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    Alternate History ISOT The Doctor ...

    A young woman without any connections or relatives is going to have a hard time ending up as anything but a prostitute even in Victorian times, let alone Elizabethan. She would be raped when the local bravos saw her unprotected status and could very likely be enslaved by the first citizen that...
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    What if the Department of Defense Secretly made a Clone Army

    Clone Soldiers are slaves, pure and simple, built to purpose. If slavery of synthetic persons is allowed, then commercial pressures would bulldoze the whole plan away and clones would soon be commercially available. No one cares about the fates of poor dumb draftees and there are plenty of...
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    WI: Matzen and Schoonebeek Oil Fields discovered, 1938-1940

    Germany could have won with just enough oil. If Japan saw the SU starving and militarily faltering in mid 42, the Korean and Manchuko armies may have gone for the Soviet Far East, shutting off lend lease. Especially if the good oil news from Germany gave them the ambition to look harder and they...
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    Operation Martin 1944

    Germany couldn't knock the Soviets out of the war. The best that they could hope for would be a stalemate, with enough arable land to feed themselves and a prayer for the big counterrevolution. France would not trade with them and the truth was that the Western Allies were capable of rendering...
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    Operation Martin 1944

    I have never heard anything good at all about Morgenthau, but yes, Elanor was trying to hide FDR's problems from scrutiny. Marshall was in theory running the war and the staff around FDR were working around him without much difficulty. He wasn't quite gaga, but close enough not to politically...
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    Operation Martin 1944

    It might have worked. Hitler was swimming in a witches brew but FDR was submerged in a cauldron of his own, desperately ill and tapping on death's door on a plethora of highly experimental drugs for diabetes and poliomyelitis while slipping quite badly mentally. He was mostly lucid but he...
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    WI: The Zimmerman Telegram Backfires Even Harder Than OTL.

    It didn't matter by then. There is no emotional content involved in international calculations and the US population was overwhelmingly against intervention in the war to a ridiculous majority. Lucrative private loans had been underwritten though, with wild profit to be had and a previously...
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    You are in charge of armored vehicle doctrine and design in 1939...

    No, I have until December 1941 to get large numbers of Shermans to the Philippines, Wake and Guam. I'm not going to fuck around with plans while the Japanese are killing my peopIe. I know the M4 Sherman works reliably and can be made in numbers with common industrial components in time to make...
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    Confederate victory at Gettysburg

    I don't think Europe would do a thing. If the French and British meddled more than they did in real history, the enraged Union would very likely be a fervent arms supplier and supporter of British enemies from Afghans to Zulus, but far more ominously, provide politically lethal moral ammo for...
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    You are in charge of armored vehicle doctrine and design in 1939...

    AV1790 The engine, transmission are the problem. None of them existed off the shelf. The Sherman's Wright R950 and Spicer 5 speed were simple, reliable and available aircraft and truck variants. If there was a way to back mount them then sure, but I'm sure there was a good reason we're stuck...
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    You are in charge of armored vehicle doctrine and design in 1939...

    I don't think it could be accomplished in time not to adversely effect Sherman production. The learning curve is already very steep.
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    You are in charge of armored vehicle doctrine and design in 1939...

    The Germans have been well covered, but from the US side, I would try to skip the whole idiotic Priest and go straight to the Sherman, but with better radios, wider tracks and a bigger motorized turret. I would try to introduce a 105 mm smoothbore sabot AT gun with a good infantry killer shell...
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    Alternate History We find out Humanity was not the first technological race on Earth

    They smelted iron from ore they dug from an iron mine and probably didn't know or care about trace elements in it so long as the iron was right. That hammer is older than the thirties, probably 1800's. If you want to believe that dinosaurs invented television then fine, but Occam's Razor says...
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    Alternate History We find out Humanity was not the first technological race on Earth

    That's a rock drilling hammer. I have one just like it from my grandfather. You pull the wedge out of the top and the handle slides right out. It's like someone finding a coke bottle in rock. It's either a hoax or some kind of natural cement. Maybe that chlorinated it.
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