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.
They could, for a little while. You’d have a very hard time refining petroleum fuel in 1942 to the quality necessary for the jets, so you’d be limited by however much was stored on the base.
I’m also not sure how you’d deploy those aircraft across the Pacific or Atlantic other than disassembling, shipping and then reassembling them.
Minot. Curtis LeMay would have had wet dreams over it.
Fort Hood.
Now known as Cavazos. The country decided to maybe not name bases after traitorous losers.
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.
Why attack Russia? Aren’t they our friends now?
edit: anyone down voting a relevant terminator reference in this place should be perma banned from the internet
Korea is split in 2 courtesy of the Soviet Union and China post-WWII.
And then there’s the whole Cold War, Berlin Wall, gulags, etc.
Moscow
Just nuke Moscow, and send a message to the Germans and Japanese to surrender, or they’ll be next.
