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 ).
