Re: Habakkuk: Is it more American or British design?

I can't see the US building the Habakkuk. By the end of the war the US was quite good at building quite good steel aircraft carriers; the US was also quite good at taking out the U-Boats from the air. And at the end of the war aircraft such as the B-35 and B-36 were on the horizon capable of carpet bombing Germany from the CONUS. The US didn't *need* the Habakkuk.

The alternate history would have to be quite remarkably different for the US to go ahead with this. The Germans succeed in their invasion of the USSR, say, taking out the Soviets by the end of 1942 and then devoting all their effort to trouncing the Brits by, say, the end of 1943. If the Germans only had to devote a trivial percentage of their effort to the USSR, then *maybe* having a floating, nigh invulnerable way station in the Atlantic might've made some sort of sense.
 

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Hi folks,
Just further to the above: I link to the first of these images in my last post, but here are three drawings from the model Habakkuk project:
http://smg.photobucket.com/user/icyhusky/media/HMS%20Habakkuk%20model%20project/scan-2.jpg.html
http://smg.photobucket.com/user/icyhusky/media/HMS%20Habakkuk%20model%20project/scan0001.jpg.html
http://smg.photobucket.com/user/icyhusky/media/HMS%20Habakkuk%20model%20project/scan0002.jpg.html
File-names in the attached are of course my own so apologies for any inaccuracies / mistakes.
Anyway if this stuff is all old news or otherwise unhelpful, let me know and I'll remove it.
Thanks, 'Wingknut'.
 

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Re: Habakkuk: Is it more American or British design?

There's not much on Pyke or Hababbuk on the internet, Here's a link to a short film about him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7Ngv5nfG44
 
In addition, or alternatively, to the maritime equipped 'Mossies', the basic aircraft compliment of the 2000ft 'Bergship' was also intended to include De Havilland Sea Hornets. The Spitfires would actually have been Seafires. (World of Warships magazine, March 2020 edition)
 

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