January 1 The United Nations of the 26 allied countries, sign a UN Declaration in Washington of co-operation and no separate peace also this new alliance called the united nation now become the main alince of the allied nation with the BFD merging into it.
January 2 under precure from the soviet union now the have lose Moscow the British and Norway declare war against Finland the sam day shelling and bombers based in Norway begin making runs in Finland who now believing that the British/Norrish divisions are going to invaded order divisions who are fighting the soviets in Murmansk to move to the finish/Norway border.( on the namos line everything is quit as most of the German forces are in the east fighting and both side are not strong in of to engage in a major offensive).
January 3 Churchill and Roosevelt announce the unified ABDAf (American, British, Dutch and Australian, French) Command in the Southwest Pacific, under General Wavell, with Lieutenant General Brett as his deputy ( the French are still fighting in French Indochina and therefore unlike otl the are members of this command). The free French ships the Strasbourg and Provence who where to engage the large japans fleet caring the 30.000 troops who are to land at upper French Indochina engage the japanese in the batle that follows the Strasbourg is sunk will the Provence is damage after that she is ordered to move together with the cruiser Lamotte-Piquet to safety and heads to Singapore before moving to australia, the Japanese now land their forces unopposed and in a day battle capturing the city of Hanoi ( most of the French forces are fighting the Thai/Japanese spearhead that divided the colony and who now with the upper French Indochina in hands of the Japanese can move to attack the down part of the colony).
January 4 the city of Murmansk is saved when some finish army units where ordered to defend Finland from invasion from Norway, with no help from the finish the German siege is broken by newly arriving soviet forces in Murmansk , Hitler after almost loosing Moscow from the soviet orders the Vichy first and second corps to move in to helping defend it while the Germans now the can hold on to Moscow much longer the generals do as Hitler want them do ( more soviet forces are preparing behind the defense line outside Moscow and if everything goes ready the Zhukov army as it is called will begin its big offensive in April to free Moscow from the Germans).
January 5 after a year of top secret building the sucsceror of the fw190 the fw200 is presented to Goering and Hitler using teclonogy from captured British planes and from the lesson learned in the battle of France and the low country’s (the fw 200 is in fact a fw 190 on steroids as it has a Maximum speed of 700 km at 6.600 m and 740 km at 11.300 m with a range of 935 km the plane will join the fw 190 in combating the British over the skies in Italy and the eastern front ,the Messerschmitt Me 309 is olso a new fighter plane that will become in service to replace the Messerschmitt Bf 109 unlike in otl where it was canceled here it will be build ).
January 6 Roosevelt announces that US forces are to be based in UK and French/British Africa. German 9th and 11th army are ordered by Hitler to stay before moving to capturing Stalingrad
January 11 The Japanese invasion of the Dutch East Indies begins with landings at Tarakan (Borneo) and Manado (Celebes) Dutch and Australians troops move in to intercept ( the Dutch unlike otl have a army division and one Australia army division station there as their main force on Borneo with a spitfire squadron station at Singkawang airfield there mission is to slow the Japanese down so that java and Sumatra defense can be ready at time ). January 12 Japan formally declares war on the Dutch East Indies. the French governor of French indochina surrenders to the japans after the free French army was unable to halt the Thai/Japanese advance with most of the country captured and more the 12.300 of the 80.000 French defenders dead ore wounded ( the Japanese now after capturing French Indochina begin to move to the border of Burma will leaving much of the Thai army in Indochina as garrison troops )
January 13 the Dutch government in exile in London declares war on Japan.
January 14 General Wavell arrives at Batavia in Java to setup ABDAf headquarters. At the so called Arcadia Conference held in Washington, President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill agree to concentrate the Allied war effort on the European theatre and to first aid the soviet in helping them halt the German advances before starting any major campaign.
January 15 The Japanese begin their invasion of Burma from Thailand, They quickly capture the British airfields around Tenasserim, enabling Japanese fighters to now escort bomber attacks against Rangoon ( not all of the forces that captured French Indochina are taking part but the forces that attack Burma are newly arrived troops who will be latter strengthen with the troops still Indochina)
January 16 the first 200 p40 Italian tanks become operation to be deployed with the Italian forces at the east front ( the p50 a German licensed panzer 4 is almost ready to be produce with the first Macchi fighter becoming operation in the Italian fighter squadrons ( the battle of Italy is still going on with the RAF and free French flying combat sortie over Italy and trying to keep air superiority over Malta ).
January 19 General Wavell tells Churchill that Singapore is ready as can be with their landward facing defences who are now manned by commonwealth troops ( unlike otl construction of the Singapore line began in 1940 using the lessons learned from the namos line in Norway) General Wavell orders General Percival to prepare Singapore Island for a siege. Japanese troop capture Tavoy as their advance continues in Burma. January 20 The Japanese have now secured all of British North Borneo ( one day later then in otl du to much heavier resistance). January 21 The Japanese bomb New Guinea for the first time (no Dutch fighter squadrons are based there) January 22 more Reinforcements reach Singapore as an Indian Brigade is landed two later the British 18th Division is arrive.
January 23 Japanese troops make landings at the island of New Britain and the island of New Ireland. They also make a simultaneous landing on Bougainville Island in the Solomons. In the Dutch East Indies, the Japanese land at Kendari in Celebes. Australia and the Dutch Indies call to both Britain and the US to send immediate reinforcements ( mostly al of the Dutch forces are station on java and Sumatra with several battalions station on the smaller islands ). A Japanse submarine Shell the Californian coast.
January 24 Japanese troops land at Balikpapan in Dutch Borneo but receive counter fire from Dutch division there with the Australian station along the border to prevent any further japans up march from British Borneo ( the japans now there is only one brigade of the Dutch station in Balikpapan but the did not now that the spitfire squadron is still active hampering their goal in capturing the city)
January 25 Japanese troops begin landings in New Guinea.
January 27 Japanese troops land at Pemangkat on the west coast of Dutch Borneo ( the Dutch and Austrian army division are moving towards the coast of Dutch Borneo but still are somewhat stronger than the Japanese but the Dutch fighter squadron is no longer a fitting force with only 3 of the 30 planes operation mostly have bin destroyed ore are damege).
January 30 Japanese forces capture the important naval base of Amboina between Celebes and New Guinea
January 31 British and Commonwealth forces complete their evacuation of Malaya and withdraw to Singapore Island across the causeway with the Japanese only 8 miles away. Singapore now having eight divisions to defend it ( in otl there where only four but the Australians have more then 2 division plus India has two du the fact the can spare them as no fighting happens in Africa )
February 4 The British refuse to surrender at Singapore, heavy bombardment by the Japanese continues for 4 days
February 7 the commander at Singapore, says city will be held to the last man. The Japanese launch a feint landing on Pulua Ubin Island to the east of Singapore but is repel forcing the japans back in the sea ( the bombing begins to show their effect will holding the japans out of the city the are now surrounded by the japans).
February 10 Wavell makes a visit to Singapore, but by now he knows the city can hold out much longer. First meeting of Pacific War Council in London with the Dutch the French, New Zealand, Australian and UK representatives.
February 13 Japanese long range submarine shells city of Santa Barbara killing the first us citizen on main land America causing fear of a impeding Japanese invasion fleets coming to invaded California ( Japan wants to force the us in to the defence in keeping much of the us forces near the us coast giving the Japanese the room to complete their conquests ).
February 14 The Japanese being their invasion of Sumatra with a attempted airborne landing at Palembang but are detected by the two radar station on Sumatra giving the Dutch spitfires and brewster f2a and british Hawker Hurricanes time to intercept and in the dogfight time to shoot them down before the ménage to droop their Para troops ( the British have learned a lot of the failed Grete landings and the Dutch had build their air defense up sins the Germans declare war in 1939 against the Dutch homeland giving them two year instead of only one to become more independent.)
February 15 with no enemy forces a live on Sumatra the Dutch ,British and Australian troops can prepare them self for a invasion by sea with the Dutch/Australian army division on Dutch Borneo having surrendered the now have to face a invasion by sea with the japanes a day away ( because the invasion fleet in otl came from French Indochina and here the French have only surrendered one month ago the japans fleet has to move from Thailand instead ).
February 16 HNLMS De Ruyter, HNLMS Java and HNLMS Tromp, HMS Exeter, HMAS Hobart and 10 destroyers, under command of Admiral Karel Doorman, make an attempt to intercept the Japanese force while the japanes have carrier support from the Ryujo the Dutch and their allies have also got air support from bases in Sumatra and java forcing the japans fleet to abort the attempt to invade Sumatra ( the Dutch after having won the air battle of Sumatra the previous day and with the help of some new British air reinforcements manage to counter the japans air power and help the fleet of karel doorman in blocking the japans landing attempt).
Febuary 19 The battle of Lumbok Strait results in narrow Japanese victory, as an Allied naval squadron attempts to prevent the Japanese landing on Bali. The Allies lose 1 Dutch destroyer sunk and 1 Dutch cruisers and a US destroyer are damaged Will the Japanese loss one destroyer from bombers and fighter planes based from java. Japanese Carrier based planes raid Darwin in northern Australia, inflicting severe damage to the port.
February 18 after two days with Sumatra clear after the Japanese where forced to abort their landings on Sumatra more British and Australians army divisions arrive with the japans beginning their first combat operation from occupied Borneo against Sumatra.
February 19 Darwin, Australia is attacked twice in one day by Japanese aircraft
February 25 Singapore surrenders to the Japanese, a decision prompted as much as anything by the plight of the 1,000,000 civilian inhabitants of the island as of the 21,400 British, Australian and commonwealth troops killed more then 140,000 of them are captured, The Japanese casualties amount to around 19,670 killed or wounded ( even du the defence line and eight divisions the city could not be hold the only different with the otl is that the city survived ten days longer but also received a higher killed and captured soldiers rate).
February 26 The Australian Prime Minister calls the surrender of Singapore ‘Australia’s Dunkirk’ ( there whore more then tree Australia’s army divisions station at Singapore).
February 28 fearing the strong presence of allied forces and having more fighter and troops station there and after the failed attempt to land forces at Sumatra the invasion of java is cancelled with a new tactic to gain air supporty from bases in Borneo and then to land a much larger japans force from there ( the japans can if the want to land as the have better ships but the British and Dutch have more fighter squadrons station on java and have radar to guide their planes to the target and have therefore local air supporty over both java and Sumatra and the battle of java sea never took place like otl ). Al japans landings in the Philippines and in new Guinea are happening like in the otl
March 2 The Dutch take supreme command of all allied forces in Southwest Pacific after the still with their allies are holding on the java and Sumatra while the japans attention haze shifted toward capturing al of the New Guinea ( because the landing of java and Sumatra failed the japans are now throwing the force that was suppose to land on java against new Guinea). the us begins hastily preparation of landing a force on midway supported by the aircraft Carriers Lexington and Yorktown and a force of 1.000 soldiers to hop in liberating the island as the fear that midway can be jus to bomb Hawaii and the us eastern coast.
March 3 RAF Bomber Command, under its new C-in-C, Air Vice Marshal Harris orders the renewal of bombing campaign against Germany (mostly the British attack the French coast in trying to stop the German subs from being used there as no battle of Britain was don in this timeline neither the British nor Germans attack any major city something with the new vice marshal is about the chance).
March 10 Japanese troops make landings at Finschhafen in New Guinea. They also occupy Buka in the Solomon Islands. Japanese aircraft attack Port Moresby in Papua with the attempt of sofning it up for capture. Second battle of midway begins as aircraft from the American Aircraft Carriers Lexington and Yorktown who are escorting a hastly prepard landing force begin there attacks against the Japanese on midway but the japans who new that the Americans would try to take midway back had two carries on standby and land base fighters based now on midway in the battle avalbile, one japans carrier is damage but the Yorktown is sunk with only one American carrier remaining and no posalbilaty to land the landing force sucseful order is giving to return to Hawaii to defend it as the Americans believe Japan will invade the island ( at this time the Japanese garrison is only 1.000 strong du the size of the island with a small detachment of fighter planes to defend it as most of the large forces have move on to attack the Dutch indie , the japans keep at leas 1 carrier on rotation guarding the island but the japans now that a next attack the cannot hold and need to use midway to the full for the time the have left.)
March 13 The Red Army launches an major attack against Army Group B from the Kerch peninsula in the eastern Crimea in hope of getting back full control over the Crimea. March 14 first US troops arrive in Australia in force before being split to go to defend the remaining free Dutch indies and Australia ( as yet only 90.000 Dutch and 20.000 British and 40.000 Commonwealth forces are on java and Sumatra both but the first us troops will arrive end march ).
March 15 The Japanese begin an intensive bombing campaign against Batavia in java wit the intend of luring allied planes in to battle against the japans bomber escorts ( will the Dutch have lose a lot of planes in defending their islands the British can send them new owns and the fact that the now are reinforce with new British fighters squadrons and US give them the edge to hold one ).
March 20 The Red Army counter offensive at Kerch in the Crimea is defeated with heavy losses to the Russians by both the 9th and 11th army who are dug in there.
March 23 Port Moresby is again attacked by Japanese aircraft March 26 four H6K4 depart from midway in the middle of the night and after a long journey drop their bombs on san Francisco dropping their payloads on the city causing more then 97 Americans to die in the city, san Francisco who was already on a black out suffers the first major attack sins the war of 1812 the four H6K4 have only receive light aa fire manage to return to midway before being refuel in the Pacific Ocean by a Japanese submarine( the Japanese launch this operation called flaming sword after the US fleet that was sent to reinvaded midway was destroyed, Japan believe hitting san Francisco needed to be done in the time the had left on controlling midway ).
March 27 in a speech the president of the united states says that what happen on march 26th was something that showed the Japanese would hit at the united states and compared the san Francisco raid with the pearl harbour raid as a day that will live on infamy and that now all of the United states people should unity more than ever before ( the death toll haze risen to 112 and all US coastal city are to receive large aa protection while the entire eastern US seaboard is ordered to black-out its lights at night, in an attempt to reduce the success of a follow up of the san Francisco raid and prevent the success of U-boats hitting ships and shell the coast at night, planes for a second attempt to reinvaded midway are being made but this time a 3 days b-17 bombing campaign to level the japans 1,000 garrison and to destroy the airfield are to be taken place first fore the second faze 3 carriers are needed carrier Lexington will be deployed to guard and intercept any raid on san Francisco wile the Hornet and Enterprise will launch a air attack on Tokyo fore retaliation for Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and san Francisco and after that will link up with the Lexington fore the invasion, the strike on Tokyo was already being planed fore April 18 while the invasion of midway as al goes to plan will begin end April to allow the carriers time to regroup the operation will be named third wave )
March 28 RAF Bomber Command again attacks the Tirpitz at floro Norway ( trondelheim is being used by the German to transport iron ore to germany and therefore the Tirpitz is Anker in floro to intercept any British ship tat has plans to attack trondelheim). Under the new tactical doctrine of area saturation bombing, introduced by Air Vice Marshal Harris, the RAF launches its first all out bombing on mainland Europe (minus Italy who is being bombed) sins 1940, attack (234 bombers) against Lübeck on the Baltic that devastates 265 acres of the old city. The RAF lost 13 aircraft and from one of these the Germans were able to obtain their first specimen of the GEE equipment. In retaliation for the raid on Lübeck, Hitler orders the Luftwaffe to begin bombing British towns and cities.
March 29 The Pacific War Council is set up in Washington, with representatives from Britain, Australia, Canada, China, New Zealand, Netherlands, Philippines the French and the US March 30 The Allies formally divide the Pacific theatre into two commands. General MacArthur takes control of the South-West Pacific Command based in Australia and covering the Philippines, new Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago and the Dutch East Indies. The second command covered the remainder of the Pacific and came under the control of Admiral Nimitz, will be based at Pearl Harbor. His Pacific Ocean Command is then sub divided in to three, which are the North, Central and South Pacific Areas with karel doorman becoming second in command of the south pacific area du the fact that the Dutch holding Sumatra and java. overview Mostly al German advance are normal escape the fact the hold Leningrad the Crimea and of course Moscow the japans after winning the second battle of midway and launching their raid on san Francisco now that the US will strike at the island and therefore the leaf only one carrier and the few planes on midway to guard the 1.000 strong japans garrison
April 1 First U.S. troops arrive in Dutch indie
April 2 Axis air forces begin a bombing campaign against La Valetta the British naval base on Malta in hoops to prevent any ships from getting aid the tiny island ( Malta is suffering much worst bombing runs by the axis against them then it suffered in otl the royal navy is still amble du resupely the island of Malta du the fact the Italian navy still stay mostly in port or com only out fore small egaments).
April 5 180 Japanese planes from five aircraft carriers attack the Royal Navy's base at Colombo in Ceylon task with destroying the Royal Navy's Fleet in the Indian Ocean. However, the British received prior warning and sailed the bulk of their fleet to the Maldives, although the armed merchant cruiser Hector and destroyer Tenedos were sunk. Fifty-three Japanese carrier-aircraft did however locate and sink the Royal Navy's heavy cruisers Dorsetshire and Cornwall, to the south east of Ceylon.
April 7 the first fw 200 squadron arrive in Italy to battle the British hurricanes and spitfire with more range and higher speed then the fw 190 the fw 200 must give the German control over Italy ( several squadrons are also station in France to guard against British bomber raids against the French coast )
April 15 During its darkest hours, the Malta is awarded the George Cross for "heroism and devotion" by King George VI. This is in recognition of the way in which the Maltese people have stood up to more than 3,500 bombing raids and constant shortages over the past twelve month
April 18 Doolittle air raid from the HORNET against Tokyo April 19 the Zhukov army outside occupied Moscow moves in to free the city with more then 70 division scrap from all fronts and new recruits fresh from training engage the Germans holding Moscow (fresh Soviet Siberian troops, prepared for winter warfare are being used as intelligence indicates that Japan would not attack the Soviet Union and therefore the soviet only leaf a hand full of army divisions and the border form china ).
April 20 As a result of the Doolittle raid on Tokyo the Japanese recall some fighter units back to the home islands for its defense mostly of those fighter units who are being recalled are planes being used in the air battle of Sumatra. 46 Spitfires arrive on Malta as reinforcement, although such is the intensity of the axis air onslaught 11,899 sorties in April, that almost all these aircraft had been destroyed on the ground within 2 days
April 21 After two days of little progress the Zhukov army begins to wear down the German defenses at Moscow forcing the German army to retreat after only holding the city for two months ( the Germans believed after the first attempt by the soviet that it would take some time and the bad wheatear would help the German in their defense therefore the sent some units of army group centre to help other German units in the soviet union ).
April 24 The Soviet offensive against Army Group Centre succeeds in breaking through the German lines in many places, causing hasty withdrawals forcing the Germans to abandon much heavy equipment that was immobilised by the below-zero weather. The Luftwaffe raids Exeter in the first of Hitler's retaliatory raids.
April 25 48 b-17 begin their tree day bombing of midway to destroy both the island airfield and the garrison before operation third wave starts with the full force of the US tree carriers ( the us hops that attacking midway wit the b-17 will draw another carrier of the Japanese into the battle against the carrier group). The Zhukov army recaptures Tikhivin. Zhukov issues an order to attack front on in hopes that that will push the German group centre away from Moscow. April 26 after the first day of bombing midway there is not much is left of the airfield and the 1.000 strong garrison that by now is almost cut to 700 soldiers and forcing the Japanese carrier kaga to move 300 miles away from the island .
April 29 Japanese take central Burma. Japan suffers its first defeat of the war during the third Battle of midway in which the carrier Kaga is sunk wile the us fleet of tree carriers using their overwhelming airpower and the fact the midway airfield is out of commission none of the US carriers are damage and when the 1.200 strong marine force land on the island only 347 of the 1.000 garrison troops are able to fight ore alive but only after a day battle with los of 47 marines and overwhelming airpower at their disposal the island of midway is back in US hands ( the us tough Japan would sent another carrier to aid the Kaga but as it turn out the Japanese did not, having their fleet somewhere else).
April 30 Hitler and Mussolini meet at Berchtesgaden to discuss future axis strategy in the Mediterranean, the main objectives keeping Malta and Crete isolated and the stopping of attacks by the allied air forces against Italy. German army group centre halts in the town of Volokolamsk 80 miles behind Moscow after the Zhukov army begins to slow their offensive against them ( of the 40 divisions the had in moocow the 9th army was sent to the krimm only 29 remain but with the battle of the krimm over the fully rested 9th army will come back to strengthen the group centre )
May 1 Stalin returns to a city in ruins after spending two months in Kuibyshev and following him are the rest of the government of the Soviet state now that he is sure that the threat to the capital has been removed. Stalin also orders that the counter offensive should be extended along the whole of the eastern front but Zhukov tells him that of the 70 strong division he went in to battle only 58 are still combat condition at until new reinforcement arrive the Zhukov army has to slow down ore else it will be broken by a still capable group centre ( Zhukov dos not now that the group centre has only 29 division who can fight left but he dos not want to take any risk wit Moscow taken back )
May 4 The Japanese Port Moresby invasion force leaves Rabaul, in New Britain May 5 The Japanese advance into China along the Burma Road. first Convoy named PQ-9 arrives at Murmansk after the port is relieved by soviet forces will fitihing still is only 25 miles outside the city the allies believe it safe to resume transport to the soviets.
May 7 a Japanese sub surfing to begin shelling the California coast is attack by a patrolling PBY flying boat after a strafing run and dropping its depth charges the submarine is destroyed ( the US has step up it defense of the eastern us coast after the first shelling and the san Francisco raid and now has patrolling ships and flying boats guarding it ).
May 9 Operation Siegfried begins as the German Army Group South after being reinforced are moving towards Stalingrad as many soviet forces are battling the group centre who now has moved 100 miles away of Moscow ( the Zhukov army strength is a little higher after being reinforced by fresh troops but the German group centre who now is in the defence has received also new reinforcements and is trying to slow the soviet advance as much as possible). Another 60 Spitfires are landed in Malta by the aircraft carriers USN Wasp and HMS Eagle ( the Germans and Italian air forces will destroying the allies planes on the ground or in the air begin to think that the fact that no plane haze operated longer than 4 days based out of Malta the allies are giving them present to shoot at ).
May 10 Kesselring declares that Malta has been neutralised mostly du the arriving of the fw 200 and better Italian fighter planes and training.
The Germans move in 38 motor torpedo boats, 60 patrol boats, 19 ASW boats to patrol the black sea from Sevastopol which thanks to the army group south is firmly in the hands of the Germans the goal of the ships is to prevent any soviet ship from using the black sea into getting supplies and making the black sea a German control lake more ship some larger and several Italian ships are also be to be deployed in the black sea.
May 11 German army group south moving out of the krimm towards Stalingrad capture the city of Krasnodar as much of soviets forces are battling the Germans with the Zhukov army while the other German forces from the group south move in to the city of Rostov-on-Don is by the 1st Panzer Army, thus clearing the way for the advance of Army Group A toward the Caucasus and Kuban region. Large numbers of Russian troops are liquidated in and around Rostov after German troops have secured the city ( the German have deployed some army units from group north who now is on guard duty near the german hold city of Leningrad and aiding the German mountain 10 army battling the soviet outside Murmansk ). The Luftwaffe sinks three British destroyers, Lively, Kipling and Jackal and two freighters to the South of Crete will the where escorting a convoy heading to the British held island ( the British control the water around Crete but the Luftwaffe has increase it attacks against convoys heading to supply the island hoping just like Malta the can starf it out but on a much larger scale).
May 12 The first contingent of the US Eighth Army Air Force arrives in Britain
May 13 The British Chiefs of staff approve a major raid against the Norrish port of trondelheim. Initially code-named 'iron strike ', the plan had been under consideration since March by Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, Chief of Combined Operations, who wanting to explore the problems of an opposed landing on the Norrish coast and to destroy as much of the port vital for the Germans ( trondelheim has bin raided by british/norrish commandos in the past but this operation will be bigger in a attempt to slow Germany sending iron ore from the port )
May 14 German troops take Bataysk, and 6th Army launches an attack to destroy the soviet defence west at Kalach
May 15 The effect of the fall of Rostov spreads panic and terror in the Soviet Union, prompting harsh counter-measures by the Soviet High Command (Stalin releasing the Germans are moving towards Stalingrad orders a large amount of the now 64 divisions strong Zhukov army to move to Stalingrad and to prepare it for its defence giving army group centre now driven 110 miles from Moscow time to slow the Zhukov army). British forces retreating from Burma reach the Indian frontier. General Stilwell crosses the border in to Assam in India.
May 16 the Dutch Indies receive its first American b-17 squadron based in Sumatra witch now has orders to return the bombing to the japans who from the other side at Borneo are still continue to bomb the Dutch Indies island of java and Sumatra ( the US has now a total of tree army divisions in place on java )
May 18 The RAF launches a major attack against Mannheim May 21 Hitler postpones the invasion of Malta indefinitely believing that the Luftwaffe has contain the island and no need for a invasion is needed because of that.
May 25 admiral yamamoto and prime minister tojo decide to halt al further campaigns except the new guinea offensive and to concentred on holding the new territories the have now, to do this the have decided to created a line named after the Emperor called the Emperor line and to reinforce al the island to increase their garrisons to the maximum possible and to produce the weapons needed in this defence ( the japans are not going after wake island like otl as it has now have major reinformets after the took midway and after loosing midway de believe that the best way to win is to wear the US down )
May 29 The Chinese are defeated by Japanese forces south of Shanghai.
May 31 The German advance into the Northern Caucasus continues. Since January the German U-boats operating along the US eastern seaboard have sunk 111 vessels
Monday, April 30, 2007
Monday, April 23, 2007
part 9
December 1 the British declare a State of Emergency in Malaya and Hong Kong is put on ‘stand by’, the Japanese put the date of its attack against Pearl Harbor as December 7
December 2 Hitler issues Directive No.38 which tasks Kesselring as C-in-C South, with gaining air superiority and naval supremacy over the area between southern Italy and Libya in order to deny British supplies to Malta and destroying great Britain ability to attack Italy to do this he will get command over Fliegerkorps X and reinforced it with the Fleiger Korps II, which will be transferred from Russia, general Rommel becomes commander of all German ground forces in Italy ( the German Italia corps is being reinforce with another 2 divisions to create the German Italy army group consisting of a total of 50.000 troops giving Italy more time to upgrade their army and to prevent a invasion of italy. french Indochina declares a State of Emergency and its forces move towards the border of Thailand and begin to increase it naval patrols along it shore.
December 4 first of several Vichy fw 190 squadrons become operation the will be station at air fields in Sardinia under German command ( Vichy France is station there new fighter squadrons in Italian Sardinia because as yet no attacks have bin agaimst Vichy France and vichy pilots need experience a total of vichy will recive a total of 12 squadrons).
December 6 An RAF Hudson aircraft spots Japanese transports sailing west off Cape Cambodia towards Malaya. The British, having feared a surprise Japanese attack for a number of months now, had developed a plan codenamed 'Matador', to advance forces into southern Thailand should the Japanese attack, in order to deny the Japanese use of the airfields and ports at Patani and Singora but under pressure from the free French who fear prevoking thailand into invading their Indochina colony the plan is aborted.
December 7 Field Marshal von Brauchitsch after suffering a recent heart attack tenders his resignation to Hitler, although this is not accepted immediately. Zhukov issues orders to move more soviet forces to the newly created defence line outside Moscow after the German 4th army begins to prop it. The Japanese attack Malaya, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Singapore and begin landing troops in Thailand (because the French never surrendered French Indochina Thailand was already firmly in japans camp and with war now broken out the japans begin landing a force of 20.000 to aid the Thailand army of 80.000 in a further campaign against French Indochina). At 6:15 Honolulu time, the first wave of Japanese aircraft take of from their carriers which are located about 200 miles north of Hawaii. At 7:50, 30 fighters, 40 dive-bombers, 60 torpedo-bombers and 30 ordinary bombers arrive over Hawaii. They launch attacks against the airfields at Wheeler, Kaneohe, Ewa and Hickham and against the American warships anchored at ‘Battleship Row’. Surprise was complete and within a few minutes 4 battleships and 2 light cruisers had been sunk and a large number of aircraft (160) destroyed on the ground. Within an hour, the second wave of Japanese strike aircraft (36 fighters, 60 dive-bombers, 40 bombers) had arrived over the target, sinking a further 3 destroyers and damaging another battleship. By 10:00 the attack was over and the casualties could be accounted for. The Americans lost 2,400 killed and 1,178 wounded, while the Japanese losses amounted to just 19 aircraft and seven mini-submarines ( the attack force are lower du the fact one carrier is leading a attack against midway in landing japans forces there to increase it attack a double of midget sub was used with only 3 of the 10 returning intact). The Japanese launch air attacks against Manila. Japan declares war on Britain and the USA.
December 8 Army Group North is ordered to move forwards to cut Karelia of from soviet reinforcements to do this its receives its panzer group 4 back who after the battle of Moscow is to be placed back under Group North while the German 20th Mountain army battling in Murmansk is to move downwards after capturing the city. Japanese aircraft bomb Singapore,. Japanese make landings on the north eastern coast of Malaya, Japanese troops launch an offensive against the new territories, a part of the British colony of Hong Kong. The Japanese overrun the US garrisons in Shanghai and Tientsin the battle of midway begins with a attack of 106 aircraft from the carriers Hōshō and main carrier Shōkaku with 1.000 empire troops beginning to land at the island the troops quickly overwhelm the battalion size garrison.
December 9 Hitler lifts the ban on U-boats operating in US territorial waters, two days before he declares war on the USA. More japans troops land in Thailand( as yet the have not invaded French Indochina as the japans want Thailand to wait until all of the 20.000 troops are in Thailand and than move against the French). China declares war on Germany and Italy. After a day battling the japans midway group is reinforce with more ships how now prevent any us reinforcement coming in.
December 10 with war now in Asia the garrison at Grete of 80.000 men is brought down to 50.000 men with two Australia and one new Zeeland army divisions ordered back to asia and being deployed in java and sumatra ( Grete is still under general Montgomery command and from the air to air battle and the occasion attacks with ships the island remains firmly in the hands of the British/free Greece forces). 1.000 japans troops are now on midway and the island is fully under japans control with the japans beginning to repair the damage air strip December 11 Italy declares war on the U.S.A a day latter Bulgaria also declares war on both Britain and the USA. The British garrison in Hong Kong begin to withdraw from the mainland to Hong Kong Island itself tree days later The British Governor of Hong Kong rejects a Japanese demand for his garrisons to surrender
December 12 Hungary declares war on the USA. Romania declares war on the USA latter in the day the US declares war on Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria after receiving those country's declarations of war against it.
December 13 first fighter planes begin running cap mission from repaired air strip on midway.
December 14 Thailand formally allies herself with Japan both country’s begin moving their forces to engage the free French in French Indochina, Japan orders its forces to attack the French on December 18 .
December 15 Japanese troops artillery and aircraft begin to pound Hong Kong in an attempt to soften it up. US Secretary of the Navy tells Congress that 2,400 killed were killed during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour and midway is now in japans hands. December 16 Japanese forces land in Sarawak and Brunei in Borneo Dutch indie army begins moving towards the border of British colony with Dutch indie army air force deploying spitfires from Singkawang airfield Borneo ( the Dutch have one squadron of 30 spitfires in Singkawang airfield Borneo and other based in java and on the Sumatra who have each 3 squadrons station there mostly al of them a mark 2 and 3 bought by the Dutch in 1940 and beginning of 1941).
December 18 Field Marshal von Brauchitsch's resignation as head of OKH is accepted by Hitler, who now assumes personal command of the Army and its operations on the Eastern front. Hitler sacks Army Group Centre's commander, Field Marshal von Bock and replaces him with Field Marshal von Kluge will Stalin orders all available troops to attack Moscow even if the are still gaining strength. Japanese troops force landings on Hong Kong island. japans begin their invasion of French Indochina together with Thai forces but receive stiff resistance from free French forces who numbering 80.000 must fight a army of 100.000 ( The Thai army has bin training a lot with the japans and that the put their full army in to this offensive is the created a home guard called the Thai home army numbering 40.000 who training is not as good as the regular but in of to guard Thailand until the offensive is over).
December 19 Army Group centre who is dug in encounters the soviet advance will outnumber the soviet manage to inflict some damage but are unable to dislodge the German from Moscow (because of this attack Hitler orders Moscow to be helt by all means believing that if Moscow remains in German hands the soviet will sue for peace)
December 20 Thai and japans forces manage to move 50 miles into French Indochina with the intend of cutting free French indo china in two and allowing for a force of 30.000 to land and upper French Indochina where only 20.000 free French are station while the Thai/japans army then can focus on lower French Indochina ( the Thai have together with japans more armoured tanks and planes than the free French forces).
December 21 The Axis launch a renewed air offensive against the Island of Malta with the newly arrived Fleiger Korps II and the already present German Fliegerkorps X( Malta is being hit harder then in otl du the fact the axis don’t have to fight in Africa and Malta now has to relay on its air defence from British bases in Tunisia as the have no longer any of their on).
December 25 The Russians land on the Kerch Peninsula in an attempt to relieve the siege of Sevastopol who now is being attack by the 9th and German 11th Army ( Stalin dos not want Sevastopol to fall like Leningrad and Moscow and orders any retreating soldier to be shot at sit). Hong Kong surrenders after a 7 day siege, with more than 2,000 killed or missing and 2,300 wounded. The RAF and American Volunteer Group shoot down 70 Japanese aircraft over Rangoon for loss of just 17 of their own number.
December 27 The Red Army continues its counter-offensive in the Kalinin area but faces stiff apposition from the Germans who now throw their full wait against them ( unlike otl the German now have two army’s two throw against the defenders of Sevastopol ). December 28 General Wavell takes over command of the British and commonwealth forces defending Burma and India
December 29 Soviet troops make an amphibious landing at Feodosiya on the south coast of the Crimea in order to relive pressure against Sevastopol and hopefully clear the Germans from the Crimea. The Thai/japans spearhead manage to reach the Indochina coast city of dong ha will still being attack by free French on their flanks this movement allows the japans/Thai forces to cut French Indochina in two ( ships with the 30.000 japans and escorts will make their landings in January 3)
December 30 the German 9th army is order to counter attack the soviet landings at Feodosiya will the 11th army moves ahead in taking Sevastopol.
December 31 German attacks against the Crimean fortress of Sevastopol are now complete with the German 11th army wining in the battle of Sevastopol and the 9th army keeping the soviet beachhead of Feodosiya contained ( no soviet forces surrendered but with two army’s battling them the where destroyed quickly and with the soviet forces at Feodosiya not able to aid them Sevastopol fel).
Overview The rest of the japans attacks are the same is in otl with the exception of war is written here
December 2 Hitler issues Directive No.38 which tasks Kesselring as C-in-C South, with gaining air superiority and naval supremacy over the area between southern Italy and Libya in order to deny British supplies to Malta and destroying great Britain ability to attack Italy to do this he will get command over Fliegerkorps X and reinforced it with the Fleiger Korps II, which will be transferred from Russia, general Rommel becomes commander of all German ground forces in Italy ( the German Italia corps is being reinforce with another 2 divisions to create the German Italy army group consisting of a total of 50.000 troops giving Italy more time to upgrade their army and to prevent a invasion of italy. french Indochina declares a State of Emergency and its forces move towards the border of Thailand and begin to increase it naval patrols along it shore.
December 4 first of several Vichy fw 190 squadrons become operation the will be station at air fields in Sardinia under German command ( Vichy France is station there new fighter squadrons in Italian Sardinia because as yet no attacks have bin agaimst Vichy France and vichy pilots need experience a total of vichy will recive a total of 12 squadrons).
December 6 An RAF Hudson aircraft spots Japanese transports sailing west off Cape Cambodia towards Malaya. The British, having feared a surprise Japanese attack for a number of months now, had developed a plan codenamed 'Matador', to advance forces into southern Thailand should the Japanese attack, in order to deny the Japanese use of the airfields and ports at Patani and Singora but under pressure from the free French who fear prevoking thailand into invading their Indochina colony the plan is aborted.
December 7 Field Marshal von Brauchitsch after suffering a recent heart attack tenders his resignation to Hitler, although this is not accepted immediately. Zhukov issues orders to move more soviet forces to the newly created defence line outside Moscow after the German 4th army begins to prop it. The Japanese attack Malaya, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Singapore and begin landing troops in Thailand (because the French never surrendered French Indochina Thailand was already firmly in japans camp and with war now broken out the japans begin landing a force of 20.000 to aid the Thailand army of 80.000 in a further campaign against French Indochina). At 6:15 Honolulu time, the first wave of Japanese aircraft take of from their carriers which are located about 200 miles north of Hawaii. At 7:50, 30 fighters, 40 dive-bombers, 60 torpedo-bombers and 30 ordinary bombers arrive over Hawaii. They launch attacks against the airfields at Wheeler, Kaneohe, Ewa and Hickham and against the American warships anchored at ‘Battleship Row’. Surprise was complete and within a few minutes 4 battleships and 2 light cruisers had been sunk and a large number of aircraft (160) destroyed on the ground. Within an hour, the second wave of Japanese strike aircraft (36 fighters, 60 dive-bombers, 40 bombers) had arrived over the target, sinking a further 3 destroyers and damaging another battleship. By 10:00 the attack was over and the casualties could be accounted for. The Americans lost 2,400 killed and 1,178 wounded, while the Japanese losses amounted to just 19 aircraft and seven mini-submarines ( the attack force are lower du the fact one carrier is leading a attack against midway in landing japans forces there to increase it attack a double of midget sub was used with only 3 of the 10 returning intact). The Japanese launch air attacks against Manila. Japan declares war on Britain and the USA.
December 8 Army Group North is ordered to move forwards to cut Karelia of from soviet reinforcements to do this its receives its panzer group 4 back who after the battle of Moscow is to be placed back under Group North while the German 20th Mountain army battling in Murmansk is to move downwards after capturing the city. Japanese aircraft bomb Singapore,. Japanese make landings on the north eastern coast of Malaya, Japanese troops launch an offensive against the new territories, a part of the British colony of Hong Kong. The Japanese overrun the US garrisons in Shanghai and Tientsin the battle of midway begins with a attack of 106 aircraft from the carriers Hōshō and main carrier Shōkaku with 1.000 empire troops beginning to land at the island the troops quickly overwhelm the battalion size garrison.
December 9 Hitler lifts the ban on U-boats operating in US territorial waters, two days before he declares war on the USA. More japans troops land in Thailand( as yet the have not invaded French Indochina as the japans want Thailand to wait until all of the 20.000 troops are in Thailand and than move against the French). China declares war on Germany and Italy. After a day battling the japans midway group is reinforce with more ships how now prevent any us reinforcement coming in.
December 10 with war now in Asia the garrison at Grete of 80.000 men is brought down to 50.000 men with two Australia and one new Zeeland army divisions ordered back to asia and being deployed in java and sumatra ( Grete is still under general Montgomery command and from the air to air battle and the occasion attacks with ships the island remains firmly in the hands of the British/free Greece forces). 1.000 japans troops are now on midway and the island is fully under japans control with the japans beginning to repair the damage air strip December 11 Italy declares war on the U.S.A a day latter Bulgaria also declares war on both Britain and the USA. The British garrison in Hong Kong begin to withdraw from the mainland to Hong Kong Island itself tree days later The British Governor of Hong Kong rejects a Japanese demand for his garrisons to surrender
December 12 Hungary declares war on the USA. Romania declares war on the USA latter in the day the US declares war on Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria after receiving those country's declarations of war against it.
December 13 first fighter planes begin running cap mission from repaired air strip on midway.
December 14 Thailand formally allies herself with Japan both country’s begin moving their forces to engage the free French in French Indochina, Japan orders its forces to attack the French on December 18 .
December 15 Japanese troops artillery and aircraft begin to pound Hong Kong in an attempt to soften it up. US Secretary of the Navy tells Congress that 2,400 killed were killed during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour and midway is now in japans hands. December 16 Japanese forces land in Sarawak and Brunei in Borneo Dutch indie army begins moving towards the border of British colony with Dutch indie army air force deploying spitfires from Singkawang airfield Borneo ( the Dutch have one squadron of 30 spitfires in Singkawang airfield Borneo and other based in java and on the Sumatra who have each 3 squadrons station there mostly al of them a mark 2 and 3 bought by the Dutch in 1940 and beginning of 1941).
December 18 Field Marshal von Brauchitsch's resignation as head of OKH is accepted by Hitler, who now assumes personal command of the Army and its operations on the Eastern front. Hitler sacks Army Group Centre's commander, Field Marshal von Bock and replaces him with Field Marshal von Kluge will Stalin orders all available troops to attack Moscow even if the are still gaining strength. Japanese troops force landings on Hong Kong island. japans begin their invasion of French Indochina together with Thai forces but receive stiff resistance from free French forces who numbering 80.000 must fight a army of 100.000 ( The Thai army has bin training a lot with the japans and that the put their full army in to this offensive is the created a home guard called the Thai home army numbering 40.000 who training is not as good as the regular but in of to guard Thailand until the offensive is over).
December 19 Army Group centre who is dug in encounters the soviet advance will outnumber the soviet manage to inflict some damage but are unable to dislodge the German from Moscow (because of this attack Hitler orders Moscow to be helt by all means believing that if Moscow remains in German hands the soviet will sue for peace)
December 20 Thai and japans forces manage to move 50 miles into French Indochina with the intend of cutting free French indo china in two and allowing for a force of 30.000 to land and upper French Indochina where only 20.000 free French are station while the Thai/japans army then can focus on lower French Indochina ( the Thai have together with japans more armoured tanks and planes than the free French forces).
December 21 The Axis launch a renewed air offensive against the Island of Malta with the newly arrived Fleiger Korps II and the already present German Fliegerkorps X( Malta is being hit harder then in otl du the fact the axis don’t have to fight in Africa and Malta now has to relay on its air defence from British bases in Tunisia as the have no longer any of their on).
December 25 The Russians land on the Kerch Peninsula in an attempt to relieve the siege of Sevastopol who now is being attack by the 9th and German 11th Army ( Stalin dos not want Sevastopol to fall like Leningrad and Moscow and orders any retreating soldier to be shot at sit). Hong Kong surrenders after a 7 day siege, with more than 2,000 killed or missing and 2,300 wounded. The RAF and American Volunteer Group shoot down 70 Japanese aircraft over Rangoon for loss of just 17 of their own number.
December 27 The Red Army continues its counter-offensive in the Kalinin area but faces stiff apposition from the Germans who now throw their full wait against them ( unlike otl the German now have two army’s two throw against the defenders of Sevastopol ). December 28 General Wavell takes over command of the British and commonwealth forces defending Burma and India
December 29 Soviet troops make an amphibious landing at Feodosiya on the south coast of the Crimea in order to relive pressure against Sevastopol and hopefully clear the Germans from the Crimea. The Thai/japans spearhead manage to reach the Indochina coast city of dong ha will still being attack by free French on their flanks this movement allows the japans/Thai forces to cut French Indochina in two ( ships with the 30.000 japans and escorts will make their landings in January 3)
December 30 the German 9th army is order to counter attack the soviet landings at Feodosiya will the 11th army moves ahead in taking Sevastopol.
December 31 German attacks against the Crimean fortress of Sevastopol are now complete with the German 11th army wining in the battle of Sevastopol and the 9th army keeping the soviet beachhead of Feodosiya contained ( no soviet forces surrendered but with two army’s battling them the where destroyed quickly and with the soviet forces at Feodosiya not able to aid them Sevastopol fel).
Overview The rest of the japans attacks are the same is in otl with the exception of war is written here
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
part 8
June 10 during a exercise of the German Italia corps near Naples Mussolini decides to rearm the Italy armed forces with German equipment after having a talk with the general Rommel and after losing Libya and the fact that he was forced to ask German help in the capture of Greece and Yugoslavia he orders his staff to begin negotiation with the Germany to licence produce German equipment and to upgrade the already Italy weapons with more modern and better in less then 5 years (Mussolini believes having German type of weapons will make him stronger and make it possible of him not to rely on Germany so much as he had during the Yugoslavia campaign ).
June 7 Finland begins a secret mobilisation of its forces and begins reinforcing its border with free Norway, first german troops begin to arrive with ships ( Sweden still refusing to allow German trains to cross toward Finland therefore ships are used instead).
June 20 after 10 days of negation the German and Italy come to a agreement about supplying Italy with the rights to produce some German weapons in licensed in return Italy will supply more then 100.000 soldier to the upcoming war in the east and allow German forces to be station in the country ( Italy mostly want to produce the panzer 3 the 88 mm guns and the m 109 and to increase the production of the p40 Italian main battle tank with a order of 1.200 to be made before 1943 ).
June 22 Operation 'Barbarossa begins with German and Axis forces comprising 190 divisions Three Army Groups supported by powerful Panzer armies and Luftwaffe bomber fleets, Army Group South Army, Group Centre and Army Group North go into action against 132 Soviet union divisions.
June 23 the Luftwaffe after only one day of fitting has destroyed more then 800 Soviet aircraft on the ground at 60 airfields and 400 in the air. The Red Army along the border seemed unprepared for the assault and offered only limited resistance, which allows the Panzer divisions to advance up to 50 miles and destroy 12 Soviet divisions. June 26 Goering is named Hitler’s successor after Rudolf Hess was killed ( even despite Goering was in the beginning not amble to lead the Luftwaffe in to victory and received heavy losses he is creted for rebuilding the Luftwaffe after the invasion of France and the low country’s ). Finland declares war on the Soviet Union but urges both Britain and Norway that it is only fitting the soviet Union and that its is prepared to counter any allied attack against them.
June 28 Croatia joins the Tripartite Pact, Vichy France offers more to deploy 5 army divisions in the war in the east while olos receiving their on m109 squondrons.
June 29 The German 20th Mountain Army launches Operation Silver Fox an offensive to capture the Soviet port of Murmansk, while the Finnish Karelian Army begins it offensive towards Leningrad and hoping to link up with the German advance. Overview June the operation Barbarossa in this mound is the same as in otl with the German advancing towards Minsk. July 5 General Wavell is relieved of his command as C-in-C of the Middle East.
July 7, the U.S. 1 Marine Brigade lands in Iceland to strengthen the Iceland defence force made up of the British and free Danish forces but the U.S still remains neutral but begins to work and train with the present troops station there.
July 10 The Finnish Karelian Army begins an offensive toward Lake Ladoga to the Northeast of Leningrad.
July 12 Britain and Russia sign mutual assistance agreement, pledging ‘no separate peace’ but soviet union refuses to become a member of the BDF.
July 19 Hitler issues Directive No.33. This states that Moscow is no longer the priority capturing Leningrad in the North and overrunning the Ukraine in the South are now the new priority.
July 22 The Luftwaffe launches its first major bombing raid on Moscow with 127 aircraft, but achieve only minimal results but it proves that Moscow can be hit.
July 25 the Dutch indie receive a Australia army division to be place on java.
July 28 after Britain moves troops to strengting the only norish division at the border Finland ends ith diplomatic relations with Great Britain but dos not declare war against them ( both Norway and Finland don’t want to fight each other) Overview operation Barbarossa in this mound is the same as in otl August 20 Adolf Hitler authorises the development of the V-2 missile to be deployed against britian( because of no major air action taken place against britian the v-2 will be the first step majorstep in hitiing great britian).
August 25 British forces station in Iraq and Russian troops invade Iran against slight opposition after their initially friendly demands, had been rejected
August 29 The Finnish troops are now only 30 miles North of Leningrad with orders to begin laying Siege of the city when reached ( on otl the fins refused but the need Leningrad captured to get a supply line from the Germans ).
August 30 The Germans army take the town of Mga, 40kms to the Southeast of Leningrad.
September 7 The offensive of the German 20th Mountain Army in northern Finland to capture the vital port of Murmansk, Russia, comes to a halt
September 8 Leningrad is now completely surrounded after German troops close the land bridge at Schluesselburg tighter with the finish Finnish Karelian Army the begin their siege cutting Leningrad of from the out side world.
September 10 Japanese begin war games at the naval college in Tokyo in order to develop their strategy for the Pacific the war game will last until September 13
September 11 German order of the day says Leningrad must be taken quickly with the city surrounded it is only a matter of time that the city will fall ( du the city is completely surrounded Zhukov is not amble to take command over its defences and with the finish army helping instead of a siege both army are moving in to the city).
September 19 Germans forces take the ruins of Kiev.
September 24 A combined services raid British and Norway commando raid on German occupied islands off Norway results in 200 Germans killed and 16,000 tons of shipping destroyed
September 30 German and finish forces after battling themselves into Leningrad take the city giving the Finland a fix line to transport vital war equipment ( the finish Karelian Army after help in getting Leningrad now moves to help the German 20th Mountain army for a new offensive against the port of Murmansk while the german Army Group North is to rest and wait furred orders).
October 1 As part of operation Typhoon Panzer Group 2 and the panzer group 4 that was transfer successful from the Leningrad front opens their offensive against Moscow, 2 days ahead of the rest of Army Group Centre and makes 75-miles in its advance towards Orel ( the remain of Army Group North is order to protect Leningrad from counter attacks with some elements of panzer group 4 after moving to being placed under Army Group Centre for the operation ).
October 8 Hitler announces that the war in the East, for all intents and purposes, has already been decided in favour of the Reich.
October 9 believing Germany is to weak to defend Italy great Britain begins resuming its air offensive against Italy from air bases in Tunisia ( there is no major attacks on Germany because the battle of Britain never was so big in that the Luftwaffe attack city but Italy is being attack and is sort of the British version of the battle of Britain but then against Italy).
October 10 Rumours of an impending capture of Moscow by the German Army cause thousands of civilians to flee the city
October 11 Army Group Centre captures Kaluga and Bryansk with all forces of panzer group 4 now being used, Women and children evacuated from Moscow.
October 12 German forces of Army Group Centre capture Kalinin, just 80 miles to the West of Moscow.
October 13 Army Group Centre wipes a Russian pocket and capture Rzhev. Hitler orders that Moscow is to assaulted directly with the newly arrived forces (because army group centre has extra troops who in otl where used fore the siege of Leningrad available the march toward Moscow is quiker).
October 15 Moscow now considered in real jeopardy. Following the evacuation of the Soviet government and diplomatic corps from Moscow to Kuibyshev, panic begins to spread among the civilian population, with thousands fleeing the city to places further east, but Stalin decides to stay.
October 17 German units are now only 60 miles west of Moscow. October 18 Army Group Centre finally clears the Vyazma pocket, Stalin declares state of siege in Moscow and orders its defence to the last man.
October 20 finish army after having won the battle of Leningrad now begins a new offensive together with the German 20th Mountain army against the port of Murmansk.
October 25 The Russians launch numerous counter-attacks around Moscow in an attempt to halt the German advance.
October 27 German forces make a breakthrough at Perekop, thus opening the gate to the Crimean peninsula
October 28 after several unsuccessful attempts by the soviets to halt Army Group Centre Moscow is reach but unlike Leningrad the city will not fall that easily therefore Hitler orders more forces to be deployed against the city will the defenders of Moscow try to halt the German hoping for reinforcement to arrive in time will Stalin refuse to leave the city even if it is now under constant artillery attacks
October 29 German begin to push into the outer etches of Moscow but still receive stiff resistance Hitler orders the city to be bomb to the ground by the Luftwaffe.
October 30 The worsening weather and seas of mud bring the German battling in Moscow almost to a standstill but first heavy Luftwaffe attacks with more then 300 planes begin hammering the city. November 1 Germans troops capture Kursk
November 3 Admiral Yamamoto’s plan to attack Pearl Harbour and the invasion of midway is approved.
November 7 Speaking from inside a bunker in Moscow, with the spearheads of the Wehrmacht now in the capital, Stalin predicts that 'the Fascist German invaders are facing disaster as the defenders of Moscow will destroy them.
November 9 first finish/German soldiers reach the edge of Murmansk after more soviet armed divisions are ordered to go to aid in the battle of Moscow (Stalin dos not listen to his generals that the port of Murmansk is importance du the fact its is a vital supply port and orders more division to battle the Germans in Moscow). Royal Navy Surface Force K from Tunis annihilates an Italian convoy of seven supply ships and sinks two destroyers (Malta is still to dangerous to have any ship station there and with furtly no air cover and its citizen almost starving to dead du the increase attacks by Italian and German bombers much more what happen in otl )
November 12 largest Luftwaffe raid on Moscow as yet hitting the Kremlin with German soldier battling in street to street fighting soviet army’s move in to engage the Germans who now control have the city but with bad whether in play the Germans are facing a tough challenge of getting the city under their full control.
November 13 Aircraft carrier Ark Royal is torpedoed off Gibraltar by German sub and later sinks.
November 16 The German 11th Army takes Kerch in the eastern Crimea, although Sevastopol still holds out.
November 20 The Norwegian Government in narvik Norway officially backs ‘Milorg’, the largest resistance organisation its country.
November 23 Panzer Groups 1, 2 and 3 and 4 as well as the 2nd, 4th and 9th Armies are now battling in and around Moscow, Stalin is pressure to move after Kremlin is destroyed and german tanks in range of the fort( Stalin will take command of the soviet union in a armoured train and move the new capitol in Kuibyshev in the Volga river ( like in otl where the city was a backup capitol).
November 25 two days after Stalin leaves the city of Moscow and after battling fore more then 27 days in hard street to street fighting the German flag is raised on top of the ruins of the Kremlin with most of the soviet forces now retreating towards a newly line 30 miles of the city where the will wait until their forces are strong in of to retake the city.
November 26 Stalin comes close to hysteria when heard that the soviet army cannot retake the city fore a months ore two as the are still to weak ( the soviet army is raising army on the Volga, in Asia and in the Urals, and it would only be a matter of a few months before these new troops can be committed will in the mean time the German army is digging in and sending units to other fronts).Japanese 1st Air Fleet sets sail for Pearl Harbour, from its anchorage in the Kurile Islands. Commanded by Admiral Chuichi Nagumo, its consists of 5 aircraft carriers, 2 battleships, 3 cruisers, 9 destroyers and 8 oil tankers and has strict orders to observe strict radio silence ( one aircraft carrier and its escort is heading for the invasion of midway)
November 27 great Britain after hearing the news that Moscow has fallen to the German fears that when the Germans are true the will be again next ( at the moment the UK only suffers submarine blockade and raids against coastal targets with great Britain deploying much of its forces on Grete and the air battle of Italy).
November 28 Hitler orders Directive No.34 in which army group 9 will move from Moscow towards reinforcing The German 11th Army in taking Sevastopol while the rest of the forces guarding Moscow to dig in and to prepare themselves against any soviet counter attack.
June 7 Finland begins a secret mobilisation of its forces and begins reinforcing its border with free Norway, first german troops begin to arrive with ships ( Sweden still refusing to allow German trains to cross toward Finland therefore ships are used instead).
June 20 after 10 days of negation the German and Italy come to a agreement about supplying Italy with the rights to produce some German weapons in licensed in return Italy will supply more then 100.000 soldier to the upcoming war in the east and allow German forces to be station in the country ( Italy mostly want to produce the panzer 3 the 88 mm guns and the m 109 and to increase the production of the p40 Italian main battle tank with a order of 1.200 to be made before 1943 ).
June 22 Operation 'Barbarossa begins with German and Axis forces comprising 190 divisions Three Army Groups supported by powerful Panzer armies and Luftwaffe bomber fleets, Army Group South Army, Group Centre and Army Group North go into action against 132 Soviet union divisions.
June 23 the Luftwaffe after only one day of fitting has destroyed more then 800 Soviet aircraft on the ground at 60 airfields and 400 in the air. The Red Army along the border seemed unprepared for the assault and offered only limited resistance, which allows the Panzer divisions to advance up to 50 miles and destroy 12 Soviet divisions. June 26 Goering is named Hitler’s successor after Rudolf Hess was killed ( even despite Goering was in the beginning not amble to lead the Luftwaffe in to victory and received heavy losses he is creted for rebuilding the Luftwaffe after the invasion of France and the low country’s ). Finland declares war on the Soviet Union but urges both Britain and Norway that it is only fitting the soviet Union and that its is prepared to counter any allied attack against them.
June 28 Croatia joins the Tripartite Pact, Vichy France offers more to deploy 5 army divisions in the war in the east while olos receiving their on m109 squondrons.
June 29 The German 20th Mountain Army launches Operation Silver Fox an offensive to capture the Soviet port of Murmansk, while the Finnish Karelian Army begins it offensive towards Leningrad and hoping to link up with the German advance. Overview June the operation Barbarossa in this mound is the same as in otl with the German advancing towards Minsk. July 5 General Wavell is relieved of his command as C-in-C of the Middle East.
July 7, the U.S. 1 Marine Brigade lands in Iceland to strengthen the Iceland defence force made up of the British and free Danish forces but the U.S still remains neutral but begins to work and train with the present troops station there.
July 10 The Finnish Karelian Army begins an offensive toward Lake Ladoga to the Northeast of Leningrad.
July 12 Britain and Russia sign mutual assistance agreement, pledging ‘no separate peace’ but soviet union refuses to become a member of the BDF.
July 19 Hitler issues Directive No.33. This states that Moscow is no longer the priority capturing Leningrad in the North and overrunning the Ukraine in the South are now the new priority.
July 22 The Luftwaffe launches its first major bombing raid on Moscow with 127 aircraft, but achieve only minimal results but it proves that Moscow can be hit.
July 25 the Dutch indie receive a Australia army division to be place on java.
July 28 after Britain moves troops to strengting the only norish division at the border Finland ends ith diplomatic relations with Great Britain but dos not declare war against them ( both Norway and Finland don’t want to fight each other) Overview operation Barbarossa in this mound is the same as in otl August 20 Adolf Hitler authorises the development of the V-2 missile to be deployed against britian( because of no major air action taken place against britian the v-2 will be the first step majorstep in hitiing great britian).
August 25 British forces station in Iraq and Russian troops invade Iran against slight opposition after their initially friendly demands, had been rejected
August 29 The Finnish troops are now only 30 miles North of Leningrad with orders to begin laying Siege of the city when reached ( on otl the fins refused but the need Leningrad captured to get a supply line from the Germans ).
August 30 The Germans army take the town of Mga, 40kms to the Southeast of Leningrad.
September 7 The offensive of the German 20th Mountain Army in northern Finland to capture the vital port of Murmansk, Russia, comes to a halt
September 8 Leningrad is now completely surrounded after German troops close the land bridge at Schluesselburg tighter with the finish Finnish Karelian Army the begin their siege cutting Leningrad of from the out side world.
September 10 Japanese begin war games at the naval college in Tokyo in order to develop their strategy for the Pacific the war game will last until September 13
September 11 German order of the day says Leningrad must be taken quickly with the city surrounded it is only a matter of time that the city will fall ( du the city is completely surrounded Zhukov is not amble to take command over its defences and with the finish army helping instead of a siege both army are moving in to the city).
September 19 Germans forces take the ruins of Kiev.
September 24 A combined services raid British and Norway commando raid on German occupied islands off Norway results in 200 Germans killed and 16,000 tons of shipping destroyed
September 30 German and finish forces after battling themselves into Leningrad take the city giving the Finland a fix line to transport vital war equipment ( the finish Karelian Army after help in getting Leningrad now moves to help the German 20th Mountain army for a new offensive against the port of Murmansk while the german Army Group North is to rest and wait furred orders).
October 1 As part of operation Typhoon Panzer Group 2 and the panzer group 4 that was transfer successful from the Leningrad front opens their offensive against Moscow, 2 days ahead of the rest of Army Group Centre and makes 75-miles in its advance towards Orel ( the remain of Army Group North is order to protect Leningrad from counter attacks with some elements of panzer group 4 after moving to being placed under Army Group Centre for the operation ).
October 8 Hitler announces that the war in the East, for all intents and purposes, has already been decided in favour of the Reich.
October 9 believing Germany is to weak to defend Italy great Britain begins resuming its air offensive against Italy from air bases in Tunisia ( there is no major attacks on Germany because the battle of Britain never was so big in that the Luftwaffe attack city but Italy is being attack and is sort of the British version of the battle of Britain but then against Italy).
October 10 Rumours of an impending capture of Moscow by the German Army cause thousands of civilians to flee the city
October 11 Army Group Centre captures Kaluga and Bryansk with all forces of panzer group 4 now being used, Women and children evacuated from Moscow.
October 12 German forces of Army Group Centre capture Kalinin, just 80 miles to the West of Moscow.
October 13 Army Group Centre wipes a Russian pocket and capture Rzhev. Hitler orders that Moscow is to assaulted directly with the newly arrived forces (because army group centre has extra troops who in otl where used fore the siege of Leningrad available the march toward Moscow is quiker).
October 15 Moscow now considered in real jeopardy. Following the evacuation of the Soviet government and diplomatic corps from Moscow to Kuibyshev, panic begins to spread among the civilian population, with thousands fleeing the city to places further east, but Stalin decides to stay.
October 17 German units are now only 60 miles west of Moscow. October 18 Army Group Centre finally clears the Vyazma pocket, Stalin declares state of siege in Moscow and orders its defence to the last man.
October 20 finish army after having won the battle of Leningrad now begins a new offensive together with the German 20th Mountain army against the port of Murmansk.
October 25 The Russians launch numerous counter-attacks around Moscow in an attempt to halt the German advance.
October 27 German forces make a breakthrough at Perekop, thus opening the gate to the Crimean peninsula
October 28 after several unsuccessful attempts by the soviets to halt Army Group Centre Moscow is reach but unlike Leningrad the city will not fall that easily therefore Hitler orders more forces to be deployed against the city will the defenders of Moscow try to halt the German hoping for reinforcement to arrive in time will Stalin refuse to leave the city even if it is now under constant artillery attacks
October 29 German begin to push into the outer etches of Moscow but still receive stiff resistance Hitler orders the city to be bomb to the ground by the Luftwaffe.
October 30 The worsening weather and seas of mud bring the German battling in Moscow almost to a standstill but first heavy Luftwaffe attacks with more then 300 planes begin hammering the city. November 1 Germans troops capture Kursk
November 3 Admiral Yamamoto’s plan to attack Pearl Harbour and the invasion of midway is approved.
November 7 Speaking from inside a bunker in Moscow, with the spearheads of the Wehrmacht now in the capital, Stalin predicts that 'the Fascist German invaders are facing disaster as the defenders of Moscow will destroy them.
November 9 first finish/German soldiers reach the edge of Murmansk after more soviet armed divisions are ordered to go to aid in the battle of Moscow (Stalin dos not listen to his generals that the port of Murmansk is importance du the fact its is a vital supply port and orders more division to battle the Germans in Moscow). Royal Navy Surface Force K from Tunis annihilates an Italian convoy of seven supply ships and sinks two destroyers (Malta is still to dangerous to have any ship station there and with furtly no air cover and its citizen almost starving to dead du the increase attacks by Italian and German bombers much more what happen in otl )
November 12 largest Luftwaffe raid on Moscow as yet hitting the Kremlin with German soldier battling in street to street fighting soviet army’s move in to engage the Germans who now control have the city but with bad whether in play the Germans are facing a tough challenge of getting the city under their full control.
November 13 Aircraft carrier Ark Royal is torpedoed off Gibraltar by German sub and later sinks.
November 16 The German 11th Army takes Kerch in the eastern Crimea, although Sevastopol still holds out.
November 20 The Norwegian Government in narvik Norway officially backs ‘Milorg’, the largest resistance organisation its country.
November 23 Panzer Groups 1, 2 and 3 and 4 as well as the 2nd, 4th and 9th Armies are now battling in and around Moscow, Stalin is pressure to move after Kremlin is destroyed and german tanks in range of the fort( Stalin will take command of the soviet union in a armoured train and move the new capitol in Kuibyshev in the Volga river ( like in otl where the city was a backup capitol).
November 25 two days after Stalin leaves the city of Moscow and after battling fore more then 27 days in hard street to street fighting the German flag is raised on top of the ruins of the Kremlin with most of the soviet forces now retreating towards a newly line 30 miles of the city where the will wait until their forces are strong in of to retake the city.
November 26 Stalin comes close to hysteria when heard that the soviet army cannot retake the city fore a months ore two as the are still to weak ( the soviet army is raising army on the Volga, in Asia and in the Urals, and it would only be a matter of a few months before these new troops can be committed will in the mean time the German army is digging in and sending units to other fronts).Japanese 1st Air Fleet sets sail for Pearl Harbour, from its anchorage in the Kurile Islands. Commanded by Admiral Chuichi Nagumo, its consists of 5 aircraft carriers, 2 battleships, 3 cruisers, 9 destroyers and 8 oil tankers and has strict orders to observe strict radio silence ( one aircraft carrier and its escort is heading for the invasion of midway)
November 27 great Britain after hearing the news that Moscow has fallen to the German fears that when the Germans are true the will be again next ( at the moment the UK only suffers submarine blockade and raids against coastal targets with great Britain deploying much of its forces on Grete and the air battle of Italy).
November 28 Hitler orders Directive No.34 in which army group 9 will move from Moscow towards reinforcing The German 11th Army in taking Sevastopol while the rest of the forces guarding Moscow to dig in and to prepare themselves against any soviet counter attack.
Thursday, April 5, 2007
part 7
February 3 Hitler reviews the plans for Operation 'Barbarossa', as German intelligence estimates that 155 Red Army divisions are deployed in western Russia against just 120 German and Axis divisions. The starting date is again confirmed as may 15 1941.
February 6 Hitler makes one last appeal to the Spanish leader, General Franco, to enter the war but , Franco refuse du the fact Germany cant assure that spanis morocco would not be invaded by the allies.
February 8 The first convoy of the newly formed Italy German Corps under the command of General Rommel arrives in Italy to be station in Naples. Force H from Tunis ( Malta is to heavily under attack therefore force H is based out of Tunis ) bombards Genoa, without hindrance from the Italian Navy or Air force.
February 9 In a radio broadcast, Churchill warns Bulgaria against joining the Tripartite pact
February 10 The RAF attacks the oil storage tanks at Rotterdam in the Netherlands. The raid sees the operational debut of the RAF's first heavy bomber the Stirling and the first deployment of the Dutch spitfire squadrons over occupied Dutch soil ( RAF believed that if Dutch people saw spitfires with Dutch markings the would not loose hope).
February 12 The British foreign Secretary leaves London for a tour of the Balkan capitals in order to try and establish an anti-axis pact. However, Yugoslavia refuses to see them and Turkey refuses their proposals. Only Greece shows any interest to becoming a member of the allies.
February 14 Hitler starts to apply pressure on Yugoslavia to join the Tripartite pact. February 15 Great Britain breaks off diplomatic relations with Romania as it is now clear that the Romanians are firmly allied to the Germans
February 18 Parts of the Australian 8th Division arrive in Singapore to become part of a new to be created defence line outside the city ( since 1940 Britain has begun to make a strong defence line guarding the city of Singapore ).
February 23 the Greek premier formally accepts Britain's offer of joining the BFD believing it will prevent a Italy from returning. Stuka's sink a British Destroyer and the Monitor Terror off the North African coast, near Tobruk but receive only light loses from RAF squadrons based there.
March 1 Bulgaria finally joins the Tripartite pact after the discovery of a planned pro-British coup.
March 2 The German Twelfth Army moves into Bulgaria. March 3 Great Britain and here allies break off diplomatic relations with Bulgaria.
March 4 Hitler increases the pressure on Yugoslavia to join the Tripartite pact by inviting Prince Paul, the regent, to Berchtesgaden. Hitler demands that he allows German troops to pass through Yugoslavia for an attack on Greece who now is in war with Germany after joining the allies. On the northern Norwegian coast, British and Norway commandos carry out a raid on Trondelheim destroying the port and damaging a small part of the new railroad the Germans now use to carry iron ore from Sweden ( the commando raid only hinders the German who now poet more troops to guard the imported port and rail line).
March 7 British and Commonwealth troops begin to arrive in Greece , RAF units based on Crete begin to move to new airfields in Greece. March 9 The Italians launch another offensive against the Greek 1st Army in Albania, but it makes very little progress ( even despite having more forces available then in otl as the have not to fight in Africa ).
March 25 Under heavy pressure Yugoslavia finally signs the Tripartite pact.
March 27 A coup in Yugoslavia by pro allied forces overthrow the pro-German government. King Peter takes control and a new cabinet is formed
March 28 Anti-Axis demonstrations in Yugoslavia.
March 29 Battle of Cape Matapan in the Mediterranean, British naval forces defeat those of Italy sinking five warships. The Battle first started March 27.
April 3 A Pro-Axis coup in Iraq begins, BFD forces in the area put on high alert .
April 6 German, Italian and axis forces begin the invasion of Yugoslavia and Greece. The Luftwaffe carries out several devastating bombing raids against Belgrade and all but wipes out the Yugoslav air force on the ground.
April 12 in order the keep British RAF fighter squadrons in Africa du the German campaign in Yugoslavia the Luftwaffe begins a tree day massive bombing campaign against Malta and the free French city of Tunis. First US troops land in Greenland.
April 13 with the British RAF and free French air forces trying to battle the Luftwaffe over Tunisia and Malta, unrest in the city of Tunis du to the bombings forces the free French to station more garrison troops there to maintain order.
April 14 after tree days of fighting over control over the sky’s of Tunisia the Luftwaffe begins to drop leaflets urging the native people to rise up as it only is bombing the city to help them ( the Germans and Italian heard about the unrest and new that if the could stir up the unrest it would help a litter bit with forcing more British units to stay instead going to Greece ).
April 18 after 5 days of riots and a city laying in ruins a sort of calm returns towards the city of Tunis after more then 20.000 free French and British army troops and a strict curfew mad a sort of peace in the city ( more then 1300 people in the city have died of the 3 days of bombing and the 5 days of riots also forcing the RAF to halt the bombing campaign against Italy for a while du the war in Greece).
April 19 A Brigade from the British 10th Indian Division land at Basra in southern Iraq and another British Brigade moves from free French Syria into Iraq. april 23 King George II of Greece and his government are flown to Crete by the RAF
april 25 Hitler issues Directive No.28, ordering the preparation of plans to capture Crete. The basic plan is to involve 15,000 paratroops, 500 combat aircraft and is to be launched on the May 20 1941 ( in otl more the 23.000 paratroopers and 650 combat aircraft took place but with the battle of Netherlands in which a lot of Para where killed ore captured and with Luftwaffe units in Italy and being mad ready fore the invasion of the soviet union the numbers are lower).
April 28 A clampdown in German control Norway against degenerate literature is held olso the first Recruiting of Norwegians for the 'Nordland' Regiment of the 5th SS Motorised Division 'Wiking' is completed even if the norish government in narvik calls for Norway’s not to join the SS.
April 29 Another Brigade from the British 10th Indian Division lands at Basra, ignoring Iraqi's protests while the British brigade from Syria ocieps Mosul The Iraqi Army lays siege to The RAF base at Habbaniyh, although RAF planes fly numerous air strikes against them.
April 30 All of Greece is under German and Italian occupation. During the campaign, the Greeks lose 15,700 killed and 300,000 prisoners. The British lose 2,000 killed and 10,000 made prisoner, while the Germans only suffer about 2,000 killed and missing ( the battle happened like in otl )
May 2 The Iraqi's attack the British base at Habbaniya, but are repulsed , another British and free French brigade move from Syria towards Mosul.
May 5 General Montgomery is appointed by General Wavell to command approximately 80,000 British, New Zealand, Australian and Greek troops which are stationed on Crete ( unlike otl the force is better organize du no fighting is happening on Africa and therefore the can send more troops, tanks and have artillery to defend them self ).
May 6 The last Brigade of the British 10th Indian Division arrives British airplanes begin hitting pro axis Iraq troops ( why would Iraq rise up against the British is because the Germans had agents telling The Iraqi leader Rashid Ali tat this was the time for a uprising not knowing the Germans only just him to force the British to deploy forces away from Greece). May 9 A peace treaty is signed between free France and Thailand with all forces returning back to their borders and no large concentration of forces along the border ( free French ships Strasbourg and Provence arrive in French Indochina together with a convoy of 7000 free French forces putting more then 80.000 men in its colony).
May 10 Rudolf Hess, Hitler's deputy flying from Germany to Scotland to persuade anti-Churchill politicians that England should stop the war with Germany is shot down by RAF fighters he is killed in the crash ( in otl he mad it but because the British have not to worry about major battles against German planes the found a lone plane heading for Scotland strange and ordered it shot down).
May 11 German troops complete the occupation of the Greek islands in the Aegean Sea. May 12 The British capture Fallujah in Iraq after fierce fighting. The also bomb Baghdad airport ( du the fact Syria already is under the control of the free French the uprising is weaker and therefore more allied forces can move in).
May 14 Admiral Darlan reports back to Vichy after meeting Hitler and von Ribbentrop the Vichy Cabinet approves German offer to become a fullmember of the Tripartite pact. Large Royal Air Force reinforcements arrive in Singapore
May 15 Roosevelt tells Vichy France that the have begun to walk the wrong path ( al members of the allied nations condemn the decision of the Vichy to becoming a member of the Tripartite). The Luftwaffe begin preparatory attacks against Crete
May 16 Last British reinforcements arrive in Crete total of more then 85.000 troops are now on the island.
May 17 The German battleship Bismarck and the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen leave Gotenhafen in the Baltic to begin operations against British convoys in the Atlantic (Operation Rheinübung). The ship the Bismarck is latter sunk 10 days later.
May 19 the RAF deploys more squadrons towards Crete to srengting the air defence of the island ( mostly all RAF squadrons are from the Tunisia area with both shifting forces to Crete and therefore the Malta and Tunisia air space are calm )
May 20 Prime Minister Churchill says he is still not prepared to make a statement on the dead of Rudolf Hess nor why Hess tried to fly from Germany to Britain. After initial air attacks by dive-bombers of the VIII Flieger Korps, German paratroops of the 7th Flieger Division carried in 490 Ju-52 transports of XI Fliegerkorps, land at Maleme, Canea, Retimo and Heraklion airfields. They suffer very heavy losses as the British and Commonwealth troops put up fierce resistance and by nightfall have only secured Maleme airfield
May 21 with the German paratroops pin down on Maleme airfield and no reinforcements by sea are possible do to strong RAF and Royal navy it is only matter of time for the Germans to have to surrender. May 23 Further German attempts to land troops by sea on Crete are repulsed as heavy fighting continues around Canea
May 24 Heavy German bombing of Crete continues all day but the RAF is winning the battle forcing much needed supplies toward the German Para troops to never arrive.
May 25 Himmler establishes Norwegian SS on German Lines and begins sending to the german side of the Namsos line giving other German units the room to move some where else.
May 23 The revolt in Iraq collapses as the British near Baghdad the next day an armistice is signed and the Iraqi leader Rashid Ali flees in to Persia together with the German agents where is latter flow to Germany where he puts a government in exile.
May 27 British and commonwealth retake Canea Bay, This convinces General Montgomery, that the situation has shifted towards the allies side
May 28 the last German Para troops surrenders after the airfield of Maleme is overrun by British troops with a starting force of 15.000 of them 9.3400 are dead ore wounded Germany has lose the war over Crete and give the allies a much needed victory ( with this the German para forces are for a long time not able to mount any action even Hitler says after the battle of Holland and the battle of Crete he will never put the paras at the fore front of a campaign).
June 2 Hitler and Mussolini meet at the Brenner Pass on the German-Italian border to discuss the progress of the war
June 5 Over 100 German divisions have now been deployed along Germanys frontier with the Soviet Union
February 6 Hitler makes one last appeal to the Spanish leader, General Franco, to enter the war but , Franco refuse du the fact Germany cant assure that spanis morocco would not be invaded by the allies.
February 8 The first convoy of the newly formed Italy German Corps under the command of General Rommel arrives in Italy to be station in Naples. Force H from Tunis ( Malta is to heavily under attack therefore force H is based out of Tunis ) bombards Genoa, without hindrance from the Italian Navy or Air force.
February 9 In a radio broadcast, Churchill warns Bulgaria against joining the Tripartite pact
February 10 The RAF attacks the oil storage tanks at Rotterdam in the Netherlands. The raid sees the operational debut of the RAF's first heavy bomber the Stirling and the first deployment of the Dutch spitfire squadrons over occupied Dutch soil ( RAF believed that if Dutch people saw spitfires with Dutch markings the would not loose hope).
February 12 The British foreign Secretary leaves London for a tour of the Balkan capitals in order to try and establish an anti-axis pact. However, Yugoslavia refuses to see them and Turkey refuses their proposals. Only Greece shows any interest to becoming a member of the allies.
February 14 Hitler starts to apply pressure on Yugoslavia to join the Tripartite pact. February 15 Great Britain breaks off diplomatic relations with Romania as it is now clear that the Romanians are firmly allied to the Germans
February 18 Parts of the Australian 8th Division arrive in Singapore to become part of a new to be created defence line outside the city ( since 1940 Britain has begun to make a strong defence line guarding the city of Singapore ).
February 23 the Greek premier formally accepts Britain's offer of joining the BFD believing it will prevent a Italy from returning. Stuka's sink a British Destroyer and the Monitor Terror off the North African coast, near Tobruk but receive only light loses from RAF squadrons based there.
March 1 Bulgaria finally joins the Tripartite pact after the discovery of a planned pro-British coup.
March 2 The German Twelfth Army moves into Bulgaria. March 3 Great Britain and here allies break off diplomatic relations with Bulgaria.
March 4 Hitler increases the pressure on Yugoslavia to join the Tripartite pact by inviting Prince Paul, the regent, to Berchtesgaden. Hitler demands that he allows German troops to pass through Yugoslavia for an attack on Greece who now is in war with Germany after joining the allies. On the northern Norwegian coast, British and Norway commandos carry out a raid on Trondelheim destroying the port and damaging a small part of the new railroad the Germans now use to carry iron ore from Sweden ( the commando raid only hinders the German who now poet more troops to guard the imported port and rail line).
March 7 British and Commonwealth troops begin to arrive in Greece , RAF units based on Crete begin to move to new airfields in Greece. March 9 The Italians launch another offensive against the Greek 1st Army in Albania, but it makes very little progress ( even despite having more forces available then in otl as the have not to fight in Africa ).
March 25 Under heavy pressure Yugoslavia finally signs the Tripartite pact.
March 27 A coup in Yugoslavia by pro allied forces overthrow the pro-German government. King Peter takes control and a new cabinet is formed
March 28 Anti-Axis demonstrations in Yugoslavia.
March 29 Battle of Cape Matapan in the Mediterranean, British naval forces defeat those of Italy sinking five warships. The Battle first started March 27.
April 3 A Pro-Axis coup in Iraq begins, BFD forces in the area put on high alert .
April 6 German, Italian and axis forces begin the invasion of Yugoslavia and Greece. The Luftwaffe carries out several devastating bombing raids against Belgrade and all but wipes out the Yugoslav air force on the ground.
April 12 in order the keep British RAF fighter squadrons in Africa du the German campaign in Yugoslavia the Luftwaffe begins a tree day massive bombing campaign against Malta and the free French city of Tunis. First US troops land in Greenland.
April 13 with the British RAF and free French air forces trying to battle the Luftwaffe over Tunisia and Malta, unrest in the city of Tunis du to the bombings forces the free French to station more garrison troops there to maintain order.
April 14 after tree days of fighting over control over the sky’s of Tunisia the Luftwaffe begins to drop leaflets urging the native people to rise up as it only is bombing the city to help them ( the Germans and Italian heard about the unrest and new that if the could stir up the unrest it would help a litter bit with forcing more British units to stay instead going to Greece ).
April 18 after 5 days of riots and a city laying in ruins a sort of calm returns towards the city of Tunis after more then 20.000 free French and British army troops and a strict curfew mad a sort of peace in the city ( more then 1300 people in the city have died of the 3 days of bombing and the 5 days of riots also forcing the RAF to halt the bombing campaign against Italy for a while du the war in Greece).
April 19 A Brigade from the British 10th Indian Division land at Basra in southern Iraq and another British Brigade moves from free French Syria into Iraq. april 23 King George II of Greece and his government are flown to Crete by the RAF
april 25 Hitler issues Directive No.28, ordering the preparation of plans to capture Crete. The basic plan is to involve 15,000 paratroops, 500 combat aircraft and is to be launched on the May 20 1941 ( in otl more the 23.000 paratroopers and 650 combat aircraft took place but with the battle of Netherlands in which a lot of Para where killed ore captured and with Luftwaffe units in Italy and being mad ready fore the invasion of the soviet union the numbers are lower).
April 28 A clampdown in German control Norway against degenerate literature is held olso the first Recruiting of Norwegians for the 'Nordland' Regiment of the 5th SS Motorised Division 'Wiking' is completed even if the norish government in narvik calls for Norway’s not to join the SS.
April 29 Another Brigade from the British 10th Indian Division lands at Basra, ignoring Iraqi's protests while the British brigade from Syria ocieps Mosul The Iraqi Army lays siege to The RAF base at Habbaniyh, although RAF planes fly numerous air strikes against them.
April 30 All of Greece is under German and Italian occupation. During the campaign, the Greeks lose 15,700 killed and 300,000 prisoners. The British lose 2,000 killed and 10,000 made prisoner, while the Germans only suffer about 2,000 killed and missing ( the battle happened like in otl )
May 2 The Iraqi's attack the British base at Habbaniya, but are repulsed , another British and free French brigade move from Syria towards Mosul.
May 5 General Montgomery is appointed by General Wavell to command approximately 80,000 British, New Zealand, Australian and Greek troops which are stationed on Crete ( unlike otl the force is better organize du no fighting is happening on Africa and therefore the can send more troops, tanks and have artillery to defend them self ).
May 6 The last Brigade of the British 10th Indian Division arrives British airplanes begin hitting pro axis Iraq troops ( why would Iraq rise up against the British is because the Germans had agents telling The Iraqi leader Rashid Ali tat this was the time for a uprising not knowing the Germans only just him to force the British to deploy forces away from Greece). May 9 A peace treaty is signed between free France and Thailand with all forces returning back to their borders and no large concentration of forces along the border ( free French ships Strasbourg and Provence arrive in French Indochina together with a convoy of 7000 free French forces putting more then 80.000 men in its colony).
May 10 Rudolf Hess, Hitler's deputy flying from Germany to Scotland to persuade anti-Churchill politicians that England should stop the war with Germany is shot down by RAF fighters he is killed in the crash ( in otl he mad it but because the British have not to worry about major battles against German planes the found a lone plane heading for Scotland strange and ordered it shot down).
May 11 German troops complete the occupation of the Greek islands in the Aegean Sea. May 12 The British capture Fallujah in Iraq after fierce fighting. The also bomb Baghdad airport ( du the fact Syria already is under the control of the free French the uprising is weaker and therefore more allied forces can move in).
May 14 Admiral Darlan reports back to Vichy after meeting Hitler and von Ribbentrop the Vichy Cabinet approves German offer to become a fullmember of the Tripartite pact. Large Royal Air Force reinforcements arrive in Singapore
May 15 Roosevelt tells Vichy France that the have begun to walk the wrong path ( al members of the allied nations condemn the decision of the Vichy to becoming a member of the Tripartite). The Luftwaffe begin preparatory attacks against Crete
May 16 Last British reinforcements arrive in Crete total of more then 85.000 troops are now on the island.
May 17 The German battleship Bismarck and the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen leave Gotenhafen in the Baltic to begin operations against British convoys in the Atlantic (Operation Rheinübung). The ship the Bismarck is latter sunk 10 days later.
May 19 the RAF deploys more squadrons towards Crete to srengting the air defence of the island ( mostly all RAF squadrons are from the Tunisia area with both shifting forces to Crete and therefore the Malta and Tunisia air space are calm )
May 20 Prime Minister Churchill says he is still not prepared to make a statement on the dead of Rudolf Hess nor why Hess tried to fly from Germany to Britain. After initial air attacks by dive-bombers of the VIII Flieger Korps, German paratroops of the 7th Flieger Division carried in 490 Ju-52 transports of XI Fliegerkorps, land at Maleme, Canea, Retimo and Heraklion airfields. They suffer very heavy losses as the British and Commonwealth troops put up fierce resistance and by nightfall have only secured Maleme airfield
May 21 with the German paratroops pin down on Maleme airfield and no reinforcements by sea are possible do to strong RAF and Royal navy it is only matter of time for the Germans to have to surrender. May 23 Further German attempts to land troops by sea on Crete are repulsed as heavy fighting continues around Canea
May 24 Heavy German bombing of Crete continues all day but the RAF is winning the battle forcing much needed supplies toward the German Para troops to never arrive.
May 25 Himmler establishes Norwegian SS on German Lines and begins sending to the german side of the Namsos line giving other German units the room to move some where else.
May 23 The revolt in Iraq collapses as the British near Baghdad the next day an armistice is signed and the Iraqi leader Rashid Ali flees in to Persia together with the German agents where is latter flow to Germany where he puts a government in exile.
May 27 British and commonwealth retake Canea Bay, This convinces General Montgomery, that the situation has shifted towards the allies side
May 28 the last German Para troops surrenders after the airfield of Maleme is overrun by British troops with a starting force of 15.000 of them 9.3400 are dead ore wounded Germany has lose the war over Crete and give the allies a much needed victory ( with this the German para forces are for a long time not able to mount any action even Hitler says after the battle of Holland and the battle of Crete he will never put the paras at the fore front of a campaign).
June 2 Hitler and Mussolini meet at the Brenner Pass on the German-Italian border to discuss the progress of the war
June 5 Over 100 German divisions have now been deployed along Germanys frontier with the Soviet Union
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