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  1. Department of Overlooked Technologies, Unusual Effects, and Forgotten Weapons

    The original Garand was built for a .270 (7mm) round. The Army pushed it up to .30-06 to ease supply issues since that gave the infantry rifle, the squad automatic, and the medium machine gun the same cartridge. The Army also wanted a long range "man-killer", something that the .270 or 6.5mm...
  2. For All That Remains: Yet another copycat

    Good luck with this. However, you are falling into a classic trap, namely having a dramatic event that has radical effect on the TL but most everything still follows as IOTL. This simply won't happen. Churchill dies in December of 1941. The en ire construct of WW II changes, and with it, the...
  3. Helter Skelter (well sort of)

    Sorry......
  4. Helter Skelter (well sort of)

    California fractured pretty badly in '68. Nixon carried the state with 47.82%, Humphery was at 44.74%. Popular vote was only 220,000 in Nixon's favor. Back in '68 California was a very moderate, even slightly Right, state. Reagan was a hugely popular Governor and he was conservative as all hell...
  5. Helter Skelter (well sort of)

    In that case, they are REALLY wrong. The map for '68 shows an electoral massacre (its OTL's 68) with a 301/191/46 split rep/dem/ind. There is VERY little chance that Texas would not go Reagan in '72, he was almost the Poster Child for the Independent Party's ideals on everything but...
  6. Helter Skelter (well sort of)

    What are the maps supposed to show? They do not come close to what the body of the post outlines.
  7. Russia Reaches All Its Maritime Borders

    The question is really "Did Russia expand to the Sea or was it constrained by the sea?" Russia has had a piece of the Black Sea coastline since around 1600. They had Murmansk and the Baltic since the 1500s, Siberia and its Arctic and Pacific coasts since the early-mid 1700s. At its peak it had...
  8. Billy Mitchell

    Minimal. They'd have to rename the B-25. He was too disliked to have been recalled and given anything close to serious command.
  9. Pacific War Redux

    Here is March 10, 1942 Enjoy. Comments encouraged. March 10, 1942 (Hiroshima) 00:30 local – Combined Fleet sails for Taiwan Strait and confrontation with the U.S. Navy. Due to the losses during the Marianas carrier battle only the light carriers Shoho & Zuiho each with 12 A6M and 9 B5M...
  10. What If Britain had been Able to keep the 13 colonies?

    This question proceeds from a false assumption, namely that a massive alteration in the world's political and economic landscape two centuries before wouldn't cancel out almost everything that follows, like a World War starting in 1939. In fact, the world would be so different that the...
  11. Hitler got the A-Bomb

    Primarily because the Bomb required a SERIES of breakthroughs, not just one. Each was the result of a breakthrough, some in physics, some in mechanical engineering, some in chemical engineering, some in electrical engineering. All were made by men of considerable genius, none of whom were...
  12. Hitler got the A-Bomb

    The B-36 was, without question, a LOUSY design (not the least because it took an already cranky engine, turned it around, and denied it proper cooling resulting in little problems like the wings burning off). It was, however, invulnerable to anything the Luftwaffe flew. The Me-262 had an...
  13. WI: US enters WWII in September 3rd, 1939?

    Interesting idea, but the dog won't hunt. The U.S. electorate wasn't going to let a war happen that easy. Remember, they didn't even go ape what the USS Ruben James, an American WARSHIP on the high seas, was sunk by a U-boat. The Japanese were nice enough to kick-start the U.S. at Pearl...
  14. WW2 1939 Britain makes Peace treaty with Nezi Germany and Japan

    Hmmm... Japan wasn't at war with the UK in 1939. Sort of makes it tough to sign a peace treaty ending a war that hasn't happened yet. BTW: NAZI
  15. Pacific War Redux

    Japan is virtually the same as IOTL, save the need to react to the changes caused by the original PODs. I want to limit the wholesale pre-Pearl Harbor changes lest the butterflies get to thick to work through. The IJA has begun to pull some units out of China to reinforce Yamashita. There has...
  16. Pacific War Redux

    Suspense isn't working? I guess that part of the T/L structure needs work. The detail of the Operation will be in the next post or two. Thanks for the feedback.
  17. America Invades Jaoan in 1946

    Hokkaido was also nearly undefened by late summer of 1945. Virtually no aircraft, kamakazi or otherwise, very few troops & most of them reservist/combat rejects. The Japanese had been very successful in figuring out where the Allies were planning to land on Kyushu and had moved most of their...
  18. America Invades Jaoan in 1946

    Not to mention the Japanese civilian population. No nukes doesn't mean the end of the firebombings (something that sometimes is forgotten). The B-29 force was going to be augmented by 8th Air Force in mid/late September. The USSBS foresaw a large firebombing raid a day by the middle of...
  19. Pacific War Redux

    Here is March 2 - March 9, 1942 Comments very welcome. Enjoy. March 2, 1942 (Sumatra) Dutch submarine K-XIV attacks Japanese transport off Sabang. One ship, a 2,200 ton freighter, is destroyed in the attack. The submarine receives moderate damage in the ensuing depth charge attack...
  20. Hitler got the A-Bomb

    Saying it doesn't come close to making it so. Heisenberg and his team had screwed up, had no idea that they had screwed up, and continued to screw up until the end of the war. Fro that matter, even if they hadn't screwed up, how is Germany going to manage to put together a Manhattan? During...
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