What would be the impact if the Germans started bombing the East Coast in 1943 with 2-3 schweres kampfgeschwadern (heavy bomber wings), or 120-180 Amerika Bombers?
Don't bother trying to ask me how this came to be. This is a fun hypothetical situation.
Think about how devastating an attack Pearl Harbor was, now think about how much it accomplished to win the war for Japan.
Now multiply that by 0.01
Jace Jenkins
I'm not concerned so much about the material impact, more the moral impact.
James Stewart
haha what a fun hypothetical haha
Aiden Sanders
multiply it by 0.001
strategic bombing of civilian targets only serves to strengthen a nation's will to fight, not break it
Jason Diaz
Almost nothing. The British were bomging Germany (a weaker economy) with 4-500 Lancasters a night in that same time frame and couldn't stop the Germans from expanding their war economy.
Lucas Cooper
They'd be intercepted 200km away from the East Coast and be shot down by P-47's.
Unescorted heavy bombers are basically useless in WW2 unless the enemy air defense is a joke. Attrition rates from daylight, unescorted B-17/B-24 raids can exceed 20% per sortie. In order to arrive at their targets, the transatlantic bombers would have to take off at dusk so they can use the stars to navigate. The 12 hour transatlantic flight would ensure the bombers arrive during daytime, and be subject to heavy fighter attack.
Ayden Kelly
what was the cruising altitude on these things?
David Clark
460 km/h cruising 570 km/h max
Jayden Diaz
>altitude
Jace Foster
>what was the cruising altitude on things that never existed? My guess? Zero.
Henry Rodriguez
The design document called for 9000 meters. This is considerably less than the P-47, which was the only turbocharged fighter of the war with a service ceiling of 13,000 meters.
Jose Miller
Fuck me that was a good laugh. Well structured post.
Carson Gomez
Overnight in November of 1942, Germany suddenly has 1,000 of THESE. What happens?
David Wright
Germany has this. What do.
Jose Evans
Germany loses 800 good pilots on landing
Jace Hall
10,000 of these show up on April 10th 1945 Wat do?
Joshua Smith
Nothing since they cant use it unless they have Asuka and if they do they only have five minutes before it runs out of power.
Caleb Foster
There's no take off space on the airfields they're crowded onto, leading to some of the most successful strafing runs in history.
Camden Baker
you lost 10,000 pilots on landing and 200-500 ppl who were near to the landing
Eli Cox
I do literally nothing as they don't have the fuel or pilots for them
Justin Bennett
destroy them on the runway?
Leo Flores
Germany loses around 1,000 people shot down in the bombers, tons of resources and materials that they poured into making these, and inflicts vanishingly little damage.
Gabriel Ortiz
soviets learn to appreciate lend-lease P-47's and spitfires more than they did.
Thomas Mitchell
Germany gets 100 of these show up in Berlin in January 1915
wat do
David Lewis
Germans would no longer exist if they did that
Aaron Mitchell
okay but what's the downside
Lucas Mitchell
>manage to sneak 180 massive planes past air defenses in the UK, Iceland, Greenland, Canada and the Continental US >launch air raid on targets in Boston, New York, maybe Washington DC >destroy large portions of each respective city's downtown area (easiest area to target) >kill thousands of American civilians in the resulting firestorms >up to half of the bombers are lost on the return flight as the Allies scramble every fighter from Nantucket to Sussex >American public is utterly enraged >any hope of eroding America's will to fight through attrition is gone >anti-German sentiment supplants hatred of the Japanese as the premiere prejudice in American society >damage done to the bombed cities is repaired in short order >American war production experiences only minor disruption >further American resources are diverted from the fight against Japan to the war with Germany >US soldiers already fighting in Africa/Italy start savagely butchering every German they can get their hands on >President Roosevelt or his successor (if the raid is unfortunate enough to kill him and infuriate the American people even more) announces the gloves are coming off >air campaign to wipe out the Luftwaffe is ramped up >remaining Amerika Bomber fleet is lost in short order >aircraft, precious fuel, and ordinance expended in a move that only made the German situation worse >if Germany was foolish enough to use chemical weapons to maximize the effects of the raid... >use of chemical and biological weapons is authorized >even more brutal proposed measures like Operation Vegetarian are implemented >German cities and military bases are blanketed with mustard gas >efforts to retaliate with V1 and V2 strikes against the UK fail to prove anything more than a nuisance >Germany collapses by 1944 as the utter devastation causes their already faltering war production to fall apart, resulting the Allies having free rein to push in from the West and East without effective resistance
Brody Campbell
I can think of ten more fun hypothetical situations if you disregard actual history and technological limitations.
Daniel Cruz
How many of them involve pregnant Anne Frank?
Logan Stewart
Hey fuck you
Carson Ward
Hey it's a legitimate question.
Wyatt Reed
>What would be the impact if the Germans started bombing the East Coast in 1943 D-day starts a year early because now they're really pissed off.
ALTERNATIVELY: They say fuck it and forego Normandy instead invading southern France asap
Elijah Richardson
tfw you're not good enough to draw bomber harris and pregnant anne frank btfo dresden in a lancaster
Luke Davis
You're ruining this board faster than /pol/ is
Levi Campbell
>D-day starts a year early because now they're really pissed off.
The Western Allies couldn't really move up the timetable for D-Day. Work on the Mulberries (artificial ports the Allies used to supply their forces until Cherbourg and Antwerp were captured) didn't even start until September of 1943. Not to mention all the combat troops involved (especially airborne troops) had to spend months preparing in the upmost secrecy for it. Perhaps the Allies could've expedited the advance through Italy or carried out smaller landings in Southern France/Northern Italy to cut off the German forces fortifying the Apennine Peninsula but that's about it. The main Allied invasion of the West was going to have to take place no earlier than mid-1944.
ohhhh, that's a fandom with potential
Your butthurt is what's ruining this board.
Cooper King
Only the British were deadset on mulberries, Americans didn't even use them instead landing tanks and supplies on the beach directly, it's why the American sector didn't slow down during the August storms that damaged their mulberry the British basically forced them to have in the first place
Carter Stewart
wave after wave of T-34
Jacob Phillips
Nothing because they dont have enough skilled pilots or fuel
Lincoln Ortiz
Except even with the advantage of the Mulberries, the Allies suffered a critical shortage of supplies that forced them to slow and eventually stop their advance (Operation Market Garden was a last ditch effort to maintain the initiative by seizing a crossing over the Rhine) because they did not have enough ports to take in all the supplies from the UK. This problem would have been even worse if D-Day was launched a year early, since the Allies would have throw everything into capturing a deep water port before pushing on into the interior of France before the Germans could reinforce it.
Caleb Phillips
Germany unleashes 10,000 of these. How many keks are had?
Ian Long
>The Western Allies couldn't really move up the timetable for D-Day. I don't think you realize exactly how pissed off the average American would be. We would put the pacific on hiatus. We would weld together aircraft carriers or battleships to serve as harbors if we had to.
We would be absolutely livid.
Jason Cooper
>I don't think you realize exactly how pissed off the average American would be.
Oh I understand, I wrote All the American outrage in the world wouldn't solve the basic logistical problems D-Day had though. It was an operation years in the making and there would have been no easy way to move up the timetable for it. The only reason the Western Allies even attempted it that soon was because Roosevelt had promised Stalin that the US would open up a second front by May 1944 (even then, they were a month late).
Jaxon Perry
Kek
Jordan Hall
No. D-day happens in 1943. You can keep your crystal ball up your ass though.
Benjamin Morris
6.0*10^6 keks
Ethan Perry
Eisenhower in 1942 proposed two plans for an invasion of France in 1942/43 called Operations Roundup and Sledgehammer but both were shot down as impractical. The Dieppe Raid in August 1942 further demonstrated that they were not going to be ready for several more years.
There is just no way D-Day is gonna happen before 1944. The Allies just didn't have the numbers, experience, and dominance of the air and sea prior to that point.
Nathan Lee
The answer is 6.
Jason White
They'd get fucked by US fighters, then the nuke in 1945-46.
Dylan Evans
P-51s were turbocharged, weren't they?
Gabriel Allen
Just throw the marines at the problem. They'll kill it eventually.
Caleb Rivera
But would we allow a pocket of Nazi Germany to survive until August 1945 to make an example out of them with Little Boy and Fat Man?
Evan Campbell
Germany has 100 of these on April 15, 1945
Wat do?
Jordan Ortiz
I could see Marines being diverted from the Pacific to take part in D-Day (perhaps at the Corps' insistence since they too want to take revenge on Germany for destroying several American cities) if that makes you feel better.
Alternate timeline Eugene Sledge's With the Old Breed detailing his participation in the Normandy Landings, his witnessing the horrors of the concentration camps, and shotgun wedding with pregnant Anne Frank when?
Michael Sanders
>release Magneto >watch him crush the Germans' helmets around their skulls like in X-men First Class >??? >win the war >profit
Kevin Myers
>if Germany was foolish enough to use chemical weapons to maximize the effects of the raid... >use of chemical and biological weapons is authorized Holy fuck this would be a bad outcome for the Allies, because Germany had nerve gas and the Allies didn't even know what that was.
Carter Ramirez
Germany has 150 big dick Africans and Muslims impregnating their woman every day in 1945. What happens?
Ayden Nguyen
But no effective way to deliver it beyond a tactical level (i.e. gassing Allied soldiers on the battlefield by shelling their positions). The Allies on the other hand could literally deliver gas to the very heart of Berlin via air raids.
Mason Brooks
Uhhh... Anne Frank gives birth to a carmel-colored mulatto baby?
Jacob Ramirez
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Wyatt Sanchez
The Merlin was supercharged
Jack Nelson
>combining Sledge and Anne's talents for writing to make an even more compelling account of one of the brutal conflicts in history
Ryan Mitchell
Pregnant Anne Frank leads a coup and becomes the new Queen of Germany. What happens next?
Logan Roberts
Let's take a moment to talk about how stupid this premise is. If Germany suddenly has 120 - 180 new 4-engine bombers, why the fuck would they waste them attacking America? Would it not be infinitely more sensible to use those bombers to attack Britain, especially the Royal Navy, as well as airfields being used by the RAF? Alternatively, the bombers could be used to attack Moscow. Either option would be a much better usage of resources.
Jaxon Johnson
not to mention that Allies have bunch of escort carriers making patrols You'd be damn sure they'd pick them up on Radar as soon as they go into the Atlantic and they'll have a plenty of time to intercept them It would be a turkey shoot and Germans would lose 100% of their bombers
Wyatt Campbell
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Easton Bell
Goddamnit
Dominic Roberts
The Allies had plans to use Anthrax as a deadly area denial weapon. It would have taken decades to clean up the target area so that humans can enter without dying a painful death.
The proposed target area? Every notable German city.
I get wet just thinking about it. Germany must perish.
Eli Reyes
Wasn't the plan to hit the farmlands so all the livestock would ingest it and poison Germans that way?
Christian Adams
No, they tested it on farmland and farm animals, but why would you poison large areas of farm land when you can instead directly poison far smaller high density housing and industrial facilities?
tfw no Stalker: Shadow of Hamburg game where you're a kraut adventurer exploring the decaying ruins of Germany's once great cities, evading ghouls, Allied occupation soldiers, and a Jewish Ku Klux Klan-analogy who ride around in their old concentration camp uniforms, terrorizing German civilians in revenge for the Holocaust.
Benjamin Hill
There was another plan for the case that Germany used chemical weapons first.
Alexander Hughes
>Operation Vegetarian top kek, Allied codenames were full of banter
Grayson Jackson
kek
Matthew Rodriguez
The Alt-Right wouldn't exist. With no Nazis to worship, who will they look to?
Samuel Gomez
>The Amerika-Bomber project was an initiative of the German Reichsluftfahrtministerium to obtain a long-range strategic bomber for the Luftwaffe that would be capable of striking the United States from Germany >Date initiated April 1942 Why were Nazis such spergs? They couldn't handle the Soviet Union alone yet had these ridiculously grandiose plans of crushing everyone and rebuilding Berlin into a utopia while wasting resources onto the Holocaust and autismo turbo-tanks. Why did they go for a million goals at the same time?
Ethan Price
Whatever that thing’s rpm is
Joseph Harris
Hitler was aroused by the idea of New York in flames
Ian Lewis
Who isn't?
William Wilson
I'm starting to believe that Jordan Peterson was right when he claimed that Hitler never intended to win WWII, but just cause pain and terror.
Andrew Anderson
>had these ridiculously grandiose plans 99% of these are just researchers wanting to get paid for their research, or at least not be executed for making no progress. The people doing the research or designing stupid shit never intended for it to succeed, they just wanted to survive and knew that playing into Nazi megalomania was a good way to do it.
Werner von Braun just wanted to do space exploration, and if the Nazis were willing to pay him to build rockets, he wasn't about to turn them down.
Jaxon Adams
The P-51A with the Allison V-1710 engine had a single stage supercharger.
P-51 B/D with the Rolls Royce Merlin has a 2 stage turbocharger.
Oh I forgot, the P-38 was also turbocharged, which gave it a service ceiling of 13,000 meters.
Isaac Carter
The only real scenario that allows for an earlier invasion of France, than occurred historically, that is at least somewhat plausible would be if the USA/allies bribed Spain, and landed troops that advanced past the Pyranees, before any German reinforcements arrived.
Jaxson Cook
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Mason Morales
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Charles Cox
I am
Camden Roberts
>death to the union, long live the confederacy Get a life faggot
Kayden Cooper
whoever made this image needs to repeat 1st grade geography
Connor Perry
Here's what would happen if krauts attacked mainland America with chemical weapons.
>the eternal anglo unleashes anthrax on g*rmany >america puts more effort into atomic weapon development >early 1944 both little boy and fatman are dropped on Dresden
>allies drop leaflets explaining their end game >leaflets contain detailed instructions on how to get to Siberia, Russian phrases to know, and illustrations of proper positions to be in and the correct motions to perform when face to face with the red army >explain that for the good of mankind all g*rmans will be deported to Siberia where they will build new gulags to live in >g*rman lands will become a living space for non-autistic people >at long last the eternal kraut will be contained from the rest of humanity.
>D-Day landings occur >g*rman men are shot on sight >g*rman girls are rounded up and airdropped into soviet lines >the term "no mercy" reaches biblical levels of metal as fuck
>the bomb "From Jersey" is dropped on Dresden >Berlin is hit by the much larger bomb "Holokraut" >90 thousand lives are killed instantly, millions more die of radiation sickness
>Bomber Harris calmly writes to Oppenheimer for an explanation, "Now look here o'l chap, do explain why this figure isn't higher? Also, do you have some more?"
Nolan Wright
>g*rmans claim the recent holokrauting of Berlin killed Adolf, Goebbels, Himmler, Goring, and reminds the allies that the B-29 is a flying warcrime. >surviving government attempts to unconditionally surrender to the allies >Dresden gets firebombed as a response
>non-crispy g*rman general asks the allied command, "why do you keep bombing us?" >the radio operator hands the phone off to churchill >after a few puffs from his cigar, his mind was clear
>"Fuck this war Jerry, I just want you dead. *click* "
>inhales the remainder of his cigar >the smoke burns his lungs and exits his nose, doesn't even cough, the madman >the RAF fighter command floor is filled with dead silence and smoke, all eyes are on churchill >churchill takes his time lighting another cigar >after a few puffs, he stares through the smoke filled room and locks eyes with a man standing next to a map of g*rmany
>"Harris, do it again."
Jaxon Nguyen
Did a German touch you at a private spot?
Levi Long
The only thing this scenario is missing is pregnant Anne Frank.