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volksjager (volksjager) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-10-10 08:40:00

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This is Kamikaze 1946. It is the last book in the "Families of altered wars" series and deals with the American invasion of Japan "Operation Olympic". For understanding I have included the creators editorial (which were on the inside cover of each issue through out the series) so people can get a feeling for his intentions for the book and his alternate WW2 views :)

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	hybrid2 2009-10-10 01:40 pm UTC (link)
	Woah. that last page was realy interesting. can I use it? I should try to find these books. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	volksjager 2009-10-10 01:50 pm UTC (link)
	The editorial ? It's not mine to say. I loved this series. and Ted Noramu in general. After this he did a mini-series about the life of Hitler and the attack on Pearl Harbor. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	blakeyrat 2009-10-10 04:00 pm UTC (link)
	She shot the pilot out of a Corsair? ... yah, my disbelief isn't suspended, sorry. And I was ok with the underwater bunker. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	arilou_skiff 2009-10-10 05:26 pm UTC (link)
	There is, IIRC, a story of an italian fighter being downed by ethiopians using slings. To be able to do it with any kind of consistency would be crazy though :p (Reply to this) (Parent)

	timgueguen 2009-10-10 08:11 pm UTC (link)
	That was a common trope in DC's old Haunted Tank stories. They were able to do things like shoot down planes with their main gun, which is pretty amazing for a weapon not designed for firing at aircraft. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	blakeyrat 2009-10-10 08:15 pm UTC (link)
	Yes, but if you do it in Unreal 2003, you get "EAGLE EYE!!!" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	volksjager 2009-10-10 09:19 pm UTC (link)
	Does that come with "Kung-FU grip" ? (Reply to this) (Parent)

	volksjager 2009-10-10 09:17 pm UTC (link)
	Well the German 88 mm gun was designed to flak aircraft,then the Germans leveled it and found it was good for taking out crap American tanks :) (Reply to this) (Parent)

	volksjager 2009-10-10 09:15 pm UTC (link)
	She hit the canopy, I dunno what cause the smoke... (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	espanolbot 2009-10-11 09:30 pm UTC (link)
	He burst into flames? (Reply to this) (Parent)

	the_lassiter 2009-10-10 04:13 pm UTC (link)
	You've sold me. I love alternate history so it was an easier sell from the beginning. The editorial at the end sealed the deal. He obviously knows his history well. From these posts I can see he has written this with facts, common sense and insight. (Reply to this) (Thread)

cmdr_zoom
2009-10-10 08:36 pm UTC (link)

At least he's aware of how many MILLIONS of lives (on both sides) his Author Appeal AU would cost if it had really happened that way, yes.

Same reason I have trouble getting into the Crimson Skies background. In order to make the United States fertile ground for Air Pirate Adventures in the 20s and 30s, you have to break it up (with a second and probably unreasonably bloodless civil war). Grand fun, yes... but ten years later, what happens when the lights start going out all over Europe? Will England be able to hold out alone until Hitler gets around to stabbing Stalin in the back? (Probably not.) Will there be time to complete the Final Solution? And when it's all over, who winds up with the Bomb(s)?

I probably think about this stuff too much.

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	freivolk 2009-10-10 08:57 pm UTC (link)
	This disturbes me most of this series. About all the cool jets and the cute SS-girls in mini-shirts you may forget, that ín this timeline still smokes comes out the chimneys of Auschwitz. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	volksjager 2009-10-10 09:20 pm UTC (link)
	As well as Japanese intered in the United states. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)