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Post by American hist on Feb 2, 2023 5:59:24 GMT
lordroel,thank you for this history timeline as it is helpful for my planned alternative history timeline and from what I have read so far you are without bias or you are at least writing in a that displays less bias though you are a Dutchman and not an American who provides less base already btw I like it I wish you could have more pictures particularly paintings
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Post by lordroel on Feb 2, 2023 9:38:15 GMT
lordroel,thank you for this history timeline as it is helpful for my planned alternative history timeline and from what I have read so far you are without bias or you are at least writing in a that displays less bias though you are a Dutchman and not an American who provides less base already btw I like it I wish you could have more pictures particularly paintings Moved your post as all discussion related to Real Time projects is done in this thread.
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Post by lordroel on Feb 2, 2023 9:41:22 GMT
lordroel,thank you for this history timeline as it is helpful for my planned alternative history timeline and from what I have read so far you are without bias or you are at least writing in a that displays less bias though you are a Dutchman and not an American who provides less base already btw I like it I wish you could have more pictures particularly paintings When the Civil War starts more paintings, drawings and maps will appear.
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Post by Max Sinister on Feb 4, 2023 1:27:34 GMT
Getting close to the end of the WW2 thread, will have reached 1944 soon... and found a few things. One thing after another.
Maybe you want to add on page 114, November 22nd: The Brazilian expedition force was called "Smoking Cobras", because before entering the war, Brazilians had said "Fighting in this war? When the cobras start to smoke!" (Their equivalent of "When pigs will fly".)
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Post by Max Sinister on Feb 4, 2023 1:32:53 GMT
For December 2nd, also of 1943, page 115:
"A total of 40 bombers - 37 Lancasters, 2 Halifaxes, 1 Mosquito - were lost, 8.7 per cent of the force."
That seems to be a high loss, usually their losses were below 5%, or even below 3% (and even that adds up over time, because usually bomber pilots don't fly just one mission. There's a reason they paid a high price...) Did the Luftwaffe invent something, or did they just have dumb luck?
And about the ship bombed in Bari (same day): It's not strictly military history, but this bombing helped to develop modern chemotherapy. As you stated, they had mustard gas on the ship (just in case...), and after the bombing, the doctors found that the soldiers who had had tumors before had been healed, as if by a miracle.
Horrible story, but it shows that sometimes, rarely, or even very rarely, something good may grow from something bad/evil.
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Post by Max Sinister on Feb 4, 2023 1:36:06 GMT
For December 27nd, also of 1943, page 116:
The "führer" expected an Allied landing at Cotentin at that time? Really? As we know, Overlord was handled badly by the Wehrmacht because they expected it to be just a diversion with the real invasion having to happen near Calais. After all, mulberry harbors were a new invention.
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Post by Max Sinister on Feb 4, 2023 23:55:24 GMT
Me again. When I saw the map for January 2nd, 1944 on page 117, it really made me think. If it really took the US Army and Marines one whole year of fighting in the jungle, to advance some hundred miles, despite of their superiority in numbers... didn't they learn anything from that which would have helped re: Vietnam? And New Guinea was thinly settled, with people partly still being at Stone Age level, not densely settled and with quite some genuine support for the VC.
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Post by Max Sinister on Feb 5, 2023 0:17:21 GMT
Yet again me. (Have just finished the WW2 thread - might be I'll be here in this thread more rarely in future.)
Last page, February 2nd: That paranoid bastard Stalin allowed US air bases on SU territory? Who'd have thunk.
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Post by stevep on Feb 5, 2023 15:48:39 GMT
Yet again me. (Have just finished the WW2 thread - might be I'll be here in this thread more rarely in future.) Last page, February 2nd: That paranoid bastard Stalin allowed US air bases on SU territory? Who'd have thunk.
IIRC not for long and with enough restrictions on their use that the US quickly found it impractical.
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Post by stevep on Feb 5, 2023 15:52:23 GMT
Me again. When I saw the map for January 2nd, 1944 on page 117, it really made me think. If it really took the US Army and Marines one whole year of fighting in the jungle, to advance some hundred miles, despite of their superiority in numbers... didn't they learn anything from that which would have helped re: Vietnam? And New Guinea was thinly settled, with people partly still being at Stone Age level, not densely settled and with quite some genuine support for the VC.
Possibly because the Pacific war for the army, was very much a backwater and all the prestige and kudos went to the forces in Europe that played a role in crushing the markedly more powerful German army? As such their doctrine of overwhelming firepower was the dominant one for the army in the following decades including in Vietnam and at least to a degree in places like Afghanistan and Iraq. Kind of the US version of the old saying about the Russian/Soviet viewpoint of "if hitting it with a sledgehammer doesn't work hit it harder"?
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Post by stevep on Feb 6, 2023 11:20:21 GMT
Been meaning to ask for a while now but finally doing it. When you have details of air battles involving US forces you often get, as in today's WWII post
those three sets of numbers. Do you know what they actually mean? Guessing its something like certain, probable and possible kill claims by the aircrews?
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Post by lordroel on Feb 6, 2023 14:51:22 GMT
Been meaning to ask for a while now but finally doing it. When you have details of air battles involving US forces you often get, as in today's WWII post those three sets of numbers. Do you know what they actually mean? Guessing its something like certain, probable and possible kill claims by the aircrews?
Steve
Think you are right, but will see if i can find out more about the numbers stevep.
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Post by Max Sinister on Feb 8, 2023 7:46:56 GMT
lordroel ,thank you for this history timeline as it is helpful for my planned alternative history timeline and from what I have read so far you are without bias or you are at least writing in a that displays less bias though you are a Dutchman and not an American who provides less base already btw I like it I wish you could have more pictures particularly paintings
The WW2 thread also was helpful re: my TL.
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Post by stevep on Feb 9, 2023 11:04:06 GMT
From today's WWI post
Well I think we all know that that means. By many reports the pandemic killed more people that the entire war.
Steve
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Post by American hist on Feb 11, 2023 18:55:49 GMT
I’m surprised 😲 and disappointed no one has committed to my draft for my alternative history, but it is a rough draft for a reason. Plus I guess I’m so used to alternative history.com of people giving negative feedback and then saying this is so inaccurate or biased. Well, I have learned from my mistakes on that website. I also noticed how hard it truly was to have a wide following if the timeline was pro confederate.
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