Images/Photos of YOUR Favorite Alternate History

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After the French army personally rectified and reformed by the FPP (French Popular Party), the French army was very different from before. It had a positive and fanatical fascist belief, renovated weapons, uniforms and vehicles, and experienced harsh and strict training and professional military education, as well as the industrialization of metropolitan France and colonies and the improvement of the construction of the industrial system. With continuous supply and military support, these armies once again showed the strongest European lion spirit of the Napoleon era.
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The North African battlefield is not only the German-Italian coalition, but also the French colonial army and the French Expeditionary Force to assist and beat the Commonwealth army. They showed an extremely fierce, brave and resolute side in the battle. This is what a German commander evaluates the French soldiers in the North African battlefield:Ich dachte, dass die französische Armee auf dem Schlachtfeld verwundbar sein würde, aber in der Tat untergräbt sie mein vorheriges Verständnis und meine Sicht auf die französische Armee. Die mutigste und grausamste Seite, die dieses französische Volk auf dem Schlachtfeld zeigt, selbst ich muss beklagen, dass Frankreich und sein Volk in der Vergangenheit nicht mehr die schwachen Patienten waren. Jetzt
 
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Belfast, Northern Ireland. The provisional capital of the United Kingdom after the fall of Edinburgh to the Ragers.
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Gordon Brown, the next Prime Minister after Tony Blair resigned. Shown here is his first press conference in the secured capital of Belfast, where he would address what remains of the United Kingdom that a large NATO offensive was coming to clean up Britain 28 days after the infection.
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British military personnel secure Northern Ireland, the last unaffected country in the United Kingdom.

From @kspence92's 28 Days Later - Death of a Nation.
 

Decisive Darkness: What if Japan hadn't surrendered in 1945? by @The_Red​

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George Linclon Rockwell (March 9 1918 - November 16 1945)

Among the USN pilots killed in X-Day was George Linclon Rockwell. Born in Illinois, son of vaudeville comedians and actors, and was a Brown University student before dropping out and joining the United States Navy. Not very much is know about it's political views (althought there were mentions that we praised the National Socialist movement in Germany)
Initially a photo reconnaissance and transport pilot, it made a crash course program for flying the F6F-5P Hellcat due to the losses in the Typhoon Louise. On X-Day, this crash course prove valuable, when we shoot down three kamikaze aircrafts, but after the third aircraft, he was itself shoot down by a N1K2-J "George" of the 343rd Air Group (ironically, by the last surviving pilot and aircraft of the group at that day).

Stresa Revived by @Onkel Willie
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First Austrians soldiers arriving in north of Italy, 1938

Shortly after the Anschluss, Kurt Schuschnigg (the leader of the Federal State of Austria before it was dissolved) formed a government-in-exile in Rome, while a "Austrian Division" as formed with Austrian soldiers that had withdrawn to Italy, latter augmented with both Austrian and German Jewish men that wanted to liberate their homeland against the tyrannic Nazi regime.
While their were unable to contain the initial pushes of the Wehrmacht, they managed to hold them in the Arno River by December 1940, and, thanks with Lend-Lease provided by the US, pushed the Germans back in September/October 1943 (earlier attempts in early 1942 failed), and they were the first unit to both cross the Italian/Austrian border and reaching Vienna in June 1944.
After the war in Europe, the Italian occupied the entirerity of Austria, while the US-UK-French-USSR occupied Germany, and the Federal State of Austria was once again restored (as a puppet state of Italy), and the Austrian Division was disbanded, and reorganized into the Austrian Armed Forces.

Can it Carry Bombs? by @whatisinaname

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Skink AA, 20mm Quad - prior to it's shipment to Europe, January 1945

Due to a increase of the Luftwaffe presence in 1944/45 against the Western Allies (mostly with the jet Arado Ar-234), both the US, Britain and Canada responded with their own mobile self-propelled anti-aircraft tanks to responde with the increase threat (ironically in a same fashion the Germans react with the allies - in this list is excluded the M13/16 MGMC was it as not a tank):
  • US: M19 MGMC (heavily modified M24 Chaffee);
  • UK: Crusader III, AA Mk.I (single 40mm Bofors) and Mk.II/III (twin 20mm Oerlikons)
  • Canada: Skink AA, 20mm Quad
 
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Messeschmitt Me-110/ii above Britain.
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Ju-390 A-1 is one of the main transport aircraft of the Fallschirmjäger, Germany in World War II.
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Prototype jet for the Luftwaffe.
 
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Messerchmitt Dornier Do 31-like transport plane used to transport Reich VIPs for quick extraction.
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STG-11 caseless rifle. This is expected to be used by elite Waffen SS units by the 1960s.
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German military police with the MP50 submachine gun.
 
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Proposed German transport plane.
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Proposed Japanese transport plane that uses turbofans. The Kawasaki Corporation is expected is expected to produce these planes in the future.
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Proposed Italian transport plane.
 
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Pakistani forces during the Battle of New Dehli.
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German Fallschirmjäger engaging Commonwealth forces in the Raj.
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INA soldiers celebrate while the Azad Hind flag flies as the last of the Free British Forces in India surrender.
 
Another CH timeline:

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The latest British-German Legion in Sussex, 1948

As the Moscow Pact forces defeated the last Germans (and foreign volunteers) forces in the western side of the Rhine, in May of 1946, massive columns of refugees, with some deserting military units, began to cross the border of the Benelux and France, to escape possible death and misery coming.
With the end of the war in Europe, these refugees began to join some of germans communities already existing in the area prior to 1939, plus several of the former military personel began to join either the French Foreign Legions, the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army (currently fighting the Indonesian War of Independence) or joining the new forces-in-exile in the British forces.

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333rd Field Artillery Battalion preparing to fire the M1 155mm howitzer in Burma, mid-1945

With the ceasefire signed in August 1944 between the Western Powers and the Axis, most of the US forces began to be send back to the US to be prepared for operations in the Pacific against Japan (a selective few were kept for occupation in Austria and others to help rebuilding the devastation caused in the war). Most of the Afro-Americans units destination was a diferent theather: South East Asia.
While most of the Armed Forces brass wanted to either disband or keep it as a dead-end training unit, political pressure (from Roosevelt "War on all Fronts" policy), it was decided that instead, they would be send to Burma, and were to be integrated in the British Army (including later accepting some British equipment to ease logistics).
"Ironically", on the same month that they arrived in the frontline (late 1944), the all-white units were pull out for use in the campaign and send to the Pacific campaign.
The following afro-american units were send to Burma:
  • 477th Composite Group/4th Air Commando Group - 616th Bomber Squadron (B-25D/H Mitchell), 617th Liason Squadron (Piper L-4 Cub and UC-61A Argus/L-5E Sentinels and UC-64A Norsmen), 618th and 619th Fighter Squadron (P-50K/F-16C and D Spitfires) and 619th Transport Squadron (C-47A/B Skytrain)
  • 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion
  • 372nd Infantry Regiment
  • 614th and 669th Tank Destroyer Battalion
  • USS PC-1264
  • 333rd, 777th and 993rd Field Artillery Battalion
  • 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion
  • 452nd Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion
Outside of South East Asia, the closest the Afro-American units went to Japan were used in the Okinawa campaign, and remained in the area until V-J.

Sidenote: Two other USN served in the Indian Ocean at the same time:
  • USS Block Island - replaced temporarily HMS Begum due to the later been damaged by uncharted rocks; returned to the Pacific as Begum returns to service
  • USS Bridgeport (AD-10) - send for the sole purpose of repairing the Lend-Lease warships present in the campaign

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Several Panzer I (including a Breda modified one) after crossing the Portuguese border, late 1938

With the defeat of the Nationalist forces in the SCW, Portugal (under Salazar Estado Novo) began to panic, as now a socialist nation borders their entirety of the border. Therefore, Portugal pressed into service all Nationalist equipment that crossed their border and integrated into their own armed forces, plus formed a brigade with some of the former rebels that crossed the border. Alongeside, Portugal began to buy as much military equipment as possible (it's Army Aviation became the biggest operator of the Heinkel He-112 outside of Axis operators).

Sidenote: Taking advantage of the final days of the war, Portugal occupied the "disputed areas" Olivença.
 
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Something I made.

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Highway leading to Cebu City, the capital and the largest city of the U.S. State of Visayas (Alternity). The entire metro is known as the Cebu City County, which also includes the cities of Mandaue, Lapu-Lapu, Talisay, and Naga, as well as the towns of Consolacion, Liloan, and Minglanilla.
 

How Silent Fall the Cherry Blossoms by @Geon

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A Bell P-63A-10E-BE Kingcobra been prepared for flight operations, early 1945

With the US having several problems at once (both protecting it's shores after Operation Cherry Blossom at Night and the Me-264 attacks and supplying it's Lend-Lease allies and some of it's own frontline fighter units (mostly after the "Hell over Belgium" on 24th of December) - althought the end of the war with Japan on February /March 1945 helped mitigate somewhat), the USAAF was forced to accept the P-63 Kingcobra for "frontline" units - replacing many Fighter Groups P-51 Mustangs in both the US mainland and the few Groups kept in the Pacific for occupation duties. It also Lend-Lease a few dozen for RAF service for the same reasons (althought all kept in the UK).

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Capt. Radamés Gaxiola stands in front of his P-47D with his maintenance team after he returned from a combat mission in Europe,

Prior to leaving the US for the Philippines, the war with Japan ended, and in a rapid change of plans (and with permissio from the Mexican government), the Aztec Eagles (201st Fighter Squadron) were send instead to the European campaign, arriving in early April (this speed-up of operations was due to the fact of replacing early loses, plus the crossing of the Rhine river needed as much reinforcements as possible). Joining the 9th AF, they only performed about eight ground attacks missions (as the Luftwaffe was mostly non-existing apart from a rat-tag of Me-262 spread across Germany), but also performed three escort missions of the USAAF heavy bombers (more for political/propraganda purposes), including the last 8th AF bombing of Berlin, on late April 1945.

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BL 18-inch railway howitzer rapid training prior to deployment in Germany 1945.

As the Germans began to build up and reinforce the easter side of the Rhine river, the Allies also began to build up their own forces for their upcoming attack. Among the reinforcments (in the British section) was the deployment of the 18-inch railway howitzers, famous for engaging the Germans own batteries in the Pas-de-Calais from 1940 through 1944. Now, for their last action in the war, all five guns were send to mainland Europe for bombarding the Wehrmacht/SS units defending the river with it's massive HE rounds (no chemical round was made for this gun).
 
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Commonwealth soldiers during the defense of New Dehli.
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The Indian National Army, a group of freedom fighters assisted by the Japanese Empire to have India declare independence from Britain. They also took part in the Battle of New Dehli.
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Japanese tanks enter the Raj from Burma.
 
all from @Onkel Willie

Soyuz-80: the 1980 Soviet Invasion of Poland

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Destroyed Hungarian T-72 in northern Transylvania, early November 2006
(yes, this photo was taken in the ongoing war in Ukraine, but I couldn't find any other good images for this, so forgive me)

On the 3rd of October 2006, the Hungarian Armed Forces crossed the Romanian border, starting the biggest war in European soil excluding WW2. Hundreds of tank's, IFV's, AFV's, APC's, wih infantry support, crossed the border on the Romanian town of Bors, while Hungarians MiG's and Sukhoi's began to attack the Romanian respectives MiG's and Sukhoi's.
But without support from any other nation (and with successeful UN sanctions against the undeclared war, since the USSR was itself enbold in a civil war, and was more friendly towards Romania, therefore, no veto was imposed), the two month war end up with Viktor Orban two year authoritarian regime overthrow, the return of the Hungarian transition to democracy, and 22,000 deaths.

The Sudeten War: History of the World after an Alternate 1938

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P26/40

After the the defeat of the Spanish Nationalists in October 1940 (due to the withdrawal of German support, and the arrival of the Soviets "volunteers"), plus the defeat of the Nazi Germany in 1938, Mussolini went to reform all the Armed Forces branches, training for better combat against other european forces, and replacing old/troublesome equipment with either newer models, or brand new entirely, including their "heavy tank", the Carro Armato P26/40, with their combat debut (alongeside it's successor, the P43), on the Third Balkan Wars in 1947, against Yugoslavia (Italy, Hungary and Bulgaria against Yugoslavia)

Fallen on the March - the world after a German victory at Stalingrad

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Former-operated Bulgarian late Supermarine Spitfire XVIe with teardrop canopy, restored to No.74 RAF Squadron colors.

After the Tsardom of Bulgarian switched sides against the Axis in October 1945, a problem arouse - literally all of it's equipment was either out-of-date former Entente or modern Axis-built. Therefore, while the Bulgarian military would only be used for self-defense (with a few squadrons supporting the Allies in the Balkans), all of it's "frontline" forces would received the most modern Allied equipment (including the Supermarine Spitfire, like the one shown), while former Axis (and fewer Entente) equipment was used for training purposes (or used either as target pratice)
 
Another of my favourite timelines (from althistory.fandom.com):

Morgen die ganze Welt

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A 654th sPzJagAbt Ferdinand on it's way to Moscow, early June 1943

With the German use of Tabun gas on day 1 of Operation Citadel (launch on May 31st/June 1st), the massive Ferdinand tank destroyers saw very little action, only on day 2, on Kursk itself (which was slighty spare from the initial attacks) and (if they were operational), employed to capture Moscow once more, alongeside the thousands of captured equipment based in the previous Kursk salient, plus in adjent areas.
During the Siege of Moscow, they were deployed as assault guns, destroying street barricades, while German infantry protected the massive beast from infantry attacks. Moscow would fall on July 9th (the day prior to the disasterous Operation Husky). Most of the Ferdinands would be destroyed on the Ural Offensive in 1944.

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Macchi MC.205 on Normandy, mid-August 1944

Replacing the earlier fighters of the Regia Aeronautica (plus the few captured Soviet fighters gifted by the Germans), the Macchi MC.205, alongeside the Fiat G.55, became the main single-seat single-engined piston fighters of the Kingdom of Italy (the Reggiane Re.2005, been the most difficult and expensive to make, only 50 were authorized, and send to protect the Caucasus from Allied incursions).
As the Germans began to buildup forces to expell the Allies in the liberated areas of Normandy (including captured Soviet equipment from the Ural Offensive), Mussolini (making the "Italy in all front" policy), send it's first fighter squadron of Macchi MC.205 on July 20th. More Italian reinforcemts arrived, including Il-2 Sturmovik (captured post-Kursk offensive).

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Last image of HMS Trumpeter (D09), April 1945

On April 16th 1945, HMS Trumpeter (and 16 more ships) are sunk by a wolfpack of Type XXI "Sea Wolf" U-boats (althought know by their own crews as "Water Beetles"), with no loses on their own. By the end of the war, a new "Third Happy Time" for the U-boats began, with hundreds of ships sunks with less than twenty submarines lost on their own (among the Allies losses were among their first kills, HMS Norfolk; the most famous kill was the Fletcher-class USS Melvin (DD-680), which at the time, was carrying a plotuniom nuclear bomb, as it was thought that a fast warship could escape the U-boat siege in the Atlantic).

A few more dozen were send to once again siege Malta, while less than that was sent to Japan to support the crippling IJN.
 
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Hale, Vladivostok! by @herlockscholmes
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Hale Boggs, Democrat House Majority Leader (D-LA). Boggs disappeared off-the-coast of Alaska on October 16, 1972 when his Cessna 310 was presumed to have crashed.
Also on board were Begich's aide, Russell Brown; and the pilot, Don Jonz; the four were heading to a campaign fundraiser for Begich.

The search for the missing aircraft and four men included the US Coast Guard, Navy, Army, Air Force, Civil Air Patrol and civilian fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters.

The Cessna was required to carry an emergency locator transmitter per Alaska state law and federal law.

No emergency transmission signal determined to be from the plane was heard during the search. In its report on the incident, the National Transportation Safety Board stated that the pilot's portable emergency transmitter, permissible in lieu of a fixed transmitter on the plane, was found in an aircraft at Fairbanks, Alaska. The report also notes that a witness saw an unidentified object in the pilot's briefcase that resembled, except for color, the portable emergency transmitter. The safety board concluded that neither the pilot nor aircraft had an emergency location transmitter.

On November 24, 1972, the search was suspended after 39 days. Neither the wreckage of the plane nor the pilot's and passengers' remains were ever found. After a hearing and seven minute jury deliberation, his death certificate was signed by Judge Dorothy Tyner.

After Boggs and Begich were re-elected posthumously that November, House Resolution 1 of January 3, 1973, officially recognized Boggs's presumed death and opened the way for a special election. The same was done for Begich.

Almost 20 years since his disappearance, Boggs was discovered to be alive, having lived in the USSR under a new identity to hide from enemies. Boggs revealed that he was rescued by Soviet fishermen off the coast of the Aleutian Islands. Upon his return to the United States that included a reunion with his family, Boggs presented evidence of the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963, which was revealed to be part of a conspiracy among the top echelons of the U.S. government to usurp the presidency.
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John F. Kennedy Jr., 42nd President of the United States (2001-2009).
JFK Jr., ran for President in 2000 after receiving the truth of his father's assassination thanks to the sudden emergence of Hale Boggs who had been hiding in the USSR for twenty years. On January 20, 2001, he became the youngest U.S. President in history at 40 years old. His first problem was to deal with the War on Terror as a result of the terrorist attacks in the World Trade Center in New York City, the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, and the crash of United Airlines Flight 93 near Stonycreek Township, Pensylvannia. The U.S. and allies invaded Afghanistan, killing Osama bin-Laden (the leader of Al-Qaeda and the one responsible for the 9/11 attacks) by December 2001. On the domestic front, Jr. would face opposition from Republicans and conservatives such as Pat Buchannan, who claimed that Jr. was working with the "globalist elite" to undermine America's values. Buchannan would ultimate run against Jr. in 2004, but lost in a very narrow election.

Upon leaving office in 2009, JFK Jr. enjoyed a high approval rating and has been marked as one of the best presidents in modern American history.
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Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the President of the Russian Federation after taking power in 1992. Zhirinovsky took power from Yeltsin due to the rise of Russian nationalism and chauvanism. His paranoia included that NATO would soon into Eastern Europe to establish puppet governments that would surround Russia. His administration would soon have to deal with the Islamic militants that infiltrated Chechnya during the First Chechen War. The Battle of Grozny would be a bloodbath for the Russian Armed Forces, resulting in Zhirinovksy ordering the military to pound the city to dust.
 

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Hale, Vladivostok! by @herlockscholmes
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Hale Boggs, Democrat House Majority Leader (D-LA). Boggs disappeared off-the-coast of Alaska on October 16, 1972 when his Cessna 310 was presumed to have crashed.
Also on board were Begich's aide, Russell Brown; and the pilot, Don Jonz; the four were heading to a campaign fundraiser for Begich.

The search for the missing aircraft and four men included the US Coast Guard, Navy, Army, Air Force, Civil Air Patrol and civilian fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters.

The Cessna was required to carry an emergency locator transmitter per Alaska state law and federal law.

No emergency transmission signal determined to be from the plane was heard during the search. In its report on the incident, the National Transportation Safety Board stated that the pilot's portable emergency transmitter, permissible in lieu of a fixed transmitter on the plane, was found in an aircraft at Fairbanks, Alaska. The report also notes that a witness saw an unidentified object in the pilot's briefcase that resembled, except for color, the portable emergency transmitter. The safety board concluded that neither the pilot nor aircraft had an emergency location transmitter.

On November 24, 1972, the search was suspended after 39 days. Neither the wreckage of the plane nor the pilot's and passengers' remains were ever found. After a hearing and seven minute jury deliberation, his death certificate was signed by Judge Dorothy Tyner.

After Boggs and Begich were re-elected posthumously that November, House Resolution 1 of January 3, 1973, officially recognized Boggs's presumed death and opened the way for a special election. The same was done for Begich.

Almost 20 years since his disappearance, Boggs was discovered to be alive, having lived in the USSR under a new identity to hide from enemies. Boggs revealed that he was rescued by Soviet fishermen off the coast of the Aleutian Islands. Upon his return to the United States that included a reunion with his family, Boggs presented evidence of the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963, which was revealed to be part of a conspiracy among the top echelons of the U.S. government to usurp the presidency.
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John F. Kennedy Jr., 42nd President of the United States (2001-2009).
JFK Jr., ran for President in 2000 after receiving the truth of his father's assassination thanks to the sudden emergence of Hale Boggs who had been hiding in the USSR for twenty years. On January 20, 2001, he became the youngest U.S. President in history at 40 years old. His first problem was to deal with the War on Terror as a result of the terrorist attacks in the World Trade Center in New York City, the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, and the crash of United Airlines Flight 93 near Stonycreek Township, Pensylvannia. The U.S. and allies invaded Afghanistan, killing Osama bin-Laden (the leader of Al-Qaeda and the one responsible for the 9/11 attacks) by December 2001. On the domestic front, Jr. would face opposition from Republicans and conservatives such as Pat Buchannan, who claimed that Jr. was working with the "globalist elite" to undermine America's values. Buchannan would ultimate run against Jr. in 2004, but lost in a very narrow election.

Upon leaving office in 2009, JFK Jr. enjoyed a high approval rating and has been marked as one of the best presidents in modern American history.
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Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the President of the Russian Federation after taking power in 1992. Zhirinovsky took power from Yeltsin due to the rise of Russian nationalism and chauvanism. His paranoia included that NATO would soon into Eastern Europe to establish puppet governments that would surround Russia. His administration would soon have to deal with the Islamic militants that infiltrated Chechnya during the First Chechen War. The Battle of Grozny would be a bloodbath for the Russian Armed Forces, resulting in Zhirinovksy ordering the military to pound the city to dust.
You pulled the entire piece concerning Boggs disappearance word for word from the Wiki.

Plagiarism is BIG DEAL hereabouts.

Kicked for a week.

This is a one bite offense. You just had yours.
 
More of Comrade Harps
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This picture shows a Reggiane Re.1901 heading towards a Allied cruiser at the start of a torpedo attack. The torpedo can be seen below the aircraft.

The Reggiane Re.1901 was a land-based derivative of the Re.1900, a proposed Regia Marina requirement for a carrier-based torpedo bomber. Instead, the Regia Aeronautica adopted the aircraft and built 734, including the FB (Foto Bomber) variant (omitted the torpedo gear, had 12.7mm instead of 7.7mm Breda-SAFAT machine guns, carried less fuel but had more armour and featured additional hardpoints under the wings).

Against the Western Allies, it was seen combat in the Mediterranean Sea, from North Africa up to the Operation Husky (including bombing of Malta and attacks on convoy ships intended to supply it). Shown where is one such attack against a convoy.

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One of the odd Su-76i(B). The (B) stands for Bulgarian

After the end of the War against Fascism (as it was called by the Socialist Union), the Bulgarian armed forces inerted hundreds of German equipment (in fact, by the time of World War III, it was the Socialist member with most Axis equipment of them, althought most was kept inside their own borders for training purposes). As the Bulgarian began to receive newer equipment, it was decided to modify some of the German-built one to receive the newer Socialist ones. Among these Frankenstein was the Bulgarian own Su-76i(B) (not the S.U-modified casemate Su-76i). The modification was simple: the top and front of the turret was removed along with the KwK 40, so that a WWII Soviet ZiS-3 76mm gun taken off a SU-76 tank destroyer could be grafted in. With this modification, the Su-76i(B) was now used mostly as a Self-Propelled Gun, as the gun itself was unable to destroy the Allied tanks they fielded during WWIII (Centurion's, M26/46's, late Sherman's, Panther Ausf.E and Tiger II's*).

Two field battalions of Su-76i(B) were field for World War III in the Austrian campaign, and despite some losses from counter-battery, they were kept in their entire full force (thanks from bringing extra vehicles as backup such in cases) up to the Sicilian campaign, there they were send back to Bulgaria (the long way since the UN now occupied the Crete island) to replace their vehicles with Bulgarian-built ISU-152's. Some of the Su-76i(B) were buried up to the turret for use in the Krali Marko Line against Turkey (while Turkey was a Socialist ally, both the Bulgarian and Greeks did not trust them, and kept always a eye (and a few divisions) on them).

*Both the Panther Ausf.E (E-50) and Tiger II where operated by the French after the fall of Germany in 1946, and kept in storage until the Socialist cross their border in 1950.

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Iranian M36 Jackson destroyed during Operation Desert Storm, Basra, 1991

After Iran failed to leave Iraq (and Iraq failed to leave Kuwait), the US-led UN Coalition launched Operation Desert Storm, with UN aircrafts destroying several Iranian facilities and military equipment, while Desert Sabre was launch to liberate both Iran-occupied Iraq and Iraq-occupied Kuwait.

Been a former UN ally, the Iranians had received hundreds of military equipment made in USA (from it's occupation during World War II up to the Iranian Revolution). Among them were M36 Jacksons (both standart and B1 variants). In several instances, as the Iranians began to lose hundreds of tanks (M47's, M60's and Canadian-made Chieftains), many of the WWII tanks (stored at that time) were fielded to both replace their loses and to buy time to buy more capable tanks. By the time of Operation Desert Storm/Desert Sabre, these vintage vehicles were primarly used by both the Basij own tank brigades (used for convoy escort in the rear) and by the Kurdish State (an Iranian puppet state formed from Iraq Kurdistan).
 
Hale, Vladivostok! by @herlockscholmes
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The port of Vladivostok in 1991 shown in this post-card. The city lies on the "arm" of Russia in the Far East, thus giving it the nickname as the "Final Frontier of the World". It is also home to the Russian Pacific Fleet. The city became famous as where former senator Hale Boggs lived for almost 20 years under a Russian identity to hide from insidious elements of the U.S. government as he had information regarding the JFK assassination. (Actual photo is post-card for sale online).
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Russian soldiers during the Siege of Grozny, 1994.
The First Chechen War was one of the major conflicts the new Russian Federation had to deal with after the dissolution of the Soviet Union on December 25, 1991. The region of Chechnya is known for a predominant Muslim population. The Chechens attempted to secede to form the new country known as the Chechen Republic of Ishkeria. The Russian Ground Forces under President Yeltsin then Vladimir Zhirinovsky attempted to crush the rebellion with heavy firepower and air strikes, but the Russian military found themselves in a bloody urban warfare with a high casualty rate due to the use of conscripts in battle.
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A group of Chechen fighters enjoying a watermelon while the fighter on the right shows off captured Russian assault rifles.
 
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Hale, Vladivostok! by @herlockscholmes
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Delta Force operatives and Northern Alliance soldiers watch from a far as USAF precision strikes hit the Tora Bora mountain range during the Hunt for Osama bin-Laden. OBL, the leader of Al-Qaeda and the perpetuator of the September 11th attacks, was confirmed to be hiding in caves of one of the most treacherous mountains of the world. The United States under JFK Jr. and her allies would launch a limited military campaign within Northern Alliance territory to seek out the terrorist leader. With help from the Northern Alliance, a faction of anti-Taliban fighters that managed to secure the northern parts of Afghanistan after the Fall of Kabul in 1996, the U.S. was able to kill the Al-Qaeda leader with a precision airstrike from a B-1B bomber.
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The Ringworm militia, a far-right militia group operating in Alaska. Shown here in the picture is their HQ known as Camp Boggs, located near Chugach. The group saw John F. Kennedy Jr. as their hero and savior from the evil elements of the deep state which resulted in Jr's father's assassination and Hale Bogg's attempted assassination using a bomb smuggled onboard a plane over Alaska in 1978. Eventually, they would lose faith on Kennedy Jr., as they saw him as "weak" and "inefficient" in the face of government corruption. Following the 9/11 attacks, Kennedy Jr.'s speech on Islam being not the enemy would serve as the final straw for the Ringworms. They were branded as a domestic terrorist organization by the FBI following the attacks.
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Pat Buchanan (R-VA), the Republican candidate that ran against JFK Jr. in the 2004 U.S. Presidential elections. Buchanan's campaign mainly focused on paleoconservative ideals and blaming the Kennedy Jr. administration as part of the "New World Order" conspiracy. This would see him get support from traditionally red states and the Christian evangelicals of the South. The 2004 election came as one of the closest in history in which JFK Jr. narrowly defeated Buchanan.
 
Marsh War (US vs Soviet Partisans 1949) by @DaleCoz

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Sikorsky HO3S-1 helicopter about to take off for a recon mission above the Ukrainian marshes, 1949. Helicopters were introduced late in the war, starting with the Sikorsky R-4, mainly seeing action in the Burma Road and in Luzon during the Philippines campaign to rescue downed American airmen. Helicopters were later deployed to the European Theater for search-and-rescue and counterinsurgency operations against Nazi holdouts.
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A group German holdouts set up an MG-42 machine gun nest while firing at Allied Occupation forces in western Ukraine, 1947.
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Pro-Soviet partisans, 1948. The pro-Soviet partisans are another faction taking part in a multi-sided insurgency in what was once the Ukrainian SSR, engaging the Western Allies occupational forces, Nazi holdouts, and the anti-Soviet Ukrainian Insurgent Army. These partisans are supported by the NKVD and the Red Army, to the point it can be assumed that regular Red Army soldiers are even taking part while blending in.
 
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