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  1. Stalin turns on Allies 1945

    The Planet spins off of its Axis, hurling itself into the Sun? By December of 1944 Stalin was on a war of extermination (as Hitler had been from Day One). There is no way that the two butchers would ally. You might as well have mice and cats ally. This should be in ASB.
  2. April 1945 The Red Army rolls into Western Europe

    While this is becoming a bit of a dead horse, I will point out that the Red Army supply depots were not being struck by 1000 plane heavy bomber raids (something that, by 1945, the Western Allies had become quite adept at organizing), the supply columbs by literally thousands of fighter bombers...
  3. DBWI: What if the 7 Months War had not ended Christmas of 1914?

    Considering the casualties even in the short period of actual fighting, it could have been a real bloodbath, assuming that the Generals didn't change tactics. Of course, with the General Staff setups that all the major combatants had, it is inconceivable that the tactics wouldn't have evolved...
  4. April 1945 The Red Army rolls into Western Europe

    Well, let's look at this a bit... Firstly the "Famine", which was anything but a famine. It was a calclulated deliberate effort to eliminate the opponents of collectivization by starvation. Using official Soviet figures the MINIMUM death toll from the famine was 11.4 million. However this...
  5. April 1945 The Red Army rolls into Western Europe

    The Last couple marks of the Spitfire were very good aircraft, albeit thin on the ground (I think that the Mk 21 had a production run of well under 200) I won't argue either of the other aircraft weren't an excellent design, although the Tempest was a better low altitide performer (similar to...
  6. AH Challenge: The United States loses the Mexican War

    Gee, the War of 1812 always struck me as a draw. The U.S. lost no territory, got impressment stopped on American Flag vessels, and Britain maintained an excellent market for its goods and source for raw materials. That is why I specifically brought up New Orleans. The U.S got into the war...
  7. April 1945 The Red Army rolls into Western Europe

    This is a very common question here, not that it is ever settled.:) The question is actually a basic one - can air power manage to interdict enough supplies and reinforcements to make up for the Red Army massive numerical advantage? Airpower Both the British and Americans were...
  8. AH Challenge: The United States loses the Mexican War

    This is a common error that the "experts" made about American troops. The colonists couldn't hold a position against British regulars in 1775; New Orleans, defended by a rag-tag militia, would easily fall to British professional troops in 1815; the Spanish were going to kick the U.S. butt in...
  9. AH Challenge: The United States loses the Mexican War

    Teach 'em to shoot and they might just shoot YOU and take California for themselves. The Mexican Government had already given much of California to settlers from the U.S. well in advance of the War. (My Dad went to school with the great (great great?) grandson of the guy who was given the land...
  10. Could the USA ever really have conquered Canada?

    John Q Public and pandering politicians.There was a LOT of anti-british sentiment in the U.S. as late as the early 20th Century, some of it dating all the way back to 1814, but much of it in the immigrant Irish population. Unlike today, where it takes years of residence and some effort to become...
  11. AH Challenge: The United States loses the Mexican War

    Hire an ASB who can travel through time. Wipe out the American officer corp, turn all U.S. fire arms into pikes and give the Mexican arm repeating rifles. On second thought, you need to do better than that. Mexico was so overmatched it was embarassing.
  12. How plausible is an Axis Victory

    If you want to stay with reality there is no way that the Axis wins. Japan had ZERO chance of defeating the United States & Germany had no chance of defeating the Soviets, the British AND the Americans. There is no way to keep the U.S. out of the war with Germany, it had been fighting a...
  13. Mass execution of the SS

    Hardly unprecedented. Regarding those captured at Stalingrad The Russians kept about 20,000 of them to remain as forced labor in Stalingrad to work at rebuilding the city they destroyed. The rest were dispatched to numerous POW camps scattered from Siberia to Soviet Central Asia. Many died...
  14. A nazi T-34?

    I'll take the Leopard II myself.
  15. The Germans win the war.

    Never happen, not the entire Empire. If you make that the condition for victory it is utterly impossible for the Germans to win. Australia, New Zealand, & Canada, at the very least, were not going to fall (nor, in any reasonable world, would the Raj). the Canadians & Anzacs were close allies of...
  16. Mass execution of the SS

    KILL ALL members of the SS? What a charming way to illustrate to an occupied Germany that Hitler & company were exactly right about the Allies. Nothing like a bit of mass slaughter to turn a defeated, but effectively law abiding civilian population into a group that makes the Mujahideen in...
  17. America rearms after Hitler takes all of Czechoslovakia

    Considering the actual budget jumps in 1939, 40 & 41 it is questionable if an extra 20% could have been spent, particularly in 1940 & 41, when production was as high it could get without shifting to a full "war-time" economy. The only way that productivities of 1942-44 were possible was by...
  18. America rearms after Hitler takes all of Czechoslovakia

    This is absolutely untrue. American tanks were, once the money was released and building was allowed to begin, as well designed, if not better designed, than any in the world. The Panzers of the initial war years (especially if the Czech designed Panzer 35(t) &38(t) are excluded) were...
  19. America rearms after Hitler takes all of Czechoslovakia

    If you look at the 1938 - 41 period you will find that the U.S. did increase defense spending by more than 20% each year. As an example the Department of the Navy budgets for the period: 1935 $346,296,000 1936 $489,005,000 1937 $529,059,000 1938 $524,772,000 1939 $673,792,000 1940...
  20. A couple of Pacific War what-ifs:

    Combative? Really? Compared to some of the Midway W.I.s I've seen here, this is a lovefest. Come to think of it, compared to just about ANY W.I. I've seen here where there are at least two well informed posters with widely differing opinions it's a lovefest. :eek::eek::eek::eek: A...
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