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Thank you, Gator. I feel somewhat vindicated.Jeanette Rankin served in Congress from March 1917 until March 1919 and again from January 1941 until January 1943. She was not a member of Congress in 1937.
Gator
Thank you, Gator. I feel somewhat vindicated.Jeanette Rankin served in Congress from March 1917 until March 1919 and again from January 1941 until January 1943. She was not a member of Congress in 1937.
Gator
There were two South Dakota classes. The first, the South Dakota class of 1920, was ordered back in 1918. It was supposed to be a follow on to the
Colorado class. There were six: USS South Dakota, (BB-49), USS Indiana,
(BB-50), USS Montana, (BB-51), USS North Carolina, (BB-52), USS Iowa,
(BB-53), and USS Massachusetts, (BB-54). You're thinking of the lead ship of the South Dakota class of 1939. There were four ships in that class.
You're wrong. I had a copy of the 60th anniversary issue of TIME magazine back in 1983. It said that Jeannette Rankin voted against the declaration of war in 1941 and she also voted against the declaration of war in 1917. Granted, the pace of promotion in the 1930s was glacial, but
if war had come in 1937, promotions would have been sped up.
Its a history book:
http://www.amazon.com/War-Plan-Orange-Strategy-1897-1945/dp/0870217593
Very good starting point for thinking about a 1930s war with Japan.
For the people involved, Wikipedia gets frowned upon here - anything political can be suspect - but their biographical entries on anyone you're thinking of featuring can quickly give you an idea of where they were at a given time, and can point you to original references.
There's an old saying: the more you sweat in peacetime, the less you bleed in wartime. It can also be applied to building an AH. The more research you do, the better your TL will be, and you can almost never do too much research.