Reminds me of the movie The Final Countdown…
Oh noes! I now have forgotten all the confederate general’s names! This is un-american!
The US military is effective partly because it has so many bases. If you time traveled a single base back in time it would still need modern logistics from other bases. What ever they had in 1941 isn’t air to air refueling an f-35.
But probably Norfolk because of the carriers who would still need replenishment from other ships not in Norfolk.
Sierra Army depot, there is probably some weird shit there thatd be fun to give to the WW2 US military.
Norfolk has four carrier strike groups and the entire Atlantic submarine fleet. Even without the ability to repair or resupply, just with what they currently have as far as ordnance goes, that wins the war immediately.
You take a week at most to position submarines in the right spots and then eliminate Axis leadership in a single simultaneous strike.
Either AFBs, I feel like a modern aircraft would be hella support for either European or Pacific fronts.
Blinkov’s Battlegrounds did a detailed thought experiment: what happens if a single F-15 is transported to 1941 Pearl Harbor. What could it do?
F-15 Video Conclusions
He determined the most effective thing possible is drop seven 2,000lb laser guided bombs right into the heart of each of the Japanese carriers. While this is unlikely to sink all of them, it would at minimum cripple them and allow the undamaged US warships in the area to catch up and finish them off. Thus loping off a massive portion of Japan’s naval power right at the start of the war.
He also did a thought experiment along similar lines in a different video, if an entire modern supercarrier was transported back to WWII. Both videos are some of my favorites.
I’m guessing Norfolk is home base for a boomer or two? Yeah, I’d go for a pair or three thermonuclear bombs ending every fight, every front, overnight. Smash Berlin, Toyko and, just because Russians, Moscow.
I like your style.
Fort Hood.
Now known as Cavazos. The country decided to maybe not name bases after traitorous losers.
Thank you for your insight. The Army doesn’t have bases, they have “posts”. That one was my grandparents’ first post after they got married. My mother was born in the post hospital at Fort Bragg. I don’t know you. You don’t know me. Have a nice evening, anyways.
Fort Polk not listed because they’re that bad.
Minot. Curtis LeMay would have had wet dreams over it.
