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  1. Gibraltese Stalingrad

    This is pretty much spot on. Unfortunately, this is another "could" scenario, not the far more useful "should". The Heer could have taken Gibraltar. It would have been less than clever to spend the resources, but taking the place was, in the presented conditions, doable.
  2. Gibraltese Stalingrad

    Dunkirk is not really any sort of a comparative. At Dunkirk the RAF was able to maintain air parity at all times, with the actual condition often being RAF control. The shipping needed to go a very short distance when it was not under observation in any tactically useful manner. In this case the...
  3. Gibraltese Stalingrad

    It is. Corregidor is separated from Bataan by around two kilometers of water. Trench mortars don't much care.
  4. Gibraltese Stalingrad

    The key to this is when it happened. In 1943 the Allies can hold, be an iron plated bitch, but it could be done once North Africa was in Allied hands. By 1944 it is no problem at all to hold. before 1943? Well, that is a very different scenario. The RN lacked a reasonable carrier fighter and...
  5. Unmentionable Sea Mammal Help Needed

    One from our hardy host: https://www.alternatehistory.com/gateway/essays/Sealion.html
  6. Pacific War, 1954

    Only problem would be that they didn't have the range to reach shipping at any distance off shore. The Japanese used the Ohka, a 500mph rocket with a man in it as a kamikazi, the Ohka was transportable by the G4M bomber which acted as a mother ship to tote it to the target. It proved to be...
  7. Pacific War, 1954

    The Japanese had planned the Ki-201 (a version of the Me-262), the Kikka, a twin jet that drew inspiration from the Me-262, a rather bizarre design for a canard style fighter the Kyushu J7W (which was also slated for a jet version), the J8M (a copy of the Me-163), and various conventional piston...
  8. Cold Old World- a first attempt at a story like thing

    If you are writing a piece of fiction, why not move this to the Writer's forum? There seems to be an increasing number of actual stories, as opposed to T/L or WI showing up here. The Writer's Forum is there for a reason.
  9. Pacific War, 1954

    In other words we will just ignore reality and handwave nasty things like actual hard facts out of the scenario. In that case it needs to go into ASB. You can't just reset everything forward 13 years and begin as if the U.S. and USSR have not undergone a European war (since you specified that...
  10. Pacific War, 1954

    If we have a "No Nukes" scenario, which if you keep the rest of OTL in place is damned near impossible, than the U.S., rather than the massive demobilizing of OTL where it believed (rightly) that it was untouchable while it had the monopoly on the Bomb, maintaining a serious military force...
  11. Pacific War, 1954

    The Soviets despised the Japanese. Japan had scarred the Russian collective soul in 1904 and Japan had been the last outside power to accept the inevitible and withdraw forces at the end of the Revolution (in 1922). The Soviets giving the Bomb to anyone is almost unimaginable, this becomes near...
  12. Pacific War, 1954

    How far are they down the bench did they sit? Are they in Manchuria? China? Formosa? If they are in Manchiria, the Red Army will have mopped them up. Stalin would not be willing to have a well armed Japan along his frontier, not when he had a tool like the May 1945 Red Army in hand. To...
  13. British Response to a Worse BoB

    Well, it was in the middle of the discssion on the "escort bombers, so I made a logical connection. Can't catch dyslexia. Already have it.:eek: Spell check is, IMO, the greatest invention of all time (except canned beer).:D
  14. British Response to a Worse BoB

    :o That's what I get for going from memory and not verifing the data before posting I didn't know the put a B-17 nose onto the XB-41. The B-24 nose makes a little more sense, but not much. The Italian pilot REALLY picked the wrong straggler to take on one-on-one. I have often wondered how...
  15. No nuclear bomb

    Not really. The Lancaster would need to launch from Siberia or from Okinawa.
  16. Peace in the West, Gas in the East (and perhaps Balkans)?

    These are two very different result. The Balkan states have very limited ability to respond so the use of chemicals is going to provide German forces a siggnificant, albeit not decisive, advantage. The USSR, however, has plenty of manufacturing capacity. In this case you wind up with a zero...
  17. Hitler's Second Book

    Bull cookies. Great Britain was never close to starvation. Lean yes, starvation, no. The RAF could sit on the ground in full view and, with the exception of a few southern area be perfectly safe from the Bf-109. The fighter had very short legs. Just when you start to post a few actually...
  18. No nuclear bomb

    A Lancaster could have carried it to Berlin. Except the idea I was responding to was to drop it on Japan.
  19. Could the United States/Britain win WW2 alone?

    I had planned to stop posting in this thread since it has decended into finger pointing arguments and insults but this requires a response. The Holocaust would not have happened as IOTL. It would have almost infinitely worse. The Nazi's planned to effectively depopulate the General Goverment...
  20. WI the United States invented the first assault rifle?

    Most American troops don't carry them either, including officers (MArine officers below full colonel are now issued the M4). My nephew was a communication specialist and his issue weapon was a SAW (he's a big lad). He wasn't even allowed to carry a pistol if he bought his own (I offered to get...
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