ww2

In our much beloved TL, The Whale Has Wings, a powerful ATL Royal Navy carrier force with ATL aircraft conducts a night strike on Wilhelmshaven in 1939, to the detriment of the Kriegsmarine. My question is, could a similar thing be done IRL with OTL's resources? The POD is that, after the...

The difference in this timeline is that Japan is not a part of the Axis, and doesn't start any wars after the Russo-Japanese War. I'm wondering, from a military-strategic perspective, how would the unfolding of events occur in Europe during the ALT-WW2? I'm fairly certain that Germany will...

Philippe Petain is ill-regarded in France today, for his role in the pro-nazi Vichy Regime. Prior to that he was a fierce French patriot and nationalist- the Lion of Verdun. So, what if, after the capitulation of the 3rd Republic, he made his way to Algiers with Charles De Gaulle, the up and...

IIRC there were several proposals before WW2 by the UK/League of Nations to partition Palestine into a separate Jewish/Muslim state. Would this ever happen without WW2 and the horrors of the holocaust? And if this did happen, could this lead to an even bigger more prosperous Israel with all the...

Yes yes. I am the funny. Anyway, I remember reading somewhere that because of Hitler being kicked out of art school, he would eventually be active in politics and become the mass murderer we know today. If Hitler wasn't kicked out of any of the schools he attended, what would have become of...

Basically Poland ww2 + east prussia and Lithuania effects and lastly some of slovakia and all of Latvia (Just look at map) Basically they did that because they got more lucky at the ww1 treaties and other events went more into their favour Like higher eco and income growth and more development...

In a scenario where the military uprising in the summer of 1936 is more disjointed and eventually falters and then collapses in on itself after a period of Civil War in Spain, what would happen to Spain in 1940 following the Nazi occupation of France? Let's say, for the sake of the scenario, the...

This thread relates to the flexibility of the 'Dowding System' and what might have been had certain scenarios had occured. The System - Main Infrastructure The beating heart of the system was the Filter Room at Bentley Priory. Data came into the Filter Room, was analysed and rationalised and...

Let’s say that for whatever reason FDR keeps Wallace on the ticket in 1944, and kicks the bucket in 1945 just as IOTL. Henry Wallace becomes the 33rd President of the United States, just as the Second World War is coming to a close. How would a President Wallace have handled the end of WW2? How...

Let’s say that in the most plausible way possible, Nazi Germany manages to “win” the eastern front, either by consolidating the A-A line, the Soviets collapsing, or they simply get even more lucky than they did IOTL. Germany now rules the whole continent. How would the Western Allies respond...

At which point in war is Germany put in a position that the only thing they are getting is unconditional surrender? Meaning allies are 100% sure they are going to win, Therefore there is no need to negotiate with the Nazis .

As we naval history nerds know, the Japanese aircraft carrier Soryu and the American aircraft carrier Wasp died horrible deaths during the Pacific War. However, what stands out is that both were caught with their pants down: Soryu getting jumped by Yorktown's dive bombers while refuelling and...

So William James Sidis is generally regarded as the man with the highest iq in recorded history, some of his more ridiculous intellectual feats are learning portuguese in a simgle evening and entering Harvard at 11, he became a matematician and lived a quiet life, but what if he had instead...

What would the consequences have been if the above had happened? Say, Hitler lambasts the League of Nations for doing nothing when Manchuria gets invaded and goes on a rant about the Yellow Peril, while Tojo steps up Japan's acceptance of Jewish refugees and attempts to use them as propaganda...

Rear, then Vice Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Jack_Fletcher Commander of American carrier forces at Coral Sea, Midway and the Eastern Solomons, he was beached in September 1942 for reported mistakes during the Guadalcanal landings (not covering Turner and thus...

What it says on the tin. What if the Japanese had a SBD Dauntless-style dive/scout bomber instead of the D3A Val?

Hi, as an Italian i've never understood why that a...hole was always in charge during our hardest hour... A more competent military commander would have partially avoided Caporetto disaster (yeah the main austro-german thrust could have failed if the guy wasn't a batshit moron) since our guy...

Imagine that, in addition to the ships that VAdm Takeo Kurita possesses in the IJN's Centre Force at Leyte Gulf, he also has the Shinano, completed as a proper battleship instead of a crappy carrier, and the Mutsu, which doesn't blow up in 1943. This gives Centre Force the following capital...

Established in the 19th century, the Senussi are/were a Sufi religious order which eventually formed the ruling dynasty in the Kingdom of Libya. In the first few decades of the 20th century, the order was governed by Ahmed Sharif as-Senussi: What if Ahmed Sharif as-Senussi accepts Atatürk's...

Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to get the IJN's anti-submarine doctrine, ships, planes and other equipment into fighting shape for the Pacific War by December 1, 1941. You may use any POD after 1900; you must stay within historical resources used on the IJN. However, not...