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the problem for German Carriers is the Baltic and North Seas are too narrow for safe carrier operations. unlike the vastness of the Pacific, all parts are reachable by land-based air, which will generally outperform carrier aircraft of the time.

https://crimereads.com/10-more-must-read-alternate-history-thrillers/ I wish more of them were not lost-Nazi conquered the world. I do think the one where Israel exists in the 1930s and tried to get Jews out of Germany might be an interesting read

Spanish intelligence services picked up that Churchill and Roosevelt were going to meet in the North African coastal city of Casablanca in 1943, and they passed this information along to the German intelligence service. As a coastal city on the Atlantic coast of Africa, it was within range of a...

This will still be known as the Battle of Savo Island in this timeline, but probably won't get the nickname it had in OTL: The Battle of the Five Sitting Ducks OTL, Mikawa lost the chance to get in among the transports...and after getting back to Rabul, he was actually relieved of command for...

Yes, teh Soviet Union still collapses. The era 1922-1945 gave the Soviet Union a form of economic arterial sclerosis in the forms of wrecked industry and a massive demographic imbalance that they still have not recovered from : 4 out of 5 males born in 1922 were dead in 1945 from a combination...

I've always wondered what the newly independent South of Guns of the South would look like circa 1900. One where the South did a gradual emancipation, assault rifles and machine guns exist in the 1860s, and the south has a potential monopoly of things like Computers and Air Conditioning

still puts off any invasion until after Bagration destroys Army Group Center, before the Allies can get the 'Second Front' going. The end was inevitable after Bagration, and thus the situation remains the same...Stalin is going to feel he won the war more or less on his own at Yalta and...

https://worldwar2headquarters.com/HTML/normandy/mulberries/wreckedMulberry.html 2 weeks after D-Day happened historically, which would be the next low tide at dawn

As it happens, There was considerable debate on whether or not to go with June 6, as the weather was potentially bad and it was almost a coin flip choice. So, If Eisenhower had decided instead to postpone to July: In OTL, the weather on the potential date in July was even worse, with storms...

If only 70 Japanese planes, with poorly trained crews, were able to get through to sink a carrier, I'd be surprised. US AA is absolutely *murderous* in 1945, thanks to proximity shells, and the 'Big Blue Blanket' anti-kamikaze CAP would have a field day with barely-trained pilots, who would be...

I'd consider 608 to be post "Late Roman", honestly. 'Late Roman" is ~275 - ~476 (the ends of the 3rd Century crises to the "Fall" of the Western empire. An argument could be made for a transition between 476 and about 500, but the 600s is much to late, but by 500 we're in the early...

ha ha. No, I'm not an HOI player. In the official 1940 census, US had a population of 132,000,000. Nearky double the 70,700,00 in Germany in 1940, and not that far from the 170,500,000 (1939) of the USSR. The total population of the British Empire in 1939 was 545,000,000. The US has the...

The US produced 90 named divisions, and enough independent formations to quantify as another 90 divisions, for a total of 180, and had no manpower shortages. -- theres enough 18-25 year olds in the Us to form plenty more divisions if needed (The US had **Double** Germany's Population. If germany...

In the Long Term the US/UK powerbock will win. The US/UK can reach Germany from the UK by air, By the mids 40s (B-29) they can reach the European parts of the Soviet Union from the UK (and the Soviet Far East from Alaska). but neither the USSR nor Germany can reach the US by air. Neither has...