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    Bismarck ISOTed to RMS Titanic - and U-234 Discussion Thread

    This conversation is taking place long before this abbreviation originated and even longer before it started creeping into the youth dialect of spoken English. In a work of historical fiction predating Usenet "in my opinion" should always be written out fully.
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    Bismarck ISOTed to RMS Titanic - and U-234 Discussion Thread

    The margin of victory in WWI was slimmer than you think. French morale came close to collapse in 1917 and the promise of American reinforcements helped end the mutinies. If instead the Yanks hadn't been coming the closing of the eastern front would have compounded the issues. Maybe OTL the...
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    Bismarck ISOTed to RMS Titanic - and U-234 Discussion Thread

    You blow off infantry arms, but try taking or holding ground without them some time. It's infantry that goes over the top and it's infantry that comes out of the redoubts after the artillery barrage to repel them. You may scoff at second line rifles, but they were purchased and issued...
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    Bismarck ISOTed to RMS Titanic - and U-234 Discussion Thread

    Forcing the UK to declare war on Germany without the Belgian pretext is a propaganda move aimed at America. If the US embargoes arms sales to all of the belligerents Britain and France have to pull a lot of men off the front to make guns they OTL bought from America. Russia is just stuffed...
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