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  1. Could the United States/Britain win WW2 alone?

    So we have now reached the part of the thread were it has devolved to insulting each other? Took longer than average. Good to know there is no longer any reason to follow the thread for reasonable conversation.
  2. WI the American people had known about the Japanese balloon bombs?

    Plauge is also endemic in the Pacific Northwest, along with the rest of the Western U.S. Has been since the early European vistors so no one would even know (or much care). Even today you will occassional see someone die from Plauge, usually picked up while hiking the in the Sierras.
  3. WI the American people had known about the Japanese balloon bombs?

    If the American people had known they would have gone nuts! I bet we'd have nuked Japan! What? Really! I never knew that! Never mind.
  4. WI the AEF accepts the German protest against shotguns?

    It actually depends on the round. As an example the (IIRC) early 5.56mm round from the M-16 tended to tumble, creating a really nasty wound channel, later versions corrected it (although when they changed the rifling and barrel length of the A2 version of the M-16 the problem cropped up again...
  5. WI the AEF accepts the German protest against shotguns?

    Actually a low kill/high wound is exactly what the hauge Convention wanted. The "dum dum" was outlawed because it WAS specifically designed to create a more massive wound channel, increase tissue loss, and increase shock due to blood loss with hopes of killing more effectively. This was found to...
  6. Could the United States/Britain win WW2 alone?

    Just a quick note regarding the embedding of a nuclear bomber within a conventional massive bomber stream. It wouldn't work. I suggest you take a look at the post drop maneuvers that were necessary to avoid having the releasing aircraft destroyed by the weapon's blast wave. The flight profile...
  7. Could the United States/Britain win WW2 alone?

    You are right that training is a critical element in the mix. This was probably the USAAF & USN greatest strength. By the end of WW II, despite the almost unimaginable number of aircraft produced and deployed by the U.S. the U.S had thousands of fully trained pilots, many with more than 500...
  8. Could the United States/Britain win WW2 alone?

    The reason I don't buy into the easy win with nukes before mid-1946 believe is that it isn't the way things work. We are not talking about H-bombs, we are talking, at best, Mark III weapons. Mark III weapons would blow a good part of a city to rubble, but the weapon was not all that much more...
  9. Aerial Mining

    The U.S. deployed a number of Mark 19 mines with pressure detonators around Kyushu and Honshu during the end game of the Pacific War. What made them really nasty is that they would mix magnetic, acoustic, and pressure mines in the same fields with the result that sweeping was more or less a one...
  10. WI the early M4 Sherman was a good tank?

    The Sherman crews agreed with you. They would store extra bits of track across the front of the hull as well as things like sandbags and even bits of beach obstacles that they had cut up. This was mainly to defend against panzerschreck and panzerfaust shaped charge warheads, but every little bit...
  11. Could the United States/Britain win WW2 alone?

    The subject of air defense has been addressed (as has the failings of the B-36). The German ability to reach the B-36 is, it would seem, fairly well accepted by most posters (it can hardly be different since the 128mm AAA that was already in place was able to reach the Peacemaker's operational...
  12. Aerial Mining

    Easy is a relative term. They are no more difficult to build than a conventional bomb, which is not difficult. The triggering system is a bit more difficult, but most mines pre-WW I were contact detonation, so as long as the exploder is designed to survive the initial deployment you are good to...
  13. Japanese-Australian Non Agression Pact 1943

    Wow. Bard called this ASB. I fear you have no clue of how severe a condemnation that is.
  14. WI Gallipoli had succeeded?

    When Mad Max was first released in the States, the entire film was redubbed so the actors all had middle American accents. Movie made absolutely no friggin' sense at all. I remember spending the whole thing trying to figure out why they were driving on the wrong side of the &*^%# road.:p
  15. Green Dawn

    Tell the truth. You are actually one of the Fallen aren't you?
  16. WI a Communist coup in the United States?

    The entire point IS the "ill thought out" thread. I grow increasingly convinced that Bard is actually quite knowledgeable and he is doing this as some sort of bizarre trolling effort. He get too many things exactly wrong while overstating the obvious with such dedication that it simply HAS to...
  17. Aerial Mining

    Thankfully the U.S. hasn't signed up for these bits of shining stupidity, so if the balloon ever goes up we can sell you a few pallets at cost. :p As to the original question: It isn't hard to create an air deployable mine. The U.S. more or less starved Japan with them (mines, unlike picky sub...
  18. Could the United States/Britain win WW2 alone?

    The sub could fire blind,, or based on sound but the effectiveness was much diminished. The XXI also had to snort on a very regular basis and the snorkel was a better radar target than the periscope. The Germans had a wake following torpedo, but so did the allies: From navweps.com...
  19. WI the AEF accepts the German protest against shotguns?

    Of what, the protest or the shotgun? The protest gets lost in the shuffle after the war ends and the shot gun is used in WW II mainly as a MP weapon for guarding stockades. The shotgun, even if freed from it fairly limited use on the battlefield continues to do its main work of turning birds...
  20. Could the United States/Britain win WW2 alone?

    I was under the impression that airborne radars are capable of working at speeds above 12 knots. I believe that sonobouys are also effective even if the monitoring aircraft or vessel is moving at more than 14mph
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