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  1. Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.

    What @Mark1878 said. Sicily first, then Sardinia to threaten Corsica and whole coastline from the Pyrenees to the toe of Italy.

  2. Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.

    I thought that but wasn’t sure if Narvik was above the northern limit for tree growth. Anyway, timber barracks a solution requiring hard work but that’s what soldiers are good for. Yes, that figures.

  3. Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.

    Interesting idea. Think Sardinia is a leap too far without Sicily though. Wooden huts if there’s timber from nearby forests or it can be shipped from further south. Stoves etc. also Not great but survivable. Could also transfer some Norwegians to other towns if need be.

  4. Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.

    And of course in winter getting the ore from a southern Swedish port to Germany would be difficult or impossible. Was the Baltic Sea frozen throughout the possible sailing routes?

  5. Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.

    I’ll check but I thought it could, albeit at closer range than a tanker might desire. Though it should certainly do so from the side or rear. With a four or five to one numerical advantage, such shots should be forthcoming in most battles of manoeuvre.

  6. The War That Came Even Earlier: WWII in 1936/37?!

    Fair points but AIUI the ending of the Anglo-Japanese Treaty was due to US demands at the Washington Naval Conference. So it’s not impossible that a different end to WW1 might see the alliance continued. With the US a locking trade with Japan but Britain and its Empire still open to it.

  7. The War That Came Even Earlier: WWII in 1936/37?!

    One wildly improbable scenario might be the USA versus Japan and the British Empire. With maybe a Fascist France allied to the US and Italy with the British. Germany? Neutral perhaps?

  8. No F-104 Starfighter for Europe! Alternate designs instead.

    Probably correct, thanks for including the F11 Super Tiger, I'd forgotten about it. Interesting

  9. No F-104 Starfighter for Europe! Alternate designs instead.

    Hmm Competitors from Europe included the Mirage III, Draken, EE Lightning, Saunders Roe 177. From the US I’d think a development of the F-8 Crusader and maybe a derivative of the aborted F-107?. Given the ambitious specifications I’m not sure that any contender offered what Lockheed promised...

  10. Malaya What If

    Yep And the British reacting quickly to a threatened invasion can be contrasted to the non reaction of MacArthur Evil grin 😁

  11. Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.

    What @Look More Closely Later says. You may well be right that the Mosquito was hard to detect on radar or by sight/sound. Like the Beaufighter being “quiet” (hence the ‘Whispering Death” nickname for it in the Japanese armed forces). That might be “stealthy” in WW2 but not what is meant now...

  12. Stuka's used on precision strikes on London during the Blitz?

    Ha, very good. 😊 Could the crew bail out once the dive is set? Or would it be impossible, either unsafe or push the plane off course?

  13. Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.

    @pdf27 Exactly. My father in law was a shipping control Clerk in Glasgow in WW2. I wish now I’d asked him more about his work while he lived.

  14. Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.

    @Ramp-Rat Snap

  15. Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.

    My thoughts are No but the Labour victory may not be as dramatic. The Beveridge Report will still come out and Labour will be ahead on social issues. Opinion on Churchill himself may be more favourable but unless the Conservatives can be credible on the economy, healthcare and education they...
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