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Can Germany even send oil to Spain by rail in meaningful quantities? That's even more wear and tear on the RR network ...

Maybe of use: https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/wi-the-austrian-fascist-regime-finds-the-matzen-oil-field-around-1934.499426/

Regauging is not a problerm - pull nails out, shift rail 9cm, hammer nails in. 30-40km regauged a day. In those days every army had railroad troops capable of such feats. The rolling stock indeed is a problem, especially as the Germans shot themselves in the foot (i.e. one department not talking...

The data switching between barrels and tons and back and per month and per year is confusing. I do know that 7 barrels is one ton, but I still get lost ... :) This may be either good or bad ... Refining a ton of oil yields (very roughly) 50% gasoline, 25% diesel, 10% kerosene. I'm not sure...

The POD is Germany discovering and developing certain oilfields earlier, not FDR losing his hateboner for Hitler. :) Hence USA goes to war against Germany.

I was referring to the thread being about Germany having those extra sources of oil and not about Churchill's mismanagement of the war effort. Mismanagement which I do not deny. All good!

SQUEEE! Churchill bashing derail! I'm not sure about 18 months, but the fat drunk extended the war for at least half a year for sure. Invasion of France should had been in '43 ... BTW - with the big oil field in Austria ITTL Churchill will be raving and spewing spittle about soft underbellies...

Hence my skepticism about effectiveness of nightbombing of oilfields. Amen. He was just following orders ...

This strike at the dams was a total waste of effort. Why? 1 - it siphoned off elite crews and leaders from line squadrons, lowering effectiveness of bread&butter operations. This is why, boys and girls, one should be very careful about forming elite units composed of personnel drawn from other...

Prepare to be surprised ...

The real issue is not the range, but finding the production facilities (RAF) and hitting anything worthwhile (RAF and USAAF both). And once the above issues are resolved - the Higher Ups having a lightbulb moment and ordering bombers to show up again ever two weeks of so. Up to 1944 the allies...

I've read otherwise. There were problems with pier space/unloading capacity of ports - i.e. harbour capacity was the bottleneck (as already mentioned), and then transport to the front. It is some 2000km from Tripoli to the "front" in the Western Desert ... you cannot feed a battle at such...

Thanks. Still, this AU does nothing to change the Italian plan. BTW - was anything ever done towards implementation? E.g. were those "80 purpose-built [landing] sea craft" ever built, or did they stay at the napkinwaffe stage?

Malta could had been easily captured by Italy in the summer of 1940. Had Italy any plans to do so, that is. But it did not. Germany having oil does not change early Italian actions - as well as the fundamental fact of jumping into the war absolutely unprepared - hence Malta would have to be...

1 - before '43 - if not '44 - allied bombing will be a niusance at the best of times; 2 - I did not know that POL limits were a factor even before mid '41 - I thought that Germany was swimming in Soviet supplied oil. Thanks for educating me; 3 - not making trucks in '41-42 'cause there was no...

In OTL Yugoslavia was doing the sensible thing - keeping its head low. It was a British funded coup which put the "lets fight the Axis who surround us 90% and have enormous military superiority" morons back in power. Hence ITTL the fall of Malta will keep the crazies out of power. Yugoslavia...

IMO very little changes. I do not see the link between plane production and availability of gasoline. The collapse of the training system has many causes beyond fuel. There need to be trucks first. I don't understand why A more aggressive Regia Marina could indeed had prolonged the North...