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  1. WI Khomeini's plane crashed?

    Completely ASB. It would take alien intervention for that to happen.

  2. WI: US backs Israel, France, Britain in Suez Crisis?

    I didn't say that. I said that Israel and Egypt appealed to the United States and the Soviet Union and were turned down because the United States didn't want World War III, you moron. Unfortunately, I see you're back here. Report me, and I'll report you. I came back here because I wanted to give...

  3. WI: 1940, French Government moves to Algieria

    I have proof. I have The History Of World War II. I got it for fifteen dollars when I lived in Maine. There were several chapters on the Battle of France. One of them said that Petain wanted to surrender the French fortress city of Verdun in 1916. Use your brains. Don't sit on them.

  4. WI: 1940, French Government moves to Algieria

    How about William L. Shirer's The Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich? The 1973 British documentary The World At War and Victory At Sea, should also be required viewing. Both are very good shows.

  5. WI: 1940, French Government moves to Algieria

    I see. Thank you. However, I read that Petain wanted to surrender as early as Verdun, in 1916.

  6. WI: The Crabbe Affair led to World War III?

    I did. I read the book the year it came out and I think I still have it. I can't tell you what chapter it's in though.

  7. American supertanks

    The first versions of the Sherman had diesel engines. Much safer than the gasoline engines that the Americans ultimately put in them. Diesel engines are safer than gasoline engines in that they have a higher rate of combustion, and diesel fuel, unlike gasoline, doesn't ignite as fast. Diesel...

  8. WI: The Crabbe Affair led to World War III?

    Maybe. However, that was what I heard back in the '70s or '80s. It's mentioned in Peter Wright's 1987 book Spycatcher, and I read a novel about it at the same time.

  9. WI: 1940, French Government moves to Algieria

    That's what De Gaulle wanted the French government to do but nobody listened to him. Convincing the government of Marshal Petain to go to the colonies would be great in a perfect world but as it was, it was totally ASB, and that has to say something about the French in 1940.

  10. WI: The Crabbe Affair led to World War III?

    I went there. Interesting article. The Crabb Affair was six years prior to the Cuban Missile Crisis. I know that now. It's mentioned in Peter Wright's 1987 book Spycatcher. The documents from the former Soviet Union won't be declassified until 2057. That's 47 years from now.

  11. WI: The Crabbe Affair led to World War III?

    I remember hearing about this back in the '70s or '80s. I'm not sure which one. I also read a novel about it. The title and author escape me. Back in October 1956, a Soviet battlecruiser, I can't think of the name right now, was in Britain on a courtesy call. A British MI6 agent named Crabbe, I...

  12. WI: US backs Israel, France, Britain in Suez Crisis?

    Very true. However, what you seem to forget is that Both Israel and Nasser appealed to their allies, the United States and the Soviet Union, for help and both requests were refused. The United States, in 1956, was more interested in preventing a nuclear war, just like it was in 1973. The birds...

  13. Challenge: Axis Victory Second Battle of El Alamein

    The common British complaint about the American soldiers was the following: "The Americans are overpaid, oversexed, and over here." The American retort was: "The British are underpaid, undersexed, and under Eisenhower." Patton was up for a major command on D-Day prior to the slapping incident.

  14. A Los Angeles class USS Marblehead

    I did. Thanks.

  15. Solid state propulsion: a ramjet aircraft WI

    I was considering this for an airplane in an alternate history novel of my own that I'm writing. I gave it up because John G. Cramer, the Alternate View columnist of Analog, said that ramjets tended to burn a little too hot.

  16. WI: US backs Israel, France, Britain in Suez Crisis?

    The U.S., to quote a major sports metaphor, didn't have any skin in the game. Up until 1967, Israel's main weapons supplier was France. Why would the U.S. back Britain, France, and Israel in the Suez Crisis when technically, we weren't involved?

  17. WI Napoleon leads national unifications and recreates the Carolingian Empire ?

    Napoleon said of the Holy Roman Empire, and I quote: "It isn't holy, it isn't Roman, and it isn't an empire." :D Pretty much sums it up doesn't it?

  18. A Los Angeles class USS Marblehead

    Sorry about that.

  19. Joesph McCarthy killed in World War II

    May not. However, before the Senate Ethics Committee could act on Mc- Carthy's case, he died from alcohol poisoning.

  20. Joesph McCarthy killed in World War II

    Unless there are people like Margaret Chase Smith who stand up to those people you mentioned. She was no backbencher in the '50s. She was right out in front. Maybe not the leadership, but she was prominent enough that she was listened to.
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