Part 25 1946

January 1 With a new year arrived General Dwight Eisenhower commander of the AFEMT is honored by the Dutch queen Wilhelmina when he receive the Order of the Dutch Lion in the Dutch capitol of den Hague ( General Eisenhower has visit den Hague in order to disuse matters related to the defense of the free European country’s with Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery commander of the British Army of the Benelux ( BATB ) and who is also the deputy Commander of the AFEMT , for more information about the AFEMT go to the Allied Force European mainland Theatre topic ).

January 3 Chinese forces surrounding the city of Fort Bayard in China begin a massive charge against he Japanese defenders who by sheer luck manage to repulse the charge against heavy lose of the Chinese forces after this a decisions is made by the American–Chinese headquarters to starve and bomb out the Japanese who are hold up in the city’s of Hong Kong , Canton and Fort Bayard and to concerted on a new offensive against the Japanese in shanghai , Hainan and to increase the bombing against the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo and the Japanese province of Korea ( the Japanese imperial army holding Hainan are sins the invasion of Formosa and the Chinese offence of the three city totally cut of and are in a weak but still dangerous stat will the Japanese army in shanghai have used its inhabitants to create a line protecting its city , the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo still has large Japanese forces will it is under attack by the USAAF daily mostly all attention is going to the Japanese home island but with the new decision by the American–Chinese headquarters the state of Manchukuo and Korea will receive as much attention of the USAAF in the future as well ).

January 7 General Patton US northern Force army reaches the outskirts of the city Suao which he has to clear before continuing his advance towards Taipei to do this he use his M26 Pershing tanks of witch he brought some 100 with him after he transferred from his position as the commander of the fourth US Europe force corps (general Patton brought 100 M26 Pershing tanks with him is that the tank never saw action against the Germans du the peace was sign before any could be ship over , the Pershing tanks may be overkill but its is its first combat test sins it was build and general Patton believes that any battle the tank is in will help it to become a better tank if it ever has to face the German panzers , after a month of fighting the death and wounded of the US forces battling on Formosa and of the naval taskforce assisting it has reach the 10,000 mark with more then 400,000 soldiers , marines and sailors beginning to face a determine enemy bent on slowing their advance of capturing the island ).

January 9 A British merchant ship hits a mine near the soviet port of Murmansk but manages to enter the port with a gaping hole in its side , the same day the British government warns Germany it will not tolerate any mines being laid near the soviet ports of Murmansk and Archangel ( later prime minster Churchill orders the royal navy to reinstate the convoy system witch was disbanded after the Zurich peace was sign for ships heading to and from soviet ports on the Barents sea , the Germans have begun laying mines near the ports to keep the soviet navy tide up and to prevent merchant ship from entering toss ports ).

January 10 With the help of heavy air and artillery barrage general Patton order his infantry back by Sherman’s , perishing tanks and other vehicles to enter the bow ruined town of Suao which has a small but wheal dug in Japanese garrison.

January 11 Charles de Gaulle resigns as a head of the French provisional government but tells the provisional government that the most be united against the treat from the east and stand firm in their demands that Corsica returns to the French republic (Charles de Gaulle resigned on the same things that he did in OTL but unlike OTL , the French republic still dos not recognize the Corsica social republic and Charles de Gaulle warns that with him not the head of the French provisional government anymore the new government most recognize and stand firm in their demands that Corsica returns as a province of the French republic ).

January 12 All over the soviet union new tanks , artillery and airplanes begin to gather at staging points as the soviet begin to prepare fro the upcoming operation red force ( the soviet deploy their newest tanks like the T-44/22 and the newest of the IS class tank the IS-4 of which the soviet army has several regiments of , the soviets also are setting up two new bomber regiments which are to bomb the German frontline and strategic places before the offensive begins , in order to prevent German reconnaissance to detect the staging areas the NKVD guards them and has orders to shoot anybody who dos not have the right clearance to enter to prevent possible German spies from transmitting what is happening ).

January 13 In the French colony of Indochina the French Indochina Expeditionary Corps ( FIEC ) defeats the last Việt Minh troops in the city’s ( after losing the Việt Minh troops redraw themselves to the countryside to begin a guerrilla war against the French and to rearm and to increase their followers fore a future offensive witch the hope has better success in beating the French will also trying to seek support of the soviet union who as for now only supply’s the Việt Minh with few weapons du the war the are still fighting against the central alliance ).

January 14 The first Nakajima Kikka 2B jet squadron is activated with it the Imperial Japanese Army Air Service has a force of 100 Kikka jets of both the old 1A and the new 2B version in service who now daily battle the USAAF B-29 bombing the Japanese home islands ( the Kikka 2B jet is now the most modern jet in Japanese service but du to the resource extremely limit the few Kikka build are use only fore city defense wile the Shinden , Mitsubishi J8M interceptors and other fighters and who are available in large numbers protect and battle the USAAF are the primary fighters who try to stem the bombing campaign ).

January 15 Luftwaffe Ar-234R reconnaissance jets flying over turkey spot the first sign of movement by the Turkish army as it send more troops to east Turkey where a Kurdish uprising has begun to form ( both the Germans and Italians continuo to increase their support of the Kurds wile also trying to attack and to prevent the soviet from launching another raid against Rhodes as the first new Regia Aeronautica fighter sqodron has arrived to increase the defense of the island wile the Germans have agreed to supply the Italians with some Wasserfall surface-to-air missile to protect the island from any future soviet air attack , the Wasserfall , Rheintochter and the short range Rheinbote rocket witch now are produce in large amount of numbers to be deployed for the first time outside Germany who mainly deploys them on the border of the low country’s and France as the Germans deploy their majority of fighters on the east front ).

January 17 Another town is freed from the Japanese when the Americans now are faced with the fact that al towns and city on Formosa and witch are in the path to Taipei have to be taken in order to prevent any Japanese forces from operating behind the Americans forces ( because the Japanese have to dig themselves in and despite air attacks from the USAAF XX Bomber Command and planes from TF-90 the Japanese prevent the northern Force army from moving fast as the are force to clear the towns of Japanese which also is increasing the number of death as the Japanese imperial army has learn from the campaigns on Iwo Jima and Okinawa on how to slow and to maximize the casualties to the Americans ).The UN Security Council holds its first session in Church House, in London with the first resolution called resolution 1 passed by al the five permanent members (Republic of China, French Republic , USSR , Great Britain and the United States of America ) in witch the agree not to trade with any of the central alliance nations , that the CA nations can become members of the UN when the have made peace with the soviet union , republic of Turkey and the finish democratic republic , and have returned all of their territories including Poland and Yugoslavia too their respectful owners.

January 18 The German foreign minister calls the UN Security Council first resolution a attempt to salience Germany and here allies in the struggle against communisms and that the demands of resolution 1 are far to heavy and will therefore be ignored. The Royal Netherlands East Indies Army ( KNIL ) takes over full control of the Dutch Borneo with the Provisional Kalimantan Republic forces (PKRF ) being defeated by a joint Dutch/Australian armed forces ( the Australian will take over control over the British colony until being replace with British forces will the KNIL resumes its control over the Dutch colony on Borneo will trying to prevent the PKRF from resuming its uprising , Dutch Java and Sumatra are for now still calm as the Dutch never left and therefore prevented a uprising to take place the smaller island which the PKRF took over from the Japanese still in charge are also going to be invaded by the Dutch in order to restore the full Dutch control over the Dutch indies ).

January 19 The first complaint heard by the United Nations Security Council is made by Iran and directed against the Soviet Union. In which Iran alleged Soviet interference in its internal affairs and the refusal to remove Soviet troops from Iranian territory ( the soviet union still has troops in Iran and refuse to move them as Iran is still a important supply line for the Soviets and fears with the Kurdish uprising that it could spread to the soviet union ).

January 20 Charles De Gaulle resigns as president of the French provisional government and in a speech on the radio he address the people of the republic that the French republic stands united with its free European neighbors against the powers of evil and warns the so call Corsica social republic that whit him not leading France anymore it will not mean the republic will lay don its claim on the island nor will it ever recognize it as a independent country ( the evil he refuse to is Germany and all here central alliance members ).

January 21 The battle for Formosa continuous as general Patton request A-bombs to be drop on the towns near the route he is taken towards Taipei.

January 22 Admiral Chester W Nimitz commander of Central Pacific Area of witch the island of Formosa is part of tells general Patton that after speaking with president Truman the request for the use of more A-bombs on Formosa to assist the northern Force army in their advance towards Taipei is denied as he believes that the bombs are to valuable to be use on towns alone who have no strategic value and tells general Patton to do it the old fashion way.Qazi Muhammad declares the independent Republic of Mahabad ( this event has happen as the central alliance is increasing its aid to the Kurdish rebels in their fight against the Turkish forces and therefore he believes that his republic has a change to be recognize and receive aid as the Kurdish are getting it , In OTL the Republic of Mahabad was founded in northwestern Iran and was destroyed as the result of the cold war between the soviet and Americans as the USSR and the USA are still friends of sort and the Germans are backing the Kurds in turkey the independent Republic of Mahabad only worries is Iran ).

January 27 llan a town on Formosa is captured by the US northern Force army wile the south Force which is moving toward the city of shihtiping is bug down du Japanese resistance ( as for now both US army move along the coast leaving Japanese pockets in land for the time being ).

January 28 The German government recognize the independent Republic of Mahabad and begins to plan to send aid to them as wheal as to increase supply’s to the Kurdish rebels in turkey as the result of the uprising is forcing both the Turkish and the soviet forces to divert soldiers present at the Turkish front to east turkey in order to combat the rebels plus with the new independent Republic of Mahabad having declared their independence it increase the forces who are fighting against the soviet union and their allies ).

January 29 The royal Dutch navy creates the Dutch Pacific Squadron under command of Vice Admiral Helfrich and witch will become part of the US navy taskforce 60 where the will join the French FEF ( with the situation on Borneo under control and the war in the pacific shifted to several places and the planed US invasion of Japan still standing to begin on march 1946 the DPS is only small having one cruiser which is Vice Admiral Helfrich flagship , one destroyer , one river class frigate and one under him , admiral doorman remains the commander of the royal Dutch navy in the Dutch indies and now is begins to make plans for invasion of several smaller islands under control of the PKRF ore Japanese forces ).

January 30 With the situation in east Turkey escalating and afraid it can spill over to Iraq prime minster Churchill orders British and commonwealth troops to be sent to the border region of Iraq/Turkey and to prevent the Kurds present in Iraq from joining the uprising in Turkey.

January 31 The UN Security Council votes to allow Iran and the Soviet Union to settle their dispute by direct negotiation where the will find a solution to the problem concerning soviet troops being present in Iran ( the soviet union now tells the other members of the Security Council that its is correct in not leaving Iran as the independent Republic of Mahabad has declared their independence and is receiving aid from the central alliance and that the struggle witch it is fighting against the Germans is spreading and therefore it needs to protect its interest plus the soviet union fears that if it leaves Iran it will side with Germany as the Shah of Iran Reza Shah Pahlavi is known to harbor pro-German sympathies ).