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  1. WI there really had been American POWs still stuck in 'Nam?

    The terms PoW & MIA are being used interchangeably by some in this thread as if they mean the same thing. They do not. The PoW issue, whether you believe the minority position or the generally accepted one that no one was left behind, has NOTHING(no, let me repeat that, NOTHING TO DO WITH...
  2. World War III starts in 1945

    This rather misses the point. The air power argument is what the entire scenario depends upon as its pivot point. What air power can do, rather decisively, even in mid 1945, is turn an opponents logistical situation into a nightmare. Air power can disrupt massed artillery to a remarkably...
  3. WI if the Big E took the place of the Missouri?

    1st, Welcome! :D The problem with this is that the Enterprise ate a Kamikaze on May 14th, 1945 and had not been repaired, having arrived in Bremerton in early June. There is almost no way, short of butterflying away the May 14th hit, for Enterprise to get to Japan in time for the Surrender...
  4. Karl Dönitz gets his 300 U-boats

    Exactly how many new YARDS did the U.S. militaty construct during the war? That would be none. The U.S. already had the production capacity, it was a matter of making full use of it, adding in some very innovative production methods (Henry Kaiser's famed prefabrication for Liberty/Victory Ship...
  5. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    The Allies did hit at the transport net, with eventual success (not total, but disruptive). The defenses inside Germany are still fairly substantial, although no where near those available at the start of the war. The attacks have been a balancing act, with the goal of shaping the battlefield...
  6. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    The war in Europe 1939-45 wasn't as expensive, by a long shot, ITTL and the need to support the USSR disappeared with, well, the USSR, presenting a major savings. There was also a much lower cost in simply garrisoning North Africa rather than fighting the Germans and Italians tooth and claw...
  7. WI-Spain joined the Axis

    Bard, is that you? We have so missed you around here. They didn't NEED a vast network. All they had to do was look a a map. Texas, Arizona, California, New MEXICO, Nevada, Colorado, San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Jose. What language do you think these names come from? (Hint: It...
  8. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Thanks for the compliment. The Reich has tried to cause trouble everywhere it could, from Syria to Peru. Its efforts have been mostly complete failures. Their treatment of occupied peoples, not just the Jews, but the Slavs and even the more "privileged" national groups has pretty much made...
  9. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    One major difference is that many of the major factories are not in the Ruhr, but well into what had once been the Soviet Union. The Allies were only able to reach them with any success by using massive tanker support and taking some serious chances with better than a full year of production of...
  10. Karl Dönitz gets his 300 U-boats

    Wack-a-Sealion? Hmmm... I LIKE IT! :D:p:D
  11. India and the DEI after the alternate WW2 ???

    One significant difference (besides the regretable veneration of the Brewster Buffalo ;)) would be Indians view of themselves. ITTL India is already well on the way to regional superpower. China will also be a very different place.
  12. WI-Spain joined the Axis

    Why in God's name would they do that? Not getting enough shoe leather in their diet?
  13. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Thanks for the kind words. The Nazis are not really at the same general tech level as the Western Allies. They have not, as an example developed the transistor (although the losses in the air war have given them enough examples that the reverse engineering is in progress) so their airborne...
  14. The Manhattan Project: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the ICBM

    Anyone ever read a short story called Goddard's People by Allen Steele? Not exactly, or even mostly, the same, but an interesting story. Be fun to see how this one turns out.
  15. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    No, it is more or less OTL He-162. It is somewhat more conventional in construction, with an all metal design, but it is still a 1st Generation jet. The Reich is, even ITTL, at a disadvantage in materials and has kept pretty much everything possible in service. As I mentioned earlier in the...
  16. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    The strategic bombing campaign has, eventually, borne fruit, although at a cost similar to OTL. Bomber Command has spent much more of its effort in hitting strategic target than IOTL (Bomber Harris is NOT in command, and the horrors inflicted on Japan have made the Allies much more sensitive to...
  17. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    The Reich still has some surprises in store. The Air War is still on-going. The reason the skies over Germany proper and Austria are still up for grabs IS the German interceptors that exist. ITTL the Germans spent most of their efforts on two fighter projects, the Horten flying wings, which...
  18. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Effectively European Russia to the Channel + Norway. All the territory that the Reich conquered ITTL. The air situation is similar to what existed IOTL March-April 1944.
  19. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Here is the latest update (told you it was coming;)) Enjoy. Comments actively sought. 4 Allied attacks against French targets were launched within moments of the time that the first bombers left the ground in Northern Iran. Due to differences in the distances involved the French attacks...
  20. WI Japan did not attack Pearl Harbor

    The Alliance may have been significantly directed toward Russia, but the need to contain the USN was always a consideration. It was actually the Japanese who suggested the inclusion of the article regarding "any power which either country had a general arbitration agreement" in the 1911 renewal...
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