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  1. WI the early M4 Sherman was a good tank?

    And as the Mk. IV company would head out it would get hit by a flight of Typhoons or Thunderbolts and turned into scrap. Point/counterpoint.
  2. WI the early M4 Sherman was a good tank?

    The Continentals were gas engines.
  3. The Amerika Bomber

    You can't look at the top speed. The Aircraft lacked the range at top speed to get half way. They had to use right around cruising speed to get sufficient range, Cruise was around 215mph.
  4. Twist of fate June 1944

    This is the scale of eruption the OP called for. We are not talking eruption in the ordinary sense, we are talking Toba.
  5. WI the early M4 Sherman was a good tank?

    This truly saddens me. :( There are actually TWO independent networks pushing out this junk and calling it real? Their "original" programing is all so poorly researched and/or full of outright falsehoods that I was certain they all sprung from a single root. Tragic.
  6. WI Gallipoli had succeeded?

    You would be well advised to leave well enough alone here. You are treading on ANZAC Day here. Somehow I doubt even you want an entire Continent, the All Blacks, and several million sheep out for your hide.
  7. WI the early M4 Sherman was a good tank?

    I'm sorry. I didn't see your Lodge Pin. I'm Lodge 846. :)
  8. WI the early M4 Sherman was a good tank?

    See, this is where you made your mistake. If made by a car company, they are obviously cars. Cars like the B-24 bomber (built by Ford at Willow Run) & the F4F (built by, among others, General Motors) The F4U (built, under the designation FG-1 by Goodyear) is also obviously a tire. Facts...
  9. WI the early M4 Sherman was a good tank?

    Discovery Channel is the parent of all the History Channels. That is actually a strike against the Military Channel not a plus since it a branch of the same sloppy, poorly researched and presented tree. The Tiger was in the field by mid-1943. That was not too late in the war to change...
  10. Twist of fate June 1944

    Regarding #1, I would simply restate the difficulties experienced in the Pacific Northwest after Mount St. Helen's blew a valve. The ash was so severe that it would clog a vechile air filter in a couple minutes driving. The Emergency Services vehicle had the most charming array of Mother Hubbard...
  11. WI the early M4 Sherman was a good tank?

    The Continental WAS a gasoline engine. It was the same engine used in both the USAAF and USN intermediate trainers. How many diesel powered aircraft did you see the U.S. produce in WW II? Yes, we all know that the Military Channel aka The History Channel minus the lumberjacks, is the final...
  12. WI Gallipoli had succeeded?

    Bard doesn't do research. He watches moves, reads fiction and considers that to be sufficient to become completely conversant on a subject. I am fairly shocked that he realizes that the Entente LOST the battle.
  13. Twist of fate June 1944

    V-1 used a pulse jet. Dust would clog the hell out of it. Same thing for the early jets, as was, they had a life measured in minutes.
  14. Twist of fate June 1944

    You need to move up the date to at least mid-day on the 5th, maybe later, for this to even have a potential impact. It would take less than a day, 36 hours at the outer edge, for the prevailing winds to move the ash into Europe. The Allied weather wizards would know this, know the likely impact...
  15. Challenge: United States Battleship Division 9 interned at Scapa Flow with HSF

    Look it up? When you can simply toss in a name? Why ruin pefectly good lava bathing insanity (I LOVED that line Bill!) with actual effort. The REALLY horrific thing is that this idea is supposedly the starting point of an entire novel.:eek:
  16. Challenge: United States Battleship Division 9 interned at Scapa Flow with HSF

    Last Marylander is, AFAIK, a Freshman or Sophmore in high school. He has PM'd me quite a bit regarding things in Shared Worlds and has asked for sources to do what seemed to be 9th/10th grade sorts of reports. Part of the name changes and threads seems to be the normal changes we all go...
  17. Challenge: United States Battleship Division 9 interned at Scapa Flow with HSF

    It now seems unlikely that he is Anderson, unless he is even more of an eleven11 than we think. As far as I have been able to determine the link he posted doesn't exist. The link itself comes up with "not found" and a web search using both Yahoo and Google comes up dry.
  18. Challenge: United States Battleship Division 9 interned at Scapa Flow with HSF

    Not to mention immediately after the UK and Commonwealth had been bled white and damned near bankrupt. Here is a better question... Do you think that Bard/Blair might BE Taylor Anderson? His ongoing efforts to promote Destroyer men would make so much more sense that way.
  19. WI the early M4 Sherman was a good tank?

    Actually around 40% of the Shermans built had an aircraft engine, the Wright R-975 9 cylinder radial. There were better than 21,000 built with the R-975. The later Shermans, somewhere under half of the total production, where what came to be known as "wet" models. They had a water jacket, part...
  20. The Amerika Bomber

    The Ar 240 had a RANGE (not combat radius, range) of 1,100 kilometers. Its roughly 6,000 KM from Germany to New York meaning a range of 12,000 KM is needed. So the Ardo is only 90% short. Okay, you're wrong. Per SOP. It was made by Focke-Wulf.:rolleyes: It had a max range of 4,400 KM...
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