January 1 Field Marshal Rommel is appointed C and C of Army Group B the German/Italian forces in France north of the Loire river ( under a agreement the 100,000 Italian force fall under Rommel du his experience when he was commander of the German Italian army and to give one commander the command of al forces). A total of four German blockade-runners from Japan are sunk in the South Atlantic with over 9 reaching Japan and returning safely sins 1943.
January 2 the second battle of Kiev begins with fresh reinforcements the soviet begin attacking the Germans holding Kiev the soviet are halted at the panther line and therefore concentred their efforts on the getting true Kiev and then swarm to attack the German from behind ). the Japanese commander at port Mosby knowing that his forces are surrounded by the allies orders a massive charge against the 2 allied divisions surrounding them.
January 3 general Montgomery is reported back from his campaign in Norway to Britain in order to take command of the British contingent of the Allied Expeditionary Force ( with the German holding the allied forces at bay after the captured everything above the now new line at of halsa-rosos ). the charge of pot Mosby is over from the 5,000 able Japanese soldier charging the 2 divisions surrounding port Mosby only 765 are still alive after the charge with most of the wounded but the shock of seeing 5,000 Japanese charging toward the allied lines surrounding did cause some losses to them with over 1,589 dead ore wounded.
January 4 A Russian breakout to the North of Kiev is achieved with their tank army's driving throughout the night ( the German where already beaten beat in the first battle of Kiev and where not able to hold out against the second wave).
the 2 army divisions enter port Mosby bring all of lower punt of new guinea under allied control the city is complete inn ruins and will take some time to become a major port for the allies ( the allies have concerted their efforts towards Kerema now control and are building airfields on the allied controlled area to contain the still 100,000 Japanese on the island wille beginning to focus their intention else where as the now have full naval and much of the air control over the Solomon sea with a new line running from Kerema towards lea).
January 6 The Russians take Kiev and split the 4th Panzer Army into two forcing them to retreat. US Marines secure Cape Gloucester airfield on New Britain after heavy fighting against the Japanese defenders. The allies announce that jet-propelled aircraft will soon to be in production. The Air Ministry says that Bomber Command dropped 57,100 tons of bombs on Germany in 1943, while the Luftwaffe dropped only 1,400 tons on Britain ( the number is much lower then in otl witch was 157,000 but is beginning to increase with the allies using free Norway to strike northern German cities will the Germans despite the allied operation knockout to increase their V-1 attacks against London and other British city from France ).
January 7 The first operational ‘Schnorkel’ U-boat arrives in the Atlantic. The Japanese commander on new guinea orders a army brigade to recapture the town of Daru. January 12 The Kiev bridgehead is now 10 miles deep and 70 miles wide ( while the soviet are pouring torch the cap created the Germans at their flank are still holding firm forcing the soviet trough a narrow cap with German able to attack them ).
January 16 Eisenhower becomes C-in-C of the Allied Expeditionary Forces in Britain. Units of the German 11th Army begin an offensive to eliminate the Soviet bridgehead at Kerch in the eastern Crimea and to clear the soviet from the krimm .
January 17 The Russians take Zhitomir in Ukraine ( the soviet could reach more then 60 mile in a week because most o the German troops are manning the panther line ).
January 20 the German 11th Army recapture Kerch after a battle against the soviet and makes a new defensive line in the city.
January 21 The largest Luftwaffe raid on Britain for some time, with 90 planes being spotted over Southeast England during the second battle of Britain ( the German are using V-1 and Luftwaffe attacks on the UK but the allies have the control over the UK airspace and therefore the retaliatory attacks against the UK are beginning to shift to the more safer V-1 attacks but for now until in of V-1 site are ready the raids on Britain attack continues ).
January 22 The Russian 60th Army takes Korosten, 100 miles West of KievThe soviet have driven far ahead but the German are still holding the panther line forcing the soviet of moving try the Kiev gap . patrolling the allied hold town of Daru new guinea a RAAF plane spots true the jungle large movements heading to the town of Daru.
January 23 A German counter offensive recaptures Zhitomir. A Royal Navy destroyer is lost when two Italian destroyers ships patrolling Sicily sink here but the two ships where force to retreat towards Sicily when alied planes began strafing them.
The second battle of Britain with some 270 German aircraft attack London and southern England the mission is a failure of the 270 only 96 aircraft reach thier targets. The battle of Daru begins while USAAF and RAAF bomber planes begin attacking the Japanese army brigade moving true the jungle towards the town of Daru the allies sent a extra battalion to strengting the garrison.
January 25 the Japanese army brigade moving under constant attack from allied planes begins it attack against the garrison of Daru.
February 31 Russians battle against Germans holding Zhitomir but the soviets forces are rebuff forcing them out 80 miles East of Kiev ( the German are massing a large army to move in and retake Kiev in the hops of closing the panther line and cutting the soviet army in two who are moving true the Kiev gap ).
The British launch their main attack on the Japanese Golden Fortress part of the Burma emperor line in the Arakan. after a day of battling the battle of Daru thanks to major naval and air support has shifted to the allies with the Japanese attack grounded to a halt after this day the japans brigade is no more and the allies keep control of the town of Daru in new guinea after this battle the allies reinforce the town and order to increase the attacks of its neborns towns who are still in Japanese hands to prevent the Japanese to do this again).
January 27 a massive German counter attack forces the soviet army who have to move out a small gap of only 100 miles in their hold Kiev bridgehead are force to surrender Zhitomir to the Germans ( the Germans have deployed more then 200,000 extra troops from Germany and occupied France with Italy and Vichy France taking over some of it garrison duty’s most of them are now moving to reinforce the Germans battling to close the Kiev gap). British atack on the ‘Golden Fortress’ cease.
January 29 200 USAAF bombers drop 1,150 tons of bombs on Hamburg and Kiel ( US and UK now can operate large numbers of bombers from free Norway and continue to attack France with targets now shifting towards the infrastructure in the occupied country as Germany begins deploying Mobil radars to prevent their destruction).
February 2 The Japanese open their counter-offensive against the British in Arakan, Burma. U.S. Marines complete the capture of Roi and Namur in the Marshall Islands. February 4 Admiral Nimitz becomes the military governor of the Marshal Islands.
February 5 The Japanese pressure in Arakan forces the British to retreat.
February 8 Plans for invasion of France, Operation 'Overlord are confirmed and a diversion operation called operation wolf is to be started with the intend of forcing the German to deploy more forces towards Italy and Norway ( the German have now 200,000 troops in Norway some 60,000 in Italy 200,000 in Finland and some 2,286,000, with 388,000 allied and satellite troops on the astern front . The RAF uses a massive 12,000b bomb called Tall-Boy in a raid on the Gnôme-et-Rhône works in Limoges. US forces take Kwajalein Island in Marshall's, losing 886 killed and 2,495 wounded, but inflicting 12,386 casualties on the Japanese ( because of the emperor line directive to fortified all island as much as possible the battle lasted 4 days longer then in otl but the Americans despite the heavy numbers are becoming worried about this new Japanese tactic to fight and forcing the Americans to spend so much effort in clearing these island of Japanese troops ).
February 12 Another British counter-offensive begins in Arakan, Burma.
February 14 The Americans announce that the Japanese remaining in Solomon's are now trapped, admiral yamamotho orders no naval ships to be deployed in the Salomon sea but orders submarine to begin inflicting loses to the US navy in the Solomon sea instead deploying his navy to guard the Bismarck sea instead hoping to use the island as it defence. The USAAF decimate a Japanese convoy off New Ireland. Anti-Japanese revolt on Borneo spreads as Japan tighten its grip on the island.
February 16 Anti-Japanese forces manage to get control over a small town in Borneo during the revolt in responds the Dutch begin supporting the revolt on Borneo with air strikes and ordering a sub with Dutch marines to land ad the town with weapons and to aid the people controlling the town.
February 18 US Marines begin landing on Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
February 19 despite the Japanese navy hiding behind a screen of airfields on both new Britain and new Ireland a Japanese convoy is still being smashed by allied aircraft in the Bismarck Archipelago. Dutch marines land in the town on Borneo and with aid from Dutch B-25 and USAAF B-17 manage to keep the Japanese at bay who by now have put with extreme force the rest of the revolt on Borneo down.
February 20 Big Week’ starts with the largest ever daylight raid of war by the USAAF/RAF on Germany as 470 bombers carry out attacks against Hamburg, Wilhelmshaven and Bremen ( this number is the biggest number of bombers that can operate from allied Norway at this moment ).second British counter-offensive fails forcing them back to India territory.
A US Carrier and and land based planes destroy the Japanese base at Rabaul new Britain. The Japanese despite having trouble of keeping control over the airspace launch a major air attack on the town who by now is hold by the Dutch marines and Anti-Japanese forces ( the Dutch only plan is to hold the town but no major operation is started as the Dutch have not in of forces to do this alone therefore the marines are to hold and when the town is about to fall head back to Java ).
February 21 Tojo is named chief of the Japanese Army General Staff and becomes the military dictator of Japan but admiral yamamoto remains commander of the Japanese combined fleet. A total of 96 launch sites have been built for the V1 with more being builds even the allies attack them Germans increase the launch sites.
February 23 US Marines complete the capture of Eniwetok Atoll, suffering 439 dead while a US Carrier group attack the Mariana Islands. the Japanese capturer the town on Borneo but not until several submarines and Dutch pt-boats evacuated the town people knowing that if the would have stayed there would surly faced dead by fire squads the Dutch have received a major boost in doing this and the Japanese lose face du that the Dutch manage not only to halt the Japanese at bay but also show that Borneo is not that secure.
February 24 Big Week’ continues with a co-ordinated RAF and USAAF attacks on Lubeck.
February 26 Bad weather ends Big Week’ during which major naval facilities are attack destroying much of German submarine production related factories are hit putting German monthly production down by 20%.
February 27 About 80,000 Japanese are reported to be trapped in New Britain and New Ireland, in the South West Pacific.
February 31 Russians battle again with the Germans holding Zhitomir but are rebuff forcing them out 80 miles East of Kiev ( the German are massing a large army to move in and retake Kiev in the hops of closing the panther line as the hold the soviet forces in the Kiev pocket if the can destroy soviet it will give them some time and some rest, the Germans can deploy more troops and du the fact for now the US/UK are targeting the coastal cities of Germany the can supply the axis force with out hindering with new tanks and other supplies).
March 3 the Battleship Tirpitz is damaged in a raid by the RAF while laying in harbour in Wilhelmshaven she is later after being repaired ordered to move to Gdansk.
March 6 Bomber Command begins a large-scale offensive over northern France in preparation for D-Day. The Italian navy orders the 1st Destroyer Squadron to be sent to reinforce the Germans in the Eagan sea after the battles against the British capturing some island there the 4 ships of the Squadron are to sail as close as possible to the axis hold coast of the Balkans to reach the new port and to prevent any encounters wit the British navy a second Squadron while begin to move when the first one has reach its destination.
US Marines land at kandrain in New Britain and face have Japanese resistance ( the US lands and the side facing the Solomon sea as by now the allies control it and are beginning to move to begin driving the Japanese out of the Bismarck sea which is still hold by the Japanese ).
March 7 with Burma firmly under Japanese control the begin the Imphal-Kohima offensive from northern Burma into Assam, India.
March 8 a regrouped and enlarged Japanese force prepares to attack the US bridgehead in Bougainville in respondse the US aircraft have to be flown to safety elsewhere.
March 10 more then 400,000 Germans in the now called group Dnieper are waiting to attack a force of 600,000 soviet who are now caught with the rest of the panther line holding as Germany is scraping the bottom of the barrel in getting reinforce for this operation the now if this battle fails the will have no change to attack again ( because Hitler ordered German forces back earlier then in otl at the battle of Kursk even despite the fact the loosed a lot of man and more then 2000 tanks the still manage unlike in otl du the limit bombing campaign on Germany for now to deploy new armour and man to be deployed plus the fact that Leningrad is holding out because the soviet are focusing on the German army group centre and north is helping the Germans ).
In Burma the scale and pace of Japanese advance causes alarm as the 17th Indian Division's positions are threatened (in OTL the Japanese had problems with the British operating behind their line in Burma but thanks to the Burma emperor line and more troops the Japanese don’t have to worry about that giving them more troops to attack in to India supported by a brigade of the Indian National Army who together with the Burma National Army and two Thai army divisions help in manning the Burma emperor line).
March 15 from the city’s of Zhitomir and Korosten the German group Dnieper attacks the soviet in the flanks the soviet who where moving to attack the Germans in Korosten are now attacks from the same place something the did not expect while the German Luftwaffe attacks Kiev in order to halt any soviet reinforcements in coming true also using the first operational of flight of the Junkers 390 of which a total of 20 are bombing soviet position in and around Kiev ( the Junkers 390 is now being produce with a total of 20 per month and increasing to becoming the new main heavy bomber plane of the German Luftwaffe).
Hannover is hit for the first time becoming the furthest northern German city attack by the USAAF with more then 200 b-17 of which 21 bombers and 7 escorts are shot down ( the Germans have now got more planes defending Germany France and the eastern front with italiy having only limit Luftwaffe support but still in of to defend it but not any more deploy large attacks on the allies in Malta and northern Africa ).
The British are forced to withdraw towards Imphal in Assam, while fighting a bitter rearguard action ( the Japanese have fortified the Burma emperor line strong info to hold on to it as the oilfield there have become more importance with the oilfield in Borneo under constant allied air attacks from java).
March 16 The Japanese begin crossing the Chindwin for an advance against Kohima.
March 17 with the soviet being attack more then German group Dnieper now cuts the soviet of from the rest of the army while the Luftwaffe concentred their attacks against the soviets holding Kiev. The British blow up the Manipur bridge South of Imphal.
March 20 the soviet army in the now Kiev pocket is trying to get back to the Kiev gap while the German Luftwaffe has got full control over the airspace over the Kiev pocket and is attacking the soviet forces while the German group Dnieper begins to tided its grip around the Kiev pocket other German forces who have now move in race to close the Kiev gap and prevent any soviet from adding the Kiev pocket .
second Italian naval squadron begins moving to the Eagan sea to srengting the Italian naval presence and to halt any British capture of any island there bringing the total to 9 ships ( the ships belong to the former Libya Naval Command but with the allies invaded the Italian colony the navy ships there fled to Italy where the ships where used in its defence now the Italian navy sent a new command called the Eagan sea command consisting of the 1st Destroyer Squadron and 11th Torpedo-Boat Squadron based out of Athens Greece ).
March 22 British tanks rout a Japanese tank force at Tamu in India.
March 23 the Germans army group Dnieper now begins to split the Kiev pocket in two while a force of 200,000 strong begin their attack against the soviet holding the Kiev gap ( the soviet are diverting a lot of forces towards the Kiev gap giving other German forces guarding the panther line time to rest and to increase their positions the soviet still have 600,000 troops outside the Kiev gap waiting to enter but the German panther line is forcing them into a Luftwaffe kill zone even if the soviet are moving true the Kiev gap it is shirking towards the city of Kiev each day).
March 24 The Luftwaffe attacks London with 100 bombers (He-111s ,Ju-88s and 10 Ju-390 while the plane was to deploy mostly of the Ju-390 to the eastern front a decision was made by German air command that the payload of the Ju-390 was big in of to be jus against the UK with the Ju-390 fleet being splits evenly in the two fronts). The Japanese counter attack on Bougainville is decisively beaten. operation wolf is started with mostly commonwealth forces to be deployed in north Africa to force the Germans to deploy some units in to Italy in preparation of operation overlord while operation knockout is put in higher gear with shifting mostly to destroy as much of the infrastructure that the Germans can use in their defence when operation overlord starts.
March 27 with the Kiev pocket surrendered the reaming 370,00 Germans of the group Dnieper join the already 200,000 German fighting their way in to Kiev which by now is hold by some 300,000 soviets while the German begin increasing their air attacks and battling the soviet air force over the dormice over the Kiev gap. Dutch/Americans begin planning to attack Timor as it gives the Japanese a way in blocking the allies and using it as a gap to sent ships and submarines to the Indian ocean island the aim is to cut the Japanese of and make a line beginning in Sumatra towards Australia it will be a Dutch main effort with US and RAAF air and naval support as the US is focusing on the new guinea and new Britain.
March 30 the soviet massing more forces to hold the Kiev bridgehead open are now being confronting by 600,000 German force of the group Dnieper while the Kiev gap is defended by 300,000 soviets with more then 300,000 waiting to cross over giving the Luftwaffe and German artillery easy targets to shoot at ( Stalin orders to move al available soviet forces to concerted their effort to destroy the Germans advancements while the Germans are sending their reinforcements in order to destroy the soviet forces at Kiev and close the panther line). The siege of Imphal begins, as the Japanese cut the road to the North.
March 31 RAF losses after major attacks on German cities since the 24th october1943 are 150 aircraft destroyed and 382 damaged ( this is only the number sins the RAF began using the airfield in Norway the number is not high yet but Germany begins deploying new ways to counter the massive northern raids ). The German group south using the battle of Kiev as advertence capture the city of meltipol for the third time with this al German control the panther line except Kiev is hole. Marshal Kesselring C-C of the German Italian army request more German troops to be sent to iad him in the defence after German Intel is believing the allies are planning a invasion of Italy but his request are denied with the Germans on France being used and already having sent some of their units to the eastern front not able to lose more and the battle of Kiev is making sending troops not possible who are now current on the eastern front. Overview panther line the panther line begins at the city of volchov outside German control Leningrad moving to Novgorod down to Smolensk then reaching Kiev then following the Dnieper strait going down to Dnepropetrovsk and reaching the melitpol and the German control of Kerch makes out the panther line with much of the eastern war concentrating on Kiev as Stalin believe capturing Kiev will split the German forces in two.
Thursday, June 14, 2007
Friday, June 8, 2007
part 14 1943
September 4 believing the have full control of the Salomon sea the allies land with a carrier force of 4 ships and their escort to protect them at popondetta in operation backdoor with the Australians 9th Division in the lead after a day of battling the secure the town but quickly discover that the Japanese have form a perimeter around the town forcing the 9th division and the naval and air support to first battling thier way out of the town before the can move to port Mosby where the Japanese are still holding the new guinea force at bay at thier line.
September 5 US paratroops land behind the Japanese positions at popondetta and surround about 5,000 Japanese troops who where preventing the 9th division to break out. the biggest air raid involving Dutch B-25 and US b-17 against the Borneo oil refinery involving more then 200 planes of which 40 are Dutch B-25 will the Dutch are also in the planning to receive some B-17 to increase the attacks against the Japanese holdings in Borneo and the Celebes.
September 9 Italian destroyer Antonio Da Noli is sunk off Corsica after hitting a mine ( Italian naval ships begin to feel the control of the air shifting towards the allies even despite Italy producing as much fighters and training it pilots as the can plus with the los of the Pantelleria Island has forced the axis to become more defensive in nature ).
the German first use of the German air-launched anti-ship missile called Fritz X is jusedwhen a German group of 12 Dornier Do 217s attacks a allied convoy heading towards Malta sinking 1 transport and damaging a British cruiser ( the Fritz X is a OTL weapon and with the allies gaining more control this weapon with a range of 5 miles is perfect to destroy ships from long range but even if the fritz x has some setbacks with 12 launch only 3 hit thier targets and alos forcing the german planese to clom close to the alied naval aa defence). Iran, under pressure from the allies who occupy the country declares war on Germany.
September 10 A special order of the day from Stalin announces the Russian victories on nikel and pecenga on the border of Norway with the German 10th mounting army and finish forces retreating to defend the finish border and to keep soviet force outside Finland.
After weeks of prodding by Goebbels, Hitler consents to make a short radio broadcast to the German people on the dramatic events of the summer particularly in Norway with the allied invasion of Norway telling the allies will be pushed back to the sea. Soviet marines supported by naval units of the Red Fleet recapture the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk from German forces who where retreating towards Kerch ( the soviet still realise as long as the Crimea is in the hands of the Germans the can send naval units against them something the notice when landing at the port of Novorossiysk ).
September 11 flying over the north sea the US 8th Air Force raids the German naval base at Wilhelmshaven involving 200 B-17 of which 17 are shot down ( the allies are flying over the north sea to avoid the German air forces in France who are trying to prevent attacks on their radar net who still operated).
September 12 The Heaviest RAF attack so far on southern Italy, with more than 1000 tons dropped on Naples in under 30 minutes while, the first italien mini raid against Malta jusing 10 Piaggio P.108 bombers of which the Italian air force is building 60 and now having 15 against malta with the germans mostly concatreding thier eforts on the eastrn front.
September 14 free French commandos using a sub land in Vichy controlled Corsica to help patriots fighting the Germans. British Special Boat Squadron operating from Grete occupies Kos in the Aegean sea with the intend of keeping axis naval ships contained in the Aegean sea ( the British and free Greece force on Grete are beginning to become stronger as German naval forces are diverted to the black sea and German air units are sent towards France and the eastern front ). The Germans begin to evacuate Bryansk, some 200 miles Southwest of Moscow.
September 15 The Australian 7th and 9th Divisions manage to break the Japanese forces around popondetta in New Guinea after very heavy fighting and link up with the US para troopers and now can begin to attack the Japanese in the back at port mosby.
September 16 British forces based from Grete occupy Leros in the Aegean sea. German counterattacks against the US forces outside halsa Norway are stop with the British/American forces now beginning to strengting the US forces outside the city ( the Germans now have a made shift line running from the coast city of halsa towards the city of rosos near the Swedish border holding it are more the 100,000 German troops with more from the eastern front and who where station in France underway against them is a force of 50,000 US and more on their way ). The Black Sea port of Novorossiysk is captured by the Russians after a week of amphibious and land operations and naval battles against German e-boats.
September 17 Stalin announces the capture of Bryansk, German form a new line 25 miles outside the city. The German 17th Army begins the evacuation of the Novorossiysk-temmruk line towards Kerch on the Crimea.
September 18 Hitler and Mussolini a meeting in Rome where also marshal Petain is present agree to allow 5 Vichy army divisions and 6 halve of Vichy France on build squadrons of the D.520 of which the now have 12 squadrons of to be station in occupied France allowing some German army divisions to be sent to Norway and increasing the axis air power in France while the Italian army will deploy an force of 100,000 man into occupied France giving the germans more to be deployed to the astern front but Mussolini refuse to redeploy any of its air forces towards France as the allies are increasing their attacks on Sicily, Sardinia and lower Italy (Hitler dos not trust the Vichy army as much but has no choice to put them in occupied France he is clever in of to deploy them in areas where the can harm ore hinder German forces if the decide to help the French resistance but also keep a strong German force near them to keep a watch on them ).
September 20 The US 15th Air Force bombs German and Italian airfields on Sicily and Sardinia in effort of keeping axis air forces from bombing Malta and the now allied controlled Pantelleria Island. Army Group South begins its withdrawal of the line Rostov-doneck toward a new line at Melitopol-Zaporozhe. The RAF institutes ‘shuttle bombing’ runs, with planes leaving England, bombing Germany, reloading in allied controlled Norway then bomb German control Norway and then return to England the first of these shuttle bombing’ runs begins with 60 RAF bombers attacking the radar at bremerhaven.
September 21 The Red Army breaks thru the German perimeter outside Kharkov .
The Dutch queen visit the Dutch indie head quarters in Batavia and speak to the naval and army personal this is here 4th visit to the Dutch indie but du to security risk from Japanese air planes attacks and roaming submarines the visits remain total secret in order to prevent the Japanese from striking at here.
September 25 The Russians capture safonovo, over 200 miles to the West of Moscow and just outside the city of Smolensk. 140 Allied fighters and 136 bombers strafe and bomb the airfield at Palermo in Sicily. After four day of visiting the Dutch indie and examining its damage from Japanese air raids and seeing the improvements the Dutch indie government has made the queen leave towards England on a plane escorting by several Dutch spitfire to Australia where she then will fly with several stops to here headquarters in the UK ( the queen will also land in the US to speak with the president offering home a medal of friendship before flying to the UK).
September 28 The first of two heavy air raids against kerema are conducted by the 5th AAF, with seven ships destroyed.
September 30 The British announce that 5,211 casualties were suffered at roros so far. An air battle between 44 USAAF P-38s and 75 Luftwaffe fighters commences above Italy the P-38s were escorting a large formation of B-26s on their way to bomb marshalling yards at Aversa the Americans lose 13 aircraft and shoot down 9 Axis aircraft, thus allowing the B-26s to make an unmolested bombing run to their target, where they cause extreme damage without loss.
October 2 U.S. Fifteenth Air Force, raids three airfields in southern Italy.
The allied navy escorting ships towards Malta have now find a way to prevent the Germans to deploy their fritz x with success by the jamming the Guided Weapon radio guidance system the allies suffer no loses in bringing ships to Malta ( the fritz x was a little bit successful of damaging when firts jused but the allied found a way to prevent the fritz from doing any damege,but the Germans are working hard to improve the fritz in a effort to prevent the allies from jamming it and also to increase its range will order are giving to attack only ships that are alone ore unarmed ships ).
October 3 The Germans invade Kos with the assistance of massive air support. the Red Army now battles the German 25 mile outside the city of Bryansk.
October 4 Organised British resistance ends on Kos. The free French commandos battle Vichy troops on Corsica (the free French commandos where sent to help the resistance battling the Vichy forces on the island where betrayed by a informant when the where in a meeting with the had of the pro free French resistance on the island after a battle the remaining members of the commandos and resistance where arrested and latter put on trail ).
October 5 the red army stronger than the Germans holding the line outside of Bryansk break out forcing the Germans to retreat. The German and Japanese begin their designing to a improve version of the type 97 with their aim of making it possible to increase it production while the first Japanese 88 mm gun is also shown but du the complexity of its design the number of 200 has to be scale back to 100 and many to be used for the defence of the Japanese home island and manning the Burma emperor line if al goes as well the first 88 mm gun can be produce in mid 1944 and a total of 10 per month will be produce will the tank 97 will remain in production until 1945 with more then 600 to be produce will the Japanese/German design team start to improve the way the tank is being produce ).
October 9 The Russians now control the Kuban peninsula on the Black Sea, after the successful evacuation of all German and Romanian troops into the Crimea who now set up a new line at Kerch. October 12 350 allied bombers hit the Japanese base at Rabaul in New Britain the damage reported includes 120 planes destroyed.
October 13 The Russians reach Melitopol in southern Ukraine. The whole of the New Georgia group of islands in the Solomon's are reported in allied hands. First V-1 missile is launch at London killing 8 people from a launch base in France ( in otl the allies attack the v-1 production facility’s in Peenemunde Germany in 1943 but because the have not don it here the Germans can launch the V-1 earlier than in otl ).
October 20 first test flight of the Junkers 390 bomber the four engine plane will be primary used at the eastern front with several versions like the maritime patrol version called Ju 390 B while the bomber version is called Ju 390 C the first batch of 26 while be delivered for operation use in end of January 1944 with all of them to be deployed on the eastern front. A total of 6 V-1 are launch but only 2 of them hit London with the rest crashing in the north sea or shot of their targets with a daily launch of 12 missile and becoming more each day the German can now hit London with out deploying their bombers ( the allies who where hitting radar base in France now receive new orders to hit the launch sites in franc as on of their main objectives while the RAF is planning a bombing raid on the German V-1 production facility in Peenemunde).
October 23 The Red Army captures Poltava west of Kharkov and after 10-days of fighting captures Melitopol in southern Ukraine. Operation Corona the jamming of German night-fighter communications begins during an RAF raid on a German radar site in franc with operation knockout still going on. A German torpedo boat flotilla sinks the Royal Navy cruiser Charybdis and the destroyer Limborne in a Channel duel.
October 24 using the airbase in allied control Norway and a massive diversion in France the RAF begins Operation Gomorrah when 300 RAF bombers drop 1,500 tons of bombs on Hamburg in 24 minutes, during which only 6 aircraft are lost Fires are visible for 200 miles (the German believe the allied air forces would use the gap created in France with the allied operation knockout but instead the allies used allied control Norway as their base as the Germans only have several radars long side the German and occupied Denmark plus to fool the few radar the used fore the first time of Window radar-jamming foil strips dropped by aircraft).
October 25 German radio says that Hamburg is still burning leaving 50,000 homeless the USAAF bomb the city again in daylight from the same airbases in allied control Norway.
October 26 two days after the allied surprised the Germans in bombing Hamburg the Germans begin to redeploy some of their fighter units to be sent to German controlled Norway and to increase the aa defence of the city and the coast.
A feint landing on Choisseul in the Solomon's is conducted by US forces. Meanwhile Treasury Island is occupied
October 27 after 5 days of battling the soviet forces the Germans recapture the city of Melitopol and thereby make the Melitopol-Zaporozhe under German control again ( the German have some more troops available to fight unlike otl but begin to fail the strain of fighting the soviets ). Montgomery resumes the offensive in Norway when British and Norwegians troops try to break in to the German new line of halsa -rosos line but are rebuff with the US lead forces try to capture the city of halsa but face stiff resistance from the Germans who now have learn from their experience in how to defend a city and its surrounding.
October 28 The second mass raid on Hamburg by 344 RAF bombers results in 5 square miles of city being set alight the RAF lose more then 17 planes ( the Germans begin to increase the aa defence of the city and have redeployed some German fighter squadrons based in Germany ). October 29 The mass evacuation of a million civilians from Hamburg is ordered after the recent heavy bombings.
October 30 Hamburg is bombed for a third time but while the lose to the US and RAF are begining to increase the attacks continuo.
November 1 The US 3rd Marine Division lands at Empress Augusta Bay on Bougainville Island in the Solomon's while a confused naval battle begins around Bougainville Island.
November 2 The ninth attack on Hamburg in eight days an Estimated 25.000 killed in responds Hitler orders London to be attack for the firs time in the war ( no major battle of Britain happened therefore London was never hit ).
November 3 Heavy USAAF air attacks begin on Rabaul. November 5 the Germans lose the city of Melitopol again just after the recaptured the city 8 days ago. US casualties in Mediterranean since the landings in Norway is given as 31,126 dead or wounded. US Navy carrier planes cripple a Japanese squadron at Rabaul forcing six cruisers to withdraw North to Turk for repairs ( the carriers where the ships that protected the allied landings in operation backdoor and now are station in the Solomon sea to prevent the Japanese taking it back).
November 6 The Japanese land reinforcements in lemanko upper Bougainville Island.
November 7 The Red Army forces a crossing of the Dnieper at Dnepropetrovsk, thereby breaking into the German Panther line.
November 12 German troops invade Leros by sea and drop 500 paratroops ( Hitler after losing Grete and the loosing of a lot of pares at the battle of Holland said he would never allow German Para troops to be used but with the war progress Goering manage to form a brigade of a new rapid unit under Luftwaffe control called the first para brigade after the pares where disbanded after the battle of Grete this new brigade is the only Para force the Germans have).
November 15 the US Fifth Army's offensive against the cit of halsa Norway is halted until new reinforments and more troops arrive the British counter-attack on rosos fails as the Luftwaffe flies 600 sorties a day.
November 16 using airbases in free Norway The RAF bombs the heavy water plant at Telemark damaging its slightly but the RAF is putting more attacks against the plant into action.
November 19 British Air Ministry says that Hamburg now lies in absolute ruins and is probably the most complete blotting out of a city that ever happened.
November 21 US Marines land on Makin and Tarawa atolls in Gilbert Islands, with fierce fighting reported.
November 21 Field Marshal Kesselring is appointed C and C of the German Italian army of 60,000 man and the fliegerxorps X and II, while Rommel leaves his command to organise the Atlantic wall ( general Rommel has spend his time organize in Italy as head of the German Italian army to increase the Italian defence position and training with the Italian army and because of that he is given command of the Atlantic wall to increase its defensive there). The Luftwaffe, with 400 aircraft available, begins a series of raids against London and ports in southern England.
November 23 The Red Army captures Poltava. German troops complete the occupation of the islands of the Dodecanese in the eastern Mediterranean.
November 25 The Russians capture Smolensk and Roslavl. A Destroyer action off Cape St. George results in the Japanese being routed to the north west of Bougainville and losing three destroyers out of five in the process.
November 26 The HMT Rohna, a British troop transport, is attacked in the eastern Mediterranean by a Luftwaffe plane using the German air-launched anti-ship missile called Fritz X sinking the ship and killing 1,015 American and 135 British and Australian service men ( is atack is what hapend in OTL )
November 27 The Germans begin a General withdrawal of all forces in the Ukraine to panther line ( the panther line after four moths of building and using hundred of thousand of force labours).
November 30 The Russians make contact with the German hold the panther line on a 300-mile front. The US Navy Department announces that very few Japanese are left alive in the Gilbert Islands. On Tarawa, 2,490 Marines were killed and 3,193 wounded, with only 200 Japanese out of garrison of 8,836 being taken prisoner, with only 34 of them being soldiers. Kokada in New Guinea falls to the 9th Australian Division in the drive to the Japanese position in port Mosby ( the Australians can go up but with more then 70,000 forces under the Japanese line waiting and port Mosby a large and imported target the 9th division is battling its way to the Japanese in and around port Mosby with more Australian forces pouring in popondetta).
December 1 Vatutin launches a 4-day breakout attempt from the Bukrin bridgehead south of Kiev.
The Red Army achieves a landing across the Strait of Kerch from the Taman peninsula and also severs all German land links with the Crimea.
December 2 German and Italian forces in Yugoslavia begin a major operation against Tito's partisan's ( Italy has some 300,000 troops station in the Balkans with Mussolini deciding if to send more on the eastern front Italy has now got 300,000 some 100,000 more then in otl).
December 3 A massive Russian offensive from Dnieper bridgehead North of Kiev erupts. Third fritz x attack sinks a free French destroyer on patrol out of Tunisia.
December 4 Tito’s Partisans set up a provisional government in the partisans control hills in Yugoslavia. the 7th and 9th Australian divisions make contact with the Japanese in port Mosby but the Japanese have bin ordered not to surrender the city at any price. a total of 7 German u-boats and Japanese have mad the journey of travailing between them with out losses but now a German u-boat hading towards Japan is spotted and sunk with al man aboard December 5 after two day of battling the German keep control of Kiev but their forces are to weak to defend against a second soviet attempt to capture the city. The first Japanese daylight raid on Calcutta is mounted with many reported killed
December 8 using the diversion the new guinea force brakes out of the Japanese line and begins battling the Japanese after the manage to clear the japans line the begin moving towards the Australian divisions already beginning laying siege to the city.
December 10 The Red Army achieves a breakthrough near Gomel in Byelorussia and coming in contact with the German panther line there.
December 12 The Soviets begin to amass a large force to break true the German hold city of Kiev . The US 8th Air Force delivers a heavy attack against the city of Bremerhaven However, of the original force of 291 B-17's, 54 are either shot down or damaged beyond repair, while the Luftwaffe has lost only about 20 fighter planes ( the German have redeployed the units the can spare along the coast and in occupied Denmark and increase the aa defensive in many coastal city’s). the new gunia force now has port Mosby surrounded and despite heavy artillery attacks the Japanese defenders hold on to port mosby while a large part of the new guinea force move up towards the city of kerama which the Japanese hold.
December 15 Great Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union all break off diplomatic relations with the Yugoslav government in exile and recognize Tito's Communist Popular Liberation Committee as the Yugoslav government to be even if its being chance around by axis forces in the Balkans. US troops land on New Britain near Cape Gloucester, to the South West of Rabaul. Operation cutter, an American-Australian amphibious assault on the Japanese Army at daru new guinea with the intend to cut of Japanese supply towards kerema and to get full control of the gulf of Papua ( the landing is to form a defensive perimeter and to hamper any Japanese naval forces that try to get in to the gulf of Papua ).
December 20 The Russian attacks from Bukrin bridgehead are bloodily repulsed and put them back at the panther line. Hitler allows Army Group North to withdraw to Panther line. US commanders in the field order port Mosby to be bomb to the ground after Japanese defenders refuse to surrender. The British reach the emperor Line in Arakan, Burma ( the Japanese have begun work on the emporor line and hav fortified it with many in many places forcing the British to move slow in to Burma ).
December 22 The allies announce that Tito is to be the allied commander in Yugoslavia as his partisans are now estimated at 125,000 men ( tito has a large forces but because of Italy was never invaded and the war in north Africa was not fought long his partisans are have in size du to heavy German and axis forces controlling the Balkans).
December 24 Sir Henry Maitland Wilson is made Supreme Commander in the Mediterranean and orders the bombing of Italy to increase. The Luftwaffe raids Exeter in the first of Hitler's retaliatory raids ,a second raid employing 91 aircraft is made against Rostock. 350 allied bombers hit the Japanese hold port Mosby while US and Australian naval ships are beginning to blockade and shell Japanese positions in the city.
December 26 German forces of Army Group Centre evacuate Gomel in Byelorussia towards their panther line. US Marines make further landings on New Britain, either side of Cape Gloucester heavy fighting reported with Japanese defenders have dig them self in and some units make kamikaze attacks at the us forces hampering the us advances ( the Japanese command put many more troops on new Britain as it protect the flank of new guinea and the Bismarck sea and is part of the emperor line where now more troops are located then there where in otl even despite Japan lack of many transports Japan is placing as many soldiers on the islands as the can ).
December 30 of the 15,000 Japanese defenders at port Mosby only 7,700 are still alive with the city burning and laying in ruins and after 3 air attacks against the port the Japanese’s still refuse to give up the city even if the are isolated from the outside world with more then 2 allied divisions surrounding and pounding their positions daily while new troops now move in the srengting the new guinea force who after battling its way to the jungle is almost 5 miles from the city of kerema ( the Japanese at port Mosby begin to run out of food and with the constant bombardments and shelling from the allied forces the are almost and the end, the US begins to feel the effect of the Japanese die hard mentality and are now begin to focus on a new tactic instead of attacking the citys hold by the Japanese on new guinea the are going if possible bypass them and let the air force bomb them out and surround them until the surrender or are completely destroyed while also clearing in of new guinea that Australia is no more in danger of being bomb and continue the advance when the Bismarck sea is in allied hands giving them control of isolating 100,000 Japanese instead of battling themselves tro the jungle ).
September 5 US paratroops land behind the Japanese positions at popondetta and surround about 5,000 Japanese troops who where preventing the 9th division to break out. the biggest air raid involving Dutch B-25 and US b-17 against the Borneo oil refinery involving more then 200 planes of which 40 are Dutch B-25 will the Dutch are also in the planning to receive some B-17 to increase the attacks against the Japanese holdings in Borneo and the Celebes.
September 9 Italian destroyer Antonio Da Noli is sunk off Corsica after hitting a mine ( Italian naval ships begin to feel the control of the air shifting towards the allies even despite Italy producing as much fighters and training it pilots as the can plus with the los of the Pantelleria Island has forced the axis to become more defensive in nature ).
the German first use of the German air-launched anti-ship missile called Fritz X is jusedwhen a German group of 12 Dornier Do 217s attacks a allied convoy heading towards Malta sinking 1 transport and damaging a British cruiser ( the Fritz X is a OTL weapon and with the allies gaining more control this weapon with a range of 5 miles is perfect to destroy ships from long range but even if the fritz x has some setbacks with 12 launch only 3 hit thier targets and alos forcing the german planese to clom close to the alied naval aa defence). Iran, under pressure from the allies who occupy the country declares war on Germany.
September 10 A special order of the day from Stalin announces the Russian victories on nikel and pecenga on the border of Norway with the German 10th mounting army and finish forces retreating to defend the finish border and to keep soviet force outside Finland.
After weeks of prodding by Goebbels, Hitler consents to make a short radio broadcast to the German people on the dramatic events of the summer particularly in Norway with the allied invasion of Norway telling the allies will be pushed back to the sea. Soviet marines supported by naval units of the Red Fleet recapture the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk from German forces who where retreating towards Kerch ( the soviet still realise as long as the Crimea is in the hands of the Germans the can send naval units against them something the notice when landing at the port of Novorossiysk ).
September 11 flying over the north sea the US 8th Air Force raids the German naval base at Wilhelmshaven involving 200 B-17 of which 17 are shot down ( the allies are flying over the north sea to avoid the German air forces in France who are trying to prevent attacks on their radar net who still operated).
September 12 The Heaviest RAF attack so far on southern Italy, with more than 1000 tons dropped on Naples in under 30 minutes while, the first italien mini raid against Malta jusing 10 Piaggio P.108 bombers of which the Italian air force is building 60 and now having 15 against malta with the germans mostly concatreding thier eforts on the eastrn front.
September 14 free French commandos using a sub land in Vichy controlled Corsica to help patriots fighting the Germans. British Special Boat Squadron operating from Grete occupies Kos in the Aegean sea with the intend of keeping axis naval ships contained in the Aegean sea ( the British and free Greece force on Grete are beginning to become stronger as German naval forces are diverted to the black sea and German air units are sent towards France and the eastern front ). The Germans begin to evacuate Bryansk, some 200 miles Southwest of Moscow.
September 15 The Australian 7th and 9th Divisions manage to break the Japanese forces around popondetta in New Guinea after very heavy fighting and link up with the US para troopers and now can begin to attack the Japanese in the back at port mosby.
September 16 British forces based from Grete occupy Leros in the Aegean sea. German counterattacks against the US forces outside halsa Norway are stop with the British/American forces now beginning to strengting the US forces outside the city ( the Germans now have a made shift line running from the coast city of halsa towards the city of rosos near the Swedish border holding it are more the 100,000 German troops with more from the eastern front and who where station in France underway against them is a force of 50,000 US and more on their way ). The Black Sea port of Novorossiysk is captured by the Russians after a week of amphibious and land operations and naval battles against German e-boats.
September 17 Stalin announces the capture of Bryansk, German form a new line 25 miles outside the city. The German 17th Army begins the evacuation of the Novorossiysk-temmruk line towards Kerch on the Crimea.
September 18 Hitler and Mussolini a meeting in Rome where also marshal Petain is present agree to allow 5 Vichy army divisions and 6 halve of Vichy France on build squadrons of the D.520 of which the now have 12 squadrons of to be station in occupied France allowing some German army divisions to be sent to Norway and increasing the axis air power in France while the Italian army will deploy an force of 100,000 man into occupied France giving the germans more to be deployed to the astern front but Mussolini refuse to redeploy any of its air forces towards France as the allies are increasing their attacks on Sicily, Sardinia and lower Italy (Hitler dos not trust the Vichy army as much but has no choice to put them in occupied France he is clever in of to deploy them in areas where the can harm ore hinder German forces if the decide to help the French resistance but also keep a strong German force near them to keep a watch on them ).
September 20 The US 15th Air Force bombs German and Italian airfields on Sicily and Sardinia in effort of keeping axis air forces from bombing Malta and the now allied controlled Pantelleria Island. Army Group South begins its withdrawal of the line Rostov-doneck toward a new line at Melitopol-Zaporozhe. The RAF institutes ‘shuttle bombing’ runs, with planes leaving England, bombing Germany, reloading in allied controlled Norway then bomb German control Norway and then return to England the first of these shuttle bombing’ runs begins with 60 RAF bombers attacking the radar at bremerhaven.
September 21 The Red Army breaks thru the German perimeter outside Kharkov .
The Dutch queen visit the Dutch indie head quarters in Batavia and speak to the naval and army personal this is here 4th visit to the Dutch indie but du to security risk from Japanese air planes attacks and roaming submarines the visits remain total secret in order to prevent the Japanese from striking at here.
September 25 The Russians capture safonovo, over 200 miles to the West of Moscow and just outside the city of Smolensk. 140 Allied fighters and 136 bombers strafe and bomb the airfield at Palermo in Sicily. After four day of visiting the Dutch indie and examining its damage from Japanese air raids and seeing the improvements the Dutch indie government has made the queen leave towards England on a plane escorting by several Dutch spitfire to Australia where she then will fly with several stops to here headquarters in the UK ( the queen will also land in the US to speak with the president offering home a medal of friendship before flying to the UK).
September 28 The first of two heavy air raids against kerema are conducted by the 5th AAF, with seven ships destroyed.
September 30 The British announce that 5,211 casualties were suffered at roros so far. An air battle between 44 USAAF P-38s and 75 Luftwaffe fighters commences above Italy the P-38s were escorting a large formation of B-26s on their way to bomb marshalling yards at Aversa the Americans lose 13 aircraft and shoot down 9 Axis aircraft, thus allowing the B-26s to make an unmolested bombing run to their target, where they cause extreme damage without loss.
October 2 U.S. Fifteenth Air Force, raids three airfields in southern Italy.
The allied navy escorting ships towards Malta have now find a way to prevent the Germans to deploy their fritz x with success by the jamming the Guided Weapon radio guidance system the allies suffer no loses in bringing ships to Malta ( the fritz x was a little bit successful of damaging when firts jused but the allied found a way to prevent the fritz from doing any damege,but the Germans are working hard to improve the fritz in a effort to prevent the allies from jamming it and also to increase its range will order are giving to attack only ships that are alone ore unarmed ships ).
October 3 The Germans invade Kos with the assistance of massive air support. the Red Army now battles the German 25 mile outside the city of Bryansk.
October 4 Organised British resistance ends on Kos. The free French commandos battle Vichy troops on Corsica (the free French commandos where sent to help the resistance battling the Vichy forces on the island where betrayed by a informant when the where in a meeting with the had of the pro free French resistance on the island after a battle the remaining members of the commandos and resistance where arrested and latter put on trail ).
October 5 the red army stronger than the Germans holding the line outside of Bryansk break out forcing the Germans to retreat. The German and Japanese begin their designing to a improve version of the type 97 with their aim of making it possible to increase it production while the first Japanese 88 mm gun is also shown but du the complexity of its design the number of 200 has to be scale back to 100 and many to be used for the defence of the Japanese home island and manning the Burma emperor line if al goes as well the first 88 mm gun can be produce in mid 1944 and a total of 10 per month will be produce will the tank 97 will remain in production until 1945 with more then 600 to be produce will the Japanese/German design team start to improve the way the tank is being produce ).
October 9 The Russians now control the Kuban peninsula on the Black Sea, after the successful evacuation of all German and Romanian troops into the Crimea who now set up a new line at Kerch. October 12 350 allied bombers hit the Japanese base at Rabaul in New Britain the damage reported includes 120 planes destroyed.
October 13 The Russians reach Melitopol in southern Ukraine. The whole of the New Georgia group of islands in the Solomon's are reported in allied hands. First V-1 missile is launch at London killing 8 people from a launch base in France ( in otl the allies attack the v-1 production facility’s in Peenemunde Germany in 1943 but because the have not don it here the Germans can launch the V-1 earlier than in otl ).
October 20 first test flight of the Junkers 390 bomber the four engine plane will be primary used at the eastern front with several versions like the maritime patrol version called Ju 390 B while the bomber version is called Ju 390 C the first batch of 26 while be delivered for operation use in end of January 1944 with all of them to be deployed on the eastern front. A total of 6 V-1 are launch but only 2 of them hit London with the rest crashing in the north sea or shot of their targets with a daily launch of 12 missile and becoming more each day the German can now hit London with out deploying their bombers ( the allies who where hitting radar base in France now receive new orders to hit the launch sites in franc as on of their main objectives while the RAF is planning a bombing raid on the German V-1 production facility in Peenemunde).
October 23 The Red Army captures Poltava west of Kharkov and after 10-days of fighting captures Melitopol in southern Ukraine. Operation Corona the jamming of German night-fighter communications begins during an RAF raid on a German radar site in franc with operation knockout still going on. A German torpedo boat flotilla sinks the Royal Navy cruiser Charybdis and the destroyer Limborne in a Channel duel.
October 24 using the airbase in allied control Norway and a massive diversion in France the RAF begins Operation Gomorrah when 300 RAF bombers drop 1,500 tons of bombs on Hamburg in 24 minutes, during which only 6 aircraft are lost Fires are visible for 200 miles (the German believe the allied air forces would use the gap created in France with the allied operation knockout but instead the allies used allied control Norway as their base as the Germans only have several radars long side the German and occupied Denmark plus to fool the few radar the used fore the first time of Window radar-jamming foil strips dropped by aircraft).
October 25 German radio says that Hamburg is still burning leaving 50,000 homeless the USAAF bomb the city again in daylight from the same airbases in allied control Norway.
October 26 two days after the allied surprised the Germans in bombing Hamburg the Germans begin to redeploy some of their fighter units to be sent to German controlled Norway and to increase the aa defence of the city and the coast.
A feint landing on Choisseul in the Solomon's is conducted by US forces. Meanwhile Treasury Island is occupied
October 27 after 5 days of battling the soviet forces the Germans recapture the city of Melitopol and thereby make the Melitopol-Zaporozhe under German control again ( the German have some more troops available to fight unlike otl but begin to fail the strain of fighting the soviets ). Montgomery resumes the offensive in Norway when British and Norwegians troops try to break in to the German new line of halsa -rosos line but are rebuff with the US lead forces try to capture the city of halsa but face stiff resistance from the Germans who now have learn from their experience in how to defend a city and its surrounding.
October 28 The second mass raid on Hamburg by 344 RAF bombers results in 5 square miles of city being set alight the RAF lose more then 17 planes ( the Germans begin to increase the aa defence of the city and have redeployed some German fighter squadrons based in Germany ). October 29 The mass evacuation of a million civilians from Hamburg is ordered after the recent heavy bombings.
October 30 Hamburg is bombed for a third time but while the lose to the US and RAF are begining to increase the attacks continuo.
November 1 The US 3rd Marine Division lands at Empress Augusta Bay on Bougainville Island in the Solomon's while a confused naval battle begins around Bougainville Island.
November 2 The ninth attack on Hamburg in eight days an Estimated 25.000 killed in responds Hitler orders London to be attack for the firs time in the war ( no major battle of Britain happened therefore London was never hit ).
November 3 Heavy USAAF air attacks begin on Rabaul. November 5 the Germans lose the city of Melitopol again just after the recaptured the city 8 days ago. US casualties in Mediterranean since the landings in Norway is given as 31,126 dead or wounded. US Navy carrier planes cripple a Japanese squadron at Rabaul forcing six cruisers to withdraw North to Turk for repairs ( the carriers where the ships that protected the allied landings in operation backdoor and now are station in the Solomon sea to prevent the Japanese taking it back).
November 6 The Japanese land reinforcements in lemanko upper Bougainville Island.
November 7 The Red Army forces a crossing of the Dnieper at Dnepropetrovsk, thereby breaking into the German Panther line.
November 12 German troops invade Leros by sea and drop 500 paratroops ( Hitler after losing Grete and the loosing of a lot of pares at the battle of Holland said he would never allow German Para troops to be used but with the war progress Goering manage to form a brigade of a new rapid unit under Luftwaffe control called the first para brigade after the pares where disbanded after the battle of Grete this new brigade is the only Para force the Germans have).
November 15 the US Fifth Army's offensive against the cit of halsa Norway is halted until new reinforments and more troops arrive the British counter-attack on rosos fails as the Luftwaffe flies 600 sorties a day.
November 16 using airbases in free Norway The RAF bombs the heavy water plant at Telemark damaging its slightly but the RAF is putting more attacks against the plant into action.
November 19 British Air Ministry says that Hamburg now lies in absolute ruins and is probably the most complete blotting out of a city that ever happened.
November 21 US Marines land on Makin and Tarawa atolls in Gilbert Islands, with fierce fighting reported.
November 21 Field Marshal Kesselring is appointed C and C of the German Italian army of 60,000 man and the fliegerxorps X and II, while Rommel leaves his command to organise the Atlantic wall ( general Rommel has spend his time organize in Italy as head of the German Italian army to increase the Italian defence position and training with the Italian army and because of that he is given command of the Atlantic wall to increase its defensive there). The Luftwaffe, with 400 aircraft available, begins a series of raids against London and ports in southern England.
November 23 The Red Army captures Poltava. German troops complete the occupation of the islands of the Dodecanese in the eastern Mediterranean.
November 25 The Russians capture Smolensk and Roslavl. A Destroyer action off Cape St. George results in the Japanese being routed to the north west of Bougainville and losing three destroyers out of five in the process.
November 26 The HMT Rohna, a British troop transport, is attacked in the eastern Mediterranean by a Luftwaffe plane using the German air-launched anti-ship missile called Fritz X sinking the ship and killing 1,015 American and 135 British and Australian service men ( is atack is what hapend in OTL )
November 27 The Germans begin a General withdrawal of all forces in the Ukraine to panther line ( the panther line after four moths of building and using hundred of thousand of force labours).
November 30 The Russians make contact with the German hold the panther line on a 300-mile front. The US Navy Department announces that very few Japanese are left alive in the Gilbert Islands. On Tarawa, 2,490 Marines were killed and 3,193 wounded, with only 200 Japanese out of garrison of 8,836 being taken prisoner, with only 34 of them being soldiers. Kokada in New Guinea falls to the 9th Australian Division in the drive to the Japanese position in port Mosby ( the Australians can go up but with more then 70,000 forces under the Japanese line waiting and port Mosby a large and imported target the 9th division is battling its way to the Japanese in and around port Mosby with more Australian forces pouring in popondetta).
December 1 Vatutin launches a 4-day breakout attempt from the Bukrin bridgehead south of Kiev.
The Red Army achieves a landing across the Strait of Kerch from the Taman peninsula and also severs all German land links with the Crimea.
December 2 German and Italian forces in Yugoslavia begin a major operation against Tito's partisan's ( Italy has some 300,000 troops station in the Balkans with Mussolini deciding if to send more on the eastern front Italy has now got 300,000 some 100,000 more then in otl).
December 3 A massive Russian offensive from Dnieper bridgehead North of Kiev erupts. Third fritz x attack sinks a free French destroyer on patrol out of Tunisia.
December 4 Tito’s Partisans set up a provisional government in the partisans control hills in Yugoslavia. the 7th and 9th Australian divisions make contact with the Japanese in port Mosby but the Japanese have bin ordered not to surrender the city at any price. a total of 7 German u-boats and Japanese have mad the journey of travailing between them with out losses but now a German u-boat hading towards Japan is spotted and sunk with al man aboard December 5 after two day of battling the German keep control of Kiev but their forces are to weak to defend against a second soviet attempt to capture the city. The first Japanese daylight raid on Calcutta is mounted with many reported killed
December 8 using the diversion the new guinea force brakes out of the Japanese line and begins battling the Japanese after the manage to clear the japans line the begin moving towards the Australian divisions already beginning laying siege to the city.
December 10 The Red Army achieves a breakthrough near Gomel in Byelorussia and coming in contact with the German panther line there.
December 12 The Soviets begin to amass a large force to break true the German hold city of Kiev . The US 8th Air Force delivers a heavy attack against the city of Bremerhaven However, of the original force of 291 B-17's, 54 are either shot down or damaged beyond repair, while the Luftwaffe has lost only about 20 fighter planes ( the German have redeployed the units the can spare along the coast and in occupied Denmark and increase the aa defensive in many coastal city’s). the new gunia force now has port Mosby surrounded and despite heavy artillery attacks the Japanese defenders hold on to port mosby while a large part of the new guinea force move up towards the city of kerama which the Japanese hold.
December 15 Great Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union all break off diplomatic relations with the Yugoslav government in exile and recognize Tito's Communist Popular Liberation Committee as the Yugoslav government to be even if its being chance around by axis forces in the Balkans. US troops land on New Britain near Cape Gloucester, to the South West of Rabaul. Operation cutter, an American-Australian amphibious assault on the Japanese Army at daru new guinea with the intend to cut of Japanese supply towards kerema and to get full control of the gulf of Papua ( the landing is to form a defensive perimeter and to hamper any Japanese naval forces that try to get in to the gulf of Papua ).
December 20 The Russian attacks from Bukrin bridgehead are bloodily repulsed and put them back at the panther line. Hitler allows Army Group North to withdraw to Panther line. US commanders in the field order port Mosby to be bomb to the ground after Japanese defenders refuse to surrender. The British reach the emperor Line in Arakan, Burma ( the Japanese have begun work on the emporor line and hav fortified it with many in many places forcing the British to move slow in to Burma ).
December 22 The allies announce that Tito is to be the allied commander in Yugoslavia as his partisans are now estimated at 125,000 men ( tito has a large forces but because of Italy was never invaded and the war in north Africa was not fought long his partisans are have in size du to heavy German and axis forces controlling the Balkans).
December 24 Sir Henry Maitland Wilson is made Supreme Commander in the Mediterranean and orders the bombing of Italy to increase. The Luftwaffe raids Exeter in the first of Hitler's retaliatory raids ,a second raid employing 91 aircraft is made against Rostock. 350 allied bombers hit the Japanese hold port Mosby while US and Australian naval ships are beginning to blockade and shell Japanese positions in the city.
December 26 German forces of Army Group Centre evacuate Gomel in Byelorussia towards their panther line. US Marines make further landings on New Britain, either side of Cape Gloucester heavy fighting reported with Japanese defenders have dig them self in and some units make kamikaze attacks at the us forces hampering the us advances ( the Japanese command put many more troops on new Britain as it protect the flank of new guinea and the Bismarck sea and is part of the emperor line where now more troops are located then there where in otl even despite Japan lack of many transports Japan is placing as many soldiers on the islands as the can ).
December 30 of the 15,000 Japanese defenders at port Mosby only 7,700 are still alive with the city burning and laying in ruins and after 3 air attacks against the port the Japanese’s still refuse to give up the city even if the are isolated from the outside world with more then 2 allied divisions surrounding and pounding their positions daily while new troops now move in the srengting the new guinea force who after battling its way to the jungle is almost 5 miles from the city of kerema ( the Japanese at port Mosby begin to run out of food and with the constant bombardments and shelling from the allied forces the are almost and the end, the US begins to feel the effect of the Japanese die hard mentality and are now begin to focus on a new tactic instead of attacking the citys hold by the Japanese on new guinea the are going if possible bypass them and let the air force bomb them out and surround them until the surrender or are completely destroyed while also clearing in of new guinea that Australia is no more in danger of being bomb and continue the advance when the Bismarck sea is in allied hands giving them control of isolating 100,000 Japanese instead of battling themselves tro the jungle ).
part 13 1943
May 4 Hitler decides to postpone Operation Citadel in order that more Tiger and Panther tanks can be deployed in the offensive this is against the advice of a number of leading Generals who fear that the Russian defences will become too strong if the offensive is delayed any further.
May 8 British forces are removed from Burma by the Japanese. British and American planners complete their planes for a invasion of Norway to stop German iron ore shipments the aiding in free Norway and using it as a staging area for a invasion of Finland to reduce soviet forces battling the German in hoping to draw German to help Finland and Norway.
May 13 The Royal Navy and royal air force with the US army air force begin the bombardment of Pantelleria Island, between Tunisia and Sicily (Pantelleria is being used as place by the Germans and Italian for raids against shipping headed towards Malta and for bomber raids against targets in Tunisia even despite allied attempts to remove them therefore this operation is started to end the island being used as a axis airfield and naval base).
May 14 The U.S. 8th Air Force attacks Kiel with 125 aircraft ( the allies are beginning to deploy these raids as Germany believes that mostly of the attacks will be flown over France as the allies are still destroying radars and pushing the German field of sight back as operation knockout continues.
May 15 the Essex carrier USS san Francisco is launch in a ceremony headed by the US president he telsl the gather people that san Francisco will strike back ( the carrier san Francisco is this timeline USS Intrepid and after the Japanese hit san Francisco killing 112 people the decision was mad to name it after the city ).
May 17 The Germans and their allies launch their fifth offensive to destroy Tito’s partisans in Yugoslavia. The Luftwaffe carries out a night raid involving 100 aircraft against Cardiff in Wales.
May 18 The Japanese launch a new offensive along the Yangtze river, 250 miles north east of the Nationalist capital of Chunking.
May 20 The Chinese launch a counter offensive on Yangtze River. May 21 The Luftwaffe carries out a raid by FW -200 fighter bombers against Malta ( the FW-200 is the FW-190 on steroids plane and a total of 1.000 have been build so far the German FW design team is already working on the successor of the FW-200 the FW-250 which is otl timeline the Focke-Wulf Ta 152 and should enter service in 1944 ).
May 25 after a 10 day battle the tide is turning in the favour towards the allies in the battle of Pantelleria Island the axis lose their radar on the island and the 100 strong fighter force there only 16 are still able to fly combat missions against the allied bombing campaign with the Italian and German on Sicily trying desperately to prevent loosing the control air space over the island as more and more allied bombers and escorts fly over the island dropping their ordnance ( the allied want to have the island to sent ships to resuply Malta ).
May 27 The first British ‘liaison’ team is dropped into Yugoslavia to join up with Tito’s partisans.
May 28 The US 15th Air Force attacks Italian oil refineries at Livorno.
May 31 The US 15th Air Force bombs German and Italian airfields at Foggia, destroying many aircraft on the ground. Chiang Kai-Shek claims two Japanese divisions an one division from the Manchukuoan Army have been surrounded on the Yangtze River (the Japanese have begun strengting the army of Manchukuoan Army to a force of 200.000 one year ahead of otl to giving the Japanese more troops to be sent to man the emperor line and to fight the allied forces while the Manchukuoan Army is not yet up the Japanese standard the are improving the Japanese goal is to have a force of 400.000 at the end of 1945 mostly to replace japans forces with the Japanese supplying the officer and to set up their on production for small arms and ammunition while also improving the army al in the line of the new emperor line directive in fortifying the Japanese and here allies passions).
June 1 The Red Air Force attacks German rear communications and airfields at Smolensk and Orel. U.S. begins submarine warfare against Japanese shipping.
June 2 The Red Air Force bombs Kiev and Roslavl, while the Luftwaffe bombs Kursk. The second u-boat arrives in Japan on it are parts of a panzer tree and assembly bleu prints for the Japanese to improve their tank production because the u-boat was attacked by a allied plane based from the Falklands the Japanese decide also to sent their on sub towards Germany .
June 4 Luftwaffe bombers attack the massive Russian tank factory's at Gorki
June 9 Tito is wounded during a German air attack.
Allied forces including Dutch b-25 begin their attacks against heavily defended oil fields on Borneo in a hope to hamper Japanese oil supplies ( because of Borneo under constant attack by Americans and Dutch bombers the Japanese have begun working on the myanaung oil field in Burma wich the japans after the force the British out began to repair and focus more on the Burma oil field than then the Borneo oilfields the also are beginning to build a mullty layered defence line witch is part of the emperor line in Burma to prevent the British getting the oilfield and Burma ).
June 11 Operation Corkscrew the invasion of Pantelleria meets no resistance after a 20-day aerial bombardment when 2000 British commandos land ,after the intense bombing and both air superiority of the allied air forces based in north Africa forces the axis station on Sicily not able to turn the tide the garrison commander surrenders (Mussolini was not happy when he heard the garrison had surrendered believing the island was a true fort which could not be taken but with the fact Germany is deploying more and more fighter unit to France and the eastern front means the Italian air force has to bur the birded of defending Italy alone).
June 15 The German raider Michel sinks 2 ships off the west coast of Australia. with the island of Pantelleria in allied hands the allied begin to plan a massive bombing campaign in order to destroy the Italian war machine and to let the axis believe the allies are planning to invade Italy.
June 16 93 Japanese planes have bin destroyed by the allies as the prepare to start operation backdoor forcing the Japanese to spear their aircraft station on new Britain and new guinea.
June 21 Allies advance to New Georgia, Solomon Islands. a Japanese I-subs leave towards Germany will the u bout already left two days earlier returning with a zero engine aboard . June 23 British aerial reconnaissance now secured photographs of Peenemunde research base showing rockets available for firing.
June 30 Operation Cartwheel starts with the occupation of Rendova, north west of Guadalcanal the Trobriand and Woodlark islands between Solomon's and New Guinea are also occupied al in part of securing a allied controlled Solomon sea for operation backdoor.
July 1 Hitler addresses the generals taking part in the imminent operation Citadel at sys that Kursk has to be captured
July 2 US troops land on New Georgia in the Solomon's. third U-boat leaves towards Japan with a complete FW-190 airframe aboard and its bleu prints and four more army personnel who will help Japan improve its tank production.
July 4 The Germans launch operation Citadel the Germans have deployed 45 divisions totalling 1,000,000 men, which include 13 Panzer divisions with 3,000 tanks and assault guns, 12,000 guns and as well as 2,000 aircraft. Against this, the Red Army has 1,300,000 troops in deeply echeloned defensive positions around the city of Kursk while the front is protected by 8,000 land mines per square mile, 3,300 tanks, 20,000 guns and 2,500 aircraft. In the first day of the operation the Germans In the northern sector capture the city of zelezngorsk , while in the southern sector they manage 25 miles against stubborn Soviet resistance which inflicts heavy casualties ( because of army group 6th being able to get out of Stalingrad mostly intact some 100,000 additional force could be deployed again the soviets ).
July 5 The battle of Kursk continues with unabated ferocity, with the northern pincer of 9th Army is struggling to make any significant progress after caputering the city of zelezngorsk and is not abel to move to incircle kursk du heavy soviet resictence the southern pincer of 4th Panzer Army advances some 12 miles coming close to the outer defenceve of the city of kursk.
A Naval battle erupts in the Solomon sea east of new Britain the US Navy loses the cruiser Helena but claims two ore four Japanese ships have been sunk.
July 6 The German forces engaged at Kursk are still unable to achieve a major breakthrough in the face of stiffening Soviet resistance, which is reinforced by the arrival of strong tank and infantry reserves.
July 7 As the battle of Kursk reaches its climax, the exhausted German forces are unable to make any further gains while losing vast numbers of men, tanks and planes.
July 8 The Russians say that the German attack has been held and claim that 2,000 tanks have been destroyed in the four days of fighting.
July 9 Operation thor’s hammer begins with the invasion of German occupied Norway in which 3.000 ships and landing-craft with 160.000 men and 14.000 vehicles, 600 tanks and 1800 guns. Against a German hold Norway 190.000 troops of which 90.000 are station against on the namos line ( in otl the allies invaded Sicily but because the German have more troops and Italian has more the 500,000 troops station there as the unlike in otl did not fight the allies in north Africa, the allies believe split Norway is a better way to invaded as there are already 100.000 troops station there 30,000 Norwegians 40.000 British 10,000 free French and more then 20.000 Americans how began to arrive sins the start of the US entry the allies also want to use Norway as a staging post to invaded Finland to force Germany to deploy more troops to both Norway and Finland the better can use on the eastern front there by helping the soviets).
July 10 The attacking German forces at Kursk have been depleted by heavy losses in men and armour and have nearly spent their momentum, even though the 4th Panzer Army and Army Detachment Kempf in the southern sector have succeeded in capturing the pivotal town of Prokhorovka.
To prevent further attrition, especially of the vital armoured forces, Field Marshals von Kluge and von Manstein urge Hitler to call off the operation Hitler believing he dealt the soviet a harsh blow agrees the German forces can move back at their starting point.
July 12 Admiral Walden Ainsworth leads three cruisers and five destroyers on a combat mission up the Slot, the channel that divides the Solomon Islands in two. The allies after battling the 25,000 troops guarding Trondheim and linking up with their airborne troops who drop outside the city now begin to use the city to ferry troops in with a majority is sent to attack the German side of the namos line the other will begin to form a defencive parameter around the city and wait until more reinforcements are in to begin the journey to Oslo ( the Germans guarding the namos line now face heavy attacks as the are now faced with splitting their forces in both directions severely weakling them and now that the are now cornered therefore Hitler has ordered them to fight to the last man).
July 13 The Japanese sink the US destroyer Gwin and severely damage three cruisers for loss of cruiser the Japanese Jintsu near new Britain ( the allies are forcing the japans back behind new Britain both naval and destroying much of their planes as the begin operation backdoor on new guinea the new guinea force even despite heavy b-17 and b-25 bombing runs is not able to dislodge the Japanese from their position and therefore are force to wait until al of the Solomon sea is in allied hands before the can begin operation backdoor and the conquest of new guinea ).
July 14 after more then six days of fighting the Germans have loosed more then 2,000 tanks and more then 100.000 soldiers killed ore wounded and more the 67,000 captured the German begin retreating to their starting point line and begin to dig in will the soviet having more loosed 250,000 dead or wounded but are able to receive the punch but also need time to prepare ( the soviet loosed more than half their tank force but tanks to their deep layered defence the where able to hurt the Germans and now with fresh troops arriving to replace the lost owns the soviet can begin to attack again ).
July 16 using the advice of the German army engineers and the two civil engineers of the design team of the panzer 3 and the now assembled panzer 3 the Japanese can begin of improving their deign of the type 97 in getting more to frontline units while admiral yamamotho is concentrating on more light combat ships to patrol the Japanese hold waters ( the type 97 is Japanese best tank but its only draw back its fact there are to few to patrol and that why the German giving advice to the Japanese com in to make some corners in getting moor tanks out and more produce , while admiral yamamotho plan is to build a fleet of Destroyers and Destroyer Escorts to protect their battleships and carriers from allied navy’s . )
July 17 Begin of the American offensive at Bougainville, South-Pacific. tree days after the battle of Kursk Hitler orders the construction of a fortified defensive line called the Panther Line along the Dnieper river up to wards the Baltic ( Hitler dos not want the Germans holding the line to give up their current position but this is only in case if the germans are forced to retreat, as Germany has to send 50,000 troops to aid the fins ad their border with Norway and to send troops to Norway to battle the allies who by now have secured Trondheim and isolated the Germans between Trondheim and the namos line and force a German force of 50,000 to be deployed at the city of roros under trondelheim to wait for the allies ).
July 26 A number of Waffen SS divisions are ordered to be transferred from Russia to Norway but only the 1st SS Panzer Division is actually redeployed.
Augustus 1 Increasingly heavy fighting continues in Norway as the allies battling themselves towards the German control Namsos line while the allies on the Namsos line try to keep the German from trying to escape,while in fact the German are trying to hold out as long as possible hoping that a counterattack will come( the forces are lead by Montgomery as commander of al British forces and Patton as commander of al US forces both want to reach Oslo first both now that the Namsos line has to be removed from Germans before any major operation towards Oslo can begin ).
Augustus 3 The German on the Namsos line of the 90,000 there have bin a lot of dead and wounded but now the are faced the fact that the are outnumbered two to one and now that the can hold out long in the mean time new German reinforcement begin to form a new defensive line at roso. Augustus 5 The Russians take Belgorod and now threaten Kharkov German forces from group south order to engage the soviet outside the city of Kharkov.
Augustus 4 US troops are halted by fierce opposition in halsa Norway as the us forces move down in Norway. X-type U-boat arrive in Japan and begins unloading its cargo but US and its allies are beginning to notice the loon submarines heading to and from Japan and Germany the WF-190 after being assembled will help Japan to compare the different in the thier planes will the army engineers join the already four present in helping their counterpart in making it more easier for them to make tanks even if its don Japanese style.
Augustus 6 German troops pour into Norway as Axis foreign ministers meet at Treviso to discuses the allied invasion of Norway and watt to do next. naval Battle of Bougainville begins as 4 Japanese destroyers attempt to bring troops and supplies to kieta on Bougainville island and are attacked by 6 US destroyers in the battle the Japanese lose 1 destroyers and 2 are damaged the US destroyers suffer no damage ( because the Japanese have limit troop transport who are many used to transport troops to new guinea ore other large island occupied by the Japanese destroyers are mostly used to do the job for the smaller islands ).
Augustus 15 more German troops are heading to reinforce the forces in halsa Norway woo manage to halt the US advance while the German force at the Namsos line surrender after coming in a allied with over 67,000 captured and 23,000 dead ore wounded the allies can begin in to move their forces down towards Oslo putting everything above the German line at roros in allied hands.
Augustus 17 Montgomery and Patton link up with the allied forces on the Namsos line after cleaning some German pockets who did not want to surrendered after being caught in the Namsos pocket with Namsos now linked the allies begin to concentred of using the airbase to hit Germany as much of the German radar is focus on Britain and only a few German radar station are placed along the coast of occupied Denmark and in north germany ( the allies operation knockout will shift in to a diversion hoping to keep as many German fighter squadrons in France when the allies beginhitting targets in north Germany ).
The first Quebec summit opens with the allied plans for the invasion of France being approved by Roosevelt and Churchill The first Quebec summit opens with the allied plans for the invasion of France being approved by Roosevelt and Churchill.
Augustus 22 The Germans evacuate Kharkov in order not to fall in soviet trap and set up a defencive line outside the city in order to trap the soviets in the city.
Augustus 23 The Soviet Steppe Front occupies Kharkov while the 5th Guards Tank Army beats off the consequent German counter-attack that was started to late.
Augustus 25 The Russians continue their advance to the West of Kharkov but begin to revive heavy German resistance . Allies complete the occupation of New Georgia Augustus 26 US bombers hit Hong Kong.
ABDAF is dissolved after 1 year in exciting and is to be replace by a US lead pacific command headed by the US in witch the Dutch receive all command over allied forces in free Dutch indie and occupied Dutch/British indie with exception of new guinea that falls under US control the rest of the commands are like in otl.
Augustus 27 the British Minister of Information, makes the first ministerial statement on Hess dead sins May 1941 and says Hess came to find British Quislings to overthrow Churchill but found the RAF instead ( Rudolf Hess was killed while trying to get to Britain in may 1941 he was shot down by the RAF )
Augustus 28 The Bulgarian King, Boris III dies under mysterious circumstances. Soviet halted in city of Kharkov du to heavy German resistance forcing them to deploy more forces to break the germans.
Augustus 30 Taganrog on the Sea of Azov is evacuated by the German who now make a new defence position at Rostov towards doneck while German forces at the Novorossiysk-temmruk line still keep the soviet out of the krimm ( the german have learn from the soviet defence at Kursk and have begun to use it to their on Advantech in the still constructed panther line and the Novorossiysk-temmruk line).
Augustus 31 Hitler allows Manstein to make limited withdrawals in Ukraine in order to better protect his forces. Soviet forces are not able to breach the German perimeter around the city of Kharkov as Luftwaffe begin to attack the now trap soviet 5th Guards Tank Army while more German reinforcement are on the way to aid the Germans around the city ( the German panther line is begin to look like a real defensive line using more the 1000 mines per square mile in some places each town and city becoming a fort and that is only in the first month with more work still ahead in creating a formable defensive line ). the US carrier enterprise group bombs Marcus Island in Micronesia.
May 8 British forces are removed from Burma by the Japanese. British and American planners complete their planes for a invasion of Norway to stop German iron ore shipments the aiding in free Norway and using it as a staging area for a invasion of Finland to reduce soviet forces battling the German in hoping to draw German to help Finland and Norway.
May 13 The Royal Navy and royal air force with the US army air force begin the bombardment of Pantelleria Island, between Tunisia and Sicily (Pantelleria is being used as place by the Germans and Italian for raids against shipping headed towards Malta and for bomber raids against targets in Tunisia even despite allied attempts to remove them therefore this operation is started to end the island being used as a axis airfield and naval base).
May 14 The U.S. 8th Air Force attacks Kiel with 125 aircraft ( the allies are beginning to deploy these raids as Germany believes that mostly of the attacks will be flown over France as the allies are still destroying radars and pushing the German field of sight back as operation knockout continues.
May 15 the Essex carrier USS san Francisco is launch in a ceremony headed by the US president he telsl the gather people that san Francisco will strike back ( the carrier san Francisco is this timeline USS Intrepid and after the Japanese hit san Francisco killing 112 people the decision was mad to name it after the city ).
May 17 The Germans and their allies launch their fifth offensive to destroy Tito’s partisans in Yugoslavia. The Luftwaffe carries out a night raid involving 100 aircraft against Cardiff in Wales.
May 18 The Japanese launch a new offensive along the Yangtze river, 250 miles north east of the Nationalist capital of Chunking.
May 20 The Chinese launch a counter offensive on Yangtze River. May 21 The Luftwaffe carries out a raid by FW -200 fighter bombers against Malta ( the FW-200 is the FW-190 on steroids plane and a total of 1.000 have been build so far the German FW design team is already working on the successor of the FW-200 the FW-250 which is otl timeline the Focke-Wulf Ta 152 and should enter service in 1944 ).
May 25 after a 10 day battle the tide is turning in the favour towards the allies in the battle of Pantelleria Island the axis lose their radar on the island and the 100 strong fighter force there only 16 are still able to fly combat missions against the allied bombing campaign with the Italian and German on Sicily trying desperately to prevent loosing the control air space over the island as more and more allied bombers and escorts fly over the island dropping their ordnance ( the allied want to have the island to sent ships to resuply Malta ).
May 27 The first British ‘liaison’ team is dropped into Yugoslavia to join up with Tito’s partisans.
May 28 The US 15th Air Force attacks Italian oil refineries at Livorno.
May 31 The US 15th Air Force bombs German and Italian airfields at Foggia, destroying many aircraft on the ground. Chiang Kai-Shek claims two Japanese divisions an one division from the Manchukuoan Army have been surrounded on the Yangtze River (the Japanese have begun strengting the army of Manchukuoan Army to a force of 200.000 one year ahead of otl to giving the Japanese more troops to be sent to man the emperor line and to fight the allied forces while the Manchukuoan Army is not yet up the Japanese standard the are improving the Japanese goal is to have a force of 400.000 at the end of 1945 mostly to replace japans forces with the Japanese supplying the officer and to set up their on production for small arms and ammunition while also improving the army al in the line of the new emperor line directive in fortifying the Japanese and here allies passions).
June 1 The Red Air Force attacks German rear communications and airfields at Smolensk and Orel. U.S. begins submarine warfare against Japanese shipping.
June 2 The Red Air Force bombs Kiev and Roslavl, while the Luftwaffe bombs Kursk. The second u-boat arrives in Japan on it are parts of a panzer tree and assembly bleu prints for the Japanese to improve their tank production because the u-boat was attacked by a allied plane based from the Falklands the Japanese decide also to sent their on sub towards Germany .
June 4 Luftwaffe bombers attack the massive Russian tank factory's at Gorki
June 9 Tito is wounded during a German air attack.
Allied forces including Dutch b-25 begin their attacks against heavily defended oil fields on Borneo in a hope to hamper Japanese oil supplies ( because of Borneo under constant attack by Americans and Dutch bombers the Japanese have begun working on the myanaung oil field in Burma wich the japans after the force the British out began to repair and focus more on the Burma oil field than then the Borneo oilfields the also are beginning to build a mullty layered defence line witch is part of the emperor line in Burma to prevent the British getting the oilfield and Burma ).
June 11 Operation Corkscrew the invasion of Pantelleria meets no resistance after a 20-day aerial bombardment when 2000 British commandos land ,after the intense bombing and both air superiority of the allied air forces based in north Africa forces the axis station on Sicily not able to turn the tide the garrison commander surrenders (Mussolini was not happy when he heard the garrison had surrendered believing the island was a true fort which could not be taken but with the fact Germany is deploying more and more fighter unit to France and the eastern front means the Italian air force has to bur the birded of defending Italy alone).
June 15 The German raider Michel sinks 2 ships off the west coast of Australia. with the island of Pantelleria in allied hands the allied begin to plan a massive bombing campaign in order to destroy the Italian war machine and to let the axis believe the allies are planning to invade Italy.
June 16 93 Japanese planes have bin destroyed by the allies as the prepare to start operation backdoor forcing the Japanese to spear their aircraft station on new Britain and new guinea.
June 21 Allies advance to New Georgia, Solomon Islands. a Japanese I-subs leave towards Germany will the u bout already left two days earlier returning with a zero engine aboard . June 23 British aerial reconnaissance now secured photographs of Peenemunde research base showing rockets available for firing.
June 30 Operation Cartwheel starts with the occupation of Rendova, north west of Guadalcanal the Trobriand and Woodlark islands between Solomon's and New Guinea are also occupied al in part of securing a allied controlled Solomon sea for operation backdoor.
July 1 Hitler addresses the generals taking part in the imminent operation Citadel at sys that Kursk has to be captured
July 2 US troops land on New Georgia in the Solomon's. third U-boat leaves towards Japan with a complete FW-190 airframe aboard and its bleu prints and four more army personnel who will help Japan improve its tank production.
July 4 The Germans launch operation Citadel the Germans have deployed 45 divisions totalling 1,000,000 men, which include 13 Panzer divisions with 3,000 tanks and assault guns, 12,000 guns and as well as 2,000 aircraft. Against this, the Red Army has 1,300,000 troops in deeply echeloned defensive positions around the city of Kursk while the front is protected by 8,000 land mines per square mile, 3,300 tanks, 20,000 guns and 2,500 aircraft. In the first day of the operation the Germans In the northern sector capture the city of zelezngorsk , while in the southern sector they manage 25 miles against stubborn Soviet resistance which inflicts heavy casualties ( because of army group 6th being able to get out of Stalingrad mostly intact some 100,000 additional force could be deployed again the soviets ).
July 5 The battle of Kursk continues with unabated ferocity, with the northern pincer of 9th Army is struggling to make any significant progress after caputering the city of zelezngorsk and is not abel to move to incircle kursk du heavy soviet resictence the southern pincer of 4th Panzer Army advances some 12 miles coming close to the outer defenceve of the city of kursk.
A Naval battle erupts in the Solomon sea east of new Britain the US Navy loses the cruiser Helena but claims two ore four Japanese ships have been sunk.
July 6 The German forces engaged at Kursk are still unable to achieve a major breakthrough in the face of stiffening Soviet resistance, which is reinforced by the arrival of strong tank and infantry reserves.
July 7 As the battle of Kursk reaches its climax, the exhausted German forces are unable to make any further gains while losing vast numbers of men, tanks and planes.
July 8 The Russians say that the German attack has been held and claim that 2,000 tanks have been destroyed in the four days of fighting.
July 9 Operation thor’s hammer begins with the invasion of German occupied Norway in which 3.000 ships and landing-craft with 160.000 men and 14.000 vehicles, 600 tanks and 1800 guns. Against a German hold Norway 190.000 troops of which 90.000 are station against on the namos line ( in otl the allies invaded Sicily but because the German have more troops and Italian has more the 500,000 troops station there as the unlike in otl did not fight the allies in north Africa, the allies believe split Norway is a better way to invaded as there are already 100.000 troops station there 30,000 Norwegians 40.000 British 10,000 free French and more then 20.000 Americans how began to arrive sins the start of the US entry the allies also want to use Norway as a staging post to invaded Finland to force Germany to deploy more troops to both Norway and Finland the better can use on the eastern front there by helping the soviets).
July 10 The attacking German forces at Kursk have been depleted by heavy losses in men and armour and have nearly spent their momentum, even though the 4th Panzer Army and Army Detachment Kempf in the southern sector have succeeded in capturing the pivotal town of Prokhorovka.
To prevent further attrition, especially of the vital armoured forces, Field Marshals von Kluge and von Manstein urge Hitler to call off the operation Hitler believing he dealt the soviet a harsh blow agrees the German forces can move back at their starting point.
July 12 Admiral Walden Ainsworth leads three cruisers and five destroyers on a combat mission up the Slot, the channel that divides the Solomon Islands in two. The allies after battling the 25,000 troops guarding Trondheim and linking up with their airborne troops who drop outside the city now begin to use the city to ferry troops in with a majority is sent to attack the German side of the namos line the other will begin to form a defencive parameter around the city and wait until more reinforcements are in to begin the journey to Oslo ( the Germans guarding the namos line now face heavy attacks as the are now faced with splitting their forces in both directions severely weakling them and now that the are now cornered therefore Hitler has ordered them to fight to the last man).
July 13 The Japanese sink the US destroyer Gwin and severely damage three cruisers for loss of cruiser the Japanese Jintsu near new Britain ( the allies are forcing the japans back behind new Britain both naval and destroying much of their planes as the begin operation backdoor on new guinea the new guinea force even despite heavy b-17 and b-25 bombing runs is not able to dislodge the Japanese from their position and therefore are force to wait until al of the Solomon sea is in allied hands before the can begin operation backdoor and the conquest of new guinea ).
July 14 after more then six days of fighting the Germans have loosed more then 2,000 tanks and more then 100.000 soldiers killed ore wounded and more the 67,000 captured the German begin retreating to their starting point line and begin to dig in will the soviet having more loosed 250,000 dead or wounded but are able to receive the punch but also need time to prepare ( the soviet loosed more than half their tank force but tanks to their deep layered defence the where able to hurt the Germans and now with fresh troops arriving to replace the lost owns the soviet can begin to attack again ).
July 16 using the advice of the German army engineers and the two civil engineers of the design team of the panzer 3 and the now assembled panzer 3 the Japanese can begin of improving their deign of the type 97 in getting more to frontline units while admiral yamamotho is concentrating on more light combat ships to patrol the Japanese hold waters ( the type 97 is Japanese best tank but its only draw back its fact there are to few to patrol and that why the German giving advice to the Japanese com in to make some corners in getting moor tanks out and more produce , while admiral yamamotho plan is to build a fleet of Destroyers and Destroyer Escorts to protect their battleships and carriers from allied navy’s . )
July 17 Begin of the American offensive at Bougainville, South-Pacific. tree days after the battle of Kursk Hitler orders the construction of a fortified defensive line called the Panther Line along the Dnieper river up to wards the Baltic ( Hitler dos not want the Germans holding the line to give up their current position but this is only in case if the germans are forced to retreat, as Germany has to send 50,000 troops to aid the fins ad their border with Norway and to send troops to Norway to battle the allies who by now have secured Trondheim and isolated the Germans between Trondheim and the namos line and force a German force of 50,000 to be deployed at the city of roros under trondelheim to wait for the allies ).
July 26 A number of Waffen SS divisions are ordered to be transferred from Russia to Norway but only the 1st SS Panzer Division is actually redeployed.
Augustus 1 Increasingly heavy fighting continues in Norway as the allies battling themselves towards the German control Namsos line while the allies on the Namsos line try to keep the German from trying to escape,while in fact the German are trying to hold out as long as possible hoping that a counterattack will come( the forces are lead by Montgomery as commander of al British forces and Patton as commander of al US forces both want to reach Oslo first both now that the Namsos line has to be removed from Germans before any major operation towards Oslo can begin ).
Augustus 3 The German on the Namsos line of the 90,000 there have bin a lot of dead and wounded but now the are faced the fact that the are outnumbered two to one and now that the can hold out long in the mean time new German reinforcement begin to form a new defensive line at roso. Augustus 5 The Russians take Belgorod and now threaten Kharkov German forces from group south order to engage the soviet outside the city of Kharkov.
Augustus 4 US troops are halted by fierce opposition in halsa Norway as the us forces move down in Norway. X-type U-boat arrive in Japan and begins unloading its cargo but US and its allies are beginning to notice the loon submarines heading to and from Japan and Germany the WF-190 after being assembled will help Japan to compare the different in the thier planes will the army engineers join the already four present in helping their counterpart in making it more easier for them to make tanks even if its don Japanese style.
Augustus 6 German troops pour into Norway as Axis foreign ministers meet at Treviso to discuses the allied invasion of Norway and watt to do next. naval Battle of Bougainville begins as 4 Japanese destroyers attempt to bring troops and supplies to kieta on Bougainville island and are attacked by 6 US destroyers in the battle the Japanese lose 1 destroyers and 2 are damaged the US destroyers suffer no damage ( because the Japanese have limit troop transport who are many used to transport troops to new guinea ore other large island occupied by the Japanese destroyers are mostly used to do the job for the smaller islands ).
Augustus 15 more German troops are heading to reinforce the forces in halsa Norway woo manage to halt the US advance while the German force at the Namsos line surrender after coming in a allied with over 67,000 captured and 23,000 dead ore wounded the allies can begin in to move their forces down towards Oslo putting everything above the German line at roros in allied hands.
Augustus 17 Montgomery and Patton link up with the allied forces on the Namsos line after cleaning some German pockets who did not want to surrendered after being caught in the Namsos pocket with Namsos now linked the allies begin to concentred of using the airbase to hit Germany as much of the German radar is focus on Britain and only a few German radar station are placed along the coast of occupied Denmark and in north germany ( the allies operation knockout will shift in to a diversion hoping to keep as many German fighter squadrons in France when the allies beginhitting targets in north Germany ).
The first Quebec summit opens with the allied plans for the invasion of France being approved by Roosevelt and Churchill The first Quebec summit opens with the allied plans for the invasion of France being approved by Roosevelt and Churchill.
Augustus 22 The Germans evacuate Kharkov in order not to fall in soviet trap and set up a defencive line outside the city in order to trap the soviets in the city.
Augustus 23 The Soviet Steppe Front occupies Kharkov while the 5th Guards Tank Army beats off the consequent German counter-attack that was started to late.
Augustus 25 The Russians continue their advance to the West of Kharkov but begin to revive heavy German resistance . Allies complete the occupation of New Georgia Augustus 26 US bombers hit Hong Kong.
ABDAF is dissolved after 1 year in exciting and is to be replace by a US lead pacific command headed by the US in witch the Dutch receive all command over allied forces in free Dutch indie and occupied Dutch/British indie with exception of new guinea that falls under US control the rest of the commands are like in otl.
Augustus 27 the British Minister of Information, makes the first ministerial statement on Hess dead sins May 1941 and says Hess came to find British Quislings to overthrow Churchill but found the RAF instead ( Rudolf Hess was killed while trying to get to Britain in may 1941 he was shot down by the RAF )
Augustus 28 The Bulgarian King, Boris III dies under mysterious circumstances. Soviet halted in city of Kharkov du to heavy German resistance forcing them to deploy more forces to break the germans.
Augustus 30 Taganrog on the Sea of Azov is evacuated by the German who now make a new defence position at Rostov towards doneck while German forces at the Novorossiysk-temmruk line still keep the soviet out of the krimm ( the german have learn from the soviet defence at Kursk and have begun to use it to their on Advantech in the still constructed panther line and the Novorossiysk-temmruk line).
Augustus 31 Hitler allows Manstein to make limited withdrawals in Ukraine in order to better protect his forces. Soviet forces are not able to breach the German perimeter around the city of Kharkov as Luftwaffe begin to attack the now trap soviet 5th Guards Tank Army while more German reinforcement are on the way to aid the Germans around the city ( the German panther line is begin to look like a real defensive line using more the 1000 mines per square mile in some places each town and city becoming a fort and that is only in the first month with more work still ahead in creating a formable defensive line ). the US carrier enterprise group bombs Marcus Island in Micronesia.
part 12 1943
January 1 a German U- boat of the type X used fore cargo transports heads for its mission transporting supplies and blueprints towards Japan the u-boat journey will be a month of moving and hoping to stay undetected by the allied navy’s.
January 2 Several German divisions from Western Europe begin to arrive in the area of Army Group centre as the begin the build up to the counter offensive against the formally Zhukov army now called the Kalinin army now lead by Aleksandr Vasilevsky in hopes to regain some los ground.
January 3 The 1st Panzer Army in the Caucasus begin withdrawing from the navinomysk front to avoid being cut off by Soviet forces attacking from pal gorsk . japans command orders to transfer about 80,000 troops from China and Japan to port Mosby in New Guinea to reinforce their forces there who are digging in to prevent a outtbrack of US/Australians forces in lower new guinea and to reinforce emperor line.
January 4 After a 44 minute bombardment by thousands of guns and rocket-launchers and employing the 54th and 64th soviet army’s their attack on Stalingrad called Operation circle against the 6th Army in Stalingrad begins the ( Germans have 300.00 man defending Stalingrad and both soviet army’s have a total of 600.000 man ). The Japanese Navy orders the evacuation of Guadalcanal by the end of the month ( the planes of the evacuation of the 13.000 remaining troops was began when the Japanese lost the battle of Solomon sea ).
January 5 Army Group A begins a general withdrawal from the Caucasus towards a new to hold line at Stavropol towards the black sea town of tuapse. more US reinforcements coming ashore in abau new guinea with the Australians now begining to trye to make a breakout of abau towards the us hold posistion of kupiane (the allied forces now control the lower point of new guinea with a major offensive to be focus against the Japanese in port mosby).
January 6 Australian troops make a breakout of abau and begin to move towards the us held beachhead in kupiane in New Guinea ( there are now 30.000 Americans/Australians troops in a small stretch of the lower new guinea and Japanese who are holding are digging in around port Mosby hoping to contain the allied landings). no major soviet advance have bin mad against the German 6th army in Stalingrad.
January 8 first German panther begins to appear on the eastern front with most sent to bolster the German army group south who is battling the soviet in Stalingrad wille the Italian army first 100 p.50 ( Italian licensed panzer 4 ) roll of the assembly line are to begining to be deployed along side the Rommel lead germane Italian army who is now 60.000 strong will the p.40 Italian main tank nowe has reach a normal production of 100 per month but most production will shift to the p.50 ( the p.40 of which now 1,200 have bin build and more then 400 have bin sent to the eastern front to serve in Italian units there the rest is of the p 40 are in units of the Italian army in the Balkans ore used in guarding Italy).
January 9 Russian forces are not able to brake the Stavropol -tuapse front that the Germans now hold. January 10 The 25th Infantry Division begins the largest and final offensive on Guadalcanal the Americans outnumber the Japanese by more than 3 to 1 Desperate attempts to resupply the Japanese by surface ships are hampered by US PT boats.
January 14 Northeast and southwest of Stalingrad, the attacking two Soviet armies are making slow progress in the direction of Kalach on the Don, the chosen meeting point of the two pincers. The 6th and 4th Panzer Army's hurriedly dispatch mobile units to bolster the unprepared and crumbling Romanian defences in the city. Roosevelt and Churchill's summit Conference opens near Casablanca in Morocco with the Allied joint staff under General Eisenhower in attendance.
January 15 German naval forces announce a blockade of Sweden's Gothenburg harbour to protest the ongoing traffic between Sweden and free Norway ( Sweden has also got a rail link with Norway towards Narvik but with German u-boats sinking allied ship coming in and out of Narvik the Swedish are transporting supplies as the are neutral). US forces launch their final offensive on Guadalcanal to destroy the remaining 13.000 Japanese troops still on the island. The German counter offensive called night fall white a force of 636,000 men, 1,000 tanks, and 1,220 aircraft is begins to attack the Kalinin army and to regain some lose ground sins army group centre was driven out of Moscow.
January 16 The situation for the 6th Army is beginning to deteriorating but new German forces are on its way to bolster the German Stalingrad defences. first 2 japans divisions land in vanimo upper new guinea to be moved to port Mosby the rest of the new to arrive 60.000 Japanese are to reinforce the already 120.000 Japanese on the island. The German counter offensive against the Kalinin army has now gained 20 miles in 48 hours but the soviet are now beginning to react to the German offensive and begin trying to halt the Germans.
January 17 Prime minister Churchill warns the Italian government that RAF bombing of Italian cities will continue until Italy abandons the war. The Soviet 54 army from the south and the 64 soviet army from the north, join hands at Kalach on the Don, thus establishing the complete encirclement of the 300,000 men of 6th and 4th Panzer Army's.
January 18 An Italian radio broadcast, reports of large-scale evacuations of Turin, Genoa and Milan. The Russians claim 12,000 prisoners have been taken since the start of the start of operation circle .
January 19 Russians claim victories during a 35 mile advance towards Kharkov on the Voronezh front were the Russians claiming to have capturer 25,500 axis prisoners on this front alone. January 20 Russian progress continues in the Caucasus.
January 22 Army Group Don under Manstein is formed to relieve Stalingrad. the Americans make important gains in the battle round Henderson field Guadalcanal. Army group centre operation night fall has stopped to a halt with the soviet forces not moving oar retreating anymore the operation has gain the German 20 miles and brought them to a distance of 100 miles of Moscow.
January 23 The US 5th army Air Force launches its first raid against the Italian port of Naples. German forces of Army Group Centre receive orders from Hitler they are to stand and fight off any further Soviet advances from the position the are now 100 miles from Moscow and to form a new defensive line there.
January 25 Prime Minister Churchill and President Roosevelt end the Casablanca Conference with their announcement of the demand for the unconditional surrender of Germany and Italy.
January 28 The whole of the German workforce is mobilised for total war all men aged 16 to 65 and women aged 17 to 50 are to be registered. more German divisions from Western Europe begin arriving to be added to Army Group Don southwest of Stalingrad in preparation of Operation winter furry which is tasked in relieving of the encircled 6th Army ( the Germans believe western Europe is safe as the allies have not landed anywhere ).
January 27 The US army air force makes its first raid on Germany with a force of B-17’s and B-24’s hitting Wilhelmshaven in daylight ( operation knockout is still going on in destroying German radars in France but the allies are now also beginning to hit major naval bases in order to destroy German u-boats bases )
January 29 Dr. Ernst Kaltenbrunner is appointed the successor to Heydrich (Heydrich was killed like otl ) and Admiral Dönitz takes over from Admiral Raeder as C-in-C of the German Navy.
January 30 Hitler speaks to the nation on the 10th anniversary of the Nazi seizure of power and tells Germany the will win at Stalingrad. American 8th Army B-17 make their first day-light raid on France without air support hitting another radar site in operation knockout with the German trying best to fill the gaps left in the attacks the, allies begin planning their first major raid against a city since the 1,000 bomber raid failed.
January 31 Vichy France creates a Militia to combat the Resistance The Militia will become Vichy France intern security force du the fact more then 90.000 Vichy soldiers are fitting in other places.
February 1 Twenty Japanese destroyers begin the evacuation of 13,000 troops still fitting on Guadalcanal. February 4 2.000 Japanese soldiers are taken off Guadalcanal.
February 6 The Americans outflank the retreating Japanese on Guadalcanal the Japanese have evacuated 5.000 soldier from the island sins the beginning of the their evacuation.
February 7 Manstein launches his counter attack with assembled force of 21 divisions, including four Panzer divisions and having with about him about 360 tanks task in to relieving the 6th Army at Stalingrad.
February 8 Japanese complete their evacuation of Guadalcanal with over 10.500 soldiers now safely in Japanese new guinea in the fitting more then 1.500 Japanese died ore where captured of the 13.000 still on Guadalcanal. The British and Indian forces begin guerrilla operations against Japanese in Burma
February 9 A four day tank battle begins South of Stalingrad. The German u-boat arrive after a month worth of travelling to Japan the Japanese are excited by the fact that some of the thing it carries included a dozen enigma code machine a disassembled 88 mm gun and blue prints for various tanks also 4 German army engineers who are to help the Japanese to produce better tanks and to improve the production where on board the sub is slated to remain in Japan and to return with Japanese parts which the Germans would like to study ( the enigma codec machine is something the Japanese want to use to improve their on in their view unbreakable code something the don’t now the US has already partly broken the 88 mm gun will be used to be placed in the many places of the emperor line and the blue print of the tanks and planes will improve the Japanese on designs). Japanese resistance on Guadalcanal ends
February 11 The Red Army begins another offensive to get true the tuapse-Stavropol Front but is again beaten back instead the will try to flank it. General Eisenhower is selected to command the allied armies in Europe February 14 Manstein’s tanks are only 10 miles South of Stalingrad. February 16 Hitler allows to let Paulus break out of when the Army Group Don makes a gap ( Hitler want to fight another battle he dos not like otl want to los a entire army and feels that Stalingrad is nothing more then a ruin now not worth a German soldier life anymore).
February 18 Having advanced as far as 5 miles southwest of Stalingrad, the four Panzer divisions of the relief force have order to halt while the 6th and 4th army back their brake out and then to support them in their retreat by backing them up. February 19 the 6th and 4th army begin their breakout toward a waiting relief force 5 miles outside Stalingrad the Red Army begins an offensive against Army Group hoping to try to push them back far in of so that the 6th and 4th army can not break through their lines and link up with the don group.
February 21 Heavy fighting continues between the 6th and 4th German army against the 54th and 64th soviet army when the Germans two army managing to link up with the don group and succeed in braking out of Stalingrad in the battle more then 56,000 prisoners are taken in Stalingrad and more the 24.000 have died in the battle sins the operation circle began the 6th and 4th army now have mange to link up with the relieve fore and the soviet have captured a ruin city.
February 23 Hitler agrees to allow the Army Groups A and Don to a form a new line 150 miles west of Stalingrad ( the soviet have captured the city of Stalingrad but Zhukov operation circle has work only with the exception that he was not amble to stop a breakout of the German 4th and 6th army and to destroy them in the city itself he is now ordered by Stalin to attack the group don and group A and to do that he needs new men but in the mean time he push along hoping to push the Germans far away from the caucus).
February 25 Army Group A is ordered to withdraw its forces and to form a defensive line at Rostov-on-Don and Novorossiysk. The RAF begins a round the clock bombing campaign against Sicily from bases in and around Tunisia with more then 1,000 raids in the next 48 hours ( Germany has sent some more units to France and the eastern front and because of that the RAF believe a round a clock bombing campaign against Sicily will help the allies).
February 27 the 1.000 raids against Sicily are over in the 48 hours the RAF only lost 49 planes but damaged a lot of the infasruction on the island of Sicily.
March 3 Russians fail to take Rzhev, over 100 miles to the west of Moscow.
March 4 Bomber Command report the first effective attack on a radar site in France due primarily to the use of a new navigational aid called Oboe with this the attacks against the German radar in operation knockout is improve and give the allies a better way to knock a hole in the German radar net in which the can use it to attack German city’s ( the German are learning how to stop the attacks but the fact the can not repair the radar sites fast in of forces them to deploy more air units to form a defensive shield against attacks Germany that where formally based in Italy or in Greece). Red Army troops who in a flanking move against the german holding tuapse-Stavropol Front achieve a landing near port of Novorossiysk behind the German front. March 12 German troops evacuate Vyazma. The four German army engineers after touring a Japanese tank factory notice the Japanese’s tank production is inefficient and after discussing it with their Japanese counter parts the send a message for a second shipment to go to Japan and to carry a disabled panzer 3 some parts and bleu print for its assembly line.
March 13 in a ceremony in the us the Dutch Queen Wilhelmina receive from the us tree Patrol craft of the PC-461 class the ships of which two are intended replace the ships the Dutch navy in free Dutch indie lost the are called the Dutch lion the king willem 2 and the last who will be sent to the Caribbean islands of the Netherlands Antilles is named after the queen herself ( in otl the Dutch receive only one the Queen Wilhelmina but here after losing several Dutch navy vessels against the Japanese the Dutch receive from the US new ships as the can not build there on any more with Holland under German control ). March 14 The Germans armoured forces recapture Kharkov.
March 17 The Japanese attack British positions in Arakan, western Burma. first Dutch b-25 Mitchell raid against a target in Japanese controlled Malaysia ( the Dutch have now 24 b-25 from the total of 160 delivered the n-25 attacked a Japanese airfield being used to strike Sumatra).
March 19 the German 17th Army begins its attacks to eliminate the Russian beachhead at Novorossiysk an ménage to secure German control over the port but orders are given that the German forces holding the tuapse-Stavropol Front most retreat to form a new defensive line at Novorossiysk towards temmruk and to prevent any soviet attack against the German hold krimm.
March 22 German troops move to new to hold line of Novorossiysk –temmruk and begin to dig in with a shorter front to defend more elements of the forces can move to aid the Germans holding the Rostov na dunu to Belgorod line.
March 25 Greek partisans lose a battle against the Italian garrison on Samos Island after this fight Mussolini orders al garrison to be double ( the Italian army has bin receiving much better training than in otl and therefore unlike in otl the island garrison on Samos Island was amble to win and defeated the Greek partisans ).
March 29 British and Indian troops begin to withdraw from Arakan in western Burma under heavy Japanese pressure. US code breakers find out that Japan old code JN-25 Japanese command code has change making it imposable for the US to brake the code and have to start al over again diecivering it ( the Japanese use the dozen enigma machines the Germans gave them and jusing their on code on it in sending messages to their forces believing that the JN-25 with the enigma devices is now totally unbreakable something the did not now the US had broken partly but now US has to start over again the japanese are beginning to build their on version of the enigma machine to be placed on al Japanese ships and bases the new code will be called JN-50). The second type X U- boat leaves Hamburg with the parts needed for Japan plus another shipment of enigma machines as the japans are still working on producing their on ( as yet the allies have not yet figure out that Japan and Germany are trading with long range subs ).
April 10 The Italian heavy cruiser Trieste is sunk at La Maddalena, Sardinia, by attacks from 84 B-24 Liberators bombers the Italian cruiser who was patrolling the area near Sardinia was attacked by US B-24 Liberators bombers based out of Algeria.
April 14 German group north repulse a attack from the soviet 14th army against the town of volclov 100 miles outside German controlled Leningrad. The US who now has more then 5 army divisions on the small allied control place of new guinea together with the Australians form the new guinea force and begin preparation of assaulting japans controlled port Mosby with a operation called backdoor in which a us forces lands behind the Japanese line around port Mosby towards the town popondetta then the new guinea force will assault the Japanese line and hope to encircle and then to link up with the US landing force but first the US has to gain control of the waters around the landing place before the operation can start.
April 18 Admiral Yamamoto’s visit a japans naval based in Indochina ( because the US and Japanese are still fighting over the Solomon island and because the Japanese improved their code with the new JN-50 code Admiral Yamamoto went to visit a different place inspecting Japanese naval installations in the region and therfore lives unlike in otl where he died this day).
April 19 Japanese navy forces suffer heavy loses at the second Battle of the Solomon Sea off the coast of New Guinea the battle is fought until April 21 ( the US is trying to destroy the japans in a way the can land their forces at popondetta and to start operation backdoor ).
April 21 President Roosevelt announces the Japanese have executed several airmen from the Doolittle Raid April 22 Japan announces captured Allied pilots will be given one way tickets to hell.
April 29 A series of minor attacks by the Red Army against the Novorossiysk-temmruk line is rebuff by the Germans, the soviets are building up for a main assault against the line in a effort to capture the krimm from the Germans.
January 2 Several German divisions from Western Europe begin to arrive in the area of Army Group centre as the begin the build up to the counter offensive against the formally Zhukov army now called the Kalinin army now lead by Aleksandr Vasilevsky in hopes to regain some los ground.
January 3 The 1st Panzer Army in the Caucasus begin withdrawing from the navinomysk front to avoid being cut off by Soviet forces attacking from pal gorsk . japans command orders to transfer about 80,000 troops from China and Japan to port Mosby in New Guinea to reinforce their forces there who are digging in to prevent a outtbrack of US/Australians forces in lower new guinea and to reinforce emperor line.
January 4 After a 44 minute bombardment by thousands of guns and rocket-launchers and employing the 54th and 64th soviet army’s their attack on Stalingrad called Operation circle against the 6th Army in Stalingrad begins the ( Germans have 300.00 man defending Stalingrad and both soviet army’s have a total of 600.000 man ). The Japanese Navy orders the evacuation of Guadalcanal by the end of the month ( the planes of the evacuation of the 13.000 remaining troops was began when the Japanese lost the battle of Solomon sea ).
January 5 Army Group A begins a general withdrawal from the Caucasus towards a new to hold line at Stavropol towards the black sea town of tuapse. more US reinforcements coming ashore in abau new guinea with the Australians now begining to trye to make a breakout of abau towards the us hold posistion of kupiane (the allied forces now control the lower point of new guinea with a major offensive to be focus against the Japanese in port mosby).
January 6 Australian troops make a breakout of abau and begin to move towards the us held beachhead in kupiane in New Guinea ( there are now 30.000 Americans/Australians troops in a small stretch of the lower new guinea and Japanese who are holding are digging in around port Mosby hoping to contain the allied landings). no major soviet advance have bin mad against the German 6th army in Stalingrad.
January 8 first German panther begins to appear on the eastern front with most sent to bolster the German army group south who is battling the soviet in Stalingrad wille the Italian army first 100 p.50 ( Italian licensed panzer 4 ) roll of the assembly line are to begining to be deployed along side the Rommel lead germane Italian army who is now 60.000 strong will the p.40 Italian main tank nowe has reach a normal production of 100 per month but most production will shift to the p.50 ( the p.40 of which now 1,200 have bin build and more then 400 have bin sent to the eastern front to serve in Italian units there the rest is of the p 40 are in units of the Italian army in the Balkans ore used in guarding Italy).
January 9 Russian forces are not able to brake the Stavropol -tuapse front that the Germans now hold. January 10 The 25th Infantry Division begins the largest and final offensive on Guadalcanal the Americans outnumber the Japanese by more than 3 to 1 Desperate attempts to resupply the Japanese by surface ships are hampered by US PT boats.
January 14 Northeast and southwest of Stalingrad, the attacking two Soviet armies are making slow progress in the direction of Kalach on the Don, the chosen meeting point of the two pincers. The 6th and 4th Panzer Army's hurriedly dispatch mobile units to bolster the unprepared and crumbling Romanian defences in the city. Roosevelt and Churchill's summit Conference opens near Casablanca in Morocco with the Allied joint staff under General Eisenhower in attendance.
January 15 German naval forces announce a blockade of Sweden's Gothenburg harbour to protest the ongoing traffic between Sweden and free Norway ( Sweden has also got a rail link with Norway towards Narvik but with German u-boats sinking allied ship coming in and out of Narvik the Swedish are transporting supplies as the are neutral). US forces launch their final offensive on Guadalcanal to destroy the remaining 13.000 Japanese troops still on the island. The German counter offensive called night fall white a force of 636,000 men, 1,000 tanks, and 1,220 aircraft is begins to attack the Kalinin army and to regain some lose ground sins army group centre was driven out of Moscow.
January 16 The situation for the 6th Army is beginning to deteriorating but new German forces are on its way to bolster the German Stalingrad defences. first 2 japans divisions land in vanimo upper new guinea to be moved to port Mosby the rest of the new to arrive 60.000 Japanese are to reinforce the already 120.000 Japanese on the island. The German counter offensive against the Kalinin army has now gained 20 miles in 48 hours but the soviet are now beginning to react to the German offensive and begin trying to halt the Germans.
January 17 Prime minister Churchill warns the Italian government that RAF bombing of Italian cities will continue until Italy abandons the war. The Soviet 54 army from the south and the 64 soviet army from the north, join hands at Kalach on the Don, thus establishing the complete encirclement of the 300,000 men of 6th and 4th Panzer Army's.
January 18 An Italian radio broadcast, reports of large-scale evacuations of Turin, Genoa and Milan. The Russians claim 12,000 prisoners have been taken since the start of the start of operation circle .
January 19 Russians claim victories during a 35 mile advance towards Kharkov on the Voronezh front were the Russians claiming to have capturer 25,500 axis prisoners on this front alone. January 20 Russian progress continues in the Caucasus.
January 22 Army Group Don under Manstein is formed to relieve Stalingrad. the Americans make important gains in the battle round Henderson field Guadalcanal. Army group centre operation night fall has stopped to a halt with the soviet forces not moving oar retreating anymore the operation has gain the German 20 miles and brought them to a distance of 100 miles of Moscow.
January 23 The US 5th army Air Force launches its first raid against the Italian port of Naples. German forces of Army Group Centre receive orders from Hitler they are to stand and fight off any further Soviet advances from the position the are now 100 miles from Moscow and to form a new defensive line there.
January 25 Prime Minister Churchill and President Roosevelt end the Casablanca Conference with their announcement of the demand for the unconditional surrender of Germany and Italy.
January 28 The whole of the German workforce is mobilised for total war all men aged 16 to 65 and women aged 17 to 50 are to be registered. more German divisions from Western Europe begin arriving to be added to Army Group Don southwest of Stalingrad in preparation of Operation winter furry which is tasked in relieving of the encircled 6th Army ( the Germans believe western Europe is safe as the allies have not landed anywhere ).
January 27 The US army air force makes its first raid on Germany with a force of B-17’s and B-24’s hitting Wilhelmshaven in daylight ( operation knockout is still going on in destroying German radars in France but the allies are now also beginning to hit major naval bases in order to destroy German u-boats bases )
January 29 Dr. Ernst Kaltenbrunner is appointed the successor to Heydrich (Heydrich was killed like otl ) and Admiral Dönitz takes over from Admiral Raeder as C-in-C of the German Navy.
January 30 Hitler speaks to the nation on the 10th anniversary of the Nazi seizure of power and tells Germany the will win at Stalingrad. American 8th Army B-17 make their first day-light raid on France without air support hitting another radar site in operation knockout with the German trying best to fill the gaps left in the attacks the, allies begin planning their first major raid against a city since the 1,000 bomber raid failed.
January 31 Vichy France creates a Militia to combat the Resistance The Militia will become Vichy France intern security force du the fact more then 90.000 Vichy soldiers are fitting in other places.
February 1 Twenty Japanese destroyers begin the evacuation of 13,000 troops still fitting on Guadalcanal. February 4 2.000 Japanese soldiers are taken off Guadalcanal.
February 6 The Americans outflank the retreating Japanese on Guadalcanal the Japanese have evacuated 5.000 soldier from the island sins the beginning of the their evacuation.
February 7 Manstein launches his counter attack with assembled force of 21 divisions, including four Panzer divisions and having with about him about 360 tanks task in to relieving the 6th Army at Stalingrad.
February 8 Japanese complete their evacuation of Guadalcanal with over 10.500 soldiers now safely in Japanese new guinea in the fitting more then 1.500 Japanese died ore where captured of the 13.000 still on Guadalcanal. The British and Indian forces begin guerrilla operations against Japanese in Burma
February 9 A four day tank battle begins South of Stalingrad. The German u-boat arrive after a month worth of travelling to Japan the Japanese are excited by the fact that some of the thing it carries included a dozen enigma code machine a disassembled 88 mm gun and blue prints for various tanks also 4 German army engineers who are to help the Japanese to produce better tanks and to improve the production where on board the sub is slated to remain in Japan and to return with Japanese parts which the Germans would like to study ( the enigma codec machine is something the Japanese want to use to improve their on in their view unbreakable code something the don’t now the US has already partly broken the 88 mm gun will be used to be placed in the many places of the emperor line and the blue print of the tanks and planes will improve the Japanese on designs). Japanese resistance on Guadalcanal ends
February 11 The Red Army begins another offensive to get true the tuapse-Stavropol Front but is again beaten back instead the will try to flank it. General Eisenhower is selected to command the allied armies in Europe February 14 Manstein’s tanks are only 10 miles South of Stalingrad. February 16 Hitler allows to let Paulus break out of when the Army Group Don makes a gap ( Hitler want to fight another battle he dos not like otl want to los a entire army and feels that Stalingrad is nothing more then a ruin now not worth a German soldier life anymore).
February 18 Having advanced as far as 5 miles southwest of Stalingrad, the four Panzer divisions of the relief force have order to halt while the 6th and 4th army back their brake out and then to support them in their retreat by backing them up. February 19 the 6th and 4th army begin their breakout toward a waiting relief force 5 miles outside Stalingrad the Red Army begins an offensive against Army Group hoping to try to push them back far in of so that the 6th and 4th army can not break through their lines and link up with the don group.
February 21 Heavy fighting continues between the 6th and 4th German army against the 54th and 64th soviet army when the Germans two army managing to link up with the don group and succeed in braking out of Stalingrad in the battle more then 56,000 prisoners are taken in Stalingrad and more the 24.000 have died in the battle sins the operation circle began the 6th and 4th army now have mange to link up with the relieve fore and the soviet have captured a ruin city.
February 23 Hitler agrees to allow the Army Groups A and Don to a form a new line 150 miles west of Stalingrad ( the soviet have captured the city of Stalingrad but Zhukov operation circle has work only with the exception that he was not amble to stop a breakout of the German 4th and 6th army and to destroy them in the city itself he is now ordered by Stalin to attack the group don and group A and to do that he needs new men but in the mean time he push along hoping to push the Germans far away from the caucus).
February 25 Army Group A is ordered to withdraw its forces and to form a defensive line at Rostov-on-Don and Novorossiysk. The RAF begins a round the clock bombing campaign against Sicily from bases in and around Tunisia with more then 1,000 raids in the next 48 hours ( Germany has sent some more units to France and the eastern front and because of that the RAF believe a round a clock bombing campaign against Sicily will help the allies).
February 27 the 1.000 raids against Sicily are over in the 48 hours the RAF only lost 49 planes but damaged a lot of the infasruction on the island of Sicily.
March 3 Russians fail to take Rzhev, over 100 miles to the west of Moscow.
March 4 Bomber Command report the first effective attack on a radar site in France due primarily to the use of a new navigational aid called Oboe with this the attacks against the German radar in operation knockout is improve and give the allies a better way to knock a hole in the German radar net in which the can use it to attack German city’s ( the German are learning how to stop the attacks but the fact the can not repair the radar sites fast in of forces them to deploy more air units to form a defensive shield against attacks Germany that where formally based in Italy or in Greece). Red Army troops who in a flanking move against the german holding tuapse-Stavropol Front achieve a landing near port of Novorossiysk behind the German front. March 12 German troops evacuate Vyazma. The four German army engineers after touring a Japanese tank factory notice the Japanese’s tank production is inefficient and after discussing it with their Japanese counter parts the send a message for a second shipment to go to Japan and to carry a disabled panzer 3 some parts and bleu print for its assembly line.
March 13 in a ceremony in the us the Dutch Queen Wilhelmina receive from the us tree Patrol craft of the PC-461 class the ships of which two are intended replace the ships the Dutch navy in free Dutch indie lost the are called the Dutch lion the king willem 2 and the last who will be sent to the Caribbean islands of the Netherlands Antilles is named after the queen herself ( in otl the Dutch receive only one the Queen Wilhelmina but here after losing several Dutch navy vessels against the Japanese the Dutch receive from the US new ships as the can not build there on any more with Holland under German control ). March 14 The Germans armoured forces recapture Kharkov.
March 17 The Japanese attack British positions in Arakan, western Burma. first Dutch b-25 Mitchell raid against a target in Japanese controlled Malaysia ( the Dutch have now 24 b-25 from the total of 160 delivered the n-25 attacked a Japanese airfield being used to strike Sumatra).
March 19 the German 17th Army begins its attacks to eliminate the Russian beachhead at Novorossiysk an ménage to secure German control over the port but orders are given that the German forces holding the tuapse-Stavropol Front most retreat to form a new defensive line at Novorossiysk towards temmruk and to prevent any soviet attack against the German hold krimm.
March 22 German troops move to new to hold line of Novorossiysk –temmruk and begin to dig in with a shorter front to defend more elements of the forces can move to aid the Germans holding the Rostov na dunu to Belgorod line.
March 25 Greek partisans lose a battle against the Italian garrison on Samos Island after this fight Mussolini orders al garrison to be double ( the Italian army has bin receiving much better training than in otl and therefore unlike in otl the island garrison on Samos Island was amble to win and defeated the Greek partisans ).
March 29 British and Indian troops begin to withdraw from Arakan in western Burma under heavy Japanese pressure. US code breakers find out that Japan old code JN-25 Japanese command code has change making it imposable for the US to brake the code and have to start al over again diecivering it ( the Japanese use the dozen enigma machines the Germans gave them and jusing their on code on it in sending messages to their forces believing that the JN-25 with the enigma devices is now totally unbreakable something the did not now the US had broken partly but now US has to start over again the japanese are beginning to build their on version of the enigma machine to be placed on al Japanese ships and bases the new code will be called JN-50). The second type X U- boat leaves Hamburg with the parts needed for Japan plus another shipment of enigma machines as the japans are still working on producing their on ( as yet the allies have not yet figure out that Japan and Germany are trading with long range subs ).
April 10 The Italian heavy cruiser Trieste is sunk at La Maddalena, Sardinia, by attacks from 84 B-24 Liberators bombers the Italian cruiser who was patrolling the area near Sardinia was attacked by US B-24 Liberators bombers based out of Algeria.
April 14 German group north repulse a attack from the soviet 14th army against the town of volclov 100 miles outside German controlled Leningrad. The US who now has more then 5 army divisions on the small allied control place of new guinea together with the Australians form the new guinea force and begin preparation of assaulting japans controlled port Mosby with a operation called backdoor in which a us forces lands behind the Japanese line around port Mosby towards the town popondetta then the new guinea force will assault the Japanese line and hope to encircle and then to link up with the US landing force but first the US has to gain control of the waters around the landing place before the operation can start.
April 18 Admiral Yamamoto’s visit a japans naval based in Indochina ( because the US and Japanese are still fighting over the Solomon island and because the Japanese improved their code with the new JN-50 code Admiral Yamamoto went to visit a different place inspecting Japanese naval installations in the region and therfore lives unlike in otl where he died this day).
April 19 Japanese navy forces suffer heavy loses at the second Battle of the Solomon Sea off the coast of New Guinea the battle is fought until April 21 ( the US is trying to destroy the japans in a way the can land their forces at popondetta and to start operation backdoor ).
April 21 President Roosevelt announces the Japanese have executed several airmen from the Doolittle Raid April 22 Japan announces captured Allied pilots will be given one way tickets to hell.
April 29 A series of minor attacks by the Red Army against the Novorossiysk-temmruk line is rebuff by the Germans, the soviets are building up for a main assault against the line in a effort to capture the krimm from the Germans.
part 11 1943
Juni 1 Mexico declares war on Germany, Italy and Japan, the US warns Japan that it will retaliate in kind if gas is used.
Juni 2 the free French Provence and the cruiser Lamotte-Piquet who where after the battle of French Indochina moved to Australia are ordered to go to Vichy French Madagascar and to wait for a British/free French taskforce of taking the island ( the Provence was damage in the battle of French Indochina but that has bin fix ). The RAF' launches it's second 1,000 bomber and hits Essen, but due to the haze over the city, the results are minima but the RAF losses are high and more then 230 aircraft are lose du to German radar and aa and a large number of Luftwaffe planes , Churchill orders further raids on this scale to be halted and only to be resume when a the problem is fix ( the Germans have increase their aa and have much more radar protection to cover their territory and therefore the where amble to destroy over 20 procent of the British bomber force).
June 3 Vichy France after receiving their fourth wf 190 squadron, the Vichy now have a force to protect them from the allies the also have the D.520 in full production sins 1941 with a total order of 240 to be used wit the 12 wf 190 squadrons as their air force ( the D.520 was a plan being build by the Vichy in otl as for now the have a total of 160 of the to be produce 240 with the Vichy build plane station in Vichy and the wf 190 Vichy squadrons are based in Sardinia and Italy helping defending Italy under German command).
June 4 Advance units of 4th Panzer Army cross the Aksay river in their drive toward Stalingrad. Hitler flies to Leningrad to inspect the german forces there before he fly s the next day to Finland to meet with the Finnish head of state Marshal Mannerheim in witch the discuses the war efforts and a possibility to open a new front against Norway after the UK and Norway declared war against Finland ( as for now the border of Finland/Norway is quiet as both side only shell each otter both nothing more ). Reinhard Heydrich dies of his wounds
June 5 1st Panzer Army captures Voroshilovsk, over 200 miles to the south east of Rostov. The 4th Panzer Army moving northeast runs straight into the Soviet 64th army that was being moved form the Zhukov army to intercept the german and to slow it long in of for defence to be set up . June 7 after a 5 day journey the battleship Provence and the cruiser Lamotte-Piquet arrive of the coast from Vichy Madagascar with the task British/free French taskforce one day away.
June 9 the British/free French taskforce under command of Admiral René-Emile Godfroy links with the already present Provence and Lamotte-Piquet and begins its negations with the governor of Vichy Madagascar ( Vichy Madagascar is isolated and the allies fear that the would allow the japans to land at the island to use it as a base to strike the allies therefore the taskforce with troops are order to wait until free French officials can try to switch the Vichy Madagascar forces to the allied side if that fails the are ordered to invaded). The 1st Panzer Army captures the Maikop oilfields, witch thanks to the rapid advance of the army group south that the Red Army was lot able to destroy the wells as many where ordered to intercept other elements of group south heading toward Stalingrad.
Juni 10 the 6th Army crosses the Don and reaches the outskirts of Stalingrad.
June 11 after two days of negation the governor of Vichy Madagascar switich side allowing the taskforce to forces land at Diego Suarez and Antsirene on Madagascar ( the two days negation where started early a month ago when the fear of a Japanese takeover was high but with the task force out the coast and a reminder from the free French negotiators what happen in Syria two years ago was good in of for the governor and commander of the forces on Madagascar to switch side). A rehearsal for the raid against trondelheim operation 'iron strike' is held the 2nd Canadian Division is chosen for the job. U-boats begin laying mines off Boston, Delaware and Chesapeake Bay.
June 12 In their advance south toward the Grozny oilfields, units of Army Group south capture the town of Elista near the Caspian Sea. Churchill arrives in a devastated Moscow for talks with Stalin During 2 days of talking talks, Stalin was eventually forced to accept that there would be no second front until at leas 1943.
Juni 14 Air Marshal Harris believes a third 1.000 bomber raid will succeed and orders the city of Bremen to be hit at July 12. The first axis attacks are made against the 'Harpoon' and 'Vigorous' convoys. 'Harpoon' loses tree freighter and receives damage to a cruiser from an axis air attack off the Tunisian coast. Harpoons' escorting aircraft carriers turn back at this point. In the late afternoon, the 'Vigorous' convoy passes out of air cover range and promptly losses four freighters to axis air attacks.
Juni 15 An Italian naval squadron intercepts the 'Harpoon' convoy and disables two British destroyers and sinks one as well as damaging the anti-aircraft cruiser HMS Cairo, although the the Italians lose a destroyer in the process. Axis aircraft then attacked and sink tree freighters the tanker Kentucky and 2 destroyers. Another Italian naval squadron had sailed from Taranto to intercept Vigorous convoy which reversed course in the face of this threat. While it was doing this a German E-boats moved in and sank a destroyer and damaged a cruiser with its torpedo's. In the meantime the Vigorous convoy turned towards Malta again but further reports of the Italian naval squadron steaming south, forced another course reversal. German Stukas attacked the convoy at this point and damaged a cruiser and sank one destroyer. The Italian naval squadron now moved north removing the threat to the Vigorous' convoy but the amiral commanding the Vigorous convoy decided that he did not have enough ammunition left to resume his course to Malta and so continued back to Alexandria during which german u-boat sank the cruiser HMS Hermione south of Crete and Stukas sank another destroyer. However, as consolation, British aircraft did manage to torpedo the Italian Battleship Littorio, which will spend the next two months under repair in drydock.
June 19 General Paulus's 6th Army and Hoth's 4th Panzer Army begin their attack to take Stalingrad. Churchill and Roosevelt meet to discuss the number of conflicting offensive plans which might be launched against Germany in 1943, The main ones are 'iron strike, a 24-hour cross Atlantic raid on trondelheim. And Jupiter' which called for a lodgement in northern Norway. Japanese invasion fleet leaves Rabaul for Buna, New Guinea two days latter the land un apposed at Buna .
June 24 Stalin orders that the city of Stalingrad is to be held at all costs ( in otl Marshal Zhukov was send to defend it but du the fact he is leading the Zhukov army in battling the German army group centre 120 miles from Moscow and a large portion of his divisions have bin sent to defend Stalingrad he is not in a position to go some where else). The German, Italian, Vichy and Croatian forces in Yugoslavia, begin another offensive against Tito's partisan army ( Vichy France has 3 divisions station in the Balkans as Hitler dos not want them station in occupied France ).
June 25 General Dwight D. Eisenhower is appointed to command US forces in the European Theatre. The 4th Panzer Army breaks off attacks south of Stalingrad, a state of siege is declared in Stalingrad.
June 26 The Russians announce that their offensive along the Moscow front has pushed the Germans back 7 miles in a night (while it is thru the Zhukov army manage to push the German group centre away for 7 miles Zhukov also knows by now that the German are getting fresh reinforcements and he is also getting new to but most of the new fresh army divisions are being sent to Stalingrad for its defence).
June 28 Germans break through South west of Stalingrad but are held to the north by fresh soviet forces.
Juni 30 Japanese capture crucial islands en-route to New Guinea. July 1 General Montgomery ( who has transfer from Grete to take the command of the South-Eastern Army) informs General Paget, C-in-C of British Home Forces that operation 'iron strike' would be mounted on the July 7.
July 3 The Germans now attempted to break into Stalingrad from the west July 5 Admiral René-Emile Godfroy becomes commander of the free French navy in the Indian Ocean with under his command are Two armed merchant cruisers, Two sloops, Five submarines, 1 battleship the Provence who now is his flagship and the cruiser Lamotte-Piquet and 2 destroyers formally based in the free French port of oran. July 6 Heavy house-to-house fighting continues in the centre of Stalingrad.
July 7 some 8,100 British ,Norrish and Canadian troops conduct a raid-in-force against the port of trondelheim, which ends in disaster. In less than 10 hours of battle, the British, Norrish and Canadian forces lose 1,680 KIA, 1,880 wounded, 2,000 are made prisoner. The RAF loses 53 aircraft and the Royal Navy lose a destroyer. Germans loses are 445 dead or missing and 368 wounded, with total Luftwaffe losses being just 21 aircraft. Civilian casualties are put at 84 dead and 200 wounded ( trondelheim was reinforced by Germans who had du the importance of the city more the 25.000 man station there even despite the Intel the Norrish gave the British about the number of troops station there ). The 6th Army begins a four-mile advance through Stalingrad to the Volga.
July 8 Axis bombers carry out raids on the harbour facilities at Valetta in Malta.
July 12 The RAF launches its third 1,000-bomber raid against Bremen. As with the two 1,000 bomber raids, a full moon had been selected to aid in finding the target. The raid caused minimal damage to the Focke-Wulf plant and only devastated 17 acres of the inner city. The RAF losses are again high with more the 249 aircraft, a high proportion of them being manned by trainee crews after this Churchill orders further raids on this scale to be halted until the US army air force can take part and the German radars have bin neutralises.
July 13 6th Army and the 4th Panzer Army begins their effort to take Stalingrad.
July 14 Counter-attacks by the Soviet 62nd Army in Stalingrad fails as the 6th Army and 4th Panzer Army renew thier attack against Stalingrad. The Soviet 62nd Army is hemmed into a narrow strip of land no more than 10 miles at its widest and 4 miles as its narrowest. July 15 Fierce fighting between German and Soviet forces erupts for possession of Mamayev Kurgan, the strategic hill overlooking Stalingrad.
July 16 Stalingrad railway station is captured by the 6th Army but several attempt by the soviet union to capture the station fail.
July 18 The Army Group south captures the Black Sea port of Tuapse after heavy fighting.
July 19 The 6th Army and 4th Panzer Army split the Soviet 62nd Army in two and capture nearly the entire southern part of the city.
July 23 The Germans begin their final offensive in taking the rest of the city of Stalingrad that is still in soviet hands.
July 24 The Russians cross the Volga to the North west of Moscow and recapture 12 villages even if the german group centre is slowing the advance of the Zhukov army. July 26 four thousand Japanese land South East of Port Moresby and advance ( the battle fore Guadalcanal is not going to happened with the japans focus all of their efforts on new guinea instead). July 30 The 6th Army continues to push the decimated Soviet 62nd Army back toward the soviet city of vollzkij outside stalingrad but with heavy losses to both sides.
Augustus 1 the German group south captures the city of Stalingrad after heavy battle. Japanese establish a puppet government in Buma.
Augustus 2 Hitler orders that in the time remaining the city of Stalingrad moss be wipe out of the face of the map.
Augustus 3 the remains of the Soviet 62nd Army after being pushed out of the city of Stalingrad halts in the city of vollzkij with the German 6th army concentric after loosing large numbers of soldier and tanks begin to wait fore fresh reinforcements ,Stalin orders Zhukov to take command of the 62nd Army after he has pushd out the Germans 125 miles back from Moscow but du to heavy resistance the German retreat has slowed to a halt with much of the Zhukov army units gone to fight the Germans at Stalingrad ( Stalin thinks that marshal Zhukov can librates Stalingrad the same way Zhukov liberated Moscow from the Germans).
Augustus 7 US land on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands ( the US want to have the airfield on the island to control the Entire Southern Solomon’s and the parts of the Coral Sea ).
Augustus 8 US Marines take Henderson Airfield on Solomon Islands to prepare it for bombing missions against Japanese in new guinea while on the naval side around the Solomon Islands a Japanese naval counter-attack is beaten off.
Augustus 9 the Battle of Savo Island begins as 7 Japanese cruisers and a destroyer approach undetected west of Savo Island, Solomon Islands and sinks the tree heavy US cruisers and one Australian cruiser, They also damage 1 cruiser and 2 destroyers. The allied ships depart leaving the Guadalcanal area is in the control of the Japanese forces. Augustus 10 a British convoy with 14 merchants, 2 battleships, 3 aircraft-carriers, 14 destroyers and 3 anti-aircraft cruisers which had left Britain on the August 2 en-route to Malta, reaches the Straits of Gibraltar, where it is reinforced with 3 heavy cruisers the Manchester, Nigeria, and Kenya and 11 more destroyers. For a time, the aircraft-carrier HMS Furious joins the convoy with a complement of 38 Supermarine Spitfires which are to be flown off towards the embattled island. The convoy is spotted by a German U-boat. Over the coming 21 days German and Italian submarines, nearly 900 aircraft, 44 torpedo boats, and units of the Italian fleet move in to intercept the convoy ( of the merchants non make it true to reach Malta ).
Augustus 12 Himmler is made responsible for order in Denmark and the German control era of Norway.
Augustus 13 marshal Zhukov arrives in vollzkij to take command of the soviet 62nd Army that after the where pushed out of Stalingrad he knows that with the battle of Moscow taking 130 miles away he now needs al the soviet forces he get his hands on if he want to retake Stalingrad
Augustus 14 Luftflotte 4 begins a massive bombing on the city of vollzkij outside Stalingrad in wich the soviet 62nd Army is regrouping more then 3,000 sorties are taken place.
Augustus 17 The first all American bombing raid in Europe is conducted against Nuremberg the by Eighth USAAF but the same thing happened with the massive RAF 1.000 raids happens here massive losses are inflicted at the US forces losing over 20 percent du to German aa radar and German fighter planes ( the US is and RAF are going to try another tactic and levelling the radar sites first before hitting city’s ).
Augustus 19 Japanese send 4 transport ships with an close escort of a cruiser and 4 destroyers to strengthen their land forces on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands Movement is covered by 3 carriers, 2 battleships, 5 cruisers and 17 destroyers. Augustus 20 first US aircraft land on the newly completed Henderson Field airstrip on Guadalcanal to help the Marines fighting over the control of the island ( the Japanese toke the island on January 23 )
Augustus 22 Under heavy pressure from the US, Brazil declares war on Germany and Italy. The us forces based now on the Guadalcanal destroy the First wave of Japanese reinforcements .
Augustus 24 Battle joined in the Eastern Solomons with the Japanese trying to land reinforcements on Guadalcanal. US forces beat off the Japanese Combined Fleet sinking the carrier Ryujo, but suffering damage to the carrier Enterprise forcing it to return to pearl harbor
Augustus 25 in middle of the night Japanese troops come ashore affront some tree US destroyers off the South east coast of New Guinea and are occupied by the Japanese. Battle of Milne Bay Papua, begins a Force of some 1.200 Japanese Special Naval Landing Force comes ashore. Battle of Eastern Solomon's continues with a Japanese destroyer being sunk off Santa Isabel Augustus 27 The Soviet 37th Army is defeated in Caucasus.
Augustus 28 A Japanese seaplane catapulted from submarine I-25 and drops firebombs on forests in Oregon, USA ( japan is not hitting city anymore du the high protection of the city by aa and newly installed radar instead japan begins small alter operation against the us eastern coast ).
Augustus 29 The Germans capture Nalchik in the Caucasus, only 50 miles from the Grozny oil Fields.
Augustus 31 more then 1,200 Japanese using a transport that will be known as the’ Tokyo Express land reinforcements on Guadalcanal. The US aircraft-carrier ranger is attacked and damaged by a Japanese submarine near Santa Cruz September 1 In their advance toward Ordshonikidse in the Caucasus, units of 3rd Panzer Corps capture Alagir on the upper Terek river.
September 6 Japanese forces capture Milne Bay from the Australians. Halted before Ordshonikidse in the Caucasus the 13th Panzer Division is fighting a superior Soviet forces attacking its flanks and rear, the soviet forces where protecting the Grozny oil fields and where order to stop any Germans forces capturing the important oil fields.
September 7 in a meeting marshal Zhukov explains to Stalin that the Soviet 62nd Army will be ready to attack the Germans in Stalingrad as long as the Germans do not decide to attack his still weak army that still being build up Zhukov now issues an order forbidding frontal attacks something he did not do when he liberated Moscow from the Germans and now wants to do envelopment and outflank manoeuvres, as he says frontal attacks merely allow the Germans to withdraw in good order this time he want to destroy the Germans in Stalingrad by encircle them Stalin approves the plan and orders Zhukov to attack when the 62nd Army is ready ( germany is also planning a attack against the 62nd Army in order to secure the Caucasus). US Marines launch a surprise raid on the Japanese base at Talou, Guadalcanal.
September 8 Japanese advance from Kokoda to the Owen Stanley Mountain Range in an overland drive for Port Moresby, New Guinea. operation knockout begins as the allies begin their campaign in destroying the German radar and aa in France in hoping to create a gap in which the can fly to attack major city’s ( unlike otl the Germans when the Luftwaffe was strengting themselves after the battle of France and the low country’s the began to increased their radar cove rich with two line of radar net the first called the rote net is based in France and is the early warning the second is based in Germany and is called the Hamburg line as it begins in Hamburg to the Swiss border and is much more develop the otl and because of that the tree 1.000 bombing raids became a allied disaster).
September 9 despite the high increase of US naval patrols along the eastern sea coast the Japanese bomb the Oregon forests with incendiaries for second time hopping that it will start a fire after this the Japanese change their tactics and begin bombing small towns in hope of creating panic. After two days of fighting the 13th Panzer Division is forced to retreat wen a force of tree soviet army divisions manage to attack them and force them back
September 11 Japanese drive halted by Australians just 10 miles from Port Moresby. The 13th Panzer-Division of 3rd Panzer Corps begins to halt before Ordzhonikidze to avoid being cut off by the heavy Soviet attacks against its communications.
September 28 The US Navy claims to have shot down 42 Japanese aircraft in the Solomon Islands in last three days with only 7 US aircraft shot down by the Japanese.
October 8 Strong Japanese move against the Australians at Templeton Crossing on the Kokoda Trail in New Guinea. A Commando raid on occupied Sark, in Channel Islands kills 2 British Commandos and one German soldier ( the Germans have fortify the Channel Islands much more the in otl ).
October 11 The US Navy surprises a Japanese naval squadron in the middle of the night in a battle that will be known as the Battle of Cape Esperance off the Savo Island in the Solomons. In the battle The Japanese lose one cruiser and one destroyer, while the US Navy loses just a single destroyer. October 15 4,500 Japanese troops land as reinforcement for Guadalcanal as battle for control of the island goes on. October 16 The Japanese forced the Australians back at Templeton Crossing, New Guinea.
October 17 a Soviet, British and US conference in Moscow concludes with a protocol being signed committing the Britain and the US to supply Russia with 600 aircraft immediately and 500 aircraft per month until October 17 1943.
October 18 du the allies beginning their attacks against radar and aa site in France forces the German and Italian daylight bombing raids over Malta to reduces with some German fighter units being moved towards France. An advance party of four Norwegian Commandos are dropped by parachute to reconnoitre the area around the German (atomic weapons development) plant at Telemark, Norway but after seeing it heavily defend the report that it will need a large force to sucseed in destroying the plant ( du the fact Norway is divided in have the German have much more fear of a attack against the plant then in otl and therefore have much more security in place ).
October 19 Russian says the stop the German advance in Caucasus ( the 13th Panzer-Division is outside the city of Ordshonikidze where it now face large soviet forces who have stop the panzer- Division in its track ).
October 24 the elite Japanese 2nd Division being is wipe out by us marines station on Henderson Field.
October 26 Battle of Santa Cruz begins with US forces attacking the large Japanese supporting fleet near Guadalcanal and shooting down 100 aircraft, damaging two carriers, a battleship and three cruisers
October 29 The US retains control of all their positions on Guadalcanal. The Japanse fleet forced to retreat in the Solomons
September 21 British forces begin their first land counter-offensive against the Japanese in western Burma. the Dutch remove all of the two regiments in Norway and begin sending them to the Dutch hold Indies ( the Dutch had mostly two army regiments on rotation sins the war broke out in 1939 but with the Norwegians having tree army divisions now and the Americans to be sending their on army divisions to Norway and the British having more then six there is no need for the Dutch to maintain their forces in Norway any longer).
October 29 the Australians army units complete their evacuation of the Templeton Crossing positions in New Guinea. November 2 Port Moresby is taken by japans, last Australians army units evacuates New Guinea giving Japan total control over the island ( the Japanese got the island of new guinea and the Dutch side of it using forces that where originally intended for the invasion of Sumatra and java).
November 7 the Soviet 57th Army joins Zhukov 64 soviet army with new fresh troops he can begin the encirclement of the German 6th army ad the beginning of 1943 hoping that the winter will weaken the Germans in Stalingrad.
November 8 operation knock out has destroyed 5 radar sites and damage a dozen in franc sins beginning of the operation but will the attacks begin to work in creating gaps in the German radar net in franc allied planes begin to receive heavy German Luftwaffe and increased aa attacks in result the allied begin attacking targets at night using a new Pathfinder Force in which flare equip planes drop their flares at the target and allow the bombers following them to destroy the target.
November 9 Naval battles off Oran and Casablanca, result in two French destroyers being sunk. ( free French have three naval bases namly Mers-el-Kebir with the battleship the Dunkerque , Bretagne who is the flagship of the free French Mediterranean fleet 9 destroyers, six submarines and one seaplane carrier then there is a detachment based in Alexandria were one battleship, four cruisers and three destroyers are located with the rest in free French Madagascar with the battleship the Provence the cruiser Lamotte-Piquet and 4 destroyers). November 11 The United States extends its Lend-Lease aid to the Free French under General de Gaulle and free Dutch.
November 12 a Dutch/American/Australian fleet of 10 ships spots a large japans fleet that is paroling new guinea in the first encounter the Dutch ship HNLMS Java is sunk with the uss Houston damage and one Australian destroyer sunk after this the remaining ships of the Dutch/American/Australian fleet head toward a us fleet of the carrier Lexington and the carriers Saratoga and the hornet who are patrolling the Solomon sea with the Japanese carriers and their escorts braking of to destroy them ( the Dutch/American/ Australian fleet was made of the four Americans’ destroyers the Dutch navy ships HNLMS De Ruyter and HNLMS Java and four Australians destroyers based out of Australia du to attacks against Batavia on java forcing the some of the Dutch ships to relocated and to increasing the defence of Australia the rest of the Dutch fleet is still based out of Batavia ).
November 14 in the first day of fighting the us carrier fleet who now was waiting fore the Japanese carriers stroke them while the Japanese where concentrating on destroying the moving Dutch/American/ Australian fleet and in the first day of the battle of the Solomon sea that followed the us carrier fleet sank the Japanese carriers Shōkaku and Zuikaku 1 cruiser and 3 destroyers while the US fleet only lose the cruisers Minneapolis and the destroyers Phelps and Dewey).
November 15 second day of the battle of Solomon sea in witch the Americans lose their surprise and lose the US Carrier HORNET but the japans still have the two carriers in the fight but one of them has its Aircraft Strength nearly totally depleted forcing them to retreat to Japanese control water in the Bismarck sea and giving the US the control to resuply the Solomon island and to begin preparation for a invasion of new guinea and the destruction of the last Japanese forces still on Guadalcanal (the Japanese carriers have retreated to the Japanese controlled Bismarck sea leaving a total of 13.000 Japanese troops still on Guadalcanal but the Japanese are beginning to make planes to evacuate these forces towards Japanese controlled new guinea ).
November 17 the first 12 b-25 Mitchells of a total batch of 120 arrive in java to be used by the royal Dutch indie air force against Japanese in Borneo with only the US having b-17 bombers based on java this will give the Dutch also a striking power to hit the Japanese.
November 19 Two RAF gliders carrying 34 British Royal Engineer Commandos, crashes in Norway en route to their mission of destroying the German plant in Telemark. The survivors are captured by the Germans, questioned and latter and shot after hearing this Churchill orders any mission against the plant to be halted in fear that the Germans now about it ( the Germans did receive information from the captured Commandos and have indeed increase their security of the plant).
November 23 first japans bomber mission from new guinea against north Australia begins hitting Darwin. November 27 the port of Toulon become home to several Italian naval ships in order to spread them out ( in otl Vichy france was occupied by the German but not here as the a full members of the axis pact and have begun to show themselves as a separate country then the rest of France plus Africa was already in the hands of the allies in 1940).
December 3 with Japan now holding the new guinea the Australians and us commanders begin to plan a invasion of the island in order to stop the Japanese air attacks against northern Australia while the raaf and us army air forces are battling the Japanese the nowe to really stop the attacks the have to capture the island the recapture is to begin on December 27 in the mean time Australian Lancaster’s and American b-17 begin a massive bombing campaign against the japans on the island.
December 7 on the one year anniversary of the attack on Pearl harbor the US Navy launches the Battleship New Jersey and 21 other ships ( because there where only 5 Japanese carriers involved in the attack the damage to several ships was lighter and therefore more ships could become operation again). The Japanese air force station in new guinea and in new Britain begin a bombing offensive against US shipping in the Solomon's. December 11 in one week the Royal Navy lose the destroyers Pentlan, Porcupine and Blean, off Malta the were escorting convoys to the Malta ( even du the fact the Luftwaffe has sent some fighter planes toward France the Italian air force is becoming much better in protecting the German bombers and stuksa who attack these convoys).
December 18 The RAF’s Pathfinder Force flies its first mission, against a German radar site in France the hit is successful du the fact the German have no night fighters station in France. ( after this attack Germany moves it night fighters to bases in franc).
December 20 Japanese air raids on Calcutta, India. The navigation and bombing radar aid 'Oboe' is used operationally for the first time by Bomber Command. December 21 British troops cross the Burmese border.
December 23 The RAF launches its first bombing raid against the Italian cities of Genoa and Turin ( du the fact the RAF only attack the military targets in Italy before this it has now shifted to attacking cities in Italy as well ).
December 24 Hitler orders that the 6th army in Stalingrad not to attack the soviet outside Stalingrad but to hold and to let them come to them believing the soviet will go for a direct battle in witch the Germans who have dug them self in in the ruins of Stalingrad can destroy them, the German group north is now 100 miles away from German control Leningrad and is also ordered to wait and to send some force to group centre who are now making preparations for an counter offensive under the cover-name of night fall against the former Zhukov army that was forced to sent a lot of its forces towards the 64th and 54th soviet army who are waiting outside Stalingrad for their offensive giving the group centre a new change too return to a offensive mode.
December 27 a force protected by a large screen of us carriers and allied naval and air power land in New Guinea lower town of abau with a total force of more then 10,000 the allied forces who after a 24 day bombing campaign against the Japanese encounter heavy resistance from the Japanese who as it turn out where not as much effected by the allied bombing campaign.
December 28 the US makes a beachhead in kupiane east of abau, cutting off Japanese forces that where engaging the ailed forces in abau new guinea.
Juni 2 the free French Provence and the cruiser Lamotte-Piquet who where after the battle of French Indochina moved to Australia are ordered to go to Vichy French Madagascar and to wait for a British/free French taskforce of taking the island ( the Provence was damage in the battle of French Indochina but that has bin fix ). The RAF' launches it's second 1,000 bomber and hits Essen, but due to the haze over the city, the results are minima but the RAF losses are high and more then 230 aircraft are lose du to German radar and aa and a large number of Luftwaffe planes , Churchill orders further raids on this scale to be halted and only to be resume when a the problem is fix ( the Germans have increase their aa and have much more radar protection to cover their territory and therefore the where amble to destroy over 20 procent of the British bomber force).
June 3 Vichy France after receiving their fourth wf 190 squadron, the Vichy now have a force to protect them from the allies the also have the D.520 in full production sins 1941 with a total order of 240 to be used wit the 12 wf 190 squadrons as their air force ( the D.520 was a plan being build by the Vichy in otl as for now the have a total of 160 of the to be produce 240 with the Vichy build plane station in Vichy and the wf 190 Vichy squadrons are based in Sardinia and Italy helping defending Italy under German command).
June 4 Advance units of 4th Panzer Army cross the Aksay river in their drive toward Stalingrad. Hitler flies to Leningrad to inspect the german forces there before he fly s the next day to Finland to meet with the Finnish head of state Marshal Mannerheim in witch the discuses the war efforts and a possibility to open a new front against Norway after the UK and Norway declared war against Finland ( as for now the border of Finland/Norway is quiet as both side only shell each otter both nothing more ). Reinhard Heydrich dies of his wounds
June 5 1st Panzer Army captures Voroshilovsk, over 200 miles to the south east of Rostov. The 4th Panzer Army moving northeast runs straight into the Soviet 64th army that was being moved form the Zhukov army to intercept the german and to slow it long in of for defence to be set up . June 7 after a 5 day journey the battleship Provence and the cruiser Lamotte-Piquet arrive of the coast from Vichy Madagascar with the task British/free French taskforce one day away.
June 9 the British/free French taskforce under command of Admiral René-Emile Godfroy links with the already present Provence and Lamotte-Piquet and begins its negations with the governor of Vichy Madagascar ( Vichy Madagascar is isolated and the allies fear that the would allow the japans to land at the island to use it as a base to strike the allies therefore the taskforce with troops are order to wait until free French officials can try to switch the Vichy Madagascar forces to the allied side if that fails the are ordered to invaded). The 1st Panzer Army captures the Maikop oilfields, witch thanks to the rapid advance of the army group south that the Red Army was lot able to destroy the wells as many where ordered to intercept other elements of group south heading toward Stalingrad.
Juni 10 the 6th Army crosses the Don and reaches the outskirts of Stalingrad.
June 11 after two days of negation the governor of Vichy Madagascar switich side allowing the taskforce to forces land at Diego Suarez and Antsirene on Madagascar ( the two days negation where started early a month ago when the fear of a Japanese takeover was high but with the task force out the coast and a reminder from the free French negotiators what happen in Syria two years ago was good in of for the governor and commander of the forces on Madagascar to switch side). A rehearsal for the raid against trondelheim operation 'iron strike' is held the 2nd Canadian Division is chosen for the job. U-boats begin laying mines off Boston, Delaware and Chesapeake Bay.
June 12 In their advance south toward the Grozny oilfields, units of Army Group south capture the town of Elista near the Caspian Sea. Churchill arrives in a devastated Moscow for talks with Stalin During 2 days of talking talks, Stalin was eventually forced to accept that there would be no second front until at leas 1943.
Juni 14 Air Marshal Harris believes a third 1.000 bomber raid will succeed and orders the city of Bremen to be hit at July 12. The first axis attacks are made against the 'Harpoon' and 'Vigorous' convoys. 'Harpoon' loses tree freighter and receives damage to a cruiser from an axis air attack off the Tunisian coast. Harpoons' escorting aircraft carriers turn back at this point. In the late afternoon, the 'Vigorous' convoy passes out of air cover range and promptly losses four freighters to axis air attacks.
Juni 15 An Italian naval squadron intercepts the 'Harpoon' convoy and disables two British destroyers and sinks one as well as damaging the anti-aircraft cruiser HMS Cairo, although the the Italians lose a destroyer in the process. Axis aircraft then attacked and sink tree freighters the tanker Kentucky and 2 destroyers. Another Italian naval squadron had sailed from Taranto to intercept Vigorous convoy which reversed course in the face of this threat. While it was doing this a German E-boats moved in and sank a destroyer and damaged a cruiser with its torpedo's. In the meantime the Vigorous convoy turned towards Malta again but further reports of the Italian naval squadron steaming south, forced another course reversal. German Stukas attacked the convoy at this point and damaged a cruiser and sank one destroyer. The Italian naval squadron now moved north removing the threat to the Vigorous' convoy but the amiral commanding the Vigorous convoy decided that he did not have enough ammunition left to resume his course to Malta and so continued back to Alexandria during which german u-boat sank the cruiser HMS Hermione south of Crete and Stukas sank another destroyer. However, as consolation, British aircraft did manage to torpedo the Italian Battleship Littorio, which will spend the next two months under repair in drydock.
June 19 General Paulus's 6th Army and Hoth's 4th Panzer Army begin their attack to take Stalingrad. Churchill and Roosevelt meet to discuss the number of conflicting offensive plans which might be launched against Germany in 1943, The main ones are 'iron strike, a 24-hour cross Atlantic raid on trondelheim. And Jupiter' which called for a lodgement in northern Norway. Japanese invasion fleet leaves Rabaul for Buna, New Guinea two days latter the land un apposed at Buna .
June 24 Stalin orders that the city of Stalingrad is to be held at all costs ( in otl Marshal Zhukov was send to defend it but du the fact he is leading the Zhukov army in battling the German army group centre 120 miles from Moscow and a large portion of his divisions have bin sent to defend Stalingrad he is not in a position to go some where else). The German, Italian, Vichy and Croatian forces in Yugoslavia, begin another offensive against Tito's partisan army ( Vichy France has 3 divisions station in the Balkans as Hitler dos not want them station in occupied France ).
June 25 General Dwight D. Eisenhower is appointed to command US forces in the European Theatre. The 4th Panzer Army breaks off attacks south of Stalingrad, a state of siege is declared in Stalingrad.
June 26 The Russians announce that their offensive along the Moscow front has pushed the Germans back 7 miles in a night (while it is thru the Zhukov army manage to push the German group centre away for 7 miles Zhukov also knows by now that the German are getting fresh reinforcements and he is also getting new to but most of the new fresh army divisions are being sent to Stalingrad for its defence).
June 28 Germans break through South west of Stalingrad but are held to the north by fresh soviet forces.
Juni 30 Japanese capture crucial islands en-route to New Guinea. July 1 General Montgomery ( who has transfer from Grete to take the command of the South-Eastern Army) informs General Paget, C-in-C of British Home Forces that operation 'iron strike' would be mounted on the July 7.
July 3 The Germans now attempted to break into Stalingrad from the west July 5 Admiral René-Emile Godfroy becomes commander of the free French navy in the Indian Ocean with under his command are Two armed merchant cruisers, Two sloops, Five submarines, 1 battleship the Provence who now is his flagship and the cruiser Lamotte-Piquet and 2 destroyers formally based in the free French port of oran. July 6 Heavy house-to-house fighting continues in the centre of Stalingrad.
July 7 some 8,100 British ,Norrish and Canadian troops conduct a raid-in-force against the port of trondelheim, which ends in disaster. In less than 10 hours of battle, the British, Norrish and Canadian forces lose 1,680 KIA, 1,880 wounded, 2,000 are made prisoner. The RAF loses 53 aircraft and the Royal Navy lose a destroyer. Germans loses are 445 dead or missing and 368 wounded, with total Luftwaffe losses being just 21 aircraft. Civilian casualties are put at 84 dead and 200 wounded ( trondelheim was reinforced by Germans who had du the importance of the city more the 25.000 man station there even despite the Intel the Norrish gave the British about the number of troops station there ). The 6th Army begins a four-mile advance through Stalingrad to the Volga.
July 8 Axis bombers carry out raids on the harbour facilities at Valetta in Malta.
July 12 The RAF launches its third 1,000-bomber raid against Bremen. As with the two 1,000 bomber raids, a full moon had been selected to aid in finding the target. The raid caused minimal damage to the Focke-Wulf plant and only devastated 17 acres of the inner city. The RAF losses are again high with more the 249 aircraft, a high proportion of them being manned by trainee crews after this Churchill orders further raids on this scale to be halted until the US army air force can take part and the German radars have bin neutralises.
July 13 6th Army and the 4th Panzer Army begins their effort to take Stalingrad.
July 14 Counter-attacks by the Soviet 62nd Army in Stalingrad fails as the 6th Army and 4th Panzer Army renew thier attack against Stalingrad. The Soviet 62nd Army is hemmed into a narrow strip of land no more than 10 miles at its widest and 4 miles as its narrowest. July 15 Fierce fighting between German and Soviet forces erupts for possession of Mamayev Kurgan, the strategic hill overlooking Stalingrad.
July 16 Stalingrad railway station is captured by the 6th Army but several attempt by the soviet union to capture the station fail.
July 18 The Army Group south captures the Black Sea port of Tuapse after heavy fighting.
July 19 The 6th Army and 4th Panzer Army split the Soviet 62nd Army in two and capture nearly the entire southern part of the city.
July 23 The Germans begin their final offensive in taking the rest of the city of Stalingrad that is still in soviet hands.
July 24 The Russians cross the Volga to the North west of Moscow and recapture 12 villages even if the german group centre is slowing the advance of the Zhukov army. July 26 four thousand Japanese land South East of Port Moresby and advance ( the battle fore Guadalcanal is not going to happened with the japans focus all of their efforts on new guinea instead). July 30 The 6th Army continues to push the decimated Soviet 62nd Army back toward the soviet city of vollzkij outside stalingrad but with heavy losses to both sides.
Augustus 1 the German group south captures the city of Stalingrad after heavy battle. Japanese establish a puppet government in Buma.
Augustus 2 Hitler orders that in the time remaining the city of Stalingrad moss be wipe out of the face of the map.
Augustus 3 the remains of the Soviet 62nd Army after being pushed out of the city of Stalingrad halts in the city of vollzkij with the German 6th army concentric after loosing large numbers of soldier and tanks begin to wait fore fresh reinforcements ,Stalin orders Zhukov to take command of the 62nd Army after he has pushd out the Germans 125 miles back from Moscow but du to heavy resistance the German retreat has slowed to a halt with much of the Zhukov army units gone to fight the Germans at Stalingrad ( Stalin thinks that marshal Zhukov can librates Stalingrad the same way Zhukov liberated Moscow from the Germans).
Augustus 7 US land on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands ( the US want to have the airfield on the island to control the Entire Southern Solomon’s and the parts of the Coral Sea ).
Augustus 8 US Marines take Henderson Airfield on Solomon Islands to prepare it for bombing missions against Japanese in new guinea while on the naval side around the Solomon Islands a Japanese naval counter-attack is beaten off.
Augustus 9 the Battle of Savo Island begins as 7 Japanese cruisers and a destroyer approach undetected west of Savo Island, Solomon Islands and sinks the tree heavy US cruisers and one Australian cruiser, They also damage 1 cruiser and 2 destroyers. The allied ships depart leaving the Guadalcanal area is in the control of the Japanese forces. Augustus 10 a British convoy with 14 merchants, 2 battleships, 3 aircraft-carriers, 14 destroyers and 3 anti-aircraft cruisers which had left Britain on the August 2 en-route to Malta, reaches the Straits of Gibraltar, where it is reinforced with 3 heavy cruisers the Manchester, Nigeria, and Kenya and 11 more destroyers. For a time, the aircraft-carrier HMS Furious joins the convoy with a complement of 38 Supermarine Spitfires which are to be flown off towards the embattled island. The convoy is spotted by a German U-boat. Over the coming 21 days German and Italian submarines, nearly 900 aircraft, 44 torpedo boats, and units of the Italian fleet move in to intercept the convoy ( of the merchants non make it true to reach Malta ).
Augustus 12 Himmler is made responsible for order in Denmark and the German control era of Norway.
Augustus 13 marshal Zhukov arrives in vollzkij to take command of the soviet 62nd Army that after the where pushed out of Stalingrad he knows that with the battle of Moscow taking 130 miles away he now needs al the soviet forces he get his hands on if he want to retake Stalingrad
Augustus 14 Luftflotte 4 begins a massive bombing on the city of vollzkij outside Stalingrad in wich the soviet 62nd Army is regrouping more then 3,000 sorties are taken place.
Augustus 17 The first all American bombing raid in Europe is conducted against Nuremberg the by Eighth USAAF but the same thing happened with the massive RAF 1.000 raids happens here massive losses are inflicted at the US forces losing over 20 percent du to German aa radar and German fighter planes ( the US is and RAF are going to try another tactic and levelling the radar sites first before hitting city’s ).
Augustus 19 Japanese send 4 transport ships with an close escort of a cruiser and 4 destroyers to strengthen their land forces on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands Movement is covered by 3 carriers, 2 battleships, 5 cruisers and 17 destroyers. Augustus 20 first US aircraft land on the newly completed Henderson Field airstrip on Guadalcanal to help the Marines fighting over the control of the island ( the Japanese toke the island on January 23 )
Augustus 22 Under heavy pressure from the US, Brazil declares war on Germany and Italy. The us forces based now on the Guadalcanal destroy the First wave of Japanese reinforcements .
Augustus 24 Battle joined in the Eastern Solomons with the Japanese trying to land reinforcements on Guadalcanal. US forces beat off the Japanese Combined Fleet sinking the carrier Ryujo, but suffering damage to the carrier Enterprise forcing it to return to pearl harbor
Augustus 25 in middle of the night Japanese troops come ashore affront some tree US destroyers off the South east coast of New Guinea and are occupied by the Japanese. Battle of Milne Bay Papua, begins a Force of some 1.200 Japanese Special Naval Landing Force comes ashore. Battle of Eastern Solomon's continues with a Japanese destroyer being sunk off Santa Isabel Augustus 27 The Soviet 37th Army is defeated in Caucasus.
Augustus 28 A Japanese seaplane catapulted from submarine I-25 and drops firebombs on forests in Oregon, USA ( japan is not hitting city anymore du the high protection of the city by aa and newly installed radar instead japan begins small alter operation against the us eastern coast ).
Augustus 29 The Germans capture Nalchik in the Caucasus, only 50 miles from the Grozny oil Fields.
Augustus 31 more then 1,200 Japanese using a transport that will be known as the’ Tokyo Express land reinforcements on Guadalcanal. The US aircraft-carrier ranger is attacked and damaged by a Japanese submarine near Santa Cruz September 1 In their advance toward Ordshonikidse in the Caucasus, units of 3rd Panzer Corps capture Alagir on the upper Terek river.
September 6 Japanese forces capture Milne Bay from the Australians. Halted before Ordshonikidse in the Caucasus the 13th Panzer Division is fighting a superior Soviet forces attacking its flanks and rear, the soviet forces where protecting the Grozny oil fields and where order to stop any Germans forces capturing the important oil fields.
September 7 in a meeting marshal Zhukov explains to Stalin that the Soviet 62nd Army will be ready to attack the Germans in Stalingrad as long as the Germans do not decide to attack his still weak army that still being build up Zhukov now issues an order forbidding frontal attacks something he did not do when he liberated Moscow from the Germans and now wants to do envelopment and outflank manoeuvres, as he says frontal attacks merely allow the Germans to withdraw in good order this time he want to destroy the Germans in Stalingrad by encircle them Stalin approves the plan and orders Zhukov to attack when the 62nd Army is ready ( germany is also planning a attack against the 62nd Army in order to secure the Caucasus). US Marines launch a surprise raid on the Japanese base at Talou, Guadalcanal.
September 8 Japanese advance from Kokoda to the Owen Stanley Mountain Range in an overland drive for Port Moresby, New Guinea. operation knockout begins as the allies begin their campaign in destroying the German radar and aa in France in hoping to create a gap in which the can fly to attack major city’s ( unlike otl the Germans when the Luftwaffe was strengting themselves after the battle of France and the low country’s the began to increased their radar cove rich with two line of radar net the first called the rote net is based in France and is the early warning the second is based in Germany and is called the Hamburg line as it begins in Hamburg to the Swiss border and is much more develop the otl and because of that the tree 1.000 bombing raids became a allied disaster).
September 9 despite the high increase of US naval patrols along the eastern sea coast the Japanese bomb the Oregon forests with incendiaries for second time hopping that it will start a fire after this the Japanese change their tactics and begin bombing small towns in hope of creating panic. After two days of fighting the 13th Panzer Division is forced to retreat wen a force of tree soviet army divisions manage to attack them and force them back
September 11 Japanese drive halted by Australians just 10 miles from Port Moresby. The 13th Panzer-Division of 3rd Panzer Corps begins to halt before Ordzhonikidze to avoid being cut off by the heavy Soviet attacks against its communications.
September 28 The US Navy claims to have shot down 42 Japanese aircraft in the Solomon Islands in last three days with only 7 US aircraft shot down by the Japanese.
October 8 Strong Japanese move against the Australians at Templeton Crossing on the Kokoda Trail in New Guinea. A Commando raid on occupied Sark, in Channel Islands kills 2 British Commandos and one German soldier ( the Germans have fortify the Channel Islands much more the in otl ).
October 11 The US Navy surprises a Japanese naval squadron in the middle of the night in a battle that will be known as the Battle of Cape Esperance off the Savo Island in the Solomons. In the battle The Japanese lose one cruiser and one destroyer, while the US Navy loses just a single destroyer. October 15 4,500 Japanese troops land as reinforcement for Guadalcanal as battle for control of the island goes on. October 16 The Japanese forced the Australians back at Templeton Crossing, New Guinea.
October 17 a Soviet, British and US conference in Moscow concludes with a protocol being signed committing the Britain and the US to supply Russia with 600 aircraft immediately and 500 aircraft per month until October 17 1943.
October 18 du the allies beginning their attacks against radar and aa site in France forces the German and Italian daylight bombing raids over Malta to reduces with some German fighter units being moved towards France. An advance party of four Norwegian Commandos are dropped by parachute to reconnoitre the area around the German (atomic weapons development) plant at Telemark, Norway but after seeing it heavily defend the report that it will need a large force to sucseed in destroying the plant ( du the fact Norway is divided in have the German have much more fear of a attack against the plant then in otl and therefore have much more security in place ).
October 19 Russian says the stop the German advance in Caucasus ( the 13th Panzer-Division is outside the city of Ordshonikidze where it now face large soviet forces who have stop the panzer- Division in its track ).
October 24 the elite Japanese 2nd Division being is wipe out by us marines station on Henderson Field.
October 26 Battle of Santa Cruz begins with US forces attacking the large Japanese supporting fleet near Guadalcanal and shooting down 100 aircraft, damaging two carriers, a battleship and three cruisers
October 29 The US retains control of all their positions on Guadalcanal. The Japanse fleet forced to retreat in the Solomons
September 21 British forces begin their first land counter-offensive against the Japanese in western Burma. the Dutch remove all of the two regiments in Norway and begin sending them to the Dutch hold Indies ( the Dutch had mostly two army regiments on rotation sins the war broke out in 1939 but with the Norwegians having tree army divisions now and the Americans to be sending their on army divisions to Norway and the British having more then six there is no need for the Dutch to maintain their forces in Norway any longer).
October 29 the Australians army units complete their evacuation of the Templeton Crossing positions in New Guinea. November 2 Port Moresby is taken by japans, last Australians army units evacuates New Guinea giving Japan total control over the island ( the Japanese got the island of new guinea and the Dutch side of it using forces that where originally intended for the invasion of Sumatra and java).
November 7 the Soviet 57th Army joins Zhukov 64 soviet army with new fresh troops he can begin the encirclement of the German 6th army ad the beginning of 1943 hoping that the winter will weaken the Germans in Stalingrad.
November 8 operation knock out has destroyed 5 radar sites and damage a dozen in franc sins beginning of the operation but will the attacks begin to work in creating gaps in the German radar net in franc allied planes begin to receive heavy German Luftwaffe and increased aa attacks in result the allied begin attacking targets at night using a new Pathfinder Force in which flare equip planes drop their flares at the target and allow the bombers following them to destroy the target.
November 9 Naval battles off Oran and Casablanca, result in two French destroyers being sunk. ( free French have three naval bases namly Mers-el-Kebir with the battleship the Dunkerque , Bretagne who is the flagship of the free French Mediterranean fleet 9 destroyers, six submarines and one seaplane carrier then there is a detachment based in Alexandria were one battleship, four cruisers and three destroyers are located with the rest in free French Madagascar with the battleship the Provence the cruiser Lamotte-Piquet and 4 destroyers). November 11 The United States extends its Lend-Lease aid to the Free French under General de Gaulle and free Dutch.
November 12 a Dutch/American/Australian fleet of 10 ships spots a large japans fleet that is paroling new guinea in the first encounter the Dutch ship HNLMS Java is sunk with the uss Houston damage and one Australian destroyer sunk after this the remaining ships of the Dutch/American/Australian fleet head toward a us fleet of the carrier Lexington and the carriers Saratoga and the hornet who are patrolling the Solomon sea with the Japanese carriers and their escorts braking of to destroy them ( the Dutch/American/ Australian fleet was made of the four Americans’ destroyers the Dutch navy ships HNLMS De Ruyter and HNLMS Java and four Australians destroyers based out of Australia du to attacks against Batavia on java forcing the some of the Dutch ships to relocated and to increasing the defence of Australia the rest of the Dutch fleet is still based out of Batavia ).
November 14 in the first day of fighting the us carrier fleet who now was waiting fore the Japanese carriers stroke them while the Japanese where concentrating on destroying the moving Dutch/American/ Australian fleet and in the first day of the battle of the Solomon sea that followed the us carrier fleet sank the Japanese carriers Shōkaku and Zuikaku 1 cruiser and 3 destroyers while the US fleet only lose the cruisers Minneapolis and the destroyers Phelps and Dewey).
November 15 second day of the battle of Solomon sea in witch the Americans lose their surprise and lose the US Carrier HORNET but the japans still have the two carriers in the fight but one of them has its Aircraft Strength nearly totally depleted forcing them to retreat to Japanese control water in the Bismarck sea and giving the US the control to resuply the Solomon island and to begin preparation for a invasion of new guinea and the destruction of the last Japanese forces still on Guadalcanal (the Japanese carriers have retreated to the Japanese controlled Bismarck sea leaving a total of 13.000 Japanese troops still on Guadalcanal but the Japanese are beginning to make planes to evacuate these forces towards Japanese controlled new guinea ).
November 17 the first 12 b-25 Mitchells of a total batch of 120 arrive in java to be used by the royal Dutch indie air force against Japanese in Borneo with only the US having b-17 bombers based on java this will give the Dutch also a striking power to hit the Japanese.
November 19 Two RAF gliders carrying 34 British Royal Engineer Commandos, crashes in Norway en route to their mission of destroying the German plant in Telemark. The survivors are captured by the Germans, questioned and latter and shot after hearing this Churchill orders any mission against the plant to be halted in fear that the Germans now about it ( the Germans did receive information from the captured Commandos and have indeed increase their security of the plant).
November 23 first japans bomber mission from new guinea against north Australia begins hitting Darwin. November 27 the port of Toulon become home to several Italian naval ships in order to spread them out ( in otl Vichy france was occupied by the German but not here as the a full members of the axis pact and have begun to show themselves as a separate country then the rest of France plus Africa was already in the hands of the allies in 1940).
December 3 with Japan now holding the new guinea the Australians and us commanders begin to plan a invasion of the island in order to stop the Japanese air attacks against northern Australia while the raaf and us army air forces are battling the Japanese the nowe to really stop the attacks the have to capture the island the recapture is to begin on December 27 in the mean time Australian Lancaster’s and American b-17 begin a massive bombing campaign against the japans on the island.
December 7 on the one year anniversary of the attack on Pearl harbor the US Navy launches the Battleship New Jersey and 21 other ships ( because there where only 5 Japanese carriers involved in the attack the damage to several ships was lighter and therefore more ships could become operation again). The Japanese air force station in new guinea and in new Britain begin a bombing offensive against US shipping in the Solomon's. December 11 in one week the Royal Navy lose the destroyers Pentlan, Porcupine and Blean, off Malta the were escorting convoys to the Malta ( even du the fact the Luftwaffe has sent some fighter planes toward France the Italian air force is becoming much better in protecting the German bombers and stuksa who attack these convoys).
December 18 The RAF’s Pathfinder Force flies its first mission, against a German radar site in France the hit is successful du the fact the German have no night fighters station in France. ( after this attack Germany moves it night fighters to bases in franc).
December 20 Japanese air raids on Calcutta, India. The navigation and bombing radar aid 'Oboe' is used operationally for the first time by Bomber Command. December 21 British troops cross the Burmese border.
December 23 The RAF launches its first bombing raid against the Italian cities of Genoa and Turin ( du the fact the RAF only attack the military targets in Italy before this it has now shifted to attacking cities in Italy as well ).
December 24 Hitler orders that the 6th army in Stalingrad not to attack the soviet outside Stalingrad but to hold and to let them come to them believing the soviet will go for a direct battle in witch the Germans who have dug them self in in the ruins of Stalingrad can destroy them, the German group north is now 100 miles away from German control Leningrad and is also ordered to wait and to send some force to group centre who are now making preparations for an counter offensive under the cover-name of night fall against the former Zhukov army that was forced to sent a lot of its forces towards the 64th and 54th soviet army who are waiting outside Stalingrad for their offensive giving the group centre a new change too return to a offensive mode.
December 27 a force protected by a large screen of us carriers and allied naval and air power land in New Guinea lower town of abau with a total force of more then 10,000 the allied forces who after a 24 day bombing campaign against the Japanese encounter heavy resistance from the Japanese who as it turn out where not as much effected by the allied bombing campaign.
December 28 the US makes a beachhead in kupiane east of abau, cutting off Japanese forces that where engaging the ailed forces in abau new guinea.
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