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  1. The Japanese Invade and Occupy Australia In WW2

    I would agree that the Japanese could, at a murderous cost in both aircraft and resources, make a series of Deippe style hit and run attacks. I would wager that it would wind up costing them a carrier, but they could raise 10 kinds of Hell and disrupt the Allies' SW Pacific plans for months...
  2. The Japanese Invade and Occupy Australia In WW2

    Invade the entire continent of Australia? The U.S. couldn't have pulled it off at any point DURING the war. Now, if you want to do a WI for say January of 1946 the combined U.S. military MIGHT be able to make it happen. That is with better than 100 division of ground forces available, 22 fleet...
  3. The Japanese Invade and Occupy Australia In WW2

    The Japanese would need to use the carriers it had to raid the cities you list. If they used one or two carriers they will lack the firepower to do any real damage and will suffer heavier losses than if engaging as a single large force. Conducting those raids means closing to within 120 miles of...
  4. WWII:Japanese invade Hawaii

    Perhaps the reason the two scenarios that draw the most dismissive and negative comments do so because they have been throughly disproved, not simply by those here on the Board, but by actual, Honest-to-God military professionals and serious scholars. This Board is far more accommodating...
  5. WI: Kido Butai sunk at Pearl Harbor

    That is a significant POD (just moving the Sara is a huge change). It is so significant that it is likely the the attack itself is aborted. It also borders on ASB. The U.S. sucessfully destroying the entire Japanese carrier force on December 7th is not an easy POD to create, not if one wishes to...
  6. WI: Kido Butai sunk at Pearl Harbor

    I would say that this isn't a possibility. At Midway the U.S. had three decks, all with full airwings. On December 7 they had only two (Saratoga having reached San Diego after her Bremerton refit that very morning), and they were not completely updated in their load out. Lexington had close...
  7. The Film "Taken" Actually Happened

    The French police have a very deeply vested interest in making this go away. A trial would expose a rather seamy bit of France to public view, scare the holy snot out of potential tourists world-wide, put some extreme corruption in very high places on display, and generally make France look like...
  8. The Japanese Invade and Occupy Australia In WW2

    Beyond the obvious problem that the Japanese simply do not have the troops to pull an invasion off, or the logistical lift to move the troops, even if they could scare them up... How does the IJN bombard three cities that are 800 milies apart on an ongoing basis? There is a chance, not much of...
  9. WI: Comanche not scrapped?

    Well, this is news. Please provide references.
  10. WI: Atomic Bomb one year early?

    If you are going to do a night raid with a single aircraft or the three aircraft formation used IOTL (especially over a German city) you still have a significant chance of being intercepted. German night fighter tactics were designed around single aircraft since Bomber Command did not use large...
  11. The AK-47 becomes the standard infantry rifle of the USSR 10 years earlier

    Not much difference except that there is a much greater need for ammunition in the war's first year-year & a half, something that the Soviets did not have in abundance in the early days of the war (the AK is a great burner of ammo). A significant percentage of the Red Army carried submachine...
  12. WI: Comanche not scrapped?

    Around half of one. Assuming you can hit it (which is not as easy as it sounds since the RPG is the classic "dumb" weapon) Helos are remarkably fragile and RPG-7 rounds are designed to defeat tank armor up to the M-60/T-72 (w/o reactive armor) level. The RAH-66 was not a superweapon. It...
  13. The Japanese Invade and Occupy Australia In WW2

    Gamra cavalry? Hmmm.... Mothra deployed Paratroopers!!:eek:
  14. WI: Atomic Bomb one year early?

    Not really. There is a serious difference between a single pre-production test bed and an operational aircraft. The FIRST test drop of the "pumpkin" dummy bomb wasn't until February 28, 1944. These were less than satisfactory, resulting in a redesign of the suspension system for the weapon...
  15. Challenge: Iranian-Turkish war

    Not dead on, but close enough for Government work. https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=55116
  16. The Japanese Invade and Occupy Australia In WW2

    You need a POD of 1850 or earlier that weakens the British, French, and Dutch colonial Empires substantially (as well as eliminating or seriously altering Manifest Destinty in the U.S.) and turns the Japanese Empire from isolationist to expansionist. With a POD that early and profound...
  17. WWII:Japanese invade Hawaii

    Cute. Come up with a workable plan. That is all that is ever asked. So, if you have one, post it. If you don't... Well, we all know you don't.
  18. WI: Great Britain was not distracted by the Napoleonic Wars durig the War of 1812

    If there is no existing war, than the Americans have no reason to delcare war. It was the pressures of the European war that caused the RN to go to impressment of sailors from U.S. vessels, to prevent American shipping from getting to Europe, and (from the American perspective) the potential...
  19. WI: Great Britain was not distracted by the Napoleonic Wars durig the War of 1812

    If there is no existing war, than the Americans have no reason to delcare war. It was the pressures of the European war that caused the RN to go to impressment of sailors from U.S. vessels, to prevent American shipping from getting to Europe, and (from the American perspective) the potential...
  20. WI: Atomic Bomb one year early?

    The Japanese civilian population took to calling the Superfort B-sans which effectively means Mr. B.
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