Part 36 1947

January 5 In Bucharest the ministers of defenses of all central alliance members , Soviet Union , Finish democratic republic and Turkish republic agree to several points concerning military matters on the east front and the Turkish front.
The Chinese delegation after four days in Moscow manages to convince the soviet government that Mao Zedong plan to invade the state of Manchuria will not effect the Soviet–Japanese Neutrality Pact of 1945 as the Soviets will only aid the Chinese communist in invading the state of Manchuria.

January 6 General Lucius D. Clay becomes the new commander of the US forces European theater and the allied force European mainland theatre replacing general Dwight Eisenhower who returns to the United States.

January 7 After talking to their governments all ministers of defenses in Bucharest are allowed to sign the Bucharest agreement ( the Bucharest agreement has several points in it to prevent tensions on the east front from starting ore mistakes being misinterpreted from happening ).

January 9 The headquarter of the French navy decides to extend the deployment of the carrier Arromanches whit the French south Chinese Fleet for another four months in order to allow Arromanches to assist the French Indochina expeditionary corps and to continuo operations against the Japanese hold island of Hainan.

January 10 President Peron of Argentina lands in in Berlin for a four day state visit to the German empire and latter the Spanish state , he is greeted on arrival by the secretary of state and is later schedule to have a state banquet whit kaiser Wilhelm III ( President Peron is the first south American head of state visiting the German empire ).
The Corsica social republic becomes the third nation to withdraw some of its forces as the 800 strong Corsican Foreign Legion force who served on the Turkish front embarks upon a Italian merchant ship and escorted by the Marine de Corse torpedo boats MC Bonifacio and MC Porto return home to the Corsica social republic ( the Legion étrangère Corse/Corsican Foreign Legion suffered during their deployment 27 dead and 49 wounded ).

January 11 Whit the assistance of the Soviet Union now guarantee the communist party of China leader Mao Zedong declares that from this day the new fourth army and the eighth route army are to become the core of the newly created Chinese liberation army (CLA) which now becomes the officially military arm of the communist party of China as the Communist party of China withdraws its forces from the Chinese national revolutionary army ( the new fourth army and the eighth route army names are change to the 1st and 2nd group army and form the main force of a independent army under full control of the communist party of China ).
Second day of president Peron state visit brings him to Wilhelmshaven naval base where he is given a tour of one of the three 1934A class destroyers the Argentine republic navy has bought whit the first the ARA Espora formerly SMS Z5 Paul Jakobi scheduled to be handed over to the Argentine republic navy in march of 1947 ( the German kaiserliche marine is replacing the 1934A class destroyers whit 10 new 1945 class destroyers of which the first three SMS Z57 , SMS Z58 and SMS Z59 are in various fazes of completion , Argentine despite having the Argentina weapons embargo put on them by the United States is seeking to increase buying weapons from Germany after having bought and receive 12 San Pedro class submarines of the U-boat type IXC/40 and three Espora/1934A class destroyers ).

January 12 Whit operation big wheel now progressing so well in New Guinea the USAAF, RAAF and the RNZAF begin operation Condor dropping massive quantities of bombs on the Japanese held fortress of Rabaul where the remaining Japanese eighth area army still totaling 63,000 soldiers is surrounded by Australian and US army forces ( operation condor is the biggest air attack against sins the bombing of Rabaul in November 1943 ).
Third day of his state visits brings president Peron to a kaiserliche Luftwaffe airfield somewhere in central Germany where is greeted by a flight of Arado Ar 234 bombers , Me-262 jet fighter , Hs 132B dive bomber , WF-250 prop fighters , the mighty Junkers 390 heavy bomber and the Fa 223 Drache helicopter , he also given a personal inspection of those aircraft on the ground ( president Peron wants the Argentine air force to be the most modern air force in south America and the first to have jet propelled aircraft in service in that region and before coming to the state visit had already begun negotiations buying ore receiving manufactory license for the Me-262 and other German aircraft to modernize the Argentine air force now that the United states , Great Britain ore any other nation will sell weapons to Argentine du the Argentina weapons embargo in place ).

January 13 The US 4th , 5th and 6th marine division arrive in the French Indochina ports of Cam Ranh , Tourane /Da Nang and France's main naval base in Haiphong ( the three US marine division will take part in the planned invasion of Hainan island whit other US infantry and marine divisions already being shipped from US controlled Formosa , Philippines , Hawaii ore the US mainland wile the USAAF and USN air force are also being deployed out of airfields in French Indochina ).
Last day of president Peron four day visit in the German empire where he and the vice-reichs chancellor sign a deal which will allow the German empire to receive much needed supplies in return for major German weapons delivery to Argentina over a two year period ( the deal includes a dozen Me-262 which will be build in Germany wile Argentina fábrica militar de aviones will receive the license to build several other German fighters , bombers and other aircraft and more then 200 panzer IV and 50 panther tanks are also sold whit license rights to build the panzer IV and many other vehicles also include in the deal ).

January 14 President Peron is greeted by president Franco and president Peron wife Eva Duarte de Perón when he lands in Madrid to begin his second state visit ( Eva Duarte de Perón arrived in Spain several days earlier whit food supplies which are a gift from Argentina to the Spanish state who like all central alliance nations suffers from a UN embargo put in place ).
The second launch of the V-5 is successful when the V-5 rocket takes of from the Reichsheeresversuchsstelle Peenemünde/imperial army research center Peenemunde ( RHVP ) a month after a earlier attempt to get a V-5 rocket airborne failed ( the V-5 has a rang of 600 kilometers and a warhead of up to 2000 pounds ).

January 15 The Corsican foreign legion receive a heroes welcome when their transport ship arrives in Bastia , latter the are escorted by the Régiment de malice to the CSR capitol of Ajaccio where the will take part in a parade in front of president Pierre Laval and general Philippe Pétain who for this occasional appears in public as he is retired and rarely appears in public sins he handed to reign of power to Pierre Laval.

January 17 A USAAF B-29 bomber drops a twenty kiloton bomb A-bomb on Yokosuka naval base that destroys all of the base’s facilities and precious fuel reserves , three destroyers , I-400-class submarine I-404 , the last carrier IJN Shōhō , many Kairyu midget submarines and other vessels which where still in service in the Japanese imperial navy ( the US decided to drop the A-bomb which killed tens of thousand of people in order to prevent the production of the Kairyu midget submarines at Yokosuka shipyard and destroy the last carrier the Japanese imperial navy still had which was use for transport missions from Japanese Korea to the home islands).

January 18 Allied bombers based out of Australia have flown more then 1,000 sorties against the fortress of Rabaul losing only 17 planes in the attack sins the start of operation Condor whit a total 3,500 tons of bombs being dropped ( the Japanese have lost only 43 people in the attacks as the have 700 kilometers of tunnels which contains barracks , hospitals, storage for weapons and munitions , tanks artillery ).

January 21 A USAAF B-29 bomber drops a A-bomb on the Japanese imperial naval base of Kure destroying the second largest naval base of the Japanese imperial navy and killing thousands of people. January 22 A US delegation made op of military officers and diplomats meet whit Hồ Chí Minh in order to ask for a cease fire for the duration that the US armed forces are present in French Indochina as more US forces arrive in French Indochina ports each day for the planed invasion of Hainan island which is now called operation Glacier.
Prime minister Yamamoto in a bunker outside a destroyed and former capitol of Tokyo checks the latest report concerning the destruction of Kure and start to believe the US is aiding the hardliners of the Japanese imperial army who believe that the should lead the nation and carry on the fighting in the name of the emperor and a glorious victory something prime minister Yamamoto knows was gone the day he ordered the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941 , now he wonder when the hardliners will make their move as operation divine defense the last major navy attack only delayed their coup and he knows he can not stop the hardliners as the control the only force left that is still strong.

January 24 After 12 days of bombing the fortress of Rabaul no major breakthrough in destroying the underground Japanese tunnels is made when a RAAF officer suggest that grand slam ore tallboy earth quake bombs can penetrate these tunnels , later in the day a message is sent to RAF bomber command in Great Britain whit the request of a large number of grand slam and tallboy bombs to be delivered.

January 27 President Truman speaks whit French president Jules Auriol where he tells him that the US had spoken whit Hồ Chí Minh leader of the Việt Minh and that the US requested a cease fire for the duration of the US armed forces presence in French Indochina which Hồ Chí Minh agrees whit as long as the cease fire also includes the French forces , president Jules Auriol tells President Truman that this decision will take several days as he has to discuses whit commander of the French Indochina expeditionary corps general Jean-Étienne Valluy and head of the French Indochina colonial government Georges Thierry d'Argenlieu ( the US wants to focus their attention towards operation Glacier as it fears that the fighting between the Việt Minh and French will effect the February invasion date and therefore the US wants a cease fire in place which it also hopes gives diplomacy a change in bringing the two sides to the negation table ).

January 28 Operation Condor is put on hold until the tallboys and grand slam bombs have bin sent to the allied air force in Australia from Great Britain as non of those are build in Australia ( no plans to launch a ground invasion of the fortress of Rabaul have bin made nor are the planned as the US military believes attacking Rabaul even in this stage would make the Tarawa, Iwo Jima and Okinawa invasion a walkover , the tallboys and grand slam bombs are not biggest bombs the can use as the USAAF as a last resort is wiling to drop a A-bomb on Rabaul if the conventional bombings don’t work in bringing Rabaul under allied control ).
The 1st and 2nd red banner army’s who are part of the Soviet far eastern front which is deployed at the border of state of Manchuria and Japanese Korea receive orders from Moscow to transferred 8 rifle divisions , 3 mechanized division and many supporting regiments to the Chinese liberation army where the will become the 3rd group army under CLA control in preparation of the Chinese communist invasion of the state of Manchuria ( the Soviets now that the Soviet–Japanese Neutrality Pact of 1945 prevents them from invading the state of Manchuria directly as the nation is protected under the treaty and the Soviets don’t want to give the Germans something to think about if the break a treaty now a cease fire and a future peace deal is coming and have decided that several divisions of the Soviet far eastern front will become part of the Chinese liberation army in order to bypass the treaty ).

January 29 In Great Britain the first transport of large numbers of tallboys and grand slam bombs by ship leaves port wile the RAF 617 Squadron also known as the dambusters and 9 squadron who already where deployed out of Okinawa as part of the tiger force are being redeployed to Australia where the will use the tallboys and grand Slam bombs against the Rabaul fortress ( Tiger Force ore also know as VLR bomber force is a British commonwealth long range heavy bomber force deployed out of Okinawa where the used avro Lancaster, avro Lincolns and cconsolidated liberators bombers against targets in the Japanese home islands ).
US navy cruiser USS Duluth , USS Portsmouth , USS Oregon City , USS Cuba , USS Philippines , USS Quincy and 18 destroyers part of the US Fifth Fleet shell for several hours the island of Hainan something that is happening each day and which is increasing as the February invasion date comes closer ).

January 30 French south Chinese fleet cruisers Marseillaise , Suffren and the battleship Richelieu join a US navy taskforce in a eight hour shelling of Hainan island.