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  1. WI Hitler Flees to National Redoubt

    Where did Hitler get the transport to move 35,000 PoW? Why did the Heer, Luftwaffe, and Kreigsmarine officers responsible for the prisoners suddenly hand them over to be hostages after following the Conventions throughout the War, especially when it was obvious that Germany was going to LOSE...
  2. Operation Downfall

    Hokkaido was meat on the table for the Red Army. They wouldn't have had it as easy as the number suggest, mostly because they lacked the specialized amphibious shipping. I would actually expect the Soviets to lose more men by drowning than by any other single reason. The entire concept of...
  3. New Timeline. WI HSF Fought GF on 28/10/1918?

    The war WAS over on 10/28/18. Germany was out cold, it just hadn't fallen over yet. Nothing was going to change the outcome at that date, not in Germany's favor. NOTHING. The HSF would have been manhandled by the GF, assuming the HSF would even be able to put to sea (being outnumbered 2-1...
  4. Douglas MacArthur

    While it assumes that the PRC wasn't just talking and was altually ready to live with the 50 miles buffer (which most sources agree to be the case), then yes, the war is over by December of 1950, perhaps a month or two later. The DPRK army had ceased to exist. The only safe place of its...
  5. Douglas MacArthur

    MacArthur was obsessed with being "MacArthur". His single minded desire to "return" cost the U.S. thousands of additional losses (Just Peleiu resulted in nearly 2,000 KIA and it would never have even been considered if it hadn't been part of the planning for the invasion of the PI. That it took...
  6. Douglas MacArthur

    Inchon was mostly MacArthur. A different approach would have utterly altered the Korean War. Had UN forces under MacArthur's command stopped at the PRC's demanded 50 mile distance from the PRC/DPRK border the War would have been over in 1950. MacArthur's remarkably enlightened leadership as...
  7. Werwolf:The Nazis fight back

    If a house is being used by a sniper, it is a legitimate military target. It would be close to, if not actually, criminal for a commander to lose men if there was an alternative, especially in clearing a building, where one rifleman can make multiple kills long before he is taken. A single bomb...
  8. Werwolf:The Nazis fight back

    Werewolf was designed to be an "insurgent" campaign post occupation, not during the Allies advance. It would have been idiotic. The Soviets would have been even harsher, not their occupation was a bed of roses to begin with, and it would have given the French (who had all the reason on Earth) to...
  9. Douglas MacArthur

    Time for the happy dance if you are an American or Australian assigned to the Southwest Pacific. Time for serious tears if you are a resident of 1946-? Japan.
  10. WI Japan defeated at Singapore

    The forces dedicated to Burma were independent of Yamashita's command. There would be no need for the IJN to establish a serious naval blockade that would tie down considerable amounts of IJN units. With control of the DEI (which was taken by forces independent of Yamashita's army) the JNAF...
  11. Day of infamy-Empire of China

    I understand that it was the Empire of China. Since I was talking OTL and modern day I used the current name. So there is no TL involved here?
  12. Day of infamy-Empire of China

    It is an interesting effort to redo the speeches. However, the underlying POD makes no sense at all. Even today, with the far more interconnected world, it is hard to come up a reason that the PRC would need to cross half the Pacific to mix it up with the U.S. A reach for the Southern...
  13. WI Japan defeated at Singapore

    You could have changed out the inexperienced troops with the Australian 9th Division and the rest of the defenders of Tobruk and it wouldn't matter in the end. Once the Japanese control the DEI, South China Sea, and the Philippines Singapore was a cut off as a base on the surface of the Moon...
  14. BAOR vs. Volksarmee

    This actually a good plan since the BAOR would have stomped their probable opponent flat as a bug.
  15. BAOR vs. Volksarmee

    Still pretty much the same answer. If the U.S. and USSR forces are isolated out the NATO countries have the same massive advantage in quality (both personnel and equipment), morale (many of the Pact troops had dreamed of getting to the West to ESCAPE their regime's for years), and technology...
  16. BAOR vs. Volksarmee

    In isolation? Prayer.
  17. One Nuke in 9/11

    They do. However in the case of a ground detonation the effect is more or less zero because it's footprint is inside the radius of destruction from the heat & blast waves.
  18. One Nuke in 9/11

    30 MILLION? 30 MILLION? 30 MILLION? Please provide a source for that. That is a bigger number than the TOTAL population of any U.S. state except California. It is larger than the TOTAL population of the STATES of Connecticut, New Jersey, AND New York on 9/11. I know people commute, but...
  19. One Nuke in 9/11

    High hundreds is fairly unlikely. That would require it to be a multi-stage weapon with a considerable amount of FRESH, properly purified, tritium. It is also a REALLY bad event if it does occur. There is no way the U.S. would accept that it was a terrorist weapon. The only hope of holding...
  20. Atomic Korea: my first timeline

    The USAF had, in 1950, three fully functional and squadron deployed nuclear bombers. 1. A small number of B-29 Silverplates (less than 60) that had been modified for the 509th Composite Group 2. The B-50 (effectively slightly upgraded B-29s) 3. The B-36. In addition the USN operated one...
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