England and Ireland, most (7) having been given a free, one way, 7 year, holiday in sunny Van Diemens Land (Tasmania). All did a lot better out...
1199 Slightly OT, but what I DID watch in late 1944 was I think the first film i ever saw. 'The Fighting Lady'. I would have been about 5 years...
CAC, Carronade. At 'Dynamo', the allies lost i think a total of SIX DDs, all I think to dive bombing, again I think, ALL were stationary at the...
1040 Belasar "Had Germany landed 8 to 10 supplied Divisions, supported by the Luftwaffe," That is 100 to 200,000 men! They had less that 500x...
Belasar, My 'Quote' is not working, but must comment on your point #6 of 17th Dec. Britain had a fully equipped Canadian Division, and a 2...
In my humble opinion, SEA LION would have been a 100% disaster for our peace loving German tourists in 1940. The RN Home Fleet had very roughly,...
Sorry about all that, I can only plead ignorance of the rules which is no excuse. John
CAC, Yes that is what I said, the export of iron ore was banned until Lang Hancock found a zillion years supply of the stuff in WA. All we had...
Belasar, We have about 30,000 kms of coast line, I think, and much of it is damned hard to get at. The Great Barrier Reef guards about 2000 kms...
A couple of points. Australia is about as big as the '48', but about 80% of it is desert, very dangerous desert at that, with much of it...
Not usually all that keen on 'what ifs', but this one intrigues me. Back to the years 1940/41 and Japan decides her needs for oil and raw...
Slipdigit, Beat me by 2 minutes!
I do not subscribe to the ulterior motives such as 'revenge' and 'teaching the Russians how good the US was' and so on. I my view it was all...
VN, In the mid 1930s, Australia was BROKE! Repayment of her foreign debt was in serious doubt, and Jack Lang would agree I am sure.
David, We had the Dallas Cowboys come over a few years ago, and they were taken to see an Australian Rules game. They were offered the...
4418 The Russians agreed at Yalta that they would enter the Pacific War 90 days after the German surrender. This they did to the day, They...
4372 http://warships1discussionboards.yuku.com/topic/7866/what-if-USN-has-an-additional-British-carrier-at-Midway#.VnbTrFIrK4p Thanks to the...
Quite a few years ago, I THINK on this forum, a member made a quiet bitter and even vitriolic claim that the USN asked the RN for a spare carrier...
I think you call it over there, a PITA! 90% sure it is the fault of Firefox. Not happening on any other forum though.
Test post for my 'numbers' problem.
