Suez Crisis "1956" How it should've gone!

Mediterranean Sea, 0341 local, the 28th day of October in the year of our LORD 1956 Position – ten miles and beyond north-east of Port Said breakwater The combined Task Force "Alpha" directly commanded by Lord Mountbatten himself (By order of Queen and advice from Churchill) was already at battle stations when the first pale band of dawn touched the horizon. At the point of the spear steamed the three heavy hitters no intelligence officer in Moscow or Cairo had ever expected to see in the same column: Task Force 34 - (Naval Super Gunfire Support) HMS Vanguard (23) & HMS Jamaica (C44), White Ensign at the truck, with rifles trained fore and aft, under the direct command of Lord Mountbatten his Majesty's First Sea Lord, broad pennant snapping above Vanguard's bridge as he sips Her Majesty's Royal Navy Blend No. 1 (Pusser's Tea) "Stronger, the better". Astern Starboard, the US 6th Fleet's "Big Guns" USS Des Moines (CA-134) and the detached USS New Jersey (BB-62) from 2nd Fleet operations, Stars and Stripes & US Navy Ensign "Don't Tread On Me" bright against the morning sky, Vice-Admiral Charles Randall "Cat" Brown, riding New Jersey's open bridge with a mug of fresh Hawaiian grown (Official Department of War Coffee Contract) USA coffee and a grin that said try me Commies. Closing the triangle on the port quarter, the French Battleship Jean Bart & cruiser Georges Leygues, tricolour streaming, Contre-Amiral Pierre Ponchardier chain-smoking Gauloises Caporal (unfiltered) while directors tracked everything above the horizon. Screening the entire formation newly commissioned USS Boston (CAG-1) riding shotgun with her Terrier missiles pointed skyward, daring any Beagle or Badger bomber crew to get close. Behind them, in a formation that had been scrapped together at Gibraltar only six days earlier, came the carrier striking force that no war plan had ever been written for: Task Force 30 (RN-French) & 60 (USN) (Carrier Strike Force) Properly named USS Iwo Jima (CVA-42) (TF-60