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  1. What if the French had Build the Char G1 tank

    The G1 would have been a help, but it wouldn't have changed the end result, except to give the Germans some good captured tanks and a better manufacturing plant.. Poor leadership, insufficient strategic planning, and pitiful tactics, would have overcome any weapon system. The Char C, even the...
  2. Japan Infects California with the Plague

    Assuming the U.S. connects the disease with the Japanese attack? REALLY bad juju for Japan. Probably either the invasion takes place because the U.S. won't give an inch on the Emperor's status, and/or the first A-bomb lands on Hirohito's porch. The U.S. winds up with an additional 10 million...
  3. Japan Infects California with the Plague

    Plague is endemic to California. Has been for centuries. Japan "infecting" the state with it is a bit of a stretch. The flea bit was always a huge stretch. It just doesn't work that well. A place has to be literally lousy for the vector method to work. The strain also has to be of above...
  4. How Would Japan win WWII

    Easy. Don't get involved. A less likely, but still winning plan is to pull out of China in mid 1940. By then it was clear to open eyed IJA officers that China was a sinkhole. Join the Allies.
  5. Old Secret, current consequence

    You are correct to a point, but only to a point. There are a fairly small number of the "ultra faithful" would ignore anything, but they are in the great minority. There are any number of possible revelations that would shake Christianity or Islam to their core. A vast majority of Christians...
  6. Old Secret, current consequence

    Everyone is missing the two biggies. NOTHING has the potential impact of a religious "proof" coming to light. 1. Jesus did NOT rise from the dead or was never executed in the first place. Proof of that would throw the world's great religions into a firestorm. I could see this bringing down...
  7. Midway

    Even IF Midway was an utter disaster and all three U.S. decks are lost (a VERY unlikely event) the war isn't lost, it isn't even altered in any spectacular way. This POD always ignores a couple of critical items. They are named USS Saratoga & USS Wasp. They also ignore a secondary item named...
  8. Allies bomb German powerplants

    Sir Arthur "Bomber" Harris was utterly dedicated to killing German civillians, reasoning famously, that it was easier to "get Fritz in his bed than on the job". At best you could say that Harris was committed to the overall strategic campaign, at worst you could say that he SHOULD HAVE BEEN...
  9. Allies bomb German powerplants

    For all the excellence of 617 Squadron, and the ingenuity of the weapons they deployed, they are more proof of the problem than anything else. There were not 400 crews of that quality available nor were there 400 targets that could be destroyed by precision strikes before the crews were...
  10. Allies bomb German powerplants

    You ARE Bard32 aren't you? Welcome back.
  11. Allies bomb German powerplants

    Bombing is inaccurate due to variables built into the action including wind, weather, aircraft speed and altitude, and crew skill. The only real way to improve accuracy is to alter the variables in ways the attacker can control. Unfortunately, these alterations all carry problems of their own...
  12. Allies bomb German powerplants

    Bombing infrastructure? Wow! Gee, I wonder why the allies didn't think of this? Oh, that's right, they DID! The accuracy wasn't there, but they tried enough times, along with trying to hit munitions plants, aircraft plants, and of course German cities.
  13. United States uses more bombers in the Korean War

    Damned straight! That is why the flag of... What? Really? ... Lost???? Never mind.
  14. United States uses more bombers in the Korean War

    Based on what? Even the USSBS didn't that far and that was WRITTEN by the USAAF. The United States OWNED the air over Vietnam, owned it to the point that we were using 25 year old cargo planes as gunships. Owned it to the point that American aircraft could go anywhere, anytime they wanted...
  15. United States uses more bombers in the Korean War

    You are so wrong, in so many ways, about so much that I don't even know where to begin. 1950 equipment was not the same as that used in 1991 or 2003. The lethality was not there, the accuracy was not there, the capacity was not their the intel was not there. NONE of the elements that have made...
  16. United States uses more bombers in the Korean War

    This is perhaps the most ill informed statement posted here since Bard32 took a powder. What was China? China was mapower in numbers that numbed the mind. China was a 100-1 advantage in manpower. China was insanely brave troops wearing sneakers and attacking in blizzard conditions...
  17. United States uses more bombers in the Korean War

    Well, there's an option I hadn't considered. Luckily for everyone, even MacArthur wasn't QUITE that bloody minded.
  18. United States uses more bombers in the Korean War

    So, we would what? Denude Europe of F-86 and F-84 fighters? Leave NATO undefended from Soviet Airpower? Yea, that'd work. Use our primary nuclear bomber (when the bomber was the ONLY method of getting nukes into the USSR) to deliver conventional payloads in a brush war and risk the Nuclear...
  19. What if Nazi invasion of Britain in 1940?

    Get Wood! Start the fire! HERETIC! BURN HIM!!!!
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