Recent content by DougM

in the book it is pointed out that EVERYONE is gambling with their live and health and even those that are chalanged may end up in some sort of dangerous position. I forget the example used but to use the ne above about the catapiler. It may be poisonous or in a hazardous location. It may not...

You cant have you cake and eat it too. If you are using the Atom Bombs in Europe (were in RTL they were NOT needed) then those bombs CANT be used in Japan. No matter how you want to flip this the US was not up to producing tons of bombs in the first year of production. So once the US is in...

If you look at attempts to build racers such as rare bear they have not gotten much faster then the very end of the war super prop aircraft. So i doubt that the speads would increase much. The aerodynamics will improve and better prop design will gain a bit as well. But there is very little...

A hanger queen aircraft is exactly what you dont want, Because it is much to likly to break while on the bombing mission. The B-29 was temperamental enough. And we still cant get around the simple fact that the US is not handing a furst generation nuclear weapon over to GB. And there is no...

Eventually this will become an issue and it may end up in the lap of the supreme court, We have several different things going on. Age 18 you are considered an adult from a legal point of view (at least in most states back then) Age 21 to vote. Age 18 to register for the draft. Age 15-16 to...

You are. Still ignoring that every bomb dropped on Germany is a bomb you can’t drop on Japan and by early 45 Germany had zero chance to win and was not putting up that hard a fight vs the resis Japan was putting up and the projected horror of Invading Japan itself, So why in the world waste...

It depends on your definition of late in the war. If it is post D-Day and the Bombs CAN be used vs Japan then 100% they are getting used vs Japan, Post D-Day Japan was the harder nut to crack. Once the Breakout from the beachhead was achieved there was never a chance that the Wallies would...

While it is unlikly the US and or Japan may have DoW’ed Japan for invading yet another country in Asia. GB probably wouldn’t (unless the US did) because it had one war already. The US on the other hand was not having any more of Japan. This is the reason for the embargo and the economic freeze...

Great yet ANOTHER post where the OP just assumes that the Atom Bombs were not needed, Is there any chance we can di for this Anti -US Anti-Bomb comments/posts what we did for the infamous sea mammal? Because this is both ridiculous, and insulting as well as getting out of control with how often...

The other trouble With this concept is that Japan and the US had been at each other’s throats for more than a decade at this point. And if GB forms any sort of aliance with Japan the US is not going to be happy. In order for the US to not go ballistic over this Japan will have to A) leave...

Where in the world do you find ANYTHING that indicates that Japan wanted out of China?????!?!?!??. NOTHING forced Japan to go to war with China. (Or anyone else for that matter) NOTHING stopped Japan from just picking up and leaving China any time it felt like it. So if Japan wanted out of...

Am i reading this right? Congress does not appoint a new VP when Russel becomes president after FDR dies. In 48 instead of running for re-election as President he runs for the Senat (who wins the Presidency?) THEN before his term is up Russel quits the Presidency and thus the SoS becomes...

Point 4 is imposble. Japan didnt have access to oil in July 1941 that was the main reason they Attacked on Dec 7. Point 5 is also nuts as Japan could end the War in China any time ut wanted. it simply needed to leave. Point 6 also make no sense, how does Japan offer another countries resorses...

I suspect that JFK would slowly increase the participation in Vietnam. Maybe not as fast as LBJ but I think it would creep up. I am also mot convinced he would replace LBJ. Yes I know they were not seeing eye to eye but LBJ was picked for a reason and those reasons still remain. And not a...

If Japan does not win vs Russia then perhaps Japan will not As arrogant as they were original timeline. They had a heck of an attitude that Europeans (and thus the US as well) were beneath them. This is why they assumed that the US would simply give up. Perhaps of they lose to Russia they...