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  1. D-Day a COMPLETE FAILURE?

    I have to disagree regarding the Red Army and it's capacities. By mid-late 1944 Ivan was all that & a bag of chips. I also have to disagree that the Heer would have been able to move forces from the West to the east in any greater number than occurred IOTL. Even if D-Day had been an utter...
  2. Why Operation Sealion could not have been performed successfullly by the Third Reich

    BLASPHEMER!!! HE HAS SPOKEN THE NAME THAT MUST NOT BE SAID! BURN HIM!!!! :D
  3. D-Day a COMPLETE FAILURE?

    Yes. Tripe. (IMO)
  4. D-Day a COMPLETE FAILURE?

    If the allies had lacked decent flying weather they would not have landed. Ike & company knew they needed air cover to make the beachead stick. If you review the threads that bard has posted you will find more than a couple of requests he follow the accepted board standards (I believe you will...
  5. D-Day a COMPLETE FAILURE?

    Which 1939 or earlier French Fighter would you like to put forward as being the equal of ANY of the fighters the Allies flew on D-Day? The best French fighters I'm aware of are the M.S. 406 & D-520. The 406 was markedly inferior to bF-109, and, in limited action in the Med, was not equal to...
  6. D-Day a COMPLETE FAILURE?

    The RAF had over 400 Typhoons dedicated to nothing but tank busting. Doubling the Luftwaffe force would be of minimal impact.
  7. D-Day a COMPLETE FAILURE?

    I'll be okay. I took a pill. :D:p:D
  8. D-Day a COMPLETE FAILURE?

    What if Rommel had AIR SUPERIORITY? Well, in that case, D-Day is not even attempted. The question is: how, short of divine intervention, does Germany gain air superiority? Again, PLEASE read some actual non-fiction books.
  9. Neutral Western Europe after WW2

    Not possible with the actions of the USSR immediately post war. It was clear to one & all that a country had two choices, Soviet client or U.S. ally. The Soviets, from their perspective, had no option but to hold on to the Pact countries as tight as they could. Those states were the buffer...
  10. D-day partial failure?

    89 Panzer III & IV combat ready, six of which they lost to air attack as soon as deploying towards the beach. This total includes tanks that were chasing after or engaged with, airborne forces miles inland. The British landed more tanks on D-Day than the Germans had available from 21st Panzer.
  11. WI: US doesn't disband Iraqi security forces, avoids Rumsfeld doctrine

    I'm not sure that would be the case. It might be "Could we have kept the Kurds as part of the Iraqi state?" or "How could we have prevented the break-up of Iraq?" or even (my personal belief "Would it have been better if we had captured bin-Laden & put him on trial rather than him getting...
  12. D-day partial failure?

    A legend is the correct description. Two were close enough to engage in the first 24 hours (one of which would have had to travel in DAYLIGHT) but only one was close enough to act within the critical first 12 hours. It was understrength and totaled only 89 tanks, hardly enough to throw the...
  13. D-Day a COMPLETE FAILURE?

    PLEASE read a book! At least read some of the threads on this very forum. I had hoped you had chosen to follow the general convention of the board based on your Nimitz thread; sadly it seems I was mistaken. HBO is a generally poor source for historical accuracy, as are books written as...
  14. D-Day a COMPLETE FAILURE?

    ASB=Alien Space Bats. It refers to a concept that requires intervention of magical or divine being. Examples include things like time travel, relocation of groups or regions into the past or future (called ISOT for Island in the Sea Of Time, the book that is generally acknowledged as the...
  15. Balkans 1944

    The Balkans are Italy, just worse. There was a reason that Tito was able to keep an ARMY in the field after the Germans "conquered" the place. It is supurb defensive ground, the sort of region where a company can hold up a division for a month. Worse, even a victory in the Balkans does...
  16. Germans launch A10 ICBMs on New York and Washington

    Would you PLEASE actually read something on these subjects! The History Channel does not equate to research. Luft46 isn't a scenario, it is 1) a video game & 2) a collection of drawings and half assed engineering studies for aircraft that were abandoned as utterly impractical or never even...
  17. Germans launch A10 ICBMs on New York and Washington

    Everyone is asked to stop when they do it more than once or twice. They ALL (except the trolls) get the message on the first, second or third request. You however, don't seem to be getting it at all. So, are you a troll? If you post another ASB in this forum we'll have the answer.
  18. D-day partial failure?

    Actually the initial wave missed it's landing objective at Utah by a far larger distance than at Omaha. Despite this, Utah was the least costly of the five beaches, with a couple hundred casualties. There are any number of reasons for the success, ranging from the greater success of the DD...
  19. 1942: ME-264 bombs New York

    I suggest you review the data for the two German aircraft. Me-264 http://www.luftwaffe-reich.co.uk/messerschmitt-me-264-bomber.htm http://www.histaviation.com/Messerschmitt_Me_264.html http://www.pilotfriend.com/photo_albums/timeline/ww2/Me.264%20AMERICA.htm Of particular interest is the...
  20. Germans launch A10 ICBMs on New York and Washington

    Yea, what they all said! Seriously, what is your goal here? To get everyone to put you on Ignore?
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