"Guy Alcala" wrote in message
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B2431 wrote:

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It would be interesting to see what 2 carrier based task forces, assuming
one
carrier each, would have had on the outcome of the war. Had they existed
before
the war the Brits would have had to provideair cover in areas they didn't
need
to as was the case in the real war . I think very little commerce would
have
gotten through from the US.

Man, do you want to go over to sci.military.naval (or rather Google Groups
so you
can catch up) and read the current thread "WI: Graf Zeppelin was
commissioned";
there's close on 180 messages so far, analyzing the effect, british
countermoves,
production capacities, air group training, etc. ;-) Oh, and "A Different
Z plan"
might also be of interest.

Thanks, gentelemen, for your corrections.

What I should have said was of course:

"This was the regime that never *deployed* an
aircraft carrier..."

Comes to the same thing really; actually, like a lot of their later high-tec
weaponry, it was a negative asset as it must have absorbed a lot of
resources that could otherwise have been used better elsewhere.

John