yeah and then some bombs strike some neighbourhoods like the Bronx?
How? It is near ASB for the GZ to get through once. After the war starts it is pure ASB.
yeah and then some bombs strike some neighbourhoods like the Bronx?
It took us 4 years to get the bomb from when we started. So figure the same thing, there is no way the war will end before 44. Therefore boom!I agree with Grimm Reaper, there would be a PH effect, but IMO it’s ASB of S....n dimensions for several reasons.
In OTL Germany never had the capability to attack CONUS and still FDR and the military were totally paranoid, wasting vast military resources to protect the USA from threat that obviously did not exist. Imagine what they would have done if Germany actually had some attack capability. The US defences would be reinforced to a level that precludes any chance of success.
Second, the USA was not a major player in 1940 and there would have been much, much better ways for Germany to use the one and only CV.
edit: I don´t see a nuclear attack on Germany. If the USA enters the war a year early, it will end earlier than in OTL.
It took us 4 years to get the bomb from when we started. So figure the same thing, there is no way the war will end before 44. Therefore boom!
The biggest ASB of this entire thing is the Graf Zeppelin actually getting commissioned, much less be fully operational by 1940.
The ship was at least 18 months from completion in September of 1939, it had been launched but the interior of the vessel was incomplete, the thousands of connections needed to make the ship functional had not been started, and there wasn't ANY experience in carrier operations.
Figure the earliest date that the ship would be operational is spring of 1942. At that time it is going to have to come within 150 miles of the U.S. to make its attack, while remaining undetected in one of the busiest sea lane on Earth. It will then have a TOTAL of TEN defensive fighters and the same number of dive bombers, along with 18 biplane torpedo bombers (max speed 203 MPH) to attack the United States.
Traveling from Germany to the U.S. (assuming the RN and USN miss the sortie completely and the ship makes it to launch point) is a LONG trip to drown. Easier to do it in your tub at home.
I always wanted to know what the meaning of "Eddie would go!" is.
Was there any source from which Hitler could have obtained an aircraft carrier- Vich France, Italy?
Were this a physical possibility and were Hitler crazy and stupid enough to do it (and Hitler was good at crazy and stupid) might not the target have the the White House in DC?
Durring the second Happy Time, U-boats roamed at will, and I don't know why none of them ever did toss a few shells ashore. Even a few shells exploding in a minor city would be noticed for certain.
Durring the second Happy Time, U-boats roamed at will, and I don't know why none of them ever did toss a few shells ashore. Even a few shells exploding in a minor city would be noticed for certain.
No effect militarily in either case.