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  1. Naval War Wank: The West v. Japan

    There is, it seems, an almost overwhelming desire to see the Anglo/French force and the Combined Fleet make it to a gunfight. Not going to happen. The JNAF is more than sufficient to destroy the European force, while the European force is not equal to the task. The Striking arm of the European...
  2. Naval War Wank: The West v. Japan

    On the other hand, had the USN sought battle with the Combined Fleet in a single massive action, as the POD proposes, on 1/1/40 it would have been annihilated.
  3. Naval War Wank: The West v. Japan

    Different date, same end result January 1940 IJN has four Fleet Carriers available (Akagi, Kaga, Soryo, Hiryu) with 360 aircraft (less than 60 are A6M) along with the Hosho (26 planes) for a total strike force of 386 aircraft. The Royal Navy has Hermes (20 planes), Argus (20 planes) Ark...
  4. Naval War Wank: The West v. Japan

    Ah, but that is the point. This has no connection to reality, it is an ASB like event wiere the two sides have decided to attempt to crush the other for no particular reason.
  5. Naval War Wank: The West v. Japan

    Okay, pure ASB. A tale of the tape exercise. In that case, what is the date & location? January 1941 IJN has four Fleet Carriers available (Akagi, Kaga, Soryo, Hiryu) with 360 aircraft (less than 60 are A6M) along with the Ryujo (30 planes), Hosho (26 planes) Zuiho (30 planes), for a...
  6. So Bleeding Common: No Invasion into the U.S.S.R

    The men who fled to the U.S. would still be very much involved. Their relatives would be being processed like so many cattle by the Camps. The German bomb process was a total failure. Try the 60's, maybe.
  7. Preventing World War II ?

    There are several million dead people in Manchuria & China would would beg to differ. WW II is generally acknowleged to have begun with the Japanese actions at the Marco Polo Bridge.
  8. Preventing World War II ?

    Not exclusively. You had actual combat in Africa, Asia (Turkey, Iraq, German concessions in China), "Oceania" (Pacific Islands) and South America (Falkland Islands), as well as Europe. The only inhabited continent without actual combat was North America.
  9. Naval War Wank: The West v. Japan

    The difficulty with this sort of POD is the surrounding vacuum. WHY are Germany, the United States, and the USSR not in play? This is critical to giving a response. Has Germany been defeated? Or is it waiting in the wings? Has Hitler REALLY flipped out and decided to have a go at the Soviets...
  10. Naval War Wank: The West v. Japan

    Without doubt, one of the best English language sites on the Imperial Japanese Navy. Second the recommendation.
  11. Naval War Wank: The West v. Japan

    Shokaku (8/8/41) & Zuikaku (9/25/41) were both 1941 commissionings. Both were launched in 1939, but the launched is very much a deceiving date. All launching really means is that you have the hull and decks buttoned up. You still need to do ALL the detail work, up to & including putting the...
  12. What if Nazis won and attacked America?

    Young? How DARE you!!!! He's 49! And my cat is the frontrunner to be the Democratic nominee for vice president. :p
  13. November 1, 1940 the War Department wakes up

    Again, the decision to build has already been made. In June & July of 1940 the Congress of the United States, scared %$#^less by the fall of France, wrote FDR a blank check for naval aviation, and more than doubled the authorized size of the USN as well as signing a series of Billion dollar...
  14. So Bleeding Common: No Invasion into the U.S.S.R

    True. However, the chances of Germany being able to inflict a crushing defeat on the UK, one that could not be recovered from, is on the exceptionally low order of probability. So many things would have to change, with far too many of them not related to the others, that the chances of them...
  15. November 1, 1940 the War Department wakes up

    Interesting take.
  16. So Bleeding Common: No Invasion into the U.S.S.R

    No one forgot the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, we just remember that it was supposed to expire on August 24, 1949. Somewhere right around September 1, 1949 Stalin would then go for Hitler's throat, assuming Hitler didn't go for his first. Stalin wasn't stupid, he had read Mein Kump cover to cover...
  17. More Twin Boom Aircraft Like the P-38

    Jesus!:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek: And I thought going out the side door of a Starlifter was nuts.
  18. November 1, 1940 the War Department wakes up

    Here is the actual text of the Act (Tydings/McDuff) that was designed to grant Independence to the Philippines. http://www.chanrobles.com/tydingsmcduffieact.htm Parts of it are, even by 1934 standards, remarkably racist. A "Filippino repatriation" law that sprouted from it was so bad that it...
  19. November 1, 1940 the War Department wakes up

    A huge effect, especially if it managed to find way to get rid of MacArthur. Unfortunately, I doubt that there are butterflies nearly that large available.
  20. November 1, 1940 the War Department wakes up

    Possibly, although the U.S. had set a date in 1945 for the granting of Philippine independence after consultation with the Philippine territorial government.
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