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  1. WI: Kuritas Central Force meets Admirals Oldendorf's 7th Fleet

    Even if Kurita didn't give up, it would be tremendously hard to even get to Oldendorf. While fighting Taffy 3 directly and planes from Taffy 2 and 1, Kurita lost several of his heavy cruisers and a torpedo attack on Yamato forced it to ran northwards for quite a while, distancing it from the...

  2. The entirety of the German leadership is purged after the July 20 Plot, now what?

    Why not including Hitler in the list?

  3. September 1939: has Germany lost the war already?

    Indeed, it was an expensive process with a unit of fuel from refined oil costing a fraction of a unit of synthesized fuel. But Germany had no other option after establishment of the allied blockade which immediately created a yearly oil deficit of Germany of 4 million tons (pre-war German fuel...

  4. September 1939: has Germany lost the war already?

    Good point about rubber. As for speed of construction of synthetic plants, yes, but a) Germany even before the war had the most advanced and extensive synthetic fuel production facilities, b) it would receive strategic priority already in Oct 1939 (Germany indeed had to build gun barrels but...

  5. AHC: USSR goes to war against Nazi Germany without France falling?

    Well, had France resisted until spring of 1941 (let's say that fighter planes production and pilot training in UK and France pre-war was given priority, so in May 1940 allies have air parity or slight superiority against Luftwaffe and manage e.g. to destroy bridges and pontoon bridges over...

  6. September 1939: has Germany lost the war already?

    Assuming that, say in October 39, after realizing that UK and France will not budge on the issue of blockade, Hitler decides not to rely on the shaky possibility of future imports of fuel from the west and starts an accelerated mass program of construction of synthetic fuel plants using...

  7. WI USS Saratoga took part in the Battle of Midway.

    I agree. Also participating in the first wave of attack on Japanese carriers with Yorktown it would probably sink or incapacitate Hiryu even before it would send its planes on Yorktown.

  8. WI USS Saratoga took part in the Battle of Midway.

    Would it participate in the Battle of the Corral Sea? 1) If yes, with better fighter cover Lexington might perhaps not have been sunk. Or greater effect achieved in attack on Shokaku and Zuikaku. If Japan lost, say, not only Shoho, but also Shokaku with Zuikaku badly damaged and lower...

  9. D-Day failure: what was Plan B?

    Ok, you are right that more can be brought in. You can e.g. get a convoy at 10 knots from England to southern France in about ten days. The problem is that when you do it, along with bringing in some 200 LST ships and hundreds of LCT boats from the north, if you want to keep some pace of...

  10. D-Day failure: what was Plan B?

    I'll start here first. If you carry out Dragoon in summer 44, instead of trying again in the north at the same time, you restrict your capacity to land forces in the north later because of weather. Weather was a crucial factor and carrying out a large scale northern invasion post September was...

  11. D-Day failure: what was Plan B?

    The assumption (however unlikely) of this scenario was failing of the D-Day landings, that is at the very beginning, perhaps within a few days of D-Day. That would mean that no more than the three German panzer divisions available in Normandy would get involved and therefore depleted. That...

  12. D-Day failure: what was Plan B?

    On the second thought, the idea of stronger Dragoon in November or later is good on the condition that allies would by the time capture northern Italy and build airbases in the northwest (Torino area) adjacent to the landing area. That would enable enough fighter force to operate to protect the...

  13. D-Day failure: what was Plan B?

    What you suggesting makes sense in terms of the tactic of letting the enemy to attack, expose himself and suffer heavy casualties. However, it would require a very bold commander, who still remembered the fiasco of Dieppe, to expose his forces (and let's keep in mind that had the DD tanks...

  14. D-Day failure: what was Plan B?

    I agree with that and I think some sort of repeat in the north would be more likely than Dragoon because of the air force, troop and logistical concentrations that were far better in England than in the Mediterranean area. It would all depend on why it failed. Was it the failure of DD tanks...

  15. D-Day failure: what was Plan B?

    As for the embarkation points, true, but you are describing an operation that was secondary to the already successful Normandy which (Normandy) in the end attracted 11 of the 12 panzer divisions Germans had in France (with only the 11th Wehrmacht in training staying in the south). A primary...

  16. D-Day failure: what was Plan B?

    In the unlikely scenario of allies being forced to withdraw from Normandy completely, the southern France invasion with 8-10 allied divisions from the pitiful airbases and ports in Corsica and Sardinia would be very unlikely to happen, as such small landings would probably be contained if not...

  17. D-Day failure: what was Plan B?

    Of the three German panzer divisions in Normandy (21st Wehrmacht, 12th SS and Panzer Lehr of Wehrmacht) the Panzer Lehr division was too far to engage on the 6th. Only the 21st and 12th SS (and that one only just) were near enough. Even if Hitler ordered action in say two hours after the first...

  18. AHC: Better Strategy on the Western Front? [WWII]

    Not enough fighter plane support for landing there. Airbases in Sardinia and Corsica were too far and too few. Let's keep in mind that the allies were afraid of German aerial attacks even in Normandy 44 and then they had complete superiority and 3-4 thousand fighter planes operating from...

  19. D-Day fails, worst-case scenario, does it make this intra-German border plausible?

    It's a question. The German command of Italy in early May 45 cooperated with allies in surrender of German forces. It is possible that rather than seeing Soviets occupying Bavaria, Germans in northern Italy would let allies cross the Alpes to be in Bavaria first.

  20. 1943-4 Early operation Dragoon, Italy bipassed

    Hi, I think that one of the main reasons (not the only one) why the allies gave up an invasion of northern France in summer of 1943 (they gave up on it even before Torch in 1942) was the lack of air support for the invasion fleet. They simply would not have enough fighter plane force to defend...
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