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  1. Disaster on Guadalcanal a possible TL

    The U.S. BYPASSED Wake Island. The landing there by Marines was AFTER the surrender and was purely administrative in nature. They actually did a surrender ceremony on board a Destroyer Escort. You may have read up on WW II. Unfortunately you seem to have scrambled up every singe fact into an...
  2. Disaster on Guadalcanal a possible TL

    The Japanese NEVER held their fire before Okinawa. Of all the poorly informed statements you have made, this is perhaps the worst. The initial landing waves at Tarawa took losses exceeded 80% KIA/WIA. There is a reason that they call it Bloody Tarawa. The first day on Saipan cost the...
  3. WI USS Indianapolis survivors were found sooner

    I am sorry for your family's loss.
  4. WI USS Indianapolis survivors were found sooner

    Either have fewer fat sharks or a lot more skinny sharks.
  5. Disaster on Guadalcanal a possible TL

    Oh Dear God! Not Again!:mad: Tell you what. Go into a bar that caters to a Japanese clientèle. Say "G'day you Japs". When you get your left foot out of your right ear let us know how it went. Because a racist term was used in wartime does not male it okay to use now unless you are either...
  6. I-400 Sentoku class submarine aircraft carriers

    How is that even remotely possible? The kamikaze is credited with, among other things, sinking more USN vessels at Leyte than the entire Combined Fleet managed. Nonetheless, a single 2,000 pound bomb, or even a 9,000 pound aircraft (assuming full fuel and max load out) can only do a finite...
  7. The Amerika Bomber

    Well, it actually much WORSE than that. The Ju-390 had a max ceiling for around 20,000 feet and was able to achieve its incredible range by cruising at 217 MPH (it could reach 350 MPH, but only if the pilots wanted to land somewhere mid-Atlantic). Put another way it was vulnerable to the P-26...
  8. The Amerika Bomber

    There is a claim that a Ju 390 made it to within 19 KILOMETERS of New York. It is utterly unsupported, no one who made or ordered any such flight was ever found, and Luftwaffe records have no information indicating it ever happened. The unsigned letter stating the flight happened is almost...
  9. Model 45A

    The weapon was not supposed to be a standard infanty rifle. It was a try to get a more compact version of the BAR.
  10. War in 1938!

    The Heer also lacked the frank combat power to over run the Czechs. Even a brief glance at the TOE for the Heer forces that wound up attacking into Poland, and later into France would reveal the number of Pzkw-35(t) and Pzkw 38(t) that the Germans relied on to make up much of their mobile...
  11. I-400 Sentoku class submarine aircraft carriers

    It carried 4 FLOAT PLANES. They were too small and underpowered to carry nuclear weapons. The USSR was not going to attack the United States with four float planes. The I-400 was, however, a remarkable engineering achievement. It had sufficient bunkerage to circle the globe without refueling
  12. South Dakota class of 1920 is built

    They also were about 10 knots faster than the BB. Speed is all in a carrier. Even in the early 20's, when the carrier was seen more as a fleet scout, with a handy secondary role as an attacker, speed was life.
  13. South Dakota class of 1920 is built

    Research? Are you MAD?????:confused: :p
  14. South Dakota class of 1920 is built

    ALL American BB classes, starting with the New Mexico class, ALL CA Classes and CL classes starting with the Brooklyn, carried Float Planes are observer aircraft. The observation aircraft had absolutely nothing in the way of striking power (a couple very light bombs or a depth charge). They...
  15. WI the U.S. Navy had relieved Wake Island?

    Bull. Naval pilots with 1,000 up to 3,500 hours of flight time were more than capable of sitting a moving vessel. In the Pacific Theater. As noted in Lunstrom's excellent The First Team (page 459) from Febuary 1942, when the first engagements occurred through June 1942 in head to head...
  16. WI the U.S. Navy had relieved Wake Island?

    Ranger was not considered to be a front line carrier by the USN. Among other weaknesses she lacked a magazine capable of handling torpedoes. She was also small, 14,000 tons & 760 feet, and somewhat slow at 29 knots compared to the big fleet carriers. She ended her war as a training ship.
  17. Possibility of a German aircraft carrier

    Once again, not surprisingly, you have utterly failed to do anything approaching research. Japan's first full deck carrier was, in fact, the purpose built Hosho. She had previously operated seaplane carriers, including a coule with partial forward flight decks, but her first aircraft carrier was...
  18. Possibility of a German aircraft carrier

    Where does it say that there was no Treaty? Not in this thread. You can't make a statement (well into the thread in question BTW) and have it carry over into every other thread just because you mentioned it elsewhere. A pre-dred would be far too slow to make a decent carrier launching...
  19. World War III in May 1946

    A point in favor of this T/L compared to most of the early WW III scenarios is that it doesn't begin until the Allieds have mainly demobilized. That is a significant improvement right off the bat.
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