there are several themes that i would like to explore:
1) what would the war have been like, if as Raeder wanted, it started september 44 not september 39?
2) would american tank design have been any better if it used the christie chassie on the sherman era tanks?
3) the russians pulled off the bluff of ww2 by not getting attacked by japan in 41, could the japanese have taken out the far eastern army of the ussr in 41 to 42?
4) the japanese dedicated substantial resources to china for the duration of the war that just seemed to stand around and do nothing, could the japanese have actually conquered china in 41 to 43?
5) the usa dedicted [by some estimates] only 30% of it's total war effort to the pacific, and still the japanese would not end it sooner, what did the other 70% get us outside of the campaigns in the med and air out of england?
tactical:
battle of the bulge: did we make a mistake in keeping bastone and not letting 5th panzer army go by patton's northward offensive that could have cut it off?
normandy: there is a book out there that postulates that the 12SS panzer division was only days away from being posted to the 84th corps area behind and to the west of 352 inf div. this would possibly wrecked omaha and the invasion?
pacific: yamamoto was the sanest commander the japanese had, a man who could possibly have convinced the leadership to end the war earlier than it did, yet we went out of our way to assasinate him, was this the correct move?
personalities:
i have been fascinated by FRITZ BAYERLING of the panzer lehr. here is a guy who experienced all that the western allies had to offer an enemy.
the career of england's BARNES-WALLACE has never been properly explored, and he did so much for the british war effort.
quips:
it was said at CAEN that when the german air force, when it showed, made the british duck, when the british air came over, the german's ducked, but when the american's ame over ... well everybody ducked.
steve