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  1. Fall of France

    How could France have prevailed? Let's count a few ways: 1. Attack the Germans on September 10, 1939 using its massive advantage in troops, mmobility and firepower (wait, that sounds like...) 2. Modernize a few months faster. 3. Allow your Generals to trade space for time (assuming you...
  2. The Last Centurion

    WotR was written by Tom Kartman, from an outline by Ringo. That is REALLY common these days, where a new writer will coat tail a successful one, with his name starting out REALLY tiny and gradually getting larger until the get their own book. Baen is famous for it, but it is also common in other...
  3. Operation Downfall - The Invasion of Japan

    The Kamakazis were a threat, and would have been a servere one to the troop transports the first couple days. After that, it would be a very different matter. The U.S. would have had in the area of 500 fighters dedicated to CAP at all times, plus the fighters on ground support missions that...
  4. Operation Downfall - The Invasion of Japan

    I'll review my references on the VT fuse. I thought I'd read recently they had them in 40mm, on the other hand, NavWeps is generally extremely accurate. The Franklin was hit by a convention bomb, but it managed to gut her very nicely. I was mostly pointing out that carriers, even with...
  5. Operation Downfall - The Invasion of Japan

    The best features of the American carrier, at least related to battle damage, were the wooden flight decks and the open hanger space ABOVE the armored deck. An American carrier, especially later in the war, could take a serious hit and be back conducting air operations in a few hours. This...
  6. Importance of Operation Chariot?

    A single ship was never going to be a war changer, not in the '40's (now a SSBN...). It could be argued (and probably has been somewhere in this forum) that the Tirpitz was far more useful as a threat than she would ever have been as an actual raider. The British spent an amazing amount of...
  7. No 22nd Amendment

    Ike: Maybe, might not have WANTED the job again. JFK: err... LBJ: Didn't make two terms Nixon: Didn't make two terms Ford: Never actually elected to the Job Carter: Please; barely survived the 1st term Reagan: Would have DIED as President or damned close to it. George HW: One termer Clinton...
  8. Operation Downfall - The Invasion of Japan

    Absolutely. Even before the Lexington was lost the USN held damage control to near religious status (afterwards... deified is just a slight overstatement). IIRC it was the first navy to establish a specific training course for Damage Control officers and to train units of sailors on the rather...
  9. Operation Downfall - The Invasion of Japan

    I would seriously doubt that the terms would have improved, at least in time to prevent a few MILLION deaths from starvation. After the two nuclear weapons were used, there was STILL a fairly serious coup attempt to prevent the surrender message from being broadcast. The case for the Japanese...
  10. Pacific War Redux

    The British had delivered 42 Hurricanes in late January IOTL that was too late to help, in this TL they are on the island in time to, well, get shot down. edit: This level of loss also models what happened IOTL when some BoB pilots made it to Singapore and tried to dogfight the Zero like they...
  11. Pacific War Redux

    Here's the latest update. February 4 - 7, 1942 As always, enjoy. Comments encouraged. February 4, 1942 (U.S.) First pre-production Hellcat completed. (Singapore) Large Japanese raid on Singapore. Forty-two Bombers escorted by thirty-six Zeros attack dock area and wharf warehouses...
  12. The Last Centurion

    But in a GOOD way. Classic Ringo after a fashion. Told from the grunt/field grade viewpoint, dripping with distain towards government in general and Hillary in particular, 1st rate comabt scenes, even has a plausible series of PODs.
  13. The Last Centurion

    John Ringo has a new Alternate/Future history out. It deals with the immediate run up to and the consequences of a Bird Flu pandemic in 2018-2020. Not half bad, although a tad political. Might want to check it out!
  14. US annexes Barbary States in 1823

    Any United States that could take and HOLD that much strategic real estate along the Med would be readily able to enforce the Doctrine whether the European Powers liked it or not. Unfortunately, that particular United States was only around from October 1945 to mid-1946
  15. Operation Downfall - The Invasion of Japan

    Of course those people would be less dead if they had been napalmed.
  16. Operation Downfall - The Invasion of Japan

    The Japanese wanted to END the WAR, not surrender. Their "peace feelers" were built on them keeping their conquests in China, Manchuria, parts of the Pacific, their military forces, any accussed war criminals to be tried by Japanese military courts under Japanese rules of engagement, and lastly...
  17. Operation Downfall - The Invasion of Japan

    All things being equal, the Soviets would have had a very hard time mounting a serious amphibious attack. However, as you and others (including me) have pointed out, all things were not equal. Hokkaido wasn't Okinawa or Saipan, much less fall 1945 Kyushu.
  18. Operation Downfall - The Invasion of Japan

    Not to mention the fact that all the kamakazi aircraft had been moved to Kyushu as part of the defensive plan. There was enough fuel to launch them against the invasion fleet or move them to Honshu (not completely sure about Hokkaido), but not both. This severe lack of fuel, combined with the...
  19. Patton takes Prague - Capitalist Czechia, Communist Slovakia

    Aw, hell. I agree competely. So much for being opponents. ;):p
  20. The Montana class battleships get built

    The Russians? Never! They pay %$&#! Now the Israelis... :D
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