Refitting the Hood and other older ships was an option the British could have taken if they had decided to build only three of the new King George...
Back on topic... Percival just HAS to take the bottom spot on this one - what a buffoon that man was! For those who don't know the story,...
Good points, redcoat. However, Britain can't cancel her battleship program easily, because Italy and Japan are building 4 fast new battleships...
What if the Kriegsmarine decided that building large, expensive battleships was pointless for Germany, and built 100 Type VII U-boats instead of...
Manstein would have done better than Rommel, since his strategic skills were much better than Rommel's, and his tactics were just as good. Also...
As far as I am concerned, Bismarck hasn't got a hope of defeating Yamato, only of escaping and living to fight another day. No way could...
A German historian spoke on BBC Radio 4 this morning stating that many of the German civilian deaths from indiscriminate British bombing raids in...
After sinking Hood, why didn't Bismarck fight Prince of Wales to the finish? Apparently both the PoW's 4-gun turrets (A & Y) jammed in the brief...
Assumption... I've explained this. If the Germans are back behind their own border, and there is no unrestricted submarine war, what reason does...
CrazyD: Hitler thought the British and French were bluffing when they said they would fight Germany if he attacked Poland. He only wanted to...
CrazyD: Hitler's intention in going to war in September 1939 was to conquer Poland. That's it. Nothing more. He didn't want a general war AT...
The VVS and Luftwaffe on the Ostfront were tactical air forces. Their primary purpose was to support the ground troops. The Soviet and German...
The best way for Hitler to neutralise the threat from Britain was to make a lasting peace with the conquered countries of Western Europe! A...
Without the Battle of Britain, the Luftwaffe would have been even more effective in Russia. A lot of well trained German aircrew were lost over...
Nagumo was always cautious and wasn't really a carrier admiral originally - he was a cruiser man. Yamamoto should have commanded the Pearl Harbor...
CrazyD is right. Hitler wasn't planning for a general war to start in 1939, but in 1943. He was only expecting to fight Poland on her own in...
The only way Bataan could have held out is if you remove the Pearl Harbor attack from the Pacific War equation! Scenario: The Japanese fleet is...
This situation would have come to pass if the U-boat program had been 2 years in advance of its historical achievement. The German tonnage...
The Allies could have reached the west bank of the Rhine without too much difficulty in the first few weeks of the war - all the Germans could do...
If Britain and France still kept up a strongly anti-Soviet stance after Poland and Finland had been invaded, then Hitler would have been persuaded...
