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  1. How important was the Dunkirk evacuation ?

    Britain could still continue the fight, its navy and airforce were intact and able to keep the Isles safe. The British army is essentially done for though. They were always short of men, and the loss of over 200.000 well trained troops would permanently cripple them. This is like half their...
  2. For All Mankind (AH Tv series at Apple TV)

    Nuclear shuttle defined as three times more powerful—gonna guess that refers to specific impulse. Timberwind-Class NTR, 1000 s ISP. LH2 to push a 100-tonne orbiter to the Moon and back would weigh about 66 tonnes and take up 950 cubic meters—more than the OTL shuttle lox tank. Pathfinder has...
  3. WI: Longer Lived Stephen A. Douglas

    "If"?? In 1860, Douglas said: "I am in favor of executing, in good faith, every clause and provision of the Constitution, and of protecting every right under it, and then hanging every man who takes up arms against it. Yes, my friends, I would hang every man higher than Haman who would attempt...
  4. AHC: Make gyrocopters the primary short- to medium-range travel method for the rich by the late 20th century

    I believe even the early twenties machines could land pretty much vertically, and by the start of ww2 there were machines that could power up the rotor to take off pretty much vertically. But you are right about the issue of landing/takeoff spots, I would think that finding somewhere to land...
  5. WI Spain does nothing to assist American independence

    Spain gave a good deal of assistance to the Americans fighting against the British monarchy in the 1770s and 1780s, and declared was on Britain in 1779. But Spanish officials were worried that the success of the American rebellion would set a bad example with their own colonies. Suppose Spain...
  6. Germanic ships before the Viking Age

    there are a fair number of petrogliphs in southern Scandanavia showing boats. They all appear to be paddled or rowed. No masts are shown. Keep in mind that the Vikings could take down their masts at will.The boats also seem to look like the canoes that the Aluts use, with both a low and a high...
  7. Suicide weaponized by Soviet bloc

    One could argue the Soviets had in many ways a more realistic outlook on the average life expectancy of whole divisions, let alone individual soldiers, in a WW3 situation. The medical infrastructure of a forward deployed division, and how comfortable troops were inside their vehicles after 24...
  8. Rockefeller 1960 -- consequences?

    Let's say Nixon is not able to run in 1960 -- perhaps his phlebitis emerges a decade earlier (or he is killed in Caracas for a more dramatic POD) -- would Rockefeller win the GOP nomination fairly easily? Who would his running mate be? How would he fare against, presumably, Kennedy? And what...
  9. The flame of British Liberalism burns steady and brighter: A timeline from 1945

    Fair enough - I hope there will be a place for Shirley Summerskill further on in the TL.
  10. William Marcy decides a pension case differently

    From Ivor Debenham Spencer's *The Victor and the Spoils: A Life of William L. Marcy* (Providence, RI: Brown University Press 1959), discussing the 1852 Democratic national convention in Baltimore: "On the other hand, on this same 35th ballot, North Carolina and Mississippi did come out for...
  11. The Professor

    Request Maps/Flags/Coats of Arms/Heraldry here, II

    I'd reverse 6 & 7 so the 2nd Rep has the original plain tricolour while the 3rd adds the arms.
  12. Romanov Ascendant: What if the Soviet Union survived?

    How would the Soviets ITTL handle Pakistan's covert nuclear weapons project given their support for the Mujahideen in Afghanistan? The same goes whether there is any Soviet response to Iran in the pipeline with regards to their support of the Tehran Eight Shia Mujahideen.
  13. Neoteros

    Visual art alternate history discussion

    Now that would be cool. A Soviet-less and WWII-less world (say, Germany is taken over by the same old school conservatives that would've eventually tried to kill Hitler rather than by actual Nazis, while Russia becomes a shaky republic dominated by democratic socialists and rural...
  14. Return of Horrible Educational Maps

    The Roman Empire neither even included Holstein, I don't know what that is supposed to be. The red in Macedonia might be that one though, but I think you should restrict the yellow in Western Europe to the parts of the Carthago empire and Italia. The yellow in Arabia might be correct for the...
  15. McPherson

    IJN Soryu's and USS Wasp's Durability and Usefulness

    Operationally both navies preached, find first, strike first. So... based on the fighting results and the actual naval employment at Coral Sea and Midway, one can state unequivocally that the above description is wrong. This has been answered. The Americans and the Japanese demonstrated...
  16. marathag

    The US adopts the FN Model D in 1937 after a more successful Axis intervention in the SCW

    in postwar service till replaced by m/58 looks like indeed was trials only, but the disadvantages list are not that bad, as in not all rounds loaded when changing belts
  17. marathag

    The US adopts the FN Model D in 1937 after a more successful Axis intervention in the SCW

    modification of existing m/37 guns. No need to do a full retooling from a brand new/redesign for a replacement piece Belt feed with issues beats magazine feed, esp when not expecting this to do continuous fire like a water-cooled Vickers from 1917. It's fine for a LMG, and gets close to a GPMG
  18. DrakonFin

    Case for coastal artillery until the 1980s

    This is very much a Finland-specific question. As it is, we still have a number of fixed coastal guns in service, though they are due to be retired soonish. Right now I have to go to the sauna (it being Saturday night and all), but I'll get back to this in a while.
  19. Gukpard

    The New Order: Last Days of Europe - An Axis Victory Cold War Mod for HoIIV

    This was preached by some integralists, and you can promote that as them.
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