part 14 1943

September 4 believing the have full control of the Salomon sea the allies land with a carrier force of 4 ships and their escort to protect them at popondetta in operation backdoor with the Australians 9th Division in the lead after a day of battling the secure the town but quickly discover that the Japanese have form a perimeter around the town forcing the 9th division and the naval and air support to first battling thier way out of the town before the can move to port Mosby where the Japanese are still holding the new guinea force at bay at thier line.

September 5 US paratroops land behind the Japanese positions at popondetta and surround about 5,000 Japanese troops who where preventing the 9th division to break out. the biggest air raid involving Dutch B-25 and US b-17 against the Borneo oil refinery involving more then 200 planes of which 40 are Dutch B-25 will the Dutch are also in the planning to receive some B-17 to increase the attacks against the Japanese holdings in Borneo and the Celebes.

September 9 Italian destroyer Antonio Da Noli is sunk off Corsica after hitting a mine ( Italian naval ships begin to feel the control of the air shifting towards the allies even despite Italy producing as much fighters and training it pilots as the can plus with the los of the Pantelleria Island has forced the axis to become more defensive in nature ).
the German first use of the German air-launched anti-ship missile called Fritz X is jusedwhen a German group of 12 Dornier Do 217s attacks a allied convoy heading towards Malta sinking 1 transport and damaging a British cruiser ( the Fritz X is a OTL weapon and with the allies gaining more control this weapon with a range of 5 miles is perfect to destroy ships from long range but even if the fritz x has some setbacks with 12 launch only 3 hit thier targets and alos forcing the german planese to clom close to the alied naval aa defence). Iran, under pressure from the allies who occupy the country declares war on Germany.

September 10 A special order of the day from Stalin announces the Russian victories on nikel and pecenga on the border of Norway with the German 10th mounting army and finish forces retreating to defend the finish border and to keep soviet force outside Finland.
After weeks of prodding by Goebbels, Hitler consents to make a short radio broadcast to the German people on the dramatic events of the summer particularly in Norway with the allied invasion of Norway telling the allies will be pushed back to the sea. Soviet marines supported by naval units of the Red Fleet recapture the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk from German forces who where retreating towards Kerch ( the soviet still realise as long as the Crimea is in the hands of the Germans the can send naval units against them something the notice when landing at the port of Novorossiysk ).

September 11 flying over the north sea the US 8th Air Force raids the German naval base at Wilhelmshaven involving 200 B-17 of which 17 are shot down ( the allies are flying over the north sea to avoid the German air forces in France who are trying to prevent attacks on their radar net who still operated).

September 12 The Heaviest RAF attack so far on southern Italy, with more than 1000 tons dropped on Naples in under 30 minutes while, the first italien mini raid against Malta jusing 10 Piaggio P.108 bombers of which the Italian air force is building 60 and now having 15 against malta with the germans mostly concatreding thier eforts on the eastrn front.

September 14 free French commandos using a sub land in Vichy controlled Corsica to help patriots fighting the Germans. British Special Boat Squadron operating from Grete occupies Kos in the Aegean sea with the intend of keeping axis naval ships contained in the Aegean sea ( the British and free Greece force on Grete are beginning to become stronger as German naval forces are diverted to the black sea and German air units are sent towards France and the eastern front ). The Germans begin to evacuate Bryansk, some 200 miles Southwest of Moscow.

September 15 The Australian 7th and 9th Divisions manage to break the Japanese forces around popondetta in New Guinea after very heavy fighting and link up with the US para troopers and now can begin to attack the Japanese in the back at port mosby.

September 16 British forces based from Grete occupy Leros in the Aegean sea. German counterattacks against the US forces outside halsa Norway are stop with the British/American forces now beginning to strengting the US forces outside the city ( the Germans now have a made shift line running from the coast city of halsa towards the city of rosos near the Swedish border holding it are more the 100,000 German troops with more from the eastern front and who where station in France underway against them is a force of 50,000 US and more on their way ). The Black Sea port of Novorossiysk is captured by the Russians after a week of amphibious and land operations and naval battles against German e-boats.

September 17 Stalin announces the capture of Bryansk, German form a new line 25 miles outside the city. The German 17th Army begins the evacuation of the Novorossiysk-temmruk line towards Kerch on the Crimea.

September 18 Hitler and Mussolini a meeting in Rome where also marshal Petain is present agree to allow 5 Vichy army divisions and 6 halve of Vichy France on build squadrons of the D.520 of which the now have 12 squadrons of to be station in occupied France allowing some German army divisions to be sent to Norway and increasing the axis air power in France while the Italian army will deploy an force of 100,000 man into occupied France giving the germans more to be deployed to the astern front but Mussolini refuse to redeploy any of its air forces towards France as the allies are increasing their attacks on Sicily, Sardinia and lower Italy (Hitler dos not trust the Vichy army as much but has no choice to put them in occupied France he is clever in of to deploy them in areas where the can harm ore hinder German forces if the decide to help the French resistance but also keep a strong German force near them to keep a watch on them ).

September 20 The US 15th Air Force bombs German and Italian airfields on Sicily and Sardinia in effort of keeping axis air forces from bombing Malta and the now allied controlled Pantelleria Island. Army Group South begins its withdrawal of the line Rostov-doneck toward a new line at Melitopol-Zaporozhe. The RAF institutes ‘shuttle bombing’ runs, with planes leaving England, bombing Germany, reloading in allied controlled Norway then bomb German control Norway and then return to England the first of these shuttle bombing’ runs begins with 60 RAF bombers attacking the radar at bremerhaven.

September 21 The Red Army breaks thru the German perimeter outside Kharkov .
The Dutch queen visit the Dutch indie head quarters in Batavia and speak to the naval and army personal this is here 4th visit to the Dutch indie but du to security risk from Japanese air planes attacks and roaming submarines the visits remain total secret in order to prevent the Japanese from striking at here.

September 25 The Russians capture safonovo, over 200 miles to the West of Moscow and just outside the city of Smolensk. 140 Allied fighters and 136 bombers strafe and bomb the airfield at Palermo in Sicily. After four day of visiting the Dutch indie and examining its damage from Japanese air raids and seeing the improvements the Dutch indie government has made the queen leave towards England on a plane escorting by several Dutch spitfire to Australia where she then will fly with several stops to here headquarters in the UK ( the queen will also land in the US to speak with the president offering home a medal of friendship before flying to the UK).

September 28 The first of two heavy air raids against kerema are conducted by the 5th AAF, with seven ships destroyed.

September 30 The British announce that 5,211 casualties were suffered at roros so far. An air battle between 44 USAAF P-38s and 75 Luftwaffe fighters commences above Italy the P-38s were escorting a large formation of B-26s on their way to bomb marshalling yards at Aversa the Americans lose 13 aircraft and shoot down 9 Axis aircraft, thus allowing the B-26s to make an unmolested bombing run to their target, where they cause extreme damage without loss.

October 2 U.S. Fifteenth Air Force, raids three airfields in southern Italy.
The allied navy escorting ships towards Malta have now find a way to prevent the Germans to deploy their fritz x with success by the jamming the Guided Weapon radio guidance system the allies suffer no loses in bringing ships to Malta ( the fritz x was a little bit successful of damaging when firts jused but the allied found a way to prevent the fritz from doing any damege,but the Germans are working hard to improve the fritz in a effort to prevent the allies from jamming it and also to increase its range will order are giving to attack only ships that are alone ore unarmed ships ).

October 3 The Germans invade Kos with the assistance of massive air support. the Red Army now battles the German 25 mile outside the city of Bryansk.

October 4 Organised British resistance ends on Kos. The free French commandos battle Vichy troops on Corsica (the free French commandos where sent to help the resistance battling the Vichy forces on the island where betrayed by a informant when the where in a meeting with the had of the pro free French resistance on the island after a battle the remaining members of the commandos and resistance where arrested and latter put on trail ).

October 5 the red army stronger than the Germans holding the line outside of Bryansk break out forcing the Germans to retreat. The German and Japanese begin their designing to a improve version of the type 97 with their aim of making it possible to increase it production while the first Japanese 88 mm gun is also shown but du the complexity of its design the number of 200 has to be scale back to 100 and many to be used for the defence of the Japanese home island and manning the Burma emperor line if al goes as well the first 88 mm gun can be produce in mid 1944 and a total of 10 per month will be produce will the tank 97 will remain in production until 1945 with more then 600 to be produce will the Japanese/German design team start to improve the way the tank is being produce ).

October 9 The Russians now control the Kuban peninsula on the Black Sea, after the successful evacuation of all German and Romanian troops into the Crimea who now set up a new line at Kerch. October 12 350 allied bombers hit the Japanese base at Rabaul in New Britain the damage reported includes 120 planes destroyed.

October 13 The Russians reach Melitopol in southern Ukraine. The whole of the New Georgia group of islands in the Solomon's are reported in allied hands. First V-1 missile is launch at London killing 8 people from a launch base in France ( in otl the allies attack the v-1 production facility’s in Peenemunde Germany in 1943 but because the have not don it here the Germans can launch the V-1 earlier than in otl ).

October 20 first test flight of the Junkers 390 bomber the four engine plane will be primary used at the eastern front with several versions like the maritime patrol version called Ju 390 B while the bomber version is called Ju 390 C the first batch of 26 while be delivered for operation use in end of January 1944 with all of them to be deployed on the eastern front. A total of 6 V-1 are launch but only 2 of them hit London with the rest crashing in the north sea or shot of their targets with a daily launch of 12 missile and becoming more each day the German can now hit London with out deploying their bombers ( the allies who where hitting radar base in France now receive new orders to hit the launch sites in franc as on of their main objectives while the RAF is planning a bombing raid on the German V-1 production facility in Peenemunde).

October 23 The Red Army captures Poltava west of Kharkov and after 10-days of fighting captures Melitopol in southern Ukraine. Operation Corona the jamming of German night-fighter communications begins during an RAF raid on a German radar site in franc with operation knockout still going on. A German torpedo boat flotilla sinks the Royal Navy cruiser Charybdis and the destroyer Limborne in a Channel duel.

October 24 using the airbase in allied control Norway and a massive diversion in France the RAF begins Operation Gomorrah when 300 RAF bombers drop 1,500 tons of bombs on Hamburg in 24 minutes, during which only 6 aircraft are lost Fires are visible for 200 miles (the German believe the allied air forces would use the gap created in France with the allied operation knockout but instead the allies used allied control Norway as their base as the Germans only have several radars long side the German and occupied Denmark plus to fool the few radar the used fore the first time of Window radar-jamming foil strips dropped by aircraft).

October 25 German radio says that Hamburg is still burning leaving 50,000 homeless the USAAF bomb the city again in daylight from the same airbases in allied control Norway.

October 26 two days after the allied surprised the Germans in bombing Hamburg the Germans begin to redeploy some of their fighter units to be sent to German controlled Norway and to increase the aa defence of the city and the coast.
A feint landing on Choisseul in the Solomon's is conducted by US forces. Meanwhile Treasury Island is occupied

October 27 after 5 days of battling the soviet forces the Germans recapture the city of Melitopol and thereby make the Melitopol-Zaporozhe under German control again ( the German have some more troops available to fight unlike otl but begin to fail the strain of fighting the soviets ). Montgomery resumes the offensive in Norway when British and Norwegians troops try to break in to the German new line of halsa -rosos line but are rebuff with the US lead forces try to capture the city of halsa but face stiff resistance from the Germans who now have learn from their experience in how to defend a city and its surrounding.

October 28 The second mass raid on Hamburg by 344 RAF bombers results in 5 square miles of city being set alight the RAF lose more then 17 planes ( the Germans begin to increase the aa defence of the city and have redeployed some German fighter squadrons based in Germany ). October 29 The mass evacuation of a million civilians from Hamburg is ordered after the recent heavy bombings.

October 30 Hamburg is bombed for a third time but while the lose to the US and RAF are begining to increase the attacks continuo.

November 1 The US 3rd Marine Division lands at Empress Augusta Bay on Bougainville Island in the Solomon's while a confused naval battle begins around Bougainville Island.

November 2 The ninth attack on Hamburg in eight days an Estimated 25.000 killed in responds Hitler orders London to be attack for the firs time in the war ( no major battle of Britain happened therefore London was never hit ).

November 3 Heavy USAAF air attacks begin on Rabaul. November 5 the Germans lose the city of Melitopol again just after the recaptured the city 8 days ago. US casualties in Mediterranean since the landings in Norway is given as 31,126 dead or wounded. US Navy carrier planes cripple a Japanese squadron at Rabaul forcing six cruisers to withdraw North to Turk for repairs ( the carriers where the ships that protected the allied landings in operation backdoor and now are station in the Solomon sea to prevent the Japanese taking it back).

November 6 The Japanese land reinforcements in lemanko upper Bougainville Island.

November 7 The Red Army forces a crossing of the Dnieper at Dnepropetrovsk, thereby breaking into the German Panther line.

November 12 German troops invade Leros by sea and drop 500 paratroops ( Hitler after losing Grete and the loosing of a lot of pares at the battle of Holland said he would never allow German Para troops to be used but with the war progress Goering manage to form a brigade of a new rapid unit under Luftwaffe control called the first para brigade after the pares where disbanded after the battle of Grete this new brigade is the only Para force the Germans have).

November 15 the US Fifth Army's offensive against the cit of halsa Norway is halted until new reinforments and more troops arrive the British counter-attack on rosos fails as the Luftwaffe flies 600 sorties a day.

November 16 using airbases in free Norway The RAF bombs the heavy water plant at Telemark damaging its slightly but the RAF is putting more attacks against the plant into action.

November 19 British Air Ministry says that Hamburg now lies in absolute ruins and is probably the most complete blotting out of a city that ever happened.

November 21 US Marines land on Makin and Tarawa atolls in Gilbert Islands, with fierce fighting reported.

November 21 Field Marshal Kesselring is appointed C and C of the German Italian army of 60,000 man and the fliegerxorps X and II, while Rommel leaves his command to organise the Atlantic wall ( general Rommel has spend his time organize in Italy as head of the German Italian army to increase the Italian defence position and training with the Italian army and because of that he is given command of the Atlantic wall to increase its defensive there). The Luftwaffe, with 400 aircraft available, begins a series of raids against London and ports in southern England.

November 23 The Red Army captures Poltava. German troops complete the occupation of the islands of the Dodecanese in the eastern Mediterranean.

November 25 The Russians capture Smolensk and Roslavl. A Destroyer action off Cape St. George results in the Japanese being routed to the north west of Bougainville and losing three destroyers out of five in the process.

November 26 The HMT Rohna, a British troop transport, is attacked in the eastern Mediterranean by a Luftwaffe plane using the German air-launched anti-ship missile called Fritz X sinking the ship and killing 1,015 American and 135 British and Australian service men ( is atack is what hapend in OTL )

November 27 The Germans begin a General withdrawal of all forces in the Ukraine to panther line ( the panther line after four moths of building and using hundred of thousand of force labours).

November 30 The Russians make contact with the German hold the panther line on a 300-mile front. The US Navy Department announces that very few Japanese are left alive in the Gilbert Islands. On Tarawa, 2,490 Marines were killed and 3,193 wounded, with only 200 Japanese out of garrison of 8,836 being taken prisoner, with only 34 of them being soldiers. Kokada in New Guinea falls to the 9th Australian Division in the drive to the Japanese position in port Mosby ( the Australians can go up but with more then 70,000 forces under the Japanese line waiting and port Mosby a large and imported target the 9th division is battling its way to the Japanese in and around port Mosby with more Australian forces pouring in popondetta).

December 1 Vatutin launches a 4-day breakout attempt from the Bukrin bridgehead south of Kiev.
The Red Army achieves a landing across the Strait of Kerch from the Taman peninsula and also severs all German land links with the Crimea.

December 2 German and Italian forces in Yugoslavia begin a major operation against Tito's partisan's ( Italy has some 300,000 troops station in the Balkans with Mussolini deciding if to send more on the eastern front Italy has now got 300,000 some 100,000 more then in otl).

December 3 A massive Russian offensive from Dnieper bridgehead North of Kiev erupts. Third fritz x attack sinks a free French destroyer on patrol out of Tunisia.

December 4 Tito’s Partisans set up a provisional government in the partisans control hills in Yugoslavia. the 7th and 9th Australian divisions make contact with the Japanese in port Mosby but the Japanese have bin ordered not to surrender the city at any price. a total of 7 German u-boats and Japanese have mad the journey of travailing between them with out losses but now a German u-boat hading towards Japan is spotted and sunk with al man aboard December 5 after two day of battling the German keep control of Kiev but their forces are to weak to defend against a second soviet attempt to capture the city. The first Japanese daylight raid on Calcutta is mounted with many reported killed

December 8 using the diversion the new guinea force brakes out of the Japanese line and begins battling the Japanese after the manage to clear the japans line the begin moving towards the Australian divisions already beginning laying siege to the city.

December 10 The Red Army achieves a breakthrough near Gomel in Byelorussia and coming in contact with the German panther line there.

December 12 The Soviets begin to amass a large force to break true the German hold city of Kiev . The US 8th Air Force delivers a heavy attack against the city of Bremerhaven However, of the original force of 291 B-17's, 54 are either shot down or damaged beyond repair, while the Luftwaffe has lost only about 20 fighter planes ( the German have redeployed the units the can spare along the coast and in occupied Denmark and increase the aa defensive in many coastal city’s). the new gunia force now has port Mosby surrounded and despite heavy artillery attacks the Japanese defenders hold on to port mosby while a large part of the new guinea force move up towards the city of kerama which the Japanese hold.

December 15 Great Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union all break off diplomatic relations with the Yugoslav government in exile and recognize Tito's Communist Popular Liberation Committee as the Yugoslav government to be even if its being chance around by axis forces in the Balkans. US troops land on New Britain near Cape Gloucester, to the South West of Rabaul. Operation cutter, an American-Australian amphibious assault on the Japanese Army at daru new guinea with the intend to cut of Japanese supply towards kerema and to get full control of the gulf of Papua ( the landing is to form a defensive perimeter and to hamper any Japanese naval forces that try to get in to the gulf of Papua ).

December 20 The Russian attacks from Bukrin bridgehead are bloodily repulsed and put them back at the panther line. Hitler allows Army Group North to withdraw to Panther line. US commanders in the field order port Mosby to be bomb to the ground after Japanese defenders refuse to surrender. The British reach the emperor Line in Arakan, Burma ( the Japanese have begun work on the emporor line and hav fortified it with many in many places forcing the British to move slow in to Burma ).

December 22 The allies announce that Tito is to be the allied commander in Yugoslavia as his partisans are now estimated at 125,000 men ( tito has a large forces but because of Italy was never invaded and the war in north Africa was not fought long his partisans are have in size du to heavy German and axis forces controlling the Balkans).

December 24 Sir Henry Maitland Wilson is made Supreme Commander in the Mediterranean and orders the bombing of Italy to increase. The Luftwaffe raids Exeter in the first of Hitler's retaliatory raids ,a second raid employing 91 aircraft is made against Rostock. 350 allied bombers hit the Japanese hold port Mosby while US and Australian naval ships are beginning to blockade and shell Japanese positions in the city.

December 26 German forces of Army Group Centre evacuate Gomel in Byelorussia towards their panther line. US Marines make further landings on New Britain, either side of Cape Gloucester heavy fighting reported with Japanese defenders have dig them self in and some units make kamikaze attacks at the us forces hampering the us advances ( the Japanese command put many more troops on new Britain as it protect the flank of new guinea and the Bismarck sea and is part of the emperor line where now more troops are located then there where in otl even despite Japan lack of many transports Japan is placing as many soldiers on the islands as the can ).

December 30 of the 15,000 Japanese defenders at port Mosby only 7,700 are still alive with the city burning and laying in ruins and after 3 air attacks against the port the Japanese’s still refuse to give up the city even if the are isolated from the outside world with more then 2 allied divisions surrounding and pounding their positions daily while new troops now move in the srengting the new guinea force who after battling its way to the jungle is almost 5 miles from the city of kerema ( the Japanese at port Mosby begin to run out of food and with the constant bombardments and shelling from the allied forces the are almost and the end, the US begins to feel the effect of the Japanese die hard mentality and are now begin to focus on a new tactic instead of attacking the citys hold by the Japanese on new guinea the are going if possible bypass them and let the air force bomb them out and surround them until the surrender or are completely destroyed while also clearing in of new guinea that Australia is no more in danger of being bomb and continue the advance when the Bismarck sea is in allied hands giving them control of isolating 100,000 Japanese instead of battling themselves tro the jungle ).