I was thinking about this, wondering if America being able to focus entirely on the Japanese would mean a greater involvement in the CBI theatre,...
Historians are standing by to record for the ages the first instance of a wife giving sympathy to her husband...
Sorry for a late response, a busy week. I had taken a look for details of Gibraltan defence but lacking books on a relatively obscure subject was...
I'm a bit stuck on Germany having better financial reserves than the British Empire...
My first proper foray into the what-if forum, do be gentle... shoot my idea down, but gently! Now it is obvious that losing Gibraltar would give...
In order for the USA not to get involved you'd need political and public opinion to be against it. Which means the Germans have to not antagonise...
By that stage, fuel and pilots were beginning to run low while Allied escorts were getting more common. Even without the fuel/pilot problem I...
I was deliberately avoiding doing so, because I can't
Love a Triumph Spitfire
This saddened me, so I dug out the book I saw it in ("Operation Sealion" by Peter Fleming) He is pretty good at providing sources, but this story...
This was largely what I meant. KM objections were effectively ignored by pretty much everyone in an orgy of wishful thinking
Dude, chill. He's just pointing out that such a what-if is highly unlikely
One effect of no Allied air superiority is that all those AA vehicles they developed for use in NW Europe actually get used. Historically of...
Daft question, how did the Soviets manage during their attack on Poland? Attacking an enemy already focused on their other border and...
One of my favourite stories highlighting the German army's lack of understanding about crossing a sea was the units ordered to the beaches for...
Normal bomber squadrons were used, as far as I know. Particularly early in the war before the RAF actually started bombing Germany
Mystery of missing WW2 pilot solved by Cranfield scientists Local interest for me, Cranfield is about half an hour away
Reading a book which contains many anecdotes from British tank crews in WW2, and what repeatedly appears is that they would repeatedly back off...
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