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  1. Operation Jefferson Davis

    Exactly how many troop transports, heavy lift landing ships and medium lift landing boats did the Wehrmacht possess in Summer of 1941? How many did they produce in 1941-42? The answer is, of course, a number insufficient to cross the English Channel in division strength. Yet they will now take...
  2. WI: Decent superchargers in US fighters?

    The U.S. still had Buffaloes (and Vindicators) on the Lexington on December 7. Buffaloes were used in the DEI as well as out of Singapore. The Buffalo's biggest sin was that Brewster's QC wasn't up to snuff. This caused reliability issues and problems in combat. Pretty much every fighter...
  3. WI Hitler was in the dock at Nuremberg?

    Two possibilities 1. He gets hung 2. He commits suicide before getting hung Of course he would never have made it into Allied hands. The NKVD would have collected him and he would have found out just how inhumane people can be.
  4. Operation Jefferson Davis

    Ferried from where? Newfoundland, followed by stops in Boston, North Carolina, and Florida? Look at a map. Find a single point between the French coast and the Carribean where a German fighter (max range 700 miles) can land without be destroyed. For God's sake, get a clue.
  5. How much shorter could the war in the Pacific have been?

    How, exactly (including shipping, fuel, ammunition, etc), is Japan going to move 150,000 men (IJA divisions at this point in the war average 30K men) to Hawaii? Be sure to detail how they provide fuel for the transport vessels AND their screen. IOTL, how many acts of sabotage were committed by...
  6. Operation Jefferson Davis

    Thanks. Should have know it would be something that was twisted completely out of shape.
  7. Operation Jefferson Davis

    Really? A bill that failed by one vote either passed the House or passed the Senate and failed in the other Chamber by a single vote. Document that such a bill passed between 1939 and 1941. This should be easy to prove. Even the History Channel or Newt Gingrich must have mentioned it at...
  8. Operation Jefferson Davis

    Care to provide the HR number on that bill?
  9. WI The XP-81 had been adopted by the USAAF

    The engines were okay, at least on average for the era. It is ugly as sin isn't it? Exactly. It was SUPPOSED to have a range of 2,000 miles. The Jet would have been used in tactical situations only.
  10. Operation Jefferson Davis

    Thus having as much to do with a 1941 POD event as the Lunar Landing.
  11. WI The XP-81 had been adopted by the USAAF

    Try looking on your computer.
  12. Operation Jefferson Davis

    Yes it is. Unfortunately, in general you take liberties with conventional history before you realize you have begun the process. This thread being just the most recent example you have provided on this Board.
  13. Effects of a 250000 Megaton nuclear detonation...

    Since the detonation would kill everyone on the Planet, why not just detonate where it's constructed?
  14. Operation Jefferson Davis

    Well as long as it has nothing to do with history, the military, or logic that great. If it does, well, there's always barber's college.
  15. WI The XP-81 had been adopted by the USAAF

    Besides being slow (100 mph slower than a P-80), as big as a medium bomber (50% larger than a P-80), and showing every sign of being as manuverable as a flatiron? Can't imagine why they didn't put it in series production.
  16. Operation Jefferson Davis

    Hitler would have been NINETY-ONE IN 1980.
  17. Operation Jefferson Davis

    Bollocks. The P-40E was a very tidy fighter. Even the earlier P-40B was decent aircraft, although a bit undergunned. The type had some issues at high altitude, but it held it's own very nicely below 20,000 feet against all comers and it was more than capable of bomber intercepts at higher...
  18. Operation Jefferson Davis

    Stuka? WTF? Perhaps you mean a few dive bombers? And it was seven Battleships; if you had even the most rudimentary knowlege of the U.S. Navy you would know that there were only TWO North Carolina class ships ever built. That of course, is something that History Channel would feature, so your...
  19. WI: Decent superchargers in US fighters?

    The Lockheed engineers called the P-38 the "castrated Lightning" becuase the British required several changes that seriously reduced the aircraft's performance. The U.S. sold a good many mor ethan two of them to the UK. The U.S. did sell (actually mostly gave) the P-39 to the Soviets. The U.S...
  20. Operation Jefferson Davis

    And the U.S. would, of course, happily sit around while the German military establish bases in the Carribean without reacting in any way. The Amerika Bomber was a failed program. Both aircraft were exercises in engineering for range. They flew low & slow, so low & slow (20K max altitude and...
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