a surface action. The point that I am efforting here (with what appears to be limited success) is that the U.S. forces in the region were not exclusively a bunch of broken down scows. Even the Clemsons had considerable combat utility...
  5. A Los Angeles class USS Marblehead

    The TOTAL possible difference is that some other city winds up without a namesake boat.
  6. German VT ammo

    It would increase losses, but it wouldn't stop the Bombing Offensive from gutting the Luftwaffe and the Oil industries. What it would, however, imply is a much more tech capable Reich.
  7. Des Moines Class CA in modern USN

    Chasing the carrier with a surface ship is a REALLY unhealthy idea. American CBG always have at least one, generally two, SSN in attendance. If a SBG is trying to close on a carrier the ship will thunder right over the sub, which will happily collect a Battleship or CBGN for the Captain's mantle.
  8. Warnings from Diamond Head radar operators heeded

    If you look at my Pacific War Redux or a couple of Marcus posts on this exact subject you will see that a lot of us here (myself included) see this as possibly the last possible moment to make a difference in the outcome. 'Course it would have helped to have the defenses at at least...
  9. Warnings from Diamond Head radar operators heeded

    Virtually no difference. The operators didn't observe the contact until 07:15. The Japanese tipped over into their dives at 07:55. You can't go from peace to war in 40 minutes. Not only were the aircraft not dispersed, they were were also not armed in most cases and nearly all were not fully...
  10. WI Marhsall did his duty?

    I don't know about that. Depends on your overall plan. Drinking yourself to death is a socially acceptable form of suicide as long as you don't crash into a school bus during the effort.
  11. USS South Carolina in World War II

    You're living in the Bay Area? Somehow I got the impression you lived on the East Coast. I'll be driving by the old girl today on the way to my sister's place. There is still an ongoing effort to get her a home as a display. Bremerton and San Diego seem to be the most mentioned homes. Its...
  12. What if the American Indians had never given up?

    The Native American population of the Western United States would have been wiped out as effectively as the wolf or buffalo population was, and with about as much concern. White Americans back then didn't much care how the "Indian Problem" was solved, and the opion of anyone except the White...
  13. Des Moines Class CA in modern USN

    There is a mission, just like there is a mission for the Iowa (and actually the South Dakota) class battleships. The problem is the mission is so limited and rare (when was the last time the U.S. had to do an opposed amphibious landing) and can be effectively accomplished by other platforms that...
  14. WI all six Alaska class large cruisers were built?

    Easy. 1. You give a bunch of military planners a a bottomless pile of money. 2. Wait for them to do something stupid. The really amazing thing is that so FEW White Elephants came out of the system. The Alaskas, which I have savaged so often here that folks are sick of it (and that AHP...
  15. WI all six Alaska class large cruisers were built?

    I'd settle for three more Midways.
  16. USS South Carolina in World War II

    And just read my previous post that , again using actual honest to God facts, refutes the "obsolete" argument with specifics.
  17. American supertanks

    This was the main reason the M-26 wasn't pushed forward. The M-4 was light enough to cross just about every bridge in Europe that could take cars AND it fit onto the current LCT and through the bow doors over every LST in service. The M-26 would have rewuired either new classes of transport...
  18. WI no radar in WWII

    So, based on this, I take it that the Mosquito was undetectable by radar?
  19. BB-21 Class battleships

    The USN would have spent an extra 50-60 billion dollars that would have been better spent on more Virginia Class SSN (or on my beloved but abandoned SSN 21 Seawolf class boats) and on additional CVN 77 class carriers for ships of limited utility.
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