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  1. How important was the Dunkirk evacuation ?

    I know, the Second BEF. Hence why I referred to the Second BEF being evacuated. I know. Hence “a few weeks later” in my post that you’ve avoided quoting. The point I was making was even as things got worse there was no call for surrender. Once the House had made its mind up - not basing that...
  2. The Forge of Weyland

    Why only two squadrons, looking at this site https://www.defensie.nl/onderwerpen/vliegvelden-tijdens-de-tweede-wereldoorlog, the Dutch have about 12 actieve airfields behind the Waterlinie. Some are small but the infrastructure is in place.
  3. Zulfurium

    A Day in July: An Early 20th Century Timeline
    Threadmarks: Update Thirty-Eight (Pt. 2): The American Divide

    The American Divide President Huey P. Long On The Campaign Trail Long May The Kingfish Reign 1936 was to mark the first major contestations of Huey Long's hold on power. With the economy beginning to calm and the scale of the social, financial and economic damages done by the crisis becoming...
  4. Albidoom

    Return of Horrible Educational Maps

    Then again there are no historical sources stating that the elephant was used there as a war elephant, so coloring it yellow is a rather generous interpretation.
  5. WI Spain does nothing to assist American independence

    As I recall, the rebel government was pretty close to bankruptcy by the time the war ended, so without Spanish involvement the British might be able to draw out the conflict for another year or two, causing the US to suffer economic collapse and forcing it to the negotiating table. Of course...
  6. WI Spain does nothing to assist American independence

    Without the example of a successful revolution, the French might be less inclined to make trouble. As some historian or other once put it: The French monarchy sought to use the American Revolution as a dagger to strike into the heart of their British rivals. Instead, they ended up dealing...
  7. McPherson

    Alternate warships of nations

    Do not forget the Spanish Aragon tank. While the battleship is very promising, one should be really excited about the Kirovs. Farman F.220-224 - bomber; the ne plus ultra of any air farce. The only thing that comes close to it is the Bristol Bombay, a fine example: or the Armstrong Whitworth...
  8. Icedaemon

    Sir John Valentine Carden survives.

    An AA gunner as a POV character in a timeline so tightly focused on tanks? Interesting, I am guessing he will be manning the turret of a Vigilant (or is it still the Vanguard?) before long? The Australian senior officers and politicians are all quite adamant that the Austrialian forces should...
  9. How important was the Dunkirk evacuation ?

    If Operation Dynamo is complete failure the British Army will have lost 215,000 soldiers more than OTL. To put this in perspective: Total number of British PoWs during WWII: 220,000. Total death: 383,700. This will not be a knock-out blow to the Allied war-effort but it will be crippling.
  10. WI: decisive Spanish victory in the Dutch Revolt

    The lack of the Dutch Republic would not butterfly away Venice's OTL decline, which was caused by another set of factors.
  11. Churchill Dies Suddenly after the UK is Already Committed to Fighting On.

    That’s a very partial reading o history, I think. IMO a large part of what made isolationism practical was expectation that France/UK would be acting as guarantors of the US interest in Europe, somewhat of a NATO in reverse. By the time Churchill came to power the US had already been selling the...
  12. WI: decisive Spanish victory in the Dutch Revolt

    Yeah possibly (assuming you mean the financial and economic changes and not stopping France getting the Rhineborder. I doubt Venice could do that). There were a lot of similarities between northern Italy and the low countries.
  13. AHC: Peerless Air Ministry

    That's not tempting fate, that's poking it with a stick!
  14. Crying

    Alternate Ideologies

    While I find the exploration of alternate ideologies and the effects they have to be interesting, and I very much like that you're actually exploring the evolution of this ideology, it's effects on the country its adopted in, and how other ideologies react to it, this is bad. "China is...
  15. LordMartinax

    AHC: WW1 with pro Central Powers Serbia/Greece and Pro Entente Bulgaria/Ottoman Empire

    The may coup in 1903 Serbia is defeated, the pro-Russian faction including the proto-black hand is wiped out. The house of Obrenovic solidifies itself, and takes a strong pro-austrian position. Without a hostile Serbia, Austria might not annex Bosnia (a really good thing considering its of...
  16. WI: Yugoslav Trieste

    What are the effects of Yugoslavia gaining Trieste? How would the Italians feel about losing such a city?
  17. Churchill Dies Suddenly after the UK is Already Committed to Fighting On.

    There were sound geopolitical reasons for the US backing the British Commonwealth and Empire after the Fall of France. Ian Kershaw's Fateful Choices* goes into them in detail. The worse things look for the British, the more support they are likely to get. Churchill's death after the Battle of...
  18. Suicide weaponized by Soviet bloc

    Aout quality of Soviet Pact military equipments, we should looked at the ex Warsaw Pact countries and how and when they replaced their Soviet Era equipments with new ones. Do United Germany kept some of the most modern East Germany weapons or equipments ? Same for Poland and others countries ...
  19. WI: US joins the Axis

    I think you're going to need a POD in the 19th century to make the US hostile towards the UK*. Which probably butterflies WW1 and WW2. * a different outcome or aftermath of the war of 1812 might do this.
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