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Post by lordroel on May 25, 2016 3:45:09 GMT
A base for bombers, the islands are located in the Atlantic ocean, the Allies if they want to strike Southern France can best use North Africa for it, the only use for the islands is as a ASW base. It could be used as a submarine base, and its distance makes it less vulnerable to German bombers. It could be use as a submarine base but the axis are not going to send their merchant ships so far out to the Atlantic, unless the Allies submarines based on the Azores Islands are going to be used to hunt Axis submarines a job better left for ASW aircraft and maybe some ASW naval asset deployed on the Azores. |
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Post by spanishspy on May 25, 2016 7:30:48 GMT
It could be used as a submarine base, and its distance makes it less vulnerable to German bombers. It could be use as a submarine base but the axis are not going to send their merchant ships so far out to the Atlantic, unless the Allies submarines based on the Azores Islands are going to be used to hunt Axis submarines a job better left for ASW aircraft and maybe some ASW naval asset deployed on the Azores. True; the Azores could also be used as support for the North African front depending on when in the war they are invaded. |
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Post by lordroel on May 25, 2016 14:30:50 GMT
It could be use as a submarine base but the axis are not going to send their merchant ships so far out to the Atlantic, unless the Allies submarines based on the Azores Islands are going to be used to hunt Axis submarines a job better left for ASW aircraft and maybe some ASW naval asset deployed on the Azores. True; the Azores could also be used as support for the North African front depending on when in the war they are invaded. I see it more being used as a major ASW base followed by a refuel point for ships heading to the Mediterranean Sea. |
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Post by spanishspy on May 26, 2016 1:16:47 GMT
True; the Azores could also be used as support for the North African front depending on when in the war they are invaded. I see it more being used as a major ASW base followed by a refuel point for ships heading to the Mediterranean Sea. Thinking about it this is the most likely option. |
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Post by lordroel on May 26, 2016 3:50:38 GMT
I see it more being used as a major ASW base followed by a refuel point for ships heading to the Mediterranean Sea. Thinking about it this is the most likely option. The island will be able to be used as a good ASW base for the cold war. Wonder if the Azores Island will become unincorporated and organized territory of the United States like Guam as i do not see it become a state when not even Guam or Puerto Rico are a state. |
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Post by spanishspy on May 27, 2016 0:32:58 GMT
Thinking about it this is the most likely option. The island will be able to be used as a good ASW base for the cold war. Wonder if the Azores Island will become unincorporated and organized territory of the United States like Guam as i do not see it become a state when not even Guam or Puerto Rico are a state. By ASW you mean anti-submarine weaponry, correct? The Azores would not be annexed by the US; it would be like how the US has military bases in the UK, Italy, South Korea, the Philippines. |
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Post by lordroel on May 27, 2016 8:13:13 GMT
The island will be able to be used as a good ASW base for the cold war. Wonder if the Azores Island will become unincorporated and organized territory of the United States like Guam as i do not see it become a state when not even Guam or Puerto Rico are a state. By ASW you mean anti-submarine weaponry, correct? The Azores would not be annexed by the US; it would be like how the US has military bases in the UK, Italy, South Korea, the Philippines. Yes i mean anti-submarine,and i was also thinking of the US leasing the island like Diego Garcia in the central Indian Ocean, those islands are part of the British Indian Ocean Territory but used heavy by US air force and navy. |
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Post by spanishspy on May 28, 2016 1:43:20 GMT
By ASW you mean anti-submarine weaponry, correct? The Azores would not be annexed by the US; it would be like how the US has military bases in the UK, Italy, South Korea, the Philippines. Yes i mean anti-submarine,and i was also thinking of the US leasing the island like Diego Garcia in the central Indian Ocean, those islands are part of the British Indian Ocean Territory but used heavy by US air force and navy. That sort of heavy usage without full sovereignty is the most likely course. |
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Post by lordroel on May 28, 2016 8:05:53 GMT
Yes i mean anti-submarine,and i was also thinking of the US leasing the island like Diego Garcia in the central Indian Ocean, those islands are part of the British Indian Ocean Territory but used heavy by US air force and navy. That sort of heavy usage without full sovereignty is the most likely course. That i wonder why they did not lease the islands in OTL, it could have help them with hunting German submarines. |
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Post by spanishspy on May 29, 2016 21:56:21 GMT
That sort of heavy usage without full sovereignty is the most likely course. That i wonder why they did not lease the islands in OTL, it could have help them with hunting German submarines. I think Britain served well enough for them, and that submarine warfare was far less capable by the time the Americans intervened. |
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Post by lordroel on May 30, 2016 3:17:52 GMT
That i wonder why they did not lease the islands in OTL, it could have help them with hunting German submarines. I think Britain served well enough for them, and that submarine warfare was far less capable by the time the Americans intervened. And the US did not know there would be a Cold War coming also, but the good side is that wen Portugal joined NATO the island became available for the US to use if needed. |
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Post by spanishspy on May 31, 2016 0:19:23 GMT
I think Britain served well enough for them, and that submarine warfare was far less capable by the time the Americans intervened. And the US did not know there would be a Cold War coming also, but the good side is that wen Portugal joined NATO the island became available for the US to use if needed. Portugal was a member of NATO so the Azores (and mainland Portugal) were available if necessary. |
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Post by lordroel on May 31, 2016 3:15:40 GMT
And the US did not know there would be a Cold War coming also, but the good side is that wen Portugal joined NATO the island became available for the US to use if needed. Portugal was a member of NATO so the Azores (and mainland Portugal) were available if necessary. That is what i am saying, in the end the US did gain access to the islands. |
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Post by spanishspy on Jun 1, 2016 1:33:53 GMT
Portugal was a member of NATO so the Azores (and mainland Portugal) were available if necessary. That is what i am saying, in the end the US did gain access to the islands. I see what you mean. |
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Post by lordroel on Jun 1, 2016 3:10:46 GMT
That is what i am saying, in the end the US did gain access to the islands. I see what you mean. Unless WW II takes a dramatic turn then OTL i see no real reason why the US should get the Azores. |
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