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  1. When could the 22nd Amendment be repealed?

    2/3 majority in both Houses, followed by 3/4 of the states. REALLY high bar. There is a reason it has only happened 14 times since 1804, including the 21st that overturned the 18th (and one of those, the 27th, was waiting in the system for 74,003 days). Unless something is clearly an act of...
  2. Early M26 Pershing

    OR D-day is delayed for a year while the U.S. produces a whole new generation of LCT and LST capable of handling the M-26 and the transports for the tanks. As a result the Soviets take ALL of Germany before following war-time agreements and allowing the Western allies to take their occupation...
  3. WI: Airborne Aircraft Carriers

    The hook-up were made in experimental conditions, to verify the concept, not in operational ones. Imagine trying to grab the hook when you are being buffeted by 30 knot winds and downdrafts or updrafts. The fatal problem with airships is that they were lethally vulnerable, as I noted in a...
  4. No Global WWII, Pacific war instead.

    As noted the chances of Japan making any such attempt without France, the UK and Dutch being fully occuppied by a shooting war (and in a couple of cases being simply occuppied) would be close to zero. The U.S. would, possibly, be more ready to go after Japan if there was no Europe to worry...
  5. WI: Airborne Aircraft Carriers

    How did the paint do in making the radar signal being broadcast from the transmitter/receiver disappear? Remember that radar can be detected far beyond the distance that it can get detection value return data.
  6. Japan invades the Soviet Union

    No need. The forces retained on the Far East Front would more than sufficient to take the Kwantung Army and pull it inside out. One of the misunderstandings of the Soviet effort in WW II is that the "Siberians" were not pulled from Far East Front, but from other commands in the "central"...
  7. Japan invades the Soviet Union

    Liberators? Maybe for the first 20 minutes (right until some randon IJA officer murders a civilain for not showing proper "respect". NOBODY was as bad as the Japanese as an occuppier (unless you happened to be an Eastern European Jew, then the Reich was right up there). As far as the...
  8. WI: Airborne Aircraft Carriers

    I wasn't considering that American (since the USN experiments with parasites are the sources of the discussion) airships would use hydrogen. The U.S. was the world's source of helium in the 1930's and both the Akron & Macon were helium filled. The danger to a airship is to the engine(if...
  9. WI: Airborne Aircraft Carriers

    There is a central problem with airborne carriers; the landing and launch of the aircraft is even more difficult that the same effort from a sea based carrier (and that is saying something). Airships are also limited in size and in carrying capacity. The Akron & Macon were HUGE (within 20...
  10. How big a difference could the Mosquito have made?

    Not just accurate navigation is in question, but the accuracy of bombing. There tends to be a misunderstanding for the reason behind the mass bomber formations of the Second World War. The relative small bomb load of each aircraft is one, but the far larger (and more important to this...
  11. Concorde in the Falklands

    Ohhhhh... With invisibility paint?? And the carrier is a submarine too, right? Oh, and for MacCaulay: Airborne Lasers!
  12. Concorde in the Falklands

    Why would you want a MACH 2 AWACS?
  13. Benedict Arnold doesn't change sides

    Arnold stays loya (or has the good grace to get killed in battle against the British)l, and there is a STATE named after him somewhere in the lower 48, and every city in America has a Benedict Arnold Ave. The only bigger hero than Arnold in the Colonies before he went over was Washington...
  14. Concorde in the Falklands

    Concorde was a pure civilian aircraft. Very fast, very expensive to operate, VERY fragile. There is way more to making a civilian aircraft into a warplane than just installing some hardpoints (BTW: given any thought to what the drag of all that exteral weaponry is going to to do to speed and...
  15. Soviet Union invades Hokkaido. Where would they attack?

    Only 3 Sen Toku boats were ever completed, and the I-402 wasn't completed as a seaplane carrier and was only put into commission on 7/24/45 (just in time for the U.S. to disable her).
  16. Soviet Union invades Hokkaido. Where would they attack?

    What I really find interesting in this thread now is that we have pretty much all the Board WW II geeks all saying pretty much the same thing and still being unable completely agree.:) We all agree that the Island would be taken, that the Japanese don't have the ability to actually repulse any...
  17. Soviet Union invades Hokkaido. Where would they attack?

    You think any of the vessels in the Inland Sea would even make it TO the Sea of Japan, between the U.S. subs, mines, & aircraft? BTW: There was mention earlier of the I-400 subs & IJN Cruisers. On August 15 1945 I-400 & I-401 were headed toward Ulithi Atoll to conduct a air attack (with SIX...
  18. Soviet Union invades Hokkaido. Where would they attack?

    While I in general agree with your post, this portion is a very large exception. The Strait of Tartary is in what can only be described as very sheltered waters, with considerable landmasses to both the east and west and smaller land masses sheltering much of the noth and south approaches. The...
  19. WI: A Less Anti-Communist U.S.

    Actually the difference would be minimal. The key is the "anti-democratic" element and to a large degree anti-Stalin and anti-Mao. None of the "communist" governments the U.S. opposed have ever even pretended to be anything like democratic. On the other hand, countries with very large...
  20. Soviet Union invades Hokkaido. Where would they attack?

    If they land in August. Like most of the posters I am accepting that the Soviets will wait until they have the right force balance and airpower in place to overwhelm the defenders, not lunge at Hokkaido before 9/1/45. Even if they went on 11/1/45, the same day the U.S. was going to land on...
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