Part 26 1946

February 3 Patton US northern Force army closes in to the Japanese hold city of Taipei on Formosa ( by now the Japanese Taipei garrison has use the time to prepare them self even if the city is under constant attack from the USAAF XX Bomber Command and TF-90 ).

February 7 German recon planes and ground surveillance begin noticing decrease activity on the German-soviet east front as the soviet continuo their build up for the planed red force operation .

February 8 The empire of Germany celebrates its first year as being a monarchy again with a large military parade in Berlin witch showcase the best Germany has it is also attended by several central alliance head of stats including president Laval of the SCR which is his first state visit sins becoming president of the SCR.

February 9 Doctor Wernher von Braun shows several high ranking officers of the German imperial army a muck up model of a large rocket, the rocket called the V-5 which will be the successor of the now produce V-4 rocket and can if build reach targets in as far Scotland in the UK and also is more reliably then the old V-2 rockets and the V-4 rockets currently in use.

February 10 The SMS Graf Zeppelin is officially commission by Princess Viktoria Luise of Prussia sister of Kaiser William the third after completing a four month sea trail the ship now will begin training handling fighter and bombers of it.
The German imperial high command fearing that the soviets are op to something du report from recon over the soviet territory and the fact it is quit on the border order the recon mission over soviet territory to increase in order to find out what the soviet are op to will also the begin to make plans incase their worst fear is realize.

February 14 Prime minster Churchill warns the German ambassador that the UK will not tolerant if the Kurdish uprising spread into Iraq and also warns that if this happens it will do everything it feels right to protect its interest in the region even going so fare to support the Turkish republic. The siege of Taipei begins when the US northern Force army reaches the first defense line outside the city.

February 19 The first FW-200T fighter plane take of from the SMS Graf Zeppelin as it begins its first officially patrol in the Baltic sea escorted by four destroyers ( the SMS Graf Zeppelin has 30 FW-200T fighter planes , 12 JU-87E dive/torpedo bombers and 6 Fl 282 helicopters on board ).
After two weeks of negations between Iran and the soviet union the talks stall du demands not being fulfilled by the two nations ( the soviet union refuse to leave Iran until the independent Republic of Mahabad problem is resolved and because the still don’t thrust the Iran government who the believe still is harboring pro German feelings will Iran wants the soviet army to leave as soon as possible ).

February 21 More British army divisions arrive in the Iraq city of Kirkuk and Irbil where the together with the small royal Iraq army will try to prevent the Kurdish uprising from spreading to Iraq ( the British already have garrison force in Mosul in order to protect the vital oil fields and other small garrison forces across Iraq .
A Luftwaffe Ar 234R reconnaissance jet is shoot down by soviet AA guns when it flew over a area where the soviet army is massing for the upcoming red force operation before the recon plane was shoot down it reported large amount of tanks and other activate in the area it flew over.
The first attempt of the US northern Force army to enter Taipei begins when a massive artillery barrage and US soldier protected by tanks and APC begin their advance on the Japanese hold city ( the Japanese have more then 90,000 soldiers and naval personal and many thousand of civilians who believe the have no other choice then to protect the city wile the US northern Force army is more then 300,000 strong and still growing).

February 23 Despite large number of troops available to the US northern Force army the fail to breach the defense line surrounding Taipei du the fanatic soldiers manning the trenches and fortifications causing large numbers of dead ore wounded on both sides.

February 24 Juan Peron becomes president of Argentina and tells on a radio broadcast that Argentina will seek friendship with united states and Germany and that Argentina will trade with both of them (president Peron knows that the UN has passed a resolution which forbids trade with Germany ore any central alliance member to take place but also now that du early military trade with Germany the united states now refuse to sell them weapons and therefore Argentina has no other choice to trade with Germany in order to remain a strong force in south America).
Stalin after hearing about German recon planes flying over the assembly areas tells is commanders that even with pictures the Germans can not figure out what the soviet army is planning and not to worry and that the build up for the biggest offensive in soviet history will continuo as progress ( Stalin dos not now the Germans already are beginning to get worry du the low activity on the German-soviet border and the pictures the receive are beginning to get them more worried as the don’t now if the can stop a massive offensive of this size ).

February 25 The Chief of Staff of the United States Army advices the president to postpone the invasion of Japan which was planed in march for the time being as the Formosa campaign requires more and more troops and the US army nor navy are yet on full strength to prepare their invasion instead he suggest the USAAF to continuo their massive bombing and to begin with dropping new A-bombs on Japanese city’s after the last was drop in august and to focus on freeing the Chinese mainland before attempting a invasion of the Japanese home islands and to tighten the blockade of the Japanese home islands.
Two days after the failed attempt by the US northern Force army to get thru the defense line surrounding the city general Patton request for a massive bomber raid on the city in order to soften up its defense and to undermined the will of the people in side.

February 27 The republic of Portugal declares war on the empire of Japan after several attempts of getting the now besieged Portuguese colony of macu back ( the declaration of war is mostly symbolic but shows that Portugal is heading funder towards a pro British/American position manly du Spain membership in the central alliance ).

March 2 With the situation still problematic in Iran British troops under Tehran Conference agreement begin to leave will the soviet armed forces present in the country still refuse despite attempt by both the British and the untied states to resolved the matter ( the united states has offered to send equipment and military advisors in order to help Iran fight the independent Republic of Mahabad and to keep its neutrality in the soviet-central alliance war/Eastern war.

March 4 Field marshal Rommel is made commander of all German and central alliance force on the east front and is ordered by the German high command to ready German forces for the upcoming soviet offensive they believe that will happen soon.

March 6 In order to normalize the situation the French republic signs a agreement with Ho Chi Minh which recognizes Vietnam as an autonomous state in the Indochinese Federation and the French Union ( this has bin don as the Viet Minh who after the October revolution went to the countryside still remain a force to be recon with and therefore the French republic believes that singing this agreement will keep French Indochina French ).

March 7 Under a agreement the royal Dutch army air service hands over the first of their Vickers Wellington bombers back to the RAF and also begins disbanding the two Vickers Wellington squadron the 540 and 541 their job will be handle in the future by former B-25 of the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army Air Force witch du the Dutch indies mostly under control of the Netherlands can be put in to service in defending the home country.

March 9 Outside a RAF base Mosul a large bomb explodes killing more then 30 British soldiers and Iraqi civilians are killed ore wounded ( RAF base Mosul is mostly use for recon mission over the north Iraq in order to watch if Kurdish fighter in turkey do not cross into Iraq ).

March 10 A B-29S of the 509th Composite Group drops a 20 kiloton A-bomb on the Japanese city of Kawasaki killing more then 23,000 people.

March 11 More then 300 B-29 bombers of the USSAF XX Bomber Command raid the city of Taipei in leveling the besieged city and causing massive losses in lives.

March 14 Using information gather by British army intelligence several house are raided by British soldiers back by tanks in one raid a fire fight brake out killing and wounding a dozen British soldiers and bystanders who where looking by the British in one house find several German and Italian made weapons proving that the RAF Mosul bombing is connected with the Kurdish uprising in turkey.

March 17 The first bombing campaign on Moscow sins the Germans where push back out of it in 1942 by 12 Ho229 V5 Moscow bombers will the damage by them is not severe it still startles the soviet as the did not believe Germany could hit Moscow ( the Germans now have 24 Ho229 V5 Moscow bombers in service and 24 more on order ).
A Second air raid by a force of 150 B-29 against Taipei begins when the drop Incendiary bombs in order to set the city on fire and to destroy what left of the city.

March 16 With the Germans having commissioned their first carrier the SMS Graf Zeppelin Mussolini prime minister of Italy orders his admirals to finish the aircraft carrier RN Aquila before the year is don as he want to show the world that Italy can and is still a powerful nation ( the Regia Marina has three carrier under construction the first is the RN Aquila which construction was halted during the war and witch work began in middle of 1945 , the RN Alcon formerly the RN Impero a ship of the Littorio battleship type which will be converted as a carrier and the RN corvine a totally new to be build carrier ).

March 19 A large group of protester in the city of Mosul go on the street protesting the British presence in the city and the raid the conducted several days ago the peaceful demonstration turns violent after several Iraq army soldiers already under nerve fire on some protesters after the refuse to stop at a checkpoint in the city ( the royal Iraq army is only 10,000 strong as the British still have large forces in Iraq mostly in north Iraq which falls under the British control with the royal Iraq army being in the middle and south of Iraq but some Iraq units also are percent in the north ).
With two massive air raids over the US northern Force army attempts for the second time to breach the defensive line outside the now destroyed city of Taipei whit a massive charge finally makes progress as the Japanese defenders are hit not only from the ground but naval support of taskforce 30 witch replaced TF-90 and has more then 12 carriers several battleships , cruiser and many destroyers firing on Japanese positions.

March 20 The 7th A-bomb is drop on the Japanese city of Osaka by a B-29S the A- bomb of 22 kiloton kills more then 30,000 people mostly workers who had remain in the city to keep the war machine going.

March 23 Riots have broken out in north Iraq after a several incidents between Kurdish natives living in the north and British and Iraqis army units.
The first sign the Japanese defenders of Taipei are loosing is when the Americans manage to break to one of the line and enter the outskirts of the city itself where manly Japanese troop are hiding in the rubble waiting to cause as much destruction to the US northern Force army soldiers.

March 28 The royal Dutch navy commissions its first navy ship build sins the return of the Dutch government when the Dutch K-class sloop Piet Hein is commission the name Piet Hein was used by a Admiralen-class destroyers which was Sunk by Japanese Destroyers during the Battle of Badung Strait on February 19 1942 , the HNLMS Piet Hein will join the Dutch navy in the Netherlands.

March 27 In total secrecy the German government begin negations between them and the Dutch government in order to get the body of the former Kaiser Wilhelm II back ( the negations happen in the Dutch Representative Office in Berlin and involves several high ranking Dutch citizens who want Dutch art back witch the Germans took when the occupied their country wile the Germans with the restoration of the German monarchy want the body of the former Kaiser Wilhelm and father of current Kaiser Wilhelm III who is buried in the Netherlands to return to Germany the negations are don in secrecy as the Dutch now that the hate against the Germans is still strong in the Netherlands ).

March 29 With riots now broken out all across north Iraq and a Kurdish uprising in turkey British prime minster Churchill orders the British army in Iraq to stop the unrest before it becomes a full blown uprising something he dos not want to happen , prime minster Churchill also warn the German ambassador that evidence was found of German made weapons which found in Mosul and witch is also one of the reason why riots in north Iraq have broke out the German ambassador tells that German weapons are sold on the black market and that no prove of direct German involvement in the riots ore the Mosul bombing are found and that Germany is has the right to help the Kurds in Turkey fight agianst oppression. The US northern Force army finally manages to battle itself to the city itself with street to street fighting between American and Japanese forces.

March 30 On the plains of the soviet union the last preparations for operation red force are done as more man , tanks and artillery ever assemble in the history of the soviet union begin their last preparations for the librations of Europe form Germany and here allies .