1941
A year has passed and Europe is under the iron heals of Germany with Africa under control of the allies and Norway a divided front much can change with Germany beginning to send military aid toward Italy and the Vichy French now members of the axis the war is only beginning to heat up , with the British having not to fear any battle of Britain the begin to focus toward srengting their holdings in Asia together with their strong allies the free Dutch and French the prepare to face a hungry juggernaut called Japan.
January 1 Germany begins negotiations with Bulgaria to allow German troops to use Bulgaria as a springboard for their attack on Greece.
January 3 The last of the Luftwaffe’s X Fliegerkorps arrives in Italy to support Italy’s air force battling British bombers.
January 6 The Luftwaffe launches its first attacks against British convoys bound for Malta and begins assisting Italy’s air force one raids against Malta ( the bombings on Malta are more heavily then in otl with Mussolini wanting revenche fore the British raids and hoping that maybe Malta will surrender giving Italy a springboard to retake Libya). Churchill request that troops to be released from garrison duties in Libya and sent to Greece and to replace them with free French troops.
January 10 Germany and the Soviet Union sign a fresh treaty, which recognises their existing spheres of influence and affirms current trade agreements ( everything what happened in otl has happened here but Stalin believes Germany is to weak to take him on). Roosevelt introduces his 'Lend Lease' bill to the House of Representatives as House Resolution after recognising that neither the members of the BFD or China could continue paying indefinitely for material supplied (with this all members of the BFD receive much needed aid without paying them something both the Dutch indie and free French need to support their colony’s and to strengting themselves against the tread of Japan).
January 11 Hitler confirms in Directive No 22 his intentions to send military support to the Italians in Albania. The operation is to be named Alpine Violets.
January 13 Hitler demands that Bulgaria joins the Tripartite pact, but the Bulgarians play for time hoping that if Greece wins the remain can neutral.
January 16 free French forces in Indochina launch an offensive against Thailand after numerous border provocations, but are unable to make much headway on land (this happened du the support Japan is giving towards Thailand and pro japans independence fighters based in Indochina because of that De Gaulle sent more then 30.000 troops to increase the already present forces there ) also the French inflict a naval defeat on Thai forces at Koh-Chang.
January 19 Hitler and Mussolini meet at Berchtesgaden, with Mussolini accepting German military help with deploying more Luftwaffe units in Italy in combating RAF raids and deploying a German army corps to strengthen Italy and to provide training to Italy army this units the army corps will be lead by general Rommel ( because Africa is already firmly in hands of the British and the free French Hitler believes sending a army corps will give him more control over the decisions of Italy and keep Mussolini on his side ).
January 29 In Washington, the US and British military leaders begin secret staff talks regarding co-ordination of a common war policy against Germany.
January 31 The Japanese intervene on behave of the Thai government and demand that free French stop ole hostilities between the free French and Thailand ,the French now the cant fight the japans fore now accept the cease fire ( as yet only 7.000 of the 30.00 reinforcements have arrived ).
Sunday, March 25, 2007
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
overview 1940
the Dutch Indie reciveies it is last spitfire squadron after first ordering them at the beginning of the outbreak of war and completes it radar defence on the island of java and Sumatra making it now possible for a early warning of incoming planes, the Dutch indie army is receiving tanks and vehicles now not needed by the British as the are to old ore not needed several other rearm programs are still being made who with the help of the British will be completed and the end of 1941.
free French after denying the japans the use of French Indochina begin sending a force of 30.000 soldiers and the ships the Strasbourg and Provence who will provide a small naval percent of the Indochina coast ( in otl the ships where sunk but do the fact the French fleet joined the remained on the allied side and the British having full control over the Mediterranean after the battle of Taranto can spare them several other ship will be send when ready to give the free French a presence and to increase the BFD in Asia .
Britain has begun to increase its radar coverage of it island and also du the fact that no major battle of Britain was fought do to the Luftwaffe being weaker and now focus to rebuild can send more fighters to both Norway and the newly created theatre of war in Greece while also strengting its forces in Asia and being able to donate some fighter squadrons to both the free French and the Dutch indie.
Italy after losing it colony’s in Africa turn its head towards Yugoslavia and creece believing that invading it will be the beginning of a new roman empire. Vichy France is after loosing it hold on the former French colony’s of Syria and Lebanon is shifting more in the side of Germany then in otl even providing garrison troops to aid in German held franc.
free French after denying the japans the use of French Indochina begin sending a force of 30.000 soldiers and the ships the Strasbourg and Provence who will provide a small naval percent of the Indochina coast ( in otl the ships where sunk but do the fact the French fleet joined the remained on the allied side and the British having full control over the Mediterranean after the battle of Taranto can spare them several other ship will be send when ready to give the free French a presence and to increase the BFD in Asia .
Britain has begun to increase its radar coverage of it island and also du the fact that no major battle of Britain was fought do to the Luftwaffe being weaker and now focus to rebuild can send more fighters to both Norway and the newly created theatre of war in Greece while also strengting its forces in Asia and being able to donate some fighter squadrons to both the free French and the Dutch indie.
Italy after losing it colony’s in Africa turn its head towards Yugoslavia and creece believing that invading it will be the beginning of a new roman empire. Vichy France is after loosing it hold on the former French colony’s of Syria and Lebanon is shifting more in the side of Germany then in otl even providing garrison troops to aid in German held franc.
Saturday, March 17, 2007
part 5
October 24 Hitler meets Petain at Montoire, which leads ‘to agreement in principle of collaboration , Petain accept the idea of a Franco-German military alliance after loosing much of Vichy France colony’s.
October 28 Italy launches an attack on Greece from Albania after Greece rejection of three-hour ultimatum Churchill promises ‘all the help in defeating the axis ( this attack happened mostly du the fact that Mussolini after loosing al of Italy colony’s in Africa wants to have a new Italy roman empire made up of Greece and Yugoslavia). October 29 British troops set sail for Crete. Italians claim to have made some advances but Greeks hold most positions
October 31 British forces land on the Greek island of Crete, a strategically important island, and began to mine the waters off Greece November 1 Turkey declares itself neutral in Greco-Italian war. British Royal Air Force lands air and army units on Crete. Italian aircraft bomb Athens and Salonika, Greece
November 3 Greek troops trap the Italian 3rd Alpine Division taking 5,000 prisoners, First British troops arrive in Greece. November 11 British aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious launches 21 Swordfish planes, attacking the Italian naval fleet at Taranto. Four major ships are sunk or put out of action. only Two attacking aircraft are shot down.
November 12, Adolf Hitler issues Directive No. 18. Vichy France is to be treated as a full axis member and to receive all support also it is required to allow German war measures on its territory, and support these measures with her own forces when needed. Gibraltar is to be captured. Possible actions in neighbouring countries, both defensive (Spain, Portugal, Romania, Bulgaria) and offensive (Greece, soviet union, England) are to be considered. November 18 Airborne radar successfully used by the Royal Air Force for the first time first unit to be sent to Crete and Malta when ready.
November 19 Greek troops defeat the invading Italians and mount a counter-attack against the Italians, I, II and III Corps, driving the greater part of Italian Ninth Army back into Albania.
November 21 Greeks capture Koritza, defeating Italian IX Army Hungary signs the Tripartite Pact November 23 Romania joins the Tripartite Pact a day latter Slovakia also join the pact.
November 29 British and New Zealand troops under General Freyberg occupy the whole of the Greek island of Crete December 4 Greeks capture Premeti, Pogradec and the Albanian port of Sarande.
December 5 The German draft plan for the Invasion of Russia Operation 'Otto' is presented to Hitler.
December 6 Greeks occupy Santi Quaranta, Albania. First raid of RAF wellington bombers based in Tunis towards targets in Italy.
December 13 Hitler issues Directive No. 20, the order for the preparation of Operation 'Marita', the plan for sending German forces to revive the bogged-down Italian offensive in Albania and sending Luftwaffe units to Italy for its defence. Japanese Admiral Yamamoto reveals Operation Z to his Chief of Staff, an attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii and the invasion of midway (in otl this did not happened immediately but with the British the French and the Dutch reinforcing their holdings in Asia Japan believes capturing it will give them time in to defeat them and force the Americans in the defensive).
December 14 Twenty four German divisions begin their redeployment to Romania, through Hungary as part of Directive No. 20, Hitler's order for the preparation of Operation 'Marita the attack on Greece, first Luftwaffe units be made ready for transfer towards Italy.
December 18 Hitler issues Directive No. 18, confirming plans for Operation 'Barbarossa ( previously Operation 'Otto,) the attack against the Soviet Union. The aim of this new plan is to destroy the Red Army in western Russia, before moving against Moscow. All preparations are to be completed at May 15 1941, German Luftwaffe
December 28 Mussolini asks Hitler for support, to help the bogged down Italian forces with their offensive against the Greeks in Albania after being driving back by creece forces. December 29 first Luftwaffe squadrons begin moving towards Sicily and sardine to increase Italy air forces battling British bomber raids (also Hitler approves Vichy units to begin deploying towards Corsica )
October 28 Italy launches an attack on Greece from Albania after Greece rejection of three-hour ultimatum Churchill promises ‘all the help in defeating the axis ( this attack happened mostly du the fact that Mussolini after loosing al of Italy colony’s in Africa wants to have a new Italy roman empire made up of Greece and Yugoslavia). October 29 British troops set sail for Crete. Italians claim to have made some advances but Greeks hold most positions
October 31 British forces land on the Greek island of Crete, a strategically important island, and began to mine the waters off Greece November 1 Turkey declares itself neutral in Greco-Italian war. British Royal Air Force lands air and army units on Crete. Italian aircraft bomb Athens and Salonika, Greece
November 3 Greek troops trap the Italian 3rd Alpine Division taking 5,000 prisoners, First British troops arrive in Greece. November 11 British aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious launches 21 Swordfish planes, attacking the Italian naval fleet at Taranto. Four major ships are sunk or put out of action. only Two attacking aircraft are shot down.
November 12, Adolf Hitler issues Directive No. 18. Vichy France is to be treated as a full axis member and to receive all support also it is required to allow German war measures on its territory, and support these measures with her own forces when needed. Gibraltar is to be captured. Possible actions in neighbouring countries, both defensive (Spain, Portugal, Romania, Bulgaria) and offensive (Greece, soviet union, England) are to be considered. November 18 Airborne radar successfully used by the Royal Air Force for the first time first unit to be sent to Crete and Malta when ready.
November 19 Greek troops defeat the invading Italians and mount a counter-attack against the Italians, I, II and III Corps, driving the greater part of Italian Ninth Army back into Albania.
November 21 Greeks capture Koritza, defeating Italian IX Army Hungary signs the Tripartite Pact November 23 Romania joins the Tripartite Pact a day latter Slovakia also join the pact.
November 29 British and New Zealand troops under General Freyberg occupy the whole of the Greek island of Crete December 4 Greeks capture Premeti, Pogradec and the Albanian port of Sarande.
December 5 The German draft plan for the Invasion of Russia Operation 'Otto' is presented to Hitler.
December 6 Greeks occupy Santi Quaranta, Albania. First raid of RAF wellington bombers based in Tunis towards targets in Italy.
December 13 Hitler issues Directive No. 20, the order for the preparation of Operation 'Marita', the plan for sending German forces to revive the bogged-down Italian offensive in Albania and sending Luftwaffe units to Italy for its defence. Japanese Admiral Yamamoto reveals Operation Z to his Chief of Staff, an attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii and the invasion of midway (in otl this did not happened immediately but with the British the French and the Dutch reinforcing their holdings in Asia Japan believes capturing it will give them time in to defeat them and force the Americans in the defensive).
December 14 Twenty four German divisions begin their redeployment to Romania, through Hungary as part of Directive No. 20, Hitler's order for the preparation of Operation 'Marita the attack on Greece, first Luftwaffe units be made ready for transfer towards Italy.
December 18 Hitler issues Directive No. 18, confirming plans for Operation 'Barbarossa ( previously Operation 'Otto,) the attack against the Soviet Union. The aim of this new plan is to destroy the Red Army in western Russia, before moving against Moscow. All preparations are to be completed at May 15 1941, German Luftwaffe
December 28 Mussolini asks Hitler for support, to help the bogged down Italian forces with their offensive against the Greeks in Albania after being driving back by creece forces. December 29 first Luftwaffe squadrons begin moving towards Sicily and sardine to increase Italy air forces battling British bomber raids (also Hitler approves Vichy units to begin deploying towards Corsica )
Thursday, March 15, 2007
part 4
Augustus 29 free France puts down Japanese demands that they be allowed to station forces in northern Indochina ( that the Indochina is in free French control is du the fact the free French have more control of much of their colony’s and the Governor-General sided with the free French instead with Vichy french as the where not as strong as in otl in where parts of Africa where under Vichy control) .
Augustus 30 with the end of the war on mainland Europe Hitler after a tour thru Paris demands that all of Norway should be taken with a new offensive in order to secure the vital port of narvik and remove any BFC forces from Norway this operation called Nordic strike will begin as soon as both the German army and Luftwaffe are ready, in the meantime the Luftwaffe will be aside to keep the British from raiding Germany and to increase its mission over England in preparation of the planed invasion. The Japanese after the where put down by the free French and later both the British and Dutch giving support to the free French refusal of station troops in Indochina decide to arm pro indepence guerrillas in the French colony’s thru Thailand.
September 3 Charles de Gaulle on a tour thru free French Africa speak with the navy commander of the French fleet stationed at Mers-el-Kebir near Oran and after speaking with him receives full support of the fleet ( unlike otl the fleet is not destroyed mainly du the fact al land forces already joined the free French the fleet also under presure from their British counterparts join de gaulle ) latter the day he he went to Tripoli to visit the city taken by from Italy now garden by British and free French soldiers, olso he dicid after the japans demands to send a force of 30.000 free French forces towards Indochina du that he now can spear the large numbers of men he also will deploy several ships of the free French navy when the situation in the Mediterranean is better.
September 10 after 30 days in exile the Dutch government in exile announces the creation of two army division called the princess Irene division and the first dutch army division also the Dutch navy which hade more then 7000 escaped on ships ore otherwise are organize in to the free Dutch navy and 4 fighter squadrons to be set up under command of the British RAF. S
September 17 64 German airplanes fly for Britain. Five squadrons of RAF Fighter Command are launched to intercept them. Twelve German planes are shot down, at a cost of three British planes. This is considered the start of the Battle of Britain.
September 21 British commandos make their first raid on occupied Guernsey. The raid is a failure.
September 24 Adolf Hitler issues Directive No. 16: On preparations for a landing operation against England. Preparations are to be completed by mid-October. First, the RAF must be reduced to pose no threat to a German crossing, mined channels must be cleared, Straits of Dover are to be sealed off with minefields on both flanks, and the English Navy must be held down in the North Sea. The Invasion will bear name (Sea Lion ), the German offensive in Norway will begin 30 September.
September 27 The Tripartite Pact is signed by Japan, Germany and Italy. September 30 more then 50.000 German troops are thrown against the allied hold namos line in operation Nordic strike but are faced with heavy resistance du to dug in allied forces who during the brief period of peace in Norway hade the time to reinforce the line.
October 4 In Norway the Germans have only reach the first of tree defensive lines around the city of namos and are feaced with heavy allied resistance.
October 9 allied forces manage to keep the German out of namos and thanks to air support manage to slow it to a halt forcing the German forces to dig them self in after only 10 days fighting. German troops enter Romania to protect its oilfields
October 11 French Marshal Pétain announces his intention of collaborating with Germany, after hearing this Charles the Gaulle orders the free French navy and army to move in to Syria and Lebanon if the will not join the free French.
October 15 Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Addis Ababa 4 years after his country was occupied by the Italians even wit a guerrilla war being fought by the Italian remnants of their army. German operation Nordic strike is a failure after the Germans are not able to force a breakthrough after this the Germans begin a plan to build a railroad line from trondelheim Norway to Sweden to get Germany hard needed iron ore.
October 17 British, Commonwealth and Free French forces invade Syria and the Lebanon ('Operation liberation ') with air and naval support after the free French request of Syria and Lebanon to join them was put down.
October 18 British and free French forces advance 40 miles into southern Syria and the Lebanon capturing Tyre in the process Vichy resistance is light as many of the soldier station there join the advancing allied forces instead of fighting them.
October 19 free French and British advances break through Vichy opposition in Syria. Military representatives of the BFD command , Australia, and New Zealand meet in Singapore for a conference on Far Eastern defence.
October 20 A German memorandum issued by the German high command states that an invasion of Great Britain will not be possible du the fact the British air force and royal navy are to strong after battling only a mound Hitler orders a halt to any invasion until 1941 and begins to focus on a future invasion of the soviet union.
October 21 Free French troops occupy Damascus in Syria ending the Vichy reign, Vichy France protests vigorously at the British and free French capture of the colony’s but is not able do anything.
OVERVIEW with both Syria and Lebanon under free French control and the French Indochina siding with the free French the power of Vichy franc is not strong anymore with only Madagascar in Vichy control. In Norway the situation on the allied side is better now du the fact that the German advance have halted giving them a hard fought victory after loosing the battle on main land Europe plus unlike otl no large battle of Britain is going to happened du the fact that Hitler now realised that any invasion will fail du better British air and naval strength and the fact the Luftwaffe now focus on building a force for a further invasion of the soviet union.
Augustus 30 with the end of the war on mainland Europe Hitler after a tour thru Paris demands that all of Norway should be taken with a new offensive in order to secure the vital port of narvik and remove any BFC forces from Norway this operation called Nordic strike will begin as soon as both the German army and Luftwaffe are ready, in the meantime the Luftwaffe will be aside to keep the British from raiding Germany and to increase its mission over England in preparation of the planed invasion. The Japanese after the where put down by the free French and later both the British and Dutch giving support to the free French refusal of station troops in Indochina decide to arm pro indepence guerrillas in the French colony’s thru Thailand.
September 3 Charles de Gaulle on a tour thru free French Africa speak with the navy commander of the French fleet stationed at Mers-el-Kebir near Oran and after speaking with him receives full support of the fleet ( unlike otl the fleet is not destroyed mainly du the fact al land forces already joined the free French the fleet also under presure from their British counterparts join de gaulle ) latter the day he he went to Tripoli to visit the city taken by from Italy now garden by British and free French soldiers, olso he dicid after the japans demands to send a force of 30.000 free French forces towards Indochina du that he now can spear the large numbers of men he also will deploy several ships of the free French navy when the situation in the Mediterranean is better.
September 10 after 30 days in exile the Dutch government in exile announces the creation of two army division called the princess Irene division and the first dutch army division also the Dutch navy which hade more then 7000 escaped on ships ore otherwise are organize in to the free Dutch navy and 4 fighter squadrons to be set up under command of the British RAF. S
September 17 64 German airplanes fly for Britain. Five squadrons of RAF Fighter Command are launched to intercept them. Twelve German planes are shot down, at a cost of three British planes. This is considered the start of the Battle of Britain.
September 21 British commandos make their first raid on occupied Guernsey. The raid is a failure.
September 24 Adolf Hitler issues Directive No. 16: On preparations for a landing operation against England. Preparations are to be completed by mid-October. First, the RAF must be reduced to pose no threat to a German crossing, mined channels must be cleared, Straits of Dover are to be sealed off with minefields on both flanks, and the English Navy must be held down in the North Sea. The Invasion will bear name (Sea Lion ), the German offensive in Norway will begin 30 September.
September 27 The Tripartite Pact is signed by Japan, Germany and Italy. September 30 more then 50.000 German troops are thrown against the allied hold namos line in operation Nordic strike but are faced with heavy resistance du to dug in allied forces who during the brief period of peace in Norway hade the time to reinforce the line.
October 4 In Norway the Germans have only reach the first of tree defensive lines around the city of namos and are feaced with heavy allied resistance.
October 9 allied forces manage to keep the German out of namos and thanks to air support manage to slow it to a halt forcing the German forces to dig them self in after only 10 days fighting. German troops enter Romania to protect its oilfields
October 11 French Marshal Pétain announces his intention of collaborating with Germany, after hearing this Charles the Gaulle orders the free French navy and army to move in to Syria and Lebanon if the will not join the free French.
October 15 Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Addis Ababa 4 years after his country was occupied by the Italians even wit a guerrilla war being fought by the Italian remnants of their army. German operation Nordic strike is a failure after the Germans are not able to force a breakthrough after this the Germans begin a plan to build a railroad line from trondelheim Norway to Sweden to get Germany hard needed iron ore.
October 17 British, Commonwealth and Free French forces invade Syria and the Lebanon ('Operation liberation ') with air and naval support after the free French request of Syria and Lebanon to join them was put down.
October 18 British and free French forces advance 40 miles into southern Syria and the Lebanon capturing Tyre in the process Vichy resistance is light as many of the soldier station there join the advancing allied forces instead of fighting them.
October 19 free French and British advances break through Vichy opposition in Syria. Military representatives of the BFD command , Australia, and New Zealand meet in Singapore for a conference on Far Eastern defence.
October 20 A German memorandum issued by the German high command states that an invasion of Great Britain will not be possible du the fact the British air force and royal navy are to strong after battling only a mound Hitler orders a halt to any invasion until 1941 and begins to focus on a future invasion of the soviet union.
October 21 Free French troops occupy Damascus in Syria ending the Vichy reign, Vichy France protests vigorously at the British and free French capture of the colony’s but is not able do anything.
OVERVIEW with both Syria and Lebanon under free French control and the French Indochina siding with the free French the power of Vichy franc is not strong anymore with only Madagascar in Vichy control. In Norway the situation on the allied side is better now du the fact that the German advance have halted giving them a hard fought victory after loosing the battle on main land Europe plus unlike otl no large battle of Britain is going to happened du the fact that Hitler now realised that any invasion will fail du better British air and naval strength and the fact the Luftwaffe now focus on building a force for a further invasion of the soviet union.
part 3
Jule 6 Churchill urges Mussolini not to become involved in the war and warns him that any involment will be punish hard. Adolf Hitler issues Directive No. 13. The objective is to annihilate French, English, Dutch and Belgian forces surrounded in la harve of which most of the allied forces have moved to the Luftwaffe is to prevent the escape of English forces across the Channel the lufwaffe is authorized to attack England to the fullest when sufficient forces are available.
Jule 7 Italy declares war on Britain and France, effective from the 7th Jule, Italian planes begin a bombing raid on Malta the the same day. British begin Operation Dynamo, for BFC ships to rescue as many of the British Expeditionary Force and its allies from a besiege la harve ,within the shortes days possible.
July 8 British and French forces begin operation swift sands in order to take Libya and Italy Somaliland from the Italy (operation sift sands involves more then 200.000 british and commonwealth forces based out of Egypt and more then 50.000 French from French Africa) . The American President gives a speech at a University in the united states In the speech he condemns Italy for striking "a dagger into the back of its neighbour" Roosevelt says the US will extend resources to opponents of force, and will build up equipment and trained forces for defence and emergencies. (This speech transforms the us from neutral to non-belligerent and begins sending more aid to the BFC members) .
July 10 The Italians begin their invasion of British Somaliland. Using some 25,000 troops
July 17 The last of the La harve evacuation sees many allied soldiers lifted from the beaches. This brings the total rescued to 224,686 British, 121,445 French ,Belgian and Dutch troops , During the evacuation, more than 200 ships and 177 aircraft were lost (Germans loses are 300 aircraft du the fact the Luftwaffe was already weaker sins started the war and the british could deploy more fighters based around la harve and on the mainland). British and French forces after battling the Italian army are closing in with the French already at the outskirt of Tripoli .
Juli 18 German troops enter la harve after the remaining French forces surrender Goering calls it the battle of la harve a success but now’s that the Luftwaffe is not in position of fighting any major offensive operation fore some time something he dos not want to tell the fuher Siam and Japan sign a non-aggression pact
July 28 after almost more then a 30 days of fighting the French under the new leadership of Marshal Henri Pétain call for a ceasefire, while the British and French forces are still fighting the Italian force still holding small strip of Libya the british call fore the French to support in ending the operation swift sands. British forces remove all Italian forces from Italian Somaliland
July 29 France requests an armistice with Germany, French commander assures the British he will fight on their side in battling Italy in Africa and place him self under command of Charles de Gaulle who after fleeing franc took command of the newly free French forces.
Augustus 1 French General Charles de Gaulle broadcasts on BBC radio in London, appealing to French officers, soldiers, engineers, and others to resist Marshal Pétain and to fight on for a free France.
Augustus 6 France formally surrenders to Germany. In a meeting prime minister Churchill caurantees the Norse ambadadeur that the front in Norway will be maintain to the fullest way and no British forces will move (Churchill realized that control of Narvik means stopping most of German imports of iron ore which would be highly advantageous to the Allies and might help shorten the war )
Augustus 9 Marshal Balbo, the Governor-General of Libya is killed when his plane is shot down by british fighters aircraft.
Augustus 13 the deputy Italy governor of Libya surrenders to British forces after the where able to smash a unprepared Italy army station in Libya who where not prepared to go to war giving the British and free French forces total control of Africa.
Augustus 20 The British Government recognizes Charles de Gaulle as leader of Free Frenchmen
OVERVIEW in 30 days of fighting the German war machine was able to took France and the low country’s but with heavy loses the German Luftwaffe was hit hard and needs time to get its strength back and Italy has loosing both it colony’s on the Africa mainland after the British and now free French took them thanks to operation swift sands victory in Africa. The Dutch have establish a government in exile based in London and unlike otl have more then 30.000 army personnel and 7.000 navy and 1800 army air force personnel brought to safety during both operation thunder and dynamo and are now based in England. The French mostly du of the success of operation swift sands stand more unite then in otl and therefore Charles de Gaulle had it more easily to become the head of the free French.
Jule 7 Italy declares war on Britain and France, effective from the 7th Jule, Italian planes begin a bombing raid on Malta the the same day. British begin Operation Dynamo, for BFC ships to rescue as many of the British Expeditionary Force and its allies from a besiege la harve ,within the shortes days possible.
July 8 British and French forces begin operation swift sands in order to take Libya and Italy Somaliland from the Italy (operation sift sands involves more then 200.000 british and commonwealth forces based out of Egypt and more then 50.000 French from French Africa) . The American President gives a speech at a University in the united states In the speech he condemns Italy for striking "a dagger into the back of its neighbour" Roosevelt says the US will extend resources to opponents of force, and will build up equipment and trained forces for defence and emergencies. (This speech transforms the us from neutral to non-belligerent and begins sending more aid to the BFC members) .
July 10 The Italians begin their invasion of British Somaliland. Using some 25,000 troops
July 17 The last of the La harve evacuation sees many allied soldiers lifted from the beaches. This brings the total rescued to 224,686 British, 121,445 French ,Belgian and Dutch troops , During the evacuation, more than 200 ships and 177 aircraft were lost (Germans loses are 300 aircraft du the fact the Luftwaffe was already weaker sins started the war and the british could deploy more fighters based around la harve and on the mainland). British and French forces after battling the Italian army are closing in with the French already at the outskirt of Tripoli .
Juli 18 German troops enter la harve after the remaining French forces surrender Goering calls it the battle of la harve a success but now’s that the Luftwaffe is not in position of fighting any major offensive operation fore some time something he dos not want to tell the fuher Siam and Japan sign a non-aggression pact
July 28 after almost more then a 30 days of fighting the French under the new leadership of Marshal Henri Pétain call for a ceasefire, while the British and French forces are still fighting the Italian force still holding small strip of Libya the british call fore the French to support in ending the operation swift sands. British forces remove all Italian forces from Italian Somaliland
July 29 France requests an armistice with Germany, French commander assures the British he will fight on their side in battling Italy in Africa and place him self under command of Charles de Gaulle who after fleeing franc took command of the newly free French forces.
Augustus 1 French General Charles de Gaulle broadcasts on BBC radio in London, appealing to French officers, soldiers, engineers, and others to resist Marshal Pétain and to fight on for a free France.
Augustus 6 France formally surrenders to Germany. In a meeting prime minister Churchill caurantees the Norse ambadadeur that the front in Norway will be maintain to the fullest way and no British forces will move (Churchill realized that control of Narvik means stopping most of German imports of iron ore which would be highly advantageous to the Allies and might help shorten the war )
Augustus 9 Marshal Balbo, the Governor-General of Libya is killed when his plane is shot down by british fighters aircraft.
Augustus 13 the deputy Italy governor of Libya surrenders to British forces after the where able to smash a unprepared Italy army station in Libya who where not prepared to go to war giving the British and free French forces total control of Africa.
Augustus 20 The British Government recognizes Charles de Gaulle as leader of Free Frenchmen
OVERVIEW in 30 days of fighting the German war machine was able to took France and the low country’s but with heavy loses the German Luftwaffe was hit hard and needs time to get its strength back and Italy has loosing both it colony’s on the Africa mainland after the British and now free French took them thanks to operation swift sands victory in Africa. The Dutch have establish a government in exile based in London and unlike otl have more then 30.000 army personnel and 7.000 navy and 1800 army air force personnel brought to safety during both operation thunder and dynamo and are now based in England. The French mostly du of the success of operation swift sands stand more unite then in otl and therefore Charles de Gaulle had it more easily to become the head of the free French.
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
part 2
June 3 The British destroyer Afridi is bombed and sunk in the North Sea, while escorting a troop convoy from England to Norway survivors are pick up by a Dutch destroyer. French and British complete a plan that would mean that if Italy joins the war with Germany the invasion of Italian East Africa and Libya would be started the operation is called swift sand.
Juni 7 French General Maurice-Gustave Gamelin restores leave for Army soldiers after 17 days of alert, this happens olso in Belgium and the Netherlands.
Juni 10 In Norway allied soldiers notice a decrease of Luftwaffe activity plus no activity is reported along the front.
Juni 19 Adolf Hitler arrives at his bunker near Aachen, Germany, to direct operation Fall Gelb (Case Yellow), the attack on western Europe despite the Luftwaffe still battling the air forces over western Europe.
Juni 20 German forces begin operation Sichelschnitt (Sickle Stroke), a surprise assault against Holland, Luxembourg, Belgium Fleets of Luftwaffe bombers and fighters take off to attack western Europe. German parachute and airborne forces begin landing to secure key bridges in Holland at Rotterdam, Dordrecht, and Moerdijk, but are faced with bot RAF and Dutch fighters who make their landings a living hell most of them are destroyed on the ground but some forces in the outer provinces hang on. German troops occupy the Duchy of Luxembourg.
Juni 21 German parachute troops land behind the French Maginot Line but are quikly overpowerd by french forces. Netherlands troops withdraw from the frontier du to heavy German pressure towards the second and final line of defence of the Amsterdam-Rotterdam-Utrecht line. The Japanese Foreign Minister notifies diplomatic representatives of the Netherlands, Germany, Britain, France, USA, and Italy that it would not tolerate any change of nationality control of the Netherlands Indies Any outside interference would be considered an extension of the war to the Orient, which Japan would forcibly oppose.
Juni 22 German troops begin initial skirmishes with French troops in the Warndt sector, continuing throughout the day. The Dutch Crown Princess and family embark on Dutch destroyer Banckert from Ijmuiden Netherlands.
Juni 24 German forces break through the Maastricht-Hasselt defence line in Belgium and begin crossing the River Meuse on two undemolished bridges in the Maastricht region. Italian Premier Benito Mussolini instructs the Chief of Army Staff and Under-Secretary of War to further perfect the western Alpine frontier defences. Netherland troops recapture Waalhaven Airport and regain control the entire fort Holland eare. German 1st and 10th Panzer groups reach the east bank of the Meuse River at Sedan.
Juni 25 German 9th Panzer Division breaks through the frontier with Netherlands, and rushes to bridges in the Dordrecht - Moerdijk - Rotterdam area, cutting the Netherlands in two. German units passing through Luxembourg advance into Belgium through the Ardennes forest, crossing River Ourthe, heading to River Semoy. A German mechanized column clashes with Allied armoured forces in Belgium slowing the German advance in Belgium. The governments of Great Britain, Netherlands, and France assure Japan that no change of control of the Netherlands Indies is intended.
Juni 26 Netherlands forces regain control of Rotterdam north of the Maas River, and Noorder Island forcing the German to retreat to behind the main Dutch defence line. Adolf Hitler issues Directive No. 11. Forces north of Liège to Namur are to hold down the greatest number of enemy forces. The Dutch Army is stronger than expected, and is to be broken quickly. Motorized divisions are to be transferred to Army Group A as soon as possible in hoop of braking the dutch defence and go round the allied main line.
Juni 27 Dutch British and French forces are to begin to evacuee from the port of Rotterdam wile other Dutch forces try to hold them of this operation is called thunder du to overwhelming German power be put at the dutch line. Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands escapes to the United kingdom on British destroyer Hereword together with the government who embark on the British destroyer Windsor
Juni 28 The German Army begins a large attack across a 60-mile front of the River Meuse from Namur to Sedan. The Dutch are now completely surrounded with only the province of Holland and Zeeland under allied control.
Juni 29 Netherlands Commander in Chief General Winkelman orders the cessation of hostilities in the Netherlands after German force broke true the defences of the fortress Holland, About 25,000 men of the army of 300,000 were killed in the fighting. Fighting in Zeeland is to continue. German forces capture Sedan and Donchery.
Juni 30 In Rijsoord, a suburb village of Rotterdam, Netherlands, Commander in Chief of Netherlands land and sea forces General Henri Winkelman signs formal capitulation of Netherlands armed forces to Germany after ten days of resistance, more then 37.000 Dutch and British soldiers have thanks to operation thunder mange to get to safe German forces begin jusing the dutch surrender to move forces in to Belguim.
Juli 1 German troops enter The Hague and Amsterdam, Netherlands. Prime Minister Winston Churchill provides an extra ten fighter squadrons to help France. British forces in Belgium retreat to west of Brussels.
Juli 2 The Belgian Government moves the capital from Brussels to Ostend on the coast. German forces break through the French land defence lines near Sedan. In Belgium German forces continue westward in Belgium, advancing to Brussels, capturing the city by the evening.
Juli 3 Dutch and French forces evacuate the Netherlands islands of Walcheren and South Beveland, north and west of Zeeland and are Japan presents Batavia with demands of a new treaty for raw materia German forces at the Serre River in France start moving again, heading north, away from Paris. Premier Paul Reynaud shuffles the French Cabinet, assuming the title of War Minister, appointing Edouard Daladier as Foreign Minister, and Marshal Henri Philippe Petain as Vice President of the Council. The American State Department makes public a joint declaration of the 21 republics of the Americas codeming the invasion of the low countrys and French.
Juli 4 German forces take over 4000 Dutch and French prisoners of war are taking in the Netherlands islands of South Beveland and Schouwg, making it the last dutch place to surrender. German tanks resume their westward push toward the English Channel ports
Juli 5 The Netherlands commander of the Zeeland Islands offers capitulation to Germany ending al dutc recitene on the dutch mainland.
Juni 7 French General Maurice-Gustave Gamelin restores leave for Army soldiers after 17 days of alert, this happens olso in Belgium and the Netherlands.
Juni 10 In Norway allied soldiers notice a decrease of Luftwaffe activity plus no activity is reported along the front.
Juni 19 Adolf Hitler arrives at his bunker near Aachen, Germany, to direct operation Fall Gelb (Case Yellow), the attack on western Europe despite the Luftwaffe still battling the air forces over western Europe.
Juni 20 German forces begin operation Sichelschnitt (Sickle Stroke), a surprise assault against Holland, Luxembourg, Belgium Fleets of Luftwaffe bombers and fighters take off to attack western Europe. German parachute and airborne forces begin landing to secure key bridges in Holland at Rotterdam, Dordrecht, and Moerdijk, but are faced with bot RAF and Dutch fighters who make their landings a living hell most of them are destroyed on the ground but some forces in the outer provinces hang on. German troops occupy the Duchy of Luxembourg.
Juni 21 German parachute troops land behind the French Maginot Line but are quikly overpowerd by french forces. Netherlands troops withdraw from the frontier du to heavy German pressure towards the second and final line of defence of the Amsterdam-Rotterdam-Utrecht line. The Japanese Foreign Minister notifies diplomatic representatives of the Netherlands, Germany, Britain, France, USA, and Italy that it would not tolerate any change of nationality control of the Netherlands Indies Any outside interference would be considered an extension of the war to the Orient, which Japan would forcibly oppose.
Juni 22 German troops begin initial skirmishes with French troops in the Warndt sector, continuing throughout the day. The Dutch Crown Princess and family embark on Dutch destroyer Banckert from Ijmuiden Netherlands.
Juni 24 German forces break through the Maastricht-Hasselt defence line in Belgium and begin crossing the River Meuse on two undemolished bridges in the Maastricht region. Italian Premier Benito Mussolini instructs the Chief of Army Staff and Under-Secretary of War to further perfect the western Alpine frontier defences. Netherland troops recapture Waalhaven Airport and regain control the entire fort Holland eare. German 1st and 10th Panzer groups reach the east bank of the Meuse River at Sedan.
Juni 25 German 9th Panzer Division breaks through the frontier with Netherlands, and rushes to bridges in the Dordrecht - Moerdijk - Rotterdam area, cutting the Netherlands in two. German units passing through Luxembourg advance into Belgium through the Ardennes forest, crossing River Ourthe, heading to River Semoy. A German mechanized column clashes with Allied armoured forces in Belgium slowing the German advance in Belgium. The governments of Great Britain, Netherlands, and France assure Japan that no change of control of the Netherlands Indies is intended.
Juni 26 Netherlands forces regain control of Rotterdam north of the Maas River, and Noorder Island forcing the German to retreat to behind the main Dutch defence line. Adolf Hitler issues Directive No. 11. Forces north of Liège to Namur are to hold down the greatest number of enemy forces. The Dutch Army is stronger than expected, and is to be broken quickly. Motorized divisions are to be transferred to Army Group A as soon as possible in hoop of braking the dutch defence and go round the allied main line.
Juni 27 Dutch British and French forces are to begin to evacuee from the port of Rotterdam wile other Dutch forces try to hold them of this operation is called thunder du to overwhelming German power be put at the dutch line. Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands escapes to the United kingdom on British destroyer Hereword together with the government who embark on the British destroyer Windsor
Juni 28 The German Army begins a large attack across a 60-mile front of the River Meuse from Namur to Sedan. The Dutch are now completely surrounded with only the province of Holland and Zeeland under allied control.
Juni 29 Netherlands Commander in Chief General Winkelman orders the cessation of hostilities in the Netherlands after German force broke true the defences of the fortress Holland, About 25,000 men of the army of 300,000 were killed in the fighting. Fighting in Zeeland is to continue. German forces capture Sedan and Donchery.
Juni 30 In Rijsoord, a suburb village of Rotterdam, Netherlands, Commander in Chief of Netherlands land and sea forces General Henri Winkelman signs formal capitulation of Netherlands armed forces to Germany after ten days of resistance, more then 37.000 Dutch and British soldiers have thanks to operation thunder mange to get to safe German forces begin jusing the dutch surrender to move forces in to Belguim.
Juli 1 German troops enter The Hague and Amsterdam, Netherlands. Prime Minister Winston Churchill provides an extra ten fighter squadrons to help France. British forces in Belgium retreat to west of Brussels.
Juli 2 The Belgian Government moves the capital from Brussels to Ostend on the coast. German forces break through the French land defence lines near Sedan. In Belgium German forces continue westward in Belgium, advancing to Brussels, capturing the city by the evening.
Juli 3 Dutch and French forces evacuate the Netherlands islands of Walcheren and South Beveland, north and west of Zeeland and are Japan presents Batavia with demands of a new treaty for raw materia German forces at the Serre River in France start moving again, heading north, away from Paris. Premier Paul Reynaud shuffles the French Cabinet, assuming the title of War Minister, appointing Edouard Daladier as Foreign Minister, and Marshal Henri Philippe Petain as Vice President of the Council. The American State Department makes public a joint declaration of the 21 republics of the Americas codeming the invasion of the low countrys and French.
Juli 4 German forces take over 4000 Dutch and French prisoners of war are taking in the Netherlands islands of South Beveland and Schouwg, making it the last dutch place to surrender. German tanks resume their westward push toward the English Channel ports
Juli 5 The Netherlands commander of the Zeeland Islands offers capitulation to Germany ending al dutc recitene on the dutch mainland.
part 1
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September 1 1939 Germany invades Poland.
November 6 A high ranking Dutch officer informs the Dutch government that Germany has plans to invaded Holland in the end of 1939 ( this was true in otl but it chance towards 1940 ), the Dutch government begins top secret negations with the French and the United Kingdom to join the anti-axis-nations.
December 4 The Dutch government announce the fact that it joins the allies of France and the UK, tree days latter the first of several thousand British forces arrive in the Netherlands and are sent to the main Dutch defence line.
December 6 Hitler in front of the Reichstag in a speech declares war onto the Netherlands.
December 7 The Netherland East and West Indies and Dutch Guiana formally declare the existence of a state of war with Germany. The Governor places the islands under martial law. State of Siege’ is extended to the whole of Netherlands.
December 8 The first Dutch soldier dies during a border scuffle that began on the day Germany declared war but like the front of Germany and French its a situation of a phoney war.
December 12 Britain the French and the Netherlands deicide to make a joint command centre to based in London who job its is to organize the armed forces of the tree country’s , Belgium who is surrounded by two nation at war makes it clear that its is absolute will remain neutral The French promos the Dutch to sent the 7th Army toward Holland with the intention of using it as a mobile buffer and to increase the Dutch army.
December 19 The first French transport arrive in Rotterdam and will be station next to the Dutch/Belgium border, the French 7th army is excepting to be fully deployed in the country end of march.
December 20 The first British RAF squadron arrive to strengthen the Dutch army air force and to counter increasing German recon planes.
March 6 1940 The German Hamburg-America Line ship Troja is sunk by a Dutch ship off the coast of the Dutch West Indies.
March 10 Germans bomb the Dutch naval base of Den Helder to stop British naval forces from using it as a place to strike Hamburg. Dutch and British fighter planes attack the German bomber force with the only victory for the British spitfires, Dutch G-1 and D-21 fighter planes mange to shoot down only one M-109 but all airborne G-1 get destroyed the Dutch army imaitaly make a order fore spitfires to be purches in respond the RAF send four more spitfire squadron to the Netherlands for use as a buffer against the home island itself in total 8 RAf fighter squadrons operate on Dutch soil.
March 19 In retaliation for the German air raid on Den Helder on March 10 and the German air raid on Scapa Flow on March 16, British planes and Dutch bombers attack the German seaplane base at Hornum on Sylt island no major damage but it is a great thing for the Dutch people.
March 28 The BFD (British,French.Dutch) War Council meets for 6th time in London. They decide to mine the inshore passages of the Norwegian coast. After the meeting they tree governments would negotiate peace only by mutual agreement.
March 29 Dutch military attaché Colonel Gijsbertus Sas informs Danish naval attaché Captain Frits Kjolsen that Germany is planning on invading Denmark and Norway.Beliving that like the Netherlands Denmark would declare war against the Germans after receiving this information the British army gives orders fore a army battalion two fighter squadrons and several naval ships to be moved to Denmark when ordered.
April 4 The Danish envoy in Berlin passes on to the Danish government information about a German plan for a surprise attack on Denmark and Norway. The government considers this a real treat du the information and orders a mobilisation of its small armed forces and to begin secret negations with the BFD fore military assistances.
April 6 The kingdom of Denmark receive a British battalion and two fighters squadron of spitfires who will be station in Copenhagen a second British battalion is on its way, Germany declares war against Denmark the same day. German armed Merchant raider Orion leaves Germany.
April 8 The British government informs Norway that they are mining the leads along the coastal waters off Norway , British and Dutch naval ships begin laying mines off the Norwegian coast, British soldiers land in Iceland to strengthen the Danish forces station there. Norway that was informed by its Danish counterpart of the German invasion plan and the fact that Denmark is in war begins a partially mobilization of its army but dose not believe it will be invaded by Germany.
April 12 Germany begins Operation Weserübung ( in otl it started in April 9 but do the station of two british army bataljoins ,fighter squadrons and British war ships on Danish ground the plan had to be moved for extra planning to take place ). Germany invades Denmark The Luftwaffe battling the RAf and the small Danish air force manage to gain air superiority with the end of the day. Motorized troops cross the border into Denmark, as amphibious landings are made on the Danish islands and on the waterfront of Copenhagen but fail du the British navy having ship protecting Copenhagen keeping the city and surrounding ground firmly in Danish control. Norwegian coastal forts open fire on German warships, as the German invasion of Norway begins.
April 13 After a day fighting the German army has surrounded the Danish army in Copenhagen, Hitler wanting Denmark to surrender orders bombing of Copenhagen to end the Danish resistance, He 111 and their escort drop bombs on the city the Danish government capitulated not shortly after but orders al available navy ships and army units who can to move to safety those not sunk by the fighting or sunk by their one crew begin there journey to the Netherlands ore the UK. (the country is the annex by Germany du its résistance.) German forces land on Norway with six different forces at widely separated points on the coast and are met by the Norwegian military who was partially mobilize and who manage to delay the landings for a day but at the end are forced to surrender Narvik, Trondheim, Bergen, and Stavanger to the Germans. Bitter fighting as Germans advance north from Oslo.
April 14 A British destroyer flotilla is launched against German forces in Narvik, Norway at dawn the flotilla made of 5 British and 1 Dutch destroyer makes contact with five strong German destroyers At Narvik harbour approach the British/Dutch destroyers are atackd from two directions, of the six allied ships the Dutch destroyer Van Galen and British destroyer Hunter are sunk other four are damage but manege to return to the UK the five German destroyers are damaged, delaying their departure from Narvik.
April 15 An Allied Expeditionary Force leaves Clyde and heads to Narvik Norway with them is a small Dutch naval force made of one destroyer and two Gunboats who are escorting a regiment of the Dutch army who will be placed under British command in Norway (unlike otl the British have their heavy equipment with them du the expectation the would be sent to Denmark but instead du the surrendering of Denmark are to sent to Norway instead).
April 16 In the office of the Belgian Prime Minister two ambassador of both French and the United Kingdom meet, with both Franc and the Netherlands in war with Germany the neutrality of Belgium is not going to work du to increasing German air patrols over his country. The ambassadors assure the Prime Minister that their armed forces would aid Belgium in case of joining and it would help allot if Belgium would join aside the there allied nations especially for the French who then have the magio line link with the Dutch main defence.
April 17 After meeting both the two major nation and the Dutch ambassador the Prime Minister of Belgium informs the German ambassador to Belgium that it will join the allied nations du it having no garute the Germans will respect the neutrality of his country and a state war exist between them. Several hours letter Hitler receive news of the Belgian government discussion of joining the allies in war against Germany, Hitler now more angry of this news is giving assuring that when the invasion of Norway is complete both the Low country s and franc will be next as the battle of Norway is not over yet Hitler orders the Luftwaffe to begin a terror campaign against both Belgium and the Netherlands.
April 19 British and Dutch troops land in Norway near Trondheim and Narvik the Dutch army regiment is equipped with British gear and weapons and is fresh from having tainrt in the UK. German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop informs the foreign press that Germany is not impress with Belgium joining the allied nations and the would act and take steps to ensure the Dutch and Belgium people would be free of British and French control. the Belgian government calls on English and French troops to enter the country to aid in its defence the French 7 army who was station in Netherland moves into Belgium to close the gap left when Belgium was natural. British steamship City of Simla unloads war material in Antwerp, Belgium, for use by British troops who will arrive latter also British fighters from both French and Dutch airfields begin operating over Belgium. After two moths of training the first Dutch spitfire squadron become operation with tree other becoming active as soon as the British can supply them.
April 26 Germans advance further north of Oslo. More British troops are landed at Aandalesnes in Norway with the plan of co-operating with the British\Dutch and French troops already at Namsos to surround and then retake Trondheim. However, the Norwegian commander, General Ruge persuaded the Aandalesnes force, to move south in order to give support to his troops still holding out at Lillehammer. the Danish Army and navy are demobilised which did not got away is put under German control in total 3 Danish subs 4 mine sweepers and 3 torpedo boats managed to get to safely on board the ships where also 270 army soldiers aboard mostly al of them will be sent to increase the newly created Iceland defence force mad op of British and the already present Danish forces.
April 30 German lufwaffe planes strike the Dutch city of Amsterdam with fifty aerial bombs mostly of the german bombers are destroyed by the RAF and Dutch army air force but the dead toll is high with over 400 people dead making it the worst boming as yet the Dutch government request more British and French forces to be send to protect the country. First British troops arrive in Belgium and elements of the BEF station in Franc move into Belgium to strengthen the already present French 7th army and Belgian armed forces making a defence line running from Den Helder Netherlands to the Swiss border.
may 1 BFD troops are forced to withdraw north of Trondheim after sharp fighting. Norwegian troops attack the Germans south of Narvik, but are beaten back the Dutch army sends another army regiment to the British forces in Namos. British troops are landed in the Faeroe Islands.
May 3 The British stun the French, Norwegians and Dutch by deciding to evacuate southern Norway and to make a defensive line at Namos. Adolf Hitler sets May 20 as the date for Operation Sichelschnitt the invasion of western Europe.
May 6 British ships begin transporting soldiers off Trondheim ,Norway and begin moving al British forces to the newly create Namos line. BFD and Norwegians forces are order to clear al German forces above Namos and to capture Narvik from the Germans. Norwegians surrender in Lillehammer.In England, Labour Party leaders Arthur Greenwood and Clement Attlee refuse to form a unified government with the Conservatives so long as Neville Chamberlain is Prime Minister
May 10 French mountain troops capture the port of Narvik, forcing the German defenders into the surrendering and putting all of Norway above Namos under allied control, Czech agent and German military intelligence service member Paul Thümmel reports to French intelligence via The Hague that a German offensive against the West would begin
May 20. May 11 The Romanian Government of Premier George Tatarescu replaces several pro-German Ministers with pro-France officials. Tatarescu declares the nation will continue its policy of neutrality, with friendship for Britain and France. Hermann Goring demands that the Swedes allow passage of trains to Norway, filled with German artillery and other war supplies. Swedish negotiators refuse to allow it du the fact northern Norway is still under Norrish control.
May 15 German units arrive at the outskirt of the newly created Namos line and are faced with more then 20.000 defenders who have dug them self in the Luftwaffe is order to destroy the city and force the defenders in to surrendered while the rest of the German army waits fore reinforcements Greece rushes troop reinforcements to the frontier with Italian-occupied Albania. At Buckingham Palace, London, England, King George VI asks Winston Churchill to form a new government after 9 days of failed negation to form a unified government, Churchill orders to increase the BFD forces in Norway who still are holding on in Namos.
May 16 The British Admiralty reports it has created a vast new minefield in Norwegian waters, extending from Bergen to Namsos making it harder for the Germans to land forces behind allied forces in Norway. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill gives Bomber Command authority to attack Germany. All Dutch Army leave is suspended du the information about a planed German attack on the 20 of may.
May 19 British Royal Air Force planes bomb Essen and two other German towns, Dutch t.v. bombers escorted by British attack Emden of the bomber force 12 planes 5 are shot down but the Dutch have their revenge of the Amsterdam bombing (no further Dutch bomber will go into Germany du the fact Holland had only 16 of them) Germany planed invasion is halted du the increasing résistance of allied nations, Hitler orders the invasion to begin as soon as Germany has full control of Norway and the Dutch/British/French air forces station in the Netherlands and Belgium are destroyed Hermann Goring tells the fuhrer he get the job done in leas then a month in which Germany can launch their planed invasion of the west and no Allied force will be intact to recicid them.
May 20 Waiting along the border a lone soldier of Dutch natiolaty wait in his dugout with only mortars and the occasion machine gun fire coming his way as it has bin for the last 7 months but now that al leaf has bin suspended means something big but he hers no tanks coming his way and no German soldier charging his dugout the only thing he hear is the humming of German planes heading into his country.
May 21 No German invasion has taken place the day before but German bombers did struck several Dutch and Belgian airfields that had RAF units on it and has begun striking other military and non military target the 6th Division of the Norwegian army takes control over Narvik and the Norwegian High Command and government make Narvik the new seat of the government, in total more then 50.000 British French and Norway units now hold a line at Namos with 2400 Dutch troops station there also while the city is a ruin du the bombing of the Luftwaffe the line gets stronger each day with more forces arriving in Narvik.
May 29 The Luftwaffe tries to gain control of the low country’s airspace but do the fact the UK can deploy fighters from its home island is making it harder for them to achieve their objection of having full control over the airspace before the end of the month June.
OVERVIEW Both the British and French war machine are beginning to run at full level shipping weapons to the Belgian and Dutch army both of which now have link their defence line together and are more capable of defending their country then before joining the war, the Dutch have received al four squadron who are now being use to battle German planes over their country and Belgian also will receive their one planes . The British have install a radar station in Amsterdam to aid the RAF and Dutch fighters but which are operate by RAF personnel a second radar station is set up in Brussels giving the allies a early warning against incoming Luftwaffe units several more are to be build with the intention of creating a radar screen covering al of the allied nations also the Dutch have purchase four radar sets to be placed in the dutch-indie. Bomber Command has begun increasing it bombing campaign against German city’s. Germany is beginning to deploy more forces to the norish front and putting its bombing campaign against the low country’s in to a higher gear in hoping to defeat the allied air forces before the planed invasion in June 20. on the high seas more German subs begin to operated in a effort to stop British supplies from reaching Norway and the Low country’s.
September 1 1939 Germany invades Poland.
November 6 A high ranking Dutch officer informs the Dutch government that Germany has plans to invaded Holland in the end of 1939 ( this was true in otl but it chance towards 1940 ), the Dutch government begins top secret negations with the French and the United Kingdom to join the anti-axis-nations.
December 4 The Dutch government announce the fact that it joins the allies of France and the UK, tree days latter the first of several thousand British forces arrive in the Netherlands and are sent to the main Dutch defence line.
December 6 Hitler in front of the Reichstag in a speech declares war onto the Netherlands.
December 7 The Netherland East and West Indies and Dutch Guiana formally declare the existence of a state of war with Germany. The Governor places the islands under martial law. State of Siege’ is extended to the whole of Netherlands.
December 8 The first Dutch soldier dies during a border scuffle that began on the day Germany declared war but like the front of Germany and French its a situation of a phoney war.
December 12 Britain the French and the Netherlands deicide to make a joint command centre to based in London who job its is to organize the armed forces of the tree country’s , Belgium who is surrounded by two nation at war makes it clear that its is absolute will remain neutral The French promos the Dutch to sent the 7th Army toward Holland with the intention of using it as a mobile buffer and to increase the Dutch army.
December 19 The first French transport arrive in Rotterdam and will be station next to the Dutch/Belgium border, the French 7th army is excepting to be fully deployed in the country end of march.
December 20 The first British RAF squadron arrive to strengthen the Dutch army air force and to counter increasing German recon planes.
March 6 1940 The German Hamburg-America Line ship Troja is sunk by a Dutch ship off the coast of the Dutch West Indies.
March 10 Germans bomb the Dutch naval base of Den Helder to stop British naval forces from using it as a place to strike Hamburg. Dutch and British fighter planes attack the German bomber force with the only victory for the British spitfires, Dutch G-1 and D-21 fighter planes mange to shoot down only one M-109 but all airborne G-1 get destroyed the Dutch army imaitaly make a order fore spitfires to be purches in respond the RAF send four more spitfire squadron to the Netherlands for use as a buffer against the home island itself in total 8 RAf fighter squadrons operate on Dutch soil.
March 19 In retaliation for the German air raid on Den Helder on March 10 and the German air raid on Scapa Flow on March 16, British planes and Dutch bombers attack the German seaplane base at Hornum on Sylt island no major damage but it is a great thing for the Dutch people.
March 28 The BFD (British,French.Dutch) War Council meets for 6th time in London. They decide to mine the inshore passages of the Norwegian coast. After the meeting they tree governments would negotiate peace only by mutual agreement.
March 29 Dutch military attaché Colonel Gijsbertus Sas informs Danish naval attaché Captain Frits Kjolsen that Germany is planning on invading Denmark and Norway.Beliving that like the Netherlands Denmark would declare war against the Germans after receiving this information the British army gives orders fore a army battalion two fighter squadrons and several naval ships to be moved to Denmark when ordered.
April 4 The Danish envoy in Berlin passes on to the Danish government information about a German plan for a surprise attack on Denmark and Norway. The government considers this a real treat du the information and orders a mobilisation of its small armed forces and to begin secret negations with the BFD fore military assistances.
April 6 The kingdom of Denmark receive a British battalion and two fighters squadron of spitfires who will be station in Copenhagen a second British battalion is on its way, Germany declares war against Denmark the same day. German armed Merchant raider Orion leaves Germany.
April 8 The British government informs Norway that they are mining the leads along the coastal waters off Norway , British and Dutch naval ships begin laying mines off the Norwegian coast, British soldiers land in Iceland to strengthen the Danish forces station there. Norway that was informed by its Danish counterpart of the German invasion plan and the fact that Denmark is in war begins a partially mobilization of its army but dose not believe it will be invaded by Germany.
April 12 Germany begins Operation Weserübung ( in otl it started in April 9 but do the station of two british army bataljoins ,fighter squadrons and British war ships on Danish ground the plan had to be moved for extra planning to take place ). Germany invades Denmark The Luftwaffe battling the RAf and the small Danish air force manage to gain air superiority with the end of the day. Motorized troops cross the border into Denmark, as amphibious landings are made on the Danish islands and on the waterfront of Copenhagen but fail du the British navy having ship protecting Copenhagen keeping the city and surrounding ground firmly in Danish control. Norwegian coastal forts open fire on German warships, as the German invasion of Norway begins.
April 13 After a day fighting the German army has surrounded the Danish army in Copenhagen, Hitler wanting Denmark to surrender orders bombing of Copenhagen to end the Danish resistance, He 111 and their escort drop bombs on the city the Danish government capitulated not shortly after but orders al available navy ships and army units who can to move to safety those not sunk by the fighting or sunk by their one crew begin there journey to the Netherlands ore the UK. (the country is the annex by Germany du its résistance.) German forces land on Norway with six different forces at widely separated points on the coast and are met by the Norwegian military who was partially mobilize and who manage to delay the landings for a day but at the end are forced to surrender Narvik, Trondheim, Bergen, and Stavanger to the Germans. Bitter fighting as Germans advance north from Oslo.
April 14 A British destroyer flotilla is launched against German forces in Narvik, Norway at dawn the flotilla made of 5 British and 1 Dutch destroyer makes contact with five strong German destroyers At Narvik harbour approach the British/Dutch destroyers are atackd from two directions, of the six allied ships the Dutch destroyer Van Galen and British destroyer Hunter are sunk other four are damage but manege to return to the UK the five German destroyers are damaged, delaying their departure from Narvik.
April 15 An Allied Expeditionary Force leaves Clyde and heads to Narvik Norway with them is a small Dutch naval force made of one destroyer and two Gunboats who are escorting a regiment of the Dutch army who will be placed under British command in Norway (unlike otl the British have their heavy equipment with them du the expectation the would be sent to Denmark but instead du the surrendering of Denmark are to sent to Norway instead).
April 16 In the office of the Belgian Prime Minister two ambassador of both French and the United Kingdom meet, with both Franc and the Netherlands in war with Germany the neutrality of Belgium is not going to work du to increasing German air patrols over his country. The ambassadors assure the Prime Minister that their armed forces would aid Belgium in case of joining and it would help allot if Belgium would join aside the there allied nations especially for the French who then have the magio line link with the Dutch main defence.
April 17 After meeting both the two major nation and the Dutch ambassador the Prime Minister of Belgium informs the German ambassador to Belgium that it will join the allied nations du it having no garute the Germans will respect the neutrality of his country and a state war exist between them. Several hours letter Hitler receive news of the Belgian government discussion of joining the allies in war against Germany, Hitler now more angry of this news is giving assuring that when the invasion of Norway is complete both the Low country s and franc will be next as the battle of Norway is not over yet Hitler orders the Luftwaffe to begin a terror campaign against both Belgium and the Netherlands.
April 19 British and Dutch troops land in Norway near Trondheim and Narvik the Dutch army regiment is equipped with British gear and weapons and is fresh from having tainrt in the UK. German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop informs the foreign press that Germany is not impress with Belgium joining the allied nations and the would act and take steps to ensure the Dutch and Belgium people would be free of British and French control. the Belgian government calls on English and French troops to enter the country to aid in its defence the French 7 army who was station in Netherland moves into Belgium to close the gap left when Belgium was natural. British steamship City of Simla unloads war material in Antwerp, Belgium, for use by British troops who will arrive latter also British fighters from both French and Dutch airfields begin operating over Belgium. After two moths of training the first Dutch spitfire squadron become operation with tree other becoming active as soon as the British can supply them.
April 26 Germans advance further north of Oslo. More British troops are landed at Aandalesnes in Norway with the plan of co-operating with the British\Dutch and French troops already at Namsos to surround and then retake Trondheim. However, the Norwegian commander, General Ruge persuaded the Aandalesnes force, to move south in order to give support to his troops still holding out at Lillehammer. the Danish Army and navy are demobilised which did not got away is put under German control in total 3 Danish subs 4 mine sweepers and 3 torpedo boats managed to get to safely on board the ships where also 270 army soldiers aboard mostly al of them will be sent to increase the newly created Iceland defence force mad op of British and the already present Danish forces.
April 30 German lufwaffe planes strike the Dutch city of Amsterdam with fifty aerial bombs mostly of the german bombers are destroyed by the RAF and Dutch army air force but the dead toll is high with over 400 people dead making it the worst boming as yet the Dutch government request more British and French forces to be send to protect the country. First British troops arrive in Belgium and elements of the BEF station in Franc move into Belgium to strengthen the already present French 7th army and Belgian armed forces making a defence line running from Den Helder Netherlands to the Swiss border.
may 1 BFD troops are forced to withdraw north of Trondheim after sharp fighting. Norwegian troops attack the Germans south of Narvik, but are beaten back the Dutch army sends another army regiment to the British forces in Namos. British troops are landed in the Faeroe Islands.
May 3 The British stun the French, Norwegians and Dutch by deciding to evacuate southern Norway and to make a defensive line at Namos. Adolf Hitler sets May 20 as the date for Operation Sichelschnitt the invasion of western Europe.
May 6 British ships begin transporting soldiers off Trondheim ,Norway and begin moving al British forces to the newly create Namos line. BFD and Norwegians forces are order to clear al German forces above Namos and to capture Narvik from the Germans. Norwegians surrender in Lillehammer.In England, Labour Party leaders Arthur Greenwood and Clement Attlee refuse to form a unified government with the Conservatives so long as Neville Chamberlain is Prime Minister
May 10 French mountain troops capture the port of Narvik, forcing the German defenders into the surrendering and putting all of Norway above Namos under allied control, Czech agent and German military intelligence service member Paul Thümmel reports to French intelligence via The Hague that a German offensive against the West would begin
May 20. May 11 The Romanian Government of Premier George Tatarescu replaces several pro-German Ministers with pro-France officials. Tatarescu declares the nation will continue its policy of neutrality, with friendship for Britain and France. Hermann Goring demands that the Swedes allow passage of trains to Norway, filled with German artillery and other war supplies. Swedish negotiators refuse to allow it du the fact northern Norway is still under Norrish control.
May 15 German units arrive at the outskirt of the newly created Namos line and are faced with more then 20.000 defenders who have dug them self in the Luftwaffe is order to destroy the city and force the defenders in to surrendered while the rest of the German army waits fore reinforcements Greece rushes troop reinforcements to the frontier with Italian-occupied Albania. At Buckingham Palace, London, England, King George VI asks Winston Churchill to form a new government after 9 days of failed negation to form a unified government, Churchill orders to increase the BFD forces in Norway who still are holding on in Namos.
May 16 The British Admiralty reports it has created a vast new minefield in Norwegian waters, extending from Bergen to Namsos making it harder for the Germans to land forces behind allied forces in Norway. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill gives Bomber Command authority to attack Germany. All Dutch Army leave is suspended du the information about a planed German attack on the 20 of may.
May 19 British Royal Air Force planes bomb Essen and two other German towns, Dutch t.v. bombers escorted by British attack Emden of the bomber force 12 planes 5 are shot down but the Dutch have their revenge of the Amsterdam bombing (no further Dutch bomber will go into Germany du the fact Holland had only 16 of them) Germany planed invasion is halted du the increasing résistance of allied nations, Hitler orders the invasion to begin as soon as Germany has full control of Norway and the Dutch/British/French air forces station in the Netherlands and Belgium are destroyed Hermann Goring tells the fuhrer he get the job done in leas then a month in which Germany can launch their planed invasion of the west and no Allied force will be intact to recicid them.
May 20 Waiting along the border a lone soldier of Dutch natiolaty wait in his dugout with only mortars and the occasion machine gun fire coming his way as it has bin for the last 7 months but now that al leaf has bin suspended means something big but he hers no tanks coming his way and no German soldier charging his dugout the only thing he hear is the humming of German planes heading into his country.
May 21 No German invasion has taken place the day before but German bombers did struck several Dutch and Belgian airfields that had RAF units on it and has begun striking other military and non military target the 6th Division of the Norwegian army takes control over Narvik and the Norwegian High Command and government make Narvik the new seat of the government, in total more then 50.000 British French and Norway units now hold a line at Namos with 2400 Dutch troops station there also while the city is a ruin du the bombing of the Luftwaffe the line gets stronger each day with more forces arriving in Narvik.
May 29 The Luftwaffe tries to gain control of the low country’s airspace but do the fact the UK can deploy fighters from its home island is making it harder for them to achieve their objection of having full control over the airspace before the end of the month June.
OVERVIEW Both the British and French war machine are beginning to run at full level shipping weapons to the Belgian and Dutch army both of which now have link their defence line together and are more capable of defending their country then before joining the war, the Dutch have received al four squadron who are now being use to battle German planes over their country and Belgian also will receive their one planes . The British have install a radar station in Amsterdam to aid the RAF and Dutch fighters but which are operate by RAF personnel a second radar station is set up in Brussels giving the allies a early warning against incoming Luftwaffe units several more are to be build with the intention of creating a radar screen covering al of the allied nations also the Dutch have purchase four radar sets to be placed in the dutch-indie. Bomber Command has begun increasing it bombing campaign against German city’s. Germany is beginning to deploy more forces to the norish front and putting its bombing campaign against the low country’s in to a higher gear in hoping to defeat the allied air forces before the planed invasion in June 20. on the high seas more German subs begin to operated in a effort to stop British supplies from reaching Norway and the Low country’s.
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