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  1. Malaya What If

    Top of th eline I've seen pics of fully armored D-7's. I've even driven a D-4 with a winch operated blade.

  2. Malaya What If

    That's one very long way from here in Central Illinois. At this time all Caterpillar D-7's were made in the East Peoria, IL. Plant ( My Great Uncle was a Millwright there from 1938 until1975), and the Le Tourneau Carryall scraper was built 5 miles North at Le Tourneau's Peoria Plant (1.5 miles...

  3. Malaya What If

    Of course because Japan would have had 6 more months to prepare. Of course that's 6 more months for Hart to prepare and get his re-enforcement requests filled. By then Sangley Point would likely have the seaplane pad lengthened to runway length to handle the newerPBY-5As that would have been...

  4. Malaya What If

    The Americans were in a similar situation. Adm Hart, CinC AF, with information from China( legation ONI, and Marines in Bejing and Tensin as well as Yangtze Patrol and 4th Marines) as well as CAST and HYPO intercepts, as well as Navy Info from D.C. was preparing for war sooner then later. Every...

  5. Malaya What If

    I have always assumed that if in an ATL, 1940- 41 the USN had stationed combat/ carrier capable aircraft to the Philippines, it would be the USNR or UAMCR Squadrons with mainly F3F-3s, and SBC-3s

  6. Into the Fire - the "Minor" nations of WW2 strike back

  7. Into the Fire - the "Minor" nations of WW2 strike back

    In fighters and AAA the author made no change. IMO, this is the flaw of the author when it comes to American involvement, too much appears to be authorial handwavium. Marivales harbor is very limited in capacity with none of the repair facilities of Malta. While the bay is good sized, loading...

  8. Into the Fire - the "Minor" nations of WW2 strike back

    It's not that it's difficult, but near suicidal. You can pier dock a total of 5 ships, which must arrive, unload, and leave over the span of a night. Over Malta, the ports could operate day round, the RAF had parity in the sky's and on the ground3" to 4.7" AAA, sufficient to keep bombers...

  9. Malaya What If

    Yes, because he was tasked with operating in the Philippine and Chinese coastal areas, with depths of under 300 foot common. Fleet subs were only useful to the SE toward the Mandates, and SW into the Deepwater areas of the South China Sea. IMO, what heart needed were more S - Boat sized subs...

  10. December 7, 1941. The Day Japan Attacked the Panama Canal

    Very nice redo and update. Thank you!

  11. Into the Fire - the "Minor" nations of WW2 strike back

    Take a look at the Google map of Mariveles harbor, in 1941 showing dockage. https://pacificwrecks.com/airfields/philippines/mariveles/1941/mariveles-1941.html , https://pacificwrecks.com/airfields/philippines/mariveles/1942/mariveles-airfield-mid.html ...

  12. Into the Fire - the "Minor" nations of WW2 strike back

    A whopping 4 P-40s down to 1.

  13. Into the Fire - the "Minor" nations of WW2 strike back

    The issue I have is not the amount of supplies that can be carried, but the port facilities. Corrigidor can only handle 1 ship of 20 foot draft at a time, Marivales is limited to 3 docking slots, and one accesses the limited fuel storage facilities, , 2 T style piers for deep water ships , a...

  14. Malaya What If

    IIRC, the survival these vessels were by authors decision at the very start, used as a POD in this story.

  15. Into the Fire - the "Minor" nations of WW2 strike back

    It would have also denied the French farmers in the area, many of which could not evacuate, their farm horses and livestock, leading to famine..

  16. Into the Fire - the "Minor" nations of WW2 strike back

    Since this AH began it's involvement with the United States in the Far East, it has entered, IMO, a fantasy or ASB level. the author has by author's fiat without any POD, changed the personalities of General Douglas MacArthur and Admiral Thomas Hart, Changed War Plan Orange , had American...

  17. Into the Fire - the "Minor" nations of WW2 strike back

    You have hundreds of thousands of Allied civilians in Normandy . You do not murder your allies civilians by the thousands and expect them to welcome yo Here is a link to American production of Chemical weapons in WW II. https://www.denix.osd.mil/rcwmprogram/history/

  18. Into the Fire - the "Minor" nations of WW2 strike back

    The logistics for convoys of that type to supply 100k people, are virtually impossible. Everything for the U.S. fleet operations for the Asiatic and Pacific Fleets would gave to be directed there.

  19. Malaya What If

    Nowhere enough oilers and DDs to support the battleline, and no way to conduct underway 14 or 16" ammunition replenishment.

  20. Malaya What If

    Th Thanks, I've done genealogy and military service records at NARA, and they are frustrating. Hart referred to his inquiry reports in biography. I cannot afford and it is hard to find, Hart's Autobiography from his decades of diary, 1910 until his death. I have a copy of Hart's published...
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