Recent content by Golladay

Going over the B-24, the main problem preventing it from carrying 4,000 pound bombs internally was the catwalk and the center connector that cut the bomb bay into a forward and aft section. However, the reason for this design has eluded me. Did the cat walk and center connector play a...

Radius of total destruction was 1.6km^2. However, that is misleading as many buildings did survive the explosion intact and those buildings had survivors especially the Rest House which survived largely intact and had a survivor. Resulting fires resulted in a devastated an area roughly 11km^2...

Hiroshima itself had naval facilities, IJN personnel in the Dockyards of Hiroshima assisted in rescue efforts. Which makes sense as the city was a port and Home to several IJA units. As for the electricity, the plants were located out of town near the factories, so power supply was not...

Going by the raw question posed by this thread: First things first, nukes are not all that powerful. They explode in a sphere and most of the energy is wasted. The Little Boy did as much damage as it did, because: 1. Most buildings were wood and paper. 2. The city was an ammunition...

:lol: The President never once threaten Israel or the U.S., you like many have fallen for the lie that he called for Israel to be wiped off the map. This is what Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said, "Imam ghoft een rezhim-e ishghalgar-e qods bayad az safheh-ye ruzgar mahv shavad." Imam...

:| Our Drones probe Iranian Airspace all the time.

I assume you mean Home Islands? In which case Naval Air Power can certainly go inland and attack targets of opportunity. Mostly in China, the Chinese were starting to win the battles at this point and said million man army in China was cut off from retreat. China's problem, not ours. Cold...

Its Stuart's claim not mine, in any case he claimed on his FAQ before it disappeared that America OTL discontinued its production after the war to redesign it production facilities. Without doing that, several planned and building reactors would have been built and completed, boosting production...

Perhaps, however, once the Navy Surface Fleet began raiding, there was nothing the Japanese could do to stop them as their surface fleet was sunk or out of fuel. The USN was more than capable of replenishing at sea, and had figured out how to combat the Kamikazes. They were already starving...

Well according to the book Halifax seized power and allowed the Germans to put bases on Britain and didn't notice the Germans were placing Tanks on said bases :rolleyes: In 1942 the Germans take over Britain, the Royal Navy sails to Canada, Hitler declares war on the U.S. to get the Royal...

A myth that refuses to die. There would have been no invasion of Japan. It is an Island nation that has to import all its raw materials and most of its food. By 1944 with the seizure of the Marianna Islands we had won. Submarines could now stop all oil shipments to the Home Islands and...

The B-36 I can not really comment on as I can not find a full technical and development history for the the Pratt Whitney R-4360 Wasp Major radial piston engines. The Bomb production, however, according the Stuart the U.S. was just starting to ramp up to building 10 bombs a month when the...

I have recently finish Stuart Slade's "The Big One," in which 3,000 B-36s destroy Nazi Germany under a hail of over 200 nuclear bombs. Now I'll admit the design specs were issued in 1941. But I am not so certain the delays in testing the air frame were the real cause for it not getting a...