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  1. WI: Lufwaffe squadrons fully devoloped and deployed at outbreak of World War 2.

    The wreckage is also more biodegradable that way. Nice feature on something with the stability of a falling leaf.
  2. Nazis Invade the UK, 1950

    The Reich did not want women to do anything but have babies and keep house, The disasters of 1942 onward slightly modified this position, but the Germans never had a "Rosie the Riveter", making use instead of massive amounts of slave labor for production positions.
  3. WI: Lufwaffe squadrons fully devoloped and deployed at outbreak of World War 2.

    The Allies win in the first six months when all the dynamically unstable flying wings crash and burn after going into multi-axes spins?
  4. A different outcome in the Philippines-1942

    One of the great ironies of the Campaign. Probably would have been better served to have fought it out.
  5. No Washington Naval Treaty

    It is far from certain that Japan and the UK would have remained allied. It was going to very quickly become clear that the UK could be friendly with the U.S. or with Japan but not both. Japan & the U.S. had figured out that they were on a collision course (just Guam & Saipan made problems also...
  6. Nazis Invade the UK, 1950

    Don't forget about the H-44 battleship. 100,000+ tons with conventional power.:rolleyes:
  7. Iraq War Expansion

    :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek: God Forbid!
  8. Stuka tankbuster in Barbarossa

    Not much difference actually. The Heer went through the Red Army like it was wet tissue paper as is. Once the offensive stalled, as much from logistics as from opposition, the Stuka would not be much help. It might have helped some in the Winter of 1942, when it could fly, against the Soviet...
  9. Iraq War Expansion

    Because the U.S. already had two Mechanized Brigades, as well as several fighter & attack wings, in the Gulf region before the proposed POD. There is no need to 'kick in the door" as this is written. At worst you have a reinforcement by sea and air into a stoutly defended perimeter where the...
  10. Nazis Invade the UK, 1950

    The YB-49 was a jet bomber, modified from the YB-35, a propeller driver bomber. It was okay in level flight on a clear day, but put it in a storm or in roiled air and it was a bucking bronco. That is the biggest issue with most of the "Luftwaffe '46" designs, they either never flew, flew once or...
  11. Iraq War Expansion

    Not an amphibious invasion. The forces already IN the Gulf were capable of defeating "many Middle East nations". I do not count Turkey as a middle eastern state; rather it is part of Europe (or perhaps if the European part is ignored, part of Southwest Asia, along with Pakistan, the 'Stans &...
  12. Who was the best American General of World War II?

    Curtis LeMay. Changed the B-29 offensive from a duplicate of the semi-successful ETO campaign into the most effective & destructive campaign of any kind during the war. Man burned Japan to the ground & destroyed its transportation and food delivery systems in just over 6 months. Post war...
  13. Soviet Invasion

    In the '70s any Soviet attack would have triggered a NATO nuclear response. That was a basic part of the Alliance strategy. The reaction would not be limited to the U.S. the UK had it's own weapons as did France (although it is likely that French weapons would have been deployed only to defend...
  14. Operation Sealion

    HERETIC!!! GATHER STONES!!!
  15. Hellenistic Egypt Survives to modern times.

    You would need to find a way to 1) Keep Islam at bay & 2) keep the Crusaders at bay. Stopping Islam is clearly the key (No Islam = No Crusades), but given the almost otherworldly success of the Islamic expansion across the Med basin it is hard to see the way to achive even a significant...
  16. Could the Americans have won the ARW without French and Spanish support?

    Foul?:eek: A might smelly? Perhaps. But foul??:confused: :D Actually I think your breakdown of the war & following peace is an excellent synopsis. Especially the part about the Indians losing the peace (& I'm not 100% sure they broke even during the war part either).
  17. Could the Americans have won the ARW without French and Spanish support?

    A. Washington would, no doubt, have fought to the bitter end. How many men would have fought with him, and what they would have used as weapons, is a different, and more important question. It is noteworthy that the state of arms and munitions in the Colonies was so poor that Franklin seriously...
  18. Could the Americans have won the ARW without French and Spanish support?

    Again, I must disagree. The U.S. very possibly would have gone to war over Canada at some point, but the reason for the War was very much impressment and freedom of navigation.
  19. Could the Americans have won the ARW without French and Spanish support?

    I would call it at worst a draw. The U.S. was, indeed repulsed in its ineffective campaign to take Canada, but that was a war aim, not a cause belli, The causes of the war were frustration by the American merchant class and U.S. government (amazing how Merchant class and government are nearly...
  20. Could the Americans have won the ARW without French and Spanish support?

    Actually two different ones. The British merchant class was sorely missing colonial materials in the years of the revolt, and again in 1812 when D.C was burned to the ground.
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