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  1. Let Us Win Through Together [Redux]: A British Politics TL

    Pleased to find Robens' prominence here. I just mentioned his name in another thread. It has been suggested that he might have succeeded Gaitskell in 1963 had he not got fed up with opposition and accepted the NCB Chairmanship in 1960.
  2. Keep the Essex class as a strike carrier

    Lexington got a steel flight deck in 84 after an A-6 nose wheel went through the deck into berthing. So that may be a possibility as well
  3. wcv215

    The Eternal Empire: Emperor Maurice dies before being overthrown

    It’s not exactly Greek. The ending is supposed to be an indicator of a more unified Greco-Latin language that exists in the present day of the author. I’ve been a bit inconsistent in applying it universally though. When the whole thing is don’e I’ll be going back and editing all the names to...
  4. IJN Soryu's and USS Wasp's Durability and Usefulness

    Both Yamamota and Lee were fighting for parties that were militarily and industrially far inferior to their opponent. Both Imperial Japan and the Confederate States had to rely on a strategy of tiring out their opponents and hoping they would give up. Of course it did not work in either case...
  5. Hawker Hurricane even more prolific and versatile?

    I was thinking maybe Hawker Heron for the Sea Hurricane to fit in with the late 30's naming convention.
  6. nick_crenshaw82

    DuMont will make TV work: A TL

    Here's an interesting idea, transforming OTL's Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future into ITTL's Captain Video and the VIdeo Rangers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Power_and_the_Soldiers_of_the_Future
  7. Gabingston

    WI: Japanese Madagascar

    I would expect a good degree of Japanese settlement in Madagascar, particularly in major urban areas.
  8. juanml82

    What if Argentina won the falklands war?

    Technically, British citizenship wasn't given to the islanders until after the war
  9. WI: Japanese Madagascar

    The Japanese were never an African Power. But what if they got lets say Madagascar during the Berlin conference. How could this happen? How would Madagascar and the Japanese Empire evolve ?
  10. The flame of British Liberalism burns steady and brighter: A timeline from 1945

    Regarding the Gaitskell government, I read in the last couple of days, that Douglas Jay would most likely have been Gaitskell's Chancellor of the Exchequer. I'm surprised that he doesn't appear at all. Also, in 1960, Alf Robens resigned from the Shadow Cabinet and accepted the NCB Chairmanship...
  11. Keep the Essex class as a strike carrier

    Noted. Thx. I was thinking of greater fire hazard compared to steel. Compared to wood, OTOH... Woven into (as) a cable, the same way suspension bridge wires are made.
  12. Mr. Havana

    These Fair Shores: The Commonwealth of New England

    Take a look at pages 16 and 17, my friend.
  13. WI: The Portuguese Fight on at Goa

    Independence war veterans in Angola, Mozambique and Guiné would strongly disagree with this statement. The Portuguese Army only had a token, extremely ill equipped force in India. That force was not representative of the general capabilities of the Army.
  14. Separate Paths

    "I may have just sold my soul to the Devil" Jim Callaghan 2nd March 1979 SCOTLAND SAYS YES!!! The United Kingdom has started on the path to disintegration after Scotland voted for devolution. In a narrow result the Scots voted in favour of their own parliament by 53% to 47% and despite...
  15. The Eternal Empire: Emperor Maurice dies before being overthrown

    You've got Greek ending. On a word that has a totally non-Greek letter (w) in it. Bedouai?
  16. Hawker Hurricane even more prolific and versatile?

    You're making sense both ways. (I'd rename, mostly because I can, ;) but also because I just find the Sea Hurricane name so lazy...:teary: ) As for what a radial seaborne Hurri might be, what about Petrel? Or, if you want to be a little nuts, Penguin?:openedeyewink: (Waugh waugh...
  17. WI: The Portuguese Fight on at Goa

    The Portuguese forces in Goa were deliberately kept weak by the Portuguese government in order not to provoke an Indian reaction. They asked for anti tank weapons, anti aircraft weapons, etc, and were denied everything. They lacked automatic weapons, their ammo stocks were old (and often...
  18. Sir John Valentine Carden survives.
    Threadmarks: 1 February 1941. Marada. Libya.

    ...2nd Bn Leicestershire Regiment, 2nd Bn Queens Royal Regiment) wasn’t due for another few days, and so the 7th Support Group, with Valiant I* tanks of 3rd Sharpshooters were organising the defensive positions between the sea at El Agheila and the salt pans. B Squadron of 11th Hussars, with a...
  19. Keep the Essex class as a strike carrier

    No, higher pressure does mean more steam per boiler, as does higher temperature. Higher pressures and temperatures turn more of a set volume of water into steam, thus more steam for the turbines. Remember: more steam equals more power, since the actual shaft power comes from the turbines, not...
  20. The 1917-1918 "Spanish"Flu pandemic ends WWI without a bonafide armistice or treaty.

    This is certainly possible, maybe even likely. But given how badly OTL went with the rise of the Nazis, the carnage of World War II and the Holocaust, I might still take a deep breath and go with a re-roll.
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