part 11 1943

Juni 1 Mexico declares war on Germany, Italy and Japan, the US warns Japan that it will retaliate in kind if gas is used.

Juni 2 the free French Provence and the cruiser Lamotte-Piquet who where after the battle of French Indochina moved to Australia are ordered to go to Vichy French Madagascar and to wait for a British/free French taskforce of taking the island ( the Provence was damage in the battle of French Indochina but that has bin fix ). The RAF' launches it's second 1,000 bomber and hits Essen, but due to the haze over the city, the results are minima but the RAF losses are high and more then 230 aircraft are lose du to German radar and aa and a large number of Luftwaffe planes , Churchill orders further raids on this scale to be halted and only to be resume when a the problem is fix ( the Germans have increase their aa and have much more radar protection to cover their territory and therefore the where amble to destroy over 20 procent of the British bomber force).

June 3 Vichy France after receiving their fourth wf 190 squadron, the Vichy now have a force to protect them from the allies the also have the D.520 in full production sins 1941 with a total order of 240 to be used wit the 12 wf 190 squadrons as their air force ( the D.520 was a plan being build by the Vichy in otl as for now the have a total of 160 of the to be produce 240 with the Vichy build plane station in Vichy and the wf 190 Vichy squadrons are based in Sardinia and Italy helping defending Italy under German command).

June 4 Advance units of 4th Panzer Army cross the Aksay river in their drive toward Stalingrad. Hitler flies to Leningrad to inspect the german forces there before he fly s the next day to Finland to meet with the Finnish head of state Marshal Mannerheim in witch the discuses the war efforts and a possibility to open a new front against Norway after the UK and Norway declared war against Finland ( as for now the border of Finland/Norway is quiet as both side only shell each otter both nothing more ). Reinhard Heydrich dies of his wounds

June 5 1st Panzer Army captures Voroshilovsk, over 200 miles to the south east of Rostov. The 4th Panzer Army moving northeast runs straight into the Soviet 64th army that was being moved form the Zhukov army to intercept the german and to slow it long in of for defence to be set up . June 7 after a 5 day journey the battleship Provence and the cruiser Lamotte-Piquet arrive of the coast from Vichy Madagascar with the task British/free French taskforce one day away.

June 9 the British/free French taskforce under command of Admiral René-Emile Godfroy links with the already present Provence and Lamotte-Piquet and begins its negations with the governor of Vichy Madagascar ( Vichy Madagascar is isolated and the allies fear that the would allow the japans to land at the island to use it as a base to strike the allies therefore the taskforce with troops are order to wait until free French officials can try to switch the Vichy Madagascar forces to the allied side if that fails the are ordered to invaded). The 1st Panzer Army captures the Maikop oilfields, witch thanks to the rapid advance of the army group south that the Red Army was lot able to destroy the wells as many where ordered to intercept other elements of group south heading toward Stalingrad.

Juni 10 the 6th Army crosses the Don and reaches the outskirts of Stalingrad.

June 11 after two days of negation the governor of Vichy Madagascar switich side allowing the taskforce to forces land at Diego Suarez and Antsirene on Madagascar ( the two days negation where started early a month ago when the fear of a Japanese takeover was high but with the task force out the coast and a reminder from the free French negotiators what happen in Syria two years ago was good in of for the governor and commander of the forces on Madagascar to switch side). A rehearsal for the raid against trondelheim operation 'iron strike' is held the 2nd Canadian Division is chosen for the job. U-boats begin laying mines off Boston, Delaware and Chesapeake Bay.

June 12 In their advance south toward the Grozny oilfields, units of Army Group south capture the town of Elista near the Caspian Sea. Churchill arrives in a devastated Moscow for talks with Stalin During 2 days of talking talks, Stalin was eventually forced to accept that there would be no second front until at leas 1943.

Juni 14 Air Marshal Harris believes a third 1.000 bomber raid will succeed and orders the city of Bremen to be hit at July 12. The first axis attacks are made against the 'Harpoon' and 'Vigorous' convoys. 'Harpoon' loses tree freighter and receives damage to a cruiser from an axis air attack off the Tunisian coast. Harpoons' escorting aircraft carriers turn back at this point. In the late afternoon, the 'Vigorous' convoy passes out of air cover range and promptly losses four freighters to axis air attacks.

Juni 15 An Italian naval squadron intercepts the 'Harpoon' convoy and disables two British destroyers and sinks one as well as damaging the anti-aircraft cruiser HMS Cairo, although the the Italians lose a destroyer in the process. Axis aircraft then attacked and sink tree freighters the tanker Kentucky and 2 destroyers. Another Italian naval squadron had sailed from Taranto to intercept Vigorous convoy which reversed course in the face of this threat. While it was doing this a German E-boats moved in and sank a destroyer and damaged a cruiser with its torpedo's. In the meantime the Vigorous convoy turned towards Malta again but further reports of the Italian naval squadron steaming south, forced another course reversal. German Stukas attacked the convoy at this point and damaged a cruiser and sank one destroyer. The Italian naval squadron now moved north removing the threat to the Vigorous' convoy but the amiral commanding the Vigorous convoy decided that he did not have enough ammunition left to resume his course to Malta and so continued back to Alexandria during which german u-boat sank the cruiser HMS Hermione south of Crete and Stukas sank another destroyer. However, as consolation, British aircraft did manage to torpedo the Italian Battleship Littorio, which will spend the next two months under repair in drydock.

June 19 General Paulus's 6th Army and Hoth's 4th Panzer Army begin their attack to take Stalingrad. Churchill and Roosevelt meet to discuss the number of conflicting offensive plans which might be launched against Germany in 1943, The main ones are 'iron strike, a 24-hour cross Atlantic raid on trondelheim. And Jupiter' which called for a lodgement in northern Norway. Japanese invasion fleet leaves Rabaul for Buna, New Guinea two days latter the land un apposed at Buna .

June 24 Stalin orders that the city of Stalingrad is to be held at all costs ( in otl Marshal Zhukov was send to defend it but du the fact he is leading the Zhukov army in battling the German army group centre 120 miles from Moscow and a large portion of his divisions have bin sent to defend Stalingrad he is not in a position to go some where else). The German, Italian, Vichy and Croatian forces in Yugoslavia, begin another offensive against Tito's partisan army ( Vichy France has 3 divisions station in the Balkans as Hitler dos not want them station in occupied France ).

June 25 General Dwight D. Eisenhower is appointed to command US forces in the European Theatre. The 4th Panzer Army breaks off attacks south of Stalingrad, a state of siege is declared in Stalingrad.

June 26 The Russians announce that their offensive along the Moscow front has pushed the Germans back 7 miles in a night (while it is thru the Zhukov army manage to push the German group centre away for 7 miles Zhukov also knows by now that the German are getting fresh reinforcements and he is also getting new to but most of the new fresh army divisions are being sent to Stalingrad for its defence).

June 28 Germans break through South west of Stalingrad but are held to the north by fresh soviet forces.

Juni 30 Japanese capture crucial islands en-route to New Guinea. July 1 General Montgomery ( who has transfer from Grete to take the command of the South-Eastern Army) informs General Paget, C-in-C of British Home Forces that operation 'iron strike' would be mounted on the July 7.

July 3 The Germans now attempted to break into Stalingrad from the west July 5 Admiral René-Emile Godfroy becomes commander of the free French navy in the Indian Ocean with under his command are Two armed merchant cruisers, Two sloops, Five submarines, 1 battleship the Provence who now is his flagship and the cruiser Lamotte-Piquet and 2 destroyers formally based in the free French port of oran. July 6 Heavy house-to-house fighting continues in the centre of Stalingrad.

July 7 some 8,100 British ,Norrish and Canadian troops conduct a raid-in-force against the port of trondelheim, which ends in disaster. In less than 10 hours of battle, the British, Norrish and Canadian forces lose 1,680 KIA, 1,880 wounded, 2,000 are made prisoner. The RAF loses 53 aircraft and the Royal Navy lose a destroyer. Germans loses are 445 dead or missing and 368 wounded, with total Luftwaffe losses being just 21 aircraft. Civilian casualties are put at 84 dead and 200 wounded ( trondelheim was reinforced by Germans who had du the importance of the city more the 25.000 man station there even despite the Intel the Norrish gave the British about the number of troops station there ). The 6th Army begins a four-mile advance through Stalingrad to the Volga.

July 8 Axis bombers carry out raids on the harbour facilities at Valetta in Malta.

July 12 The RAF launches its third 1,000-bomber raid against Bremen. As with the two 1,000 bomber raids, a full moon had been selected to aid in finding the target. The raid caused minimal damage to the Focke-Wulf plant and only devastated 17 acres of the inner city. The RAF losses are again high with more the 249 aircraft, a high proportion of them being manned by trainee crews after this Churchill orders further raids on this scale to be halted until the US army air force can take part and the German radars have bin neutralises.

July 13 6th Army and the 4th Panzer Army begins their effort to take Stalingrad.

July 14 Counter-attacks by the Soviet 62nd Army in Stalingrad fails as the 6th Army and 4th Panzer Army renew thier attack against Stalingrad. The Soviet 62nd Army is hemmed into a narrow strip of land no more than 10 miles at its widest and 4 miles as its narrowest. July 15 Fierce fighting between German and Soviet forces erupts for possession of Mamayev Kurgan, the strategic hill overlooking Stalingrad.

July 16 Stalingrad railway station is captured by the 6th Army but several attempt by the soviet union to capture the station fail.

July 18 The Army Group south captures the Black Sea port of Tuapse after heavy fighting.

July 19 The 6th Army and 4th Panzer Army split the Soviet 62nd Army in two and capture nearly the entire southern part of the city.

July 23 The Germans begin their final offensive in taking the rest of the city of Stalingrad that is still in soviet hands.

July 24 The Russians cross the Volga to the North west of Moscow and recapture 12 villages even if the german group centre is slowing the advance of the Zhukov army. July 26 four thousand Japanese land South East of Port Moresby and advance ( the battle fore Guadalcanal is not going to happened with the japans focus all of their efforts on new guinea instead). July 30 The 6th Army continues to push the decimated Soviet 62nd Army back toward the soviet city of vollzkij outside stalingrad but with heavy losses to both sides.

Augustus 1 the German group south captures the city of Stalingrad after heavy battle. Japanese establish a puppet government in Buma.

Augustus 2 Hitler orders that in the time remaining the city of Stalingrad moss be wipe out of the face of the map.

Augustus 3 the remains of the Soviet 62nd Army after being pushed out of the city of Stalingrad halts in the city of vollzkij with the German 6th army concentric after loosing large numbers of soldier and tanks begin to wait fore fresh reinforcements ,Stalin orders Zhukov to take command of the 62nd Army after he has pushd out the Germans 125 miles back from Moscow but du to heavy resistance the German retreat has slowed to a halt with much of the Zhukov army units gone to fight the Germans at Stalingrad ( Stalin thinks that marshal Zhukov can librates Stalingrad the same way Zhukov liberated Moscow from the Germans).

Augustus 7 US land on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands ( the US want to have the airfield on the island to control the Entire Southern Solomon’s and the parts of the Coral Sea ).

Augustus 8 US Marines take Henderson Airfield on Solomon Islands to prepare it for bombing missions against Japanese in new guinea while on the naval side around the Solomon Islands a Japanese naval counter-attack is beaten off.

Augustus 9 the Battle of Savo Island begins as 7 Japanese cruisers and a destroyer approach undetected west of Savo Island, Solomon Islands and sinks the tree heavy US cruisers and one Australian cruiser, They also damage 1 cruiser and 2 destroyers. The allied ships depart leaving the Guadalcanal area is in the control of the Japanese forces. Augustus 10 a British convoy with 14 merchants, 2 battleships, 3 aircraft-carriers, 14 destroyers and 3 anti-aircraft cruisers which had left Britain on the August 2 en-route to Malta, reaches the Straits of Gibraltar, where it is reinforced with 3 heavy cruisers the Manchester, Nigeria, and Kenya and 11 more destroyers. For a time, the aircraft-carrier HMS Furious joins the convoy with a complement of 38 Supermarine Spitfires which are to be flown off towards the embattled island. The convoy is spotted by a German U-boat. Over the coming 21 days German and Italian submarines, nearly 900 aircraft, 44 torpedo boats, and units of the Italian fleet move in to intercept the convoy ( of the merchants non make it true to reach Malta ).

Augustus 12 Himmler is made responsible for order in Denmark and the German control era of Norway.

Augustus 13 marshal Zhukov arrives in vollzkij to take command of the soviet 62nd Army that after the where pushed out of Stalingrad he knows that with the battle of Moscow taking 130 miles away he now needs al the soviet forces he get his hands on if he want to retake Stalingrad

Augustus 14 Luftflotte 4 begins a massive bombing on the city of vollzkij outside Stalingrad in wich the soviet 62nd Army is regrouping more then 3,000 sorties are taken place.

Augustus 17 The first all American bombing raid in Europe is conducted against Nuremberg the by Eighth USAAF but the same thing happened with the massive RAF 1.000 raids happens here massive losses are inflicted at the US forces losing over 20 percent du to German aa radar and German fighter planes ( the US is and RAF are going to try another tactic and levelling the radar sites first before hitting city’s ).

Augustus 19 Japanese send 4 transport ships with an close escort of a cruiser and 4 destroyers to strengthen their land forces on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands Movement is covered by 3 carriers, 2 battleships, 5 cruisers and 17 destroyers. Augustus 20 first US aircraft land on the newly completed Henderson Field airstrip on Guadalcanal to help the Marines fighting over the control of the island ( the Japanese toke the island on January 23 )

Augustus 22 Under heavy pressure from the US, Brazil declares war on Germany and Italy. The us forces based now on the Guadalcanal destroy the First wave of Japanese reinforcements .

Augustus 24 Battle joined in the Eastern Solomons with the Japanese trying to land reinforcements on Guadalcanal. US forces beat off the Japanese Combined Fleet sinking the carrier Ryujo, but suffering damage to the carrier Enterprise forcing it to return to pearl harbor

Augustus 25 in middle of the night Japanese troops come ashore affront some tree US destroyers off the South east coast of New Guinea and are occupied by the Japanese. Battle of Milne Bay Papua, begins a Force of some 1.200 Japanese Special Naval Landing Force comes ashore. Battle of Eastern Solomon's continues with a Japanese destroyer being sunk off Santa Isabel Augustus 27 The Soviet 37th Army is defeated in Caucasus.

Augustus 28 A Japanese seaplane catapulted from submarine I-25 and drops firebombs on forests in Oregon, USA ( japan is not hitting city anymore du the high protection of the city by aa and newly installed radar instead japan begins small alter operation against the us eastern coast ).

Augustus 29 The Germans capture Nalchik in the Caucasus, only 50 miles from the Grozny oil Fields.

Augustus 31 more then 1,200 Japanese using a transport that will be known as the’ Tokyo Express land reinforcements on Guadalcanal. The US aircraft-carrier ranger is attacked and damaged by a Japanese submarine near Santa Cruz September 1 In their advance toward Ordshonikidse in the Caucasus, units of 3rd Panzer Corps capture Alagir on the upper Terek river.

September 6 Japanese forces capture Milne Bay from the Australians. Halted before Ordshonikidse in the Caucasus the 13th Panzer Division is fighting a superior Soviet forces attacking its flanks and rear, the soviet forces where protecting the Grozny oil fields and where order to stop any Germans forces capturing the important oil fields.

September 7 in a meeting marshal Zhukov explains to Stalin that the Soviet 62nd Army will be ready to attack the Germans in Stalingrad as long as the Germans do not decide to attack his still weak army that still being build up Zhukov now issues an order forbidding frontal attacks something he did not do when he liberated Moscow from the Germans and now wants to do envelopment and outflank manoeuvres, as he says frontal attacks merely allow the Germans to withdraw in good order this time he want to destroy the Germans in Stalingrad by encircle them Stalin approves the plan and orders Zhukov to attack when the 62nd Army is ready ( germany is also planning a attack against the 62nd Army in order to secure the Caucasus). US Marines launch a surprise raid on the Japanese base at Talou, Guadalcanal.

September 8 Japanese advance from Kokoda to the Owen Stanley Mountain Range in an overland drive for Port Moresby, New Guinea. operation knockout begins as the allies begin their campaign in destroying the German radar and aa in France in hoping to create a gap in which the can fly to attack major city’s ( unlike otl the Germans when the Luftwaffe was strengting themselves after the battle of France and the low country’s the began to increased their radar cove rich with two line of radar net the first called the rote net is based in France and is the early warning the second is based in Germany and is called the Hamburg line as it begins in Hamburg to the Swiss border and is much more develop the otl and because of that the tree 1.000 bombing raids became a allied disaster).

September 9 despite the high increase of US naval patrols along the eastern sea coast the Japanese bomb the Oregon forests with incendiaries for second time hopping that it will start a fire after this the Japanese change their tactics and begin bombing small towns in hope of creating panic. After two days of fighting the 13th Panzer Division is forced to retreat wen a force of tree soviet army divisions manage to attack them and force them back

September 11 Japanese drive halted by Australians just 10 miles from Port Moresby. The 13th Panzer-Division of 3rd Panzer Corps begins to halt before Ordzhonikidze to avoid being cut off by the heavy Soviet attacks against its communications.

September 28 The US Navy claims to have shot down 42 Japanese aircraft in the Solomon Islands in last three days with only 7 US aircraft shot down by the Japanese.

October 8 Strong Japanese move against the Australians at Templeton Crossing on the Kokoda Trail in New Guinea. A Commando raid on occupied Sark, in Channel Islands kills 2 British Commandos and one German soldier ( the Germans have fortify the Channel Islands much more the in otl ).

October 11 The US Navy surprises a Japanese naval squadron in the middle of the night in a battle that will be known as the Battle of Cape Esperance off the Savo Island in the Solomons. In the battle The Japanese lose one cruiser and one destroyer, while the US Navy loses just a single destroyer. October 15 4,500 Japanese troops land as reinforcement for Guadalcanal as battle for control of the island goes on. October 16 The Japanese forced the Australians back at Templeton Crossing, New Guinea.

October 17 a Soviet, British and US conference in Moscow concludes with a protocol being signed committing the Britain and the US to supply Russia with 600 aircraft immediately and 500 aircraft per month until October 17 1943.

October 18 du the allies beginning their attacks against radar and aa site in France forces the German and Italian daylight bombing raids over Malta to reduces with some German fighter units being moved towards France. An advance party of four Norwegian Commandos are dropped by parachute to reconnoitre the area around the German (atomic weapons development) plant at Telemark, Norway but after seeing it heavily defend the report that it will need a large force to sucseed in destroying the plant ( du the fact Norway is divided in have the German have much more fear of a attack against the plant then in otl and therefore have much more security in place ).

October 19 Russian says the stop the German advance in Caucasus ( the 13th Panzer-Division is outside the city of Ordshonikidze where it now face large soviet forces who have stop the panzer- Division in its track ).

October 24 the elite Japanese 2nd Division being is wipe out by us marines station on Henderson Field.

October 26 Battle of Santa Cruz begins with US forces attacking the large Japanese supporting fleet near Guadalcanal and shooting down 100 aircraft, damaging two carriers, a battleship and three cruisers

October 29 The US retains control of all their positions on Guadalcanal. The Japanse fleet forced to retreat in the Solomons

September 21 British forces begin their first land counter-offensive against the Japanese in western Burma. the Dutch remove all of the two regiments in Norway and begin sending them to the Dutch hold Indies ( the Dutch had mostly two army regiments on rotation sins the war broke out in 1939 but with the Norwegians having tree army divisions now and the Americans to be sending their on army divisions to Norway and the British having more then six there is no need for the Dutch to maintain their forces in Norway any longer).

October 29 the Australians army units complete their evacuation of the Templeton Crossing positions in New Guinea. November 2 Port Moresby is taken by japans, last Australians army units evacuates New Guinea giving Japan total control over the island ( the Japanese got the island of new guinea and the Dutch side of it using forces that where originally intended for the invasion of Sumatra and java).

November 7 the Soviet 57th Army joins Zhukov 64 soviet army with new fresh troops he can begin the encirclement of the German 6th army ad the beginning of 1943 hoping that the winter will weaken the Germans in Stalingrad.

November 8 operation knock out has destroyed 5 radar sites and damage a dozen in franc sins beginning of the operation but will the attacks begin to work in creating gaps in the German radar net in franc allied planes begin to receive heavy German Luftwaffe and increased aa attacks in result the allied begin attacking targets at night using a new Pathfinder Force in which flare equip planes drop their flares at the target and allow the bombers following them to destroy the target.

November 9 Naval battles off Oran and Casablanca, result in two French destroyers being sunk. ( free French have three naval bases namly Mers-el-Kebir with the battleship the Dunkerque , Bretagne who is the flagship of the free French Mediterranean fleet 9 destroyers, six submarines and one seaplane carrier then there is a detachment based in Alexandria were one battleship, four cruisers and three destroyers are located with the rest in free French Madagascar with the battleship the Provence the cruiser Lamotte-Piquet and 4 destroyers). November 11 The United States extends its Lend-Lease aid to the Free French under General de Gaulle and free Dutch.

November 12 a Dutch/American/Australian fleet of 10 ships spots a large japans fleet that is paroling new guinea in the first encounter the Dutch ship HNLMS Java is sunk with the uss Houston damage and one Australian destroyer sunk after this the remaining ships of the Dutch/American/Australian fleet head toward a us fleet of the carrier Lexington and the carriers Saratoga and the hornet who are patrolling the Solomon sea with the Japanese carriers and their escorts braking of to destroy them ( the Dutch/American/ Australian fleet was made of the four Americans’ destroyers the Dutch navy ships HNLMS De Ruyter and HNLMS Java and four Australians destroyers based out of Australia du to attacks against Batavia on java forcing the some of the Dutch ships to relocated and to increasing the defence of Australia the rest of the Dutch fleet is still based out of Batavia ).

November 14 in the first day of fighting the us carrier fleet who now was waiting fore the Japanese carriers stroke them while the Japanese where concentrating on destroying the moving Dutch/American/ Australian fleet and in the first day of the battle of the Solomon sea that followed the us carrier fleet sank the Japanese carriers Shōkaku and Zuikaku 1 cruiser and 3 destroyers while the US fleet only lose the cruisers Minneapolis and the destroyers Phelps and Dewey).

November 15 second day of the battle of Solomon sea in witch the Americans lose their surprise and lose the US Carrier HORNET but the japans still have the two carriers in the fight but one of them has its Aircraft Strength nearly totally depleted forcing them to retreat to Japanese control water in the Bismarck sea and giving the US the control to resuply the Solomon island and to begin preparation for a invasion of new guinea and the destruction of the last Japanese forces still on Guadalcanal (the Japanese carriers have retreated to the Japanese controlled Bismarck sea leaving a total of 13.000 Japanese troops still on Guadalcanal but the Japanese are beginning to make planes to evacuate these forces towards Japanese controlled new guinea ).

November 17 the first 12 b-25 Mitchells of a total batch of 120 arrive in java to be used by the royal Dutch indie air force against Japanese in Borneo with only the US having b-17 bombers based on java this will give the Dutch also a striking power to hit the Japanese.

November 19 Two RAF gliders carrying 34 British Royal Engineer Commandos, crashes in Norway en route to their mission of destroying the German plant in Telemark. The survivors are captured by the Germans, questioned and latter and shot after hearing this Churchill orders any mission against the plant to be halted in fear that the Germans now about it ( the Germans did receive information from the captured Commandos and have indeed increase their security of the plant).

November 23 first japans bomber mission from new guinea against north Australia begins hitting Darwin. November 27 the port of Toulon become home to several Italian naval ships in order to spread them out ( in otl Vichy france was occupied by the German but not here as the a full members of the axis pact and have begun to show themselves as a separate country then the rest of France plus Africa was already in the hands of the allies in 1940).

December 3 with Japan now holding the new guinea the Australians and us commanders begin to plan a invasion of the island in order to stop the Japanese air attacks against northern Australia while the raaf and us army air forces are battling the Japanese the nowe to really stop the attacks the have to capture the island the recapture is to begin on December 27 in the mean time Australian Lancaster’s and American b-17 begin a massive bombing campaign against the japans on the island.

December 7 on the one year anniversary of the attack on Pearl harbor the US Navy launches the Battleship New Jersey and 21 other ships ( because there where only 5 Japanese carriers involved in the attack the damage to several ships was lighter and therefore more ships could become operation again). The Japanese air force station in new guinea and in new Britain begin a bombing offensive against US shipping in the Solomon's. December 11 in one week the Royal Navy lose the destroyers Pentlan, Porcupine and Blean, off Malta the were escorting convoys to the Malta ( even du the fact the Luftwaffe has sent some fighter planes toward France the Italian air force is becoming much better in protecting the German bombers and stuksa who attack these convoys).

December 18 The RAF’s Pathfinder Force flies its first mission, against a German radar site in France the hit is successful du the fact the German have no night fighters station in France. ( after this attack Germany moves it night fighters to bases in franc).

December 20 Japanese air raids on Calcutta, India. The navigation and bombing radar aid 'Oboe' is used operationally for the first time by Bomber Command. December 21 British troops cross the Burmese border.

December 23 The RAF launches its first bombing raid against the Italian cities of Genoa and Turin ( du the fact the RAF only attack the military targets in Italy before this it has now shifted to attacking cities in Italy as well ).

December 24 Hitler orders that the 6th army in Stalingrad not to attack the soviet outside Stalingrad but to hold and to let them come to them believing the soviet will go for a direct battle in witch the Germans who have dug them self in in the ruins of Stalingrad can destroy them, the German group north is now 100 miles away from German control Leningrad and is also ordered to wait and to send some force to group centre who are now making preparations for an counter offensive under the cover-name of night fall against the former Zhukov army that was forced to sent a lot of its forces towards the 64th and 54th soviet army who are waiting outside Stalingrad for their offensive giving the group centre a new change too return to a offensive mode.

December 27 a force protected by a large screen of us carriers and allied naval and air power land in New Guinea lower town of abau with a total force of more then 10,000 the allied forces who after a 24 day bombing campaign against the Japanese encounter heavy resistance from the Japanese who as it turn out where not as much effected by the allied bombing campaign.

December 28 the US makes a beachhead in kupiane east of abau, cutting off Japanese forces that where engaging the ailed forces in abau new guinea.