Yes in 1941 Torpedoes are some of the most expensive and complex weapon systems then in existence
A bomb and a depth charge are staggeringly simple by comparison and to store your best weapons in another nations base would require USN maintenance armorers to be present there.
Also 20,000 lbs...
It may have been mentioned but France had invested heavily in Russia both in government level loans and private shares etc by civilians and this was gradually bringing the Russian industry's up to a western European standard
Of course all of that would be lost due to the revolution but before...
Poor old Hood cannot catch a Break!
Entertaining read.
1 thing I think you have missed in this story is that in 1942 airpower in Iceland was much stronger than in 1941 when it had only just been stood up and was dealing with the issues of weather and lack of infrastructure!
OTL this was not...
Only if the Entente does much much worse.
The problem is that by Spring 1918 the British and French are too savvy.
And their industry’s and Empires were fully geared up for continental war in a way that they hadn’t been in 1914.
No it would take too great a level of incompetence for the...
The attacks on Rangoon suffered heavy losses vs a better organised RAF and AVG wing.
The Chinese around Kunming had a ground spotting system that gave ample warning of inbound Japanese aircraft and the AVGs first combat mission in WW2 on 20th Dec 1941 was intercepting a 10 strong IJA bomber...
I didn't think that the Flying Tigers started combat ops until late Dec 1941?
So not sure they were in a position to tell anything to anyone
Also while there was a number of KI43 Oscars the majority of the fighters in the IJA 'fighter estate' was the KI27 Nate fighters during the period of the...
You accept that in the face of the limits of Submarine and small vessel supplies that such an action was necessary and that losses will be taken to the point where the freighters being sent are considered expendable.
There are plenty of famous convoy's where heavy losses were sustained and...
The biggest issue with the unsustainable financial practices that the NAZIs were conducting during the 30s was the freeze in wages not keeping up with inflation.
Not a problem where you are effectively creating a police state with the suppression of Unions etc and controlling the price of goods...
HMS Venomous shot up some tanks while withdrawing the British Garrison - it was a captured fort over looking the harbour that shot up HMS Venetia causing her to catch fire with Venomous destroying the fort and silencing the guns in two salvos of 4.7"
The next night a remarkable feat was...
I have a Haynes Manual on the German Infantryman - all models 1939-1945 (I purchased it for a laugh as it was reduced to a £5 - but its actually an excellent source of information) - so why not!
I think if the USAAF were capable of conducting a raid of the order of devastation of the Tokyo raid or one of the 2 Atomic raids on Germany before it surrendered then they almost certainly would have done.
Anything to bring that hateful war to an earlier end!