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  1. Earlier use of Tall Boys

    IIRC, the Tallboys were used to create a wave of water to flood the pens rather than a direct attack on them.
  2. The Professor

    1217: a Marshal Monarchy

    I dispute the distant cousin part. The Welf brothers are just as related to Eleanor and Henry III as Stephen was to Matilda and were also actually raised in England. They're likely to personally know some of the Barons. Attempting to avoid a repeat of the Anarchy is one thing, raising someone...
  3. Why are the western allies bombing civilians?

    If nothing else I think I'd be happier dying in an attempt to at least the reduce the chances of others like me dying, than just dying as part of the 467th batch of killings this month (or even if I wasn't, I could understand why some might be)
  4. Why are the western allies bombing civilians?

    Yeah, as horrid as it is, its better to die in a bomb blast than be either worked to death or the gas chambers. I suppose you could have done like a very low level raid with Mosquito's or something like it, replicating their raid on that French Prison. Have them go after the gas chambers and...
  5. What would the Treaty of Berlin look like if Germany chose to back Russia's claims?

    Russia's standing army in Congress Poland wasn't much of a treat to Berlin. the 2 Russian Armies that invaded East Prussia in 1914 came from the NE. The 4 Armies in Congress Poland faced AH, not Germany. What would be the point of running the risk of trying to stab Germany in the back? Without...
  6. Why are the western allies bombing civilians?

    To be fair to the idea the former inmates who asked why it wasn't done did in all likelihood know that. But frankly I think their perspective was more any action that would have changed anything in the camps would have been better then the situation not changing. So yeah when being at the...
  7. Wi President Cordel Hull

    Hull was a southerner, and presumably, like all white Southern politicians of the day, a committed white supremacist. As a US Senator in 1931-1933, he would have joined in the filibustering of any anti-lynching bill (if one was submitted in that Congress). Thus by 1948, the US armed forces...
  8. More Helicopter/light carriers in post ww2 period

    I agree with other posters that the best use for these would be mobile commando operations and search and rescue missions. With that in mind, I suggest that instead of looking at navies getting helicopter carriers, we should look more at Coast Guards and Intelligence agencies. Mexico and...
  9. More Helicopter/light carriers in post ww2 period

    Every inch of Cyprus can be covered by the shortest range aircraft from Southern Turkey. Gathering a thousand men and cramming them into an expensive ship seems like an inefficient way to put aircraft over Cyprus.
  10. Dan

    Stupid Luck and Happenstance, Thread III

    Something akin to the JU-52/C130 or the CH-53 would be invaluable.
  11. Ottoman Empire & Austria-Hungary collapse naturally?

    By naturally do you mean they peacefully dissolve themselves? If so than I don't think that's possible as both countries will likely use every possible way to cling on their territories.
  12. Why are the western allies bombing civilians?

    Well Like I said above when were initially talking about this we were talking about running some missions against the death camps in order to make it clear to the Nazis we knew about them. Not providing air cover for the entire red army. But either way there will be phone lines and lots, and...
  13. Stupid Luck and Happenstance, Thread III

    Air Fields! Coronel Ibarra i would expect to have at least a dirt strip. Improving these and operating a flying doctor service would make a huge impact on the locals. Just think Australian outback in the 1940's. These dirts strips then make insertion and resupply a lot easier.
  14. How would a hypothetical Socialist USA look back on it's past history?

    They would also use other figures of the American Revolution, such as Thomas Paine or Noah Webster, with proto-Socialistic claims to support their views. The War of 1812 would be seen as young America standing up yet again to British abuses, manifested through the embargo on trade with France...
  15. Why are the western allies bombing civilians?

    The problem with attacking the camp is that you're most likely to kill the inmates there. This isn't a 'precision' attack as we understand it. Its a precision attack in WW2 standards which means getting a bomb within about 800 yards of the aiming point, which could be a gas chamber, but it could...
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