WI: The Quebec Conference goes horribly wrong.

So, I was browsing Wikipedia when I came across this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Habakkuk

According to some accounts, at the Quebec Conference in 1943 Lord Mountbatten brought a block of pykrete along to demonstrate its potential to the admirals and generals who accompanied Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Mountbatten entered the project meeting with two blocks and placed them on the ground. One was a normal ice block and the other was pykrete. He then drew his service pistol and shot at the first block. It shattered and splintered. Next he fired at the pykrete to give an idea of the resistance of that kind of ice to projectiles. The bullet ricocheted off the block, grazing the trouser leg of Admiral Ernest King, and ended up in the wall.

So, lets say Mountbatten has even worse luck and the shot ricochets just enough that it hits Admiral King in the head, killing him instantly.

Besides the irony of the Anglophobic King being accidentally killed by a Brit what are the possible effects? Mountbatten's reputation certainly comes out worse I imagine but could this put strain between the US and Britain post-war, or would it simply be chalked up to a tragic accident.
 
My guess is it would be seen as a tragic accident, so I don't see it affecting US-UK relations.

However, how would if affect the subsequent role Admiral King would have had in war operations? And how would it affect Lord Mountbatten personally? Maybe he withdraws in remorse from public life, and is thus not later present in India?
 

TFSmith121

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Adm. King was no more anglophobic

So, I was browsing Wikipedia when I came across this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Habakkuk



So, lets say Mountbatten has even worse luck and the shot ricochets just enough that it hits Admiral King in the head, killing him instantly.

Besides the irony of the Anglophobic King being accidentally killed by a Brit what are the possible effects? Mountbatten's reputation certainly comes out worse I imagine but could this put strain between the US and Britain post-war, or would it simply be chalked up to a tragic accident.

Adm. King was no more and no less "anglophobic" than FDR, Stimson, Knox, Leahy, Marshall, Arnold, or anyone else in the U.S. high command or the JCS or the CCS, for that matter.

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