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  1. Why are the western allies bombing civilians?

    @CalBear Excellent post but may I correct you on one minor point? The squadron formed for the Dambusters Raid was 617sqn. It later became the pioneer of pinpoint bombing using Tallboy and Grand Slam bombs. Along with No. 9 squadron it flew a decoy mission on D Day. Dropping window chaff at...
  2. It's A Long Way To Nagasaki: The Anglo-Japanese War

    Still not going to benefit them much. Lithuania has nothing to offer Hitler, and throwing it against the Soviets is like tossing a Cabbage Patch Kid at a bullet train. Lithuania's population in 1939 (following the loss of Vilnius and other territory to the Poles) was 3.9 millions. Their industry...
  3. Why are the western allies bombing civilians?

    Which would not have worked too. Dropping weapons at Auschwitz at the very best case would have given the prisoners the chance of dying on their own terms
  4. The 30 mm HE shell. The ideal weapon for use by WW2 Allied fighter planes?

    ADEN and DEFA were spin-offs from the MK-213C; the MK 108 itself was based on the 'classic' Oerlikon mechanism. I'd bet dollars to donuts that Germans would've jumped on a 30mm cannon that weights 90 kg and can do 790 m/s, even if it is not a high RoF revolver type but fires at 500 rd/min - just...
  5. Crazymachines

    Moonlight in a Jar: An Al-Andalus Timeline

    what rome are we on now anyways, 4th?
  6. Sir John Valentine Carden survives.

    No, it was a custom-designed vehicle that would run on either tracks or wheels. Made from spare parts (a Chevrolet truck chassis, suspension from a Universal Carrier, etc) Like the Sentinel, it was designed when things were looking bleak, but by the time it was ready for production, the...
  7. Remember the Rainbow Redux: An Alternate Royal Canadian Navy

    Good on them. I don’t think my house is big enough. And If I recall correctly, they already have one of Rainbow’s boats.
  8. WI: Suleiman takes Vienna

    Strangely enough, no one asked when Suleiman would take Vienna. If he can take back the bulk of his army by the end of September, he will be able to save it. If he stays as long as he did OTL, he'll lose a lot of men, the artillery and the baggage train as it happened in our history.
  9. Why are the western allies bombing civilians?

    Please can you define your term " terror bombing"? What aspects of the Allied Bombing Offensive 1941-5 against military, industrial or transportation targets in urban areas meet your approval? And which don't. Were bombing raids on naval bases (Taranto, Brest, Hamburg, Kiel etc ) justified...
  10. God Owes Phillip II Twenty Bucks

    That is a thing totally impossible to know.
  11. Primavera d'Italia: War, Love and Revolution

    Happy Liberation Day! The name is not exactly accurate, but it is wildly better than "Anniversary of the Battle of Goito", or "Day of the Good Prince's bet" as someone calls with a reverent half-joke. To this day, it is he most celebrated civil holiday all over Italy :)
  12. Impact on Japan if the Emperor and Imperial monarchy was dismantled following WW2

    The Japanese surrender was really the result of a triple combination. First was Hiroshima. Next was the Soviet declaration of war (which had profound psychological impact on the Japanese government since they had convinced themselves that they could get the Soviets, of all people, to broker a...
  13. Mary Tudor bears a son and lives till age 60

    Really? So, who was supposed to be Sigismund III's successor in Poland? I know... The election... But still! There were probably some plans about who could become the next king.
  14. Planet of Hats

    Moonlight in a Jar: An Al-Andalus Timeline

    The real Rome is, of course, Nova Roma, Alasca.
  15. British Empire in WW2 using colonial forces across pacific and european theatres in much larger numbers

    The British Empire put nearly 15 million men and women into uniform during WW2 To put that into context - 18 million Germans went into uniform (which was just about every person with a pulse towards the end) and 34 million Russians (pretty much the same in many cases) as well as 16 million...
  16. Not James Stockdale

    Alternative History Armoured Fighting Vehicles Part 3

    As an upgunned Sherman, the Firefly had some well-known problems with crew ergonomics that limited utility compared to vehicles like the Sherman 76, although the Firefly had superior AP performance. After the war, a lot of Shermans in countries like Israel, Argentina, and India were upgunned...
  17. What party would Knox & Wayne end up in?

    I’m afraid that I don’t really feel qualified to speculate.
  18. WIP Map Thread

    Glad to hear you're still interested in that one! Don't worry, it's still in the works; I just kind of got stuck and then remembered Armada-2's something I'd been trying to do for a while.
  19. Rome vs Unified Eastern Mediterranean

    I’ll push back on both of these advantages. The Greeks would still have plenty of barbarians to deal with, north of the Danube and the Caucasus. Plus they’re closer to the steppe. Conversely, I would imagine that Greeks would have a monarchy more stable than the Diadochi were historically, if...
  20. Why are the western allies bombing civilians?

    I don't believe the plan was to drop weapons to the inmates. Polish Army Captain Pilecki (dude volunteered to be an Auschwitz inmate and was imprisoned for 945 days before escaping after organizing a resistance movement in the camp) proposed dropping weapons to the Polish Home Army and then the...
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