Other Turning Points

Under "If it's Tuesday, this must be Dunkirk" this looks at some key points outside of Sealion, Pearl Harbor, North Africa , D-Day, the Bomb Plot, and Nazi atomic weapons.
May 26, 1940, Dunkirk: The “stop order” is never given and the BEF is crushed.
Aug. 29, 1940, Battle of Britain
Dec. 1, 1941, Moscow: What the fall of Moscow in 1941 could have meant.
May 8, 1942, Coral Sea
June 4, 1942, Midway: While a Japanese naval victory as Midway at first glance could endanger Hawaii or even Panama Canal the reality is any Japanese troops that actually tried to take the islands would have been cut to shreds.
Dec. 19, 1942, Stalingrad
March 14, 1943, Kharkov: Manstein does not save the entire German southern front in Russia with his bold recapture of Kharkov. The result is Russia being able to advance faster perhaps taking Berlin by 1944.
Spring 1943, U-Boat Campaign: By March, the United
Kingdom was down to a three-month food supply and
U-boats were sinking transports faster than they could be built. The inability to break the wolf-packs could have resulted in staving Britain into surrender.
July 1943, Me 262 Production: At best the most aggressive possible deployment of the Me 262 would have delayed the end of the war by 6 months...which would allowed the atomic bomb to be used against Germany.
Jan. 22, 1944, Anzio: better planning could have resulted in a quicker conquest of Italy. 
Oct. 25, 1944, Leyte Gulf: Had Adm. Kurita pressed the attack he could have obliterated the Allied landing forces on the beach which in turn could have resulted in Dewey rather the (obviously) ill Roosevelt winning the election.
Dec. 22, 1944, Bastogne: A successful “Bulge” offensive could have added four or five months to the Third Reich's life.
==Reverences==
* Weird War II pg 12
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