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With a PoD of the NSDAP not taking over the German government & fading into a second tier party. What would the US military look like circa 1945? Weapons, size, organization, war plans, ect.. ect.. ect.. Absent any war experience, or examples from other peoples wars what trends will there be?

I am assuming here that without a European war Japans aggresion is confined to a China Incident & no Pacific War emerges, at least before 1945, & is not threatening that year.

A few initial thoughts...

The triangular division would slowly pass beyond the experimental stage & a few regular divisions would be converted. This might be accelerated by Congress as the elimination of a entire layer of command & staff would have some fiscal attractions. The states might oppose reorg. of the National Guard since this would reduce the opportunities for political patronage.

A few dozen B17B & C models would be the show piece of the Army Air Corps. Appearing at air shows and used in aeronatical record breaking stunts.

There would be hand wringing over the obsolescence of the US battle fleet & Congress dragging out is funding of the North Carolina class. Funding a new aircraft carrier would also be procrastinated.

A experimental T3 medium tank might exist, tho it would look more like a cross between the M2 medium and the M4 Sherman we are familiar with. In any case the tanks would not be part of a seperate tank corps, tho with the end of the Depression funding of a experimental mechanized brigade might be had.

Col Eisenhower would be on the retired list & visiting the cousins back in Kansas.
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