I wouldn’t do an airforce or naval base because modern air and sea systems couldn’t be repaired and resupplied in 1941. Tanks still run on diesel and can fire the munitions used in WW2 so that’s a possibility but they still can’t be repaired and transporting them to Europe would be a significant undertaking. Imagine bringing them to the past only to lose half of them to a uboat in the middle of the Atlantic. They also wouldn’t be very useful in the Pacific.
I’m going to go with Liberty. It has army special forces command, a Ranger regiment, and a modern medical facility. I think the most valuable thing we could send back to 1941 is knowledge and training. Deploy the Rangers as trainers and advisers, send the medical personnel to teach modern trauma medicine and lead surgical units.
I don’t think modern Rangers hold significant advantage over WWII rangers. I think they would actually be a detriment, as the WWII rangers were familiar with the technologies available in that time period.
My first thought was Norfolk. They’ve got enough ASW assets to stop the U-boats that were decimating the convoys.
My second thought is Wright Patterson AFB, home of the US Air Force museum. Designers get to tear apart aircraft that wouldn’t be built until after the war, but not so advanced that they exceed the nation’s ability to produce. They get turbine engines 4 years early, and figure out all the transonic effects thet kept them from breaking the sound barrier.
Third thought is to skip straight to the endgame and try to accelerate the Manhattan project. Send them the Savannah River site.
I wouldn’t do an airforce or naval base because modern air and sea systems couldn’t be repaired and resupplied in 1941. Tanks still run on diesel and can fire the munitions used in WW2 so that’s a possibility but they still can’t be repaired and transporting them to Europe would be a significant undertaking. Imagine bringing them to the past only to lose half of them to a uboat in the middle of the Atlantic. They also wouldn’t be very useful in the Pacific.
I’m going to go with Liberty. It has army special forces command, a Ranger regiment, and a modern medical facility. I think the most valuable thing we could send back to 1941 is knowledge and training. Deploy the Rangers as trainers and advisers, send the medical personnel to teach modern trauma medicine and lead surgical units.
Only concern would be reach. There’s only so many personnel at liberty and a whole lot of war front.
I don’t think modern Rangers hold significant advantage over WWII rangers. I think they would actually be a detriment, as the WWII rangers were familiar with the technologies available in that time period.
My first thought was Norfolk. They’ve got enough ASW assets to stop the U-boats that were decimating the convoys.
My second thought is Wright Patterson AFB, home of the US Air Force museum. Designers get to tear apart aircraft that wouldn’t be built until after the war, but not so advanced that they exceed the nation’s ability to produce. They get turbine engines 4 years early, and figure out all the transonic effects thet kept them from breaking the sound barrier.
Third thought is to skip straight to the endgame and try to accelerate the Manhattan project. Send them the Savannah River site.