Thanks Skipper and TiredOldSoldier for your responses, much appreciated. In terms of fall back plans, I was simply interested as to whether any...
Questions: 1) Did the British and French militaries ever train together betweem 1918 and 1939, or plan/strategise for the possibility of a joint...
Let's face it, Germany's naval strategy was always disfunctional, being based on challenging the Royal Navy. Tactically, the U-boat war was far...
If the Vichy government had never been legitimised and France continued the war from its colonies, would this have prevented axis/Japanese forces...
There may be small logistical issues also such as supplies and maintenance, not to mention defence of the German coast/Baltic, etc. The Graf...
What if the offer had been accepted and implemented, how would this have affected the outcome of WW2? See:...
Perhaps if following the fall of France, Germany had offered peace in return simply for Alsace and those areas in the east lost after Versailles...
There is much to be respected of Germany's military machine, technology, tactics, training etc. but aside from their inhumanity when led by the...
"Had Hitler not have to station forces in France and used them in Russia instead,it might have took a little longer but the ending would be the...
Wat if the the 109 could be fitted with a Merlin?
Great thread: The morale value of the Spitfire may have been even more important than anything, though this depended on its performance etc....
If Churchill had not been around during April 1940 onwards, would the British have caved in to Hitler? Would the US have inevitably entered into...
Russia could have recoccupied conquered territory without US help, but how could it have maintained and supplied its mechanized armies without US...
In large part this what if relates to what if FDR was not in power or had less influence, say in comparison with an isolationist movement which...
What if the US had stayed isolationist, and had no direct reason to enter WW2, for example if Germany had persuaded Japan not to use military...
Having looked up sites on the web on this subject, it does not appear that Franco was in much of a position to assist Hitler in any significant...
Having only relatively recently won a very difficult civil war with German assistance, would Franco have wanted to risk engaging in a war not of...
An interesting "what if" is what would have happened had the French/British military decided to fight in Paris as did the Russians with their...
Did the German army have the capacity to destroy Paris even if they wanted to in 1944? Perhaps some landmarks could have been burned or blown up,...