Recent content by DD951

They've already shown up ITTL, but in a different guise, as what would have become the 20th Maine OTL instead became a Heavy Artillery regiment, assigned to the garrison of Ft. Knox, a coast defense installation near the mouth of the Penobscot River that was attacked by the British in August...

The constitutional provision forbidding Japan from waging war or having an official military is just one article inserted at the insistence of the US, and could presumably be removed through the normal process of amending the Japanese constitution. IOTL, the reason nothing's been done about it...

Oh, wow, things just keep getting even crazier and messier. See that the coup plot fizzled as we had all feared, and thus unleashed the floodgates... Rummy going even farther off the deep end as he tries to hold onto power and neutralize any opposition with more & more repressive measures...

As a point of reference, the Sherman carried its radio equipment in the back of the turret- TM 9-759 (Tank, Medium, M4A3, September, 1944), the "operator's manual" for the tank, goes into some detail on the mounting on pages 372-74. R.P. Hunnicutt's volume on the Sherman also discusses the...

Afraid not, as its been a long time since I looked them up, and the print-outs & notes from the class I read them for were lost when I had a truck stolen out of my driveway a few years ago. :( Might be able to find them through running some searches or trawling through the footnotes of online...

The embargo that actually happened was rather harsher than what FDR had in mind because of an overzealous official exceeding his authority. There are a couple academic articles that go into detail about the whole mess one might be able to access if one has access to something like a jstor...

The topic of the technology industry & what'll happen to the US position in it TTL as compared to OTL came up in discussion about a year ago, and it seemed like the consensus was that Europe & Asia will be the leaders in tech, & the US will be left in the dust, due to a variety of factors, such...

Since before the POD, and until the mid-1990s IOTL, the British nuclear deterrent was based upon the Polaris A-3 missiles carried by the 4 Resolution-class missile subs. However, if there's a Vanguard equivalent TTL, then those would likely carry whatever the equivalent of those or the M51 is...

Welp, things are getting a lot nastier in Rumsfeldia, as Rummy & co are ramping up their attacks on workers, engaging in wholesale censorship & book-burnings, & have their own goon squads beating up any suspected opponents as the internal crackdowns get harsher. Considering the playbook that...

I've seen another article or two on what would have been the abortive 3rd-gen Corvair after doing some research on Google for another car thread, & IIRC, it would have been a 1970 model, and it would have been the first instance of the "Colonnade" styling that would be used on the 1973-77...

With GM in the US, it'd be kind of tricky, as throughout the muscle-car era, GM corporate management didn't care very much for performance programs or racing involvement for a variety of reasons, as indicated by repeated corporate edicts restricting performance programs (eg, several instances of...

IIRC, Nixon's been living in "voluntary" exile in London after one of the Jihadist organizations that sprung up in what's left of China kidnapped him during a diplomatic mission in what could very well have been a plot to do away with him engineered by certain elements in the US intelligence...

Yay, it's alive! :) Those commercials are kind of a disturbing way to see just how far down the rabbit hole things have gone, as well as the amount of control Rummy has over the media, and considering that there is part of the current right wing that would agree with some of those propositions...

The Anglo-Japanese treaty was not renewed as part of the 1921 Washington Treaty negotiations- the US wanted it ended as a quid-pro-quo for the treaty, and there was some pressure from the Dominions (IIRC, mostly Canada), who really did not care for the possibility of the alliance dragging them...

Although that's an interesting proposition, I do have to wonder how expensive it would be at the time, whether it could be sold at a price that would allow for sufficient volume while making a profit, and whether whether going down what seems to be the route of becoming an American...