GD, missing the details since 2001™!!

I dont accept your terms.. I would give them some Mraps, 240, barret .50, and 40mm grenade launcher, for no particular reason.

P80 Shooting star.  By the war's end it would become the F86 Saber.  Further jet developmebt would have been used for higher and faster flying bombers in juat a few years.

Douglas A1 Sky Raider...low and slow for CAS.

Whatever radios we had...I'd have inproved them as much as possible.

Whatever anti aircraft missiles existed...I'd want those.

Turtledove is a badass.

M26 Pershing
F8F Bearcat
155mm Gun Motor Carriage M40
16" nukes.

Fuck the rules

bearcat
Pershing tank
The newest radar for aircraft and ships
Night vision developed at the end of the war.

Not even close.  gb had to reset servers two times before 2001 due to GD shenanigans.

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Lots of Corsairs launching from Lots of Essex class carriers.

We had the right equipment.

Many many more F6F Hellcats.
Performance
Maximum speed: 330 kn (391 mph, 629 km/h)
Stall speed: 73 kn (84 mph, 135 km/h)
Combat radius: 820 nmi (945 mi, 1,520 km)
Ferry range: 1,330 nmi (1,530 mi, 2,460 km)
Service ceiling: 37,300 ft (11,370 m)
Rate of climb: 3,500 ft/min (17.8 m/s)
Wing loading: 37.7 lb/ft² (184 kg/m²)
Power/mass: 0.16 hp/lb (260 W/kg)
Time-to-altitude: 7.7 min to 20,000 ft (6,100 m)
Lift-to-drag ratio: 12.2
Takeoff roll: 799 ft (244 m)
Armament
Guns:
6× 0.50 in (12.7 mm) M2 Browning machine guns, with 400 rounds per gun, (All F6F-3, and most F6F-5) or
2 × 0.79 in (20 mm) AN/M2 cannon, with 225 rounds per gun and 4 × 0.50 in (12.7 mm) Browning machine guns with 400 rounds per gun
Rockets:
6 × 5 in (127 mm) HVARs or
2 × 11¾ in (298 mm) Tiny Tim unguided rockets
Bombs: up to 4,000 lb (1,814 kg) full load, including:
Bombs or Torpedoes: (Fuselage mounted on centreline rack)
1 × 2,000 lb (907 kg) bomb or
1 × Mk.13-3 torpedo;
Underwing bombs: (F6F-5 had two additional weapons racks either side of fuselage on wing centre-section)
2 × 1,000 lb (450 kg) or
4 × 500 lb (227 kg)
8 × 250 lb (110 kg)

Many Many more carriers for Hellcats.

B-29s for places carriers and Hellcats couldn't go.

M1 Garands for EVEYONE!

Corsairs were given to the Marines for a reason, they weren't as good as a Hellcat on a carrier.

 Mosquitos in the Far East suffered problems due to their construction,specifically delamination of the skin and spar failures.I'd suggest the F7F as the American Mosquito alternative.
 As to OP's F8Fs,they would have been amazing dogfighters but you're not getting from the UK to Berlin or Iwo Jima to Tokyo in one;no way and no how.




  However,if the rules were to be the same,Germany gets to start the war with exceptionally good XXI subs,night vision equipment,Me-162s and Do-335s armed with AAMs etc.

Replace the 1911 with the S&W model 27. Make it standard issue with the hottest ammo made.

I kept scrolling thinking.."someone will def say radar and Pearl Harbor in some manner or another"...thank you. I agree. The best war is the war avoided...but i think penicillin being widely available before 1945 and more long range bombers would have certainly helped quite a bit

That's not entirely true.  Early in its career the F4U didn't perform as well on carriers, but that wasn't the airplane's fault.

The F4U worked great on a carrier, once pilots learned how to land them on a carrier.  Those pilots were NOT American.

The British figured out how to use them in carrier ops, and it was successful.  Sadly, for the F4U it was too late.  The F6F had already come out and was an instant hit.  The F4U did eventually replace the F6F on American carriers.

One of the biggest factors in the F6F being so awesome, other than the fact that it was awesome, was all the Japanese who knew the capabilities of the F4F and had fought against them in the past.  The F6F looked just like the F4F but was a hell of a lot more capable.  

Most of the Japanese pilots that went up against the F6F thinking it was an F4F never made it home.

I read a few books by Japanese pilots that made a point of this in their writing.

Range was 1,900 miles with drop tanks, for the 1945 version of the F8F (later versions had shorter range). Well within striking distance to both.

Right? Like "It's what we got and it'll get the job done?" Sure. And, probably cost a lot of time and lives.

Superior? As in, with this motherfucker our enemies have no counter to it and it'll speed up the war? No. Not even close.

In some areas, sure, we had great equipment at the outset (and sometimes way too little of it), but not in others. That's, uh, kinda the point of the game.