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Originally Posted by d00little
Wonder what kind of world we'd be living in if Japan won Midway and Germany won Stalingrad.
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Those probably wouldn't be enough to change the end result, even with a loss at Stalingrad the USSR's military strength was growing faster than Germany and would have taken it back quickly.
And even if the IJN sunk all three American carriers for no loss, US shipbuilding superiority means the USN will still be too strong by 1944. The battles for the key islands around Saipan and Guam may be more even but eventually the Japanese lose all their big carriers and can't make up their losses.