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  1. The names of American regiments the British Army raised if the 13 Colonies never successfully separated from Great Britain?

    The British Army had many colorfully named regiments over the years drawn from all areas of Great Britain and the British Empire. Some of these include the names of regiments raised from Britain, such as the Sherwood Foresters, the Royal West Surrey Regiment, the Coldstream Guards. Regiments...

  2. Best Dutch interwar fleet

    Here is a toughie. What changes could be made to the Koninklijke Marine immediately post World War 1 to make it a better fighting force for its many tasks. They made several small armored gunboats, nice looking cruisers after WW1, and completed a cruiser sized coast defense ship before WW1...

  3. WI: Fort Wint not abandoned.

    During WW2, Fort Wint was part of the U.S. coastal defenses of the Philippines Islands. Grande Island, where Ft. Wint was located, guarded the entrance to Subic Bay and protected the Olongapo Navy Yard, the smaller of the two U.S. naval bases in the Philippines. In 1941, Fort Wint controlled...

  4. Austro-Hungarian Air Forces in World War 2, what roundels, crosses, chevrons

    If I understand it correctly, in World War 1, Austria-Hungary's army consisted of the Imperial Austrian Landswehr, the Royal Hungarian Honved and an "Common" Army. If Austria-Hungary had lasted into WW2, either in it's historical form, or as some kind of federal constitutional "dual" monarchy...

  5. WI: During WW2 the Italians and Japanese militaries traded martial prowess.

    In other words, what if the Italian Army, Navy and Air Force had generally the same level of military competence, morale and military skills as the Japanese Army, Navy and Air Force had during WW2, say between 1937 and 1945. I don't want to imply that the Italians adopt any kind of "Latin...

  6. Save the Indian Motorcycle

    Fascinating post about saving Packard. I would submit a similar query dealing with the makers of the old Indian motorcycles. Before World War 1, the manufacturer of Indian motorcycles had been the largest motorcycle manufacturer in the U.S., with 32,000 units sold in 1913. Indian supplied the...

  7. What if Jiro Horikoshi had got his way?

    What if the Mitsubishi A6M “Zero” had the Mitsubishi “Kinsei” engine from the start? In May of 1937, the Japanese Navy issued a specification for a new carrier fighter that we all know as the famous “Zero”. Mitsubishi’s chief designer Jiro Horikoshi completed the first prototype in March...
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