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  1. FDR gets advance warning of Pearl harbor

    He calls the Japanese on their plan, once some sort of cover story is created to protect the information source. FDR didn't want war with the Japanese, he WANTED war with the Reich, seeing them as a basic evil that had to be stopped. A war with Japan would simply be a distraction drawing...
  2. Six-Day War without Jordan

    Aren't they really Jordanian? Palestinian isn't a historic nationality, it's a construct that has somehow become a nationality where none ever existed. It dates to roughtly the end WW I and was part of the political mismash arising from the redrawing of the Middle East post Ottoman Empire.
  3. WI the Seventh Fleet attacked the Pearl Harbor Carrier Striking Force?

    She was actually a gunboat, but still on the Navy Register as a combat vessel. Not that it mattered. The Germans blew DD 245 the Ruben James out of the water, killing 115 men (3/4 of her crew) in the process, and Congress barely yawned. That was AFTER a U-boat put a torpedo into DD 432 USS...
  4. WI the Seventh Fleet attacked the Pearl Harbor Carrier Striking Force?

    Why would 7th Fleet be established earlier? It was only done in 1943 to allow better coordination with the wartime Theater Command structure. Regarding the POD: Unlike today's 7th, the WW II version was effectively an amphibious force, with intergrated aircover from baby flattops but no...
  5. Plan Z

    If you had bothered to read my post you would see that the Alaskas were listed as "Large" cruisers, the USN designation (not cruiser battleships, reference Jane's Fighting Ships), and (panzerschiffs) to compare them to the Kriegsmarine building program.
  6. Plan Z

    The Congress was alarmed by Germany, but even more so by the Japanese. Japan's clearly aggressive actions put the Philippines at risk in addition to Guam, Wake, and Hawaii. If you look into the 1940 Act you will find, in addition to the shipbuilding program, massive amounts of money designated...
  7. Plan Z

    As opposed to the Plan Z vessels, most of which were never laid down? Planned fleet compared to planned fleet is apples vs. apples. Next?
  8. Plan Z

    It accelerated the U.S. building program. The actual ships that made it into the water were virtually ALL approved (if not designed) by mid 1941. The exceptions were the last couple of DD classes & the massive number of baby flattops. The war also encouraged the USN to retain older ships that...
  9. WI AVG formed earlier?

    Ye Gods! The A5M Claude was the world's FIRST monoplane carrier fighter in 1937, it was followed by the A6M in 1940. It's IJA counterpart was the Nakajima Ki-27 also introduced in 1937, The Ki-27 was followed by the Ki-43 Oscar beginning in 1941. The P-40, introduced in 1938 (this being an...
  10. US Alert in Pacific December 1941

    So a BOMBER pilot killed a Zero. If the Pilots flying the P-40's who got into the air actually attacked the bombers, they did well. Fighters aren't supposed to fight other fighters in that circumstance. And you are right that there were no American aces at Pearl, although 2nd Lt. George Welsh...
  11. WI The Flying Tigers attacked Japan?

    You heard it on a TV show 16 1/2 years ago. Yet you have seen nothing since (even on the POS History Channel), read nothing since, but still chose to state it as gospel. You have to do better than that, at least in this forum, or you will be challenged.
  12. Plan Z

    Okay, just for the hell of it, let’s run the tale of the tape here Kriegsmarine per Plan Z (available 1945) Four carriers – 33,500 tons 16x150 mm (6 inch), 20x105 (4inch) AAA, 20x37mm AAA, 24x20 MM AAA 50 aircraft airwing projected- 10 fighters 20 Stukas (navalized) 20 Fi-167 biplane...
  13. WI Japan got the Bomb?

    Or back off and simply starve the entire poulation to death with blockade and round the clock firebombings.
  14. WI Japan got the Bomb?

    No, the HISTORY CHANNEL, in one of it's many, many, many half assed conjecture programs pretending to be documentries threw the idea at a wall, seeing how much, if any, would stick. The claim isn't unsubstantiated, it's total BS. Only someone with ZERO understanding the effort, materials and...
  15. WI Japan got the Bomb?

    The death ray actually had promise. All they needed as an unlimited source of electrical power and they... Oh Yea, we still haven't figured that part out today. Oh Well. Guess it was as ASB as them having a NUCLEAR WEAPON.
  16. Yamamoto is placed in charge of the attack on Pearl Harbor

    Bill ALL his points are nonsense. Check out his latest threads. They grow increasingly odd from one to the next.
  17. The Anthrax Bomb

    No if involved. They did create one. Nothing happened beyond a small island in the Channel being contaminated with anthrax for the second half of the 20th Century. Next?
  18. WI Japan got the Bomb?

    The Japanese NEVER tested a nuclear device. The Japanese NEVER assembled a nuclear device. The Japanese NEVER aquired sufficient fissible material to assemble a nuclear device. The Japanese NEVER constructed the non-fissible portion of a nuclear device. The Japanese NEVER...
  19. WI The Flying Tigers attacked Japan?

    Sceptical? I'm not sceptical, all I ask is for actual proof that isn't from a TV show that you may or may not be recalling properly, a TV show that may or may not have been properly researched, and may or may not been accurate. The Pearl Harbor operation is one of the most seriously...
  20. what if Yamamoto survived world war II?

    He may have been tried on the charge and convicted, but there is little question that his case was very much "victor's justice". The main war crime trials did not follow that path, at least not so blatantly, as they were meant as much for consumption of the defeated populous as for anything...
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