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  1. Keynes Cruisers
    Threadmarks: Story 0130 June 2 to June 15 1940

    June 3, 1940 Northumberland The forty Royal Engineers sweated in the late spring sun. The last of the concrete was being poured into the bunker’s wall mold. Steel rods stuck upwards as they had nothing to reinforce yet. Another work party three hundred yards away was also working on their own...

  2. Keynes Cruisers
    Threadmarks: Story 0129 May 19 to June 3 1940

    May 25, 1940 852 Berck, France A dozen tanks and seven score men rested. They had reached the sea. Six men had dismounted a few minutes ago to assess the state of the small town’s petrol station. They had come back with a single French police officer in front of them. He insisted that the...

  3. Keynes Cruisers
    Threadmarks: Story 0128 May 18, 1940 to May 24, 1940

    May 18, 1940 0745 Montcornet France Forty four D-2 tanks were tasked to advance on the crossroads as soon as the artillery group shifted their targets to the German rear. Thirty one tanks advanced. The others were scattered between the railhead at Reims and the treeline at the southern edge of...

  4. How "should" WWII in 1940 have gone?

    Why would Italy jump in if the French were still in decent shape and not collapsing? There is no Mediterranean strategy available in this scenario.

  5. Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.

    As Carefully Slowly

  6. Keynes Cruisers
    Threadmarks: Story 0127 May 12 to May 18 1940

    May 12, 1940 0733 near Bodo Norway Eleven men were in the water. Their five hundred ton coaster was forty yards behind them, broken in half. The stern was sinking while the empty forward section floated around like a cork filled child’s bath toy. They had delivered another cargo to the Allied...

  7. Keynes Cruisers
    Threadmarks: Story 0126 May 11 to May 12 1940

    May 11, 1940 0300 village of Troisvierges, Luxemburg The night shift was the easy shift for the village police. The few taverns had closed hours ago and the usual greatest threat overnight was the lack of coffee. Tonight was different. The border crossing into Germany had been empty for hours...

  8. Malaya What If

    Let's get ready to RUMBLE

  9. Keynes Cruisers
    Threadmarks: Story 0125 May 2 to May 10 1940

    May 2, 1940 HMS Hood Plymouth She was immobile. Power was flowing through the hundreds of tools civilians and landlubbers brought aboard her. Her engines had been opened up. Thousands of tubes were being replaced by both her crew and the yard workers. Some of the tubes were in fine condition...

  10. Keynes Cruisers
    Threadmarks: Story 0124 April 17 1940 to May 1 1940

    April 17, 1940 0517 near Stavanger, Norway Six ships’ guns flashed. Fourteen heavy shells heaved skyward along with sixteen lighter shells from the destroyers. The airfield had been captured by paratroopers the previous week. The defenders were able to put heavy equipment on the concrete runway...

  11. Keynes Cruisers
    Threadmarks: Story 0123 April 9 1940 to April 16 1940

    April 9, 1940 0418 Aboard HMoNS Draug Four three inch guns tracked the merchant ship Main. The Norwegian crew had been hearing radio snippets of foreign operations in Norwegian waters. British minelayers were active in the north while a German transport had been sunk near Kristiansand while...

  12. Keynes Cruisers
    Threadmarks: Story 0122 March 25 1940 to April 9 1940

    March 25, 1940 St. Nazaire, France France’s sole aircraft carrier, Bearn, had a quiet war. She had been used as a beater for the hunting groups, her aircraft spotters and flushers for the cruisers of the Force du Raid. Once Graf Spee had been harried and sunk, she was taken off of active...

  13. Can the Philippines be saved 1941-42?

    Agreed... but matching forces with missions means that the active forward defense concept is likely not a viable concept until late 1942 or 1943 so what is the plan until the force levels are viable for the desired mission.

  14. Can the Philippines be saved 1941-42?

    I think the most reasonable late POD for a mostly successful defense of Bataan and Manilla Bay through at least July 1942 needs to happen in 1938 or 1939. In my timeline, I had the US Army which received a substantial cash and manpower infusion in 1937 consider Luzon to be their proving ground...

  15. Keynes Cruisers
    Threadmarks: Story 0121 March 24 1940

    March 24, 1940 Scapa Flow The low islands that surrounded the anchorage were ineffective. Winds that had thousands of miles to flit and flutter along the waves were not deterred by the scrub covered hills and low sand dunes of the southern Orkneys. Dense fog covered Hoxa and Flotta while the...

  16. Keynes Cruisers
    Threadmarks: Story 0120 March 23 1940

    March 23, 1940 Sydney Australia and the Grand Harbor of Valletta Doric Star blasted her whistle. She was returning to the mother country. Ten thousand sheep and three thousand cattle dressed carcasses were stored in her refrigerated holds. Deck cargo of manganese ingots and raw wool completed...

  17. Keynes Cruisers
    Threadmarks: Story 0119 March 23 1940

    March 23, 1940 east of the Maginot line ‘Allons, vite vite’ Half a dozen men broke cover and ran seventy meters to another cluster of trees. A dozen men covered them with weapons scanning the horizon. The patrol had gone over the German border to probe the defenses. The young privates had been...

  18. Keynes Cruisers
    Threadmarks: Story 0118 March 22 1940

    March 22, 1940 Lowell, Massachusetts National Guard Armory “Left, lift, Right, lift Left” A shuddering stomp of boots hit the ground each time the company sergeant called the cadence. C Company of the 182nd Infantry Regiment was drilling. Private Donohue was in a fugue state. His mind was...

  19. Keynes Cruisers
    Threadmarks: Story 0117 March 21 1940

    March 21, 1940 Rock Island Arsenal The whistle blew. Workers put down their tools. A few foremen and skilled craftsmen spent a few more minutes finishing a critical installation but most of the workers on the arsenal’s floor stepped back from the multitude of steel beasts that they had been...

  20. Keynes Cruisers
    Threadmarks: Story 0116 March 20 1940

    March 20, 1940 Near Trondheim Crisp air formed breath clouds in front of the snowshoeing men. Two guides and a pair of American tourists were working their way along a ridge line. They had been in the snow for the past eight hours and had made good time and good distance. They could see the...
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