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NutmegYankee

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37. Thew wildcat was outperformed, but that ruggedness served it well.

Reply to HooptieWagon (Reply #36)

Thu Aug 6, 2015, 04:47 PM

Aug 2015

Once we developed tactics to use its few advantages, it succeeded in downing many enemy planes.

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What if we beat the rest of the Axis powers like we did, but lost to Japan? [View all] Reter Aug 2015 OP

Japan's defeat was inevitable after Germany fell. geek tragedy Aug 2015 #1

My thread is a "what if" they won Reter Aug 2015 #3

you'd have to invent a world that didn't exist. geek tragedy Aug 2015 #7

Vietnam could never win Reter Aug 2015 #11

Are we Vietnamese now? jberryhill Aug 2015 #26

big fan of alternative history, I'll give it a shot. a long shot. lol Javaman Aug 2015 #21

I've seen that exact scenario before geek tragedy Aug 2015 #23

LOL exactly. :) nt Javaman Aug 2015 #25

Screw everything... build up in Indochina jberryhill Aug 2015 #27

Wouldn't Japan have also.. Motown_Johnny Aug 2015 #30

Sounds good Buzz cook Aug 2015 #42

If the US didn't have "the bomb" it could have just continued the process of firebombing Japan into PoliticAverse Aug 2015 #2

But what if the US lost? Reter Aug 2015 #6

We'd have pixelated p0rn. n/t PoliticAverse Aug 2015 #8

Then we could all get a chance to try Green Tea KitKats now! Erich Bloodaxe BSN Aug 2015 #4

+1 nt Javaman Aug 2015 #22

Green tea Kit Kats are pretty good Art_from_Ark Aug 2015 #43

I want some underwear davidpdx Aug 2015 #44

The only way to "lose" to Japan is to be invaded and conquered by them. arcane1 Aug 2015 #5

That's what I mean Reter Aug 2015 #9

I laid it out above, if they couldn't use a ground invasion, they'd literally starve Japan. geek tragedy Aug 2015 #14

No way we could have lost. MicaelS Aug 2015 #10

How exactly would we lose to Japan? I know this is all hypothetical, but where do we start? Rex Aug 2015 #12

I was not talking about them invading the US mainland Reter Aug 2015 #15

Oh okay gotcha that is easier to speculate imo. Rex Aug 2015 #16

If we retreated after 5 or 10 years, they would have had devastating losses Reter Aug 2015 #18

I think they would have been at war with the USSR and the US and in very bad shape. Rex Aug 2015 #20

Anyone's guess but... sarisataka Aug 2015 #13

If China had fallen before Pear Harbor Buzz cook Aug 2015 #17

check out my long shot alternative history at #21. nt Javaman Aug 2015 #24

On August 9, 1945, the Red Army invaded the Japanese-held Manchuria . . . Journeyman Aug 2015 #19

Eventually, we would have given up interests in the Pacific Motown_Johnny Aug 2015 #28

Who's "we"? Spider Jerusalem Aug 2015 #29

That movie, Fatherland, was based on a book. Dr Hobbitstein Aug 2015 #31

Japan had lost in fall of '44. HooptieWagon Aug 2015 #32

Japan lost at Pearl Harbor. oneshooter Aug 2015 #33

The U.S. was on the defensive for about a year. HooptieWagon Aug 2015 #34

I wouldn't say we had inferior planes, we just had different goals with our planes. NutmegYankee Aug 2015 #35

The P-40 was inferior, but they developed effective tactics against the Zeros. HooptieWagon Aug 2015 #36

Thew wildcat was outperformed, but that ruggedness served it well. NutmegYankee Aug 2015 #37

The big advantage it had... HooptieWagon Aug 2015 #38

Agree. nt NutmegYankee Aug 2015 #39

We would burn their cities and mine their harbors. AngryAmish Aug 2015 #40

If Japan had not lost RobertEarl Aug 2015 #41

I'm not a fan of alternative history davidpdx Aug 2015 #45