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  1. 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...

  2. A Los Angeles class USS Marblehead

    OTL, there have been three ships named USS Marblehead between 1861 and 1945. With a POD of 1981, what if there was a Los Angeles class submarine named after Marblehead, Massachusetts?

  3. Hitler's love child

    I know this may sound silly, even ASB, but bear with me. There's a method to my madness. Back in the 1980s, I read book, the title, and author, both escape me. The premise of it was that Hitler had a son with his niece, Gelli Raubal. What if Hitler had a secret love child with his niece? After...

  4. Joesph McCarthy killed in World War II

    I know there are a couple of Joseph McCarthy threads here. This one's different. In John Birmingham's Axis of Time Trilogy, book two, Designated Targets, I think it is; one of the "uptime" characters reads a story about Joseph McCarthy, in the AOT universe, is an insignificant, very minor...

  5. Jackass Flats, Nevada home to American space program

    I first heard about this six years ago on----never mind. Anyway, Jackass Flats, (yes, that's its actual name), Nevada, was supposed to be the base of the American space program back in the 1960s. This would be the nuclear, not conventional, space program. If Project Orion hadn't been cancelled...

  6. Warnings from Diamond Head radar operators heeded

    There may, or may not, be a thread about this. I don't think so. As you're well aware, there was an experimental radar installation on Diamond Head, manned by two privates. Their names escape me. The radar installation was linked to a station by field telephone. The privates noticed the first...

  7. BB-21 Class battleships

    I was on a site called The-Blueprints.com. There was a drawing on there of a battleship they called the BB-21 class. What if this class of battleships is the real thing?

  8. WI all six Alaska class large cruisers were built?

    Inspired by THE SHIPS AND PLANES OF THE U.S. FLEET. There were to be six Alaska class large cruisers in all during World War II: Alaska, (CB-1), Guam, (CB-2), Hawaii, (CB-3), Puerto Rico, (CB-4), Philippines, (CB-5), and Samoa, (CB-6). OTL, only two of the six, Alaska, (CB-1), and Guam, (CB-2)...

  9. Montana class battleships

    I'm really dating myself here. I first heard about the Montana class battleships on a G.I. Joe episode called "Sink the Montana." Then I got the booklet The Ships And Planes Of The U.S. Fleet. Sure enough, the Montana class is in there. The Montanas were to be a follow-on to the Iowas but were...

  10. American supertanks

    What if the United States, like Germany, had decided to have supertanks in World War II? This isn't ASB. The United States had a supertank on the drawing board then. I don't know the designation though.

  11. Chinese People's Volunteer Army never enters Korea

    All right, OTL, Mao sent the Chinese People's Volunteer Army, (CPVA), into Korea because he thought that the United Nations Forces, under Douglas MacArthur, were about to invade the PRC. What if the Chinese People's Volunteer Army never enters Korea? What if MacArthur had been honest with Truman...

  12. WI F-80 Shooting Star had been available in 1945?

    The last years of World War II was the beginning of the jet age. You had two jets already in service by 1945: The Messerschmitt Me. 262 Schwabel, (Swallow), and the British Gloster Meteor. However, there was a third jet that never made it into service that year. What if the Lockheed F-80...

  13. USS South Carolina in World War II

    So what if, for the sake of argument, the USS South Carolina, (BB-26), had been allowed to remain in service by both the Washington and London Naval Treaties? Assume that she was modernized, like USS Texas, and USS Arkansas, and given new engines, boilers, and guns. Also, let's assume that she...

  14. Hitler in the dock at Nuremberg

    This is fascinating to me. We all know that Hitler and Eva Braun committed suicide in 1945 as the Soviets closed in on the Reichstag, OTL. Back in 1984, after reading Len Deighton's alternate history novel SS . GB, I started writing my own alternate history novel. The plot had the U.S. Army...

  15. Make the Korean War more like Vietnam

    Your assignment is to make the Korean War like Vietnam. That would include having an organization like the Vietcong operating in South Korea. This would be plausible because South Korea's President, Singman Rhee, like South Vietnam's Diem, was highly unpopular.

  16. King George III takes the American Revolution seriously

    That's what the title says. So what if King George III took the American Revolution seriously? I read that Britain was unprepared for the American Revolution. Most of its ships were laid up in ordinary, (similar to today's term "in mothballs"), because they were rotten. The vast majority of the...

  17. Soviet Union loses Kurk

    That's what the title says. So how about it? What if the Soviet Union loses Kursk? What would happen to Marshal Zhukov? Stalin hated him to begin with. So would it be a great loss in Stalin's demented mind if Zhukov was purged from the Red Army, and replaced by someone who'd be willing to let...

  18. WI no radar in WWII

    Inspired by The Men Who Invented Radar on The Military Channel last night. Robert Watson Watt, the British scientist who led the team, discovered it by accident. What if there was no radar in World War II?

  19. Stalin's building mania

    The title's correct. Hitler wasn't the only dictator with building mania. Stalin was too. I saw a program a few years ago which said that Stalin wanted to build a monument to the Soviet Union, a hall of labor, and buildings that would have rivaled the New York City skyline. The problem? It...

  20. Hitler's Second Book

    The title's correct. A little background: In 1958, a German historian was in the National Archives, and found an unpublished manuscript. The manuscript was sent to the German National Archives, (the same agency that debunked the Hitler Diaries), whose experts declared it to be genuine. The key...
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