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  1. Hitler's Gamble by Brendan Simms

    The US was doing quite a bit more than playing Chicken with submarines in the Atlantic. Had established a US Naval base on Iceland in July 1941. Including US Marines and Navy aircraft Was actively assisting the British in tracking down blockade runners, the armed merchant raiders, and...

  2. WI: Atomic Bombing on German cities?

    Cause around that time General Groves was estimating production was going to be more. Thrity six of the buggers by the end of 1946. That is cores for 36 Pu bombs. I've not seen any estimates for what might have been had the Ur production been continued. Plenty to toss around. It is...

  3. WI: Atomic Bombing on German cities?

    Re: Internment Of Japanese. I found it ironic that a spy channel of information from th US to Japan was run by a descendant of German immigrants. Her group was not broken until early 1944. Velvalee Dickinson was a native US citizen of German ancestory. Not a category subject to mass...

  4. WI: Atomic Bombing on German cities?

    Somehow I don't think the US leaders are going to decide: there's too much destruction, lets not use this device.

  5. WI: Atomic Bombing on German cities?

    That sum needs to be prorated across the number of bombs built for the war. In the OTL case it can be divided by 2 for those used, or maybe seven available August - December. Well, you are certainly going to get shock as the fronts C3 vaporizes. We had the luxury (?) of being able to use...

  6. WI: Atomic Bombing on German cities?

    Yeah, we took that sort of error into our planning for using nukes. In that case it had to do with precision of intelligence on the location of the critical point of the HQ. But, the slogan was "Close Counts". We also were not thinking interms of caving in a bunker roof. General shock...

  7. WI: Vichy Without Petain

    Tough question. It was discussed some years ago, at least once. At this point I'd not try to predict much. It does complicate Britans calculations for continuing the war. What does offset a French peace treaty is the attack on the USSR. That OTL motivated the left internationally, and...

  8. WI: Atomic Bombing on German cities?

    Not sure if this will add clarity or opacity to the target conversation. Back when I was paid to think about these things we worked with a target priority list/s. They varied but generally looked like this: 1. HQ, command communications centers. 2. Chemical and Nuclear weapons 3. Supply...

  9. Japan declares war on germany july 1941

    Only with some extreme PoD. German merchant ship had long been round up by the Brits, or interned. That includes German ships caught in 'neutral' US ports. During 1940 - 1941 those were somehow all sold off or seized under various legal actions. The Germans as I recall were using the...

  10. WI: Atomic Bombing on German cities?

    Technically no they did not. However... A B29 did tour several air bases in the UK. The runways were adequate for a light use by the B29. Like a three plane attack element on the way to a target in Germany. In Africa there were several that saw heavy use. The ferry route for the initial...

  11. WI: Atomic Bombing on German cities?

    The racist aspect is increasingly exaggerated the more the decades increase. As a youth in the 1960s or 1970s I can't remember that aspect mentioned at all. My father & his peers I knew who fought in Europe were more disappointed a super weapon was not available to get it all overweigh...

  12. January 1943. The German View

    Given Hitlers mind set we would be best betting for another high risk action. He'd claim that without a ally like the USSR Britan would fold and Churchills government would fall. I have doubts men like Keitel, Jodl, Speer, Goering, Ribbentrop could persuade him other wise.

  13. WI: Vichy Without Petain

    Not as a organized entity. There were a fair number of French who would have supported continuing the war, mostly from hatred of the Germans rather than love of the English or democracy, tho those factions did exist. In the summer/sutum of 1940 most French, and many others such as the US...

  14. January 1943. The German View

    I've been back and forth over this subject multiple times the past two decades. Its tough to see how the end of the war in the east in 1942 results in a successful massive Luftwaffe offensive in the west anytime soon. The training program had to be revamped differently that was done OTL...

  15. Japan declares war on germany july 1941

    Depends I suppose on what the quality of the unit was. A fair number of the German formations of 1944 might fold up under Japanese shock tactics as well. In Tunisia the Allies found some very tough Italian infantry formations.

  16. Japan declares war on germany july 1941

    There were a number or KMT collaborators with the Japanese. I don't have numbers, but the Japanese allowed them to set up a second KMT organization in the Japanese occupied areas. A collaborationist or puppet political party running a puppet government. This dual or clone KMT left many...

  17. The Lusitania Disaster would make for a fast-paced Hollywood thriller..

    That movie was definitely not a fast paced thriller. The dialogue had a somnolent delivery, ditto the editing and pacing. There are better writers and directors for this sort of story/cinema.

  18. The Lusitania Disaster would make for a fast-paced Hollywood thriller..

    The opinion resulting from inspections of the sunken hulk is the torpedo hit one of the forward Coal bunkers. Empty or partially empty the fine coal dust would turn into a Fuel/Air explosive from the gas compression wave of a torpedo hit breaking into the coal bunker. This used to happen in...

  19. January 1943. The German View

    In 1939 the RAF was putting the rookies through 200 hours of flight training before they were off the squadron service, By early 1943 that had increased to 300 hours. Conversely the German training in 1941 was still under 250 hours before leaving basing pilot training. OTL it declined in...

  20. WI: Vichy Without Petain

    The legislature had a voice in this. From Jacksons 'The Dark Years', Paxtons 'Vichy France', or Hornes 'To lose a Battle' I find the same general narrative. Petain supported Reynauds decision to evacuate the government to Algeria. Until... A poll of the legislature revealed little...
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