1945
January 9th
Twelve royal Netherlands space force personal now live and work at moon base Eisinga , expansion of the moon base is under way to facilitate more space force personal , construction of a second moon base is also underway.
January 17th
Fokker research and development begins working on the D-23 Fokker meteoor M.2 jet fighter , the M.2 is major improvement over the M.1 , having a longer fuselage, greater fuel capacity and a standard ejection seat.
Soviet forces liberate Warsaw, Poland.
January 20th
German forces in Hungary surrender to the Soviet army.
February 4th
Belgium is now cleared of all German forces.
February 26th
After many visit to the surface of Mars , the royal Netherlands space force stellar cartography department onboard KNRS Amsterdam , using data gather during those walks , finds the write place for building the first Mars base.
March 9th
The Japanese imperial army deployed in Indochina attack French positions in Indochina.
March 10th
Under pressure of the Japanese empire , the empire of Vietnam, kingdom of Laos and the kingdom of Cambodia declare their independence from French.
March 12th
The provisional government of the French republic, issues a statement that the do not recognize the independence of the empire of Vietnam, kingdom of Laos and Cambodia , and that a as the where part of the French republic , French Indochina is their to govern.
March 15th
German V-2 rockets continue to hit England and Belgium , seven V-2 rockets have crashed onto Netherlands territory killing thirteen people and wounding several dozens sins the Germans started launching them from Germany.
March 19th
311th fighter squadron of the royal Netherlands air force receives its D-23 Fokker meteoor M.1 jet fighters , the squadron which is the only royal Netherlands air force fighter squadron based in Netherlands Guyana , main job is guarding the airspace of Netherlands space centre Guyana.
March 27th
The Western Allies slow their advance and allow the Soviet army to take Berlin.
March 28th
Argentina declares war on Germany, the last Western hemisphere country to do so.
March 29th
The Soviet army enters Austria , the Allies take Frankfurt.
March 30th
Work on the New Fijenoord-Rotterdamsche space yard orbiting the moon is progressing on schedule , two shuttles operating out of moon base Eisinga are assigned to assist in the construction.
April 7th
Japanese admiral Toyoda , commander-in-chief of the combined fleet orders the battleship Yamato and four carriers to being operations along the coast of the Chinese province of Guangxi in order to show that not all glory belongs to the imperial Japanese army.
April 12th
President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies suddenly , vice president Harry S. Truman becomes president of the United States.
April 15th
The Japanese battleship Yamato , aircraft carriers Taihō , Hiyō , Junyō and light air craft carrier Shōhō , and their escort begin bombing missions against Chinese forces in the Chinese province of Guangxi.
April 21st
Soviet forces launch assaults on the German forces in and around the city of Berlin.
Construction on the second moon base begins by the royal Netherlands engineering corps , the base is to be named New Amsterdam moon base.
April 25th
First contact between Soviet and American troops at the river Elbe, near Torgau in Germany.
April 27th
Soviet army’s complete the encirclement of German forces in Berlin.
Adolf Hitler and his wife Eva Hitler commit suicide inside the Führerbunker.
April 28th
Benito Mussolini is captured by Italian Partisans and killed.
April 30th
US Strategic air forces in Europe and the British air ministry declare an end to strategic bombing in Europe.
May 2nd
The battle of Berlin ends when German general Helmuth Weidling, commander of the Berlin defense area, unconditionally surrenders the city of Berlin to Soviet General Vasily Chuikov.
British field marshal Montgomery tells German general of the army, admiral Hans von Friedeburg and three others to surrender unconditionally all German forces in Helgoland, Schleswig-Holstein, Denmark, and all other islands.
May 3rd
Rocket scientist Wernher von Braun and 120 members of his team surrender to US forces.
May 4th
Near Hamburg, the unconditional surrender of one million troops in German land, sea, and air forces in Denmark, and northern Germany facing the Canadian 1st army and British 2nd army is arranged.
May 5th
Denmark is liberated by Allied troops.
The Netherlands government decide to close the interment camp on the island of Texel , and the interment camp in the province of Utrecht where British and American airman where held , the interment camp in the province of Friesland where Germans airman are hold is to remain open as the Germans for now have place to return to.
May 7th
The Netherlands government announces that 100,000 refuges living in refuge camps in the Netherlands provinces of North Brabant , Zeeland and Limburg can leave to their home country’s of Germany ore Belgium when the situation is stabile enough.
May 8th
Washington, D.C., US President Harry Truman officially announces the unconditional surrender of Germany , and whit it the second world war officially ends.
May 9th
Dr. Anton Mussert leader of the banded Netherlands national socialist movement holds a wake for Adolf Hitler , the wake which is held in a café in The Hauge is attended by 30 people.
Moscow radio announces Josef Stalin's proclamation of the unconditional surrender of Germany.
May 10th
The Netherlands ministry of foreign affairs announces that the kingdom of the Netherlands has broken off diplomatic relations with Germany, and taken over the German legation, consulate and other German properties in The Hauge.
May 19th
Heinrich Himmler enters disguised as a German refuge the Netherlands border , however he is detected by one of the 1000 small sensor placed along the Netherlands-German border , a royal Netherlands army patrol driving a DAF M.38 armored car at the Dutch side of the border picks up the signal and moves to the location , Heinrich Himmler seeing the vehicle and knowing he is now in the Netherlands surrenders to the crew inside believing he is safe.
May 20th
Royal Netherlands military intelligence service bring Heinrich Himmler to a house used by the military intelligence service somewhere in the Netherlands , where he is identified and latter question by the royal Netherlands military intelligence service.
May 22nd
Chairman of the oversight commission Janssen and prime minister Smit decide to keep Heinrich Himmler until the beginning of the Nuremberg trails the now are soon to begin ,and question him until handing him over to the British.
May 27th
Prime minister Smit announces that he will step down as prime minister in 1949 , this after his political party , the royal democratic party becomes for the third time the largest party in the cabinet.
June 5th
The European advisory committee announces the unconditional political capitulation of Germany , control of the country is divided into four occupation zones, whit the United States, Great Britain, France and the Soviet Union controlling each one zone.
June 8th
During a patrol along the coast of Netherlands Borneo , the royal Netherlands submarine HNLMS O-19 , becomes stuck after hitting a sandbank.
June 13th
Gerard Callenburgh-class destroyer HNLMS Bloys van Treslong and Admiralen class destroyer HMNLS Witte de With (1) using their guns and several Mark 7 torpedoes , destroy HNLMS O-19 , after attempts to pull here of the sandbank failed.
July 16th
To late to be used in the war against Germany , the United States tests the first atomic bomb, at the Alamo-gordo airbase in New Mexico , the blast is monitored by a orbiting class-1 probe who transmit the data to the royal Netherlands space force headquarters in Den Helder , before ending up on the desk of prime minister Smit.
July 30th
First Belgium refugees , some having stayed in a refugee camp in the Netherlands sins the German invasion of Belgium in 1940 set foot in their country for the first time in vive years.
Augustus 12th
In the dessert of New Mexico , the United States test their second atomic bomb , again the blast is picked up by a royal Netherlands space force class-1 probe and send to Den Helder , where the date is analyzed.
September 18th
Typhoon Makurazaki kills 3,746 people in Japan , Japanese imperial navy and imperial army are mobilized to aid the people effected.
September 20th
Mohandas Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru demand that all British troops depart India.
October 20th
The United Nations is founded.
November 4th
Work on the Netherlands first Mars base begins , unlike the two moon base which are build above ground , the Mars base will be build for the most part underground.
November 16th
88 German scientists arrive in the United States to help in the production of rocket technology.
November 20th
The Nuremberg trials begin , the Netherlands government decides to hand Heinrich Himmler over to the Americans and British for prosecution.
November 26th
Heinrich Himmler is transported to the German border , by two Netherlands military intelligence service agents who after a quick conversation hand a unwilling Himmler over to two British secret intelligence service agents , who later bring him to a location in Germany for interrogation.
December 4th
The United Nations charter is ratified by the United States senate, becoming the third nation to join the new international organization.
December 15th
Heinrich Himmler is transported by the British to Nuremberg where he will face trail.
December 17th
The Japanese empire , state of Manchuria , empire of Vietnam, kingdom of Laos , kingdom of Cambodia , Mengjiang united autonomous government (2) and the republic of China-Nanking(3) sign the charter for the creation of the greater east Asia alliance (4).
December 21st
General Patton dies from injuries sustained in a car accident on December 9th.
(1) all eight Admiralen class destroyers are still in service whit the royal Netherlands navy , and have bin modernized whit new weapons , sonar and radar systems , which are also used by the six Gerard Callenburgh-class destroyer in service whit the royal Netherlands navy.
(2) the Mengjiang united autonomous government is a autonomous area in Inner Mongolia, operating under Japanese control.
(3) the republic of China-Nankingis the official Japanese backed rival for the rightful government of the republic of China led by generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek.
(4) the greater east Asia alliance is the successor to the Japanese greater east Asia co-prosperity sphere , the greater east Asia alliance is controlled and dominated by the Japanese empire.
