"Ace. I am your father."

Glad I could help Ace!

Dave
Arlington, Virginia

I have some teddy bears that would have joined a teddy bear army and whipped those Germans in the alternative future past.

Looks like someone gave in to the dork side of the farce.

Thank you! Got a million of 'em, all bad! Next show's at 9:00!

Wow, how cool would that have been?!?

Dang it, we weren't supposed to defeat the Nazis until AFTER we captured their ATAT technology!

Aaron,

Who says we didn't capture the AT-AT technology?

Now who's being naive.

I hope I'm just being naive. But if we did get the technology, my next concern is that we get cool helmets like the AT-AT drivers had. Of course, the TIE fighter pilot helmets were the same shape, but done in black, and I thought that was overall more effective in the whole bad-assery category.

"Now who's being naive."

Next thing you'll tell me is that the late Warren Burger wasn't a stripper.

Actually, the single stupidest mistake of the entire war was Germany's declaration of war against the US in support of its ally Japan on 08 Dec 1941.

As Raoul points out, the US did not declare premptive war on Nazi Germany, quite the contrary.

Oh, please. Yes, I know that.

This is a post about Nazi AT-AT's on the Eastern front, for crying out loud. I'd say I'm taking more liberties with history than fudging the chronology of our declaration of war against Hitler.

Besides, whether they "declared" war or not, they hadn't attacked us yet. Saddam effectively had declared war on us, but hadn't attacked us yet.

I changed "declared war" to "began a war" to avoid the argument.

"I changed 'declared war' to 'began a war' to avoid the argument."

REVISIONIST HISTORIAN! HOW DARE YOU ATTACK MICAH SANCHES ETRUSCAN WRIGHT (or whatever his name is) FOR DOING THE EXACT SAME THING YOU JUST DID!!!

/liberal shriek

I demand an apology from Ace!

Dave,

It really was cool. Star Wars technology has always had a WWII flyboy feel, and putting the AT-AT's in control of Hitler's Reich just seems to work.

Does this mean the stormtroopers would really look like stormtroopers? And more importantly, would they finally be able to HIT WHAT THEY AIM AT!

Hmmm...I thought they had attacked us. Didn't they torpedo a handful of our merchant ships and maybe even a convoy escort destroyer in the Atlantic?

Not like I can remember what I did last week, so how can I expect to remember stuff about WWII?

USS Ruben James was sunk approximately 0525 on 31 October 1941 off Iceland. Woody Guthrie wrote a song about it. An article on Ruben James, the ships named after him, and the words to the song can be found behind my nom du blog.

Hmmm, what good is "walker" technology when a couple of Ewoks with a strong rope can make it trip?

Those were the small scout walkers (AT-ST?) that were tripped by the Ewoks. The AT-ATs, as pictured, would have no problems crushing Ewok villages, although they would have difficulty navigating in a dense forrest.