May 1 Dutch 1st and 2nd Para-company’s after a short battle secure the airfield near the city of Palu allowing the DST special force unit and two KNIL battalions to land whit out much trouble.
May 2 After organizing themselves and whit the two KNIL infantry battalions having set up a perimeter the 1st and 2nd Para-company’s and DST special force unit begin the assault on Palu itself where the Republik Indonesia Timur has a small garrison. May 3 Operation glacier continuous as the eleventh United States army and the Chinese nationalist army continuo pushing the Japanese towards the centre of the Hainan island.
May 4 Whit the help of KNIL-ML air support and having the element of surprise the city of Palu is captured by the DST and 1st and 2nd Para-company’s , later in the day Dutch minesweepers HMNLS Djampea and HMNLS Djombang protected by Flores class sloop HNLMS Soemba and patrol craft HMNLS king willem II begin the mission of sweeping mines in the port of p**a so that allied naval ships can unload heavy equipment.
May 6 Republik Indonesia Timur garrison commander in the near by town of Parigi decides to launch a desperate attack against the Dutch in the hopes to remove them from the city of p**a and he orders 200 soldiers despite being outnumber to do that.
May 7 After moving out of the town of Parigi the small group of 200 soldier is spotted by a KNIL-ML L-2 Grasshopper observation aircraft several kilometers from p**a which result in a massive attack by KNIL-ML fighters and bombers operating from the airfield near Palu ( now called p**a I ) forcing the Republik Indonesia Timur to retreat towards Parigi now being chase by KNIL infantry.
May 8 Soviet cruiser and flagship of the Soviet Mediterranean eskadra Krasny Kavkaz during its first patrol in the Aegean sea is spotted by a Regia Aeronautica P.108A Artiglieri who begins circling the cruiser wile in the mean time contacting Italian Dodecanese naval command headquarters on Rhodes , two hours latter Corsica navy light cruiser MC Le Napoléon and Italian royal navy cruiser RN Pompeo Magno who where patrolling the area intercept the Soviet cruiser but after a contacting the Soviet cruiser the MC Le Napoléon and RN Pompeo Magno head back to their patrol.
May 10 The Chinese liberation army air force who has dozen of squadrons made op of mostly Soviet volunteers and some Chinese pilots begins their first combat missions over Manchuria in order to weaken the Japanese and Manchukuo Imperial armed forces present in Manchuria who still number 1,120,000 men ( the Japanese imperial army air force is almost none exciting in the state of Manchuria as most flying units are station in the Japanese home island where the are used in the desperate battle against the overwhelming US bombing campaign ).
May 11 Escorted by a royal Hellenic navy frigate operating from Souda Bay naval base in Crete a major milestone for the Soviet Union happens as Soviet Cruiser Krasny Kavkaz becomes the first Soviet naval ship to enter the Mediterranean sea sins 1941.
May 12 Whit the successful capture of p**a by KNIL and Dutch royal army forces eight fays ago only a small portion of central and north Celebes remain under control of the Republik Indonesia Timur and here Japanese ally.
May 14 In the early morning Soviet cruiser Krasny Kavkaz enters Salamis naval base in Greece , the cruiser Krasny Kavkaz will spend three days in the harbor taking in new supplies and giving tours to high ranking officers of the royal Hellenic navy and politicians of the Greek government before she will return to the Soviet Mediterranean eskadra naval base in the Turkish city of Izmir.
May 15 In Moscow the new politburo decides that the Soviet Union will no longer honor the Soviet–Japanese neutrality pact of 1945 which the feel is outdated even if it was sign two years ago.
May 16 A day after the announcement that the Soviet Union will no recognize the Soviet–Japanese neutrality pact of 1945 the Japanese ambassador to the Soviet Union makes a formal protest to the Soviet minister of foreign affairs , stating that his government despite its current situation always respected the neutrality pacts it had whit the Soviet Union and that the reason why the Soviet Union denounced the pact is absolute nonsense and that it will defend its self whit everything it has if the Soviet Union attacks , later that day the United States ambassador to Soviet Union also pays a visit to the Soviet minister foreign affairs informing him that the US government hopes that the Soviet Union will help the US in ending a war that has gone long enough en ask when the Soviet Union will take action and what kind of action it will be , the Soviet minister foreign affairs informs the United States ambassador that the US will know when the Soviet Union is going to act and what kind of action it will be.
May 17 Portuguese destroyer NRP Dão is attack wile patrolling outside the Portuguese colony of Macau by Japanese submarine IJN I-203 which is one of the handful Japanese submarines who are still operating outside Japanese waters , lucky 1 Portuguese naval aviation aircraft of the G-21 Goose amphibious aircraft type is operating from Macau naval aviation centre is flying near by and drops 2 depth charges on the presumed location of IJN I-202 preventing it from launching a second attack against NRP Dão , NRP Dão despite damages and having 17 sailors of its crew killed limps back to Macau where she safely arrives several hours later.
Royal Hellenic navy and flagship RHS Giorgios Averoff escorts the Soviet cruiser Krasny Kavkaz out of Salamis naval base after spending three days there.
May 19 After 31 days Hainan island still remains a deadly battlefield as the eleventh United States army and the Chinese nationalist army continuo fighting the dwindling Japanese 23rd army who now consist of a force of 30,000 soldiers who continuo fighting in the name of their emperor either using charging the enemy ore fighting to the last men as the are being surrounded by infantry and pounded by USAAF bombers and US navy fighters and bombers , even the republic of China air force 8th and 12th Group operating from airfields in the Chinese nationalist controlled province of Guangdong are taking part in bombing the Japanese whit US supplied B-17s and B-25s bombers.
May 21 Four days after the attack by Japanese submarine IJN I-203 against NRP Dão another attack by IJN I-203 happens as the Japanese submarine fires two type 95 torpedoes at liberty ship SS Montfort Stokes who several minutes later sink killing 33 of her 41 member crew.
May 26 IJN I-203 is sunk whit all hands onboard by US navy destroyer USS Gustafson near Hainan island when she tried to sink ships operating in support of operation glacier.
May 28 In the headquarters of the Chinese liberation army somewhere in communist Chinese control territory a joint military command know as the Soviet-Chinese headquarters works hard on getting the invasion plans for Manchuria ready , these plans include moving 400,000 Soviet Soldiers to the border of Manchuria where the will form the Soviet-Manchuria front which is the planned Soviet force that will move in Manchuria when the invasion begins wile the Soviet far eastern front will act as reserve for the Soviet-Manchuria front and defense of the border , the CLA 3rd army group which is made op of Soviet volunteers will remain part of the Chinese liberation army for entire invasion of Manchuria and together whit the other two group army’s will assault Manchuria from communist Chinese control territory.
May 29 Former destroyer SMS Z6 Theodor Riedel is handed over to the Argentine republic navy where she will be named ARA Spiro and becoming the second German naval vessel to enter in Argentine republic navy service , ARA Spiro first mission is a three days joint navel exercise whit the Kaiserliche Marine in the Baltic sea before heading to Argentina.
May 30 Despite suffering 3,700 dead ore wounded sins the start of operation glacier the eleventh United States army still faces a determent Japanese enemy who have no intention of surrendering despite being completely surrounded and wile the US army sends in new and fresh reinforcements the Japanese 23rd army fighting for their honor and their emperor have no hope of getting any help ore getting anything at all.
Sunday, December 21, 2008
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Part 39 1947
April 1 Republik Indonesia Timur and Japanese forces present on the island of Celebes refuse to surrender after the where given a 24 hour ultimatum by the commander of the royal Netherlands East Indies army 3rd division.
April 3 Out of the Kharkov locomotive factory in the Soviet Union the first production model of the T-48 tank rolls of the assembly line ( the T-48 model 1947 is a modified IS-4 model 1945 tank design which production was halted after the death of Stalin by order of the new politburo ).
April 4 A US navy carrier task force consisting of 12 carriers, 5 battleships, 8 escort carriers, 4 heavy cruisers, 10 light cruisers and 68 destroyers launch throughout the day wave after wave of carrier planes which are augmented by USAAF and French air force bombers operating from airfields in French Indochina against targets on the island of Hainan.
April 9 In the kingdom of Italy king Victor Emmanuel III announces on state radio that he is abdicating in favor of his son Umberto who will become the next king of Italy and Albania-Montenegro.
On the island of Celebes operation hawk continuous on as the Dutch lead British , Australian and Indian armed forces have now got control over 50 % of the island leaving only central and north Celebes under Republik Indonesia Timur and Japanese imperial army forces control.
April 11 The Japanese city of Kagoshima is destroyed by A-bomb dropped by a USAAF B-29 bomber, several hours latter a massive conventional bombardment by B-29 bomber follows bombing what remains of the city.
April 15 Carrier USS Yorktown is transferred from the Pacific to the Mediterranean sea where she will become the flagship of the United States navy Mediterranean squadron operating out of naval base Toulon.
Headquarters of the royal Dutch east Indies army located in Bandung on java decides to active their second operation concerning the battle of Celebes which is to capture the city of Palu in central Celebes by using a airborne assault , the operation is called litte hawk ( operation little hawk will involved the 1st and 2nd Para-company’s ( 240 men each ) who will be dropped to secure the airfield , the DST which is a special force numbering 570 man will land in the first landing after the airfield is secured , in the second landing two battalions of the KNIL 1st Division will land allowing the Para’s and the DST to assault the city of Palu ( both the Para’s and the DST belong to the regular royal Dutch army ).
April 18 Operation glacier starts as USAAF B-29 bombers based out of china drop two A-bombs on the city’s of Haikou and Sanya killing more then 130,000 people and ( Haikou is the capitol of Hainan island and the location of the Japanese 23rd army headquarters who controls the remains of the 104th , 129th , 130th infantry divisions , 23rd independent mixed brigade , 8th independent infantry brigade , 13th independent infantry brigade and several minor forces totaling more then 150,000 soldiers ).
April 19 The US 5th and 6th marine divisions successfully establish their beachhead on the island of Hainan whit minimal resistance , latter on the day the 4th marine division and the 5th infantry division also land and slowly begin to move inland ( all US land forces taking part in operation glacier are part of the eleventh United States army which is created for this operation , like the battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa the Japanese 23rd army dos not engage the Americans on the beaches but has position its defenses somewhat inland ).
April 20 Operating out of the Netherlands the voice of free Europe begins to transmit radio broadcasts into the German empire ( another voice of free Europe radio station is to operate in the French republic and will send radio broadcasts to the Spanish state and the kingdom of Italy ).
April 21 Whit the eleventh United States army fighting on Hainan island a second landing is done by the Chinese nationalist army who lands eight brigade sized regiments ( two from the 32nd nationalist army and six from the 63rd nationalist army ) in north Hainan where the fight the Japanese defenders who are unable to prevent the nationalists in establishing a beachhead.
April 22 A destroyer squadron belonging to the US 3rd Fleet escorts the nationalist second wave ( vive brigade-sized regiments of the nationalist 4th Army ) to north Hainan where the previous landed eight brigades already have establish a beachhead.
April 23 Passing true the Bosporus strait and watch by the dug in defenders of the 1st central alliance army group in occupied Turkey the Soviet cruiser Krasny Kavkaz passes by as the cruiser heads towards its new base of operations in the Turkish city of Izmir where it will become the flagship of the Soviet Mediterranean eskadra ( under the Bucharest agreement a naval ship may pass true the Bosporus and Dardanelles strait if the other side has bin notified 24 hours before the ship is to pass true ).
April 25 The Japanese 129th infantry division begins a counter attack in the hop of driving back the Chinese nationalist beachhead in north Hainan as the hope that whit the beachhead destroyed the can focus on defeating the eleventh United States army who begins to face heavy resistance but is landing more forces on the island each day ( the 44th infantry division and 13th armored division have also joined the 4th , 5th , 6th marine divisions and 5th infantry division already fighting on the island ).
April 29 In the capitol of Portugal after more then 7 months of a cease fire the German empire , the other central alliance nations , Soviet Union , Finish democratic republic and the Turkish republic delegations begin the peace talks that while decide the future of eastern Europe ( in total more then 13 direct participant nations involving the peace talks have sent delegates to Lisbon ).
After four days of fighting the Chinese nationalist forces on Hainan manage to halt the Japanese 129th infantry division attack forcing it to retreat enabling the Chinese nationalist forces to move away from their beachhead and to begin their link up whit the eleventh United States army.
April 30 Operation little hawk begins as 20 B-25 bombers from the KNIL-ML and escorted by fighters begin the attack against the airfield near the city of Palu , wile this is happening more then 74 Dakotas carrying the 1st and 2nd Para-company’s enter their drop zone as the largest Dutch airborne assault ever begins ( the Dutch KNIL-ML has 37 Dakotas in service wile the other 37 Dakotas are borrowed from the British RAF ).
April 3 Out of the Kharkov locomotive factory in the Soviet Union the first production model of the T-48 tank rolls of the assembly line ( the T-48 model 1947 is a modified IS-4 model 1945 tank design which production was halted after the death of Stalin by order of the new politburo ).
April 4 A US navy carrier task force consisting of 12 carriers, 5 battleships, 8 escort carriers, 4 heavy cruisers, 10 light cruisers and 68 destroyers launch throughout the day wave after wave of carrier planes which are augmented by USAAF and French air force bombers operating from airfields in French Indochina against targets on the island of Hainan.
April 9 In the kingdom of Italy king Victor Emmanuel III announces on state radio that he is abdicating in favor of his son Umberto who will become the next king of Italy and Albania-Montenegro.
On the island of Celebes operation hawk continuous on as the Dutch lead British , Australian and Indian armed forces have now got control over 50 % of the island leaving only central and north Celebes under Republik Indonesia Timur and Japanese imperial army forces control.
April 11 The Japanese city of Kagoshima is destroyed by A-bomb dropped by a USAAF B-29 bomber, several hours latter a massive conventional bombardment by B-29 bomber follows bombing what remains of the city.
April 15 Carrier USS Yorktown is transferred from the Pacific to the Mediterranean sea where she will become the flagship of the United States navy Mediterranean squadron operating out of naval base Toulon.
Headquarters of the royal Dutch east Indies army located in Bandung on java decides to active their second operation concerning the battle of Celebes which is to capture the city of Palu in central Celebes by using a airborne assault , the operation is called litte hawk ( operation little hawk will involved the 1st and 2nd Para-company’s ( 240 men each ) who will be dropped to secure the airfield , the DST which is a special force numbering 570 man will land in the first landing after the airfield is secured , in the second landing two battalions of the KNIL 1st Division will land allowing the Para’s and the DST to assault the city of Palu ( both the Para’s and the DST belong to the regular royal Dutch army ).
April 18 Operation glacier starts as USAAF B-29 bombers based out of china drop two A-bombs on the city’s of Haikou and Sanya killing more then 130,000 people and ( Haikou is the capitol of Hainan island and the location of the Japanese 23rd army headquarters who controls the remains of the 104th , 129th , 130th infantry divisions , 23rd independent mixed brigade , 8th independent infantry brigade , 13th independent infantry brigade and several minor forces totaling more then 150,000 soldiers ).
April 19 The US 5th and 6th marine divisions successfully establish their beachhead on the island of Hainan whit minimal resistance , latter on the day the 4th marine division and the 5th infantry division also land and slowly begin to move inland ( all US land forces taking part in operation glacier are part of the eleventh United States army which is created for this operation , like the battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa the Japanese 23rd army dos not engage the Americans on the beaches but has position its defenses somewhat inland ).
April 20 Operating out of the Netherlands the voice of free Europe begins to transmit radio broadcasts into the German empire ( another voice of free Europe radio station is to operate in the French republic and will send radio broadcasts to the Spanish state and the kingdom of Italy ).
April 21 Whit the eleventh United States army fighting on Hainan island a second landing is done by the Chinese nationalist army who lands eight brigade sized regiments ( two from the 32nd nationalist army and six from the 63rd nationalist army ) in north Hainan where the fight the Japanese defenders who are unable to prevent the nationalists in establishing a beachhead.
April 22 A destroyer squadron belonging to the US 3rd Fleet escorts the nationalist second wave ( vive brigade-sized regiments of the nationalist 4th Army ) to north Hainan where the previous landed eight brigades already have establish a beachhead.
April 23 Passing true the Bosporus strait and watch by the dug in defenders of the 1st central alliance army group in occupied Turkey the Soviet cruiser Krasny Kavkaz passes by as the cruiser heads towards its new base of operations in the Turkish city of Izmir where it will become the flagship of the Soviet Mediterranean eskadra ( under the Bucharest agreement a naval ship may pass true the Bosporus and Dardanelles strait if the other side has bin notified 24 hours before the ship is to pass true ).
April 25 The Japanese 129th infantry division begins a counter attack in the hop of driving back the Chinese nationalist beachhead in north Hainan as the hope that whit the beachhead destroyed the can focus on defeating the eleventh United States army who begins to face heavy resistance but is landing more forces on the island each day ( the 44th infantry division and 13th armored division have also joined the 4th , 5th , 6th marine divisions and 5th infantry division already fighting on the island ).
April 29 In the capitol of Portugal after more then 7 months of a cease fire the German empire , the other central alliance nations , Soviet Union , Finish democratic republic and the Turkish republic delegations begin the peace talks that while decide the future of eastern Europe ( in total more then 13 direct participant nations involving the peace talks have sent delegates to Lisbon ).
After four days of fighting the Chinese nationalist forces on Hainan manage to halt the Japanese 129th infantry division attack forcing it to retreat enabling the Chinese nationalist forces to move away from their beachhead and to begin their link up whit the eleventh United States army.
April 30 Operation little hawk begins as 20 B-25 bombers from the KNIL-ML and escorted by fighters begin the attack against the airfield near the city of Palu , wile this is happening more then 74 Dakotas carrying the 1st and 2nd Para-company’s enter their drop zone as the largest Dutch airborne assault ever begins ( the Dutch KNIL-ML has 37 Dakotas in service wile the other 37 Dakotas are borrowed from the British RAF ).
Monday, August 4, 2008
Part 38 1947
March 2 Prime minister Yamamoto meets whit emperor Hirohito in the Japanese capitol of Kyoto where he informs the emperor that any day something major can happen and that he dos not now who is on their side nor who he can trust , emperor Hirohito tells prime minister Yamamoto that if anything happens it will be more disastrous for the empire then the current situation the are in now.
March 3 Lieutenant general Spoor commander of the royal Netherlands East Indies army is shown the last preparations for a upcoming operation called operation hawk which is the invasion of the island of Celebes where the Japanese and their puppet state of Indonesia are located and which is the last island in the Dutch East Indies not under Dutch control.
March 6 Emperor Hirohito informs members of the imperial family that he address the nation by radio to urge the Japanese military to accept the Belfast declaration and that he will send in a requested to prime minister Yamamoto to begin preparations as he believes that if he speaks the army hardliners faction will not make a move.
Turkish partisans attack in the central alliance occupied Turkey a joint Bulgarian and Italian tank patrol outside the town of Celaliye-Kamiloba using bazookas and mortars , in the attack two Bulgarian panzer IV tanks and one Italian P.50 tanks are destroyed but the Turkish partisans do suffer heavy losses forcing them to retreat ( despite a cease fire in place attacks by Turkish partisans continuo on a daily basis ).
March 7 Prime minister Yamamoto receive instruction by emperor Hirohito to begin making preparations for a radio addresses the emperor will make in a couple of days ( the Emperor is still writing his speech wile also himself is arranging things in secret and therefore it will take two days before he can make his radio address ).
On the island of Formosa the Chinese communist and nationalist continuo to fight each other and wile the United States army in Formosa tries to regain control over a island of 35,801 km².
March 8 No.617 Squadron of the Royal Air Force also known as the dambusters operating out of RAAF airbase in Australia begin operation woomera as 12 Avro Lincoln bombers belonging to the squadron drop each one tallboy earth quake bomb against possible tunnel location in the Japanese Rabaul fortress on the island of New Britain ( the Avro Lincoln heavy bombers are all Lincoln II special variants and are adapted to carry the super heavy tallboy and grand slam bombs and are used only by the RAF bomber squadrons No.617 Squadron and No.9 squadron ).
March 9 Prime minister Yamamoto informers emperor Hirohito that the preparations for the emperor first live radio address take two more days as he has to do it whit out the army hardliners from getting wind of it , he also informs emperor Hirohito that the 1st and 2nd regiment belonging to the imperial 1st guards division and 17 type 99 light tanks belonging to a tank unit of the 7th Japanese marine infantry regiment ( SNLF ) are being moved to the Kyoto imperial palace grounds to provide additional protection ( the imperial 1st , 2nd and 3rd guards divisions are loyal to emperor Hirohito and have not chosen the side of the army hardliners faction , the tank unit of the 7th SNLF is one of three surviving armored units under the control of the imperial navy , under the Kyoto imperial palace grounds a underground bunker was build where the emperor and his family now live sins the destruction of Tokyo on December 13 1946 ).
March 10 In order to prevent emperor Hirohito form making his radio address and to remove prime minister Yamamoto the army hardliners faction begin their coup as army units loyal to the army hardliners faction secure key locations in the Japanese home island and Japanese Korea , one of these locations is the Kyoto imperial palace grounds where a battle between a infantry force backed by several type 2 medium tanks of the army hardliners faction against the 1st and 2nd regiment holding the palace grounds begins after a order to surrender to the army hardliners faction was refused by the defenders.
March 11 The hardliners forces manage to defeat the 1st and 2nd regiment guarding emperor Hirohito whit both sides suffer heavily ( the army hardliners faction place the emperor under house arrest which also happens to prime minister Yamamoto who is arrested and forced to resign his position as prime minister a position he held for two years , whit the army hardliners faction now in control their next move is to consolidate their power ).
In Wilhelmshaven naval base in the German empire the destroyer SMS Z5 Paul Jakobi is transferred to the Argentine republic navy becoming the ARA Espora ( the ARA Espora will return home escorting a Argentinean transport ship carrying 40 panzer IV and spare parts making it here first mission under the Argentina flag ).
March 12 In Washington DC president Truman makes a proclamation that the republic of Portugal will be supported economically and militarily in order to prevent it from falling under central alliance influence ( the proclamation also known as the Portugal doctrine is another move to prevent the spreading of the central alliance in Europe as the republic of Portugal is considered a neutral but pro free European country and a potential AFEMT member candidate ).
March 13 Former chief of the imperial Japanese army general staff Yoshijiro Umezu becomes the 31st prime minister of Japan and replaces former prime minister Yamamoto who is now under guard somewhere in a facility used by the imperial army.
Second bombing raid against the Rabaul fortress on the island of New Britain happens as this time No.9 squadron drops its tallboy earth quake bombs on the possible tunnel location in the Japanese Rabaul fortress.
March 14 The Japanese imperial army which now controls the imperial Japanese government since their successful coup on march 11 gives out new orders that states that all weapons , tactics and strategies me be used against the Americans and their allies in order to defeat them ( this includes the first use of chemical and biologic weapons and the increase in kamikaze attacks which where put on a low level as the previous prime minister Yamamoto found it a waste of lives and valuable resources ).
A RAAF P-51 Mustang Mk 22 ( photo reconnaissance variant ) is flown over the Rabaul fortress which shows that the results from the two raids in which 24 tallboy earth quake bombs caused more damage than expected and its decided to fly one more bombing raid whit more to be added if needed.
March 15 Across French Indochina the preparations for operation glacier continuo as in ports like Vinh , Hue and Tourane ( Da Nang ) US navy ships wait wile on airfields belonging to the French air force fighters and bomber aircraft take op to attack the island of Hainan pounding it a round to clock will the US 3rd Fleet , French south Chinese fleet and the British pacific fleet increase their attacks on the island as well.
March 16 Field marshal Kesselring who is still the commander of German army group east transfers the command of the Turkish occupied territory to the Bulgarian 2nd occupation corps who will take over from the German tenth army which will be redeployed to the German empire leaving only the Bulgarian 2nd occupation corps , Corpo di Spedizione Italiano in Turkey , Romanian 3rd and 9th infantry division in the Turkish occupied territory ( whit the redeployment of the German Tenth Army the German army group east will be disbanded and replace whit the first central alliance army group under the command of the Bulgarians ).
March 18 Corsica navy light cruiser MC Le Napoléon arrives at Rhodes naval base where it will operated out of for the upcoming months as it joins the Italian royal navy in patrolling the Aegean sea ( MC Le Napoléon will be place under the Italian Dodecanese naval command and will join the Italian royal navy in patrolling the Aegean sea which is also patrolled by the royal Hellenic navy , the powerful British Mediterranean fleet and the Turkish navy /Türk Deniz Kuvvetleri which is being enlarged whit the help of the Soviet Union who also are working on a Soviet Mediterranean eskadra/squadron based out of Turkish city of Izmir ).
March 21 Somewhere in the German empire a kaiserliche Luftwaffe pilot belong to a testing unit ( Erprobungskommando 270 ) takes of for the first test flight whit the Messerschmitt Me 270 jet fighter which is the planned successor to the Messerschmitt Me 262 ( the Me 270 jet fighter is a improvement over the Me 262 as it has reliable jet engine, better landing gear, and all around increased reliability and efficiency wile it is also more aerodynamics then the Me 262 ).
March 22 Order is beginning to return to the island of Formosa as both the communist and nationalist lay down their arms after the United States agrees to allow negotiations by the United Nations to take place in order to decide who gets control of the island ending a 21 days of fighting which killed some 3,000 and 4,000 people throughout the island and 58 US soldiers , the only force still fighting and which is not wiling to lay down their arms is the 28 brigade named after the day the uprising began and which is the fighting force of the Taiwanese communist party which is not recognized by the communist party of China as it claims control of the island ( the Taiwanese communist party wants a independent communist nation in Taiwan and both the Chinese mainland factions and the United States out , the 28 brigade is a guerrilla force of some 2,000 spread across the island ).
March 23 New orders by the Japanese imperial general headquarters are sent to any Japanese forces fighting the US and here allies which are intercepted by US and British cryptographers who can deceiver any code used by the Japanese empire quicker then the Japanese who try desperately to keep their codes secret.
March 25 During a daily briefing in the white house president Truman is told that the Japanese are changing their orders about using chemical and biologic weapons which he respond that if the do that the US armed forces me use chemical and biologic weapons after the Japanese have use it themselves wile also ordering the increase in A-bombing which was halted du no major targets being left.
Dutch cruiser HNLMS Jacob van Heemskerck , two British cruisers , Dutch destroyers HMNLS Banckert , HNLMS Kortenaer , HMNLS Banckert and six British and Australian destroyers shell targets on the island of Celebes , wile this is happening ML-KNIL B-25 and B-10 bombers and P-40 , P-51 and spitfires fighters attack targets on the island more intensely then usual in order to prevent the enemy from organizing a force which can counter the invasion.
March 27 Operation hawk begins as the elements of the KNIL 3rd division and a regiment of the royal Dutch army Johan Willem Friso Divisie , British , Australian and Indian army brigades land under little resistance on the island of Celebes in order to defeat the republic of East Indonesia/Republik Indonesia Timur and the Japanese imperial army present ( the royal Netherlands East Indies army 3rd division , Indian 36th infantry brigade , two infantry brigades belonging to the British 5th infantry division and one Australian infantry brigade totaling 24,000 fully armed soldiers who are taking part in the landings , wile the Republik Indonesia Timur has some 20,000 soldiers and the Japanese imperial army has some 6,000 troops present to defend the island ).
March 29 No.617 Squadron and No.9 squadron fly the third bombing raid against the Rabaul fortress as part of operation woomera ( the dropping of tallboy earth quake bombs on the Japanese Rabaul fortress has cost the lives of 7,061 Japanese defenders of the 63,000 soldiers present ).
March 31 In Tehran the leaders of the Independent republic of Mahabad ( president and prime minister ) are sentences to death by hanging ( the Independent republic of Mahabad was a short lived country who was conquered by the imperial Iranian army in 1946 whit the assistance of the US military Iran advisory group ).
The commander of the royal Netherlands East Indies army 3rd division issues a 24 hour ultimatum towards the Republik Indonesia Timur and Japanese imperial army present on the island of Celebes to surrender ore the will face the consequences as in the four days sins the start of operation hawk the Dutch lead force has is moving rapidly across the island heading towards the Republik Indonesia Timur capitol of Makassar facing only limited opposition in their advance. The Dutch/British/Australian/Indian forces continue their advance supported by fighters and bombers of the ML-KNIL on the island of Celebes.
March 3 Lieutenant general Spoor commander of the royal Netherlands East Indies army is shown the last preparations for a upcoming operation called operation hawk which is the invasion of the island of Celebes where the Japanese and their puppet state of Indonesia are located and which is the last island in the Dutch East Indies not under Dutch control.
March 6 Emperor Hirohito informs members of the imperial family that he address the nation by radio to urge the Japanese military to accept the Belfast declaration and that he will send in a requested to prime minister Yamamoto to begin preparations as he believes that if he speaks the army hardliners faction will not make a move.
Turkish partisans attack in the central alliance occupied Turkey a joint Bulgarian and Italian tank patrol outside the town of Celaliye-Kamiloba using bazookas and mortars , in the attack two Bulgarian panzer IV tanks and one Italian P.50 tanks are destroyed but the Turkish partisans do suffer heavy losses forcing them to retreat ( despite a cease fire in place attacks by Turkish partisans continuo on a daily basis ).
March 7 Prime minister Yamamoto receive instruction by emperor Hirohito to begin making preparations for a radio addresses the emperor will make in a couple of days ( the Emperor is still writing his speech wile also himself is arranging things in secret and therefore it will take two days before he can make his radio address ).
On the island of Formosa the Chinese communist and nationalist continuo to fight each other and wile the United States army in Formosa tries to regain control over a island of 35,801 km².
March 8 No.617 Squadron of the Royal Air Force also known as the dambusters operating out of RAAF airbase in Australia begin operation woomera as 12 Avro Lincoln bombers belonging to the squadron drop each one tallboy earth quake bomb against possible tunnel location in the Japanese Rabaul fortress on the island of New Britain ( the Avro Lincoln heavy bombers are all Lincoln II special variants and are adapted to carry the super heavy tallboy and grand slam bombs and are used only by the RAF bomber squadrons No.617 Squadron and No.9 squadron ).
March 9 Prime minister Yamamoto informers emperor Hirohito that the preparations for the emperor first live radio address take two more days as he has to do it whit out the army hardliners from getting wind of it , he also informs emperor Hirohito that the 1st and 2nd regiment belonging to the imperial 1st guards division and 17 type 99 light tanks belonging to a tank unit of the 7th Japanese marine infantry regiment ( SNLF ) are being moved to the Kyoto imperial palace grounds to provide additional protection ( the imperial 1st , 2nd and 3rd guards divisions are loyal to emperor Hirohito and have not chosen the side of the army hardliners faction , the tank unit of the 7th SNLF is one of three surviving armored units under the control of the imperial navy , under the Kyoto imperial palace grounds a underground bunker was build where the emperor and his family now live sins the destruction of Tokyo on December 13 1946 ).
March 10 In order to prevent emperor Hirohito form making his radio address and to remove prime minister Yamamoto the army hardliners faction begin their coup as army units loyal to the army hardliners faction secure key locations in the Japanese home island and Japanese Korea , one of these locations is the Kyoto imperial palace grounds where a battle between a infantry force backed by several type 2 medium tanks of the army hardliners faction against the 1st and 2nd regiment holding the palace grounds begins after a order to surrender to the army hardliners faction was refused by the defenders.
March 11 The hardliners forces manage to defeat the 1st and 2nd regiment guarding emperor Hirohito whit both sides suffer heavily ( the army hardliners faction place the emperor under house arrest which also happens to prime minister Yamamoto who is arrested and forced to resign his position as prime minister a position he held for two years , whit the army hardliners faction now in control their next move is to consolidate their power ).
In Wilhelmshaven naval base in the German empire the destroyer SMS Z5 Paul Jakobi is transferred to the Argentine republic navy becoming the ARA Espora ( the ARA Espora will return home escorting a Argentinean transport ship carrying 40 panzer IV and spare parts making it here first mission under the Argentina flag ).
March 12 In Washington DC president Truman makes a proclamation that the republic of Portugal will be supported economically and militarily in order to prevent it from falling under central alliance influence ( the proclamation also known as the Portugal doctrine is another move to prevent the spreading of the central alliance in Europe as the republic of Portugal is considered a neutral but pro free European country and a potential AFEMT member candidate ).
March 13 Former chief of the imperial Japanese army general staff Yoshijiro Umezu becomes the 31st prime minister of Japan and replaces former prime minister Yamamoto who is now under guard somewhere in a facility used by the imperial army.
Second bombing raid against the Rabaul fortress on the island of New Britain happens as this time No.9 squadron drops its tallboy earth quake bombs on the possible tunnel location in the Japanese Rabaul fortress.
March 14 The Japanese imperial army which now controls the imperial Japanese government since their successful coup on march 11 gives out new orders that states that all weapons , tactics and strategies me be used against the Americans and their allies in order to defeat them ( this includes the first use of chemical and biologic weapons and the increase in kamikaze attacks which where put on a low level as the previous prime minister Yamamoto found it a waste of lives and valuable resources ).
A RAAF P-51 Mustang Mk 22 ( photo reconnaissance variant ) is flown over the Rabaul fortress which shows that the results from the two raids in which 24 tallboy earth quake bombs caused more damage than expected and its decided to fly one more bombing raid whit more to be added if needed.
March 15 Across French Indochina the preparations for operation glacier continuo as in ports like Vinh , Hue and Tourane ( Da Nang ) US navy ships wait wile on airfields belonging to the French air force fighters and bomber aircraft take op to attack the island of Hainan pounding it a round to clock will the US 3rd Fleet , French south Chinese fleet and the British pacific fleet increase their attacks on the island as well.
March 16 Field marshal Kesselring who is still the commander of German army group east transfers the command of the Turkish occupied territory to the Bulgarian 2nd occupation corps who will take over from the German tenth army which will be redeployed to the German empire leaving only the Bulgarian 2nd occupation corps , Corpo di Spedizione Italiano in Turkey , Romanian 3rd and 9th infantry division in the Turkish occupied territory ( whit the redeployment of the German Tenth Army the German army group east will be disbanded and replace whit the first central alliance army group under the command of the Bulgarians ).
March 18 Corsica navy light cruiser MC Le Napoléon arrives at Rhodes naval base where it will operated out of for the upcoming months as it joins the Italian royal navy in patrolling the Aegean sea ( MC Le Napoléon will be place under the Italian Dodecanese naval command and will join the Italian royal navy in patrolling the Aegean sea which is also patrolled by the royal Hellenic navy , the powerful British Mediterranean fleet and the Turkish navy /Türk Deniz Kuvvetleri which is being enlarged whit the help of the Soviet Union who also are working on a Soviet Mediterranean eskadra/squadron based out of Turkish city of Izmir ).
March 21 Somewhere in the German empire a kaiserliche Luftwaffe pilot belong to a testing unit ( Erprobungskommando 270 ) takes of for the first test flight whit the Messerschmitt Me 270 jet fighter which is the planned successor to the Messerschmitt Me 262 ( the Me 270 jet fighter is a improvement over the Me 262 as it has reliable jet engine, better landing gear, and all around increased reliability and efficiency wile it is also more aerodynamics then the Me 262 ).
March 22 Order is beginning to return to the island of Formosa as both the communist and nationalist lay down their arms after the United States agrees to allow negotiations by the United Nations to take place in order to decide who gets control of the island ending a 21 days of fighting which killed some 3,000 and 4,000 people throughout the island and 58 US soldiers , the only force still fighting and which is not wiling to lay down their arms is the 28 brigade named after the day the uprising began and which is the fighting force of the Taiwanese communist party which is not recognized by the communist party of China as it claims control of the island ( the Taiwanese communist party wants a independent communist nation in Taiwan and both the Chinese mainland factions and the United States out , the 28 brigade is a guerrilla force of some 2,000 spread across the island ).
March 23 New orders by the Japanese imperial general headquarters are sent to any Japanese forces fighting the US and here allies which are intercepted by US and British cryptographers who can deceiver any code used by the Japanese empire quicker then the Japanese who try desperately to keep their codes secret.
March 25 During a daily briefing in the white house president Truman is told that the Japanese are changing their orders about using chemical and biologic weapons which he respond that if the do that the US armed forces me use chemical and biologic weapons after the Japanese have use it themselves wile also ordering the increase in A-bombing which was halted du no major targets being left.
Dutch cruiser HNLMS Jacob van Heemskerck , two British cruisers , Dutch destroyers HMNLS Banckert , HNLMS Kortenaer , HMNLS Banckert and six British and Australian destroyers shell targets on the island of Celebes , wile this is happening ML-KNIL B-25 and B-10 bombers and P-40 , P-51 and spitfires fighters attack targets on the island more intensely then usual in order to prevent the enemy from organizing a force which can counter the invasion.
March 27 Operation hawk begins as the elements of the KNIL 3rd division and a regiment of the royal Dutch army Johan Willem Friso Divisie , British , Australian and Indian army brigades land under little resistance on the island of Celebes in order to defeat the republic of East Indonesia/Republik Indonesia Timur and the Japanese imperial army present ( the royal Netherlands East Indies army 3rd division , Indian 36th infantry brigade , two infantry brigades belonging to the British 5th infantry division and one Australian infantry brigade totaling 24,000 fully armed soldiers who are taking part in the landings , wile the Republik Indonesia Timur has some 20,000 soldiers and the Japanese imperial army has some 6,000 troops present to defend the island ).
March 29 No.617 Squadron and No.9 squadron fly the third bombing raid against the Rabaul fortress as part of operation woomera ( the dropping of tallboy earth quake bombs on the Japanese Rabaul fortress has cost the lives of 7,061 Japanese defenders of the 63,000 soldiers present ).
March 31 In Tehran the leaders of the Independent republic of Mahabad ( president and prime minister ) are sentences to death by hanging ( the Independent republic of Mahabad was a short lived country who was conquered by the imperial Iranian army in 1946 whit the assistance of the US military Iran advisory group ).
The commander of the royal Netherlands East Indies army 3rd division issues a 24 hour ultimatum towards the Republik Indonesia Timur and Japanese imperial army present on the island of Celebes to surrender ore the will face the consequences as in the four days sins the start of operation hawk the Dutch lead force has is moving rapidly across the island heading towards the Republik Indonesia Timur capitol of Makassar facing only limited opposition in their advance. The Dutch/British/Australian/Indian forces continue their advance supported by fighters and bombers of the ML-KNIL on the island of Celebes.
Sunday, June 29, 2008
part 37 1947
February 2 French president Jules Auriol informs president Truman by phone that after discussing whit general Jean-Étienne Valluy , Thierry d'Argenlieu and other military and government officials that the French republic is wiling to enter a cease fire whit the Việt Minh as long as the US can guarantee the cease fire is not use by the Việt Minh to rearm ore to reorganize their forces.
February 5 Somewhere in French Indochina Hồ Chí Minh leader of the Viet Minh independence movement is informed of the French reply by a US delegation that the are wiling for a time being to cease all hostilities whit the Vietnamese independence movement. A taskforce belonging to the US 3rd Fleet and which consist of the Hawaii class carrier USS Hawaii , six Essex I and II carriers, eight light aircraft carriers and US and royal Australian navy destroyers , frigates and cruiser launch a major carrier and surface raid against Rabaul ( the raid happens eight days after operation condor was put on hold in order to keep the pressure against the Japanese hold up in the Rabaul fortress up until the shipment of tallboys and grand slam bombs from Great Britain has arrived ).
February 7 The third commando battalion/Kommandobataillon of the Reichsheer Spezialkräfte under personal command of Oberstleutnant Skorzeny who is currently deployed in the independent state of Serbia has it first success as units of the commando battalion , reichsheer units belong to armeeabteilung serbien and Serbian state forces mange to arrest several high ranking members of the people's liberation army and partisan detachments of Yugoslavia will also killing many other.
February 8 A Soviet Tu-2 photo-reconnaissance plane over German occupied Latvia ( generalbezirk/General district Lettland ) happens as under the Bucharest agreement all central alliance members ( the German empire mostly ) and the Soviet Union are allowed to fly unarmed aerial surveillance flights over the east font in order to monitor each other forces ( the unarmed aerial surveillance flights is one of several agreements made in Bucharest in order to prevent tensions ore mistake on the east front from happening as both sides begin to appreciate the cease fire ).
February 11 Operation big wheel which lasted for more then two months and which in the eyes of the US/Dutch/Australian forces is considered a great success against the Japanese 18th army on New Guinea ends as the US/Dutch/Australian forces begin the task in rebuilding the island wile the Dutch begin focusing their attention towards the island of Celebes where the Republic of East Indonesia/Republik Indonesia Timur and the Japanese are still holding out ( the island of Celebes can be considered a small version of Japan as it is blockaded by the Dutch East Indies squadron and bombed daily by the ML-KNIL , whit New Guinea secured completely the Dutch can begin a invasion of the island in the near future ).
In Saigon a cease fire is signed between the French and the Viet Minh under the supervision of the US.
February 13 KNIL army Lt. General L. N. W. Vogelesang becomes the military governor of Netherlands New Guinea and is put in charge to maintain order , to prevent Republic of East Indonesia sympathizers from causing trouble and to continuo the hunt for remaining Japanese forces in New Guinea.
Two days after the cease fire was signed between the French and the Viet Minh a decision by the US military to postpone operation Glacier is made as the US want to increase their forces to French Indochina for the planned invasion of Hainan island and to use the US army present in French Indochina as a buffer between the French and Viet Minh ).
February 15 Operation hurricane is launched whit air attacks by carrier born aircraft from a task force belonging to the US third fleet against the isolated Japanese imperial naval base in Truk Lagoon ( operation hurricane was decided to be launched when the US navy destroyed two Sen Toku I-400-class submarine two moths ago who where transporting supplies to the Japanese controlled Truk Lagoon , the US navy taskforce consist of the fleet carrier USS Lexington which is the flagship of the operation , three Essex I and II class carriers and four light carriers ).
February 17 On a airbase in the Soviet Union the first pilots of the newly created Chinese liberation army air force (CLAAF ) begin their first training flight under the supervision of Soviet air force instructors ( the Chinese liberation army air force is created to support the Chinese liberation army in the upcoming invasion of the state of Manchuria ).
February 19 After four days of none stop daylight and nighttime air strikes operation hurricane ends whit the US navy suffering no losses at all but the Japanese hold up in Truk Lagoon suffer heavy casualties as the don’t have the ability to counter the massive firepower and resources available to the US navy.
February 21 Somewhere in the mountains of Japan several high ranking officers of the imperial army discuss the recent events which have happen and all of them come to a understanding that prime minister Yamamoto is no longer able to lead the empire and that the army must take responsibility in leading the empire to victory ( these officers believe that the army must take control and use all resources the empire still has available to fight and use what ever resources is available ).
February 22 Australian cruiser HMAS Sydney and here escorts rendezvous whit the transport ships caring the tallboys and grand slam bombs towards Royal Australian navy's fleet base east where the will be unloaded and sent to a RAAF base where two bomber squadron RAF 617 Squadron and 9 squadron are waiting to use them against the Rabaul fortress ( HMAS Sydney was pervious known as HMS Sussex of the royal navy county class heavy cruiser and was transferred to the royal Australian navy in 1946 ).
February 23 Some members of the army hardliners faction meet whit the minister of war where the discuses their plan , the minister of war however disagrees whit them and when the have left warns prime minister Yamamoto ( the hardliners faction members already have some troops in Tokyo and the vice minister of the army is a member of the hardliners faction ).
The US announces that the are stopping the lend lease to the Soviet Union after April 1947 ( the US believes that the peace between the central alliance and the Soviet Union is almost there end therefore the need to extent the lend lease which the Soviets received from 1941 is no longer needed but in case the eastern war is to resume the US has given guarantees to the new politburo that the lend lease will resume ).
February 24 Prime minister Yamamoto orders special naval landing forces to move to key positions outside the destroyed city of Tokyo and the new capitol of Kyoto , unfortunately this move by prime minister Yamamoto hardens the resolve of the hardliners faction who are trying to get as much support for their coup as possible will also spreading falls rumors about prime minister Yamamoto in order to discredit him ( ( Kyoto became the new capitol after the destruction of Tokyo and has the majority of the government located there , the sides involved are the Yamamoto faction which consist of the imperial navy and some army units and who want to prevent the coup from happening wile also considering to accept the unconditional surrender which is dictated in the Belfast declaration as more city’s are targeted by A-bombs and the ability to conduct war is no longer there wile the hardliners faction which consists of large parts of the imperial army want to continuo the war and to fight whit every weapon and tactic possible as they still believe in victory ).
February 27 In a market somewhere in central Taipei on the island of Formosa a police agent arrest a communist supporter who was distributing leaflets to people in the street which causes riots as other people intervene on behave of the arrestee causing the Taipei city police and latter on the US military police to be use to stop the riot happening on the market.
A royal Australian air force P-51 Mustang Mk 22 ( photo reconnaissance variant ) fly’s over the Japanese held Rabaul fortress taking pictures of the damages done during the last two operations ( condor and hurricane ) against Rabaul wile also using the photos its takes for the upcoming operation heavy condor where two RAF bomber squadrons will use their tallboys and grand slam bombs against 600 kilometers of tunnels where the majority of the Japanese defenders in Rabual have relocated to.
February 28 A day after a riot broke out on a market in Taipei and whit no success in ending as communist and nationalist begin fighting each other on the streets , latter in the evening military governor Patton head of the United States army military government in Formosa ( USAMGIF ) declares martial law and orders the United States army to assist the Taipei city police and US military police in ending the violence in the city ( the tension was already high between the communist and nationalist on the island and the arrest was the last drop needed to cause violence to break out ).
February 5 Somewhere in French Indochina Hồ Chí Minh leader of the Viet Minh independence movement is informed of the French reply by a US delegation that the are wiling for a time being to cease all hostilities whit the Vietnamese independence movement. A taskforce belonging to the US 3rd Fleet and which consist of the Hawaii class carrier USS Hawaii , six Essex I and II carriers, eight light aircraft carriers and US and royal Australian navy destroyers , frigates and cruiser launch a major carrier and surface raid against Rabaul ( the raid happens eight days after operation condor was put on hold in order to keep the pressure against the Japanese hold up in the Rabaul fortress up until the shipment of tallboys and grand slam bombs from Great Britain has arrived ).
February 7 The third commando battalion/Kommandobataillon of the Reichsheer Spezialkräfte under personal command of Oberstleutnant Skorzeny who is currently deployed in the independent state of Serbia has it first success as units of the commando battalion , reichsheer units belong to armeeabteilung serbien and Serbian state forces mange to arrest several high ranking members of the people's liberation army and partisan detachments of Yugoslavia will also killing many other.
February 8 A Soviet Tu-2 photo-reconnaissance plane over German occupied Latvia ( generalbezirk/General district Lettland ) happens as under the Bucharest agreement all central alliance members ( the German empire mostly ) and the Soviet Union are allowed to fly unarmed aerial surveillance flights over the east font in order to monitor each other forces ( the unarmed aerial surveillance flights is one of several agreements made in Bucharest in order to prevent tensions ore mistake on the east front from happening as both sides begin to appreciate the cease fire ).
February 11 Operation big wheel which lasted for more then two months and which in the eyes of the US/Dutch/Australian forces is considered a great success against the Japanese 18th army on New Guinea ends as the US/Dutch/Australian forces begin the task in rebuilding the island wile the Dutch begin focusing their attention towards the island of Celebes where the Republic of East Indonesia/Republik Indonesia Timur and the Japanese are still holding out ( the island of Celebes can be considered a small version of Japan as it is blockaded by the Dutch East Indies squadron and bombed daily by the ML-KNIL , whit New Guinea secured completely the Dutch can begin a invasion of the island in the near future ).
In Saigon a cease fire is signed between the French and the Viet Minh under the supervision of the US.
February 13 KNIL army Lt. General L. N. W. Vogelesang becomes the military governor of Netherlands New Guinea and is put in charge to maintain order , to prevent Republic of East Indonesia sympathizers from causing trouble and to continuo the hunt for remaining Japanese forces in New Guinea.
Two days after the cease fire was signed between the French and the Viet Minh a decision by the US military to postpone operation Glacier is made as the US want to increase their forces to French Indochina for the planned invasion of Hainan island and to use the US army present in French Indochina as a buffer between the French and Viet Minh ).
February 15 Operation hurricane is launched whit air attacks by carrier born aircraft from a task force belonging to the US third fleet against the isolated Japanese imperial naval base in Truk Lagoon ( operation hurricane was decided to be launched when the US navy destroyed two Sen Toku I-400-class submarine two moths ago who where transporting supplies to the Japanese controlled Truk Lagoon , the US navy taskforce consist of the fleet carrier USS Lexington which is the flagship of the operation , three Essex I and II class carriers and four light carriers ).
February 17 On a airbase in the Soviet Union the first pilots of the newly created Chinese liberation army air force (CLAAF ) begin their first training flight under the supervision of Soviet air force instructors ( the Chinese liberation army air force is created to support the Chinese liberation army in the upcoming invasion of the state of Manchuria ).
February 19 After four days of none stop daylight and nighttime air strikes operation hurricane ends whit the US navy suffering no losses at all but the Japanese hold up in Truk Lagoon suffer heavy casualties as the don’t have the ability to counter the massive firepower and resources available to the US navy.
February 21 Somewhere in the mountains of Japan several high ranking officers of the imperial army discuss the recent events which have happen and all of them come to a understanding that prime minister Yamamoto is no longer able to lead the empire and that the army must take responsibility in leading the empire to victory ( these officers believe that the army must take control and use all resources the empire still has available to fight and use what ever resources is available ).
February 22 Australian cruiser HMAS Sydney and here escorts rendezvous whit the transport ships caring the tallboys and grand slam bombs towards Royal Australian navy's fleet base east where the will be unloaded and sent to a RAAF base where two bomber squadron RAF 617 Squadron and 9 squadron are waiting to use them against the Rabaul fortress ( HMAS Sydney was pervious known as HMS Sussex of the royal navy county class heavy cruiser and was transferred to the royal Australian navy in 1946 ).
February 23 Some members of the army hardliners faction meet whit the minister of war where the discuses their plan , the minister of war however disagrees whit them and when the have left warns prime minister Yamamoto ( the hardliners faction members already have some troops in Tokyo and the vice minister of the army is a member of the hardliners faction ).
The US announces that the are stopping the lend lease to the Soviet Union after April 1947 ( the US believes that the peace between the central alliance and the Soviet Union is almost there end therefore the need to extent the lend lease which the Soviets received from 1941 is no longer needed but in case the eastern war is to resume the US has given guarantees to the new politburo that the lend lease will resume ).
February 24 Prime minister Yamamoto orders special naval landing forces to move to key positions outside the destroyed city of Tokyo and the new capitol of Kyoto , unfortunately this move by prime minister Yamamoto hardens the resolve of the hardliners faction who are trying to get as much support for their coup as possible will also spreading falls rumors about prime minister Yamamoto in order to discredit him ( ( Kyoto became the new capitol after the destruction of Tokyo and has the majority of the government located there , the sides involved are the Yamamoto faction which consist of the imperial navy and some army units and who want to prevent the coup from happening wile also considering to accept the unconditional surrender which is dictated in the Belfast declaration as more city’s are targeted by A-bombs and the ability to conduct war is no longer there wile the hardliners faction which consists of large parts of the imperial army want to continuo the war and to fight whit every weapon and tactic possible as they still believe in victory ).
February 27 In a market somewhere in central Taipei on the island of Formosa a police agent arrest a communist supporter who was distributing leaflets to people in the street which causes riots as other people intervene on behave of the arrestee causing the Taipei city police and latter on the US military police to be use to stop the riot happening on the market.
A royal Australian air force P-51 Mustang Mk 22 ( photo reconnaissance variant ) fly’s over the Japanese held Rabaul fortress taking pictures of the damages done during the last two operations ( condor and hurricane ) against Rabaul wile also using the photos its takes for the upcoming operation heavy condor where two RAF bomber squadrons will use their tallboys and grand slam bombs against 600 kilometers of tunnels where the majority of the Japanese defenders in Rabual have relocated to.
February 28 A day after a riot broke out on a market in Taipei and whit no success in ending as communist and nationalist begin fighting each other on the streets , latter in the evening military governor Patton head of the United States army military government in Formosa ( USAMGIF ) declares martial law and orders the United States army to assist the Taipei city police and US military police in ending the violence in the city ( the tension was already high between the communist and nationalist on the island and the arrest was the last drop needed to cause violence to break out ).
Monday, May 19, 2008
Part 36 1947
January 5 In Bucharest the ministers of defenses of all central alliance members , Soviet Union , Finish democratic republic and Turkish republic agree to several points concerning military matters on the east front and the Turkish front.
The Chinese delegation after four days in Moscow manages to convince the soviet government that Mao Zedong plan to invade the state of Manchuria will not effect the Soviet–Japanese Neutrality Pact of 1945 as the Soviets will only aid the Chinese communist in invading the state of Manchuria.
January 6 General Lucius D. Clay becomes the new commander of the US forces European theater and the allied force European mainland theatre replacing general Dwight Eisenhower who returns to the United States.
January 7 After talking to their governments all ministers of defenses in Bucharest are allowed to sign the Bucharest agreement ( the Bucharest agreement has several points in it to prevent tensions on the east front from starting ore mistakes being misinterpreted from happening ).
January 9 The headquarter of the French navy decides to extend the deployment of the carrier Arromanches whit the French south Chinese Fleet for another four months in order to allow Arromanches to assist the French Indochina expeditionary corps and to continuo operations against the Japanese hold island of Hainan.
January 10 President Peron of Argentina lands in in Berlin for a four day state visit to the German empire and latter the Spanish state , he is greeted on arrival by the secretary of state and is later schedule to have a state banquet whit kaiser Wilhelm III ( President Peron is the first south American head of state visiting the German empire ).
The Corsica social republic becomes the third nation to withdraw some of its forces as the 800 strong Corsican Foreign Legion force who served on the Turkish front embarks upon a Italian merchant ship and escorted by the Marine de Corse torpedo boats MC Bonifacio and MC Porto return home to the Corsica social republic ( the Legion étrangère Corse/Corsican Foreign Legion suffered during their deployment 27 dead and 49 wounded ).
January 11 Whit the assistance of the Soviet Union now guarantee the communist party of China leader Mao Zedong declares that from this day the new fourth army and the eighth route army are to become the core of the newly created Chinese liberation army (CLA) which now becomes the officially military arm of the communist party of China as the Communist party of China withdraws its forces from the Chinese national revolutionary army ( the new fourth army and the eighth route army names are change to the 1st and 2nd group army and form the main force of a independent army under full control of the communist party of China ).
Second day of president Peron state visit brings him to Wilhelmshaven naval base where he is given a tour of one of the three 1934A class destroyers the Argentine republic navy has bought whit the first the ARA Espora formerly SMS Z5 Paul Jakobi scheduled to be handed over to the Argentine republic navy in march of 1947 ( the German kaiserliche marine is replacing the 1934A class destroyers whit 10 new 1945 class destroyers of which the first three SMS Z57 , SMS Z58 and SMS Z59 are in various fazes of completion , Argentine despite having the Argentina weapons embargo put on them by the United States is seeking to increase buying weapons from Germany after having bought and receive 12 San Pedro class submarines of the U-boat type IXC/40 and three Espora/1934A class destroyers ).
January 12 Whit operation big wheel now progressing so well in New Guinea the USAAF, RAAF and the RNZAF begin operation Condor dropping massive quantities of bombs on the Japanese held fortress of Rabaul where the remaining Japanese eighth area army still totaling 63,000 soldiers is surrounded by Australian and US army forces ( operation condor is the biggest air attack against sins the bombing of Rabaul in November 1943 ).
Third day of his state visits brings president Peron to a kaiserliche Luftwaffe airfield somewhere in central Germany where is greeted by a flight of Arado Ar 234 bombers , Me-262 jet fighter , Hs 132B dive bomber , WF-250 prop fighters , the mighty Junkers 390 heavy bomber and the Fa 223 Drache helicopter , he also given a personal inspection of those aircraft on the ground ( president Peron wants the Argentine air force to be the most modern air force in south America and the first to have jet propelled aircraft in service in that region and before coming to the state visit had already begun negotiations buying ore receiving manufactory license for the Me-262 and other German aircraft to modernize the Argentine air force now that the United states , Great Britain ore any other nation will sell weapons to Argentine du the Argentina weapons embargo in place ).
January 13 The US 4th , 5th and 6th marine division arrive in the French Indochina ports of Cam Ranh , Tourane /Da Nang and France's main naval base in Haiphong ( the three US marine division will take part in the planned invasion of Hainan island whit other US infantry and marine divisions already being shipped from US controlled Formosa , Philippines , Hawaii ore the US mainland wile the USAAF and USN air force are also being deployed out of airfields in French Indochina ).
Last day of president Peron four day visit in the German empire where he and the vice-reichs chancellor sign a deal which will allow the German empire to receive much needed supplies in return for major German weapons delivery to Argentina over a two year period ( the deal includes a dozen Me-262 which will be build in Germany wile Argentina fábrica militar de aviones will receive the license to build several other German fighters , bombers and other aircraft and more then 200 panzer IV and 50 panther tanks are also sold whit license rights to build the panzer IV and many other vehicles also include in the deal ).
January 14 President Peron is greeted by president Franco and president Peron wife Eva Duarte de Perón when he lands in Madrid to begin his second state visit ( Eva Duarte de Perón arrived in Spain several days earlier whit food supplies which are a gift from Argentina to the Spanish state who like all central alliance nations suffers from a UN embargo put in place ).
The second launch of the V-5 is successful when the V-5 rocket takes of from the Reichsheeresversuchsstelle Peenemünde/imperial army research center Peenemunde ( RHVP ) a month after a earlier attempt to get a V-5 rocket airborne failed ( the V-5 has a rang of 600 kilometers and a warhead of up to 2000 pounds ).
January 15 The Corsican foreign legion receive a heroes welcome when their transport ship arrives in Bastia , latter the are escorted by the Régiment de malice to the CSR capitol of Ajaccio where the will take part in a parade in front of president Pierre Laval and general Philippe Pétain who for this occasional appears in public as he is retired and rarely appears in public sins he handed to reign of power to Pierre Laval.
January 17 A USAAF B-29 bomber drops a twenty kiloton bomb A-bomb on Yokosuka naval base that destroys all of the base’s facilities and precious fuel reserves , three destroyers , I-400-class submarine I-404 , the last carrier IJN Shōhō , many Kairyu midget submarines and other vessels which where still in service in the Japanese imperial navy ( the US decided to drop the A-bomb which killed tens of thousand of people in order to prevent the production of the Kairyu midget submarines at Yokosuka shipyard and destroy the last carrier the Japanese imperial navy still had which was use for transport missions from Japanese Korea to the home islands).
January 18 Allied bombers based out of Australia have flown more then 1,000 sorties against the fortress of Rabaul losing only 17 planes in the attack sins the start of operation Condor whit a total 3,500 tons of bombs being dropped ( the Japanese have lost only 43 people in the attacks as the have 700 kilometers of tunnels which contains barracks , hospitals, storage for weapons and munitions , tanks artillery ).
January 21 A USAAF B-29 bomber drops a A-bomb on the Japanese imperial naval base of Kure destroying the second largest naval base of the Japanese imperial navy and killing thousands of people. January 22 A US delegation made op of military officers and diplomats meet whit Hồ Chí Minh in order to ask for a cease fire for the duration that the US armed forces are present in French Indochina as more US forces arrive in French Indochina ports each day for the planed invasion of Hainan island which is now called operation Glacier.
Prime minister Yamamoto in a bunker outside a destroyed and former capitol of Tokyo checks the latest report concerning the destruction of Kure and start to believe the US is aiding the hardliners of the Japanese imperial army who believe that the should lead the nation and carry on the fighting in the name of the emperor and a glorious victory something prime minister Yamamoto knows was gone the day he ordered the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941 , now he wonder when the hardliners will make their move as operation divine defense the last major navy attack only delayed their coup and he knows he can not stop the hardliners as the control the only force left that is still strong.
January 24 After 12 days of bombing the fortress of Rabaul no major breakthrough in destroying the underground Japanese tunnels is made when a RAAF officer suggest that grand slam ore tallboy earth quake bombs can penetrate these tunnels , later in the day a message is sent to RAF bomber command in Great Britain whit the request of a large number of grand slam and tallboy bombs to be delivered.
January 27 President Truman speaks whit French president Jules Auriol where he tells him that the US had spoken whit Hồ Chí Minh leader of the Việt Minh and that the US requested a cease fire for the duration of the US armed forces presence in French Indochina which Hồ Chí Minh agrees whit as long as the cease fire also includes the French forces , president Jules Auriol tells President Truman that this decision will take several days as he has to discuses whit commander of the French Indochina expeditionary corps general Jean-Étienne Valluy and head of the French Indochina colonial government Georges Thierry d'Argenlieu ( the US wants to focus their attention towards operation Glacier as it fears that the fighting between the Việt Minh and French will effect the February invasion date and therefore the US wants a cease fire in place which it also hopes gives diplomacy a change in bringing the two sides to the negation table ).
January 28 Operation Condor is put on hold until the tallboys and grand slam bombs have bin sent to the allied air force in Australia from Great Britain as non of those are build in Australia ( no plans to launch a ground invasion of the fortress of Rabaul have bin made nor are the planned as the US military believes attacking Rabaul even in this stage would make the Tarawa, Iwo Jima and Okinawa invasion a walkover , the tallboys and grand slam bombs are not biggest bombs the can use as the USAAF as a last resort is wiling to drop a A-bomb on Rabaul if the conventional bombings don’t work in bringing Rabaul under allied control ).
The 1st and 2nd red banner army’s who are part of the Soviet far eastern front which is deployed at the border of state of Manchuria and Japanese Korea receive orders from Moscow to transferred 8 rifle divisions , 3 mechanized division and many supporting regiments to the Chinese liberation army where the will become the 3rd group army under CLA control in preparation of the Chinese communist invasion of the state of Manchuria ( the Soviets now that the Soviet–Japanese Neutrality Pact of 1945 prevents them from invading the state of Manchuria directly as the nation is protected under the treaty and the Soviets don’t want to give the Germans something to think about if the break a treaty now a cease fire and a future peace deal is coming and have decided that several divisions of the Soviet far eastern front will become part of the Chinese liberation army in order to bypass the treaty ).
January 29 In Great Britain the first transport of large numbers of tallboys and grand slam bombs by ship leaves port wile the RAF 617 Squadron also known as the dambusters and 9 squadron who already where deployed out of Okinawa as part of the tiger force are being redeployed to Australia where the will use the tallboys and grand Slam bombs against the Rabaul fortress ( Tiger Force ore also know as VLR bomber force is a British commonwealth long range heavy bomber force deployed out of Okinawa where the used avro Lancaster, avro Lincolns and cconsolidated liberators bombers against targets in the Japanese home islands ).
US navy cruiser USS Duluth , USS Portsmouth , USS Oregon City , USS Cuba , USS Philippines , USS Quincy and 18 destroyers part of the US Fifth Fleet shell for several hours the island of Hainan something that is happening each day and which is increasing as the February invasion date comes closer ).
January 30 French south Chinese fleet cruisers Marseillaise , Suffren and the battleship Richelieu join a US navy taskforce in a eight hour shelling of Hainan island.
The Chinese delegation after four days in Moscow manages to convince the soviet government that Mao Zedong plan to invade the state of Manchuria will not effect the Soviet–Japanese Neutrality Pact of 1945 as the Soviets will only aid the Chinese communist in invading the state of Manchuria.
January 6 General Lucius D. Clay becomes the new commander of the US forces European theater and the allied force European mainland theatre replacing general Dwight Eisenhower who returns to the United States.
January 7 After talking to their governments all ministers of defenses in Bucharest are allowed to sign the Bucharest agreement ( the Bucharest agreement has several points in it to prevent tensions on the east front from starting ore mistakes being misinterpreted from happening ).
January 9 The headquarter of the French navy decides to extend the deployment of the carrier Arromanches whit the French south Chinese Fleet for another four months in order to allow Arromanches to assist the French Indochina expeditionary corps and to continuo operations against the Japanese hold island of Hainan.
January 10 President Peron of Argentina lands in in Berlin for a four day state visit to the German empire and latter the Spanish state , he is greeted on arrival by the secretary of state and is later schedule to have a state banquet whit kaiser Wilhelm III ( President Peron is the first south American head of state visiting the German empire ).
The Corsica social republic becomes the third nation to withdraw some of its forces as the 800 strong Corsican Foreign Legion force who served on the Turkish front embarks upon a Italian merchant ship and escorted by the Marine de Corse torpedo boats MC Bonifacio and MC Porto return home to the Corsica social republic ( the Legion étrangère Corse/Corsican Foreign Legion suffered during their deployment 27 dead and 49 wounded ).
January 11 Whit the assistance of the Soviet Union now guarantee the communist party of China leader Mao Zedong declares that from this day the new fourth army and the eighth route army are to become the core of the newly created Chinese liberation army (CLA) which now becomes the officially military arm of the communist party of China as the Communist party of China withdraws its forces from the Chinese national revolutionary army ( the new fourth army and the eighth route army names are change to the 1st and 2nd group army and form the main force of a independent army under full control of the communist party of China ).
Second day of president Peron state visit brings him to Wilhelmshaven naval base where he is given a tour of one of the three 1934A class destroyers the Argentine republic navy has bought whit the first the ARA Espora formerly SMS Z5 Paul Jakobi scheduled to be handed over to the Argentine republic navy in march of 1947 ( the German kaiserliche marine is replacing the 1934A class destroyers whit 10 new 1945 class destroyers of which the first three SMS Z57 , SMS Z58 and SMS Z59 are in various fazes of completion , Argentine despite having the Argentina weapons embargo put on them by the United States is seeking to increase buying weapons from Germany after having bought and receive 12 San Pedro class submarines of the U-boat type IXC/40 and three Espora/1934A class destroyers ).
January 12 Whit operation big wheel now progressing so well in New Guinea the USAAF, RAAF and the RNZAF begin operation Condor dropping massive quantities of bombs on the Japanese held fortress of Rabaul where the remaining Japanese eighth area army still totaling 63,000 soldiers is surrounded by Australian and US army forces ( operation condor is the biggest air attack against sins the bombing of Rabaul in November 1943 ).
Third day of his state visits brings president Peron to a kaiserliche Luftwaffe airfield somewhere in central Germany where is greeted by a flight of Arado Ar 234 bombers , Me-262 jet fighter , Hs 132B dive bomber , WF-250 prop fighters , the mighty Junkers 390 heavy bomber and the Fa 223 Drache helicopter , he also given a personal inspection of those aircraft on the ground ( president Peron wants the Argentine air force to be the most modern air force in south America and the first to have jet propelled aircraft in service in that region and before coming to the state visit had already begun negotiations buying ore receiving manufactory license for the Me-262 and other German aircraft to modernize the Argentine air force now that the United states , Great Britain ore any other nation will sell weapons to Argentine du the Argentina weapons embargo in place ).
January 13 The US 4th , 5th and 6th marine division arrive in the French Indochina ports of Cam Ranh , Tourane /Da Nang and France's main naval base in Haiphong ( the three US marine division will take part in the planned invasion of Hainan island whit other US infantry and marine divisions already being shipped from US controlled Formosa , Philippines , Hawaii ore the US mainland wile the USAAF and USN air force are also being deployed out of airfields in French Indochina ).
Last day of president Peron four day visit in the German empire where he and the vice-reichs chancellor sign a deal which will allow the German empire to receive much needed supplies in return for major German weapons delivery to Argentina over a two year period ( the deal includes a dozen Me-262 which will be build in Germany wile Argentina fábrica militar de aviones will receive the license to build several other German fighters , bombers and other aircraft and more then 200 panzer IV and 50 panther tanks are also sold whit license rights to build the panzer IV and many other vehicles also include in the deal ).
January 14 President Peron is greeted by president Franco and president Peron wife Eva Duarte de Perón when he lands in Madrid to begin his second state visit ( Eva Duarte de Perón arrived in Spain several days earlier whit food supplies which are a gift from Argentina to the Spanish state who like all central alliance nations suffers from a UN embargo put in place ).
The second launch of the V-5 is successful when the V-5 rocket takes of from the Reichsheeresversuchsstelle Peenemünde/imperial army research center Peenemunde ( RHVP ) a month after a earlier attempt to get a V-5 rocket airborne failed ( the V-5 has a rang of 600 kilometers and a warhead of up to 2000 pounds ).
January 15 The Corsican foreign legion receive a heroes welcome when their transport ship arrives in Bastia , latter the are escorted by the Régiment de malice to the CSR capitol of Ajaccio where the will take part in a parade in front of president Pierre Laval and general Philippe Pétain who for this occasional appears in public as he is retired and rarely appears in public sins he handed to reign of power to Pierre Laval.
January 17 A USAAF B-29 bomber drops a twenty kiloton bomb A-bomb on Yokosuka naval base that destroys all of the base’s facilities and precious fuel reserves , three destroyers , I-400-class submarine I-404 , the last carrier IJN Shōhō , many Kairyu midget submarines and other vessels which where still in service in the Japanese imperial navy ( the US decided to drop the A-bomb which killed tens of thousand of people in order to prevent the production of the Kairyu midget submarines at Yokosuka shipyard and destroy the last carrier the Japanese imperial navy still had which was use for transport missions from Japanese Korea to the home islands).
January 18 Allied bombers based out of Australia have flown more then 1,000 sorties against the fortress of Rabaul losing only 17 planes in the attack sins the start of operation Condor whit a total 3,500 tons of bombs being dropped ( the Japanese have lost only 43 people in the attacks as the have 700 kilometers of tunnels which contains barracks , hospitals, storage for weapons and munitions , tanks artillery ).
January 21 A USAAF B-29 bomber drops a A-bomb on the Japanese imperial naval base of Kure destroying the second largest naval base of the Japanese imperial navy and killing thousands of people. January 22 A US delegation made op of military officers and diplomats meet whit Hồ Chí Minh in order to ask for a cease fire for the duration that the US armed forces are present in French Indochina as more US forces arrive in French Indochina ports each day for the planed invasion of Hainan island which is now called operation Glacier.
Prime minister Yamamoto in a bunker outside a destroyed and former capitol of Tokyo checks the latest report concerning the destruction of Kure and start to believe the US is aiding the hardliners of the Japanese imperial army who believe that the should lead the nation and carry on the fighting in the name of the emperor and a glorious victory something prime minister Yamamoto knows was gone the day he ordered the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941 , now he wonder when the hardliners will make their move as operation divine defense the last major navy attack only delayed their coup and he knows he can not stop the hardliners as the control the only force left that is still strong.
January 24 After 12 days of bombing the fortress of Rabaul no major breakthrough in destroying the underground Japanese tunnels is made when a RAAF officer suggest that grand slam ore tallboy earth quake bombs can penetrate these tunnels , later in the day a message is sent to RAF bomber command in Great Britain whit the request of a large number of grand slam and tallboy bombs to be delivered.
January 27 President Truman speaks whit French president Jules Auriol where he tells him that the US had spoken whit Hồ Chí Minh leader of the Việt Minh and that the US requested a cease fire for the duration of the US armed forces presence in French Indochina which Hồ Chí Minh agrees whit as long as the cease fire also includes the French forces , president Jules Auriol tells President Truman that this decision will take several days as he has to discuses whit commander of the French Indochina expeditionary corps general Jean-Étienne Valluy and head of the French Indochina colonial government Georges Thierry d'Argenlieu ( the US wants to focus their attention towards operation Glacier as it fears that the fighting between the Việt Minh and French will effect the February invasion date and therefore the US wants a cease fire in place which it also hopes gives diplomacy a change in bringing the two sides to the negation table ).
January 28 Operation Condor is put on hold until the tallboys and grand slam bombs have bin sent to the allied air force in Australia from Great Britain as non of those are build in Australia ( no plans to launch a ground invasion of the fortress of Rabaul have bin made nor are the planned as the US military believes attacking Rabaul even in this stage would make the Tarawa, Iwo Jima and Okinawa invasion a walkover , the tallboys and grand slam bombs are not biggest bombs the can use as the USAAF as a last resort is wiling to drop a A-bomb on Rabaul if the conventional bombings don’t work in bringing Rabaul under allied control ).
The 1st and 2nd red banner army’s who are part of the Soviet far eastern front which is deployed at the border of state of Manchuria and Japanese Korea receive orders from Moscow to transferred 8 rifle divisions , 3 mechanized division and many supporting regiments to the Chinese liberation army where the will become the 3rd group army under CLA control in preparation of the Chinese communist invasion of the state of Manchuria ( the Soviets now that the Soviet–Japanese Neutrality Pact of 1945 prevents them from invading the state of Manchuria directly as the nation is protected under the treaty and the Soviets don’t want to give the Germans something to think about if the break a treaty now a cease fire and a future peace deal is coming and have decided that several divisions of the Soviet far eastern front will become part of the Chinese liberation army in order to bypass the treaty ).
January 29 In Great Britain the first transport of large numbers of tallboys and grand slam bombs by ship leaves port wile the RAF 617 Squadron also known as the dambusters and 9 squadron who already where deployed out of Okinawa as part of the tiger force are being redeployed to Australia where the will use the tallboys and grand Slam bombs against the Rabaul fortress ( Tiger Force ore also know as VLR bomber force is a British commonwealth long range heavy bomber force deployed out of Okinawa where the used avro Lancaster, avro Lincolns and cconsolidated liberators bombers against targets in the Japanese home islands ).
US navy cruiser USS Duluth , USS Portsmouth , USS Oregon City , USS Cuba , USS Philippines , USS Quincy and 18 destroyers part of the US Fifth Fleet shell for several hours the island of Hainan something that is happening each day and which is increasing as the February invasion date comes closer ).
January 30 French south Chinese fleet cruisers Marseillaise , Suffren and the battleship Richelieu join a US navy taskforce in a eight hour shelling of Hainan island.
Saturday, May 10, 2008
Part 35 1946
December 3 From airfields in Australia and from allied control New Guinea bombers and fighters belonging to the USAAF , RAAF and the ML-KNIL pound pockets of Japanese imperial troops who refuse to surrender while US , Australian and Dutch troops continuo their advance as more and more territory of New Guinea comes under allied control sins the start of Operation big wheel almost a month ago.
December 8 Under orders of the French president the new commander of the French Indochina Expeditionary Corps General Jean-Étienne Valluy who has replaced General Maréchal Leclerc declares martial law in French Indochina.
December 11 Early in the morning two USAAF B-29 bombers of the XXI Bomber Command drop each one A-bombs on Tokyo killing 175,000 people in the city ( the US hoped that the two A-bombs would destroy the supreme war council , the imperial general headquarters and any industry still in the city which was not destroyed during the many B-29 bombing raids before the two A-bombs where dropped ).
December 12 A force of 10,000 men under General Vo Nguyen Giap attacks the city of Haiphong who previous was the site of riots which killed 2,000 Vietnamese people in order to show the French the martial law dos not work , but the French Indochina Expeditionary Corps soldiers in the city and French south Chinese Fleet based out of the city react swiftly to the attack.
December 13 A third A-bomb is drop by the USAAF on Tokyo killing several thousands of people two days after two A-bombs where dropped on the city ( the USAAF wanted to demoralize the people still in Tokyo and to show the Japanese empire the can drop A-bombs anywhere anytime whit out much interference from the Imperial Japanese army air force ore the imperial Japanese navy air service can not stop the massive onslaught the USAAF rains down onto Japan ).
December 17 The battle of Haiphong is won by the French Indochina expeditionary corps after 5 days of heavy street by street fighting against the Việt Minh who are forced to retreat. Oberstleutnant Skorzeny commander of the Reichsheer Spezialkräfte ( RSK ) is send to the independent state of Serbia where he and a battalion belonging to the RSK are to help the German Armeeabteilung Serbien and the Serbian state force in destroying the partisans.
December 18 I-405 and I-408 are sunk wile trying to get to Truk Lagoon home of the former imperial Japanese navy's combined fleet as the where attempting to bring supplies to a base which despite being isolated by US naval and the USAAF is still under Japanese control as the allies instead of trying to capture the lagoon have instead decided to blockade it ( I-405 and I-408 who like the other remaining I-400-class submarines are used to transport material and personal to places still under control of the Japanese empire but both where was sunk as the US navy patrols the area heavily in order to prevent any Japanese submarine from entering ore leaving the lagoon , whit the sinking of two I-400 subs only I-402 , I-404 , I-405 and I-407 of a force of eight I-400-class submarines remain in service ).
December 19 The Việt Minh is forced to evacuate Hanoi in favor of remote mountain areas whit the French now in control of almost everything except very remote areas in French Indochina.
In Peenemünde home of the German rocket program the first launch of the V-5 rocket fails as it blows on its launch pad whit several high ranking people including Dr Wernher von Braun and crown prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia watching it happen.
December 22 The French provisional government accuses the Chinese communist and the Soviet Union of supporting the Việt Minh in their fight against the French as fighting between the French Indochina Expeditionary Corps forces against Vietnamese militias continuous in the countryside of French Indochina , latter the Service de Documentation Extérieure et de Contre-Espionnage gives its American counterpart the Central Intelligence Group (CIG) evidence that the Chinese communist and the Soviet Union are supporting the Việt Minh in their fight against the French ( the Service de Documentation Extérieure et de Contre Espionnage/External Documentation and Counter-Espionage Service has interrogated many prisoners captured during the riot and the battle of Haiphong and other places in French Indochina and came to the conclusion that the Việt Minh receive training and supplies from the Chinese communist who in turn receive weapons and training from the Soviet Union ).
December 25 Operation big wheel continuous as general Hatazō Adachi commander of Japanese 18th army and his chief of staff general Kane Yoshihara are killed in the town of Wamena in Netherlands New Guinea when the 2000 Japanese soldiers present are attack by the US 44th infantry division in the battle 1911 Japanese soldiers are killed ore wounded wile the 44th infantry division only suffers 32 dead ore wounded ( the Japanese 18th army which at its height had a force of 200,000 men is now down to a force of 9,000 soldiers spread across New Guinea ).
December 27 Commander-in-chief of the Chinese national revolutionary army (NRA) Chiang Kai-shek orders that the NRA is not going to invaded the Japanese puppet state of Manchuria leaving the new fourth army and the eighth route army who are part of the national revolutionary army but who are controlled by the communist party of China whit out the needed strength to invade the state of Manchuria ( the new fourth and eighth route army face a still formidable imperial Japanese army belonging to the Kwantung army and the Manchukuo imperial army who still have some 744,000 soldiers deployed in the state of Manchuria ).
Two days before the Bucharest conference prime minister Mussolini of Italy announces that he is redrawing the Armata Italiana in Russia from the east front ( whit the disbanding of the Armata Italiana in Russia more then 250,000 soldiers are returning home whit more then 53,000 dead ore wounded sins 1941 when Italy began to operate on the east front, the Italienischen Panzer-Armee is to remain on the east front and becomes the largest Italian contribution to the eastern war despite the current cease fire whit the Corpo di Spedizione Italiano in occupied Turkey also remaining at it current place ).
December 28 Chiang Kai-shek decision not to use the full Chinese national revolutionary army in the invasion of the state of Manchuria falls bad whit Mao Zedong leader of the communist party of China who decides that if the nationalist wont help him in the invasion of state of Manchuria then the Soviet Union might as he know that the control of the still extensive Manchurian industrial base will be a asset when the communists finished the Chinese civil war that started in 1927 but was put on hold in 1937 to fight the Japanese in their favor.
December 29 In Bucharest the ministers of defenses of all central alliance members , the Soviet Union and the Finish democratic republic and Turkish republic arrive to begin the discussions concerning the military situation on the east front which is to be resolve before the peace talks can begin.
December 31 A delegation belonging to the communist party of China arrives in Moscow on a mission to convince the Soviet Union to help the Chinese communist in their plan for invading the state of Manchuria. On the second day of the Bucharest conference the Spanish minister of defense informers the ministers of defenses that the Spanish state is disbanding the Spanish Expeditionary Corps Russia ( the Spanish who from 1941 had some kind of military presence on the east front suffered more then 7,854 dead, and 17,400 wounded whit more then 442 taken prisoners by Soviet forces ).
December 8 Under orders of the French president the new commander of the French Indochina Expeditionary Corps General Jean-Étienne Valluy who has replaced General Maréchal Leclerc declares martial law in French Indochina.
December 11 Early in the morning two USAAF B-29 bombers of the XXI Bomber Command drop each one A-bombs on Tokyo killing 175,000 people in the city ( the US hoped that the two A-bombs would destroy the supreme war council , the imperial general headquarters and any industry still in the city which was not destroyed during the many B-29 bombing raids before the two A-bombs where dropped ).
December 12 A force of 10,000 men under General Vo Nguyen Giap attacks the city of Haiphong who previous was the site of riots which killed 2,000 Vietnamese people in order to show the French the martial law dos not work , but the French Indochina Expeditionary Corps soldiers in the city and French south Chinese Fleet based out of the city react swiftly to the attack.
December 13 A third A-bomb is drop by the USAAF on Tokyo killing several thousands of people two days after two A-bombs where dropped on the city ( the USAAF wanted to demoralize the people still in Tokyo and to show the Japanese empire the can drop A-bombs anywhere anytime whit out much interference from the Imperial Japanese army air force ore the imperial Japanese navy air service can not stop the massive onslaught the USAAF rains down onto Japan ).
December 17 The battle of Haiphong is won by the French Indochina expeditionary corps after 5 days of heavy street by street fighting against the Việt Minh who are forced to retreat. Oberstleutnant Skorzeny commander of the Reichsheer Spezialkräfte ( RSK ) is send to the independent state of Serbia where he and a battalion belonging to the RSK are to help the German Armeeabteilung Serbien and the Serbian state force in destroying the partisans.
December 18 I-405 and I-408 are sunk wile trying to get to Truk Lagoon home of the former imperial Japanese navy's combined fleet as the where attempting to bring supplies to a base which despite being isolated by US naval and the USAAF is still under Japanese control as the allies instead of trying to capture the lagoon have instead decided to blockade it ( I-405 and I-408 who like the other remaining I-400-class submarines are used to transport material and personal to places still under control of the Japanese empire but both where was sunk as the US navy patrols the area heavily in order to prevent any Japanese submarine from entering ore leaving the lagoon , whit the sinking of two I-400 subs only I-402 , I-404 , I-405 and I-407 of a force of eight I-400-class submarines remain in service ).
December 19 The Việt Minh is forced to evacuate Hanoi in favor of remote mountain areas whit the French now in control of almost everything except very remote areas in French Indochina.
In Peenemünde home of the German rocket program the first launch of the V-5 rocket fails as it blows on its launch pad whit several high ranking people including Dr Wernher von Braun and crown prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia watching it happen.
December 22 The French provisional government accuses the Chinese communist and the Soviet Union of supporting the Việt Minh in their fight against the French as fighting between the French Indochina Expeditionary Corps forces against Vietnamese militias continuous in the countryside of French Indochina , latter the Service de Documentation Extérieure et de Contre-Espionnage gives its American counterpart the Central Intelligence Group (CIG) evidence that the Chinese communist and the Soviet Union are supporting the Việt Minh in their fight against the French ( the Service de Documentation Extérieure et de Contre Espionnage/External Documentation and Counter-Espionage Service has interrogated many prisoners captured during the riot and the battle of Haiphong and other places in French Indochina and came to the conclusion that the Việt Minh receive training and supplies from the Chinese communist who in turn receive weapons and training from the Soviet Union ).
December 25 Operation big wheel continuous as general Hatazō Adachi commander of Japanese 18th army and his chief of staff general Kane Yoshihara are killed in the town of Wamena in Netherlands New Guinea when the 2000 Japanese soldiers present are attack by the US 44th infantry division in the battle 1911 Japanese soldiers are killed ore wounded wile the 44th infantry division only suffers 32 dead ore wounded ( the Japanese 18th army which at its height had a force of 200,000 men is now down to a force of 9,000 soldiers spread across New Guinea ).
December 27 Commander-in-chief of the Chinese national revolutionary army (NRA) Chiang Kai-shek orders that the NRA is not going to invaded the Japanese puppet state of Manchuria leaving the new fourth army and the eighth route army who are part of the national revolutionary army but who are controlled by the communist party of China whit out the needed strength to invade the state of Manchuria ( the new fourth and eighth route army face a still formidable imperial Japanese army belonging to the Kwantung army and the Manchukuo imperial army who still have some 744,000 soldiers deployed in the state of Manchuria ).
Two days before the Bucharest conference prime minister Mussolini of Italy announces that he is redrawing the Armata Italiana in Russia from the east front ( whit the disbanding of the Armata Italiana in Russia more then 250,000 soldiers are returning home whit more then 53,000 dead ore wounded sins 1941 when Italy began to operate on the east front, the Italienischen Panzer-Armee is to remain on the east front and becomes the largest Italian contribution to the eastern war despite the current cease fire whit the Corpo di Spedizione Italiano in occupied Turkey also remaining at it current place ).
December 28 Chiang Kai-shek decision not to use the full Chinese national revolutionary army in the invasion of the state of Manchuria falls bad whit Mao Zedong leader of the communist party of China who decides that if the nationalist wont help him in the invasion of state of Manchuria then the Soviet Union might as he know that the control of the still extensive Manchurian industrial base will be a asset when the communists finished the Chinese civil war that started in 1927 but was put on hold in 1937 to fight the Japanese in their favor.
December 29 In Bucharest the ministers of defenses of all central alliance members , the Soviet Union and the Finish democratic republic and Turkish republic arrive to begin the discussions concerning the military situation on the east front which is to be resolve before the peace talks can begin.
December 31 A delegation belonging to the communist party of China arrives in Moscow on a mission to convince the Soviet Union to help the Chinese communist in their plan for invading the state of Manchuria. On the second day of the Bucharest conference the Spanish minister of defense informers the ministers of defenses that the Spanish state is disbanding the Spanish Expeditionary Corps Russia ( the Spanish who from 1941 had some kind of military presence on the east front suffered more then 7,854 dead, and 17,400 wounded whit more then 442 taken prisoners by Soviet forces ).
Monday, April 7, 2008
Part 34 1946
November 2 The demonstrations across British India continuo which forces the British Army in India to intervene as the British Indian Army refuse to stop demonstrations forcing British Army units posted to India to break the demonstrations up ( wile the Royal Indian Navy mutiny is over many soldiers of the British Indian Army are beginning to openly question the British rule and have begun refusing to act against the demonstration going on across British India and by now prime minister Churchill has begum under pressure from president Truman to give India its independence as the United States fears that unrest in India is going to hurt the war against Japan if independence is not granted ).
From Portugal a small convoy of ships heads towards the recaptured Portuguese colony of Macau caring troops and supply’s to the Portuguese military garrison which consist of the Portuguese Expeditionary Force who helped in liberating the colony from the Japanese almost a month ago.
November 4 With Hong Kong and Macau haven fallen to the allies a month ago the attention shifts towards the last Japanese hold out in southern china which is on the island of Hainan as the Chinese-American headquarters begin to gather forces to invaded the island by sea as many attempts by the combined Chinese forces who lay across the Hainan Strait have failed. November 6 Senate and House elections in the United States both give majorities to the Republicans ( the cause is mostly related to the Truman administration policy related to Germany in the past which caused the democrats to loss the majority in the Senate and House ).
November 9 After many low level diplomatic talks the German empire and the Soviet Union come to a agreement to resume full diplomatic relations with each other to allow better communications both on the diplomatic and military front wile also agreeing to hold the third conference in the kingdom of Romania capitol of Bucharest which is the first time that a conference is held in a none neutral country ( the Bucharest conference will focus on the military situation on the east front as both sides still have millions of men facing each other and therefore the German empire and the Soviet Union want to resolve that before the real peace talks begin ).
November 14 Forces belonging to the Imperial Iranian Army backed by the US Military Iran Advisory Group air force are given permission by the kingdom of Iraq government to move in some cases 5 miles into Iraq to create a buffer zone which is created to prevent Kurdish forces in south Iraq from moving into Iran , the Turks however refuse as the believe that the have secured their border with Iran when enough and warn that any incursion by Iran will be dealt whit force ( with the Kurdish uprising becoming a lost case for the Kurds try to get out of the areas the previous control in order to get away from the Turks and Soviet forces in Turkey ore the British lead Iraqforce in Iraq , the Syrian republic also has closed borders with the kingdom of Iraq backed by a French Foreign Regiment who jobs it is to help protecting the Syrian/Turkish border and sins recently has station several French Air Force fighters , transport and reconnaissance squadrons in the republic as the Syrian republic has not yet gut its one air force ).
November 16 Prime minister Churchill announces that United Kingdom is going to discuss with the Indian National Congress and the All India Muslim League matters related to independence for India.
November 17 The Indian National Congress and the All India Muslim League tell their members that the are to spread the word that the British have caved in and discussion to give India its independence are going to begin and therefore the demonstrations can end for the moment as the have achieved their desired effect ( neither the Indian National Congress ore the All India Muslim League leaders now that the demonstrations where a minor factor but that the United States is the one that forced the United Kingdom to begin these talks as it feared that unrest in India could hurt the war against Japan ).
Operation big wheel is launched as Australian and the US army from bases in Queensland in Australia begin landings in occupied Australian and Netherlands New Guinea.
November 18 From their anchor near Dutch Timor the joint Netherlands and Australian naval taskforce comprising the cruisers HNLMS Jacob van Heemskerck as the main naval vessels escort the 1st Marine brigade of the Royal Netherlands Marine Corps and the Australian Infantry Battalion of the 7th Division towards their landing zone in north Netherlands New Guinea.
November 19 The last demonstration ends and the people in British India go back to their normal lives with the feeling that the have won the struggle and the United Kingdom is now forced to really discuses a independent India and not as previous delay it until Japan is defeated. On the third day of Operation big wheel the Australian and US army forces face no major resistance at all from the Japanese as the have redrawn deep in the New Guinea jungle.
November 20 The cruisers HNLMS Jacob van Heemskerck and HMAS Shropshire together with supporting ships shell a landing side in occupied Netherlands New Guinea as the 1st Marine brigade and the Australian Infantry Battalion of the 7th Division land unopposed at their landing side.
November 21 In the Independent state of Serbia members of a partisan forces attack a town garrisoned by the Rural State Guard in order to get food and weapons , several hours latter the partisan forces are driven back by the Serbian Home Defense Guard and forces belonging to the German Armeeabteilung Serbien ( these kind of attacks by Partisan forces in the Independent state of Serbia and the kingdom of Croatia happen on a regular basis as the Partisans struggle to get food and weapons to fight the Croatians , Serbians , Italians and German forces as their support with the local populations who are tired of fighting is dwindling each day , the Germans with the cease fire have deployed more divisions to the Independent state of Serbia ).
November 23 Whit Operation big wheel entering its six day many high rank officers of the Allied South West Pacific Area command begin to wonder why many of the landings on occupied Australian and Netherlands New Guinea are don with out major resistance from the Japanese , even on the frontlines who where quit for long time on New Guinea the resistance by Imperial Japanese forces is not strong except some pockets of die hard units of the Imperial Japanese army who are quickly defeated by the massive firepower the allies have at their disposal.
A Vietnamese riot in Haiphong erupts in clashes with troops belonging to the French Indochina Expeditionary Corps which results in the French south Chinese Fleet naval vessels including the cruiser Marseillaise to open fire on the city ( ( the city of Haiphong is the main naval base of the French south Chinese Fleet in French Indochina and therefore the fleet is able to support the French Indochina Expeditionary Corps who are used around French Indochina for garrison duty’s ).
November 25 US army Military Intelligence Service Office personal who after interrogating Imperial Japanese army soldiers captured alive during Operation big wheel get some answers in why there is so little resistance from a Imperial Japanese force which still numbers 100,000 on New Guinea , their findings are that many of the Imperial Japanese army forces on the island are to weak to engage as the had no supplies from Japan over 2 years , orders from the Imperial General Headquarters have not bin received for more then a year du the leak of working radio equipment , many of the soldiers are weak du disease ore lake of food , latter this information is sent to Allied Commander South West Pacific Area General Douglas MacArthur.
After two days of shelling by ships of the French south Chinese Fleet and the French Indochina Expeditionary Corps battling in the city results in the dead of 2,000 Vietnamese people in the city of Haiphong forcing Ho Chi Minh and his Viet Minh forces to retreat into the jungle.
November 27 The royal Dutch 1st Marine brigade continues their advance facing little ore any resistance from Imperial Japanese army forces sins their landing on occupied Netherlands New Guinea.
November 29 The French Expeditionary Fleet is disbanded and its resources is dividing between the French Indian Ocean Fleet and the French south Chinese Fleet with the French south Chinese Fleet receiving the bulk of the French Expeditionary Fleet naval vessels ( the French Expeditionary Fleet which was created on June 15 1945 is already being sidelined by the French south Chinese Fleet who will take its place in fighting the Japanese as it already is doing in supporting the siege of Hainan island ).
November 30 General Douglas MacArthur tells president Truman that if the progress of Operation big wheel is going better then planned and that if it continuous as it is doing now all of New Guinea will be in allied hands in less then tree to four months.
From Portugal a small convoy of ships heads towards the recaptured Portuguese colony of Macau caring troops and supply’s to the Portuguese military garrison which consist of the Portuguese Expeditionary Force who helped in liberating the colony from the Japanese almost a month ago.
November 4 With Hong Kong and Macau haven fallen to the allies a month ago the attention shifts towards the last Japanese hold out in southern china which is on the island of Hainan as the Chinese-American headquarters begin to gather forces to invaded the island by sea as many attempts by the combined Chinese forces who lay across the Hainan Strait have failed. November 6 Senate and House elections in the United States both give majorities to the Republicans ( the cause is mostly related to the Truman administration policy related to Germany in the past which caused the democrats to loss the majority in the Senate and House ).
November 9 After many low level diplomatic talks the German empire and the Soviet Union come to a agreement to resume full diplomatic relations with each other to allow better communications both on the diplomatic and military front wile also agreeing to hold the third conference in the kingdom of Romania capitol of Bucharest which is the first time that a conference is held in a none neutral country ( the Bucharest conference will focus on the military situation on the east front as both sides still have millions of men facing each other and therefore the German empire and the Soviet Union want to resolve that before the real peace talks begin ).
November 14 Forces belonging to the Imperial Iranian Army backed by the US Military Iran Advisory Group air force are given permission by the kingdom of Iraq government to move in some cases 5 miles into Iraq to create a buffer zone which is created to prevent Kurdish forces in south Iraq from moving into Iran , the Turks however refuse as the believe that the have secured their border with Iran when enough and warn that any incursion by Iran will be dealt whit force ( with the Kurdish uprising becoming a lost case for the Kurds try to get out of the areas the previous control in order to get away from the Turks and Soviet forces in Turkey ore the British lead Iraqforce in Iraq , the Syrian republic also has closed borders with the kingdom of Iraq backed by a French Foreign Regiment who jobs it is to help protecting the Syrian/Turkish border and sins recently has station several French Air Force fighters , transport and reconnaissance squadrons in the republic as the Syrian republic has not yet gut its one air force ).
November 16 Prime minister Churchill announces that United Kingdom is going to discuss with the Indian National Congress and the All India Muslim League matters related to independence for India.
November 17 The Indian National Congress and the All India Muslim League tell their members that the are to spread the word that the British have caved in and discussion to give India its independence are going to begin and therefore the demonstrations can end for the moment as the have achieved their desired effect ( neither the Indian National Congress ore the All India Muslim League leaders now that the demonstrations where a minor factor but that the United States is the one that forced the United Kingdom to begin these talks as it feared that unrest in India could hurt the war against Japan ).
Operation big wheel is launched as Australian and the US army from bases in Queensland in Australia begin landings in occupied Australian and Netherlands New Guinea.
November 18 From their anchor near Dutch Timor the joint Netherlands and Australian naval taskforce comprising the cruisers HNLMS Jacob van Heemskerck as the main naval vessels escort the 1st Marine brigade of the Royal Netherlands Marine Corps and the Australian Infantry Battalion of the 7th Division towards their landing zone in north Netherlands New Guinea.
November 19 The last demonstration ends and the people in British India go back to their normal lives with the feeling that the have won the struggle and the United Kingdom is now forced to really discuses a independent India and not as previous delay it until Japan is defeated. On the third day of Operation big wheel the Australian and US army forces face no major resistance at all from the Japanese as the have redrawn deep in the New Guinea jungle.
November 20 The cruisers HNLMS Jacob van Heemskerck and HMAS Shropshire together with supporting ships shell a landing side in occupied Netherlands New Guinea as the 1st Marine brigade and the Australian Infantry Battalion of the 7th Division land unopposed at their landing side.
November 21 In the Independent state of Serbia members of a partisan forces attack a town garrisoned by the Rural State Guard in order to get food and weapons , several hours latter the partisan forces are driven back by the Serbian Home Defense Guard and forces belonging to the German Armeeabteilung Serbien ( these kind of attacks by Partisan forces in the Independent state of Serbia and the kingdom of Croatia happen on a regular basis as the Partisans struggle to get food and weapons to fight the Croatians , Serbians , Italians and German forces as their support with the local populations who are tired of fighting is dwindling each day , the Germans with the cease fire have deployed more divisions to the Independent state of Serbia ).
November 23 Whit Operation big wheel entering its six day many high rank officers of the Allied South West Pacific Area command begin to wonder why many of the landings on occupied Australian and Netherlands New Guinea are don with out major resistance from the Japanese , even on the frontlines who where quit for long time on New Guinea the resistance by Imperial Japanese forces is not strong except some pockets of die hard units of the Imperial Japanese army who are quickly defeated by the massive firepower the allies have at their disposal.
A Vietnamese riot in Haiphong erupts in clashes with troops belonging to the French Indochina Expeditionary Corps which results in the French south Chinese Fleet naval vessels including the cruiser Marseillaise to open fire on the city ( ( the city of Haiphong is the main naval base of the French south Chinese Fleet in French Indochina and therefore the fleet is able to support the French Indochina Expeditionary Corps who are used around French Indochina for garrison duty’s ).
November 25 US army Military Intelligence Service Office personal who after interrogating Imperial Japanese army soldiers captured alive during Operation big wheel get some answers in why there is so little resistance from a Imperial Japanese force which still numbers 100,000 on New Guinea , their findings are that many of the Imperial Japanese army forces on the island are to weak to engage as the had no supplies from Japan over 2 years , orders from the Imperial General Headquarters have not bin received for more then a year du the leak of working radio equipment , many of the soldiers are weak du disease ore lake of food , latter this information is sent to Allied Commander South West Pacific Area General Douglas MacArthur.
After two days of shelling by ships of the French south Chinese Fleet and the French Indochina Expeditionary Corps battling in the city results in the dead of 2,000 Vietnamese people in the city of Haiphong forcing Ho Chi Minh and his Viet Minh forces to retreat into the jungle.
November 27 The royal Dutch 1st Marine brigade continues their advance facing little ore any resistance from Imperial Japanese army forces sins their landing on occupied Netherlands New Guinea.
November 29 The French Expeditionary Fleet is disbanded and its resources is dividing between the French Indian Ocean Fleet and the French south Chinese Fleet with the French south Chinese Fleet receiving the bulk of the French Expeditionary Fleet naval vessels ( the French Expeditionary Fleet which was created on June 15 1945 is already being sidelined by the French south Chinese Fleet who will take its place in fighting the Japanese as it already is doing in supporting the siege of Hainan island ).
November 30 General Douglas MacArthur tells president Truman that if the progress of Operation big wheel is going better then planned and that if it continuous as it is doing now all of New Guinea will be in allied hands in less then tree to four months.
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
part 33 1946
October 4 The United States Secretary of State James F. Byrnes in the French city of Strasbourg tells the foreign minister of the Netherlands , Belgium , Luxemburg , French republic , Great Britain and Norway that the United States will keep troops true the Allied Force European mainland Theatre organization in the Benelux , French republic and Great Britain indefinitely and to increase aid to those nations true the United States Relief and Rehabilitation Agency.
October 6 Secretary of State James F. Byrnes arrives in Copenhagen to meet with the Danish prime minister Knud Kristensen where he assures the Danish prime minister that despite a agreement in the Zurich peace deal the United States will not abandon Denmark and offers to a mutual defense Treaty between the United States and Denmark.
October 7 After a long siege the Japanese imperial army in Macau surrenders as the are no longer able to resistance the combined Chinese forces laying siege to the city , latter in the day the Portuguese Expeditionary Force which was deployed with the Chinese forces raises the Portuguese flag over a ruined city that held out for more then 10 months against a combined Chinese forces and daily air raid by the USAAF and Republic of China Air Force ( ROCAF ) with this the only city still occupied in west china is the British colony of Hong Kong which after 10 months siege is in the hands of the Japanese and Hainan island which also is surrounded and being pounded by naval ships of the US , French and British and hit by daily air attacks from bombers part of the USAAF XX Bomber Command ( with the west china campaign most over except Hong Kong and Hainan island enables the Chinese nationalist and communist to move into the Japanese puppet state of Manchuria but the rivalry between the Chinese nationalist and communist over who get future control over Manchuria and the US occupied island of Formosa which is still lead by military governor Patton has is heating up splitting them given the Japanese Imperial army and the Manchukuo Imperial army time to build their defenses as the don’t have to fear a invasion by the Soviet Union ).
October 8 In Copenhagen the Secretary of State James F. Byrnes and prime minister Knud Kristensen sign the mutual defense treaty between the United States and Denmark ( the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the United States and Denmark is a treaty and dos not fall under the agreement made in the Zurich peace deal which stats that Denmark is to remain neutral and will not become a member of any alliance or organization as this is a agreement between two nations , the mutual defense treaty enables Denmark to receive military supplies , guarantee of the independence for the kingdom of Denmark and training of their armed forces ).
October 9 A day after signing the mutual defense treaty between the United States and Denmark the Provisional Government of the German empire sends a formal protest to the United States Ambassador to Germany as the consider this a violation of the Zurich peace deal ( the Provisional Government of the German empire decided only to send a formal protest to the United States as it has acted as a mediator in the peace talks and probably will in the future and therefore have decided not to make much fuss of this Treaty in order not to jeopardize the peace talks and cease fire , this also show that the Zurich peace deal is no longer working as the United States has begun to bend the treaty to their advantages and many voices in the United States still wonder why this deal was signed in the first place which also came up in a private conversation during the Soviet-German-United States conference in July of this year between Chancellor Ludwig Beck and president Truman where the discuses it as both sides are wiling to make a new treaty which can replace the Zurich peace deal but problems that can arise in both country prevent them from doing so at this time ).
October 13 France adopts the constitution of the Fourth Republic.
October 14 The Supreme Command of the imperial Armed Forces /Oberkommando der kaiserliche Streitkräfte ( OKS ) orders that soldiers of the Reichsheer station on the east front are not to make contact with Soviet soldiers as reports have come in that with the cease fire soldiers of both side have begun taking with each other arose the still silent east front ( Field marshal Rommel who is still the Commander of all German Forces in the East/ Kommandant von Allen deutschen Kräften im Osten ( Kom Ost ) is using the cease fire to rearm his forces and making other preparations in case the war might resume and has received orders from the OKS to remain on his guard for a possible sneak attack by the Soviets ore in case the cease fire is broken ).
October 15 With the planning stage of operation Big wheel behind them the buildup begins as Australian Army and US army forces begin to amass in Queensland Australia wile the territories of Australian controlled territory of New Guinea , Australian administrated territory of Papua and Netherlands New Guinea which are under control of allied forces begin to receive reinforcements in preparation of operation Big wheel.
October 18 Onboard the Royal Indian Navy ship HMIS Hindustan laying in Karachi in British India a mutiny breaks out as sailors aboard protest against the general conditions the live in ( the Royal Indian Navy mutiny of OTL did not happen until now du many different in this timeline ). Heavy air raids against Japanese pockets still in New Guinea by Dutch ML-KNIL and RAAF bombers based in Timor and from many airfields used by the RAAF and USAAF in north Australia and Queensland continuo and increase in preparation of operation Big wheel wile reconnaissance missions begin to gather information needed for the operation.
October 19 The mutiny which began on HMIS Hindustan spreads as Castle and Fort Barracks in Bombay join the mutiny when rumors (which are untrue) are spread that HMIS Talwar's a Royal Indian Navy ship that joined HMIS Hindustan was fired upon , latter in the day the mutiny spread to Bombay, Karachi, Cochin and Vizag.
October 20 Two day after a mutiny broke out on HMIS Hindustan it has spread and now involves sloops, minesweepers and shore establishments arose British India wile some of the mutineers begin demanding the independence for India as the British only want to give independence to India when Japan has bin defeated.
October 21 1000 Royal Indian Air Force men from the Marine Drive and Andheri Camps join the Royal Indian Navy mutineers wile prime minister Churchill orders the Royal Navy to put down the revolt.
In Queensland in Australia four US and Australian army divisions have gather which will land in areas still occupied in Netherlands New Guinea wile in Dutch Timor the 1st Marine brigade of the Royal Netherlands Marine Corps is also waiting to join in the landing in occupied Netherlands New Guinea , a KNIL army regiment is deployed in Hollandia ,Netherlands New Guinea where it replace a US army garrison so it can be available for operation Big wheel will ships of the Dutch East Indies Squadron under the recently arrived flagship HNLMS Jacob van Heemskerck begin to prepare for the biggest operation on New Guinea to date.
October 22 A RAF squadron mad op of bombers fly low over Bombay harbor in a show of force wile British Destroyers begin to sail from Trincomalee in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) , wile this is happening the mutineers are joined by people on the streets across British India demanding independence now instead for Great Britain promise to give independence to India when Japan has bin defeated ( the reason why the mutineers began to revolt has bin pushed to the background as the call for independence has taken over and many of the mutineers want a independent India as well ).
The Colossus class aircraft carrier formerly HMS Ocean and now named the Joffre is commissioned in to Marine Nationale service where it will become the French navy second carrier operational and with the carrier Arromanches deployed in the south Chinese Fleet the only French carrier operating with the French Mediterranean Fleet as the Italian Regia Marina only carrier the RN Aquila is ending its sea and carrier trails in the Adriatic Sea (with this the French have two carrier and one pending wile Italy has one in service and one still being build and another pending ).
October 23 With the Royal Air Force power demonstration not working the 2nd Battalion of the Black Watch is called from their barracks with their first priority is to end the mutiny on Manora Island , believing resistance from Indian naval mutineers the soldier of the Battalion are surprised as the mutineers surrender to them with out a fight and by the morning the soldiers of the 2nd Battalion of the Black Watch have secured the island ( many of the mutineers only wanted to protest and therefore did not fire on British soldiers when the landed on Manora Island ).
Even with the peace talks on hold for the moth the diplomats of the German empire and the Soviet Union continuo to disuse matters related to a future peace deal and with both side getting comfortable with the current cease fire there still remains mistrust between them witch was shown when the Supreme Command of the imperial Armed Forces /Oberkommando der kaiserliche Streitkräfte ( OKS ) ordered that no German soldier on the front was to communicate with their Soviet counterparts in fear of getting to relax as they believes that as long as there is no permanent peace deal the have to be on guard in case the soviet-central alliance war/Eastern war erupts again.
October 24 Six day after a mutiny which began on HMIS Hindustan the British royal artillery arrive on the island to target the ship which began the mutiny , after a ultimatum was delivered to the mutineers aboard HMIS Hindustan ,which after several hours went without a reply from the ship a order was given to open fire which ended with extensive damage done to HMIS Hindustan superstructure , this event happen across Manora island and across British India as British soldiers retook ships and shore establishments ending the Royal Indian Navy mutiny , but with the Royal Indian Navy mutiny over the demonstrations against the British rule in India continuous across British India ( the Royal Indian Navy mutiny shows the British that the can no longer relay on the royal Indian armed forces as much to help them in the war against the Japanese empire and that in the future the royal Indian armed forces can not be relied upon to support counter-insurgency operations as they had been during the Quit India movement of 1942 ).
October 25 Despite orders to hold on the Japanese imperial army in the city of Hong Kong surrenders as the are now being attack from four sides and much heavily sins the fall of Macau 18 days before and with this the combined Chinese forces now can focus their attention despite rivalry between the Chinese nationalist and communist towards the siege of Hainan island ( like Macau the city of Hong Kong is flatted over the course of the 10 months siege and bombing raids it suffered and of the 200,000 citizens still in the city many of them are sick , dying , wounded ore starving ).
October 26 One day after the surrendering of Hong Kong to the combined Chinese forces a provisional government is sent up by several surviving members of the pre invasion colonial government of Hong Kong in order to prevent either the Chinese nationalist ore communist from taking the city as their one and to reestablish British control over the territory. Demonstrations across British India continuo as in city’s like Bombay, Karachi , Calcutta , Ahmedabad, Madras , Trichinopoly , Kanpur , Madurai and Assam people go to the street demanding the British grant India here independence.
October 30 The British cruisers HMS Blake and HMS Uganda enter the harbor of Hong Kong and for the first time in vive years the union jack fly’s over the colony again as the two cruisers escort ships filled with things needed to help the people of the city , latter in the day Admiral Cecil Harcourt announced that he would lead the provisional military government of Hong Kong replacing the provisional government set up four days before and requesting that the combined Chinese forces who where camp in the ruined city to leave as in the four days of being there had rampage true the ruins , begun fighting between themselves after many got drunk after celebration another victory over the Japanese.
October 6 Secretary of State James F. Byrnes arrives in Copenhagen to meet with the Danish prime minister Knud Kristensen where he assures the Danish prime minister that despite a agreement in the Zurich peace deal the United States will not abandon Denmark and offers to a mutual defense Treaty between the United States and Denmark.
October 7 After a long siege the Japanese imperial army in Macau surrenders as the are no longer able to resistance the combined Chinese forces laying siege to the city , latter in the day the Portuguese Expeditionary Force which was deployed with the Chinese forces raises the Portuguese flag over a ruined city that held out for more then 10 months against a combined Chinese forces and daily air raid by the USAAF and Republic of China Air Force ( ROCAF ) with this the only city still occupied in west china is the British colony of Hong Kong which after 10 months siege is in the hands of the Japanese and Hainan island which also is surrounded and being pounded by naval ships of the US , French and British and hit by daily air attacks from bombers part of the USAAF XX Bomber Command ( with the west china campaign most over except Hong Kong and Hainan island enables the Chinese nationalist and communist to move into the Japanese puppet state of Manchuria but the rivalry between the Chinese nationalist and communist over who get future control over Manchuria and the US occupied island of Formosa which is still lead by military governor Patton has is heating up splitting them given the Japanese Imperial army and the Manchukuo Imperial army time to build their defenses as the don’t have to fear a invasion by the Soviet Union ).
October 8 In Copenhagen the Secretary of State James F. Byrnes and prime minister Knud Kristensen sign the mutual defense treaty between the United States and Denmark ( the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the United States and Denmark is a treaty and dos not fall under the agreement made in the Zurich peace deal which stats that Denmark is to remain neutral and will not become a member of any alliance or organization as this is a agreement between two nations , the mutual defense treaty enables Denmark to receive military supplies , guarantee of the independence for the kingdom of Denmark and training of their armed forces ).
October 9 A day after signing the mutual defense treaty between the United States and Denmark the Provisional Government of the German empire sends a formal protest to the United States Ambassador to Germany as the consider this a violation of the Zurich peace deal ( the Provisional Government of the German empire decided only to send a formal protest to the United States as it has acted as a mediator in the peace talks and probably will in the future and therefore have decided not to make much fuss of this Treaty in order not to jeopardize the peace talks and cease fire , this also show that the Zurich peace deal is no longer working as the United States has begun to bend the treaty to their advantages and many voices in the United States still wonder why this deal was signed in the first place which also came up in a private conversation during the Soviet-German-United States conference in July of this year between Chancellor Ludwig Beck and president Truman where the discuses it as both sides are wiling to make a new treaty which can replace the Zurich peace deal but problems that can arise in both country prevent them from doing so at this time ).
October 13 France adopts the constitution of the Fourth Republic.
October 14 The Supreme Command of the imperial Armed Forces /Oberkommando der kaiserliche Streitkräfte ( OKS ) orders that soldiers of the Reichsheer station on the east front are not to make contact with Soviet soldiers as reports have come in that with the cease fire soldiers of both side have begun taking with each other arose the still silent east front ( Field marshal Rommel who is still the Commander of all German Forces in the East/ Kommandant von Allen deutschen Kräften im Osten ( Kom Ost ) is using the cease fire to rearm his forces and making other preparations in case the war might resume and has received orders from the OKS to remain on his guard for a possible sneak attack by the Soviets ore in case the cease fire is broken ).
October 15 With the planning stage of operation Big wheel behind them the buildup begins as Australian Army and US army forces begin to amass in Queensland Australia wile the territories of Australian controlled territory of New Guinea , Australian administrated territory of Papua and Netherlands New Guinea which are under control of allied forces begin to receive reinforcements in preparation of operation Big wheel.
October 18 Onboard the Royal Indian Navy ship HMIS Hindustan laying in Karachi in British India a mutiny breaks out as sailors aboard protest against the general conditions the live in ( the Royal Indian Navy mutiny of OTL did not happen until now du many different in this timeline ). Heavy air raids against Japanese pockets still in New Guinea by Dutch ML-KNIL and RAAF bombers based in Timor and from many airfields used by the RAAF and USAAF in north Australia and Queensland continuo and increase in preparation of operation Big wheel wile reconnaissance missions begin to gather information needed for the operation.
October 19 The mutiny which began on HMIS Hindustan spreads as Castle and Fort Barracks in Bombay join the mutiny when rumors (which are untrue) are spread that HMIS Talwar's a Royal Indian Navy ship that joined HMIS Hindustan was fired upon , latter in the day the mutiny spread to Bombay, Karachi, Cochin and Vizag.
October 20 Two day after a mutiny broke out on HMIS Hindustan it has spread and now involves sloops, minesweepers and shore establishments arose British India wile some of the mutineers begin demanding the independence for India as the British only want to give independence to India when Japan has bin defeated.
October 21 1000 Royal Indian Air Force men from the Marine Drive and Andheri Camps join the Royal Indian Navy mutineers wile prime minister Churchill orders the Royal Navy to put down the revolt.
In Queensland in Australia four US and Australian army divisions have gather which will land in areas still occupied in Netherlands New Guinea wile in Dutch Timor the 1st Marine brigade of the Royal Netherlands Marine Corps is also waiting to join in the landing in occupied Netherlands New Guinea , a KNIL army regiment is deployed in Hollandia ,Netherlands New Guinea where it replace a US army garrison so it can be available for operation Big wheel will ships of the Dutch East Indies Squadron under the recently arrived flagship HNLMS Jacob van Heemskerck begin to prepare for the biggest operation on New Guinea to date.
October 22 A RAF squadron mad op of bombers fly low over Bombay harbor in a show of force wile British Destroyers begin to sail from Trincomalee in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) , wile this is happening the mutineers are joined by people on the streets across British India demanding independence now instead for Great Britain promise to give independence to India when Japan has bin defeated ( the reason why the mutineers began to revolt has bin pushed to the background as the call for independence has taken over and many of the mutineers want a independent India as well ).
The Colossus class aircraft carrier formerly HMS Ocean and now named the Joffre is commissioned in to Marine Nationale service where it will become the French navy second carrier operational and with the carrier Arromanches deployed in the south Chinese Fleet the only French carrier operating with the French Mediterranean Fleet as the Italian Regia Marina only carrier the RN Aquila is ending its sea and carrier trails in the Adriatic Sea (with this the French have two carrier and one pending wile Italy has one in service and one still being build and another pending ).
October 23 With the Royal Air Force power demonstration not working the 2nd Battalion of the Black Watch is called from their barracks with their first priority is to end the mutiny on Manora Island , believing resistance from Indian naval mutineers the soldier of the Battalion are surprised as the mutineers surrender to them with out a fight and by the morning the soldiers of the 2nd Battalion of the Black Watch have secured the island ( many of the mutineers only wanted to protest and therefore did not fire on British soldiers when the landed on Manora Island ).
Even with the peace talks on hold for the moth the diplomats of the German empire and the Soviet Union continuo to disuse matters related to a future peace deal and with both side getting comfortable with the current cease fire there still remains mistrust between them witch was shown when the Supreme Command of the imperial Armed Forces /Oberkommando der kaiserliche Streitkräfte ( OKS ) ordered that no German soldier on the front was to communicate with their Soviet counterparts in fear of getting to relax as they believes that as long as there is no permanent peace deal the have to be on guard in case the soviet-central alliance war/Eastern war erupts again.
October 24 Six day after a mutiny which began on HMIS Hindustan the British royal artillery arrive on the island to target the ship which began the mutiny , after a ultimatum was delivered to the mutineers aboard HMIS Hindustan ,which after several hours went without a reply from the ship a order was given to open fire which ended with extensive damage done to HMIS Hindustan superstructure , this event happen across Manora island and across British India as British soldiers retook ships and shore establishments ending the Royal Indian Navy mutiny , but with the Royal Indian Navy mutiny over the demonstrations against the British rule in India continuous across British India ( the Royal Indian Navy mutiny shows the British that the can no longer relay on the royal Indian armed forces as much to help them in the war against the Japanese empire and that in the future the royal Indian armed forces can not be relied upon to support counter-insurgency operations as they had been during the Quit India movement of 1942 ).
October 25 Despite orders to hold on the Japanese imperial army in the city of Hong Kong surrenders as the are now being attack from four sides and much heavily sins the fall of Macau 18 days before and with this the combined Chinese forces now can focus their attention despite rivalry between the Chinese nationalist and communist towards the siege of Hainan island ( like Macau the city of Hong Kong is flatted over the course of the 10 months siege and bombing raids it suffered and of the 200,000 citizens still in the city many of them are sick , dying , wounded ore starving ).
October 26 One day after the surrendering of Hong Kong to the combined Chinese forces a provisional government is sent up by several surviving members of the pre invasion colonial government of Hong Kong in order to prevent either the Chinese nationalist ore communist from taking the city as their one and to reestablish British control over the territory. Demonstrations across British India continuo as in city’s like Bombay, Karachi , Calcutta , Ahmedabad, Madras , Trichinopoly , Kanpur , Madurai and Assam people go to the street demanding the British grant India here independence.
October 30 The British cruisers HMS Blake and HMS Uganda enter the harbor of Hong Kong and for the first time in vive years the union jack fly’s over the colony again as the two cruisers escort ships filled with things needed to help the people of the city , latter in the day Admiral Cecil Harcourt announced that he would lead the provisional military government of Hong Kong replacing the provisional government set up four days before and requesting that the combined Chinese forces who where camp in the ruined city to leave as in the four days of being there had rampage true the ruins , begun fighting between themselves after many got drunk after celebration another victory over the Japanese.
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Part 32 1946
September 2 After some intense moments the Japanese battleship IJN Hyūga arrives at Riojun naval base without being attacked , arriving at the naval base its crew spots the carrier IJN Hosho and one of the three cruiser the Japanese imperial navy still poses the IJN Kitakami.
September 5 The cruiser HNLMS De Ruyter arrives at Dutch naval base of Den Helder carrying the body of rear-admiral Doorman , the cruiser HNLMS De Ruyter who was the flagship of rear-admiral Doorman during many battles will remain in the Netherlands for a major overhaul wile the cruiser HNLMS Jacob van Heemskerck will take its place as the flagship of the Dutch East Indies Squadron.
September 6 After eight days of talking in Stockholm the United States one of the two mediators in the conference suggests to pause the discussion to give the diplomats of the 13 nations involved the change to talk to their governments with all nations accepting this suggestion. In Riojun naval base seven warships of the imperial Japanese Navy begin operation divine defense which is the largest kamikaze mission any of the imperial Japanese forces have undertake sins the war started in 1941 ( the order of battle are the battleship IJN Hyūga , the carrier IJN Hosho which is modified to carry ten Ohka manned rockets form two installed catapults , the cruiser IJN Kitakami which is modified as a Kaiten carrier , four of the twenty reaming destroyers still in service and a hundred land-based bombers of the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service , operation divine defense goal is hitting the airfields on Okinawa and the US navy operating out of Okinawa and is a Imperial Japanese Navy operation only with the Imperial Japanese Army left out of it ).
September 7 A month after the singing of the Mediterranean sea defense agreement between the US , French republic and the UK the first destroyers who will become part of the United States navy Mediterranean squadron arrive at the their new base of Toulon where the will join the French and British navy’s in patrolling the Mediterranean sea ( the third carrier the French navy is to receive under the Mediterranean sea defense agreement is a Casablanca class escort aircraft carrier formerly the USS Tripoli which is to be named La Fayette which is already being prepared in a US shipyard ).
September 8 The Japanese taskforce is spotted by a US submarine patrolling the East China Sea but is unable to engage the taskforce but dose manages to notify the US fleet by radio.
September 9 A state funeral is held for rear-admiral Doorman in Amsterdam in the Nieuwe Kerk/New Church which is attended by queen Wilhelmina , prime minister Willem Drees and many other delegates both from the Netherlands and abroad.
USAAF and US navy aircraft based out of the US occupied island of Okinawa begin their search of the reported Japanese taskforce and latter in the day two US navy PBY Catalina flying boats detect the taskforce and report its position to the US armed forces commander based out of Okinawa who orders ship and carrier part of taskforce 38 patrolling the area and the USAAF and US navy forces based on Okinawa to engage it.
September 10 After a four day pause the second round of the Stockholm conference begins. Four Essex I and II class carriers including USS Bunker Hill , USS Leyte , USS Iwo Jima and USS Hancock some escorts carriers begin their attack against the Japanese taskforce which now has managed to get close to Okinawa , in the battle that will several hours wave after wave of US carrier born aircraft and land base aircraft attack the Japanese taskforce focusing their attention mostly on the battleship IJN Hyūga which despite having more many anti-aircraft guns is hit hard and finally sinks after several hours , the 100 land-based bombers of the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service begin their attack during the confusion but thanks to radar on the island of Okinawa the are spotted early and are engaged by US land based fighters and carrier born aircraft but several of hundred kamikaze bombers managed to penetrate the US defense and mange to hit some targets on Okinawa , the carrier IJN Hosho manages to launch eight of its ten Ohka rockets before being sunk by the overwhelming fire power at the disposal of the US forces , the eight Ohka manned kamikaze rockets managed to hit a airfield where a large number of B-29 bombers are parked which cost the lives of 59 US personal , the cruiser IJN Kitakami managed to launch all of its eight Kaiten manned torpedoes which sink one destroyer and damaging another anchor near Okinawa before being sunk herself ).
September 11 A day after the results of operation divine defense the results are clear wile the US forces suffered 255 people dead ore wounded the Japanese who where wiped suffered 3,450 dead and only 280 survivors who where picked up by the US navy after the battle , the US who was surprise that the Japanese could make this kind of attack realize the Japanese are still a treat despite a naval blockade and daily bombing raids , outside Tokyo in the bunker used by prime minister Yamamoto and sitting in his small office which he uses to govern the remains of a devastated empire he thinks if it was worth to sacrifice so many lives in order to show the hard liners in the Supreme War Council that he is wiling to make sacrifices to continue a war the empire has long ago lost ( the attack by the Japanese taskforce has caused the most losses to US forces on a single day sins several months and many back home in the United States are wondering why no more A-bombs are dropped on the Japanese home islands in order to end the war ).
September 14 After reviewing naval plan 55 the Oberkommando der Kaiserliche Marine decides to cancel the two Hindenburg class battleships who where to be named Peter Strasser and Hindenburg in favor of building more destroyers , submarines and to modernize its current fleet.
September 16 All across the Dutch control East Indies Royal Marechaussee , Royal Netherlands East Indies Army and Dutch East Indies homeguard soldiers make raids against people linked to the Free Indonesian movement and East Indonesia/Republik Indonesia Timur ( RIT ) in the wake of the Augustus 27 bombing that killed rear-admiral Doorman.
The second round of the Stockholm conference ends with another pause as still no results to turn the cease fire between central alliance nations and the Soviet Union into a permanent peace is made.
September 17 Turkish armed forces backed by the 2nd Turkish front manage to turn the tide against Kurdish forces in north-east Turkey wile the British lead Iraqforce also begins to gain control over south Iraq after Kurdish forces who now have to fight with out support of the Germans ore Italians are forced to surrender much of their territory the gained during the early stages of the uprising ( the Turkish army have moved more of their armed forces previous station at the Turkish front to crush the Kurdish forces in north-east Turkey wile in Iraq the British lead Iraqforce also begins to turn the tide thanks having more troops and the fact the Kurdish forces a running out of forces and ammunition which previous was supplied by the Kurdish forces fighting in north-east Turkey ).
September 19 Sins Augustus 14 more then 13,000 people living in the devastated Finish democratic republic city of Helsinki have bin arrested by Finish state Protection Authority , Finish democratic army and present soviet army and GRU forces who after then end of the retaking of the city and the battle against the now disbanded Helsinki Military and resistance organization are put on trial for crimes against the state , in responds to the failed uprising in Helsinki the Soviet Union has begun to purged the Finish democratic Army and reinstituted political indoctrination in units that have remained loyal to the government also the Soviet Union has begun to increased its troop levels in the republic and by agreement sign by the Otto Ville Kuusinen lead government has bin given more power to act to defend its interest in the Finish democratic republic.
September 21 In Stockholm the third round of the Stockholm conference begins.
September 29 The Stockholm conference ends with all nations involved agreeing that peace is more important then continuing the eastern war and despite the hate that some nations have against each other the cease fire must be maintained ( the Soviet union and the German empire agree to continuo the peace talks , agree for another major conference to be held in a month time , to maintain the current cease fire , to allow recon plans to fly over curtain places to monitor each other troops positions and to remove some of their forces away from the east front to prevent any of them from using cease fire to their advantages ).
September 30 US , Australian and Dutch Indies military end their planning of their newest and biggest operation on New Guinea to date , this operation which will be called Big wheel has the goal to remove all Japanese forces still present in the Australian controlled territory of New Guinea , the Australian administrated territory of Papua and Netherlands New Guinea.
September 5 The cruiser HNLMS De Ruyter arrives at Dutch naval base of Den Helder carrying the body of rear-admiral Doorman , the cruiser HNLMS De Ruyter who was the flagship of rear-admiral Doorman during many battles will remain in the Netherlands for a major overhaul wile the cruiser HNLMS Jacob van Heemskerck will take its place as the flagship of the Dutch East Indies Squadron.
September 6 After eight days of talking in Stockholm the United States one of the two mediators in the conference suggests to pause the discussion to give the diplomats of the 13 nations involved the change to talk to their governments with all nations accepting this suggestion. In Riojun naval base seven warships of the imperial Japanese Navy begin operation divine defense which is the largest kamikaze mission any of the imperial Japanese forces have undertake sins the war started in 1941 ( the order of battle are the battleship IJN Hyūga , the carrier IJN Hosho which is modified to carry ten Ohka manned rockets form two installed catapults , the cruiser IJN Kitakami which is modified as a Kaiten carrier , four of the twenty reaming destroyers still in service and a hundred land-based bombers of the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service , operation divine defense goal is hitting the airfields on Okinawa and the US navy operating out of Okinawa and is a Imperial Japanese Navy operation only with the Imperial Japanese Army left out of it ).
September 7 A month after the singing of the Mediterranean sea defense agreement between the US , French republic and the UK the first destroyers who will become part of the United States navy Mediterranean squadron arrive at the their new base of Toulon where the will join the French and British navy’s in patrolling the Mediterranean sea ( the third carrier the French navy is to receive under the Mediterranean sea defense agreement is a Casablanca class escort aircraft carrier formerly the USS Tripoli which is to be named La Fayette which is already being prepared in a US shipyard ).
September 8 The Japanese taskforce is spotted by a US submarine patrolling the East China Sea but is unable to engage the taskforce but dose manages to notify the US fleet by radio.
September 9 A state funeral is held for rear-admiral Doorman in Amsterdam in the Nieuwe Kerk/New Church which is attended by queen Wilhelmina , prime minister Willem Drees and many other delegates both from the Netherlands and abroad.
USAAF and US navy aircraft based out of the US occupied island of Okinawa begin their search of the reported Japanese taskforce and latter in the day two US navy PBY Catalina flying boats detect the taskforce and report its position to the US armed forces commander based out of Okinawa who orders ship and carrier part of taskforce 38 patrolling the area and the USAAF and US navy forces based on Okinawa to engage it.
September 10 After a four day pause the second round of the Stockholm conference begins. Four Essex I and II class carriers including USS Bunker Hill , USS Leyte , USS Iwo Jima and USS Hancock some escorts carriers begin their attack against the Japanese taskforce which now has managed to get close to Okinawa , in the battle that will several hours wave after wave of US carrier born aircraft and land base aircraft attack the Japanese taskforce focusing their attention mostly on the battleship IJN Hyūga which despite having more many anti-aircraft guns is hit hard and finally sinks after several hours , the 100 land-based bombers of the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service begin their attack during the confusion but thanks to radar on the island of Okinawa the are spotted early and are engaged by US land based fighters and carrier born aircraft but several of hundred kamikaze bombers managed to penetrate the US defense and mange to hit some targets on Okinawa , the carrier IJN Hosho manages to launch eight of its ten Ohka rockets before being sunk by the overwhelming fire power at the disposal of the US forces , the eight Ohka manned kamikaze rockets managed to hit a airfield where a large number of B-29 bombers are parked which cost the lives of 59 US personal , the cruiser IJN Kitakami managed to launch all of its eight Kaiten manned torpedoes which sink one destroyer and damaging another anchor near Okinawa before being sunk herself ).
September 11 A day after the results of operation divine defense the results are clear wile the US forces suffered 255 people dead ore wounded the Japanese who where wiped suffered 3,450 dead and only 280 survivors who where picked up by the US navy after the battle , the US who was surprise that the Japanese could make this kind of attack realize the Japanese are still a treat despite a naval blockade and daily bombing raids , outside Tokyo in the bunker used by prime minister Yamamoto and sitting in his small office which he uses to govern the remains of a devastated empire he thinks if it was worth to sacrifice so many lives in order to show the hard liners in the Supreme War Council that he is wiling to make sacrifices to continue a war the empire has long ago lost ( the attack by the Japanese taskforce has caused the most losses to US forces on a single day sins several months and many back home in the United States are wondering why no more A-bombs are dropped on the Japanese home islands in order to end the war ).
September 14 After reviewing naval plan 55 the Oberkommando der Kaiserliche Marine decides to cancel the two Hindenburg class battleships who where to be named Peter Strasser and Hindenburg in favor of building more destroyers , submarines and to modernize its current fleet.
September 16 All across the Dutch control East Indies Royal Marechaussee , Royal Netherlands East Indies Army and Dutch East Indies homeguard soldiers make raids against people linked to the Free Indonesian movement and East Indonesia/Republik Indonesia Timur ( RIT ) in the wake of the Augustus 27 bombing that killed rear-admiral Doorman.
The second round of the Stockholm conference ends with another pause as still no results to turn the cease fire between central alliance nations and the Soviet Union into a permanent peace is made.
September 17 Turkish armed forces backed by the 2nd Turkish front manage to turn the tide against Kurdish forces in north-east Turkey wile the British lead Iraqforce also begins to gain control over south Iraq after Kurdish forces who now have to fight with out support of the Germans ore Italians are forced to surrender much of their territory the gained during the early stages of the uprising ( the Turkish army have moved more of their armed forces previous station at the Turkish front to crush the Kurdish forces in north-east Turkey wile in Iraq the British lead Iraqforce also begins to turn the tide thanks having more troops and the fact the Kurdish forces a running out of forces and ammunition which previous was supplied by the Kurdish forces fighting in north-east Turkey ).
September 19 Sins Augustus 14 more then 13,000 people living in the devastated Finish democratic republic city of Helsinki have bin arrested by Finish state Protection Authority , Finish democratic army and present soviet army and GRU forces who after then end of the retaking of the city and the battle against the now disbanded Helsinki Military and resistance organization are put on trial for crimes against the state , in responds to the failed uprising in Helsinki the Soviet Union has begun to purged the Finish democratic Army and reinstituted political indoctrination in units that have remained loyal to the government also the Soviet Union has begun to increased its troop levels in the republic and by agreement sign by the Otto Ville Kuusinen lead government has bin given more power to act to defend its interest in the Finish democratic republic.
September 21 In Stockholm the third round of the Stockholm conference begins.
September 29 The Stockholm conference ends with all nations involved agreeing that peace is more important then continuing the eastern war and despite the hate that some nations have against each other the cease fire must be maintained ( the Soviet union and the German empire agree to continuo the peace talks , agree for another major conference to be held in a month time , to maintain the current cease fire , to allow recon plans to fly over curtain places to monitor each other troops positions and to remove some of their forces away from the east front to prevent any of them from using cease fire to their advantages ).
September 30 US , Australian and Dutch Indies military end their planning of their newest and biggest operation on New Guinea to date , this operation which will be called Big wheel has the goal to remove all Japanese forces still present in the Australian controlled territory of New Guinea , the Australian administrated territory of Papua and Netherlands New Guinea.
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Part 31 1946
Augustus 3 The commander of the Group of Soviet Forces in Finland presents minister of defense marshal Zhukov with the plans of operation blizzard which is created to retake Helsinki from the Helsinki Military and resistance organization held city , Marshall Zhukov who has bin given the authority by the new politburo to end the Helsinki uprising gives the go ahead for the operation after discussing it with the commander ( the new politburo knows that the Germans are not wiling to brake the cease fire in order to aid the Helsinki Military and resistance organization and therefore can use all means at their disposal to end the Helsinki uprising ).
Augustus 4 The French minister of national defense , British minister of defense and the United states secretary of the navy in London sign the Mediterranean sea defense agreement which will increase the cooperation of the British , French and the United states in preventing the central alliance navy’s present in the Mediterranean sea from becoming a threat to British ore French interests in the Mediterranean sea ( the Mediterranean sea defense agreement includes the creation of a United States Mediterranean squadron which will fall under the United States Naval Forces Europe and which will be based in Toulon , the transfer of one additional carrier to the French navy which will increase the French navy carrier force to three and to created a permanent Allied Force European mainland Theatre Mediterranean naval command which also will be based in Toulon ).
Augustus 5 Royal Dutch navy gunboats HNLMS Flores , HNLMS Soemba and destroyers HMNLS Tjerk Hiddes and HMNLS Van Galen shell the port city of Makassar on the island of Celebes wile the mine layer HMNLS Willem van der Zaan lays mines outside the RIT control port which is ruins after repeated bombing raids by the ML-KNIL sins it was discovered that it was the staging place for the Republic Indonesia navy hampering its ability to transport men and material to Japanese ore RIT controlled islands in the Dutch Indies ) .
Augustus 6 The French navy carrier Arromanches departs Toulon naval base to join the French south Chinese Fleet for a four month deployment ( the French navy now has one active carrier , a carrier named the Joffre who is being prepared to enter service in Toulon who will enter in the French navy in two months time and a third carrier to be handed over to the French navy under the Mediterranean sea defense agreement ).
Augustus 8 Operation blizzard begins when infantry and tanks attack Helsinki from two directions wile air strikes and artillery rain down against positions held by the Helsinki Military and resistance organization militias ( HMRO ) and the still present Reichsheer Spezialkräfte ( RSK ) lead by Oberstleutnant Skorzeny ( no Soviet loyal FDA force is taking part in operation blizzard du the Soviet not trusting them as many FDA soldiers in Helsinki joined the HMRO militias ).
Augustus 9 With fighting now happening in Helsinki between Soviet tanks and infantry versus the HMRO militias it becomes apparent that the soviets overwhelming strength is beginning to take is toll as HMRO and RSK forces begin to fall back to fortified positions in the city , in Berlin the Finish government in exile request the Germans who have a cease fire with the Soviet Union to take more action against the Soviets attacking Helsinki ( latter free Finish leader marshal Mannerheim meets with Vice-Reichs Chancellor Wilhelm Leuschner who tells him that the German empire will not allow the two free Finish army divisions to move to Finland in order to prevent the cease fire which is in effect from being broken and that the cease fire is more important than the Helsinki uprising and that the Provisional Government of the German empire has decided to extract the Reichsheer Spezialkräfte from Helsinki and that it needs the free Finish navy to do that in order to prevent the Soviets from knowing that there are still Germans fighting the Soviets ).
Augustus 10 Oberstleutnant Skorzeny receives by radio the order to leave the city of Helsinki with his RSK troops and to wait for a pick up by a Free finish navy submarine FNS Muikku the next day before the Soviet forces recapture the entity city.
Augustus 11 Whit small pockets of HMRO militias still fighting the Soviets in Helsinki Oberstleutnant Skorzeny and his RSK troops board the submarine FNS Muikku which managed to enter the port under heavy fire and return safely to a German port.
Augustus 12 The last HMRO militia force on the island of Santahamina surrenders to the Soviets who after a four day battle have retaken Helsinki , this surrendering ends the Helsinki uprising in favor of the Soviet Union and the Finish democratic republic ( operation blizzard has cost the lives of more then 2,500 Helsinki’s and more then 845 Soviet troops and more the thousands wounded , the island of Santahamina before the Helsinki uprising was a army base fore a Finish democratic army regiment who after the Finish Parliament Building shooting sided with the protesters and latter became part of the Helsinki Military and resistance organization militia ).
Augustus 13 In Schloss Bellevue the official residence of Kaiser Wilhelm III in Berlin oberstleutnant Skorzeny is the guest of honor in a diner held for his participation in the Helsinki uprising.
A Portuguese Expeditionary Force leaves the Portuguese colony of Mozambique to join the combined Chinese forces laying siege to Macau ( the Portuguese Expeditionary Force is only a symbolic force made op of two Infantry Company’s, two Mortar platoons and two light artillery battery’s who are escorted by two Portuguese Navy destroyers who after dropping the Portuguese Expeditionary Force in allied controlled china will join the British Pacific Fleet ( the sending of the Portuguese Expeditionary Force and warships of the Portuguese Navy is the biggest deployment of the Portuguese Republic sins it declared war against the Japanese empire on February 27 1946 and a sign that prime minister Salazar lead Portuguese government is becoming a more and more a pro Allied Force European mainland Theatre organization government ).
Augustus 14 Escorted by warships of the British Home Fleet the Soviet submarine tender who was present in British territorial waters is escorted back to the Soviet Union , wile the ships are leaving towards a soviet naval bases the are being tracked by a German Kaiserliche Marine submarine of the type XXI whit warships of the Marineoberkommando Nordsee on the surfaces shadowing the soviet-British ships from a safe distant who are being shadowed themselves by British home fleet , royal Dutch navy and royal Norwegian navy warships ( whit the cease fire in effect the British have requested that the Soviets redraw their submarine tender from British territorial waters as the do not belief the tender is needed there with most of the soviet submarines back at a Soviet naval base ).
Augustus 15 With the cease fire on the east front still holding diplomats of the central alliance , the Soviet Union and the United States meet and call each other in order to prepare the second conference which is to be held in Stockholm after Sweden accepted the request to become the host to the second peace conference ( by now all the survivors of the 3 soviet Belarus fronts have returned behind the Belarus panther line and the German Army group Belarus has closed the gap the Soviets managed to create during their operation red force leaving only the Soviet Ukrainian Fronts occupying territory beyond the Bismarck/Buh line and in German and Romanian controlled territory).
Augustus 18 The French carrier Arromanches arrives in French Indochina for a four month deployment with the French south Chinese Fleet and the French Expeditionary Fleet where shy will be use in the siege of Hainan and to patrol the French Indochina waters ( the decision by minister of marine Henri Bléhaut to send the Arromanches to French Indochina was to allow its crew to get combat experiences and to increase the French military presents in the war against the Japanese empire ).
Augustus 19 After the location of Stockholm in Sweden was chosen after sometimes difficult diplomatic talks the date of the Stockholm conference is finally set at Augustus 26 with the ministers for foreign affairs of all direct participants nations of the central alliance , Soviet Union , Turkish republic , and the Finish democratic republic present wile the United States of America and the United Kingdom will be present as mediators.
Augustus 26 Protected by warships of the French south Chinese Fleet the carrier Arromanches launches for here first time its fighters for a combat missions against targets on the Japanese control island of Hainan , after successful engaging their targets the fighters return to the carrier suffering no losses at all.
Augustus 27 Leaving the Dutch Naval Base Tjilatjap on Java island rear-admiral Doorman car is hit by a bomb laid by members of the Free Indonesian movement which kills the rear-admiral ( the Free Indonesian movement/Gerak-gerik bebas Indonesia ( GBI ) is a pro-Independence Indonesian militia operating on java , Borneo and Sumatra and is not related to the Republik Indonesia Timur it dos however works sometimes with RIT forces in attacking Dutch military and civilian targets , the killing of rear-admiral Doorman is the biggest successes so far for the Free Indonesian movement ).
Augustus 28 In the Swedish city of Stockholm the second peace conference with 13 direct participants , two mediators and several observing diplomats from the Netherlands , Belgium , French republic , Greece , Norway and of course the host nation Sweden begins. The Dutch government in The Hague announces a national day of mourning for rear-admiral Doorman who was killed in a bomb attack 24 hours before.
Augustus 29 Departing the Japanese Riojun naval base in Korea the last Japanese imperial battleship IJN Hyūga leaves for Riojun/Port Arthur in the state of Manchuria , the captain of the IJN Hyūga only knows that he has orders to get his battleship thru US laid minefields and a submarine infested Sea of Japan to the base of Riojun intact with out any escorts ore any air cover ( the battleship IJN Hyūga is the only remaining battleship the Japanese imperial navy have left in service ).
Augustus 4 The French minister of national defense , British minister of defense and the United states secretary of the navy in London sign the Mediterranean sea defense agreement which will increase the cooperation of the British , French and the United states in preventing the central alliance navy’s present in the Mediterranean sea from becoming a threat to British ore French interests in the Mediterranean sea ( the Mediterranean sea defense agreement includes the creation of a United States Mediterranean squadron which will fall under the United States Naval Forces Europe and which will be based in Toulon , the transfer of one additional carrier to the French navy which will increase the French navy carrier force to three and to created a permanent Allied Force European mainland Theatre Mediterranean naval command which also will be based in Toulon ).
Augustus 5 Royal Dutch navy gunboats HNLMS Flores , HNLMS Soemba and destroyers HMNLS Tjerk Hiddes and HMNLS Van Galen shell the port city of Makassar on the island of Celebes wile the mine layer HMNLS Willem van der Zaan lays mines outside the RIT control port which is ruins after repeated bombing raids by the ML-KNIL sins it was discovered that it was the staging place for the Republic Indonesia navy hampering its ability to transport men and material to Japanese ore RIT controlled islands in the Dutch Indies ) .
Augustus 6 The French navy carrier Arromanches departs Toulon naval base to join the French south Chinese Fleet for a four month deployment ( the French navy now has one active carrier , a carrier named the Joffre who is being prepared to enter service in Toulon who will enter in the French navy in two months time and a third carrier to be handed over to the French navy under the Mediterranean sea defense agreement ).
Augustus 8 Operation blizzard begins when infantry and tanks attack Helsinki from two directions wile air strikes and artillery rain down against positions held by the Helsinki Military and resistance organization militias ( HMRO ) and the still present Reichsheer Spezialkräfte ( RSK ) lead by Oberstleutnant Skorzeny ( no Soviet loyal FDA force is taking part in operation blizzard du the Soviet not trusting them as many FDA soldiers in Helsinki joined the HMRO militias ).
Augustus 9 With fighting now happening in Helsinki between Soviet tanks and infantry versus the HMRO militias it becomes apparent that the soviets overwhelming strength is beginning to take is toll as HMRO and RSK forces begin to fall back to fortified positions in the city , in Berlin the Finish government in exile request the Germans who have a cease fire with the Soviet Union to take more action against the Soviets attacking Helsinki ( latter free Finish leader marshal Mannerheim meets with Vice-Reichs Chancellor Wilhelm Leuschner who tells him that the German empire will not allow the two free Finish army divisions to move to Finland in order to prevent the cease fire which is in effect from being broken and that the cease fire is more important than the Helsinki uprising and that the Provisional Government of the German empire has decided to extract the Reichsheer Spezialkräfte from Helsinki and that it needs the free Finish navy to do that in order to prevent the Soviets from knowing that there are still Germans fighting the Soviets ).
Augustus 10 Oberstleutnant Skorzeny receives by radio the order to leave the city of Helsinki with his RSK troops and to wait for a pick up by a Free finish navy submarine FNS Muikku the next day before the Soviet forces recapture the entity city.
Augustus 11 Whit small pockets of HMRO militias still fighting the Soviets in Helsinki Oberstleutnant Skorzeny and his RSK troops board the submarine FNS Muikku which managed to enter the port under heavy fire and return safely to a German port.
Augustus 12 The last HMRO militia force on the island of Santahamina surrenders to the Soviets who after a four day battle have retaken Helsinki , this surrendering ends the Helsinki uprising in favor of the Soviet Union and the Finish democratic republic ( operation blizzard has cost the lives of more then 2,500 Helsinki’s and more then 845 Soviet troops and more the thousands wounded , the island of Santahamina before the Helsinki uprising was a army base fore a Finish democratic army regiment who after the Finish Parliament Building shooting sided with the protesters and latter became part of the Helsinki Military and resistance organization militia ).
Augustus 13 In Schloss Bellevue the official residence of Kaiser Wilhelm III in Berlin oberstleutnant Skorzeny is the guest of honor in a diner held for his participation in the Helsinki uprising.
A Portuguese Expeditionary Force leaves the Portuguese colony of Mozambique to join the combined Chinese forces laying siege to Macau ( the Portuguese Expeditionary Force is only a symbolic force made op of two Infantry Company’s, two Mortar platoons and two light artillery battery’s who are escorted by two Portuguese Navy destroyers who after dropping the Portuguese Expeditionary Force in allied controlled china will join the British Pacific Fleet ( the sending of the Portuguese Expeditionary Force and warships of the Portuguese Navy is the biggest deployment of the Portuguese Republic sins it declared war against the Japanese empire on February 27 1946 and a sign that prime minister Salazar lead Portuguese government is becoming a more and more a pro Allied Force European mainland Theatre organization government ).
Augustus 14 Escorted by warships of the British Home Fleet the Soviet submarine tender who was present in British territorial waters is escorted back to the Soviet Union , wile the ships are leaving towards a soviet naval bases the are being tracked by a German Kaiserliche Marine submarine of the type XXI whit warships of the Marineoberkommando Nordsee on the surfaces shadowing the soviet-British ships from a safe distant who are being shadowed themselves by British home fleet , royal Dutch navy and royal Norwegian navy warships ( whit the cease fire in effect the British have requested that the Soviets redraw their submarine tender from British territorial waters as the do not belief the tender is needed there with most of the soviet submarines back at a Soviet naval base ).
Augustus 15 With the cease fire on the east front still holding diplomats of the central alliance , the Soviet Union and the United States meet and call each other in order to prepare the second conference which is to be held in Stockholm after Sweden accepted the request to become the host to the second peace conference ( by now all the survivors of the 3 soviet Belarus fronts have returned behind the Belarus panther line and the German Army group Belarus has closed the gap the Soviets managed to create during their operation red force leaving only the Soviet Ukrainian Fronts occupying territory beyond the Bismarck/Buh line and in German and Romanian controlled territory).
Augustus 18 The French carrier Arromanches arrives in French Indochina for a four month deployment with the French south Chinese Fleet and the French Expeditionary Fleet where shy will be use in the siege of Hainan and to patrol the French Indochina waters ( the decision by minister of marine Henri Bléhaut to send the Arromanches to French Indochina was to allow its crew to get combat experiences and to increase the French military presents in the war against the Japanese empire ).
Augustus 19 After the location of Stockholm in Sweden was chosen after sometimes difficult diplomatic talks the date of the Stockholm conference is finally set at Augustus 26 with the ministers for foreign affairs of all direct participants nations of the central alliance , Soviet Union , Turkish republic , and the Finish democratic republic present wile the United States of America and the United Kingdom will be present as mediators.
Augustus 26 Protected by warships of the French south Chinese Fleet the carrier Arromanches launches for here first time its fighters for a combat missions against targets on the Japanese control island of Hainan , after successful engaging their targets the fighters return to the carrier suffering no losses at all.
Augustus 27 Leaving the Dutch Naval Base Tjilatjap on Java island rear-admiral Doorman car is hit by a bomb laid by members of the Free Indonesian movement which kills the rear-admiral ( the Free Indonesian movement/Gerak-gerik bebas Indonesia ( GBI ) is a pro-Independence Indonesian militia operating on java , Borneo and Sumatra and is not related to the Republik Indonesia Timur it dos however works sometimes with RIT forces in attacking Dutch military and civilian targets , the killing of rear-admiral Doorman is the biggest successes so far for the Free Indonesian movement ).
Augustus 28 In the Swedish city of Stockholm the second peace conference with 13 direct participants , two mediators and several observing diplomats from the Netherlands , Belgium , French republic , Greece , Norway and of course the host nation Sweden begins. The Dutch government in The Hague announces a national day of mourning for rear-admiral Doorman who was killed in a bomb attack 24 hours before.
Augustus 29 Departing the Japanese Riojun naval base in Korea the last Japanese imperial battleship IJN Hyūga leaves for Riojun/Port Arthur in the state of Manchuria , the captain of the IJN Hyūga only knows that he has orders to get his battleship thru US laid minefields and a submarine infested Sea of Japan to the base of Riojun intact with out any escorts ore any air cover ( the battleship IJN Hyūga is the only remaining battleship the Japanese imperial navy have left in service ).
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