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  1. Another "should never have entered service" thread- Ships

    Building a reasonable designed 45-55,000 ton 380mm-406mm main battery ship (like say the addmittedly less than optimal for Pacific conditions Bismarck, or the North Carolina or South Dakota class) might have been an idea. Probably could have built them without having to build an entire new set...
  2. Invasion of Britain 1941.

    HERETIC!!! GET THE TORCHES! :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek: :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek: :eek::eek::eek::eek: :eek::eek::eek: :eek::eek: :eek: BURN HIM!!!
  3. Another "should never have entered service" thread- Ships

    I like these threads WAY too much! Many of the likely suspects have been mentioned, however… Japan Where to begin… Yamato class BB - Huge, obsolete the minute it hit the water, unable to keep up with the Kido Butai carriers. Biggest guns ever floated (note that it doesn’t say the BEST...
  4. Best Case scenario for the Axis AFTER American entry

    Problem is the original post makes it pretty clear that everything is status quo until the U.S. entering the war. At that point Italy is dead, just not aware of it yet, Japan has been SOL for almost a year in a war on the Asian mainland that it can neither lose nor withdraw from, and Hitler...
  5. Best Case scenario for the Axis AFTER American entry

    Once the U.S. in in the war the BEST the Axis can expect, and this requires them to surrender PDQ is what Italy was offered IOTL. Regime change, loss, at least in the short term, of their fleet units and heavy weapons, etc. Japan is dead meat. No hope, no chance, NONE. In the long run the...
  6. We lose World War I

    Define "WE" In my family we won AND we lost. Fortunately one set of cousins was on the Western Front and the others were in the Italian Alps.
  7. Second fascist wave in Europe?

    Not just Ivan.
  8. Why no current USS WAKE ISLAND ?

    In the the life & death part of warship design, not a bit. In the world where ships are WAY more than steel boxes floating on the water, quite a bit.
  9. Why no current USS WAKE ISLAND ?

    I don't disagrre with you. As far as I'm concerned the CVN should be named Langley, Lexington, Saratoga, Ranger, Yorktown, Enterprise, Wasp, Hornet, Essex, Constellation, Independence, Intrepid, Bonhomme Richard. Maybe a few other names just to keep things from going stale like Kearsarge, Coral...
  10. Why no current USS WAKE ISLAND ?

    Yes, but that is all by the boards now. First the State naming tradition to went to cruisers Starting with CGN-36 USS California through to CGN 41 USS Arkansas, switched to ballistic missile boats with SSBN (now SSGN)-726, USS Ohio, With a break for USS Henry Jackson, then to SSN designs with...
  11. Why no current USS WAKE ISLAND ?

    The USN is also making a change in the naming of Assault ships. The new LHA class lead ship is USS America, while the previous LDH class (Wasp) all carried names of WW II carriers (although Makin Island is named after a CVE and not a CV). With the seeming permanent decision to name CVN after...
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