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    Omaha Beach fails on June 6th 1944

    https://www.historynet.com/the-omaha-beach-landing-had-failed/?r This article brings up an interesting What If about the failure of only one of the Normandy beaches. I'm curious about the implications for the rest of the campaign and war. Please read the article before commenting, since a...
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    Polish revolt of 1905 succeeds

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution_in_the_Kingdom_of_Poland_(1905%E2%80%931907) What if the Lodz portion of revolution spreads and Polish nationalists are able to break Congress Poland off of the Russian empire during the 1905 Russian Revolution? How does the rest of Europe respond and...
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    Hitler dies in 1936, Schacht's strategy is followed

    What if Hitler died, either through a clandestine assassination that causes him to die of a heart attack or something or of natural causes, and Goering takes over Germany, but due to political weakness has to listen to and keep Schacht in charge of the economy? Schacht, as the above book...
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    Russia doesn't stop Britain and France from intervening in US CW

    https://www.rbth.com/politics_and_society/2017/08/16/what-role-did-russia-play-in-the-us-civil-war_823252 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomacy_of_the_American_Civil_War#Russia They apparently even sent two fleets to US waters. The western Europeans were considering intervening to break...
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    FDR dies in October 1940

    What if Roosevelt dies in October 1940 from a stroke? His VP Wallace would become the nominee and face Wendell Wilkie in the November election. Any idea who would win and what they would do after they assumed power? James Garner would be president until January 1941 BTW.
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    AHC: design an ideal WW2 division with hindsight

    Stealing a concept from alternate history discussion forum. Alternate History Challenge: with hindsight design an ideal WW2 division with 1939 technology. If you want to create a technologically possible weapon or equipment (for example no transistor electronics) that didn't exist at the time...
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    FG42 for Crete

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FG_42#History What if this problem was anticipated pre-war and the Luftwaffe had the FG-42 available en masse for Crete? ITTL the FG-42 would enter production pre-war, be issued in limited numbers in 1940, but be the primary service arm for the paratroops on...
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    Italy quits after Caporetto

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Caporetto Pretty much what it says on the tin: what if Italy after the disaster at Caporetto gets cold feet and asks for an armistice and thereafter gets a white peace from the CPs to get them out of the war ASAP? Let's assume they ask for the armistice...
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    Soviets initiate chemical weapon use in 1941

    Historically the Soviets threatened to retaliate with chemical weapons when the Germans used their Nebelwerfer rocket launchers to good effect during Operation Barbarossa. The Germans kept using them and the Soviets backed down from their threat. What if they didn't and in response to their...
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    6mm Optimum in WW1

    What if the militaries of Europe realize that a two caliber standard for infantry arms is the right way to go before WW1 and they work on developing an optimal infantry caliber for light weapons? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6mm_Optimum The French developed something like this in the early...
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    Another WW2 artillery what if

    Since the Allies seem to really have gotten their artillery park right in WW2 there is unfortunately not much to really suggest for them for a what if. The Axis on the other hand made a few mistakes with theirs, especially the Italians. However the German army made some pretty big mistakes of...
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    Artillery Mortars

    Inspired by this design: Finnish Tampella 160 mm mortar system and extended-range HEFSDS projectile - Armament Research Services (ARES) Microsoft Word - 129 Makkonen, A.doc (maanpuolustus.net) Before WW2 mortars were mostly developed for infantry battalion or regimental use and were...
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    Hetzer introduced in 1943

    What if the Hetzer is developed early and introduced into combat in July 1943 during Kursk? Technically there was no reason it couldn't have been developed earlier other than someone not thinking of it sooner. The Marder design was only a stopgap and replaced ASAP IOTL, so it wasn't like there...
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    Biden going to open the floodgates to migrants in May

    https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/30/politics/immigration-title-42/index.html Well that was fast
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    ASBs give the T-25 Czech tank to Axis in 1940

    Per this post: https://www.the-sietch.com/index.php?threads/italian-tanks-get-an-asb-upgrade-in-1940.7710/#post-263527 What if everyone in the Axis except for the Germans gets the T-25 Czech tank on January 1st 1940? We're talking production being converted over from domestic designs, getting...
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    Italian tanks get an ASB upgrade in 1940

    What if ASBs take pity on the Italian army and replace all their tanks at the start of Italian entry in WW2 with the P26/40? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P26/40_tank It would be nearly equivalent to the Panzer IV of 1942 with better armor but a worse gun, though that gun would be plenty for...
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    Italy doesn't invade Ethiopia, instead focuses on Spain

    What if Mussolini doesn't decide to invade Ethiopia in 1935-37? It was a ruinously expensive war involving over 300,000 men (dwarfing the highly expensive SCW commitments) that cost them ~150k casualties (including sick) and internationally isolated them and ran at the same time as the...
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    The Fourth Ideology

    Does anyone have any thoughts about Dugan's Fourth Ideology? I just saw a video on it and am curious what the community here thinks.
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    Instead of PAK 97/38 independent artillery regiments

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_de_75_mod%C3%A8le_1897#World_War_II_service Historically over 3,500 French 75mm artillery pieces were modified to serve as anti-tank guns where they performed relatively poorly. What if instead of this the guns were kept as artillery pieces and used...
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    What If Italy fights smart in 1940

    https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/citations/ADA367611 I came across an interesting thesis about Italian 'blitzkrieg' doctrine and how it could have been applied in North Africa in 1940 for the invasion of Egypt and thought it would be an interesting what if scenario. P.83 in the above paper in the...
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