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  1. Would you have lasted in 1983?

    Your telling me. I still remember how my dad was when he put down our beagle when I was a kid. (Poor thing had seizures and at some point after a vet appointment... well Dad borrowed a pellet gun from someone he knew, it was quick, clean and from what I understand Sarah (our dog) was unconscious...

  2. Would you have lasted in 1983?

    Let’s see, November 1983 I was -6 months old. (Born may 1984). My parents lived in Wichita Falls, TX, where I live today. Which happens to be the location of Shepherd AFB, a major NATO training base. At that time and now. My neighbors growing up had a tornado shelter built after Terrible Tuesday...

  3. The Grey

    I’m not too familiar with Southern Arizona but considering it looks like the US controls the part of the Colorado where it turns east. On both sides of the river. those Colorado River defenses are looking less impregnable barriers and more maginot line that can be gone around instead of thru

  4. What would a modern IJA and IJN consist of?

    Are these CVN's for the IJA or IJN, because I doubt they'd be building the carriers for both in the same place.

  5. WI: Microbial Life Found in the Solar System

    If its microbes then most people will lose interest after a few weeks (or days) Now if Huygens photographs herds of something on the way down and gets close ups after a herd walks by after landing that will get people excited (and guarantee at least one follow up probe with a lander) And...

  6. Alternate Defense of Guam 1941

    put him in charge of coastal defense of california, make it seem like a very important posistion ( they may raid San Diego next after all :p) and leave him there to wither on the vine as the post becomes less important and history leaves him behind as a footnote (like General Whats-his-name who...

  7. Worst Possible Name For A Combat Aircraft.

    i pictue an awkward silence after Goring asked who broke off the cockpit side tailboom from the model on the way over

  8. Worst Possible Name For A Combat Aircraft.

    while it was not the official Russian name, i wouldn't be surprised if the KGB had the guy that gave the Mig-15 (or was it the -17) the NATO designation of "Faggot" assassinated (or at least thought about it)

  9. East Prussian SSR

    Ok, so the West pushed the issue with the Berlin blockade and won (so basically OTL there really...) I guess aside from an airlift? Because how did the GDR lose all that land in the West? A land invasion (as opposed to flying along the internationally recognized air corridors between West...

  10. WI Allied invasion of the Balkans in WWII

    I have a feeling that if Tito said that to Stalin in the thoughts that it was what Stalin wanted to hear then Stalin would find some way to have some NKVD agents pay a visit to Tito to have a nice little chat...;)

  11. Kriegsmarine Disrupt Normandy Landings at Sea

    Napoleon's fleet would have had a better chance of having a few surviving ships as some USN or RN admiral would have wanted ordered a few captured so they could find out why some idiots are floating around in a war zone in what looks like a bunch of 19th century ships of the line.

  12. Atomic bomb ready for use before German capitulation: Matters of target selection

    Well thats good to know... I guess... in a horrifying sort of way, that tactical nuclear war is survivable even if your are close to the blast provided its an airburst and you aren't close enough to just be a charred shadow on the ground... Having never been in the military due to being deaf...

  13. Atomic bomb ready for use before German capitulation: Matters of target selection

    I've heard rumors that one of the original plans for the use of the atomic bomb was to clear the beach just before amphibious forces went ashore in Japan so as to prevent something like Omaha, due to lack of knowledge that it wasn't "just a little radiation" (like say, an X-rays worth) in the...

  14. China eyes Siberia

    Huh, could have sworn it said something to that effect on halfasscliffnotes.org... sorry I meant Wikipedia, when I read his article a few years ago. Of course it may well have, and then got edited out

  15. A Bomb delayed by security

    Honestly due to wartime pragmatism there wouldn't be a purge in the sense of removing them from the project, they're too valuable. What could happen is that they find it very hard to communicate with the outside world and are watched closely, and likely obviously even to the scientists, to...

  16. China eyes Siberia

    I've always thought Tom Clancy's main problem was that the Cold War ended. IIRC, he had some kind of degree in Soviet policy or diplomacy and when the Soviet Union collapsed he had to go outside his element, which he was rather poor at.

  17. WI: Hitler goes ahead with Op. Felix aka Attack of Gibraltar?

    It might be interesting if seeing that he can't go in by land, he tries to take it by sea. And yes I know it has less of a chance of success then that damn sea mammal but I could see some idiot in the German high command insisting that it can be done and Hitler wasting the resources on it...

  18. wi: the bismarck had encountered the uss texas in the denmark straits?

    About those destroyers, if for some reason the Bismark mistakes the Texas, I doubt the will mistake a line of pissed off USN destroyers making a torpedo run for (insert Royal Navy destroyer class here) and the thought of "why would the yanks be protecting a limey battleship" will probably...

  19. Panama Canal

    Also, the CSA was saying much the same thing. Basically if any of the CSA's allies had tried digging then the USA would have declared war and if any of the USA's allies had tried digging then the CSA would have declared war. About the only neutral who would have had the ability to build the...

  20. Stalin shoots himself June 1941?

    Sounds like he'd make the perfect political scapegoat for whoever winds up in power "former-Comrade Beria was executed after evidence was discovered that he murdered Stalin after the Fascist invasion in an attempt to take power and establish a Fascist state" Or something to that effect
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