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  1. WI No Miracle at Midway?

    I'm glad you said that. I was trying to reconcile the two different positions with no luck whatsoever.
  2. WI No Miracle at Midway?

    Face only a mother could love.:p Hell of a fighter though
  3. Pacific War Redux

    It was, but the speed was something like 90 knots and the altitude was around 70 feet IIRC (don't have my references at hand); by late 1944 those numbers were 400 MPH and something like 1,200 feet
  4. Pacific War Redux

    Thanks for the kind words. Small arms are roughtly the same. The U.S. signed the Winchester contract to make Garands earlier (shortly after the weapon were approved for full scale production) so the Marines are mostly all equipped with M-1's, as are some of the Philippine units (limited to the...
  5. Pacific War Redux

    Salmon was there. she wasn't transported there. I have also shown the other side of the torpedo issue with Swordfish. I think that you will find that I am not doing a full "Ameriwank" where the things always fall against the Japanese. One reason I have hesitated to do a Pacific War TL was...
  6. Pacific War Redux

    Percival did get sacked after 8 days. I was always surprised that Churchill didn't do this IOTL. The PM didn't suffer fools gladly. The situation on Malaya is a disaster ITTL and time will tell if it is recoverable (actually the same hold true for the Philippines). FDR got away with it IOTL...
  7. Pacific War Redux

    Here is a brief update for January 3 & 4 As always, comments are very welcome. Enjoy. January 3, 1942 USS Houston and USS Boise are ordered to head North from Iloilo. USS Yorktown, USS Hornet & task force arrives at Pearl Harbor, after providing distant cover for Wake relief mission...
  8. What IF the Combined Fleet Went to Oahu ?

    Before we go too far, a couple of items - What ships are we talking about, those that were with the Kido Butai IOTL or the rest of First Fleet? There is a significant amount od difference. Next, the overall preconditions are a bit troublesome. It is one thing to bring carriers to within 160...
  9. No Pearl Harbor, No War in the Pacific?

    Japan did get oil, not as much as they hoped, but they still got a significant amount. As an example in the 2nd quarter of 1943, the peak period, Japan received roughly 740,000 tons of oil from the DEI. In mid-1942, Japan was getting 29,000 barrels a day from the DEI. It wasn't until early 1944...
  10. No Pearl Harbor, No War in the Pacific?

    The Japanese, as you note, couldn't afford to leave the U.S. alone. The bases on Luzon were a dagger at the throat of the Japanese supply lines between the "Southern Resource Area" and Japan. Wake, along with Guam, were positioned to threaten the Japanese positions in their League of Nation...
  11. WI Disaster at Pearl Harbor

    Probably a new thread, maybe for both. It will likely get more interest. There are a couple of posters who are pretty well versed in artillery who might want to talk about the Coastal Batteries.
  12. WI Disaster at Pearl Harbor

    SS 211 USS Grudgeon She was off Lahaiana Roads. Right with DD-336 USS Litchfield It depends. It is obviously one of those Kentucky windage scenarios, and you have to have the battle group's location zeroed, but if you do, all sort of potential opens up. The winds would actually...
  13. WI Disaster at Pearl Harbor

    I don't see how it's possible on December 7, December 8 maybe, but the 7th is logistically, if not impossible, very unlikey. She's a good 10 hours steaming from launch range, assuming someone can find the Japanese (although there will be a resonable idea of the general area to search based on...
  14. WI Japan Invaded the US?

    U.S. Army units based in Portland on December 7th: Portland Oregon29th Engineer (Topographic) Battalion30th Engineer (Topographic) Battalion USAAF OREGON ------ Pendleton Army Air Base (Municipal Airport), Pendleton 17th Bombardment Group (Medium) 34th Bombardment Squadron (Medium)...
  15. WI Disaster at Pearl Harbor

    Similar, B-24's, but bombing from lower altitude due to the lessed defensive threat SAM's yes, no MiG's at all. High cover by F-4's. Attacks were done by a combination of gravity bombs and rockets. Actual losses were very light, only a single A-4. Apparently the SEAD was very effective...
  16. WI No Miracle at Midway?

    It helps when your fighter actually have radios. For some bizarre reason the Japanese didn't equip the A6M of the era with one.
  17. WI Japan Invaded the US?

    I believe that that you will find that, in late 1941, the U.S. Army was going from "square" four regiment to "triangular]" three regiment divisions. The U.S., at the time, used the term "Regiment" where the British (and, I suppose, Commonwealth) forces used "Brigade". Confusing? Of course...
  18. WI Disaster at Pearl Harbor

    As I have stated in the past, we disagree on the likelihood of a firestorm (and I especially have to disagree with the danger of tank farm fires making it to the Harbor). I have no doubt in your sincerity, however, attacks throughout WW II and even fifty years later on tank farms were less...
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