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  1. AH Challenge: 50 years of WW2

    WW II DID last almost exactly 50 years. It ended when the Berlin Wall fell.
  2. No nuclear bomb

    The UK simply didn't have the $40 billion dollars lying around that was needed to develop the bomb (not to mention the almost unlimited electrical power required, hydro-electric dams are a GOOD thing). Then there is the addtional $40 billion needed to develop a B-29 so the RAF could cart the...
  3. WI the United States invented the first assault rifle?

    Why would the U.S. WANT to develop an assault rifle? The M1 Garand was an exceptional weapon, reliable, accurate, and easy to maintain in the field (no tools needed to disassemble/reassemble except a 30.06 cartridge). The ammo was heavy, but the war being fought didn't require troops to LRRP...
  4. WI the Allies knew about Operation Watch on the Rhine?

    If the Heer had followed normal pattern and sent orders over the air, the entire OOB would have been known in advance. It is unlikely that the Allies would have ignored such information, even if it was only reacted to be improving the defensive preparations and moving a couple battalions of...
  5. British Response to a Worse BoB

    I stand corrected. I have to admit I was really surprised by this. The civilian version of the aircraft was considerably longer ranged than any of the military versions. I don't know of any other aircraft with such a huge difference in performance (close to 30% in maximum range) between the...
  6. British Response to a Worse BoB

    The Luftwaffe would likely disagree. The goal when attacking a heavy was 1. Kill the tail gunner so you were safe to 2. Set the inboard engine(s) on fire so the fire burns off the wing. It is true that the later, more powerful engines allowed aircraft to make it home on three engines...
  7. Looking for Sealion debunks

    One of the best is actually written by our all powerful I.A.N. https://www.alternatehistory.com/gateway/essays/Sealion.html
  8. British Response to a Worse BoB

    Where does this persistent belief come from? The MAXIMUM range (not operational radius, RANGE) of the Fw 200 was 4440km assuming you stuffed it full of fuel and took out everything possible to save weight. It is 5,100km from DUBLIN Ireland to New York (where the Luftwaffe NEVER reached)...
  9. No nuclear bomb

    I believe that this has been discussed a number of times. You may want to search for the different threads. There are, IIRC, some pretty good conversations with a LOT of detailed analysis. At the time (June 1945 onward) there was a growing consensus that actually invading Japan would be a...
  10. British Response to a Worse BoB

    Only if the crew rowed the last 1,500 miles in a life raft. This was pointed out to you in one of the many lunacy threads you have initiated here in the last few weeks.
  11. Volcano on Gibraltar

    And Surtesy, at it's absolute maximum cover around one square mile. The Strait is 13km (7+ MILES wide) Suttesy is also in a geologically active region, something that the Straits hasn't been in a half billion years or so. Of course you get ash. Look at the eruptions of Mt. Saint Helen's, Mt...
  12. British Response to a Worse BoB

    There are a number of problems with this scenario. 1. Napalm has not yet been invented. Once it was (in the U.S.) it wasn't introduced into the ETO until after D-Day. 2. The Luftwaffe DID use incendiaries, in considerable numbers, during the Blitz. They never had the level of success that...
  13. British Response to a Worse BoB

    Yes, there remain a few of us here who actually look at the facts. Sad, but true. Perhaps we will be wiped out by some sort of natural disaster. Hope springs eternal.
  14. Volcano on Gibraltar

    Short response: No it isn't.
  15. Volcano on Gibraltar

    At least 1/3 of the Planet's population dies, maybe as much as 3/4. This is Tambor, but on a continuing basis for decades. This could easily bring about a new Ice Age due to the lack of sunlight getting to the surface. Kiss off Canada, Northern France, Germany, Japan from Honshu north, Korea...
  16. Military capability of a victorious Kaiserreich

    With the opening that you asked... I am sure that this was all addressed in some degree of detail in the other thread, but, as a starter: Germany WON, but they lose their Pacific colonies? The U.S. was either not yet in the war or on the Entente side but it GAINS territory from France...
  17. Military capability of a victorious Kaiserreich

    No; not in the Washington Treaty. Aircraft carriers were treated as a sub set in OTL treaty , specifically in Article VII, slightly above cruisers and below capital ships. The concern was that carriers would become more or less super cruisers and a way around the other treaty limits, especially...
  18. Military capability of a victorious Kaiserreich

    Oh, this would be a REALLY nasty bloodbath, probably as bad as OTL WW II, maybe worse thanks to the new front in sub Saharan Africa. The Kaiser's Germany has every reason to keep an extremely strong military, since right or wrong, a strong military paid off big. France has been turned into OTL...
  19. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Thanks for the feedback. The Alles have a interest in avoiding civilian losses to a far greater extent that IOTL thanks to the far worse end of the Pacific War. Japan was starved to death and into defeat IITL, as is described in the narritive. The horrors that greeted the Allies when they...
  20. Better Organized German Military in WWII

    If Hitler listened to his senior commanders he wouldn't have reoccuppied the Rhineland, absorbed Austria, grabed the Sudetenland, invaded Poland or attacked Norway. Hitler did all of these because he was a gambler (although surprisingly I don't recall ever hearing about him playing cards) and an...
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