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  1. WI: Atomic Bombing on German cities?

    OK now Curtis Lemay has an entire article in what was formerly a wiki page on something called "viking raids" but is now called "History of the Nordic Dead lands".

  2. WI: Atomic Bombing on German cities?

    I didn't realize SAC was one of the combatants at the Battle of Hastings. Sorry couldn't resist.

  3. Into the Fire - the "Minor" nations of WW2 strike back

    Kind of surprised Wake fell. As it was it probably could have held off the second invasion on its own if it's commander had held out slightly longer. Even a relatively small ressupply and a few more troops could have made it near easy. A platoon of light tanks, a dozen more fighters (even say...

  4. Into the Fire - the "Minor" nations of WW2 strike back

    Singapore express should contain the largest submarines in the allies fleet. The US V boats (especially the three huge Narwhal and assosciates) in particular. Not sure about the Brits. If American problems with torpedos are more rapidly forced to be dealt with then transferring more submarines...

  5. Into the Fire - the "Minor" nations of WW2 strike back

    For sufficient bribes to the Haitian government and offers of good wages (in American dollars) should allow setting up a recruiting station for the foreign legion that will be mobbed. All the long lingering hatred aside in Haiti at the time there's a fuckton of young men who would literally kill...

  6. Into the Fire - the "Minor" nations of WW2 strike back

    Considering how coup prone the thai military is its hard to be worse.

  7. Into the Fire - the "Minor" nations of WW2 strike back

    For the secondary front maybe they could scavenge up some old 3 or 6 pounder anti torpedo boat guns from old pre dreads and give them a wheeled carriage to give some cheap and ok quality light artillery to secondary troops. Maybe also scrounge up some old Pom Pom guns and other various light...

  8. Into the Fire - the "Minor" nations of WW2 strike back

    Assuming the Free Thais make a good enough showing I could see Thailand getting aid post war and benefiting economically from US basing eventually becoming an asian tiger like Singapore/Taiwan/South Korea are in OTL. Especially if they can get their military under control and avoid having coups...

  9. Short Stirling used as Maritime Patrol Aircraft for Battle of Atlantic?

    Johnny Walkers destroyers?

  10. King Theodore's Corsica

    Wonderful truly wonderful.

  11. Profitability of British Colonies in the Postwar World

    I kind of like the idea of Sarawak remaining independent as a semi protectorate of Britain under the last Brookes claimant. Allowing it to become a crown colony seems a mistake in hindsight.

  12. Into the Fire - the "Minor" nations of WW2 strike back

    Where are the Dunkerques? Had a random idea involving a small Free French fleet beong semt to support British efforts in the Pacific. With ot being centered pn both Dunkerques and maybe an upgraded old Dreadnought. Or one of their new partially finished fast battleships making ito Britain and...

  13. WI: 'Tall Boys' & 'Grand Slams' used by the US against & Japan?

    I'v'e also been intrigued by say developing an air deployable version of the shells used for the 16 inch guns used for the Iowa battleships. Sort of like the IJN dropped modified BB rounds on the US battleline at Pearl Harbor. I'm thinking about say taking the supposedly "Best AP BB heavy shell...

  14. 1950s "Limited" Nuclear War

    Doesn't matter a whole lot. Even if say 30 or 40 percent of US nukes are duds all you do is create another waiting period while the US proceeds to build more warheads and delivery vehicles while the Soviet Union has pretty much been killed as a country and most of it's major cities are either...

  15. 1950s "Limited" Nuclear War

    No evidence for this and completely random but maybe their was some unofficial intention of using the B36s as magnets to absorb Soviet defensive attention (and potentially sucker the Soviets into sending disproportionate numbers of their best air defense assets against real or imagined B36s...

  16. 1950s "Limited" Nuclear War

    Except when Soviet plans for the period became apparent it seems weirdly enough that in the period before the M4 got built in even handfuls that the Soviet gov never apparently even seriously considered sending nuclear armed TU4s over the poles on one way missions to nuke CONUS. Despite it being...

  17. WI: 'Tall Boys' & 'Grand Slams' used by the US against & Japan?

    I was thinking less bunker buster and more maritime strikes and firing HE versions of the super tiny tims take out major chunks of any enemy facility. In OTL the Tiny tim was basically a 800LB semi AP bomb with a reinforced nose cone and propelled by a dumb rocket engine. With them something...

  18. WI: 'Tall Boys' & 'Grand Slams' used by the US against & Japan?

    I've always wondered about the potential viability of say 14 inch or 16 inch BB shells being modified Tiny Tim Style with powerful rocket motors. Something like a semi AP bomb with a reinforced nose.

  19. 1950s "Limited" Nuclear War

    In the early/1950s I could potentially see SAC using B36s in cross polar ops aiming at first at targets east of the Urals and West of Lake Baikal. Basically the Heartland of the Soviet union that would be less defended at the time then say the Soviet Union west of the Urals. Perhaps with the...

  20. 1950s "Limited" Nuclear War

    Honestly I think even with a later "Cuban Missile War" the US might still only suffer nuclear hits on DC. maybe NYC, Offut (headquarters of SAC) and some strikes upon Southern Florida via already in Cuba gravity bombs delivered by Soviet tactical bombers or the cruise missiles/medium range...
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