History Literature / KeynesCruisers

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: There are plenty of characters that are seen in the timeline, many from different countries. [[spoiler: AnyoneCanDie is in full effect, as some of them get a [[DroppedABridgeOnHim bridge dropped on them.]]]]
** 1st Lieutenant Joshua Jarosechek (American) was a miners son from Belle Vernon, Pennsylvania before he managed to get into college and get into the United States Marine Corps as an aviator, flying [=F4F=] Wildcats.
** Ensign Ted Sullivan (American) was a engineering student at Georgia Tech and dropped out due to failing grades. As an alternative, he enlisted into the United States Navy as a Naval Aviator, and although failing to be a fighter pilot, is now a navigator on a PBY Catalina in the Philippines. [[spoiler: He dies on December 20, 1941 when the PBY he was flying in gets shot down after being jumped by three Japanese fighers and tumbles into the sea.]]
** Anne Marie Jeanne d’Orlong (French) was a simple farm girl from the countryside near Strasbourg, France, before she became a spy for the French Resistance and British Intelligence and moved to Paris and feeds movements of German forces and positions to the appropriate source.
** Rolando Cabling (Filipino) was a dock worker at the Manila Docks, unloading ships and supplies before he became a Studebaker truck driver delivering supplies between the port at Manila and Clark Air Base.
** Sergeant Marcos Ibling (Filipino), a company NCO with the 45th Infantry Regiment of the Philippine Scouts started out as a fresh faced recruit with the same regiment, rising through the ranks quickly and within 2 years and was now made First Sergeant to a infantry company.
** Tatianna (Russian) was a civilian factory worker in Leningrad before she was pressed into service building anti tank ditches before joining the Peoples' Militia and becoming a sniper, using a scoped Mosin-Nagant 91/30.
** Private Angus [=MacMahon=] (British) was a Scottish infantryman that fought with the Seaforth Highlanders in the Battle of France, and fought the Germans at many battles, [[spoiler:including bayoneting and shooting Rommel dead at a battle near Agny.]] He and his regiment attempts to retreat to Calais once the line collapses, but before they can evacuate to Britain, [[spoiler:he dies when a Heinkel He 111 dropped a pallet of bombs on his position, becoming a unwitting casualty of the Battle of France.]]
** Sergeant Patrick Donohue (American) was a mill worker and junior mechanic in Lowell, Massachusetts and only joined summer camp for the Massachusetts Army National Guard before he joined up with the United States Army and rose through the ranks

Keynes Cruisers is an ongoing work of AlternateHistory by fester of Website/AlternateHistoryDotCom, specifically focused on UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. It is written in a vignette format, and the author has admitted the work taken inspiration from many World War II based AH works, including Astrodragon's TheWhaleHasWings and [=SergeantHeretic=]'s A True and Better Alamo Redux.

** [[spoiler:A PBY Catalina, doing routine sea patrols in the South China Sea, manages to spot the Japanese invasion fleet thats heading towards the Philippine Islands and manages to report it back to Manila. The plane doesn't get back, as it gets shot down.]]
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*** Due to the less strain on the British War Machine, the ''King George V''-class battleships have time to properly work out their deficiencies and fix any bugs, which included the malfunctioning turrets. After that was done, they are now considered to be capable first line battleships.

Keynes Cruisers is an ongoing work of AlternateHistory by fester of Website/AlternateHistoryDotCom, specifically focused on WorldWarII. It is written in a vignette format, and the author has admitted the work taken inspiration from many World War II based AH works, including Astrodragon's TheWhaleHasWings and [=SergeantHeretic=]'s A True and Better Alamo Redux.

Keynes Cruisers is an ongoing work of AlternateHistory by fester of [[Website/AlternateHistoryDotCom]], specifically focused on WorldWarII. It is written in a vignette format, and the author has admitted the work taken inspiration from many World War II based AH works, including Astrodragon's TheWhaleHasWings and [=SergeantHeretic=]'s A True and Better Alamo Redux.

Keynes Cruisers is an ongoing work of AlternateHistory by fester of AlternateHistoryDotCom, specifically focused on WorldWarII. It is written in a vignette format, and the author has admitted the work taken inspiration from many World War II based AH works, including Astrodragon's TheWhaleHasWings and [=SergeantHeretic=]'s A True and Better Alamo Redux.

Keynes Cruisers is an ongoing work of AlternateHistory by fester of AlternateHistoryDotCom, specifically focused on WorldWarII. It is written in a vignette format, and the author has admitted the work taken inspiration from many World War II based AH works, including Astrodragon's TheWhaleHasWings and [=SergeantHeretic=]'s A True and Better Alamo Redux. Th

The point of divergence in this timeline from real life occurs 2 years before the start of the Second World War and the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany. Due to the effects of TheGreatDepression in America, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his Democratic Party, fresh off a electoral victory in the United States Presidential Election of 1936, decide, to help the sluggish economy recover from the chaos of the Depression, to read up on the economic theories of John Maynard Keynes, and his words on governmental intervention in the economy and, most importantly, using governmental spending to help stimulate the economy rub off on them.

Due to Keynes' economic theories, the revised 1937 version of the Emergency Relief Appropriations Act, while stripping funding from the Works Progress Administration, included a huge expansion of the United States Armed Forces, which included the reinforcement of the Philippines, the splitting of the US armoured forces from the infantry, the sending of 16 tankers to Standard Oil and, most importantly the construction and addition of 3 heavy cruisers, 6 light cruisers, 24 destroyers and 1 additional aircraft carrier for the United States Navy......

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: There are plenty of characters that are seen in the timeline, many from different countries. [[spoiler:Some of them get a [[DroppedABridgeOnHim bridge dropped on them.]]]]

Keynes Cruisers is an ongoing work of AlternateHistory by fester of AlternateHistoryDotCom, specifically focused on WorldWarII. It is written in a vignette format, and the author has admitted the work taken inspiration from many WW2 based AH works, including Astrodragon's TheWhaleHasWings and [=SergeantHeretic=]'s A True and Better Alamo Redux. Th