Your Army and your Navy....

[Truk]

First, I would ask which country am I defending - because only then would I know who my enemies are and therefore what my ToE would be.

 

[parsifal]

wanted to pick the material that was "main stream" rather than always picking the end war stuff all the time. Doing that all the time IMO defeats the main purpose of these sorts of discussions

My Fleet

CV; Essex
CVL: Colossus
CVE: British rebuilt
BB: Yamato
BC: Hood
CA: Takao
CL: Montcalm
DDA: Akitsuki
DD: Yugumo
TB: Matsu
DE: Loch Class
MTB: German E-Boat
Sub: Gato

Air
P-51D, B-24, Mosquito (NF and Bomber),
Hellcat, B7 Grace,
C-47,
FW189, Tempest
H8K Emily, Privateer, C6 Saiun


Ground
Tanks
T-34,
Artillery
155mm and 240mm,
25 pounder
75 mm Type 34 mtn gun
Pak 75/40
Nebelwerfer
120 mm Russian mortars
Small Arms
Lee Enfield, 9 mm Browning, MP 40, MG 42
"Potato Masher" grenades, Panzerfaust

Officers/Training/Doctrine

Difficult, has to be able to meet any terrain or situations
Australian/Canadian/NewZealand Infantry
US Marines
French and French Colonial (incl Morroccan Goumes) Mountain troops
British airborne troops
Cossack cavalry ....with those enormous 5 foot long pig sticker shaskas that they carted around (swampy ground, and chopping up frozen german infantry)
Finn ski and snow troops
German trained tank crews
American supreme commander
British Corps commanders
German small unit commanders
Japanese advisers for beach and jungle defences.
French advisers for fortification
Naval
US Carrier admirals
Japanese surface commanders
German sub commanders
British ASW forces commanders
Italian MAS and SBS commanders

 

[Amsel]

I would base my army on the 1,2,3,5 and 12.SS Panzer divisions and the USMC.

My airforce would be the Luftwaffe with allied production capabilities.

And my navy would be based on the U.S. Pacific fleet.

 

[B-17engineer]

105 and 240mm are really not easy to move ...I would have something lighter.....for mobile artillery like a 88..

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

105 is not that bad to move around, especially if it is self propelled.

 

[trackend]

For ground forces I'd have
SOE agents with Turin and Bletchly park for intelligence gathering
SAS for special operations
British army commandos,German Paratroopers American Rangers for general forces with Japanese light mortar crews for close supported
Garand,Bren,Thomson, MG42, Mills grenades and Lee Enfield sniper rifle.

Co-ordination Eisenhower
Tactics Rommel
Motivational speeches Churchill

entertainment Adolf Hitler and the Crazy Horse girls

 

[Vraciu]

VPF (Vraciu's Personal Fleet):

CV's: Taiho class
BB's: Iowa class
CA's: Takao class
CC's: Oyodo class
DD's: Fletcher class
SS's: Gato class

VPFAF (Vraciu's Personal Fleet Air Force)

Land-based fighters: N1K2-J Shiden-kai's
Land-based bombers: B-26F/G Marauders
Carrier-based fighters: F6F-5 Hellcats and F4U-1D Corsairs
Carrier-based torpedo bombers: B7A2 Ryusei's
Recon: C6N2 Saiun's, PBY Catalinas

VPAAF (Vraciu's Personal Army Air Force)

Fighters: P-47M/N Thunderbolts
Escort fighters: P-51D/H Mustangs
Mid bombers: B-26F/G Marauders, B-25J Mitchells
Heavy bombers: B-29A Superfortresses (with A bombs), Kawasaki Ki-91's
Recon: Spitfire PR XI's

VPA (Vraciu's Personal Army):

Hmmm...I'm not a specialist in land questions, I'll sign a pact with someone who has strong army..

 

[delcyros]

NAVY:

Hull form design: japanese (large bullbow bows, effective c3 line and transome sterns), they have been good in reducing drag as much as possible.

Hull structural design: german (high degree of redundancy, minutelike watertight subdivision, excellent margins of stability and flooding tolerances)

Hull structural materials: US STS (couldn´t resist, the best construction grade material around).

Powerplant: german or french (German Diesel propulsion was pretty advanced, otherwise I would choose the more effective french powerplants for steam turbines)

homogenious armour: US or British

face hardened armour: Italian Terni CA

Armour scheme: Modified german / french composite (turtle deck behind belt beeing splinter catcher and main belt penetrating shell deflector. Flat lower armour deck is splinter catcher, only, Main armour deck joints top of side belt, no citadel armour). I don´t thrust italian / US decapping plate arrangements. They do rely on defects of enemy projectile cap attachments rather than on own strength.

Projectile fuses: British (except for AAA, where US VT-fuses are better).

Projectile design: US.

Torpedoe propulsion: japanese

Torpedo design: german

Torpedo fuses: german

Carrier design: US

Hangar design: US

Carrier operating planes: US

Escorts: British

Small crafts: german

Submarine design: german

Submarine tactics training: german