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  1. Peace in the Pacific War July 1945

    The Japanese "peace offer" was effectively to give them what they had wanted in 1941 before the war started and allow them to deal with any War Crime accusations against their forces internally. More or less it was a request to return to the status quo ante at best, with an Allied surrender at...
  2. Nazi last stand: The Alpine national redoubt.

    Quite true. Moreover, while I am not this Board's biggest Patton supporter, 3rd Army would have gotten the job done, and with far fewer losses than if the assault was conducted by Soviet forces, and likely fewer losses than if the attack was done by British forces thanks to the differences in...
  3. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    In the air, yes they are.
  4. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Here is the new update. As an aside, every weapon mentioned was, at the minimum, advanced to working prototype within the general time period covered by the story (obviously, some creative license has been taken with platforms reaching series production :)) Comments are actively requested. 3...
  5. WI F-14 exported to NATO and allies?

    Well they also had a deck to fly them from. Couldn't do that with "through deck cruisers".
  6. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Himmler loved them.
  7. WI F-14 exported to NATO and allies?

    There is a lot of misunderstanding surrounding the AIM-54/F-14 combination. While the Tomcat itself is remarkably handy for a plane the size of a B-25, the AIM-54 is not, by any stretch of the imagination, a dogfighting or even conventional BVR missile. It is a pure bomber/Cruise Missile killer...
  8. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    The Post-war world is going to be more than a little messy. It is going to be very much U.S. dominated in the short term, although the need to rebuild Europe will still exist, to generate income to pay for the cost of a 10+ year war if for no other reason. The U.S. is also subtlety different...
  9. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    The Empire is not quite the tatters it was IOTL, but close. India is close to full independence, in most ways it IS independent (Indian troops are only available if okayed by the INDIAN Parliament). No partition has taken place yet. The communist inspired revolutions in Malaya, Kenya, etc, are...
  10. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    The best that can be said for Vladivostok is that it isn't run directly by a Reichfuhrer. The Japanese administered it as a treaty port until they were defeated, now it is under control of a pro-Reich Siberian (note: NOT a Russian, a Siberian who has even less use for the Great Russians than the...
  11. Plausibility check: British carrier raid on Singapore in early 1944 or other options

    Singapore is a very difficult target. Even that late in the war, the Japanese had significant numbers of land based torpedo bombers availble in the region, not to mention lots of warships (you can't take the oil to the ships, take the ships to the oil) and the FAA would have limited aircraft...
  12. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    The timeline give the Germans one actual moment of common sense when they do not rush into Africa. Beyond that they do pretty much what they did IOTL with the troops and equipment not wasted in Africa giving the Heer the momentum to take the Stalingrad crossing. That is the key to the early...
  13. Nazi occupation of Britain

    You mean outside of all the country's Jews, communists, Gypsies, homosexuals, and random hostages following any act of resistance? The above being the Nazi version of enlightened occupation.
  14. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Thanks for the comments. One thing that needs to be kept in mind is the collective horror and, to a degree, guilt, that the Allies, especially the U.S. feel about Japan. The blockade and bombing that defeated the Japanese created, in effect, Somalia or Ethiopia at the height of their famines...
  15. WI: Nazi-Soviet Peace in 1944

    The problems with this is that even if the German offer peace Stalin has no reason to accept it. He could care less about Red Army losses so the get the troops home idea is moot. On the other hand he has more than one reason to reject the offer. 1. Germany is finished. The Reich has been...
  16. Massive use of chemical warfare by Nazis

    But outside of that there's not too many problems. :p
  17. Threat in the East

    There are two popular terms that describe this result for the Japanese: 1. Curb Stomp 2. Crushed like an empty beer can Unlike the situation in OTL's Pacific or even along the Soviet/German interface, the Japanese would not have enjoyed strategic surprise in any engagement with the USSR. The...
  18. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Uh... Thanks? :)
  19. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Here is the latest update. As always, comments are encouraged. 2 After the last aircraft left British airspace, and well before the damage results had begun to be tabulated a serious disagreement arose between Downing St. and the White House regarding the immediate reaction to the German...
  20. Was there an alternative to Normandy?

    There were a number of alternate sites. Normandy was, even with the boccage, still probably the best of the bunch. Calais was too obvious, the landing sites in the Med were too hard to support and get the massive flotilla in place without it being fairly obvious, and everywhere else was outside...
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