Part 27 1946

April 3 The Corsica social republic with approving from Italy sells all three pica Class Torpedo Boats (MC Bonifacio , MC Porto , MC Ajaccio ) to its fellow central alliance member Spain in order to remove ships the it can not fully man and who are a burden to its weak economy , the three ships are to be handed over to the Spanish navy before 1947 and witch are also a step in the rearm program of general Franco to create a armed force to be reckoned with and to tilt the French/British presence in the Mediterranean Sea in favor to Spain and the central alliance , the Marine de Corse still relies on Italy to help them man its two destroyers and one cruiser du their shortest of manpower and the rivalry between the Marine de Corse and the large Armée de Corse ). April 5 The SMS Graf Zeppelin arrives in Wilhelmshaven where it will be deployed as part of the North sea fleet.

April 6 The US congress passes its Argentina weapons embargo a month after president Peron took office in Argentina and resumed military trade with Germany something which under UN resolution 1 is forbidden the united states tried to warn Argentine not to trade by refusing to sell weapons but when Argentina ignore the warning the US has put the Argentina weapons embargo in effect which forbids the US from selling military hardware to them the embargo will be in effect and in the future the US will look if more sanctions are needed to force Argentina to halt trade to Germany ore central alliance nations.

April 7 Syria's independence from France is officially recognized by the French republic and the first agreement is made witch allows the French to station troops in the new country of Syria until 1950 ( the new Syrian government dos not want to get involved in the eastern war ore the Kurdish uprising which is going on in Turkey/Iraq and because the British who previous had troops in Syria are now being deployed in Iraq the Syrian government had no choice to ask the French to position troops in its country until its has a army to defend its self and the situation an its border are returned to normal ).

April 8 after hard street by street fighting the city of Taipei comes under the control of the US northern Force army and with this halve of Formosa is under US control ( the middle and several city’s on Formosa are still under Japanese control but with Taipei now captured the US northern Force army can focus on destroying the remaining Japanese pockets ).

April 9 Helldivers, Dauntless, Avengers, Corsairs , Super Corsair ,Bearcats and Hellcats based on taskforce 60 six fleet carriers and eight light carriers attack numerous targets on the Japanese home island suffering only minor losses to their planes as Japanese Ohka Suicide rockets and mini-subs try to sink the ships from the taskforce both are sunk ore shoot down before the can cause major damage to the taskforce ( the Japanese imperial navy operates the mini subs in groups trying to penetrated the US defense and to sink ore damaging US navy ships will the Imperial Japanese Army Air Service use Ohka and Tsurugi suicide planes but du to superior US radar and fighter coverage the kamikaze attacks are fruitless ).

April 11 The crisis in north Iraq turns much worst when several car and suicide bombs exploded in several city’s in north Iraq killing ore wounding more then a dozen British/ commonwealth soldiers and Iraqi civilians ( the attack was made by Kurdish fighters based out of Turkey , the German troops aiding the Turkish fighters are not aware that their weapons and training are use for these attacks nor do the have orders to widen the uprising as the Germans fear a possible reaction from the British who warned not to escalade the eastern war conflict in to Iraq ore Iran ).

April 12 Stalin flank by NVDK soldiers visit one of the massive assembly areas where the soviet union in total secrecy is massing their forces for the planed operation red force which will be the biggest operation sins the war began in 1941 for the soviet later he meets with several of his marshals and orders that operation red force begins on may 7.

April 13 The united states host a attempt to resolve the crisis between the soviet union and Iran begins when high ranking officials of both country’s meet in Washington DC to resolve the crisis ( the talks between the soviet union and Iran failed forcing the united states to intervene as both country’s have demands the other dos not want to comply with creating a situation in a region which is already tense du the eastern war and the situation in Iraq , the soviet union demands are that the Trans-Iranian Railway remains open for goods to be sent to the soviet union , the problem of the independent Republic of Mahabad is solved , the guarantee that Iran remains neutral in the conflict and to honor the Tri-Partite Treaty of Alliance with Britain and the Soviet Union signed in 1942, will Iran wants the soviets to leave as soon as possible ).

April 16 After many long hours and days of talks in Washington DC an agreement is made between the soviet union and Iran in which the two country’s agree that that the soviet union will withdraw from Iran after receiving a promise of oil concessions , the problem of the independent Republic of Mahabad is to be solved by the Iran in support of the united states who will send military advisors and equipment to aid them in this mission ( the soviet forces currently deployed in Iran will leave when the Iran begins its campaign against the IRM ).
The first massive bombing raid on a Manchukuo city begins when B-29s from the USAAF XX Bomber Command hit the city of Mukden before flying back to their bases in china ( the USAAF XX Bomber Command has begun shifting their attacks with the situation on Formosa now such that fighter and bomber planes can take of from the island giving the XX Bomber Command the possibility to shift their attacks as decided by the American–Chinese headquarters to attack targets much heavier then in the past in state of Manchukuo and Korea will also supporting the Chinese forces in their drive towards shanghai and Peking and their continuo siege on the Japanese hold cities of Hong Kong , Canton and Fort Bayard ).

April 16 The Kaiserliche Marine increase its patrols in the north sea du the high activity from soviet submarines patrolling the sea and which now is called the battle of the north sea which began after the sinking of the Zerstörer SMS 34 on December 6 1945 by soviet submarines who use the British territorial waters for protection and supplies much to the horror of the Germans who can do noting to strike at the soviet submarine tender laying in British waters then protesting diplomatic with out much results ( the battle of the north sea has forced the Netherlands , British ,Norwegians and Danish to move in convoys as the soviet could mistake them from Germans and to prevent action from the Germans side ).

April 17 In a ceremony the Regia Marina presents the RN Aquila which after more then vive years of buildings and delays is finally commissioned in the Regia Marina service becoming its first carrier ( the carrier can handle 60 naval version of the RE.2005 fighter , for more information about the RN Aquila check the Italian Royal Navy/ Regia Marina topic ).

April 18 With gun fights and bombing and massive riots now happening in across north Iraq British prime minster Churchill gives orders to the commander in Baghdad who is in charge of the British lead Commonwealth Iraqforce to use all means possible to aid Iraq in brining order to north Iraq , to prevent the situation from spilling over to Iran ore other countries , to allow any soviet ore Turkish ground ore air units to land and to be aided when in Iraq , to engage all hostile forces entering Iraq from the air ore by land but prime minster Churchill also orders not to escalate the eastern war by engaging German and Italian units ore air units fighting in Turkey.

April 19 Field marshal Rommel and his staff discuses the soviet buildup unaware the soviets are planning something big forcing field marshal Rommel to increase the entire eastern front in order to prevent the soviets from attempting something would attack, Field marshal Rommel also request more troops which are use for garrison duty’s in occupied Poland and Belarus and which he intends to replace with Slovak and the newly created Belarusian imperial interior force ( BIIF ) which is 25,000 strong and which falls under the control of German imperial army ( the Belarusian imperial interior force is created in order to allow German soldiers to be deployed on the eastern front and to help rebuilding Germany itself the BIIF is made op of Belarusian who have declared loyalty to the German Kaiser ).

April 20 The State of East Indonesia Republic ( SEIR ) consisting of the main island of Celebes and the Japanese control parts of Western New Guinea and smaller island still under Japanese control declares its independence from the Netherlands with its main administrative capital in Makassar Celebes , its is the successor to the Provisional Kalimantan Republic forces (PKR ) which was disbanded after the Dutch retook control over Borneo and has become part of the SEIR and which claims not only Borneo but also the Dutch held island of java and Sumatra as part of a great independent Indonesia ). April 21 Field marshal Rommel receive permission to deploy addition troop from occupied Belarus to the German-Belarus panther line in order to prepare for a possible soviet attack ( the Buh/Bismarck line is also quit after the failed soviet attempts to cross it ).

April 23 The second H0 229 V5 bomber raid on Moscow is done when 10 Hortens drop 20 500 kg (1,100 lb) bombs on the red square despite soviet AA being fired but non of the 10 Hortens is hit and all mange to land safely on a German airfield in occupied Poland ( the soviets have British made radar around Moscow and heavy air defense forces protecting the city ).

April 25 The German and the Dutch governments reach a deal in which the agree to trade the body of Kaiser Wilhelm III who is buried in the Netherlands for Dutch art stolen from the Dutch during the occupation and the hand over of some escaped persons wanted by the Dutch , this agreement which was don in total secrecy is despite the bad relationship between Germany and the Netherlands a little step in a new direction ( the agreement is for now still a secret as the Dutch government fears the backlash that can come out if it is revealed that the have secret negations with Germany who one year before had occupied their country ).

April 27 Admiral Canaris head of the KVS reads reports written by the Abwehr officers based in Turkish Kurdistan and begins to believe that his planed uprising is spinning out of control now the Kurdish uprising has spread into north Iraq and Iran but he now’s that the uprising is forcing the Turkish army to deploy troops in to the areas and away from the Turkish front and therefore believes that as long as the British don’t take action against Germany ore here central alliance the support and training will continuo ( the Germans have 400 paratroopers and Abwehr officers training the Kurdish soldiers in fighting the Turkish army as of April 1946 ).

April 28 The Regia Marina carrier RN Aquila leaves the naval base of La Spezia for its new training base in Taranto ( the Italian Navy High Command decided to move the carrier to Taranto as La Spezia is to close to the French republic and therefore the carrier will be based in Taranto where it begins its sea and carrier trails in the Adriatic sea ).