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  1. How successful can Japan be in WW2?

    In what world did the Japanese have a prayer of a decisive Japanese victory at Leyte Gulf exist. It isn't this one. The Japanese were handed their heads at every turn at Leyte. Samar was a major screw up but even there the IJN was savaged. Taffy Three was in a bad spot, without doubt, but it...
  2. How successful can Japan be in WW2?

    It was, for the 183,792nd time, IMPOSSIBLE for Nagumo to remain in place and "destroy Pearl Harbor as a Military Base" His escorts only made it to & from Hawaii by storing fuel drum on their decks. Several destroyers came close to running out of fuel as it was. The Kido Butai was also...
  3. Where did Martin Bormann go,after World War 2

    I sincerely hope so.
  4. Technological and operational transfers if earlier Japanese-German cooperation?

    A quick point on Japanese vs. Western aircraft/armor design. The Japanese knew all about self sealing tanks, crew armor and the like. It was not a lack of knowledge, it was a tactical decision. Light weight meant better ACM and longer range. Jpanese armor was also more than sufficient for the...
  5. Allies Fail to Take Sicily

    How do the Germans do this? They lack the forces and time to build them up. They also lack the terrain features that allowed them to make the defensive stands on mainland Italy.
  6. German Naval Rearmament With A Twist

    Never happen, not at Versailles. You don't give the defeated enemy anything that will help them get back on their feet, not immediately after a blood bath like the Western Front. The French wouldn't want the Germans to have anything at all & the British understood very well that it was the...
  7. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Not exactly The KGB & GRU decided the one thing left to them to really screw with the Reich was to leak information to the Germans that the U.S. and UK had made the same discovery that Heisenberg thought he had made, that the critical mass needed to make a weapon work was so large that a...
  8. Rising Sun at high noon--A collaborative Fascist Japan victory TL

    True. Depending on how busy Irving the ASB has been. However, lacking that sort of intervention, it is remarkably, if not stunningly, unlikely.
  9. Rising Sun at high noon--A collaborative Fascist Japan victory TL

    Wrong question is it POSSIBLE to have Fascist Japan Victory T/L without Iriving the ASB? That is the right question. The answer is absolutely not.
  10. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    They can do a lot of construction in the Black Sea. They are now a country with a border on the Black Sea, so most of the Treaty Limits have gone away. If the Turks were to jump to the Allies, then a Black Sea Fleet would be bottled up. Of course once out of the Black Sea, they are in the...
  11. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    The German divisions ITTL are not the badly chopped up ones of OTL. The Allies also do not have good intel, at this time, of the losses incurred by the Germans. What the do know is that the forces they are now facing on entry into France have trippled and they do not face a badly demoralized...
  12. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Today's update. Comments welcome as always. The Allied Pacific Campaign and the shaping of the Western Forces With the collapse of the USSR the Western Allies suddenly found themselves in a quandary. They had agreed that the Nazi state was the more serious threat and to follow a “Europe...
  13. No Soviet Autoloaders...

    Well, there is still the problem of storing the ammo in the turret ring.:eek:
  14. No Soviet Autoloaders...

    Can't have a gun caliber gap!
  15. No Soviet Autoloaders...

    The main reasons that the Iraqis were overwhelmed had less to do with the rate of fire their main guns could maintain and the fact that the M1A1 and Challenger 2 was able to make kills at up to 4,000 meters against front hull armor of the T-72 and the Iraqi 125mm wasn't able to do the same at...
  16. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Thanks for the feedback & compliments. :D
  17. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    You bet. The Nazi's plans were so far beyond scary that it is still, even with all the horrors that have happened since 1945, almost unimaginable. Thanks for the feedback.
  18. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    That is the really scary part. While I have obviously taken a few liberties, this is actually a low order of probability outcome, especially in the specific case of Stalingrad. The Germans literally came within 1,000 meters of taking The Crossing. If they had it is likely that the City would...
  19. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Here is the newest installment. Hope you find it interesting. Again, virtually all of the concepts found here were discussed at some point by the Nazi leadership. (You literally couldn't make some of this stuff up) Comments very welcome. The re-organization of the Greater German military and...
  20. Hitler trial, 1946

    Hitler would not have been given that sort of a platform, not of the Red Army captured him. Even if there wasn't a danger of his making statement to embarrass Stalin, a trial would have been too public, too much of a rallying opprotunity. Hitler would have wound up in Stalin's private cages at...
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