Well, at that particular time, Roosevelt was committed to doing everything he could short of war, but he also had to make sure he got himself...
Well, for whatever reason, both of the main V-12s the Germans produced were inverted V-12s, while both of the Allies' main ones weren't. To...
I think you may have read the same book I did, but I can't remember what it was. It examined the Japanese *political* side of the war, with...
Actually, the German DB 601/605/603 engines were inverted V-12s, so you were sort of right. But the real difference is yes, they had fuel...
Actually, I think it was for shock value, as much as anything. He knew a long war was basically suicide for Japan. It's possible that he had a...
I sometimes watch the WWII shows on HC and other channels, but, I always watch it with a grain of salt. I get some good laughs when they show one...
Yes, awakening the sleeping giant at Pearl Harbor, while militarily defensible, was quite politically unwise. Better (for Japan) to have attacked...
Some say the roots of the European war were laid in the shambles at the end of WWI, or even say that it goes back to Bismarck, and that the...
I believe once Hitler took over the rest of Czechoslovakia, Chamberlain himself said something to this effect, and this is part of the reason he...
In the Pacific, this was called the 'Victory Disease'....
We can do that. Whoops. No carriers=no Doolittle Raid=no Midway operation. Scratch this one out. Instead, in the Coral Sea, with no...
One of the more interesting comparisons I've seen of the economic side of the Japanese war (and this includes a small discussion of the carriers...
A lot of the damage done by the 9th AF was done by single-engine tactical fighters that continued the work that the Stuka started, in a faster...
<slight derail> This is an interesting point. How good were the Italian DB 601/605 copies? I know they had quantity problems, but were there...
Exactly. The entire Midway operation was intended to cause a fleet battle to wipe out the remaining US carriers/large fleet units, on the...
Well, all that I've been able to find on this subject is that until Hitler broke the Munich agreement, the British and French thought the Soviet...
I actually don't mind the hours, and, having Thurs/Fri/Sat off (and most of Sunday) is a pretty good deal.
From things that I have read, the main reason the British kept their own fleet formations, instead of joining TF58/38 was that their tanking...
Actually, iirc, Nagasaki was the tertiary (i.e. third and last) target that day. Both of the first two were cloud-covered, and they had orders to...
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