part 13 1943

May 4 Hitler decides to postpone Operation Citadel in order that more Tiger and Panther tanks can be deployed in the offensive this is against the advice of a number of leading Generals who fear that the Russian defences will become too strong if the offensive is delayed any further.

May 8 British forces are removed from Burma by the Japanese. British and American planners complete their planes for a invasion of Norway to stop German iron ore shipments the aiding in free Norway and using it as a staging area for a invasion of Finland to reduce soviet forces battling the German in hoping to draw German to help Finland and Norway.

May 13 The Royal Navy and royal air force with the US army air force begin the bombardment of Pantelleria Island, between Tunisia and Sicily (Pantelleria is being used as place by the Germans and Italian for raids against shipping headed towards Malta and for bomber raids against targets in Tunisia even despite allied attempts to remove them therefore this operation is started to end the island being used as a axis airfield and naval base).

May 14 The U.S. 8th Air Force attacks Kiel with 125 aircraft ( the allies are beginning to deploy these raids as Germany believes that mostly of the attacks will be flown over France as the allies are still destroying radars and pushing the German field of sight back as operation knockout continues.

May 15 the Essex carrier USS san Francisco is launch in a ceremony headed by the US president he telsl the gather people that san Francisco will strike back ( the carrier san Francisco is this timeline USS Intrepid and after the Japanese hit san Francisco killing 112 people the decision was mad to name it after the city ).

May 17 The Germans and their allies launch their fifth offensive to destroy Tito’s partisans in Yugoslavia. The Luftwaffe carries out a night raid involving 100 aircraft against Cardiff in Wales.

May 18 The Japanese launch a new offensive along the Yangtze river, 250 miles north east of the Nationalist capital of Chunking.

May 20 The Chinese launch a counter offensive on Yangtze River. May 21 The Luftwaffe carries out a raid by FW -200 fighter bombers against Malta ( the FW-200 is the FW-190 on steroids plane and a total of 1.000 have been build so far the German FW design team is already working on the successor of the FW-200 the FW-250 which is otl timeline the Focke-Wulf Ta 152 and should enter service in 1944 ).

May 25 after a 10 day battle the tide is turning in the favour towards the allies in the battle of Pantelleria Island the axis lose their radar on the island and the 100 strong fighter force there only 16 are still able to fly combat missions against the allied bombing campaign with the Italian and German on Sicily trying desperately to prevent loosing the control air space over the island as more and more allied bombers and escorts fly over the island dropping their ordnance ( the allied want to have the island to sent ships to resuply Malta ).

May 27 The first British ‘liaison’ team is dropped into Yugoslavia to join up with Tito’s partisans.

May 28 The US 15th Air Force attacks Italian oil refineries at Livorno.

May 31 The US 15th Air Force bombs German and Italian airfields at Foggia, destroying many aircraft on the ground. Chiang Kai-Shek claims two Japanese divisions an one division from the Manchukuoan Army have been surrounded on the Yangtze River (the Japanese have begun strengting the army of Manchukuoan Army to a force of 200.000 one year ahead of otl to giving the Japanese more troops to be sent to man the emperor line and to fight the allied forces while the Manchukuoan Army is not yet up the Japanese standard the are improving the Japanese goal is to have a force of 400.000 at the end of 1945 mostly to replace japans forces with the Japanese supplying the officer and to set up their on production for small arms and ammunition while also improving the army al in the line of the new emperor line directive in fortifying the Japanese and here allies passions).

June 1 The Red Air Force attacks German rear communications and airfields at Smolensk and Orel. U.S. begins submarine warfare against Japanese shipping.

June 2 The Red Air Force bombs Kiev and Roslavl, while the Luftwaffe bombs Kursk. The second u-boat arrives in Japan on it are parts of a panzer tree and assembly bleu prints for the Japanese to improve their tank production because the u-boat was attacked by a allied plane based from the Falklands the Japanese decide also to sent their on sub towards Germany .

June 4 Luftwaffe bombers attack the massive Russian tank factory's at Gorki

June 9 Tito is wounded during a German air attack.
Allied forces including Dutch b-25 begin their attacks against heavily defended oil fields on Borneo in a hope to hamper Japanese oil supplies ( because of Borneo under constant attack by Americans and Dutch bombers the Japanese have begun working on the myanaung oil field in Burma wich the japans after the force the British out began to repair and focus more on the Burma oil field than then the Borneo oilfields the also are beginning to build a mullty layered defence line witch is part of the emperor line in Burma to prevent the British getting the oilfield and Burma ).

June 11 Operation Corkscrew the invasion of Pantelleria meets no resistance after a 20-day aerial bombardment when 2000 British commandos land ,after the intense bombing and both air superiority of the allied air forces based in north Africa forces the axis station on Sicily not able to turn the tide the garrison commander surrenders (Mussolini was not happy when he heard the garrison had surrendered believing the island was a true fort which could not be taken but with the fact Germany is deploying more and more fighter unit to France and the eastern front means the Italian air force has to bur the birded of defending Italy alone).

June 15 The German raider Michel sinks 2 ships off the west coast of Australia. with the island of Pantelleria in allied hands the allied begin to plan a massive bombing campaign in order to destroy the Italian war machine and to let the axis believe the allies are planning to invade Italy.

June 16 93 Japanese planes have bin destroyed by the allies as the prepare to start operation backdoor forcing the Japanese to spear their aircraft station on new Britain and new guinea.

June 21 Allies advance to New Georgia, Solomon Islands. a Japanese I-subs leave towards Germany will the u bout already left two days earlier returning with a zero engine aboard . June 23 British aerial reconnaissance now secured photographs of Peenemunde research base showing rockets available for firing.

June 30 Operation Cartwheel starts with the occupation of Rendova, north west of Guadalcanal the Trobriand and Woodlark islands between Solomon's and New Guinea are also occupied al in part of securing a allied controlled Solomon sea for operation backdoor.

July 1 Hitler addresses the generals taking part in the imminent operation Citadel at sys that Kursk has to be captured

July 2 US troops land on New Georgia in the Solomon's. third U-boat leaves towards Japan with a complete FW-190 airframe aboard and its bleu prints and four more army personnel who will help Japan improve its tank production.

July 4 The Germans launch operation Citadel the Germans have deployed 45 divisions totalling 1,000,000 men, which include 13 Panzer divisions with 3,000 tanks and assault guns, 12,000 guns and as well as 2,000 aircraft. Against this, the Red Army has 1,300,000 troops in deeply echeloned defensive positions around the city of Kursk while the front is protected by 8,000 land mines per square mile, 3,300 tanks, 20,000 guns and 2,500 aircraft. In the first day of the operation the Germans In the northern sector capture the city of zelezngorsk , while in the southern sector they manage 25 miles against stubborn Soviet resistance which inflicts heavy casualties ( because of army group 6th being able to get out of Stalingrad mostly intact some 100,000 additional force could be deployed again the soviets ).

July 5 The battle of Kursk continues with unabated ferocity, with the northern pincer of 9th Army is struggling to make any significant progress after caputering the city of zelezngorsk and is not abel to move to incircle kursk du heavy soviet resictence the southern pincer of 4th Panzer Army advances some 12 miles coming close to the outer defenceve of the city of kursk.
A Naval battle erupts in the Solomon sea east of new Britain the US Navy loses the cruiser Helena but claims two ore four Japanese ships have been sunk.

July 6 The German forces engaged at Kursk are still unable to achieve a major breakthrough in the face of stiffening Soviet resistance, which is reinforced by the arrival of strong tank and infantry reserves.

July 7 As the battle of Kursk reaches its climax, the exhausted German forces are unable to make any further gains while losing vast numbers of men, tanks and planes.

July 8 The Russians say that the German attack has been held and claim that 2,000 tanks have been destroyed in the four days of fighting.

July 9 Operation thor’s hammer begins with the invasion of German occupied Norway in which 3.000 ships and landing-craft with 160.000 men and 14.000 vehicles, 600 tanks and 1800 guns. Against a German hold Norway 190.000 troops of which 90.000 are station against on the namos line ( in otl the allies invaded Sicily but because the German have more troops and Italian has more the 500,000 troops station there as the unlike in otl did not fight the allies in north Africa, the allies believe split Norway is a better way to invaded as there are already 100.000 troops station there 30,000 Norwegians 40.000 British 10,000 free French and more then 20.000 Americans how began to arrive sins the start of the US entry the allies also want to use Norway as a staging post to invaded Finland to force Germany to deploy more troops to both Norway and Finland the better can use on the eastern front there by helping the soviets).

July 10 The attacking German forces at Kursk have been depleted by heavy losses in men and armour and have nearly spent their momentum, even though the 4th Panzer Army and Army Detachment Kempf in the southern sector have succeeded in capturing the pivotal town of Prokhorovka.
To prevent further attrition, especially of the vital armoured forces, Field Marshals von Kluge and von Manstein urge Hitler to call off the operation Hitler believing he dealt the soviet a harsh blow agrees the German forces can move back at their starting point.

July 12 Admiral Walden Ainsworth leads three cruisers and five destroyers on a combat mission up the Slot, the channel that divides the Solomon Islands in two. The allies after battling the 25,000 troops guarding Trondheim and linking up with their airborne troops who drop outside the city now begin to use the city to ferry troops in with a majority is sent to attack the German side of the namos line the other will begin to form a defencive parameter around the city and wait until more reinforcements are in to begin the journey to Oslo ( the Germans guarding the namos line now face heavy attacks as the are now faced with splitting their forces in both directions severely weakling them and now that the are now cornered therefore Hitler has ordered them to fight to the last man).

July 13 The Japanese sink the US destroyer Gwin and severely damage three cruisers for loss of cruiser the Japanese Jintsu near new Britain ( the allies are forcing the japans back behind new Britain both naval and destroying much of their planes as the begin operation backdoor on new guinea the new guinea force even despite heavy b-17 and b-25 bombing runs is not able to dislodge the Japanese from their position and therefore are force to wait until al of the Solomon sea is in allied hands before the can begin operation backdoor and the conquest of new guinea ).

July 14 after more then six days of fighting the Germans have loosed more then 2,000 tanks and more then 100.000 soldiers killed ore wounded and more the 67,000 captured the German begin retreating to their starting point line and begin to dig in will the soviet having more loosed 250,000 dead or wounded but are able to receive the punch but also need time to prepare ( the soviet loosed more than half their tank force but tanks to their deep layered defence the where able to hurt the Germans and now with fresh troops arriving to replace the lost owns the soviet can begin to attack again ).

July 16 using the advice of the German army engineers and the two civil engineers of the design team of the panzer 3 and the now assembled panzer 3 the Japanese can begin of improving their deign of the type 97 in getting more to frontline units while admiral yamamotho is concentrating on more light combat ships to patrol the Japanese hold waters ( the type 97 is Japanese best tank but its only draw back its fact there are to few to patrol and that why the German giving advice to the Japanese com in to make some corners in getting moor tanks out and more produce , while admiral yamamotho plan is to build a fleet of Destroyers and Destroyer Escorts to protect their battleships and carriers from allied navy’s . )

July 17 Begin of the American offensive at Bougainville, South-Pacific. tree days after the battle of Kursk Hitler orders the construction of a fortified defensive line called the Panther Line along the Dnieper river up to wards the Baltic ( Hitler dos not want the Germans holding the line to give up their current position but this is only in case if the germans are forced to retreat, as Germany has to send 50,000 troops to aid the fins ad their border with Norway and to send troops to Norway to battle the allies who by now have secured Trondheim and isolated the Germans between Trondheim and the namos line and force a German force of 50,000 to be deployed at the city of roros under trondelheim to wait for the allies ).

July 26 A number of Waffen SS divisions are ordered to be transferred from Russia to Norway but only the 1st SS Panzer Division is actually redeployed.

Augustus 1 Increasingly heavy fighting continues in Norway as the allies battling themselves towards the German control Namsos line while the allies on the Namsos line try to keep the German from trying to escape,while in fact the German are trying to hold out as long as possible hoping that a counterattack will come( the forces are lead by Montgomery as commander of al British forces and Patton as commander of al US forces both want to reach Oslo first both now that the Namsos line has to be removed from Germans before any major operation towards Oslo can begin ).

Augustus 3 The German on the Namsos line of the 90,000 there have bin a lot of dead and wounded but now the are faced the fact that the are outnumbered two to one and now that the can hold out long in the mean time new German reinforcement begin to form a new defensive line at roso. Augustus 5 The Russians take Belgorod and now threaten Kharkov German forces from group south order to engage the soviet outside the city of Kharkov.

Augustus 4 US troops are halted by fierce opposition in halsa Norway as the us forces move down in Norway. X-type U-boat arrive in Japan and begins unloading its cargo but US and its allies are beginning to notice the loon submarines heading to and from Japan and Germany the WF-190 after being assembled will help Japan to compare the different in the thier planes will the army engineers join the already four present in helping their counterpart in making it more easier for them to make tanks even if its don Japanese style.

Augustus 6 German troops pour into Norway as Axis foreign ministers meet at Treviso to discuses the allied invasion of Norway and watt to do next. naval Battle of Bougainville begins as 4 Japanese destroyers attempt to bring troops and supplies to kieta on Bougainville island and are attacked by 6 US destroyers in the battle the Japanese lose 1 destroyers and 2 are damaged the US destroyers suffer no damage ( because the Japanese have limit troop transport who are many used to transport troops to new guinea ore other large island occupied by the Japanese destroyers are mostly used to do the job for the smaller islands ).

Augustus 15 more German troops are heading to reinforce the forces in halsa Norway woo manage to halt the US advance while the German force at the Namsos line surrender after coming in a allied with over 67,000 captured and 23,000 dead ore wounded the allies can begin in to move their forces down towards Oslo putting everything above the German line at roros in allied hands.

Augustus 17 Montgomery and Patton link up with the allied forces on the Namsos line after cleaning some German pockets who did not want to surrendered after being caught in the Namsos pocket with Namsos now linked the allies begin to concentred of using the airbase to hit Germany as much of the German radar is focus on Britain and only a few German radar station are placed along the coast of occupied Denmark and in north germany ( the allies operation knockout will shift in to a diversion hoping to keep as many German fighter squadrons in France when the allies beginhitting targets in north Germany ).
The first Quebec summit opens with the allied plans for the invasion of France being approved by Roosevelt and Churchill The first Quebec summit opens with the allied plans for the invasion of France being approved by Roosevelt and Churchill.

Augustus 22 The Germans evacuate Kharkov in order not to fall in soviet trap and set up a defencive line outside the city in order to trap the soviets in the city.

Augustus 23 The Soviet Steppe Front occupies Kharkov while the 5th Guards Tank Army beats off the consequent German counter-attack that was started to late.

Augustus 25 The Russians continue their advance to the West of Kharkov but begin to revive heavy German resistance . Allies complete the occupation of New Georgia Augustus 26 US bombers hit Hong Kong.
ABDAF is dissolved after 1 year in exciting and is to be replace by a US lead pacific command headed by the US in witch the Dutch receive all command over allied forces in free Dutch indie and occupied Dutch/British indie with exception of new guinea that falls under US control the rest of the commands are like in otl.

Augustus 27 the British Minister of Information, makes the first ministerial statement on Hess dead sins May 1941 and says Hess came to find British Quislings to overthrow Churchill but found the RAF instead ( Rudolf Hess was killed while trying to get to Britain in may 1941 he was shot down by the RAF )

Augustus 28 The Bulgarian King, Boris III dies under mysterious circumstances. Soviet halted in city of Kharkov du to heavy German resistance forcing them to deploy more forces to break the germans.

Augustus 30 Taganrog on the Sea of Azov is evacuated by the German who now make a new defence position at Rostov towards doneck while German forces at the Novorossiysk-temmruk line still keep the soviet out of the krimm ( the german have learn from the soviet defence at Kursk and have begun to use it to their on Advantech in the still constructed panther line and the Novorossiysk-temmruk line).

Augustus 31 Hitler allows Manstein to make limited withdrawals in Ukraine in order to better protect his forces. Soviet forces are not able to breach the German perimeter around the city of Kharkov as Luftwaffe begin to attack the now trap soviet 5th Guards Tank Army while more German reinforcement are on the way to aid the Germans around the city ( the German panther line is begin to look like a real defensive line using more the 1000 mines per square mile in some places each town and city becoming a fort and that is only in the first month with more work still ahead in creating a formable defensive line ). the US carrier enterprise group bombs Marcus Island in Micronesia.