1943
January 9th
Soviet forces surrounding Stalingrad ask for the surrender of the German 6th Army.
January 14th
British prime minister Winston Churchill and American president Franklin Roosevelt meet at Casablanca, Morocco where the agree on the unconditional surrender of Germany.
First D-23 Fokker meteoor T.1 jet fighter trainer version rolls of the production line , more then twelve have bin ordered by the royal Netherlands air force , more then 100 D-23 Fokker meteoor M.1 jet fighter have bin ordered whit production of both versions to begin in early 1944.
January 27th
The first American pilots who where forced to land in the Netherlands arrive at the interment camp on the island of Texel , like whit the British the Americans are hold for four weeks before being allowed to escape the interment camp.
February 1st
A British Stirling bomber carrying a advance British designed radar crashes on Netherlands soil after its crew where forced to choice to crash in German occupied Belgium ore neutral Netherlands , after the crew who died on impact where headed over to the British embassy , a team belonging to the royal Netherlands air force using advance explosives destroyed the remains of the bomber.
February 2nd
The remainder of the German 6th army surrenders at Stalingrad
February 15th
After having successfully protested to the Netherlands government regarding the Netherlands building ships for German civil use , the British government makes a similar protests to the Swedish government regarding Sweden building boats for the Germans.
February 25th
HNLMS Soerabaia , a training ship for the royal Netherlands navy east Indies squadron is decommissioned , here role is taken over by the cruiser HNLMS Java.
April 7th
Bolivia declares war on Germany and Italy.
April 20th
Former admiral Isoroku Yamamoto , now a private citizen visit the island of Hawaii.
April 25th
From a friendly Japanese citizen living near Pearl harbor naval base , Isoroku Yamamoto using a binocular can observe both the carriers USS Enterprise and USS Hornet laying in the harbor.
April 27th
Isoroku Yamamoto boards a plane heading back to Japan after spending a week in Hawaii , heaving learned much about the US navy he comments to the friend back home , in on small way I am glad that whey have not awaken a sleeping giant by attacking it , as I surly believe our nation would pay the ultimate price in doing so.
May 9th
The Japanese imperial army begins a massive operation in the Chinese province of Hunan.
May 13th
German Afrika Korps and Italian troops in North Africa surrender to Allied forces.
May 17th
After eight days the Japanese imperial army ends its massive operation in the province of Hunan , more then 30,000 civilians are killed , the American papers who write about it called it the Hunan massacre , but as the war in Europe is bigger news the articles written about the Hunan massacre only appear in the back pages of most news papers.
June 15th
German general Heinz Guderian tells Adolf Hitler that the new panzer V ( Puma ) * is not yet ready for battle.
July 10th
Watched by a orbiting KNRS Amsterdam , the allies launch operation Husky , and begin the invasion of Sicily.
July 25th
Netherlands space centre Guyana near the town of Kajana is founded , the space centre which falls under the direct command of the royal Netherlands space force is to become the main launch facility for the royal Netherlands space force , the entire space centre is a closely guarded secret and is guarded by the Netherlands army 2nd special forces regiment who have orders to keep it that way.
King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy has prime minister Mussolini arrested, and appoints marshal Pietro Badoglio as new prime minister.
Augustus 23rd
The battle of Kursk ends with a serious strategic defeat for the German forces.
September 7th
KNIL 1st tank battalion receives the its first T-10 ( panther) tank , the T-10 of which 12 are to be fielded by the 1st tank company of the 1st tank battalion will join the American made M2 light tanks in service whit the battalion which is based on the island of Java.
September 8th
General Dwight Eisenhower announces the surrender of Italy on radio , a hour later, Italian prime minister marshal Badoglio also announces the surrender of Italy to the allies.
September 22nd
Carriers USS Yorktown, USS Lexington and USS Essex from the safely of the Norwegian sea , launch a air strike against Kaafjord, northern Norway, where the German battleship KMS Tirpitz is laying , in the air strike more then 1,000 of Tirpitz crew of 1,700 die and the battleship sinks to the bottom of the fjord.
October 13th
The new government of Italy sides with the Allies and declares war on Germany.
October 17th
A small segment of the New Fijenoord-Rotterdamsche space yard is completed in a factory somewhere in the Netherlands and beamed to orbit by KNRS Amsterdam before the Maas-class runabout KNRS Marowijne using its tractor beam brings it to moon orbit where it joins several other small segments already assembled.
November 19th
In order to continuo updating their knowledge about the strength of the American pacific fleet in Hawaii , a imperial Japanese submarine launches a floatplane to survey Pearl Harbor , after having done a quick survey of the naval base and remaining undetected , it returns safely to its mother submarine.
November 22nd
In Cairo , American president Roosevelt and Chinese president Chiang Kai-shek meet, in their discussion , president Chiang Kai-shek request more aid by the Americans in order to battle the Japanese forces in china , however president Roosevelt tells that the Chinese have to hold on until Germany is defeated before more aid can be send to the Chinese.
November 28th
British prime minister Winston Churchill, American president Franklin Roosevelt and Soviet premier Josef Stalin meet at Teheran, Iran , where the discuses future European strategy, United Nations, Turkey, Italy, China , Russian frontiers, Poland, and Germany's eastern frontier.
December 4th
Bolivia declares war on Germany and here remaining allies in Europe.
December 17th
Work on moon base Eisinga is progressing on schedule , the royal Netherlands engineering corps who is building it , estimates that the first permanent occupants can begin working and living in the moon base in lees then a year.
December 26th
United States navy and the British royal navy warships sink the German Bismarck-class battleship KMS Bismarck and two of here escorting destroyers in the battle of the North Cape.
* the Puma tank is the OTL panther tank which is already in use by the royal Netherlands army and therefore the Germans where forced to choice a other name for their tank.
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Kingdom of the Netherlands : a alternate star trek timeline
1942
January 7th
The RW-1 rocket-propelled grenade launcher based on the Soviet RPG-2 is introduced to regular service whit the Netherlands East Indies army , royal Netherlands army and royal Netherlands marine corps.
Soviet forces launch counteroffensives along the whole German/Russian front.
January 13th
By order of Adolf Hitler , German submarines begin attacking coastal shipping on the east coast of the United States in order to prevent US flag ships from transporting goods to Great Britain despite the risk of creating a situation in which the United States will declare war against Germany.
January 21st
German forces under the command of Rommel in North Africa strike back at British forces.
January 23rd
HNLMS Sumatra the world first helicopter cruiser leaves dry dock after spending 7 months of being worked on , the cruiser which carriers three KH-1 Kolibrie helicopters belonging to the GHC 1 (1) is scheduled to head to the Netherlands West Indies where she will be based out of the naval base Pareira near Willemstad on Curaçao and begin training in using here helicopters wile also patrolling the Netherlands Caribbean holdings.
February 7th
The royal Netherlands military intelligence service inform prime minister Smit that the can not guarantee that a plan in which the Germans ore the United States are to declare war whit each other whiteout drawing the Japanese empire into it ore the Netherlands can be plausible ,and that the advise is to wait as the believe Germany will do something that will drive the United States to declare war on them.
February 11th
The German battle cruisers KMS Scharnhorst , KMS Gneisenau and KMS Prinz Eugen rush out of Brest through the English channel towards the German port of Wilhelmshaven , using information provided by the royal Netherlands military intelligence service more then 417 fighters and 276 bombers belonging to the RAF and six destroyer escorts and 32 motor torpedo boats belonging to the royal navy are waiting for them , in the attack the battle cruisers KMS Scharnhorst is sunk whit the lose of 1,768 men wile KMS Prinz Eugen sinks whit 1,000 of its men , KMS Gneisenau is severely damaged and forced to return to Brest for repairs , the RAF and royal navy lose only 1 destroyer and 42 aircraft.
February 13th
German admiral Erich Raeder proposes to Adolf Hitler that Germany's primary military tasks is to capture of Egypt and drive through to the Middle East, and for the army in the Soviet Union to capture Murmansk and seize oil wells in the Caucasus , he also suggest that war production should shift to submarines and planes in order to keep the pressure on Great Britain.
February 19th
The royal Netherlands East Indies army air force becomes independent from the royal Netherlands East Indies army and is renamed the royal Netherlands East Indies air force.
March 1st
Cruiser USS Houston arrives in the Netherlands naval base Soerabaja for a port visit.
March 4th
Royal Netherlands engineering corps begins work on a small moon base on the moon named moon base Eisinga (2).
March 6th
Adolf Hitler denies orders for battleship KMS Tirpitz to leave the Norwegian fjord it is in in order for here to intercept a British convoy heading to the Soviet Union as he fears that the Tirpitz will end op the same fate as KMS Scharnhorst and KMS Prinz Eugen who where sunk in the battle of English channel.
May 17th
The first test flight of the D-23 Fokker meteoor M.1 jet fighter from RNLAF air force base Gilze-Rijen happens in the presences of Fokker research and development head Antony Fokker.
May 21st
True various methods a picture lands on the desk of Adolf Hitler , on the picture which is a little bit fuzzy a flying aircraft is pictured which the Abwehr note attached to the picture describes as a Netherlands jet fighter , after seeing this Hitler demands that the German jet fighter program is given more resources as he dos not want a small neighbor country to have a jet fighter before Germany has one in service.
April 16th
A United States flag ship leaves a harbor on the east coast carrying several hundred female nurses and doctors who have volunteer for service in British hospitals.
April 24th
A German wolf pack attack the convoy in which the passenger ship carrying the nurses and doctors are in , despite knowing that the ship is part of the convoy a torpedo fired by one of the German submarines part of the wolf pack hits the ship and more then 300 passengers are killed ,the ships which is put ablaze by the hit sinks a half hour latter but not before US destroyers mange to pick up passengers from the ship.
April 25th
American president Roosevelt makes a speech in congress declaring that Germany attacked a ship of mercy , and that as of April 25th the United States is now in war whit the German third Reich.
April 26th
Having not decided what to do about the United States declaration of war , Adolf Hitler issues orders for the German kriegsmarine to attack American ships anywhere whit out limitations.
Netherlands prime minister Smit receives word from the royal Netherlands military intelligence service , that the Netherlands where not behind that sinking of the American passenger ship , nor had any knowledge that this might happen.
Japanese ambassador to Germany Oshima informs minister of foreign affair Joachim von Ribbentrop that the empire of Japan will remain neutral in the German conflict whit the United States and will not declare war against the them.
April 27th
Adolf Hitler decides to declare war on the United States of America.
April 28th
In the Reichstag in Germany, Adolf Hitler announces his declaration of war on the United States of America.
Italy declares war on the United States of America , the same day the US Congress also declares war on Italy.
April 30th
Bulgaria and Hungary declare war on the United States of America.
May 10th
British prime minister Winston Churchill meets with American Chiefs of Staff in Washington to discuses the strategy against Germany and the possibility that the empire of Japan will side whit Germany.
June 27th
Jungle operations training center in Netherlands Suriname begins first training course for soldiers belonging to the Netherlands East Indies army and royal Netherlands marine corps.
June 13th
German submarines begin an assault on coastal shipping on the east coast of the United States.
July 5th
United States declares war on Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania.
After some persuasion Adolf Hitler allows German battleship KMS Tirpitz and accompanying ships to attack a British convoy heading towards the Soviet port of Murmansk , only after some time it is learned that the convoy's escort ships left, so KMS Tirpitz heads back , leaving the convoy's destruction for the submarines and the Luftwaffe , this shows Hitler again that the future in naval warfare lies not whit the surface ships but whit the submarine.
July 18th
The Germans test fly the Messerschmitt Me-262 using jet engines for the first time.
July 19th
President Roosevelt signs executive order 9066 allowing the secretary of war to exclude any persons from areas to provide security against sabotage and espionage , these zones affect the Germans and Italians living on the east coast and on the west coast.
July 22nd
Mexico declares war on against Germany and Italy.
July 26th
Dutch bishops issue a public protest of mass deportation of Jews in Belgium and Germany.
Augustus 4th
Second D-23 Fokker meteoor M.1 jet fighter rolls of the production line.
Augustus 5th
The Yamato class battleship Musashi is commissioned at Nagasaki , she and here sister-ship Yamato are the last of their class to be commission as the Japanese imperial navy after the mysterious destruction of their Pearl harbor attack fleet is focusing their attention on rebuilding their carrier fleet and having lost prestige to the Japanese imperial army are not receiving the funds to build new battleships ore cruisers.
Augustus 18th
General Montgomery takes command of the British 8th army in Egypt.
Augustus 22nd
Brazil declares war on Germany and Italy , partly in response to numerous riots by a populace angry at the sinking of Brazilian ships.
September 6th
In the Caribbean sea, north-west of Netherlands Antilles a German submarine torpedoes and sinks a Canadian merchant ship , the survivors are found using one of the KH-1 Kolibrie helicopters and are pick up by helicopter cruiser HNLMS Sumatra.
October 3rd
First successful launch of A4-rocket at Peenemünde, Germany , the rocket flies 147 kilometers wide and reaches a height of 84.5 kilometers , the entire fight of the A4-rocket is monitored by KNRS Amsterdam.
October 5th
257 British bombers attack Aachen in Germany but due to bad weather, many bombs are dropped on nearby Lutterade in the Netherlands province of Limburg killing 83 people , this is the largest bombing by mistake either by the British ore Germans over neutral Netherlands sins the start of the war in 1939.
October 20th
Vice-admiral Janssen retires as chief of naval staff and minister of navy , his position is taken over by admiral J.Th. Furstner who will become the new head of the royal Netherlands navy wile vice-admiral Janssen who is now a civilian will remain the chairman of the oversight commission .
November 4th
Whit work begun on a small moon base , two large shipbuilding company’s receive permission from both the oversight commission and the royal Netherlands space force to construct a small space yard which will be called New Fijenoord-Rotterdamsche space yard (3) , and will be build around the orbit of the moon , the space yard construction is slated to begin in 1943.
November 8th
Operation Torch begins as American and British forces land in Northern Africa.
December 7th
Port visit of Tromp class cruisers HNLMS Jacob van Heemskerck and HNLMS De Ruyter to Pearl Harbor happens.
December 30th
Royal Netherlands military intelligence service decided not to inform their British counterpart of a incoming attack against a British convoy by German cruiser KMS Admiral Hipper and six destroyers in order to prevent the British from asking to many questions in how the Netherlands is able to get this information.
(1)GHC is short for Groep helicopters which is equivalent to a squadron , GHC 1 is based out of naval air base De Kooy south of the city of Den Helder.
(2) The moon base is named after Netherlands astronomer Eise Jeltes Eisinga.
(2) The two large shipbuilding company’s are Wilton-Fijenoord and the Rotterdamsche Droogdok Maatschappij.
January 7th
The RW-1 rocket-propelled grenade launcher based on the Soviet RPG-2 is introduced to regular service whit the Netherlands East Indies army , royal Netherlands army and royal Netherlands marine corps.
Soviet forces launch counteroffensives along the whole German/Russian front.
January 13th
By order of Adolf Hitler , German submarines begin attacking coastal shipping on the east coast of the United States in order to prevent US flag ships from transporting goods to Great Britain despite the risk of creating a situation in which the United States will declare war against Germany.
January 21st
German forces under the command of Rommel in North Africa strike back at British forces.
January 23rd
HNLMS Sumatra the world first helicopter cruiser leaves dry dock after spending 7 months of being worked on , the cruiser which carriers three KH-1 Kolibrie helicopters belonging to the GHC 1 (1) is scheduled to head to the Netherlands West Indies where she will be based out of the naval base Pareira near Willemstad on Curaçao and begin training in using here helicopters wile also patrolling the Netherlands Caribbean holdings.
February 7th
The royal Netherlands military intelligence service inform prime minister Smit that the can not guarantee that a plan in which the Germans ore the United States are to declare war whit each other whiteout drawing the Japanese empire into it ore the Netherlands can be plausible ,and that the advise is to wait as the believe Germany will do something that will drive the United States to declare war on them.
February 11th
The German battle cruisers KMS Scharnhorst , KMS Gneisenau and KMS Prinz Eugen rush out of Brest through the English channel towards the German port of Wilhelmshaven , using information provided by the royal Netherlands military intelligence service more then 417 fighters and 276 bombers belonging to the RAF and six destroyer escorts and 32 motor torpedo boats belonging to the royal navy are waiting for them , in the attack the battle cruisers KMS Scharnhorst is sunk whit the lose of 1,768 men wile KMS Prinz Eugen sinks whit 1,000 of its men , KMS Gneisenau is severely damaged and forced to return to Brest for repairs , the RAF and royal navy lose only 1 destroyer and 42 aircraft.
February 13th
German admiral Erich Raeder proposes to Adolf Hitler that Germany's primary military tasks is to capture of Egypt and drive through to the Middle East, and for the army in the Soviet Union to capture Murmansk and seize oil wells in the Caucasus , he also suggest that war production should shift to submarines and planes in order to keep the pressure on Great Britain.
February 19th
The royal Netherlands East Indies army air force becomes independent from the royal Netherlands East Indies army and is renamed the royal Netherlands East Indies air force.
March 1st
Cruiser USS Houston arrives in the Netherlands naval base Soerabaja for a port visit.
March 4th
Royal Netherlands engineering corps begins work on a small moon base on the moon named moon base Eisinga (2).
March 6th
Adolf Hitler denies orders for battleship KMS Tirpitz to leave the Norwegian fjord it is in in order for here to intercept a British convoy heading to the Soviet Union as he fears that the Tirpitz will end op the same fate as KMS Scharnhorst and KMS Prinz Eugen who where sunk in the battle of English channel.
May 17th
The first test flight of the D-23 Fokker meteoor M.1 jet fighter from RNLAF air force base Gilze-Rijen happens in the presences of Fokker research and development head Antony Fokker.
May 21st
True various methods a picture lands on the desk of Adolf Hitler , on the picture which is a little bit fuzzy a flying aircraft is pictured which the Abwehr note attached to the picture describes as a Netherlands jet fighter , after seeing this Hitler demands that the German jet fighter program is given more resources as he dos not want a small neighbor country to have a jet fighter before Germany has one in service.
April 16th
A United States flag ship leaves a harbor on the east coast carrying several hundred female nurses and doctors who have volunteer for service in British hospitals.
April 24th
A German wolf pack attack the convoy in which the passenger ship carrying the nurses and doctors are in , despite knowing that the ship is part of the convoy a torpedo fired by one of the German submarines part of the wolf pack hits the ship and more then 300 passengers are killed ,the ships which is put ablaze by the hit sinks a half hour latter but not before US destroyers mange to pick up passengers from the ship.
April 25th
American president Roosevelt makes a speech in congress declaring that Germany attacked a ship of mercy , and that as of April 25th the United States is now in war whit the German third Reich.
April 26th
Having not decided what to do about the United States declaration of war , Adolf Hitler issues orders for the German kriegsmarine to attack American ships anywhere whit out limitations.
Netherlands prime minister Smit receives word from the royal Netherlands military intelligence service , that the Netherlands where not behind that sinking of the American passenger ship , nor had any knowledge that this might happen.
Japanese ambassador to Germany Oshima informs minister of foreign affair Joachim von Ribbentrop that the empire of Japan will remain neutral in the German conflict whit the United States and will not declare war against the them.
April 27th
Adolf Hitler decides to declare war on the United States of America.
April 28th
In the Reichstag in Germany, Adolf Hitler announces his declaration of war on the United States of America.
Italy declares war on the United States of America , the same day the US Congress also declares war on Italy.
April 30th
Bulgaria and Hungary declare war on the United States of America.
May 10th
British prime minister Winston Churchill meets with American Chiefs of Staff in Washington to discuses the strategy against Germany and the possibility that the empire of Japan will side whit Germany.
June 27th
Jungle operations training center in Netherlands Suriname begins first training course for soldiers belonging to the Netherlands East Indies army and royal Netherlands marine corps.
June 13th
German submarines begin an assault on coastal shipping on the east coast of the United States.
July 5th
United States declares war on Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania.
After some persuasion Adolf Hitler allows German battleship KMS Tirpitz and accompanying ships to attack a British convoy heading towards the Soviet port of Murmansk , only after some time it is learned that the convoy's escort ships left, so KMS Tirpitz heads back , leaving the convoy's destruction for the submarines and the Luftwaffe , this shows Hitler again that the future in naval warfare lies not whit the surface ships but whit the submarine.
July 18th
The Germans test fly the Messerschmitt Me-262 using jet engines for the first time.
July 19th
President Roosevelt signs executive order 9066 allowing the secretary of war to exclude any persons from areas to provide security against sabotage and espionage , these zones affect the Germans and Italians living on the east coast and on the west coast.
July 22nd
Mexico declares war on against Germany and Italy.
July 26th
Dutch bishops issue a public protest of mass deportation of Jews in Belgium and Germany.
Augustus 4th
Second D-23 Fokker meteoor M.1 jet fighter rolls of the production line.
Augustus 5th
The Yamato class battleship Musashi is commissioned at Nagasaki , she and here sister-ship Yamato are the last of their class to be commission as the Japanese imperial navy after the mysterious destruction of their Pearl harbor attack fleet is focusing their attention on rebuilding their carrier fleet and having lost prestige to the Japanese imperial army are not receiving the funds to build new battleships ore cruisers.
Augustus 18th
General Montgomery takes command of the British 8th army in Egypt.
Augustus 22nd
Brazil declares war on Germany and Italy , partly in response to numerous riots by a populace angry at the sinking of Brazilian ships.
September 6th
In the Caribbean sea, north-west of Netherlands Antilles a German submarine torpedoes and sinks a Canadian merchant ship , the survivors are found using one of the KH-1 Kolibrie helicopters and are pick up by helicopter cruiser HNLMS Sumatra.
October 3rd
First successful launch of A4-rocket at Peenemünde, Germany , the rocket flies 147 kilometers wide and reaches a height of 84.5 kilometers , the entire fight of the A4-rocket is monitored by KNRS Amsterdam.
October 5th
257 British bombers attack Aachen in Germany but due to bad weather, many bombs are dropped on nearby Lutterade in the Netherlands province of Limburg killing 83 people , this is the largest bombing by mistake either by the British ore Germans over neutral Netherlands sins the start of the war in 1939.
October 20th
Vice-admiral Janssen retires as chief of naval staff and minister of navy , his position is taken over by admiral J.Th. Furstner who will become the new head of the royal Netherlands navy wile vice-admiral Janssen who is now a civilian will remain the chairman of the oversight commission .
November 4th
Whit work begun on a small moon base , two large shipbuilding company’s receive permission from both the oversight commission and the royal Netherlands space force to construct a small space yard which will be called New Fijenoord-Rotterdamsche space yard (3) , and will be build around the orbit of the moon , the space yard construction is slated to begin in 1943.
November 8th
Operation Torch begins as American and British forces land in Northern Africa.
December 7th
Port visit of Tromp class cruisers HNLMS Jacob van Heemskerck and HNLMS De Ruyter to Pearl Harbor happens.
December 30th
Royal Netherlands military intelligence service decided not to inform their British counterpart of a incoming attack against a British convoy by German cruiser KMS Admiral Hipper and six destroyers in order to prevent the British from asking to many questions in how the Netherlands is able to get this information.
(1)GHC is short for Groep helicopters which is equivalent to a squadron , GHC 1 is based out of naval air base De Kooy south of the city of Den Helder.
(2) The moon base is named after Netherlands astronomer Eise Jeltes Eisinga.
(2) The two large shipbuilding company’s are Wilton-Fijenoord and the Rotterdamsche Droogdok Maatschappij.
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Kingdom of the Netherlands : a alternate star trek timeline
1941
January 19th
Koolhoven helikopter industrie and the royal Netherlands air force finalize a agreement in which the royal Netherlands air force will buy 36 KH-1 Kolibrie helicopters who can be used for search and rescue , reconnaissance , transport and communications missions.
January 24th
The royal Netherlands naval aviation service becomes the second operator of the KH-1 Kolibrie helicopter , as it orders 20 of them , with most of them to be deployed out of the nester lands east Indies , whit the large orders Koolhoven helikopter industrie is already working on the KH-2 Kolibrie II who is a enlarge version of the KH-1 Kolibrie.
February 2nd
Commanding officer of naval base Soerabaja captain Pieter Koenraad is promoted to rear admiral and placed in in charge of the royal Netherlands navy east Indies squadron whit his superior being vice admiral Helfrich.
February 7th
Third interment camp on the Netherlands island of Texel begins receiving British air crews forced to land their bombers ore fighters in the Netherlands , under a secret agreement between the Netherlands and Great Britain the air crews are to be hold for four weeks before being allowed to escape the interment camp , the other interment camp in the province of Utrecht is to become a transition camp to the Texel interment camp , the Germans who are being held in a interment camp in the province of Friesland don’t have the luxury of escaping as the are closely guarded by the royal Netherlands army despite numerous protest from Germany for their release.
February 15th
The Germans begins planning a take-over of Switzerland, Sweden and the Netherlands when the war against the soviet Union is over.
March 4th
Radar station Tjilatjap comes online and whit it is the second radar station in the Netherlands East Indies.
March 18th
In Berlin a meeting between Adolf Hitler and the Japanese ambassador baron Hiroshi Ōshima is held in which Adolf Hitler warns the Japanese ambassador that the empire of Japan is not to attack the Netherlands east Indies as the Germans have intelligences that the Netherlands are stronger than the appear and is one of the reasons why Germany did not invade the kingdom , he also warns that Germany will not declare war against the Netherlands if Japan attacks the Netherlands east Indies.
April 6th
German forces invade Greece.
April 13th
Japan and the Soviet Union sign a five-year non-aggression pact.
April 15th
The third Dolfijn-class submarine HNMS Tijgerhaai is commissioned and will join here two sister submarines in the Netherlands east Indies where the are part of the elite 1st submarine division.
April 17th
Yugoslavia surrenders.
April 24th
Adolf Hitler meets whit Japanese foreign minister Yosuke Matsuoka where he tells that Germany will fight whit the empire against the United States if a conflict between Japan and United States will happen but not against the Netherlands , to prove that the Netherlands are stronger ten the appears he shows the Japanese foreign minister several pictures taken by German agents operating in the Netherlands , the pictures show a strange aircraft floating a couple of meters above ground whit the name KNRS Huygens.
April 27th
Greece surrenders.
May 10th
During a patrol by the royal Netherlands marechaussee a large group of Germans are detected by one of a 1000 small sensor placed along the Netherlands-German border , these Germans are refugees who are sent across the border by the SS in order get ride of them wile not having go the trouble of killing them , after the royal Netherlands marechaussee patrol has conformed that these Germans are seeking refuge and are not Germans spies the are escorted to refuge camps located in the Friesland and Groningen provinces.
May 12th
HNLMS Sumatra arrives in Den Helder for a major refit into becoming the fist helicopter cruiser in the world , the refit includes modernizing her engines , removing her after turrets , increasing her AA and modernizing her sensor , the refit when complete will allow here to deploy three KH-1 Kolibrie helicopters.
May 17th
Fourth Gerard Callenburgh-class destroyer HNLMS Philips van Almonde is commissioned , whit this only two more Gerard Callenburgh-class destroyer are to be finished.
May 19th
A member belonging to the oversight commission gives the British naval attaché in Netherlands a warning that the Germans are going to launch a invasion of Create in the next 24 hours.
May 20th
German paratroopers land on Crete , but despite the warning given by the Netherlands the Germans still manage to surprise the British , Commonwealth and Greek forces on the island.
May 24th
After four days of battling the battle for Grete despite the warning of the oversight commission to the British is turning to become another victory for the Germans.
June 4th
Former Kaiser Wilhelm dies in his home in Apeldoorn at age 82 , he will be buried in a small ceremony which will also be attend by the German ambassador to the Netherlands.
June 22nd
Germany launches operation Barbarossa invading the Soviet Union along an 1100-mile front, with three million soldiers.
July 2nd
An Imperial conference is held in Japan where its leaders decide to try to settle the conflict in China, advance into southern regions, and prepare for war with the Netherlands , United kingdom and the United States if diplomacy fails.
July 29th
Great Britain, the United States, and the Netherlands freeze all Japanese assets and halt most trade , the Netherlands who knows what will happen agreed to the freeze in support of the United States and Great Britain.
Augustus 1st
A day after the United States began its oil embargo of Japan , the Netherlands government orders all trade to stop whit Japan.
Augustus 19th
Escorted by the destroyer HNLMS Philips van Almonde a transport ship carrying 25 DAF M.38 armored utility car leaves the port of Rotterdam for the Netherlands east Indies , all of the 25 DAF M.38 armored utility cars are to be divided between the 1st and 2nd cavalry regiments of the royal Netherlands East Indies army , the KNIL also has the 1st armored car battalion and is creating the 1st light armored regiment which will use modified American M2 light tanks.
September 14th
The royal Netherlands army receives it first tank as the 1st regiment Huzaren begins operating the T-10 panther , the tank which is produced by DAF is based on the US designed Sherman tank , whit this the royal Netherlands army who sins 1936 has relied on wheedled vehicles now has for the first time a tank in its inventory.
October 12th
HNLMS Bloys van Treslong , the fifth Gerard Callenburgh-class destroyer is commissioned.
October 15th
Fokker aircraft corporation east Indies halts the production of Fokker D-21 in favor of the more modern D-22 fighter , more then 96 Fokker D-21 have bin build by Fokker aircraft corporation east Indies ore delivered by Fokker Netherlands sins 1938 , of the D-22 fighter more then 17 have bin produced sins 1940 by Fokker aircraft corporation east Indies and more then 33 who have bin delivered by Fokker Netherlands sins 1939.
November 3rd
Admiral Yamamoto’s plan to attack Pearl Harbor is approved.
November 7th
Paramaribo radar station comes online in the Netherlands Suriname, the Paramaribo transport station is almost ready to become operational and whit it the Netherlands have transport stations at all three major location the posses.
November 26th
A fleet of 6 aircraft carriers and 33 warships and auxiliary commanded by Japanese vice admiral Nagumo leaves Hitokapu Bay for Pearl Harbor under strict radio silence , however the are not aware that KNRS Amsterdam is following it.
November 28th
The Dutch government begins taking masseurs after the where informed that the Japanese attack fleet had left port and where heading towards Pearl Harbor.
November 29th
The Netherlands declare a state of siege to be in effect for all eleven provinces of the Netherlands , the Netherlands East Indies also declare a state of siege true out the colony.
November 30th
All leave for the soldiers and officers belonging to the Netherlands marine special operations battalion , royal army 2nd special forces regiment , royal Netherlands East Indies army and all royal Netherlands marines battalions present in the Netherlands East Indies is canceled , the royal Netherlands armed forces also begins cancelling all leave for its soldiers and officers belonging to the royal Netherlands army , navy and air force present in the Netherlands.
December 1st
A colonel belonging to the royal Netherlands military intelligence service informs prime minister Smit (1) that the Japanese Pearl harbor attack fleet is still heading towards its target, whit this in mind prime minister Smit and vice admiral Janssen decide that the Netherlands most destroy the Japanese Pearl harbor attack fleet before the have the change to attack Pearl Harbor in the hopes that the empire if Japan will not go to war whit the United States and drag the Netherlands into a war which could result in Germany declaring war against them and invade the Netherlands mainland.
December 2nd
The first shipment of 50 M2 light tanks arrive in the port of Soerabaja , all of them are to be upgraded by the Bandoeng arsenal before the are to be handed over to the KNIL 1st light armored regiment.
The last radar station in the Netherlands East Indies comes online , the radar station which is based in Batavia is like the other two in used build on the island of Java but whit the technology used and the support of a orbiting KNRS Amsterdam allows it to monitor the entire Netherlands East Indies
December 3rd
KNRS Amsterdam begins targeting the Japanese Pearl harbor attack fleet whit its targeting sensor , meanwhile on the forward torpedo bay located on deck 25 crews begin modifying a photon torpedo to be fired for the first time in the history of the royal Netherlands space force.
December 4th
As ordered by the prime minister the KNRS Amsterdam fires its special modified photon torpedo in the middle of the Japanese Pearl harbor attack fleet sinking the Japanese carriers Akagi , Kaga , Sōryū , Hiryū , Shōkaku and Zuikaku , the battleships Hiei and Kirishima and the cruisers Tone and Chikuma thereby destroying a large part of Japanese Pearl harbor attack fleet.
December 5th
The sixth Gerard Callenburgh-destroyer HNLMS Steven van der Hagen is commissioned in the royal Netherlands navy.
The Japanese imperial navy is informed true radio from the light cruiser Abukuma who was part of the Pearl harbor attack fleet that the six carriers and many other warships have bin sunk by a unknown event.
Admiral Yamamoto after he is informed oft the news concerning the destruction of the Pearl harbor attack fleet meets whit prime minister Tōjō who tells him that all actions against the United States , Netherlands and great Britain are to going to be canalled.
December 6th
Ordered by prime minister Tōjō the Japanese imperial general headquarters cancels al planned operations against the United States , Great Britain and the Netherlands which where to begin on December 7th.
Prime minister Smit congratulates captain De Jong commander of KNRS Amsterdam for the destruction of the Japanese Pearl harbor attack fleet and whit it preventing the Netherlands from being dragged into a war.
December 9th
Royal Netherlands military intelligence service monitors that all across the Pacific various Imperial warships and transport are heading to the nearest Japanese Imperial naval bases wile also monitoring that the Japanese imperial navy base at Truk Lagoon has issued a massive communication black for the entire lagoon as surviving ships belonging to the Pearl harbor attack fleet and survivors the picked up are enter the naval base.
December 10th
The Soviet Union launches a large scale offensive along the eastern front against Germany.
December 13th
Whit the T-10 panther tank roiling out of DAF factory near the city of Eindhoven , work on a new tank called the T-20 Tjiger (3) is almost completed , it is hoped that the T-20 Tjiger tank will become the newest tank in the royal Netherlands army and if all goes as planed will enter in service whit the royal Netherlands army in late 1942 , the T-10 panther tank is slatted to remain in production both for the royal Netherlands army and the royal Netherlands East Indies army.
December 14th
Japanese ambassador to Germany Oshima tells Adolf Hitler about the destruction of the Pearl harbor attack fleet and the decision of the Japanese government in not declaring war against the United States , Great Britain and the Netherlands after the decisions to called all operations against them.
December 15th
The state of siege is lifted in eight of the eleven provinces of the Netherlands , also the yellow alert onboard KNRS Amsterdam and the land bases belonging to the royal Netherlands space force are lifted.
December 17th
HNLMS Eendracht is commissioned as the last of the Tromp class cruiser which is to enter service whit the royal Netherlands navy , whit this a total of four state of the art Tromp class cruiser are in service whit the royal Netherlands navy.
December 18th
The royal Netherlands space force conducts a second moon walk which last a entire day on this day , plans to build a small moon base already in the last stages and which if all goes as planed will begin work on by the royal Netherlands engineering corps (4) in early 1942.
December 19th
Second shipment of 50 M2 light tanks arrive in the port of Soerabaja , like the first 50 M2 light tanks who are now divided between the 1st and 2nd light armored battalions of the KNIL 1st light armored regiment all of them are to be upgraded by the Bandoeng arsenal before the are handing over.
December 20th
The fourth Dolfijn-class submarine HNMS Zwaardvis is commission into the royal Netherlands navy and will join its sister ships in patrolling the waters near the Netherlands East Indies.
December 24th
Prime minister Smit orders the royal Netherlands military intelligence service to create and execute a plan in which the Germans ore the United States are to declare war whit each other whiteout drawing the Japanese empire into it ore the Netherlands.
December 27th
Admiral Yamamoto commander of the Japanese imperial navy resigns his function under pressure of the imperial government who blame him for the lose of the Pearl harbor attack fleet even if the know that he was the one to blame for the lose but du him being the master mind of the attack is being made the person to take the fall for it.
(1) prime minister Smit is a member of the royal democratic party ore in Dutch koninklijke democratische partij ( KDP ) which is the largest party sins 1936 and is unofficially supported and backed by the powerful oversight commission.
(2) the Mark 7 torpedo is based on the yet to be design German acoustic torpedo and entered in service whit the Netherlands submarine force in 1939 after years of testing.
(3) the T-20 Tjiger is based on the American M47 Patton tank.
(4) the royal Netherlands engineering corps is made op of the 1st , 2nd , 3rd and 4th engineer regiments of the royal Netherlands army , the special forces engineer company belonging to the two royal army special forces regiments and the 1st and 2nd engineer battalions belonging to the royal Netherlands East Indies army.
January 19th
Koolhoven helikopter industrie and the royal Netherlands air force finalize a agreement in which the royal Netherlands air force will buy 36 KH-1 Kolibrie helicopters who can be used for search and rescue , reconnaissance , transport and communications missions.
January 24th
The royal Netherlands naval aviation service becomes the second operator of the KH-1 Kolibrie helicopter , as it orders 20 of them , with most of them to be deployed out of the nester lands east Indies , whit the large orders Koolhoven helikopter industrie is already working on the KH-2 Kolibrie II who is a enlarge version of the KH-1 Kolibrie.
February 2nd
Commanding officer of naval base Soerabaja captain Pieter Koenraad is promoted to rear admiral and placed in in charge of the royal Netherlands navy east Indies squadron whit his superior being vice admiral Helfrich.
February 7th
Third interment camp on the Netherlands island of Texel begins receiving British air crews forced to land their bombers ore fighters in the Netherlands , under a secret agreement between the Netherlands and Great Britain the air crews are to be hold for four weeks before being allowed to escape the interment camp , the other interment camp in the province of Utrecht is to become a transition camp to the Texel interment camp , the Germans who are being held in a interment camp in the province of Friesland don’t have the luxury of escaping as the are closely guarded by the royal Netherlands army despite numerous protest from Germany for their release.
February 15th
The Germans begins planning a take-over of Switzerland, Sweden and the Netherlands when the war against the soviet Union is over.
March 4th
Radar station Tjilatjap comes online and whit it is the second radar station in the Netherlands East Indies.
March 18th
In Berlin a meeting between Adolf Hitler and the Japanese ambassador baron Hiroshi Ōshima is held in which Adolf Hitler warns the Japanese ambassador that the empire of Japan is not to attack the Netherlands east Indies as the Germans have intelligences that the Netherlands are stronger than the appear and is one of the reasons why Germany did not invade the kingdom , he also warns that Germany will not declare war against the Netherlands if Japan attacks the Netherlands east Indies.
April 6th
German forces invade Greece.
April 13th
Japan and the Soviet Union sign a five-year non-aggression pact.
April 15th
The third Dolfijn-class submarine HNMS Tijgerhaai is commissioned and will join here two sister submarines in the Netherlands east Indies where the are part of the elite 1st submarine division.
April 17th
Yugoslavia surrenders.
April 24th
Adolf Hitler meets whit Japanese foreign minister Yosuke Matsuoka where he tells that Germany will fight whit the empire against the United States if a conflict between Japan and United States will happen but not against the Netherlands , to prove that the Netherlands are stronger ten the appears he shows the Japanese foreign minister several pictures taken by German agents operating in the Netherlands , the pictures show a strange aircraft floating a couple of meters above ground whit the name KNRS Huygens.
April 27th
Greece surrenders.
May 10th
During a patrol by the royal Netherlands marechaussee a large group of Germans are detected by one of a 1000 small sensor placed along the Netherlands-German border , these Germans are refugees who are sent across the border by the SS in order get ride of them wile not having go the trouble of killing them , after the royal Netherlands marechaussee patrol has conformed that these Germans are seeking refuge and are not Germans spies the are escorted to refuge camps located in the Friesland and Groningen provinces.
May 12th
HNLMS Sumatra arrives in Den Helder for a major refit into becoming the fist helicopter cruiser in the world , the refit includes modernizing her engines , removing her after turrets , increasing her AA and modernizing her sensor , the refit when complete will allow here to deploy three KH-1 Kolibrie helicopters.
May 17th
Fourth Gerard Callenburgh-class destroyer HNLMS Philips van Almonde is commissioned , whit this only two more Gerard Callenburgh-class destroyer are to be finished.
May 19th
A member belonging to the oversight commission gives the British naval attaché in Netherlands a warning that the Germans are going to launch a invasion of Create in the next 24 hours.
May 20th
German paratroopers land on Crete , but despite the warning given by the Netherlands the Germans still manage to surprise the British , Commonwealth and Greek forces on the island.
May 24th
After four days of battling the battle for Grete despite the warning of the oversight commission to the British is turning to become another victory for the Germans.
June 4th
Former Kaiser Wilhelm dies in his home in Apeldoorn at age 82 , he will be buried in a small ceremony which will also be attend by the German ambassador to the Netherlands.
June 22nd
Germany launches operation Barbarossa invading the Soviet Union along an 1100-mile front, with three million soldiers.
July 2nd
An Imperial conference is held in Japan where its leaders decide to try to settle the conflict in China, advance into southern regions, and prepare for war with the Netherlands , United kingdom and the United States if diplomacy fails.
July 29th
Great Britain, the United States, and the Netherlands freeze all Japanese assets and halt most trade , the Netherlands who knows what will happen agreed to the freeze in support of the United States and Great Britain.
Augustus 1st
A day after the United States began its oil embargo of Japan , the Netherlands government orders all trade to stop whit Japan.
Augustus 19th
Escorted by the destroyer HNLMS Philips van Almonde a transport ship carrying 25 DAF M.38 armored utility car leaves the port of Rotterdam for the Netherlands east Indies , all of the 25 DAF M.38 armored utility cars are to be divided between the 1st and 2nd cavalry regiments of the royal Netherlands East Indies army , the KNIL also has the 1st armored car battalion and is creating the 1st light armored regiment which will use modified American M2 light tanks.
September 14th
The royal Netherlands army receives it first tank as the 1st regiment Huzaren begins operating the T-10 panther , the tank which is produced by DAF is based on the US designed Sherman tank , whit this the royal Netherlands army who sins 1936 has relied on wheedled vehicles now has for the first time a tank in its inventory.
October 12th
HNLMS Bloys van Treslong , the fifth Gerard Callenburgh-class destroyer is commissioned.
October 15th
Fokker aircraft corporation east Indies halts the production of Fokker D-21 in favor of the more modern D-22 fighter , more then 96 Fokker D-21 have bin build by Fokker aircraft corporation east Indies ore delivered by Fokker Netherlands sins 1938 , of the D-22 fighter more then 17 have bin produced sins 1940 by Fokker aircraft corporation east Indies and more then 33 who have bin delivered by Fokker Netherlands sins 1939.
November 3rd
Admiral Yamamoto’s plan to attack Pearl Harbor is approved.
November 7th
Paramaribo radar station comes online in the Netherlands Suriname, the Paramaribo transport station is almost ready to become operational and whit it the Netherlands have transport stations at all three major location the posses.
November 26th
A fleet of 6 aircraft carriers and 33 warships and auxiliary commanded by Japanese vice admiral Nagumo leaves Hitokapu Bay for Pearl Harbor under strict radio silence , however the are not aware that KNRS Amsterdam is following it.
November 28th
The Dutch government begins taking masseurs after the where informed that the Japanese attack fleet had left port and where heading towards Pearl Harbor.
November 29th
The Netherlands declare a state of siege to be in effect for all eleven provinces of the Netherlands , the Netherlands East Indies also declare a state of siege true out the colony.
November 30th
All leave for the soldiers and officers belonging to the Netherlands marine special operations battalion , royal army 2nd special forces regiment , royal Netherlands East Indies army and all royal Netherlands marines battalions present in the Netherlands East Indies is canceled , the royal Netherlands armed forces also begins cancelling all leave for its soldiers and officers belonging to the royal Netherlands army , navy and air force present in the Netherlands.
December 1st
A colonel belonging to the royal Netherlands military intelligence service informs prime minister Smit (1) that the Japanese Pearl harbor attack fleet is still heading towards its target, whit this in mind prime minister Smit and vice admiral Janssen decide that the Netherlands most destroy the Japanese Pearl harbor attack fleet before the have the change to attack Pearl Harbor in the hopes that the empire if Japan will not go to war whit the United States and drag the Netherlands into a war which could result in Germany declaring war against them and invade the Netherlands mainland.
December 2nd
The first shipment of 50 M2 light tanks arrive in the port of Soerabaja , all of them are to be upgraded by the Bandoeng arsenal before the are to be handed over to the KNIL 1st light armored regiment.
The last radar station in the Netherlands East Indies comes online , the radar station which is based in Batavia is like the other two in used build on the island of Java but whit the technology used and the support of a orbiting KNRS Amsterdam allows it to monitor the entire Netherlands East Indies
December 3rd
KNRS Amsterdam begins targeting the Japanese Pearl harbor attack fleet whit its targeting sensor , meanwhile on the forward torpedo bay located on deck 25 crews begin modifying a photon torpedo to be fired for the first time in the history of the royal Netherlands space force.
December 4th
As ordered by the prime minister the KNRS Amsterdam fires its special modified photon torpedo in the middle of the Japanese Pearl harbor attack fleet sinking the Japanese carriers Akagi , Kaga , Sōryū , Hiryū , Shōkaku and Zuikaku , the battleships Hiei and Kirishima and the cruisers Tone and Chikuma thereby destroying a large part of Japanese Pearl harbor attack fleet.
December 5th
The sixth Gerard Callenburgh-destroyer HNLMS Steven van der Hagen is commissioned in the royal Netherlands navy.
The Japanese imperial navy is informed true radio from the light cruiser Abukuma who was part of the Pearl harbor attack fleet that the six carriers and many other warships have bin sunk by a unknown event.
Admiral Yamamoto after he is informed oft the news concerning the destruction of the Pearl harbor attack fleet meets whit prime minister Tōjō who tells him that all actions against the United States , Netherlands and great Britain are to going to be canalled.
December 6th
Ordered by prime minister Tōjō the Japanese imperial general headquarters cancels al planned operations against the United States , Great Britain and the Netherlands which where to begin on December 7th.
Prime minister Smit congratulates captain De Jong commander of KNRS Amsterdam for the destruction of the Japanese Pearl harbor attack fleet and whit it preventing the Netherlands from being dragged into a war.
December 9th
Royal Netherlands military intelligence service monitors that all across the Pacific various Imperial warships and transport are heading to the nearest Japanese Imperial naval bases wile also monitoring that the Japanese imperial navy base at Truk Lagoon has issued a massive communication black for the entire lagoon as surviving ships belonging to the Pearl harbor attack fleet and survivors the picked up are enter the naval base.
December 10th
The Soviet Union launches a large scale offensive along the eastern front against Germany.
December 13th
Whit the T-10 panther tank roiling out of DAF factory near the city of Eindhoven , work on a new tank called the T-20 Tjiger (3) is almost completed , it is hoped that the T-20 Tjiger tank will become the newest tank in the royal Netherlands army and if all goes as planed will enter in service whit the royal Netherlands army in late 1942 , the T-10 panther tank is slatted to remain in production both for the royal Netherlands army and the royal Netherlands East Indies army.
December 14th
Japanese ambassador to Germany Oshima tells Adolf Hitler about the destruction of the Pearl harbor attack fleet and the decision of the Japanese government in not declaring war against the United States , Great Britain and the Netherlands after the decisions to called all operations against them.
December 15th
The state of siege is lifted in eight of the eleven provinces of the Netherlands , also the yellow alert onboard KNRS Amsterdam and the land bases belonging to the royal Netherlands space force are lifted.
December 17th
HNLMS Eendracht is commissioned as the last of the Tromp class cruiser which is to enter service whit the royal Netherlands navy , whit this a total of four state of the art Tromp class cruiser are in service whit the royal Netherlands navy.
December 18th
The royal Netherlands space force conducts a second moon walk which last a entire day on this day , plans to build a small moon base already in the last stages and which if all goes as planed will begin work on by the royal Netherlands engineering corps (4) in early 1942.
December 19th
Second shipment of 50 M2 light tanks arrive in the port of Soerabaja , like the first 50 M2 light tanks who are now divided between the 1st and 2nd light armored battalions of the KNIL 1st light armored regiment all of them are to be upgraded by the Bandoeng arsenal before the are handing over.
December 20th
The fourth Dolfijn-class submarine HNMS Zwaardvis is commission into the royal Netherlands navy and will join its sister ships in patrolling the waters near the Netherlands East Indies.
December 24th
Prime minister Smit orders the royal Netherlands military intelligence service to create and execute a plan in which the Germans ore the United States are to declare war whit each other whiteout drawing the Japanese empire into it ore the Netherlands.
December 27th
Admiral Yamamoto commander of the Japanese imperial navy resigns his function under pressure of the imperial government who blame him for the lose of the Pearl harbor attack fleet even if the know that he was the one to blame for the lose but du him being the master mind of the attack is being made the person to take the fall for it.
(1) prime minister Smit is a member of the royal democratic party ore in Dutch koninklijke democratische partij ( KDP ) which is the largest party sins 1936 and is unofficially supported and backed by the powerful oversight commission.
(2) the Mark 7 torpedo is based on the yet to be design German acoustic torpedo and entered in service whit the Netherlands submarine force in 1939 after years of testing.
(3) the T-20 Tjiger is based on the American M47 Patton tank.
(4) the royal Netherlands engineering corps is made op of the 1st , 2nd , 3rd and 4th engineer regiments of the royal Netherlands army , the special forces engineer company belonging to the two royal army special forces regiments and the 1st and 2nd engineer battalions belonging to the royal Netherlands East Indies army.
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