November 2 The demonstrations across British India continuo which forces the British Army in India to intervene as the British Indian Army refuse to stop demonstrations forcing British Army units posted to India to break the demonstrations up ( wile the Royal Indian Navy mutiny is over many soldiers of the British Indian Army are beginning to openly question the British rule and have begun refusing to act against the demonstration going on across British India and by now prime minister Churchill has begum under pressure from president Truman to give India its independence as the United States fears that unrest in India is going to hurt the war against Japan if independence is not granted ).
From Portugal a small convoy of ships heads towards the recaptured Portuguese colony of Macau caring troops and supply’s to the Portuguese military garrison which consist of the Portuguese Expeditionary Force who helped in liberating the colony from the Japanese almost a month ago.
November 4 With Hong Kong and Macau haven fallen to the allies a month ago the attention shifts towards the last Japanese hold out in southern china which is on the island of Hainan as the Chinese-American headquarters begin to gather forces to invaded the island by sea as many attempts by the combined Chinese forces who lay across the Hainan Strait have failed. November 6 Senate and House elections in the United States both give majorities to the Republicans ( the cause is mostly related to the Truman administration policy related to Germany in the past which caused the democrats to loss the majority in the Senate and House ).
November 9 After many low level diplomatic talks the German empire and the Soviet Union come to a agreement to resume full diplomatic relations with each other to allow better communications both on the diplomatic and military front wile also agreeing to hold the third conference in the kingdom of Romania capitol of Bucharest which is the first time that a conference is held in a none neutral country ( the Bucharest conference will focus on the military situation on the east front as both sides still have millions of men facing each other and therefore the German empire and the Soviet Union want to resolve that before the real peace talks begin ).
November 14 Forces belonging to the Imperial Iranian Army backed by the US Military Iran Advisory Group air force are given permission by the kingdom of Iraq government to move in some cases 5 miles into Iraq to create a buffer zone which is created to prevent Kurdish forces in south Iraq from moving into Iran , the Turks however refuse as the believe that the have secured their border with Iran when enough and warn that any incursion by Iran will be dealt whit force ( with the Kurdish uprising becoming a lost case for the Kurds try to get out of the areas the previous control in order to get away from the Turks and Soviet forces in Turkey ore the British lead Iraqforce in Iraq , the Syrian republic also has closed borders with the kingdom of Iraq backed by a French Foreign Regiment who jobs it is to help protecting the Syrian/Turkish border and sins recently has station several French Air Force fighters , transport and reconnaissance squadrons in the republic as the Syrian republic has not yet gut its one air force ).
November 16 Prime minister Churchill announces that United Kingdom is going to discuss with the Indian National Congress and the All India Muslim League matters related to independence for India.
November 17 The Indian National Congress and the All India Muslim League tell their members that the are to spread the word that the British have caved in and discussion to give India its independence are going to begin and therefore the demonstrations can end for the moment as the have achieved their desired effect ( neither the Indian National Congress ore the All India Muslim League leaders now that the demonstrations where a minor factor but that the United States is the one that forced the United Kingdom to begin these talks as it feared that unrest in India could hurt the war against Japan ).
Operation big wheel is launched as Australian and the US army from bases in Queensland in Australia begin landings in occupied Australian and Netherlands New Guinea.
November 18 From their anchor near Dutch Timor the joint Netherlands and Australian naval taskforce comprising the cruisers HNLMS Jacob van Heemskerck as the main naval vessels escort the 1st Marine brigade of the Royal Netherlands Marine Corps and the Australian Infantry Battalion of the 7th Division towards their landing zone in north Netherlands New Guinea.
November 19 The last demonstration ends and the people in British India go back to their normal lives with the feeling that the have won the struggle and the United Kingdom is now forced to really discuses a independent India and not as previous delay it until Japan is defeated. On the third day of Operation big wheel the Australian and US army forces face no major resistance at all from the Japanese as the have redrawn deep in the New Guinea jungle.
November 20 The cruisers HNLMS Jacob van Heemskerck and HMAS Shropshire together with supporting ships shell a landing side in occupied Netherlands New Guinea as the 1st Marine brigade and the Australian Infantry Battalion of the 7th Division land unopposed at their landing side.
November 21 In the Independent state of Serbia members of a partisan forces attack a town garrisoned by the Rural State Guard in order to get food and weapons , several hours latter the partisan forces are driven back by the Serbian Home Defense Guard and forces belonging to the German Armeeabteilung Serbien ( these kind of attacks by Partisan forces in the Independent state of Serbia and the kingdom of Croatia happen on a regular basis as the Partisans struggle to get food and weapons to fight the Croatians , Serbians , Italians and German forces as their support with the local populations who are tired of fighting is dwindling each day , the Germans with the cease fire have deployed more divisions to the Independent state of Serbia ).
November 23 Whit Operation big wheel entering its six day many high rank officers of the Allied South West Pacific Area command begin to wonder why many of the landings on occupied Australian and Netherlands New Guinea are don with out major resistance from the Japanese , even on the frontlines who where quit for long time on New Guinea the resistance by Imperial Japanese forces is not strong except some pockets of die hard units of the Imperial Japanese army who are quickly defeated by the massive firepower the allies have at their disposal.
A Vietnamese riot in Haiphong erupts in clashes with troops belonging to the French Indochina Expeditionary Corps which results in the French south Chinese Fleet naval vessels including the cruiser Marseillaise to open fire on the city ( ( the city of Haiphong is the main naval base of the French south Chinese Fleet in French Indochina and therefore the fleet is able to support the French Indochina Expeditionary Corps who are used around French Indochina for garrison duty’s ).
November 25 US army Military Intelligence Service Office personal who after interrogating Imperial Japanese army soldiers captured alive during Operation big wheel get some answers in why there is so little resistance from a Imperial Japanese force which still numbers 100,000 on New Guinea , their findings are that many of the Imperial Japanese army forces on the island are to weak to engage as the had no supplies from Japan over 2 years , orders from the Imperial General Headquarters have not bin received for more then a year du the leak of working radio equipment , many of the soldiers are weak du disease ore lake of food , latter this information is sent to Allied Commander South West Pacific Area General Douglas MacArthur.
After two days of shelling by ships of the French south Chinese Fleet and the French Indochina Expeditionary Corps battling in the city results in the dead of 2,000 Vietnamese people in the city of Haiphong forcing Ho Chi Minh and his Viet Minh forces to retreat into the jungle.
November 27 The royal Dutch 1st Marine brigade continues their advance facing little ore any resistance from Imperial Japanese army forces sins their landing on occupied Netherlands New Guinea.
November 29 The French Expeditionary Fleet is disbanded and its resources is dividing between the French Indian Ocean Fleet and the French south Chinese Fleet with the French south Chinese Fleet receiving the bulk of the French Expeditionary Fleet naval vessels ( the French Expeditionary Fleet which was created on June 15 1945 is already being sidelined by the French south Chinese Fleet who will take its place in fighting the Japanese as it already is doing in supporting the siege of Hainan island ).
November 30 General Douglas MacArthur tells president Truman that if the progress of Operation big wheel is going better then planned and that if it continuous as it is doing now all of New Guinea will be in allied hands in less then tree to four months.
Monday, April 7, 2008
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
part 33 1946
October 4 The United States Secretary of State James F. Byrnes in the French city of Strasbourg tells the foreign minister of the Netherlands , Belgium , Luxemburg , French republic , Great Britain and Norway that the United States will keep troops true the Allied Force European mainland Theatre organization in the Benelux , French republic and Great Britain indefinitely and to increase aid to those nations true the United States Relief and Rehabilitation Agency.
October 6 Secretary of State James F. Byrnes arrives in Copenhagen to meet with the Danish prime minister Knud Kristensen where he assures the Danish prime minister that despite a agreement in the Zurich peace deal the United States will not abandon Denmark and offers to a mutual defense Treaty between the United States and Denmark.
October 7 After a long siege the Japanese imperial army in Macau surrenders as the are no longer able to resistance the combined Chinese forces laying siege to the city , latter in the day the Portuguese Expeditionary Force which was deployed with the Chinese forces raises the Portuguese flag over a ruined city that held out for more then 10 months against a combined Chinese forces and daily air raid by the USAAF and Republic of China Air Force ( ROCAF ) with this the only city still occupied in west china is the British colony of Hong Kong which after 10 months siege is in the hands of the Japanese and Hainan island which also is surrounded and being pounded by naval ships of the US , French and British and hit by daily air attacks from bombers part of the USAAF XX Bomber Command ( with the west china campaign most over except Hong Kong and Hainan island enables the Chinese nationalist and communist to move into the Japanese puppet state of Manchuria but the rivalry between the Chinese nationalist and communist over who get future control over Manchuria and the US occupied island of Formosa which is still lead by military governor Patton has is heating up splitting them given the Japanese Imperial army and the Manchukuo Imperial army time to build their defenses as the don’t have to fear a invasion by the Soviet Union ).
October 8 In Copenhagen the Secretary of State James F. Byrnes and prime minister Knud Kristensen sign the mutual defense treaty between the United States and Denmark ( the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the United States and Denmark is a treaty and dos not fall under the agreement made in the Zurich peace deal which stats that Denmark is to remain neutral and will not become a member of any alliance or organization as this is a agreement between two nations , the mutual defense treaty enables Denmark to receive military supplies , guarantee of the independence for the kingdom of Denmark and training of their armed forces ).
October 9 A day after signing the mutual defense treaty between the United States and Denmark the Provisional Government of the German empire sends a formal protest to the United States Ambassador to Germany as the consider this a violation of the Zurich peace deal ( the Provisional Government of the German empire decided only to send a formal protest to the United States as it has acted as a mediator in the peace talks and probably will in the future and therefore have decided not to make much fuss of this Treaty in order not to jeopardize the peace talks and cease fire , this also show that the Zurich peace deal is no longer working as the United States has begun to bend the treaty to their advantages and many voices in the United States still wonder why this deal was signed in the first place which also came up in a private conversation during the Soviet-German-United States conference in July of this year between Chancellor Ludwig Beck and president Truman where the discuses it as both sides are wiling to make a new treaty which can replace the Zurich peace deal but problems that can arise in both country prevent them from doing so at this time ).
October 13 France adopts the constitution of the Fourth Republic.
October 14 The Supreme Command of the imperial Armed Forces /Oberkommando der kaiserliche Streitkräfte ( OKS ) orders that soldiers of the Reichsheer station on the east front are not to make contact with Soviet soldiers as reports have come in that with the cease fire soldiers of both side have begun taking with each other arose the still silent east front ( Field marshal Rommel who is still the Commander of all German Forces in the East/ Kommandant von Allen deutschen Kräften im Osten ( Kom Ost ) is using the cease fire to rearm his forces and making other preparations in case the war might resume and has received orders from the OKS to remain on his guard for a possible sneak attack by the Soviets ore in case the cease fire is broken ).
October 15 With the planning stage of operation Big wheel behind them the buildup begins as Australian Army and US army forces begin to amass in Queensland Australia wile the territories of Australian controlled territory of New Guinea , Australian administrated territory of Papua and Netherlands New Guinea which are under control of allied forces begin to receive reinforcements in preparation of operation Big wheel.
October 18 Onboard the Royal Indian Navy ship HMIS Hindustan laying in Karachi in British India a mutiny breaks out as sailors aboard protest against the general conditions the live in ( the Royal Indian Navy mutiny of OTL did not happen until now du many different in this timeline ). Heavy air raids against Japanese pockets still in New Guinea by Dutch ML-KNIL and RAAF bombers based in Timor and from many airfields used by the RAAF and USAAF in north Australia and Queensland continuo and increase in preparation of operation Big wheel wile reconnaissance missions begin to gather information needed for the operation.
October 19 The mutiny which began on HMIS Hindustan spreads as Castle and Fort Barracks in Bombay join the mutiny when rumors (which are untrue) are spread that HMIS Talwar's a Royal Indian Navy ship that joined HMIS Hindustan was fired upon , latter in the day the mutiny spread to Bombay, Karachi, Cochin and Vizag.
October 20 Two day after a mutiny broke out on HMIS Hindustan it has spread and now involves sloops, minesweepers and shore establishments arose British India wile some of the mutineers begin demanding the independence for India as the British only want to give independence to India when Japan has bin defeated.
October 21 1000 Royal Indian Air Force men from the Marine Drive and Andheri Camps join the Royal Indian Navy mutineers wile prime minister Churchill orders the Royal Navy to put down the revolt.
In Queensland in Australia four US and Australian army divisions have gather which will land in areas still occupied in Netherlands New Guinea wile in Dutch Timor the 1st Marine brigade of the Royal Netherlands Marine Corps is also waiting to join in the landing in occupied Netherlands New Guinea , a KNIL army regiment is deployed in Hollandia ,Netherlands New Guinea where it replace a US army garrison so it can be available for operation Big wheel will ships of the Dutch East Indies Squadron under the recently arrived flagship HNLMS Jacob van Heemskerck begin to prepare for the biggest operation on New Guinea to date.
October 22 A RAF squadron mad op of bombers fly low over Bombay harbor in a show of force wile British Destroyers begin to sail from Trincomalee in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) , wile this is happening the mutineers are joined by people on the streets across British India demanding independence now instead for Great Britain promise to give independence to India when Japan has bin defeated ( the reason why the mutineers began to revolt has bin pushed to the background as the call for independence has taken over and many of the mutineers want a independent India as well ).
The Colossus class aircraft carrier formerly HMS Ocean and now named the Joffre is commissioned in to Marine Nationale service where it will become the French navy second carrier operational and with the carrier Arromanches deployed in the south Chinese Fleet the only French carrier operating with the French Mediterranean Fleet as the Italian Regia Marina only carrier the RN Aquila is ending its sea and carrier trails in the Adriatic Sea (with this the French have two carrier and one pending wile Italy has one in service and one still being build and another pending ).
October 23 With the Royal Air Force power demonstration not working the 2nd Battalion of the Black Watch is called from their barracks with their first priority is to end the mutiny on Manora Island , believing resistance from Indian naval mutineers the soldier of the Battalion are surprised as the mutineers surrender to them with out a fight and by the morning the soldiers of the 2nd Battalion of the Black Watch have secured the island ( many of the mutineers only wanted to protest and therefore did not fire on British soldiers when the landed on Manora Island ).
Even with the peace talks on hold for the moth the diplomats of the German empire and the Soviet Union continuo to disuse matters related to a future peace deal and with both side getting comfortable with the current cease fire there still remains mistrust between them witch was shown when the Supreme Command of the imperial Armed Forces /Oberkommando der kaiserliche Streitkräfte ( OKS ) ordered that no German soldier on the front was to communicate with their Soviet counterparts in fear of getting to relax as they believes that as long as there is no permanent peace deal the have to be on guard in case the soviet-central alliance war/Eastern war erupts again.
October 24 Six day after a mutiny which began on HMIS Hindustan the British royal artillery arrive on the island to target the ship which began the mutiny , after a ultimatum was delivered to the mutineers aboard HMIS Hindustan ,which after several hours went without a reply from the ship a order was given to open fire which ended with extensive damage done to HMIS Hindustan superstructure , this event happen across Manora island and across British India as British soldiers retook ships and shore establishments ending the Royal Indian Navy mutiny , but with the Royal Indian Navy mutiny over the demonstrations against the British rule in India continuous across British India ( the Royal Indian Navy mutiny shows the British that the can no longer relay on the royal Indian armed forces as much to help them in the war against the Japanese empire and that in the future the royal Indian armed forces can not be relied upon to support counter-insurgency operations as they had been during the Quit India movement of 1942 ).
October 25 Despite orders to hold on the Japanese imperial army in the city of Hong Kong surrenders as the are now being attack from four sides and much heavily sins the fall of Macau 18 days before and with this the combined Chinese forces now can focus their attention despite rivalry between the Chinese nationalist and communist towards the siege of Hainan island ( like Macau the city of Hong Kong is flatted over the course of the 10 months siege and bombing raids it suffered and of the 200,000 citizens still in the city many of them are sick , dying , wounded ore starving ).
October 26 One day after the surrendering of Hong Kong to the combined Chinese forces a provisional government is sent up by several surviving members of the pre invasion colonial government of Hong Kong in order to prevent either the Chinese nationalist ore communist from taking the city as their one and to reestablish British control over the territory. Demonstrations across British India continuo as in city’s like Bombay, Karachi , Calcutta , Ahmedabad, Madras , Trichinopoly , Kanpur , Madurai and Assam people go to the street demanding the British grant India here independence.
October 30 The British cruisers HMS Blake and HMS Uganda enter the harbor of Hong Kong and for the first time in vive years the union jack fly’s over the colony again as the two cruisers escort ships filled with things needed to help the people of the city , latter in the day Admiral Cecil Harcourt announced that he would lead the provisional military government of Hong Kong replacing the provisional government set up four days before and requesting that the combined Chinese forces who where camp in the ruined city to leave as in the four days of being there had rampage true the ruins , begun fighting between themselves after many got drunk after celebration another victory over the Japanese.
October 6 Secretary of State James F. Byrnes arrives in Copenhagen to meet with the Danish prime minister Knud Kristensen where he assures the Danish prime minister that despite a agreement in the Zurich peace deal the United States will not abandon Denmark and offers to a mutual defense Treaty between the United States and Denmark.
October 7 After a long siege the Japanese imperial army in Macau surrenders as the are no longer able to resistance the combined Chinese forces laying siege to the city , latter in the day the Portuguese Expeditionary Force which was deployed with the Chinese forces raises the Portuguese flag over a ruined city that held out for more then 10 months against a combined Chinese forces and daily air raid by the USAAF and Republic of China Air Force ( ROCAF ) with this the only city still occupied in west china is the British colony of Hong Kong which after 10 months siege is in the hands of the Japanese and Hainan island which also is surrounded and being pounded by naval ships of the US , French and British and hit by daily air attacks from bombers part of the USAAF XX Bomber Command ( with the west china campaign most over except Hong Kong and Hainan island enables the Chinese nationalist and communist to move into the Japanese puppet state of Manchuria but the rivalry between the Chinese nationalist and communist over who get future control over Manchuria and the US occupied island of Formosa which is still lead by military governor Patton has is heating up splitting them given the Japanese Imperial army and the Manchukuo Imperial army time to build their defenses as the don’t have to fear a invasion by the Soviet Union ).
October 8 In Copenhagen the Secretary of State James F. Byrnes and prime minister Knud Kristensen sign the mutual defense treaty between the United States and Denmark ( the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the United States and Denmark is a treaty and dos not fall under the agreement made in the Zurich peace deal which stats that Denmark is to remain neutral and will not become a member of any alliance or organization as this is a agreement between two nations , the mutual defense treaty enables Denmark to receive military supplies , guarantee of the independence for the kingdom of Denmark and training of their armed forces ).
October 9 A day after signing the mutual defense treaty between the United States and Denmark the Provisional Government of the German empire sends a formal protest to the United States Ambassador to Germany as the consider this a violation of the Zurich peace deal ( the Provisional Government of the German empire decided only to send a formal protest to the United States as it has acted as a mediator in the peace talks and probably will in the future and therefore have decided not to make much fuss of this Treaty in order not to jeopardize the peace talks and cease fire , this also show that the Zurich peace deal is no longer working as the United States has begun to bend the treaty to their advantages and many voices in the United States still wonder why this deal was signed in the first place which also came up in a private conversation during the Soviet-German-United States conference in July of this year between Chancellor Ludwig Beck and president Truman where the discuses it as both sides are wiling to make a new treaty which can replace the Zurich peace deal but problems that can arise in both country prevent them from doing so at this time ).
October 13 France adopts the constitution of the Fourth Republic.
October 14 The Supreme Command of the imperial Armed Forces /Oberkommando der kaiserliche Streitkräfte ( OKS ) orders that soldiers of the Reichsheer station on the east front are not to make contact with Soviet soldiers as reports have come in that with the cease fire soldiers of both side have begun taking with each other arose the still silent east front ( Field marshal Rommel who is still the Commander of all German Forces in the East/ Kommandant von Allen deutschen Kräften im Osten ( Kom Ost ) is using the cease fire to rearm his forces and making other preparations in case the war might resume and has received orders from the OKS to remain on his guard for a possible sneak attack by the Soviets ore in case the cease fire is broken ).
October 15 With the planning stage of operation Big wheel behind them the buildup begins as Australian Army and US army forces begin to amass in Queensland Australia wile the territories of Australian controlled territory of New Guinea , Australian administrated territory of Papua and Netherlands New Guinea which are under control of allied forces begin to receive reinforcements in preparation of operation Big wheel.
October 18 Onboard the Royal Indian Navy ship HMIS Hindustan laying in Karachi in British India a mutiny breaks out as sailors aboard protest against the general conditions the live in ( the Royal Indian Navy mutiny of OTL did not happen until now du many different in this timeline ). Heavy air raids against Japanese pockets still in New Guinea by Dutch ML-KNIL and RAAF bombers based in Timor and from many airfields used by the RAAF and USAAF in north Australia and Queensland continuo and increase in preparation of operation Big wheel wile reconnaissance missions begin to gather information needed for the operation.
October 19 The mutiny which began on HMIS Hindustan spreads as Castle and Fort Barracks in Bombay join the mutiny when rumors (which are untrue) are spread that HMIS Talwar's a Royal Indian Navy ship that joined HMIS Hindustan was fired upon , latter in the day the mutiny spread to Bombay, Karachi, Cochin and Vizag.
October 20 Two day after a mutiny broke out on HMIS Hindustan it has spread and now involves sloops, minesweepers and shore establishments arose British India wile some of the mutineers begin demanding the independence for India as the British only want to give independence to India when Japan has bin defeated.
October 21 1000 Royal Indian Air Force men from the Marine Drive and Andheri Camps join the Royal Indian Navy mutineers wile prime minister Churchill orders the Royal Navy to put down the revolt.
In Queensland in Australia four US and Australian army divisions have gather which will land in areas still occupied in Netherlands New Guinea wile in Dutch Timor the 1st Marine brigade of the Royal Netherlands Marine Corps is also waiting to join in the landing in occupied Netherlands New Guinea , a KNIL army regiment is deployed in Hollandia ,Netherlands New Guinea where it replace a US army garrison so it can be available for operation Big wheel will ships of the Dutch East Indies Squadron under the recently arrived flagship HNLMS Jacob van Heemskerck begin to prepare for the biggest operation on New Guinea to date.
October 22 A RAF squadron mad op of bombers fly low over Bombay harbor in a show of force wile British Destroyers begin to sail from Trincomalee in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) , wile this is happening the mutineers are joined by people on the streets across British India demanding independence now instead for Great Britain promise to give independence to India when Japan has bin defeated ( the reason why the mutineers began to revolt has bin pushed to the background as the call for independence has taken over and many of the mutineers want a independent India as well ).
The Colossus class aircraft carrier formerly HMS Ocean and now named the Joffre is commissioned in to Marine Nationale service where it will become the French navy second carrier operational and with the carrier Arromanches deployed in the south Chinese Fleet the only French carrier operating with the French Mediterranean Fleet as the Italian Regia Marina only carrier the RN Aquila is ending its sea and carrier trails in the Adriatic Sea (with this the French have two carrier and one pending wile Italy has one in service and one still being build and another pending ).
October 23 With the Royal Air Force power demonstration not working the 2nd Battalion of the Black Watch is called from their barracks with their first priority is to end the mutiny on Manora Island , believing resistance from Indian naval mutineers the soldier of the Battalion are surprised as the mutineers surrender to them with out a fight and by the morning the soldiers of the 2nd Battalion of the Black Watch have secured the island ( many of the mutineers only wanted to protest and therefore did not fire on British soldiers when the landed on Manora Island ).
Even with the peace talks on hold for the moth the diplomats of the German empire and the Soviet Union continuo to disuse matters related to a future peace deal and with both side getting comfortable with the current cease fire there still remains mistrust between them witch was shown when the Supreme Command of the imperial Armed Forces /Oberkommando der kaiserliche Streitkräfte ( OKS ) ordered that no German soldier on the front was to communicate with their Soviet counterparts in fear of getting to relax as they believes that as long as there is no permanent peace deal the have to be on guard in case the soviet-central alliance war/Eastern war erupts again.
October 24 Six day after a mutiny which began on HMIS Hindustan the British royal artillery arrive on the island to target the ship which began the mutiny , after a ultimatum was delivered to the mutineers aboard HMIS Hindustan ,which after several hours went without a reply from the ship a order was given to open fire which ended with extensive damage done to HMIS Hindustan superstructure , this event happen across Manora island and across British India as British soldiers retook ships and shore establishments ending the Royal Indian Navy mutiny , but with the Royal Indian Navy mutiny over the demonstrations against the British rule in India continuous across British India ( the Royal Indian Navy mutiny shows the British that the can no longer relay on the royal Indian armed forces as much to help them in the war against the Japanese empire and that in the future the royal Indian armed forces can not be relied upon to support counter-insurgency operations as they had been during the Quit India movement of 1942 ).
October 25 Despite orders to hold on the Japanese imperial army in the city of Hong Kong surrenders as the are now being attack from four sides and much heavily sins the fall of Macau 18 days before and with this the combined Chinese forces now can focus their attention despite rivalry between the Chinese nationalist and communist towards the siege of Hainan island ( like Macau the city of Hong Kong is flatted over the course of the 10 months siege and bombing raids it suffered and of the 200,000 citizens still in the city many of them are sick , dying , wounded ore starving ).
October 26 One day after the surrendering of Hong Kong to the combined Chinese forces a provisional government is sent up by several surviving members of the pre invasion colonial government of Hong Kong in order to prevent either the Chinese nationalist ore communist from taking the city as their one and to reestablish British control over the territory. Demonstrations across British India continuo as in city’s like Bombay, Karachi , Calcutta , Ahmedabad, Madras , Trichinopoly , Kanpur , Madurai and Assam people go to the street demanding the British grant India here independence.
October 30 The British cruisers HMS Blake and HMS Uganda enter the harbor of Hong Kong and for the first time in vive years the union jack fly’s over the colony again as the two cruisers escort ships filled with things needed to help the people of the city , latter in the day Admiral Cecil Harcourt announced that he would lead the provisional military government of Hong Kong replacing the provisional government set up four days before and requesting that the combined Chinese forces who where camp in the ruined city to leave as in the four days of being there had rampage true the ruins , begun fighting between themselves after many got drunk after celebration another victory over the Japanese.
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Part 32 1946
September 2 After some intense moments the Japanese battleship IJN Hyūga arrives at Riojun naval base without being attacked , arriving at the naval base its crew spots the carrier IJN Hosho and one of the three cruiser the Japanese imperial navy still poses the IJN Kitakami.
September 5 The cruiser HNLMS De Ruyter arrives at Dutch naval base of Den Helder carrying the body of rear-admiral Doorman , the cruiser HNLMS De Ruyter who was the flagship of rear-admiral Doorman during many battles will remain in the Netherlands for a major overhaul wile the cruiser HNLMS Jacob van Heemskerck will take its place as the flagship of the Dutch East Indies Squadron.
September 6 After eight days of talking in Stockholm the United States one of the two mediators in the conference suggests to pause the discussion to give the diplomats of the 13 nations involved the change to talk to their governments with all nations accepting this suggestion. In Riojun naval base seven warships of the imperial Japanese Navy begin operation divine defense which is the largest kamikaze mission any of the imperial Japanese forces have undertake sins the war started in 1941 ( the order of battle are the battleship IJN Hyūga , the carrier IJN Hosho which is modified to carry ten Ohka manned rockets form two installed catapults , the cruiser IJN Kitakami which is modified as a Kaiten carrier , four of the twenty reaming destroyers still in service and a hundred land-based bombers of the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service , operation divine defense goal is hitting the airfields on Okinawa and the US navy operating out of Okinawa and is a Imperial Japanese Navy operation only with the Imperial Japanese Army left out of it ).
September 7 A month after the singing of the Mediterranean sea defense agreement between the US , French republic and the UK the first destroyers who will become part of the United States navy Mediterranean squadron arrive at the their new base of Toulon where the will join the French and British navy’s in patrolling the Mediterranean sea ( the third carrier the French navy is to receive under the Mediterranean sea defense agreement is a Casablanca class escort aircraft carrier formerly the USS Tripoli which is to be named La Fayette which is already being prepared in a US shipyard ).
September 8 The Japanese taskforce is spotted by a US submarine patrolling the East China Sea but is unable to engage the taskforce but dose manages to notify the US fleet by radio.
September 9 A state funeral is held for rear-admiral Doorman in Amsterdam in the Nieuwe Kerk/New Church which is attended by queen Wilhelmina , prime minister Willem Drees and many other delegates both from the Netherlands and abroad.
USAAF and US navy aircraft based out of the US occupied island of Okinawa begin their search of the reported Japanese taskforce and latter in the day two US navy PBY Catalina flying boats detect the taskforce and report its position to the US armed forces commander based out of Okinawa who orders ship and carrier part of taskforce 38 patrolling the area and the USAAF and US navy forces based on Okinawa to engage it.
September 10 After a four day pause the second round of the Stockholm conference begins. Four Essex I and II class carriers including USS Bunker Hill , USS Leyte , USS Iwo Jima and USS Hancock some escorts carriers begin their attack against the Japanese taskforce which now has managed to get close to Okinawa , in the battle that will several hours wave after wave of US carrier born aircraft and land base aircraft attack the Japanese taskforce focusing their attention mostly on the battleship IJN Hyūga which despite having more many anti-aircraft guns is hit hard and finally sinks after several hours , the 100 land-based bombers of the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service begin their attack during the confusion but thanks to radar on the island of Okinawa the are spotted early and are engaged by US land based fighters and carrier born aircraft but several of hundred kamikaze bombers managed to penetrate the US defense and mange to hit some targets on Okinawa , the carrier IJN Hosho manages to launch eight of its ten Ohka rockets before being sunk by the overwhelming fire power at the disposal of the US forces , the eight Ohka manned kamikaze rockets managed to hit a airfield where a large number of B-29 bombers are parked which cost the lives of 59 US personal , the cruiser IJN Kitakami managed to launch all of its eight Kaiten manned torpedoes which sink one destroyer and damaging another anchor near Okinawa before being sunk herself ).
September 11 A day after the results of operation divine defense the results are clear wile the US forces suffered 255 people dead ore wounded the Japanese who where wiped suffered 3,450 dead and only 280 survivors who where picked up by the US navy after the battle , the US who was surprise that the Japanese could make this kind of attack realize the Japanese are still a treat despite a naval blockade and daily bombing raids , outside Tokyo in the bunker used by prime minister Yamamoto and sitting in his small office which he uses to govern the remains of a devastated empire he thinks if it was worth to sacrifice so many lives in order to show the hard liners in the Supreme War Council that he is wiling to make sacrifices to continue a war the empire has long ago lost ( the attack by the Japanese taskforce has caused the most losses to US forces on a single day sins several months and many back home in the United States are wondering why no more A-bombs are dropped on the Japanese home islands in order to end the war ).
September 14 After reviewing naval plan 55 the Oberkommando der Kaiserliche Marine decides to cancel the two Hindenburg class battleships who where to be named Peter Strasser and Hindenburg in favor of building more destroyers , submarines and to modernize its current fleet.
September 16 All across the Dutch control East Indies Royal Marechaussee , Royal Netherlands East Indies Army and Dutch East Indies homeguard soldiers make raids against people linked to the Free Indonesian movement and East Indonesia/Republik Indonesia Timur ( RIT ) in the wake of the Augustus 27 bombing that killed rear-admiral Doorman.
The second round of the Stockholm conference ends with another pause as still no results to turn the cease fire between central alliance nations and the Soviet Union into a permanent peace is made.
September 17 Turkish armed forces backed by the 2nd Turkish front manage to turn the tide against Kurdish forces in north-east Turkey wile the British lead Iraqforce also begins to gain control over south Iraq after Kurdish forces who now have to fight with out support of the Germans ore Italians are forced to surrender much of their territory the gained during the early stages of the uprising ( the Turkish army have moved more of their armed forces previous station at the Turkish front to crush the Kurdish forces in north-east Turkey wile in Iraq the British lead Iraqforce also begins to turn the tide thanks having more troops and the fact the Kurdish forces a running out of forces and ammunition which previous was supplied by the Kurdish forces fighting in north-east Turkey ).
September 19 Sins Augustus 14 more then 13,000 people living in the devastated Finish democratic republic city of Helsinki have bin arrested by Finish state Protection Authority , Finish democratic army and present soviet army and GRU forces who after then end of the retaking of the city and the battle against the now disbanded Helsinki Military and resistance organization are put on trial for crimes against the state , in responds to the failed uprising in Helsinki the Soviet Union has begun to purged the Finish democratic Army and reinstituted political indoctrination in units that have remained loyal to the government also the Soviet Union has begun to increased its troop levels in the republic and by agreement sign by the Otto Ville Kuusinen lead government has bin given more power to act to defend its interest in the Finish democratic republic.
September 21 In Stockholm the third round of the Stockholm conference begins.
September 29 The Stockholm conference ends with all nations involved agreeing that peace is more important then continuing the eastern war and despite the hate that some nations have against each other the cease fire must be maintained ( the Soviet union and the German empire agree to continuo the peace talks , agree for another major conference to be held in a month time , to maintain the current cease fire , to allow recon plans to fly over curtain places to monitor each other troops positions and to remove some of their forces away from the east front to prevent any of them from using cease fire to their advantages ).
September 30 US , Australian and Dutch Indies military end their planning of their newest and biggest operation on New Guinea to date , this operation which will be called Big wheel has the goal to remove all Japanese forces still present in the Australian controlled territory of New Guinea , the Australian administrated territory of Papua and Netherlands New Guinea.
September 5 The cruiser HNLMS De Ruyter arrives at Dutch naval base of Den Helder carrying the body of rear-admiral Doorman , the cruiser HNLMS De Ruyter who was the flagship of rear-admiral Doorman during many battles will remain in the Netherlands for a major overhaul wile the cruiser HNLMS Jacob van Heemskerck will take its place as the flagship of the Dutch East Indies Squadron.
September 6 After eight days of talking in Stockholm the United States one of the two mediators in the conference suggests to pause the discussion to give the diplomats of the 13 nations involved the change to talk to their governments with all nations accepting this suggestion. In Riojun naval base seven warships of the imperial Japanese Navy begin operation divine defense which is the largest kamikaze mission any of the imperial Japanese forces have undertake sins the war started in 1941 ( the order of battle are the battleship IJN Hyūga , the carrier IJN Hosho which is modified to carry ten Ohka manned rockets form two installed catapults , the cruiser IJN Kitakami which is modified as a Kaiten carrier , four of the twenty reaming destroyers still in service and a hundred land-based bombers of the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service , operation divine defense goal is hitting the airfields on Okinawa and the US navy operating out of Okinawa and is a Imperial Japanese Navy operation only with the Imperial Japanese Army left out of it ).
September 7 A month after the singing of the Mediterranean sea defense agreement between the US , French republic and the UK the first destroyers who will become part of the United States navy Mediterranean squadron arrive at the their new base of Toulon where the will join the French and British navy’s in patrolling the Mediterranean sea ( the third carrier the French navy is to receive under the Mediterranean sea defense agreement is a Casablanca class escort aircraft carrier formerly the USS Tripoli which is to be named La Fayette which is already being prepared in a US shipyard ).
September 8 The Japanese taskforce is spotted by a US submarine patrolling the East China Sea but is unable to engage the taskforce but dose manages to notify the US fleet by radio.
September 9 A state funeral is held for rear-admiral Doorman in Amsterdam in the Nieuwe Kerk/New Church which is attended by queen Wilhelmina , prime minister Willem Drees and many other delegates both from the Netherlands and abroad.
USAAF and US navy aircraft based out of the US occupied island of Okinawa begin their search of the reported Japanese taskforce and latter in the day two US navy PBY Catalina flying boats detect the taskforce and report its position to the US armed forces commander based out of Okinawa who orders ship and carrier part of taskforce 38 patrolling the area and the USAAF and US navy forces based on Okinawa to engage it.
September 10 After a four day pause the second round of the Stockholm conference begins. Four Essex I and II class carriers including USS Bunker Hill , USS Leyte , USS Iwo Jima and USS Hancock some escorts carriers begin their attack against the Japanese taskforce which now has managed to get close to Okinawa , in the battle that will several hours wave after wave of US carrier born aircraft and land base aircraft attack the Japanese taskforce focusing their attention mostly on the battleship IJN Hyūga which despite having more many anti-aircraft guns is hit hard and finally sinks after several hours , the 100 land-based bombers of the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service begin their attack during the confusion but thanks to radar on the island of Okinawa the are spotted early and are engaged by US land based fighters and carrier born aircraft but several of hundred kamikaze bombers managed to penetrate the US defense and mange to hit some targets on Okinawa , the carrier IJN Hosho manages to launch eight of its ten Ohka rockets before being sunk by the overwhelming fire power at the disposal of the US forces , the eight Ohka manned kamikaze rockets managed to hit a airfield where a large number of B-29 bombers are parked which cost the lives of 59 US personal , the cruiser IJN Kitakami managed to launch all of its eight Kaiten manned torpedoes which sink one destroyer and damaging another anchor near Okinawa before being sunk herself ).
September 11 A day after the results of operation divine defense the results are clear wile the US forces suffered 255 people dead ore wounded the Japanese who where wiped suffered 3,450 dead and only 280 survivors who where picked up by the US navy after the battle , the US who was surprise that the Japanese could make this kind of attack realize the Japanese are still a treat despite a naval blockade and daily bombing raids , outside Tokyo in the bunker used by prime minister Yamamoto and sitting in his small office which he uses to govern the remains of a devastated empire he thinks if it was worth to sacrifice so many lives in order to show the hard liners in the Supreme War Council that he is wiling to make sacrifices to continue a war the empire has long ago lost ( the attack by the Japanese taskforce has caused the most losses to US forces on a single day sins several months and many back home in the United States are wondering why no more A-bombs are dropped on the Japanese home islands in order to end the war ).
September 14 After reviewing naval plan 55 the Oberkommando der Kaiserliche Marine decides to cancel the two Hindenburg class battleships who where to be named Peter Strasser and Hindenburg in favor of building more destroyers , submarines and to modernize its current fleet.
September 16 All across the Dutch control East Indies Royal Marechaussee , Royal Netherlands East Indies Army and Dutch East Indies homeguard soldiers make raids against people linked to the Free Indonesian movement and East Indonesia/Republik Indonesia Timur ( RIT ) in the wake of the Augustus 27 bombing that killed rear-admiral Doorman.
The second round of the Stockholm conference ends with another pause as still no results to turn the cease fire between central alliance nations and the Soviet Union into a permanent peace is made.
September 17 Turkish armed forces backed by the 2nd Turkish front manage to turn the tide against Kurdish forces in north-east Turkey wile the British lead Iraqforce also begins to gain control over south Iraq after Kurdish forces who now have to fight with out support of the Germans ore Italians are forced to surrender much of their territory the gained during the early stages of the uprising ( the Turkish army have moved more of their armed forces previous station at the Turkish front to crush the Kurdish forces in north-east Turkey wile in Iraq the British lead Iraqforce also begins to turn the tide thanks having more troops and the fact the Kurdish forces a running out of forces and ammunition which previous was supplied by the Kurdish forces fighting in north-east Turkey ).
September 19 Sins Augustus 14 more then 13,000 people living in the devastated Finish democratic republic city of Helsinki have bin arrested by Finish state Protection Authority , Finish democratic army and present soviet army and GRU forces who after then end of the retaking of the city and the battle against the now disbanded Helsinki Military and resistance organization are put on trial for crimes against the state , in responds to the failed uprising in Helsinki the Soviet Union has begun to purged the Finish democratic Army and reinstituted political indoctrination in units that have remained loyal to the government also the Soviet Union has begun to increased its troop levels in the republic and by agreement sign by the Otto Ville Kuusinen lead government has bin given more power to act to defend its interest in the Finish democratic republic.
September 21 In Stockholm the third round of the Stockholm conference begins.
September 29 The Stockholm conference ends with all nations involved agreeing that peace is more important then continuing the eastern war and despite the hate that some nations have against each other the cease fire must be maintained ( the Soviet union and the German empire agree to continuo the peace talks , agree for another major conference to be held in a month time , to maintain the current cease fire , to allow recon plans to fly over curtain places to monitor each other troops positions and to remove some of their forces away from the east front to prevent any of them from using cease fire to their advantages ).
September 30 US , Australian and Dutch Indies military end their planning of their newest and biggest operation on New Guinea to date , this operation which will be called Big wheel has the goal to remove all Japanese forces still present in the Australian controlled territory of New Guinea , the Australian administrated territory of Papua and Netherlands New Guinea.
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Part 31 1946
Augustus 3 The commander of the Group of Soviet Forces in Finland presents minister of defense marshal Zhukov with the plans of operation blizzard which is created to retake Helsinki from the Helsinki Military and resistance organization held city , Marshall Zhukov who has bin given the authority by the new politburo to end the Helsinki uprising gives the go ahead for the operation after discussing it with the commander ( the new politburo knows that the Germans are not wiling to brake the cease fire in order to aid the Helsinki Military and resistance organization and therefore can use all means at their disposal to end the Helsinki uprising ).
Augustus 4 The French minister of national defense , British minister of defense and the United states secretary of the navy in London sign the Mediterranean sea defense agreement which will increase the cooperation of the British , French and the United states in preventing the central alliance navy’s present in the Mediterranean sea from becoming a threat to British ore French interests in the Mediterranean sea ( the Mediterranean sea defense agreement includes the creation of a United States Mediterranean squadron which will fall under the United States Naval Forces Europe and which will be based in Toulon , the transfer of one additional carrier to the French navy which will increase the French navy carrier force to three and to created a permanent Allied Force European mainland Theatre Mediterranean naval command which also will be based in Toulon ).
Augustus 5 Royal Dutch navy gunboats HNLMS Flores , HNLMS Soemba and destroyers HMNLS Tjerk Hiddes and HMNLS Van Galen shell the port city of Makassar on the island of Celebes wile the mine layer HMNLS Willem van der Zaan lays mines outside the RIT control port which is ruins after repeated bombing raids by the ML-KNIL sins it was discovered that it was the staging place for the Republic Indonesia navy hampering its ability to transport men and material to Japanese ore RIT controlled islands in the Dutch Indies ) .
Augustus 6 The French navy carrier Arromanches departs Toulon naval base to join the French south Chinese Fleet for a four month deployment ( the French navy now has one active carrier , a carrier named the Joffre who is being prepared to enter service in Toulon who will enter in the French navy in two months time and a third carrier to be handed over to the French navy under the Mediterranean sea defense agreement ).
Augustus 8 Operation blizzard begins when infantry and tanks attack Helsinki from two directions wile air strikes and artillery rain down against positions held by the Helsinki Military and resistance organization militias ( HMRO ) and the still present Reichsheer Spezialkräfte ( RSK ) lead by Oberstleutnant Skorzeny ( no Soviet loyal FDA force is taking part in operation blizzard du the Soviet not trusting them as many FDA soldiers in Helsinki joined the HMRO militias ).
Augustus 9 With fighting now happening in Helsinki between Soviet tanks and infantry versus the HMRO militias it becomes apparent that the soviets overwhelming strength is beginning to take is toll as HMRO and RSK forces begin to fall back to fortified positions in the city , in Berlin the Finish government in exile request the Germans who have a cease fire with the Soviet Union to take more action against the Soviets attacking Helsinki ( latter free Finish leader marshal Mannerheim meets with Vice-Reichs Chancellor Wilhelm Leuschner who tells him that the German empire will not allow the two free Finish army divisions to move to Finland in order to prevent the cease fire which is in effect from being broken and that the cease fire is more important than the Helsinki uprising and that the Provisional Government of the German empire has decided to extract the Reichsheer Spezialkräfte from Helsinki and that it needs the free Finish navy to do that in order to prevent the Soviets from knowing that there are still Germans fighting the Soviets ).
Augustus 10 Oberstleutnant Skorzeny receives by radio the order to leave the city of Helsinki with his RSK troops and to wait for a pick up by a Free finish navy submarine FNS Muikku the next day before the Soviet forces recapture the entity city.
Augustus 11 Whit small pockets of HMRO militias still fighting the Soviets in Helsinki Oberstleutnant Skorzeny and his RSK troops board the submarine FNS Muikku which managed to enter the port under heavy fire and return safely to a German port.
Augustus 12 The last HMRO militia force on the island of Santahamina surrenders to the Soviets who after a four day battle have retaken Helsinki , this surrendering ends the Helsinki uprising in favor of the Soviet Union and the Finish democratic republic ( operation blizzard has cost the lives of more then 2,500 Helsinki’s and more then 845 Soviet troops and more the thousands wounded , the island of Santahamina before the Helsinki uprising was a army base fore a Finish democratic army regiment who after the Finish Parliament Building shooting sided with the protesters and latter became part of the Helsinki Military and resistance organization militia ).
Augustus 13 In Schloss Bellevue the official residence of Kaiser Wilhelm III in Berlin oberstleutnant Skorzeny is the guest of honor in a diner held for his participation in the Helsinki uprising.
A Portuguese Expeditionary Force leaves the Portuguese colony of Mozambique to join the combined Chinese forces laying siege to Macau ( the Portuguese Expeditionary Force is only a symbolic force made op of two Infantry Company’s, two Mortar platoons and two light artillery battery’s who are escorted by two Portuguese Navy destroyers who after dropping the Portuguese Expeditionary Force in allied controlled china will join the British Pacific Fleet ( the sending of the Portuguese Expeditionary Force and warships of the Portuguese Navy is the biggest deployment of the Portuguese Republic sins it declared war against the Japanese empire on February 27 1946 and a sign that prime minister Salazar lead Portuguese government is becoming a more and more a pro Allied Force European mainland Theatre organization government ).
Augustus 14 Escorted by warships of the British Home Fleet the Soviet submarine tender who was present in British territorial waters is escorted back to the Soviet Union , wile the ships are leaving towards a soviet naval bases the are being tracked by a German Kaiserliche Marine submarine of the type XXI whit warships of the Marineoberkommando Nordsee on the surfaces shadowing the soviet-British ships from a safe distant who are being shadowed themselves by British home fleet , royal Dutch navy and royal Norwegian navy warships ( whit the cease fire in effect the British have requested that the Soviets redraw their submarine tender from British territorial waters as the do not belief the tender is needed there with most of the soviet submarines back at a Soviet naval base ).
Augustus 15 With the cease fire on the east front still holding diplomats of the central alliance , the Soviet Union and the United States meet and call each other in order to prepare the second conference which is to be held in Stockholm after Sweden accepted the request to become the host to the second peace conference ( by now all the survivors of the 3 soviet Belarus fronts have returned behind the Belarus panther line and the German Army group Belarus has closed the gap the Soviets managed to create during their operation red force leaving only the Soviet Ukrainian Fronts occupying territory beyond the Bismarck/Buh line and in German and Romanian controlled territory).
Augustus 18 The French carrier Arromanches arrives in French Indochina for a four month deployment with the French south Chinese Fleet and the French Expeditionary Fleet where shy will be use in the siege of Hainan and to patrol the French Indochina waters ( the decision by minister of marine Henri Bléhaut to send the Arromanches to French Indochina was to allow its crew to get combat experiences and to increase the French military presents in the war against the Japanese empire ).
Augustus 19 After the location of Stockholm in Sweden was chosen after sometimes difficult diplomatic talks the date of the Stockholm conference is finally set at Augustus 26 with the ministers for foreign affairs of all direct participants nations of the central alliance , Soviet Union , Turkish republic , and the Finish democratic republic present wile the United States of America and the United Kingdom will be present as mediators.
Augustus 26 Protected by warships of the French south Chinese Fleet the carrier Arromanches launches for here first time its fighters for a combat missions against targets on the Japanese control island of Hainan , after successful engaging their targets the fighters return to the carrier suffering no losses at all.
Augustus 27 Leaving the Dutch Naval Base Tjilatjap on Java island rear-admiral Doorman car is hit by a bomb laid by members of the Free Indonesian movement which kills the rear-admiral ( the Free Indonesian movement/Gerak-gerik bebas Indonesia ( GBI ) is a pro-Independence Indonesian militia operating on java , Borneo and Sumatra and is not related to the Republik Indonesia Timur it dos however works sometimes with RIT forces in attacking Dutch military and civilian targets , the killing of rear-admiral Doorman is the biggest successes so far for the Free Indonesian movement ).
Augustus 28 In the Swedish city of Stockholm the second peace conference with 13 direct participants , two mediators and several observing diplomats from the Netherlands , Belgium , French republic , Greece , Norway and of course the host nation Sweden begins. The Dutch government in The Hague announces a national day of mourning for rear-admiral Doorman who was killed in a bomb attack 24 hours before.
Augustus 29 Departing the Japanese Riojun naval base in Korea the last Japanese imperial battleship IJN Hyūga leaves for Riojun/Port Arthur in the state of Manchuria , the captain of the IJN Hyūga only knows that he has orders to get his battleship thru US laid minefields and a submarine infested Sea of Japan to the base of Riojun intact with out any escorts ore any air cover ( the battleship IJN Hyūga is the only remaining battleship the Japanese imperial navy have left in service ).
Augustus 4 The French minister of national defense , British minister of defense and the United states secretary of the navy in London sign the Mediterranean sea defense agreement which will increase the cooperation of the British , French and the United states in preventing the central alliance navy’s present in the Mediterranean sea from becoming a threat to British ore French interests in the Mediterranean sea ( the Mediterranean sea defense agreement includes the creation of a United States Mediterranean squadron which will fall under the United States Naval Forces Europe and which will be based in Toulon , the transfer of one additional carrier to the French navy which will increase the French navy carrier force to three and to created a permanent Allied Force European mainland Theatre Mediterranean naval command which also will be based in Toulon ).
Augustus 5 Royal Dutch navy gunboats HNLMS Flores , HNLMS Soemba and destroyers HMNLS Tjerk Hiddes and HMNLS Van Galen shell the port city of Makassar on the island of Celebes wile the mine layer HMNLS Willem van der Zaan lays mines outside the RIT control port which is ruins after repeated bombing raids by the ML-KNIL sins it was discovered that it was the staging place for the Republic Indonesia navy hampering its ability to transport men and material to Japanese ore RIT controlled islands in the Dutch Indies ) .
Augustus 6 The French navy carrier Arromanches departs Toulon naval base to join the French south Chinese Fleet for a four month deployment ( the French navy now has one active carrier , a carrier named the Joffre who is being prepared to enter service in Toulon who will enter in the French navy in two months time and a third carrier to be handed over to the French navy under the Mediterranean sea defense agreement ).
Augustus 8 Operation blizzard begins when infantry and tanks attack Helsinki from two directions wile air strikes and artillery rain down against positions held by the Helsinki Military and resistance organization militias ( HMRO ) and the still present Reichsheer Spezialkräfte ( RSK ) lead by Oberstleutnant Skorzeny ( no Soviet loyal FDA force is taking part in operation blizzard du the Soviet not trusting them as many FDA soldiers in Helsinki joined the HMRO militias ).
Augustus 9 With fighting now happening in Helsinki between Soviet tanks and infantry versus the HMRO militias it becomes apparent that the soviets overwhelming strength is beginning to take is toll as HMRO and RSK forces begin to fall back to fortified positions in the city , in Berlin the Finish government in exile request the Germans who have a cease fire with the Soviet Union to take more action against the Soviets attacking Helsinki ( latter free Finish leader marshal Mannerheim meets with Vice-Reichs Chancellor Wilhelm Leuschner who tells him that the German empire will not allow the two free Finish army divisions to move to Finland in order to prevent the cease fire which is in effect from being broken and that the cease fire is more important than the Helsinki uprising and that the Provisional Government of the German empire has decided to extract the Reichsheer Spezialkräfte from Helsinki and that it needs the free Finish navy to do that in order to prevent the Soviets from knowing that there are still Germans fighting the Soviets ).
Augustus 10 Oberstleutnant Skorzeny receives by radio the order to leave the city of Helsinki with his RSK troops and to wait for a pick up by a Free finish navy submarine FNS Muikku the next day before the Soviet forces recapture the entity city.
Augustus 11 Whit small pockets of HMRO militias still fighting the Soviets in Helsinki Oberstleutnant Skorzeny and his RSK troops board the submarine FNS Muikku which managed to enter the port under heavy fire and return safely to a German port.
Augustus 12 The last HMRO militia force on the island of Santahamina surrenders to the Soviets who after a four day battle have retaken Helsinki , this surrendering ends the Helsinki uprising in favor of the Soviet Union and the Finish democratic republic ( operation blizzard has cost the lives of more then 2,500 Helsinki’s and more then 845 Soviet troops and more the thousands wounded , the island of Santahamina before the Helsinki uprising was a army base fore a Finish democratic army regiment who after the Finish Parliament Building shooting sided with the protesters and latter became part of the Helsinki Military and resistance organization militia ).
Augustus 13 In Schloss Bellevue the official residence of Kaiser Wilhelm III in Berlin oberstleutnant Skorzeny is the guest of honor in a diner held for his participation in the Helsinki uprising.
A Portuguese Expeditionary Force leaves the Portuguese colony of Mozambique to join the combined Chinese forces laying siege to Macau ( the Portuguese Expeditionary Force is only a symbolic force made op of two Infantry Company’s, two Mortar platoons and two light artillery battery’s who are escorted by two Portuguese Navy destroyers who after dropping the Portuguese Expeditionary Force in allied controlled china will join the British Pacific Fleet ( the sending of the Portuguese Expeditionary Force and warships of the Portuguese Navy is the biggest deployment of the Portuguese Republic sins it declared war against the Japanese empire on February 27 1946 and a sign that prime minister Salazar lead Portuguese government is becoming a more and more a pro Allied Force European mainland Theatre organization government ).
Augustus 14 Escorted by warships of the British Home Fleet the Soviet submarine tender who was present in British territorial waters is escorted back to the Soviet Union , wile the ships are leaving towards a soviet naval bases the are being tracked by a German Kaiserliche Marine submarine of the type XXI whit warships of the Marineoberkommando Nordsee on the surfaces shadowing the soviet-British ships from a safe distant who are being shadowed themselves by British home fleet , royal Dutch navy and royal Norwegian navy warships ( whit the cease fire in effect the British have requested that the Soviets redraw their submarine tender from British territorial waters as the do not belief the tender is needed there with most of the soviet submarines back at a Soviet naval base ).
Augustus 15 With the cease fire on the east front still holding diplomats of the central alliance , the Soviet Union and the United States meet and call each other in order to prepare the second conference which is to be held in Stockholm after Sweden accepted the request to become the host to the second peace conference ( by now all the survivors of the 3 soviet Belarus fronts have returned behind the Belarus panther line and the German Army group Belarus has closed the gap the Soviets managed to create during their operation red force leaving only the Soviet Ukrainian Fronts occupying territory beyond the Bismarck/Buh line and in German and Romanian controlled territory).
Augustus 18 The French carrier Arromanches arrives in French Indochina for a four month deployment with the French south Chinese Fleet and the French Expeditionary Fleet where shy will be use in the siege of Hainan and to patrol the French Indochina waters ( the decision by minister of marine Henri Bléhaut to send the Arromanches to French Indochina was to allow its crew to get combat experiences and to increase the French military presents in the war against the Japanese empire ).
Augustus 19 After the location of Stockholm in Sweden was chosen after sometimes difficult diplomatic talks the date of the Stockholm conference is finally set at Augustus 26 with the ministers for foreign affairs of all direct participants nations of the central alliance , Soviet Union , Turkish republic , and the Finish democratic republic present wile the United States of America and the United Kingdom will be present as mediators.
Augustus 26 Protected by warships of the French south Chinese Fleet the carrier Arromanches launches for here first time its fighters for a combat missions against targets on the Japanese control island of Hainan , after successful engaging their targets the fighters return to the carrier suffering no losses at all.
Augustus 27 Leaving the Dutch Naval Base Tjilatjap on Java island rear-admiral Doorman car is hit by a bomb laid by members of the Free Indonesian movement which kills the rear-admiral ( the Free Indonesian movement/Gerak-gerik bebas Indonesia ( GBI ) is a pro-Independence Indonesian militia operating on java , Borneo and Sumatra and is not related to the Republik Indonesia Timur it dos however works sometimes with RIT forces in attacking Dutch military and civilian targets , the killing of rear-admiral Doorman is the biggest successes so far for the Free Indonesian movement ).
Augustus 28 In the Swedish city of Stockholm the second peace conference with 13 direct participants , two mediators and several observing diplomats from the Netherlands , Belgium , French republic , Greece , Norway and of course the host nation Sweden begins. The Dutch government in The Hague announces a national day of mourning for rear-admiral Doorman who was killed in a bomb attack 24 hours before.
Augustus 29 Departing the Japanese Riojun naval base in Korea the last Japanese imperial battleship IJN Hyūga leaves for Riojun/Port Arthur in the state of Manchuria , the captain of the IJN Hyūga only knows that he has orders to get his battleship thru US laid minefields and a submarine infested Sea of Japan to the base of Riojun intact with out any escorts ore any air cover ( the battleship IJN Hyūga is the only remaining battleship the Japanese imperial navy have left in service ).
Monday, December 24, 2007
Part 30 1946
July 1 A day after he sent the message requesting what he should do a reply from Ministry of Defense Marshall Zhukov to the commander of the soviet Belarus sector arrives which says that he is to continuo the current offensive and not to retreat as the new politburo expects a victory. With the Finish Parliament Building shooting over it proofs enough to turn the demonstration of protester demanding the soviets leave their country in to a war which results in the evacuation of Finish democratic president Otto Ville Kuusinen and other member of the Finish democratic government are spirited away by soviet and loyal FDA soldiers to the city of Tampere which is under control of the soviet forces ( the protesters , former FDA soldiers and the Finish resistance begin a aggressive offensive against Soviet troops and loyal FDA troops still in Helsinki as the Finish Parliament Building shooting was the last straw for them ).
July 2 With operation Falke now in its seventh day the 1st , 2nd and 3rd Belorussian Fronts which where ordered to continuo in their part of operation red force are slowly being surrounded by Reichsheer Army group Belarus and Germans forces at the Belarus panther line which is slowly becoming the latest defeat the soviet have to suffer sins their operation red force has bin halted by the Germans ( the soviet new politburo believes that turning of the battle on the east front towards the Germans began when the removed Stalin from power by blaming Beria from creating a fake coup which has resulted in a ripple going thru the soviet military ranks on the east front which gave the retreating Germans the change to turn the tables on them ).
July 3 The new soviet politburo received world that the German forces have almost encircle the 1st , 2nd and 3rd Belorussian Fronts decide to accept president Truman June 23 offer to mediate in order to prevent the Germans who the now have benefited from the Marshall coup from moving to soviet territory as much of the soviet fronts are fighting the central alliance on the east front.
Oberstleutnant Skorzeny arrives in a finish résistance controlled harbor of Helsinki where is joined by members of the Helsinki Military and resistance Committee as it is now called who are fighting the soviet Helsinki garrison ( the uprising is only happening in Helsinki with the countryside largely quiet du the large soviet presence in the Finish democratic republic, the Helsinki Military and resistance organization ( HMRO ) is made op of former protesters , the Finish underground , former Finish democratic soldiers and now the Germans RSK and free Finish army soldiers who have joined it in Helsinki ).
July 3 A day after his arrival in a city divided and in chaos Oberstleutnant Otto Skorzeny meets with the leaders of the HMRO where he tells them that he is sent to assist them in the battle against the remaining soviet and loyal FDA forces still in Helsinki.
The second attack on targets against targets in the independent Republic of Mahabad by US Military Iran Advisory Group attached B-24 Liberators happens as the 20,000 strong Imperial Iranian Army begins its final preparations for their offensive against the independent Republic of Mahabad ( facing the 20,000 strong Imperial Iranian Army are some 5,000 Mahabad militia soldiers and some 1,200 Kurdish fighters from Turkey and Iraq ).
July 4 The United States Department of State receive word that the new politburo has accepted the offer of president Truman to mediated between them and Germany in hopes to end the eastern war ( president Trumann hopes to promote him self as a peace maker but he knows that with the Congressional Peace Deal Investigation Committee still busy and a lot of people razing their voices about why the previous administration signed the Zürich peace deal he hopes by meditating between the Germans and soviet union who both have become pro peace country’s after their coups and he hopes with the Europe chapter closes he can focus on the war against Japan end , the new politburo has two motives for accepting the united states mediation with the first being that the soviet union wants to use the time to prepare a new offensive when needed and the second the new politburo with Stalin removed wants to check out what Germany has to offer , the Congressional Peace Deal Investigation Committee is almost done with their testimony behind closed doors and are now beginning to prepare their report that will decide President Truman fait and the direction future direction the united states will take against Germany and the central alliance ).
July 5 Operation falke is named a success by field marshal Rommel as the trapped soviet Belorussian Fronts are hammered by Army group Belarus and the Kaiserliche Luftwaffe and wile this is happening in Belarus the battle of Ukraine continuous as the soviet 2nd Ukrainian and 3rd Belorussian Front are ordered to disengaged in their siege of Kiev in order to assist in braking true the closed Belarus panther line leaving a ruined city still under the control of a 80,000+ strong German army garrison and 1500+ Fallschirmjägers ( the soviet commanders have released that with the fighting of Kiev the Germans managed to tie up large amount of forces who could be use for other two fronts decided to move the soviet 2nd Ukrainian Front and 3rd Belorussian Front who where surrounding the city , the siege of Kiev cost more then 20,000 Germans soldier lives and double that of soviet two fronts surrounding the city in the two months it was under siege , the battle of Ukraine is also progressing good for the Germans as both army group south Ukraine and army group north Ukraine are still pushing the soviet back to the Bismarck/Buh river line ).
July 6 President Truman sends a reply to the soviet General Secretary that he will informed Germany to join in conference which he is setting up in the Canadian city of Ottawa , latter in the day president Truman orders the United States Ambassador to Germany to speak to the German Minister of Foreign where he is to inform him that the soviet union has accepted a offer of the united states to end the eastern war and to invited the German empire in joining the soviet union and the united states in this conference which will be held in the Ottawa.
Two days ago after he arrived Oberstleutnant Skorzeny continuous to work with the Helsinki Military and resistance organization to form it into a fighting force wile also sending a urgent message for supply drops to Berlin.
July 7 In the office of the German minister of foreign affairs in Berlin a surprised member of the Provisional Government of the German empire meeting with the United States ambassador to Germany comes to a end in which he heard that the soviet union has accepted a offer by president Truman to discuses ending the eastern war , the minister after this meeting went to the Reich Chancellery where Chancellor Ludwig Beck has his office with the news in order to discussing what the next steps the Provisional Government of the German empire will take. The Ambon campaign is over with the Dutch marines/KNIL forces now in complete control of the island after the last remaining pocket of Japanese /RIT forces are destroyed ore captured with this the royal Dutch Indies army command begins to focus on the upcoming new guinea campaign which it will take part in together with the Americans and Australians where the will capture the last new guinea territory the Japanese and RIT forces still hold.
July 8 A day after the meeting with the German Minister of Foreign Affairs the United States Ambassador to Germany is telephoned by the German minister of foreign affairs himself to tell that the German empire is accepting the offer of mediation and that its wiling to commence a cease fire for its duration , latter the ambassador phones secretary of State James F. Byrnes who transfers the message to president Truman. The Finish city of Tampere becomes the temporarily seat of government of the Finish democratic republic as the Finish democratic president Otto Ville Kuusinen who was evacuated by soviet forces after the Finish Parliament Building shooting takes office in the former City Hall which is also the headquarters of the Group of Soviet Forces in Finland ( the city of Tampere is the main location of the Group of Soviet Forces in Finland and also the place where its headquarters is located and therefore its ride place for the new seat of government of the Finish democratic republic while the city of Helsinki remains the de facto capital of the Finish democratic republic ).
July 9 A P-51D mustang belonging to the ML-KNIL fly’s over the city of Makassar on the RIT control island of Celebes where it photographs dozen of ships laying in the harbor confirming the knowledge that the RIT has it on navy ( the ML-KNIL has more then 80 P-51 Mustang in several version who where delivered in 1943 to 1945 to help protect then free Dutch Indies consisting of Java and Sumatra ).
July 10 The United States puts the date of the Soviet-German-United States conference in Ottawa at July 16 wile telling the soviets and Germans that the cease fire the Germans have offered can be placed 24 hours before the conference is held on July 15 in order to give both forces time to prepare themselves ( the Soviet-German-United States conference is held in the Canadian city of Ottawa as president Truman after speaking with the Canadian prime minister who offered to host the three country conference but who is not involved in it except from hosting it ).
July 11 A month after it started the eleventh anti partisan operating ends with the central alliance again falling in capturing the leader of the partisans Tito but managing to hurt his forces who after one year without supplies from the outside world begin to dwindle in number and strength.
July 12 Secretary of State of War von Stauffenberg meets with Kom Ost Field marshal Rommel in his headquarters where the discuses the proposed July 15 case fire date which is only three days away and agree to keep the encirclement of the soviet Belorussian Fronts going in order to use its as leverage in Ottawa and to reinforce the Kiev troops wile continuing the pushback of the soviet fronts towards the Bismarck/Buh river line until the cease fire goes in affect.
In Helsinki the first militias are formed by Oberstleutnant Skorzeny as the Kaiserliche Luftwaffe continuous their supply drops wile the battle against the soviet Helsinki garrison and soviet loyal FDA forces goes on ( the militias are divided in battalions each 400 man strong and lead by RSK and free finish army soldiers and which form the fighting force of the Helsinki Military and resistance organization wile the Kaiserliche Luftwaffe now fly’s despite heavy battles going on the east front supply and support missions around the clock as the Oberkommando der kaiserliche Streitkräfte believes that supporting the Helsinki uprising will force the soviet union to deploy army divisions currently fighting on the east front towards Finland and to show the Finish government in exile that Germany dose care about them ).
July 14 The new politburo after debating fore more then two days accepts the German cease fire and the date which the Americans have suggested of July 15 in which the soviets and Germans will halt their fighting for the time being and immediately issue orders to their commanders at the front line ( the two days it took for the new politburo to agree was only made possible when the assurance was given that the soviet army could restart their offensive when needed and to use the cease fire to prepare themselves in case the eastern war would resume as the current red force offensive became a failure when the marshal coup happened and the Germans began their counterattack an trapping the three soviet Belorussian Fronts happen ).
The Imperial Iranian Army supported by MIAG planes enters the independent Republic of Mahabad and in less then a day the managed to surround the capitol of Mahabad where the begin to pounded the city with artillery and B-24 bombers wile inside the city the Mahabad war council tells the people that the will fight the Imperial Iranian Army if they tried to enter the city and calls the central alliance to support them in their struggle.
A bomber force of some 40 ML-KNIL B-25 bombers attack the port city of Makassar on the RIT control island of Celebes in order to destroy the RIT forces pinisi and sailing ships who are use to supply RIT and Japanese imperial troops on islands the control in the Dutch Indies , the attacks which is devastating kills ore wounds large numbers of people and sinking many ships in the harbor , later the day another wave from the ML-KNIL attacks the harbor again destroying any remaining ships present and serious hampering the Republic Indonesia navy capacity to supply its forces on RIT control islands.
July 15 For the first time in 5 years the guns fall silent on the east front as the German lead central alliance and the soviet union cease fire come is effect ( wile both side now halt at their positions the where and the are still in war and have begun to prepare themselves in case the eastern war resumes ).
The fist probes by Imperial Iranian Army soldiers supported by MIAG operated Stuart light tanks is repulse by the Mahabad militia and Kurdish fighters who are in the city.
July 16 A day after both sides have stooped shooting at each other and a cease fire has set in on the east front the General Secretary of the soviet union , the Chancellor of the German empire and president Truman of the united states begin to arrive in Ottawa for a conference which is considered by many to be more difficult then the previous Zurich and Madrid peace deals combined ( the Soviet-German-United States conference is not a peace negations conference but only a place where both the Germans and soviets can speak with each other ).
Oberstleutnant Skorzeny receive a message from the Kaiserliche Verteidigung und Sicherheitsbüro headquarters in Berlin that no more Kaiserliche Luftwaffe supply and support missions will be done as the cease fire is preventing the Kaiserliche Luftwaffe from flying over Finland , he is also told that he is not allowed to take active part in any battle anymore against the soviets as a soldier of the Reichsheer and for the time being he is assigned to the free Finish army for the duration of his presence in Finland ( Oberstleutnant Skorzeny is assisting the militias of the Helsinki Military and resistance organization and therefore to prevent the cease fire from being broken by the germans he is assigned to the Free finish army present in Helsinki ).
On the third day of the battle for Mahabad the defenders of Mahabad ménage to repulse the strong Imperial Iranian Army again and again forcing the MIAG to increase the bombing of the city.
July 17 Only a day in the Soviet-German-United States conference the soviet delegation demands that the Germans allow the trapped soviet Belorussian Fronts to return to soviet territory wile the Germans demand the soviets fronts to return behind the Bismarck/Buh river and Belarus panther lines.
The Imperial Iranian Army manages in the fourth day to win the battle of Mahabad and thereby ending the short lifted independent Republic of Mahabad ( the Imperial Iranian Army ménages to arrest the IRM president and prime minister who are flown by a MIAG Douglas DC-3 aircraft to Tehran where he will face trail on accounts for treason , with the battle of Mahabad over and the territory of the former independent Republic of Mahabad under control of Iran the MIAG can focus on assisting modernizing the Imperial Iranian armed forces and to protect the new US inters in the country ).
July 18 Outside Tokyo a bunker a high ranking German military liaison officer of the German Military Liaison Mission to the Japanese empire enters for his weekly meeting with the prime minister Yamamoto who now uses this bunker as the seat of the imperial government when moved it away from the capitol in fear of it being hit by a American A-bomb , in the meeting the German military officer tells prime minister Yamamoto about the cease fire on the east front and that the Chancellor will try to put the matter of the war on the table when he can , prime minister Yamamoto tells that the united states will not listen to Germany regarding to end the war and that his only hoop is that the united states gets tired and accepts the partial surrender the Japanese offer ( the German Military Liaison Mission has replaced the German embassy in Japan as it is considered to dangerous for them to operate there and so the act as the official contact between the two governments and gather information regarding military matters , prime minister Yamamoto knows that the united states has increase their attacks on the Japanese puppet State of Manchuria in order to cut the vital supply link with the Japanese home islands and because of this he is beginning to wonder if he is to except the unconditional surrender the united states demands as the Japanese people are starving , the military industry a shadow of what it was before the war and the USAAF bombing raid on the Japanese home islands despite the new Japanese aircraft is still increasing , but prime minister Yamamoto also fears that elements in the Japanese imperial army will not except the unconditional surrender as the claim that the Japanese home islands , Manchuria , Korea and the Kuril Islands have not bin invaded and are still under their control and the combined Chinese forces are still occupied in laying siege to the Japanese garrisons in many city’s along the coast of china ).
July 19 Exactly a month after he received his sentence Lavrentiy Beria and his henchmen are shoot by a GRU firing squad ending a month long insecurity for the new politburo who now can focus on ending the eastern war and showing the soviet people that the have exacted Stalin killer ( Beria who received a sentence by a special session of the Supreme Court of the USSR in June 19 was put for the fire squad in order to closes the month long power struggle and to give the new politburo full control over the soviet union who now can focus on the Soviet-German-United States conference ).
July 20 On the fourth day of the Soviet-German-United States conference shows the different in the German and soviet sides as neither of them are wiling to make promises first , wile president Truman effort to get both sides to make promises is hampered by the media at home who demand that he dos not give the Germans anything incase peace is made (wile the media in the untied states where shock that president Truman was mediating between the Germans and soviets the now demand that it only remains with that and that he dos not give the Germans who the still have a bad view of any thing in return for making peace as the are still not happy whit the previous thing that happen ).
With the soviet forces pushed out of Helsinki the new politburo orders that the Group of Soviet Forces in Finland commander to make preparations for soviet forces to take Helsinki with his forces when ordered and that for the time being his forces must surround the city and prevent people form entering ore leaving ( the new politburo du the Soviet-German-United States conference wants to wait until the believe that the can move in Helsinki and restore the Finish democratic government and to crush the Helsinki uprising with out restarting the eastern war ).
July 21 Kom Ost field marshal Rommel inspect the Deutsch-Italienischen Panzer-Armee outside the soviet Belorussian Fronts pocket who among other army group Belarus armies is standing by in case the need to engage the three trapped soviet fronts when ordered after his inspection he flew to the city of Kiev to she first hand the city who managed against all odds to remain under the control of the German Kiev garrison and the Fallschirmjägers for two months will suffering great losses in soldiers and material ( field marshal Rommel after his inspection of Kiev handed on behave of Kaiser Wilhelm III military awards to some of the Kiev defenders for their bravery in defending the city ).
July 22 With a Kurdish uprising in north Iraq south Turkey and seeing the British occupied in Iraq members of the Jewish Resistance Movement plant several bombs in the British civil and military administration in the King David Hotel killing 90 people ( the Jewish Resistance Movement is a umbrella group for militant Jewish underground movements which believe that British Mandate for Palestine is weak as the British are heavily focus on fighting the Kurdish uprising in north Iraq ).
July 23 In the seventh day of the Soviet-German-United States conference the Germans and soviets agree that wounded soldiers of the soviet three Belorussian Fronts trapped in the pocket are allowed to return to soviet territory thru a corridor the Germans wile open. Prime minister Churchill condemns the King David Hotel bombing and tells that the British will not allow any organization creating chaos in the British Mandate for Palestine and that the British are cable to handle any situation both in Iraq and the British Mandate for Palestine ( the uprising in north Iraq still continuous with the Kurds still fighting both in north Iraq and south Turkey despite the don’t receive air supports from German and Italy du the cease fire ).
July 24 Three days sins the soviets where forced out of Helsinki the Helsinki Military and resistance organization militias continuo preparing themselves for a possible counter attack by the soviets wile the people of Helsinki still celebrate their victory against the soviets not knowing that the soviet are amassing their forces outside the city ready to move in when ordered ( wile the people are celebrating their victory the Helsinki Military and resistance organization is beginning to prepare it self for the upcoming battle the now will come du intelligence reports the have received from outside of the city where two soviet divisions surrounding Helsinki are position ).
July 25 In a private conversation between Chancellor Ludwig Beck and president Truman the events that happen in Germany in the past year come up with president Truman telling that the American people do not think the Germans have done enough to punish those responsible for the atrocities against Jews and the still think bad of the empire wile also putting out towards the Chancellor that his administration is in problem du the weak Zurich peace deal the previous US administration signed in response Chancellor Ludwig Beck tells the president that the Provisional Government of the German empire has nothing to du with the former German Nazi policies and are punished those the believe where held accountable for it and that the Provisional Government of the German empire is wiling to discuses the Zurich peace deal and to change it to reflect a more positive side for the united states (wile president Truman wants to make changes to the Zurich peace deal he has problems back at home where the congress , media and many people demand that he dos not make deals with the German empire ).
July 26 The first A-bomb on the Japanese puppet State of Manchuria port city of Dàlián is dropped by a B-29S bomber belonging to the XXI Bomber Command destroying the city and killing more then 120,000 people ( the USAAF has decided to bomb the Manchuria port city to show the Japanese empire that the are not safe anywhere and to destroy a vital port the Japanese are using to as port to supply the Japanese home islands ).
July 28 The first major success in the Soviet-German-United States conference is made when the Germans delegation gives permission for the three soviet Belorussian Fronts to return to soviet territory unarmed and with out any vehicles , the soviet accept this deal knowing wheal enough that the have the material to replace them but not the soldiers which are trapped. The free Finish navy submarine FNS Vetehinen enters the port of Helsinki undetected in the middle of the night carry additional free Finish army soldiers and supplies for the Helsinki Military and resistance organization who is now in control over the city, after unloading its cargo the FNS Vetehinen returns to its home port of Gotenhafen ( as the cease fire is still in effect the Germans are unable to send supplies to Oberstleutnant Skorzeny , his Reichsheer Spezialkräfte under his command and the Helsinki Military and resistance organization militias in fear of braking the cease fire and therefore the use the free Finish navy as it is a independent controlled navy under control of a friendly government who is not a member of the central alliance and who is considered the legitimate government of Finland. ).
July 29 The ninth A-bomb is dropped by a B-29S belonging to the USAAF bomber belonging to the XXI Bomber Command on the Japanese city of Gifu killing more then 40,000 people who where still in the city ( the USAAF has decided to begin bombing major and vital city’s in Japan with A-bombs again and the first target was Gifu as it serves as the base for the manufacture of fire balloons ( as for now Tokyo is still a no A-bomb target but there a voices in the United States military and government who want to use a A-bomb on the Japanese capitol as the believe that it destruction will bring Japan on it knees , the fire balloons du periodically land on US territory but the have not killed anybody sins May 5 1945 when 6 people where killed by a Japanese fire balloon in Lakeview , Oregon ).
July 30 In Ottawa the Soviet-German-United States conference ends with the three sides agreeing to hold a second conference before peace talks are to be held , the cease fire current in effect will remain and will be expanded to the Turkish front , to allow all nation involve in the eastern war to be present at the second conference ( the second conference date is not bin set but is expected to be held in August in a yet undisclosed country , the other central alliance nations who where not present at the Soviet-German-United States conference also have the cease fire as most where operating under German army groups and are expected to be at the second conference which will be the general rehearsal before the actual peace talks will take place and which many believe wile be a long one).
With the eastern front having a cease fire the soviet two divisions surrounding Helsinki begin to receive one additional infantry division bringing them to a total strength of 3 wile the total number of the divisions who are part of the Soviet Forces in Finland are brought up to 24 divisions who now have some 338,000 soldiers deployed in the Finish democratic republic ( some of the new infantry divisions come form the Belarus panther line wile the most are from other parts of the soviet union as the new politburo believes that Germany will not brake the cease fire in order to aid those in Helsinki ).
July 31 In a terrorist attack in Paris the United Kingdom embassy is destroyed by a bomb placed by the Jewish Resistance Movement killing two gendarmes and seven British embassy personal wile wounding dozen of people , later the British government and the French Government in a join statement condemned the bombing ( the Jewish Resistance Movement planed the embassy bombing and the King David Hotel bombing as part to force the British out of the British Mandate and to gain their on independent Jewish state , the two gendarmes who where killed where guarding on request of the British government the embassy after the King David Hotel bombing happen as the United Kingdom embassy is the largest in free Europe ).
July 2 With operation Falke now in its seventh day the 1st , 2nd and 3rd Belorussian Fronts which where ordered to continuo in their part of operation red force are slowly being surrounded by Reichsheer Army group Belarus and Germans forces at the Belarus panther line which is slowly becoming the latest defeat the soviet have to suffer sins their operation red force has bin halted by the Germans ( the soviet new politburo believes that turning of the battle on the east front towards the Germans began when the removed Stalin from power by blaming Beria from creating a fake coup which has resulted in a ripple going thru the soviet military ranks on the east front which gave the retreating Germans the change to turn the tables on them ).
July 3 The new soviet politburo received world that the German forces have almost encircle the 1st , 2nd and 3rd Belorussian Fronts decide to accept president Truman June 23 offer to mediate in order to prevent the Germans who the now have benefited from the Marshall coup from moving to soviet territory as much of the soviet fronts are fighting the central alliance on the east front.
Oberstleutnant Skorzeny arrives in a finish résistance controlled harbor of Helsinki where is joined by members of the Helsinki Military and resistance Committee as it is now called who are fighting the soviet Helsinki garrison ( the uprising is only happening in Helsinki with the countryside largely quiet du the large soviet presence in the Finish democratic republic, the Helsinki Military and resistance organization ( HMRO ) is made op of former protesters , the Finish underground , former Finish democratic soldiers and now the Germans RSK and free Finish army soldiers who have joined it in Helsinki ).
July 3 A day after his arrival in a city divided and in chaos Oberstleutnant Otto Skorzeny meets with the leaders of the HMRO where he tells them that he is sent to assist them in the battle against the remaining soviet and loyal FDA forces still in Helsinki.
The second attack on targets against targets in the independent Republic of Mahabad by US Military Iran Advisory Group attached B-24 Liberators happens as the 20,000 strong Imperial Iranian Army begins its final preparations for their offensive against the independent Republic of Mahabad ( facing the 20,000 strong Imperial Iranian Army are some 5,000 Mahabad militia soldiers and some 1,200 Kurdish fighters from Turkey and Iraq ).
July 4 The United States Department of State receive word that the new politburo has accepted the offer of president Truman to mediated between them and Germany in hopes to end the eastern war ( president Trumann hopes to promote him self as a peace maker but he knows that with the Congressional Peace Deal Investigation Committee still busy and a lot of people razing their voices about why the previous administration signed the Zürich peace deal he hopes by meditating between the Germans and soviet union who both have become pro peace country’s after their coups and he hopes with the Europe chapter closes he can focus on the war against Japan end , the new politburo has two motives for accepting the united states mediation with the first being that the soviet union wants to use the time to prepare a new offensive when needed and the second the new politburo with Stalin removed wants to check out what Germany has to offer , the Congressional Peace Deal Investigation Committee is almost done with their testimony behind closed doors and are now beginning to prepare their report that will decide President Truman fait and the direction future direction the united states will take against Germany and the central alliance ).
July 5 Operation falke is named a success by field marshal Rommel as the trapped soviet Belorussian Fronts are hammered by Army group Belarus and the Kaiserliche Luftwaffe and wile this is happening in Belarus the battle of Ukraine continuous as the soviet 2nd Ukrainian and 3rd Belorussian Front are ordered to disengaged in their siege of Kiev in order to assist in braking true the closed Belarus panther line leaving a ruined city still under the control of a 80,000+ strong German army garrison and 1500+ Fallschirmjägers ( the soviet commanders have released that with the fighting of Kiev the Germans managed to tie up large amount of forces who could be use for other two fronts decided to move the soviet 2nd Ukrainian Front and 3rd Belorussian Front who where surrounding the city , the siege of Kiev cost more then 20,000 Germans soldier lives and double that of soviet two fronts surrounding the city in the two months it was under siege , the battle of Ukraine is also progressing good for the Germans as both army group south Ukraine and army group north Ukraine are still pushing the soviet back to the Bismarck/Buh river line ).
July 6 President Truman sends a reply to the soviet General Secretary that he will informed Germany to join in conference which he is setting up in the Canadian city of Ottawa , latter in the day president Truman orders the United States Ambassador to Germany to speak to the German Minister of Foreign where he is to inform him that the soviet union has accepted a offer of the united states to end the eastern war and to invited the German empire in joining the soviet union and the united states in this conference which will be held in the Ottawa.
Two days ago after he arrived Oberstleutnant Skorzeny continuous to work with the Helsinki Military and resistance organization to form it into a fighting force wile also sending a urgent message for supply drops to Berlin.
July 7 In the office of the German minister of foreign affairs in Berlin a surprised member of the Provisional Government of the German empire meeting with the United States ambassador to Germany comes to a end in which he heard that the soviet union has accepted a offer by president Truman to discuses ending the eastern war , the minister after this meeting went to the Reich Chancellery where Chancellor Ludwig Beck has his office with the news in order to discussing what the next steps the Provisional Government of the German empire will take. The Ambon campaign is over with the Dutch marines/KNIL forces now in complete control of the island after the last remaining pocket of Japanese /RIT forces are destroyed ore captured with this the royal Dutch Indies army command begins to focus on the upcoming new guinea campaign which it will take part in together with the Americans and Australians where the will capture the last new guinea territory the Japanese and RIT forces still hold.
July 8 A day after the meeting with the German Minister of Foreign Affairs the United States Ambassador to Germany is telephoned by the German minister of foreign affairs himself to tell that the German empire is accepting the offer of mediation and that its wiling to commence a cease fire for its duration , latter the ambassador phones secretary of State James F. Byrnes who transfers the message to president Truman. The Finish city of Tampere becomes the temporarily seat of government of the Finish democratic republic as the Finish democratic president Otto Ville Kuusinen who was evacuated by soviet forces after the Finish Parliament Building shooting takes office in the former City Hall which is also the headquarters of the Group of Soviet Forces in Finland ( the city of Tampere is the main location of the Group of Soviet Forces in Finland and also the place where its headquarters is located and therefore its ride place for the new seat of government of the Finish democratic republic while the city of Helsinki remains the de facto capital of the Finish democratic republic ).
July 9 A P-51D mustang belonging to the ML-KNIL fly’s over the city of Makassar on the RIT control island of Celebes where it photographs dozen of ships laying in the harbor confirming the knowledge that the RIT has it on navy ( the ML-KNIL has more then 80 P-51 Mustang in several version who where delivered in 1943 to 1945 to help protect then free Dutch Indies consisting of Java and Sumatra ).
July 10 The United States puts the date of the Soviet-German-United States conference in Ottawa at July 16 wile telling the soviets and Germans that the cease fire the Germans have offered can be placed 24 hours before the conference is held on July 15 in order to give both forces time to prepare themselves ( the Soviet-German-United States conference is held in the Canadian city of Ottawa as president Truman after speaking with the Canadian prime minister who offered to host the three country conference but who is not involved in it except from hosting it ).
July 11 A month after it started the eleventh anti partisan operating ends with the central alliance again falling in capturing the leader of the partisans Tito but managing to hurt his forces who after one year without supplies from the outside world begin to dwindle in number and strength.
July 12 Secretary of State of War von Stauffenberg meets with Kom Ost Field marshal Rommel in his headquarters where the discuses the proposed July 15 case fire date which is only three days away and agree to keep the encirclement of the soviet Belorussian Fronts going in order to use its as leverage in Ottawa and to reinforce the Kiev troops wile continuing the pushback of the soviet fronts towards the Bismarck/Buh river line until the cease fire goes in affect.
In Helsinki the first militias are formed by Oberstleutnant Skorzeny as the Kaiserliche Luftwaffe continuous their supply drops wile the battle against the soviet Helsinki garrison and soviet loyal FDA forces goes on ( the militias are divided in battalions each 400 man strong and lead by RSK and free finish army soldiers and which form the fighting force of the Helsinki Military and resistance organization wile the Kaiserliche Luftwaffe now fly’s despite heavy battles going on the east front supply and support missions around the clock as the Oberkommando der kaiserliche Streitkräfte believes that supporting the Helsinki uprising will force the soviet union to deploy army divisions currently fighting on the east front towards Finland and to show the Finish government in exile that Germany dose care about them ).
July 14 The new politburo after debating fore more then two days accepts the German cease fire and the date which the Americans have suggested of July 15 in which the soviets and Germans will halt their fighting for the time being and immediately issue orders to their commanders at the front line ( the two days it took for the new politburo to agree was only made possible when the assurance was given that the soviet army could restart their offensive when needed and to use the cease fire to prepare themselves in case the eastern war would resume as the current red force offensive became a failure when the marshal coup happened and the Germans began their counterattack an trapping the three soviet Belorussian Fronts happen ).
The Imperial Iranian Army supported by MIAG planes enters the independent Republic of Mahabad and in less then a day the managed to surround the capitol of Mahabad where the begin to pounded the city with artillery and B-24 bombers wile inside the city the Mahabad war council tells the people that the will fight the Imperial Iranian Army if they tried to enter the city and calls the central alliance to support them in their struggle.
A bomber force of some 40 ML-KNIL B-25 bombers attack the port city of Makassar on the RIT control island of Celebes in order to destroy the RIT forces pinisi and sailing ships who are use to supply RIT and Japanese imperial troops on islands the control in the Dutch Indies , the attacks which is devastating kills ore wounds large numbers of people and sinking many ships in the harbor , later the day another wave from the ML-KNIL attacks the harbor again destroying any remaining ships present and serious hampering the Republic Indonesia navy capacity to supply its forces on RIT control islands.
July 15 For the first time in 5 years the guns fall silent on the east front as the German lead central alliance and the soviet union cease fire come is effect ( wile both side now halt at their positions the where and the are still in war and have begun to prepare themselves in case the eastern war resumes ).
The fist probes by Imperial Iranian Army soldiers supported by MIAG operated Stuart light tanks is repulse by the Mahabad militia and Kurdish fighters who are in the city.
July 16 A day after both sides have stooped shooting at each other and a cease fire has set in on the east front the General Secretary of the soviet union , the Chancellor of the German empire and president Truman of the united states begin to arrive in Ottawa for a conference which is considered by many to be more difficult then the previous Zurich and Madrid peace deals combined ( the Soviet-German-United States conference is not a peace negations conference but only a place where both the Germans and soviets can speak with each other ).
Oberstleutnant Skorzeny receive a message from the Kaiserliche Verteidigung und Sicherheitsbüro headquarters in Berlin that no more Kaiserliche Luftwaffe supply and support missions will be done as the cease fire is preventing the Kaiserliche Luftwaffe from flying over Finland , he is also told that he is not allowed to take active part in any battle anymore against the soviets as a soldier of the Reichsheer and for the time being he is assigned to the free Finish army for the duration of his presence in Finland ( Oberstleutnant Skorzeny is assisting the militias of the Helsinki Military and resistance organization and therefore to prevent the cease fire from being broken by the germans he is assigned to the Free finish army present in Helsinki ).
On the third day of the battle for Mahabad the defenders of Mahabad ménage to repulse the strong Imperial Iranian Army again and again forcing the MIAG to increase the bombing of the city.
July 17 Only a day in the Soviet-German-United States conference the soviet delegation demands that the Germans allow the trapped soviet Belorussian Fronts to return to soviet territory wile the Germans demand the soviets fronts to return behind the Bismarck/Buh river and Belarus panther lines.
The Imperial Iranian Army manages in the fourth day to win the battle of Mahabad and thereby ending the short lifted independent Republic of Mahabad ( the Imperial Iranian Army ménages to arrest the IRM president and prime minister who are flown by a MIAG Douglas DC-3 aircraft to Tehran where he will face trail on accounts for treason , with the battle of Mahabad over and the territory of the former independent Republic of Mahabad under control of Iran the MIAG can focus on assisting modernizing the Imperial Iranian armed forces and to protect the new US inters in the country ).
July 18 Outside Tokyo a bunker a high ranking German military liaison officer of the German Military Liaison Mission to the Japanese empire enters for his weekly meeting with the prime minister Yamamoto who now uses this bunker as the seat of the imperial government when moved it away from the capitol in fear of it being hit by a American A-bomb , in the meeting the German military officer tells prime minister Yamamoto about the cease fire on the east front and that the Chancellor will try to put the matter of the war on the table when he can , prime minister Yamamoto tells that the united states will not listen to Germany regarding to end the war and that his only hoop is that the united states gets tired and accepts the partial surrender the Japanese offer ( the German Military Liaison Mission has replaced the German embassy in Japan as it is considered to dangerous for them to operate there and so the act as the official contact between the two governments and gather information regarding military matters , prime minister Yamamoto knows that the united states has increase their attacks on the Japanese puppet State of Manchuria in order to cut the vital supply link with the Japanese home islands and because of this he is beginning to wonder if he is to except the unconditional surrender the united states demands as the Japanese people are starving , the military industry a shadow of what it was before the war and the USAAF bombing raid on the Japanese home islands despite the new Japanese aircraft is still increasing , but prime minister Yamamoto also fears that elements in the Japanese imperial army will not except the unconditional surrender as the claim that the Japanese home islands , Manchuria , Korea and the Kuril Islands have not bin invaded and are still under their control and the combined Chinese forces are still occupied in laying siege to the Japanese garrisons in many city’s along the coast of china ).
July 19 Exactly a month after he received his sentence Lavrentiy Beria and his henchmen are shoot by a GRU firing squad ending a month long insecurity for the new politburo who now can focus on ending the eastern war and showing the soviet people that the have exacted Stalin killer ( Beria who received a sentence by a special session of the Supreme Court of the USSR in June 19 was put for the fire squad in order to closes the month long power struggle and to give the new politburo full control over the soviet union who now can focus on the Soviet-German-United States conference ).
July 20 On the fourth day of the Soviet-German-United States conference shows the different in the German and soviet sides as neither of them are wiling to make promises first , wile president Truman effort to get both sides to make promises is hampered by the media at home who demand that he dos not give the Germans anything incase peace is made (wile the media in the untied states where shock that president Truman was mediating between the Germans and soviets the now demand that it only remains with that and that he dos not give the Germans who the still have a bad view of any thing in return for making peace as the are still not happy whit the previous thing that happen ).
With the soviet forces pushed out of Helsinki the new politburo orders that the Group of Soviet Forces in Finland commander to make preparations for soviet forces to take Helsinki with his forces when ordered and that for the time being his forces must surround the city and prevent people form entering ore leaving ( the new politburo du the Soviet-German-United States conference wants to wait until the believe that the can move in Helsinki and restore the Finish democratic government and to crush the Helsinki uprising with out restarting the eastern war ).
July 21 Kom Ost field marshal Rommel inspect the Deutsch-Italienischen Panzer-Armee outside the soviet Belorussian Fronts pocket who among other army group Belarus armies is standing by in case the need to engage the three trapped soviet fronts when ordered after his inspection he flew to the city of Kiev to she first hand the city who managed against all odds to remain under the control of the German Kiev garrison and the Fallschirmjägers for two months will suffering great losses in soldiers and material ( field marshal Rommel after his inspection of Kiev handed on behave of Kaiser Wilhelm III military awards to some of the Kiev defenders for their bravery in defending the city ).
July 22 With a Kurdish uprising in north Iraq south Turkey and seeing the British occupied in Iraq members of the Jewish Resistance Movement plant several bombs in the British civil and military administration in the King David Hotel killing 90 people ( the Jewish Resistance Movement is a umbrella group for militant Jewish underground movements which believe that British Mandate for Palestine is weak as the British are heavily focus on fighting the Kurdish uprising in north Iraq ).
July 23 In the seventh day of the Soviet-German-United States conference the Germans and soviets agree that wounded soldiers of the soviet three Belorussian Fronts trapped in the pocket are allowed to return to soviet territory thru a corridor the Germans wile open. Prime minister Churchill condemns the King David Hotel bombing and tells that the British will not allow any organization creating chaos in the British Mandate for Palestine and that the British are cable to handle any situation both in Iraq and the British Mandate for Palestine ( the uprising in north Iraq still continuous with the Kurds still fighting both in north Iraq and south Turkey despite the don’t receive air supports from German and Italy du the cease fire ).
July 24 Three days sins the soviets where forced out of Helsinki the Helsinki Military and resistance organization militias continuo preparing themselves for a possible counter attack by the soviets wile the people of Helsinki still celebrate their victory against the soviets not knowing that the soviet are amassing their forces outside the city ready to move in when ordered ( wile the people are celebrating their victory the Helsinki Military and resistance organization is beginning to prepare it self for the upcoming battle the now will come du intelligence reports the have received from outside of the city where two soviet divisions surrounding Helsinki are position ).
July 25 In a private conversation between Chancellor Ludwig Beck and president Truman the events that happen in Germany in the past year come up with president Truman telling that the American people do not think the Germans have done enough to punish those responsible for the atrocities against Jews and the still think bad of the empire wile also putting out towards the Chancellor that his administration is in problem du the weak Zurich peace deal the previous US administration signed in response Chancellor Ludwig Beck tells the president that the Provisional Government of the German empire has nothing to du with the former German Nazi policies and are punished those the believe where held accountable for it and that the Provisional Government of the German empire is wiling to discuses the Zurich peace deal and to change it to reflect a more positive side for the united states (wile president Truman wants to make changes to the Zurich peace deal he has problems back at home where the congress , media and many people demand that he dos not make deals with the German empire ).
July 26 The first A-bomb on the Japanese puppet State of Manchuria port city of Dàlián is dropped by a B-29S bomber belonging to the XXI Bomber Command destroying the city and killing more then 120,000 people ( the USAAF has decided to bomb the Manchuria port city to show the Japanese empire that the are not safe anywhere and to destroy a vital port the Japanese are using to as port to supply the Japanese home islands ).
July 28 The first major success in the Soviet-German-United States conference is made when the Germans delegation gives permission for the three soviet Belorussian Fronts to return to soviet territory unarmed and with out any vehicles , the soviet accept this deal knowing wheal enough that the have the material to replace them but not the soldiers which are trapped. The free Finish navy submarine FNS Vetehinen enters the port of Helsinki undetected in the middle of the night carry additional free Finish army soldiers and supplies for the Helsinki Military and resistance organization who is now in control over the city, after unloading its cargo the FNS Vetehinen returns to its home port of Gotenhafen ( as the cease fire is still in effect the Germans are unable to send supplies to Oberstleutnant Skorzeny , his Reichsheer Spezialkräfte under his command and the Helsinki Military and resistance organization militias in fear of braking the cease fire and therefore the use the free Finish navy as it is a independent controlled navy under control of a friendly government who is not a member of the central alliance and who is considered the legitimate government of Finland. ).
July 29 The ninth A-bomb is dropped by a B-29S belonging to the USAAF bomber belonging to the XXI Bomber Command on the Japanese city of Gifu killing more then 40,000 people who where still in the city ( the USAAF has decided to begin bombing major and vital city’s in Japan with A-bombs again and the first target was Gifu as it serves as the base for the manufacture of fire balloons ( as for now Tokyo is still a no A-bomb target but there a voices in the United States military and government who want to use a A-bomb on the Japanese capitol as the believe that it destruction will bring Japan on it knees , the fire balloons du periodically land on US territory but the have not killed anybody sins May 5 1945 when 6 people where killed by a Japanese fire balloon in Lakeview , Oregon ).
July 30 In Ottawa the Soviet-German-United States conference ends with the three sides agreeing to hold a second conference before peace talks are to be held , the cease fire current in effect will remain and will be expanded to the Turkish front , to allow all nation involve in the eastern war to be present at the second conference ( the second conference date is not bin set but is expected to be held in August in a yet undisclosed country , the other central alliance nations who where not present at the Soviet-German-United States conference also have the cease fire as most where operating under German army groups and are expected to be at the second conference which will be the general rehearsal before the actual peace talks will take place and which many believe wile be a long one).
With the eastern front having a cease fire the soviet two divisions surrounding Helsinki begin to receive one additional infantry division bringing them to a total strength of 3 wile the total number of the divisions who are part of the Soviet Forces in Finland are brought up to 24 divisions who now have some 338,000 soldiers deployed in the Finish democratic republic ( some of the new infantry divisions come form the Belarus panther line wile the most are from other parts of the soviet union as the new politburo believes that Germany will not brake the cease fire in order to aid those in Helsinki ).
July 31 In a terrorist attack in Paris the United Kingdom embassy is destroyed by a bomb placed by the Jewish Resistance Movement killing two gendarmes and seven British embassy personal wile wounding dozen of people , later the British government and the French Government in a join statement condemned the bombing ( the Jewish Resistance Movement planed the embassy bombing and the King David Hotel bombing as part to force the British out of the British Mandate and to gain their on independent Jewish state , the two gendarmes who where killed where guarding on request of the British government the embassy after the King David Hotel bombing happen as the United Kingdom embassy is the largest in free Europe ).
Monday, November 12, 2007
29 1946
June 1 After two days the marshal coup participants have taken control over the city of Moscow and managed to arrested Beria who during the brief battle was arrested by forces loyal to the coup ( the marshal coup participants have decided that Beria who is one of the feared persons in the soviet union is to get the blame as the now he is the perfect scapegoat ).
June 2 The coup participants announce to other soviet military and civilian officials that the have prevented a attempt of Beria and his henchmen from taking control over Moscow and the soviet union and Stalin was killed by forces loyal to Beria during the struggle.
In the kingdom of Croatia the Italians , Germans and Croatia army's launch their eleventh enemy offensive against the Partisans still fighting in the valleys and mountains of the kingdom ( the Germans du the soviet new offensive only can spear the XVth Cossack Cavalry Corps which is part of Armeeabteilung Kroatien ).
June 3 Two days after being captured Beria is now being held at the headquarters of the Moscow Military District and kept under guard by loyal coup soldiers away from any contact in order to prevent him from telling the truth. Six USAAF B-24 Liberators bombers part of the USAFE land in Iran as the Imperial Iranian Army continuous its preparations for the assault against the independent Republic of Mahabad ( the B-24 Liberators are the first of a total of 20 to be deployed by the US Military Iran Advisory Group ( MIAG ) and will be used for support to the Imperial Iranian Army in their upcoming ground assault as the Imperial Iranian Air Force sins the Anglo-Soviet invasion of 1941 has no air force to speak of but which is now with the help of the united states is beginning to be reestablish as a independent air force that can patrol and defend its country ).
Kom Ost Field marshal Rommel orders the German army groups to use the chaos in the soviet fronts to drive begin to drive the soviets back behind the German panther and Bismarck/Buh river line , wile he begins planning for a new attack which will show the soviets why he is called the Östlicher Fuchs by the men under his command.
June 4 After 6 days in power the coup participants put people in the Politburo which consist of anti Stalinist and coup members who first order is beginning the de-Stalinization of the soviet union which includes removing all Stalinist members in high places ( wile it looks like the coup participants are working fast to establish a new politburo is that the don't want any Stalinist members and Beria supporters to challenge them , the de-Stalinization will be done in total secrecy and over a long time ).
Field marshal Rommel decides that the defenders of Kiev need help and with the city suffering around the clock artillery bombardments from the 2nd Ukrainian Front and the 3rd Belorussian Front who surround the city he decides to use fallschirmjagers of the 1st Parachute Army to drop troops in the city and to help the defenders keeping a large soviet army busy despite sacrificing hundred of thousand troops will he planes for this operation to take place the soviet fronts who are still in disarray du the new takeover in Moscow begin to feel that the Germans still can fight as German Panzers IV/ X , Panthers and Tiger II tanks supported by German infantry and artillery begin their counter attack after almost a month of retreat ( the 1st Parachute Army is made op of 30,000 soldiers and is the new elite force in the kaiserliche Streitkräfte of the empire of Germany after the SS became the Kaiser Schutzstaffel (KS) and was absorbed into the Reichsheer , the Kaiserliche Verteidigung und Sicherheitsbüro is still puzzled du information the revive about the situation on the east front and has yet find a explanation of what is happening in the soviet union ).
June 5 The second day of the German army group Belarus counter attack against the soviet 1st , 2nd and 3rd Belorussian Fronts begin to show result as the soviet are suffering more then during operation red force forced wile on the black sea the mighty battleship NMS Elisabeta and the destroyer NMS Marasesti and two of the three Regia Marine destroyers present in the black sea shell soviet coastal position outside the Romanian hold city of Cetatea Albã where the soviet after capturing Odessa and braking thru the Bismarck/Buh river line try to capture it in their march towards Romania ( Odessa which was the starting line of the Bismarck/Buh river line fell late May which forced several naval units of the Romanian , Italian and Germans to relocate to Constanta naval base in Romania ).
With the new politburo now in control of the soviet union the bring the news what happen out thru the newspaper Pravda which reports that loyal soviet troops managed to prevent NKVD Internal Troops under control of Lavrenty Beria from taking over the soviet union and that during the battle Stalin was killed , the newspaper also announce that Beria and six of his henchmen where arrested and will be tried for crimes against the soviet union ( wile many rumors where spreading this is the first announcement the new soviet government makes to the people of the soviet union and the outside world of watt has happen more then week ago ).
June 6 Stalin despite being the reason for the coup participants to take action body is laid next to Lenin body in Lenin's Mausoleum where the people can visits his body before as he as a yet to determent date will be buried ( the new politburo wants to keep the appearance that Beria was the one that killed Stalin and therefore decided that Stalin body will lay next to Lenin body for the time being ).
June 8 With the Ambon campaign still continuing the Dutch marines/KNIL forces fighting against the Japanese /RIT forces receive heavier fire power as 12 Sherman tank belonging to the royal Dutch marines arrive on the island where the Japanese and RIT forces despite Dutch air , naval and ground superiority still continuo to fight on ( the Dutch with the Ambon campaign still going on are together with the US and the Australians already preparing to recapture large parts of new guinea which are still under control of Japanese imperial forces who have bin isolated sins the US and Australians forced them inland ).
June 9 After a year in prison former SS-Standartenführer Otto Skorzeny is released from Landsberg Prison after receiving a pardon of the Kaiser and the his promise that he will join the Reichsheer , he was put in jail du his part in the uprising of January 10 1945 with the Himmler faction but as he was only following orders and surrendered to the then shadow forces and the need for experience commanders he was given a pardon and now will be put at charge of the newly created Reichsheer Spezialkräfte who is replacing the disbanded Brandenburg regiment ( he will receive a rank of Oberstleutnant in the Reichsheer and will fall under the Kaiserliche Verteidigung und Sicherheitsbüro where he will lead the Reichsheer Spezialkräfte/ imperial army special forces ( RSK ) which will become the Reichsheer new commando force ).
June 11 Under order 18 the first British SAS team is secretly deployed in the border region of Turkey/Iraq to begin Intelligence collection wile other SAS teams are raiding Kurdish position in north Iraq ( the SAS team at the border must collect evidence that German is supplying weapons to the Kurdish forces battling the British lead Iraqforce in north Iraq , the Kurdish have begun to organize themselves and are beginning to become a united front against both Iraq and Turkey , the Kurdish have turned many city's and villages in north Iraq into battlefields where car and suicide attacks against the Iraqforce have become daily affairs and engagements between Kurdish versus the Iraqforce are conmen , the Kurdish forces now control a strip of area in the Turkey/Iraq border region where the have begun to set up a government like the independent Republic of Mahabad in northwestern Iran where the have begun shipping weapons to as it faces a possible invasion of Iran ).
June 12 Soldiers from the Italian 3rd Alpini Division Julia are the first troops who instead of dropping by parachute disembark from a Luftwaffe Arado Ar 232 transport plane who manages to land on a improvise landings strip in the Kurdish control Turkey ( the Ar 232 is a plane design for landing on difficult places and after delivering 30 soldiers the Ar 232 managed to take of and returned safely back to the island of Rhodes where a German air detachment is being use for dropping supplies and troops to the Kurdish forces fighting the Turks and soviet army's in Turkey ).
German army group south Ukraine begins a counter attack supported by the air power of the Aeronautica Regalã Românã , Luftwaffe and the Regia Aeronautica against the soviet 4th Ukrainian Front outside the Romanian city of Cetatea Albã wile on other parts of the Ukrainian front German army group south Ukraine is also attacking the soviet Ukrainian fronts in order to drive them back behind the previous held Bismarck/Buh river line ( the Germans have two army groups in the Administrative Area Ukraine which are army group north Ukraine and army group south Ukraine , both army groups where created by field marshal Rommel when he became Kommandant von Allen deutschen Kräften im Osten ).
June 17 A royal Dutch navy Kingfisher floatplane launched from the cruiser HNLMS Ruyter spots several small sailing boats heading to the island of Buru and in the engagement the cruiser HNLMS Ruyter , destroyers HMNLS Tjerk Hiddes , HMNLS Van Galen and two Royal Australian Navy destroyers manage to sink the small boats with no loses to the Dutch/Australian squadron , latter the survivors of the small boats explain that the are part of the Republik Indonesia Timur newly created who was ordered to bring man and supplies from the RIT control island of Celebes to the island of Buru in order to reinforce the Japanese /RIT garrison there as the fear that with Ambon almost under Dutch control the island of Buru is next and therefore despite allied naval ship patrolling the Dutch Indies try to get supplies to their holdings ( the Vought OS2U Kingfisher has replaced the Fokker C 11W floatplane originally aboard the HNLMS Ruyter as it became harder to operated them without spare parts , more then 6 Vought OS2U Kingfisher where received under the land lease from the US in 1943 of which two operate from the cruiser , the Dutch/Australian squadron is patrolling around the island of Ambon as where the Ambon campaign still is going on , the Republic Indonesia navy/Republic Indonesia angkatan laut ( RIAL ) mostly use small boats supplied by the reaming Japanese imperial navy present on the island of Celebes ).
June 18 USAAF XX Bomber Command increase their attacks in targets in the Japanese puppet State of Manchuria ( the USAAF is thinking about using nuclear weapons on targets in Manchuria to destroy the Japanese capacity to defend themselves on mainland china ). June 19 Beria and his henchmen are tried by a special session of the Supreme Court of the USSR ( the new politburo members already have a sentence in mind for him and his former henchmen's ).
The battle outside the Romanian held city of Cetatea Albã continuous as slowly the Romanian fourth army who is part of German army group south Ukraine pushes the elements of the soviet 4th Ukrainian Front away from the city ( the central alliance nations also have army's on the east front under German command with the Romanian third army and Romanian fourth army are part of German army group south Ukraine and the German army group north Ukraine has the Armata Italiana in Russia (ARMIR) , Slovak Army Group and the Hungarian third army as it central alliance participants ).
June 21 In Hong Kong the Japanese imperial army garrisons controlling Hong Kong and Macau still holds out despite several attempts by the combined Chinese forces surrounding the city from capturing even with American and Chinese aircraft flying daily missions against the garrisons. The first Fallschirmjägers are drop from Luftwaffe transport planes over the besiege city of Kiev and despite heavy soviet AA the first 1000 Fallschirmjägers manage to join the 100,000 German defenders who in the still besieged city are holding the soviet 2nd Ukrainian Front and the 3rd Belorussian Front away wile also tying up two large soviet fronts preventing them from aiding the soviet fronts battling the German army groups.
The new politburo orders that all 53 Internal Troops divisions and 20 Internal Troops brigades active in the soviet union are to be reduced in numbers and it functions to be taken over by special units of the soviet army ( this includes the gulag labor camps and guarding the borders of the soviet union ).
June 23 With a new regime in power in the soviet union and believing that mediating a between the soviets and the Germans will benefit the united states president Truman offers to mediate between them in the hopes of ending the eastern war and showing the US congress who still is busy with the Congressional peace deal Investigating Committee that making peace with Germany was a mistake and the US has to move on in ending the war in Europe and create peace there ( the Congressional peace deal Investigating Committee is still questioning people related to the Zurich peace deal and because of that president Truman wants to show the people of the united states that he is concerned about making peace as he knows that the empire of Germany and the central alliance are here to stay and a collapse of Germany ore the soviet union is not in the best interest in the united states who still is fighting the empire of Japan in the pacific ).
Believing now is the right thing to students from schools , universities and other young people in the Finish capitol city of Helsinki go on the street demanding that the soviet union leafs Finland and free elections are to be held , the demonstration which number 5,000 begins small and peaceful both are watch by the Finish democratic army and soviet Helsinki garrison troops who have orders not to brake the demonstration up yet.
June 25 In the Kremlin the new politburo after hearing the request from the united states to mediate between them and Germany is put under consideration as operation red force after a very good start is now going bad for the soviet forces on the east front as the German continuo their counter attacks and recapturing territory the soviet previous captured during the operation. More then 20,000 protesters have join the students in their protest for free elections and the removal of the soviet union from Finland , latter in the day a crowed gathered around the Yleisradio radio building which was heavily guarded by FDA soldiers who refused to allow the delegation to broadcast their demands what resulted was the delegation who wanted to entered where arrested by GRU agents who where present near the building causing a fight to brake out in which the GRU agents fire on the crowd killing many ( the GRU has taken over several of the former NKVD duty's as it is being disbanded du its link with Beria and where present to monitor the radio station in case its occupants decided to join the protesters , the FDA soldiers who where guarding the building where also shoot and when news reached other FDA soldiers that the soviet fired on FDA soldiers and a innocent crowd many begin to question which side the belong to).
June 26 The first bombing mission of MIAG attached B-24 Liberators based out of Iran against targets in the independent Republic of Mahabad is done when 3 B-24s drop 11,800 kg of bombs on Mahabad which is the capitol of the self proclaim independent Republic of Mahabad ( the US Military Iran Advisory Group which trains and assist the Imperial Iranian Army which now has almost more then 20,000 soldiers ready to move in the region wile the US also has send more then 30 Stuart light tanks which are donated to the Imperial Iranian Army but are operated by the US Military Iran Advisory Group which was formed after the Washington DC agreement between the soviet union and Iran in where the united states promised both nations to help Iran in resolving the independent Republic of Mahabad matter in return of the soviet pullback from Iran ).
The finish Communist Party Secretary and chairman of the government Otto Ville Kuusinen request that the soviet union assist in his view a demonstration that is becoming a threat to the finish democratic republic survivability this is manly because several FDA soldiers have chosen the side of the protesters and that several FDA military depots in the finish capitol have bin raided with their weapons distributed to other protesters. The Germans start operation Falke which involves German army group Belarus forces consist of more then 1000 tanks and will try to outflank the soviet who are poring out the German Belarus panther line gap the have created ( the central alliance nations on the east front who are part of German army group Belarus are the German-Italian Panzer Army and the Spanish Expeditionary Corps Russia ).
June 27 More Arado Ar 232 transport plane manage to land successful on landings strips in Kurdish controlTurkey despite roaming Turkish and soviet fighters ( the Luftwaffe uses these airstrips in remote areas control by the Kurdish forces in order to send more weapons and equipment to the Kurdish fighters then the previous air drops where doing plus with the soviet having lost a majority of fighters over the east front many fighters detachments have bin send to bolster the soviet air force leaving the Turkish air force mostly alone battling the central alliance in the air making it easier for the Luftwaffe to land transport planes in Turkey itself ). Under orders from the new politburo minister of defense Zhukov authorizes the soviet Helsinki garrison to assist the FDA in bringing order to the city of Helsinki wile also ordering troops present in other parts of Finland to prevent any demonstration from spilling out and to take any action needed and also authorizing more troops to be send to assist the soviet Helsinki garrison and FDA ( the politburo fears that if the situation in Helsinki is not resolved quickly the it could spread and the Germans ore even the united states will get involved , Marshall Zhukov did not participant in the marshal coup but was asked as somebody who is hugely popular with the military to take op the positions of commander of the soviet forces and Ministry of Defense for the time being as the now that he only has the best interest in mind of the soviet union and is not a threat to the new politburo ).
Second day of operation Falke as the soviet 1st and 2nd Belorussian Fronts believing that the Germans would attack them head on are surprise to notice the German have outflank them and are attacking them from the sides wile other German forces begin to close the 200 miles long deep gap in the Belarus panther line in the aim to enclose the soviet fronts and to them destroy them. June 28 Soldiers of the soviet Helsinki garrison begin to be station outside the finish Parliament building and are deployed at key bridges and crossroads and have begun reliving FDA soldiers guarding military depots that have not yet bin raided by the protestors in the finish capitol.
June 29 With news about demonstrations in Helsinki arriving at the desk of Admiral Canaris he orders Oberstleutnant Otto Skorzeny who already was making planes to deployed the RSK to Turkey to instead prepare the RSK and a group of free finish soldiers under his command to be drop in Helsinki where the are to take command , aiding , training and organizingtghe Finish resistance to the soviets in Helsinki ,the only thing he dos not like is that he has no more then four days before he will be drop in the city ( the now Oberstleutnant Otto Skorzeny was already busy getting to now the RSK soldiers when he was ordered to appear before Admiral Canaris where he heard about his new mission ).
After two days of fighting the soviet marshal in command of the Belarus sector which has the 1st , 2nd and 3rd Belorussian Fronts under his control decides he can not risk being encircled as the massive flanking attack by German army group Belarus , the closing of the Belarus panther line gap by other German forces and the lack of air support are costing him dearly but he knows that with his forces now retreating the soviet who probably can hold out longer du having more manpower available will lose any advantage the have , but he also knows that with the new regime change in Moscow any retreat if absolutely needed to be don will not be punish as hard as if he wanted to retreat under the Stalin regime , after thinking it thru he orders his adjutant to send a message to the General Headquarters of the soviet armed forces in which he request orders to continuo ore has permission to prevent the Germans from closing the Belarus panther line gap his forces have created ( the German army groups north and south Ukraine are fighting their way back to the Bismarck/Buh river line wile the Turkish front remain stable after the failed attempt of the soviet 1st Turkish front and Turkish army to cross the Bosporus strait and capture the Bulgarian occupied city of Istanbul was halted by German army group east lead by Field Marshall Kesselring who with the situation on the Turkish front stable again is ordered to redeploy several German and Romanian army divisions to aid the German army group south Ukraine , the German army group east consist of the Bulgarian 2nd Occupation Corps , Bulgarian 2nd and 4th army Corpo di Spedizione Italiano in Turkey( CSIT ) which also has the Corsica Legion étrangère Corse under its command , two divisions of the royal Romanian army and the German Tenth Army made mostly op of infantry divisions ).
June 30 A large group of protesters gatherers in front of the finish Parliament Building where a large force of the soviet Helsinki garrison is present when soviet units begin shooting into the crowd from the rooftops of neighboring buildings , but the crowd supplied by arms taken from the FDA or given by finish soldiers who have joined the uprising begin to shoot back escalating a already dangerous situation. Marshall Zhukov commander of the soviet forces and Ministry of Defense reads the message send by the commander of the Belarus sector and begins to think that with the Stalin regime in power the operation red force was going wheal and now whit a new regime in power the table again have turned in favor to the Germans , latter a day later he sends his message to the commander of the Belarus sector a message that will decide operation red force successes and also the war itself.
June 2 The coup participants announce to other soviet military and civilian officials that the have prevented a attempt of Beria and his henchmen from taking control over Moscow and the soviet union and Stalin was killed by forces loyal to Beria during the struggle.
In the kingdom of Croatia the Italians , Germans and Croatia army's launch their eleventh enemy offensive against the Partisans still fighting in the valleys and mountains of the kingdom ( the Germans du the soviet new offensive only can spear the XVth Cossack Cavalry Corps which is part of Armeeabteilung Kroatien ).
June 3 Two days after being captured Beria is now being held at the headquarters of the Moscow Military District and kept under guard by loyal coup soldiers away from any contact in order to prevent him from telling the truth. Six USAAF B-24 Liberators bombers part of the USAFE land in Iran as the Imperial Iranian Army continuous its preparations for the assault against the independent Republic of Mahabad ( the B-24 Liberators are the first of a total of 20 to be deployed by the US Military Iran Advisory Group ( MIAG ) and will be used for support to the Imperial Iranian Army in their upcoming ground assault as the Imperial Iranian Air Force sins the Anglo-Soviet invasion of 1941 has no air force to speak of but which is now with the help of the united states is beginning to be reestablish as a independent air force that can patrol and defend its country ).
Kom Ost Field marshal Rommel orders the German army groups to use the chaos in the soviet fronts to drive begin to drive the soviets back behind the German panther and Bismarck/Buh river line , wile he begins planning for a new attack which will show the soviets why he is called the Östlicher Fuchs by the men under his command.
June 4 After 6 days in power the coup participants put people in the Politburo which consist of anti Stalinist and coup members who first order is beginning the de-Stalinization of the soviet union which includes removing all Stalinist members in high places ( wile it looks like the coup participants are working fast to establish a new politburo is that the don't want any Stalinist members and Beria supporters to challenge them , the de-Stalinization will be done in total secrecy and over a long time ).
Field marshal Rommel decides that the defenders of Kiev need help and with the city suffering around the clock artillery bombardments from the 2nd Ukrainian Front and the 3rd Belorussian Front who surround the city he decides to use fallschirmjagers of the 1st Parachute Army to drop troops in the city and to help the defenders keeping a large soviet army busy despite sacrificing hundred of thousand troops will he planes for this operation to take place the soviet fronts who are still in disarray du the new takeover in Moscow begin to feel that the Germans still can fight as German Panzers IV/ X , Panthers and Tiger II tanks supported by German infantry and artillery begin their counter attack after almost a month of retreat ( the 1st Parachute Army is made op of 30,000 soldiers and is the new elite force in the kaiserliche Streitkräfte of the empire of Germany after the SS became the Kaiser Schutzstaffel (KS) and was absorbed into the Reichsheer , the Kaiserliche Verteidigung und Sicherheitsbüro is still puzzled du information the revive about the situation on the east front and has yet find a explanation of what is happening in the soviet union ).
June 5 The second day of the German army group Belarus counter attack against the soviet 1st , 2nd and 3rd Belorussian Fronts begin to show result as the soviet are suffering more then during operation red force forced wile on the black sea the mighty battleship NMS Elisabeta and the destroyer NMS Marasesti and two of the three Regia Marine destroyers present in the black sea shell soviet coastal position outside the Romanian hold city of Cetatea Albã where the soviet after capturing Odessa and braking thru the Bismarck/Buh river line try to capture it in their march towards Romania ( Odessa which was the starting line of the Bismarck/Buh river line fell late May which forced several naval units of the Romanian , Italian and Germans to relocate to Constanta naval base in Romania ).
With the new politburo now in control of the soviet union the bring the news what happen out thru the newspaper Pravda which reports that loyal soviet troops managed to prevent NKVD Internal Troops under control of Lavrenty Beria from taking over the soviet union and that during the battle Stalin was killed , the newspaper also announce that Beria and six of his henchmen where arrested and will be tried for crimes against the soviet union ( wile many rumors where spreading this is the first announcement the new soviet government makes to the people of the soviet union and the outside world of watt has happen more then week ago ).
June 6 Stalin despite being the reason for the coup participants to take action body is laid next to Lenin body in Lenin's Mausoleum where the people can visits his body before as he as a yet to determent date will be buried ( the new politburo wants to keep the appearance that Beria was the one that killed Stalin and therefore decided that Stalin body will lay next to Lenin body for the time being ).
June 8 With the Ambon campaign still continuing the Dutch marines/KNIL forces fighting against the Japanese /RIT forces receive heavier fire power as 12 Sherman tank belonging to the royal Dutch marines arrive on the island where the Japanese and RIT forces despite Dutch air , naval and ground superiority still continuo to fight on ( the Dutch with the Ambon campaign still going on are together with the US and the Australians already preparing to recapture large parts of new guinea which are still under control of Japanese imperial forces who have bin isolated sins the US and Australians forced them inland ).
June 9 After a year in prison former SS-Standartenführer Otto Skorzeny is released from Landsberg Prison after receiving a pardon of the Kaiser and the his promise that he will join the Reichsheer , he was put in jail du his part in the uprising of January 10 1945 with the Himmler faction but as he was only following orders and surrendered to the then shadow forces and the need for experience commanders he was given a pardon and now will be put at charge of the newly created Reichsheer Spezialkräfte who is replacing the disbanded Brandenburg regiment ( he will receive a rank of Oberstleutnant in the Reichsheer and will fall under the Kaiserliche Verteidigung und Sicherheitsbüro where he will lead the Reichsheer Spezialkräfte/ imperial army special forces ( RSK ) which will become the Reichsheer new commando force ).
June 11 Under order 18 the first British SAS team is secretly deployed in the border region of Turkey/Iraq to begin Intelligence collection wile other SAS teams are raiding Kurdish position in north Iraq ( the SAS team at the border must collect evidence that German is supplying weapons to the Kurdish forces battling the British lead Iraqforce in north Iraq , the Kurdish have begun to organize themselves and are beginning to become a united front against both Iraq and Turkey , the Kurdish have turned many city's and villages in north Iraq into battlefields where car and suicide attacks against the Iraqforce have become daily affairs and engagements between Kurdish versus the Iraqforce are conmen , the Kurdish forces now control a strip of area in the Turkey/Iraq border region where the have begun to set up a government like the independent Republic of Mahabad in northwestern Iran where the have begun shipping weapons to as it faces a possible invasion of Iran ).
June 12 Soldiers from the Italian 3rd Alpini Division Julia are the first troops who instead of dropping by parachute disembark from a Luftwaffe Arado Ar 232 transport plane who manages to land on a improvise landings strip in the Kurdish control Turkey ( the Ar 232 is a plane design for landing on difficult places and after delivering 30 soldiers the Ar 232 managed to take of and returned safely back to the island of Rhodes where a German air detachment is being use for dropping supplies and troops to the Kurdish forces fighting the Turks and soviet army's in Turkey ).
German army group south Ukraine begins a counter attack supported by the air power of the Aeronautica Regalã Românã , Luftwaffe and the Regia Aeronautica against the soviet 4th Ukrainian Front outside the Romanian city of Cetatea Albã wile on other parts of the Ukrainian front German army group south Ukraine is also attacking the soviet Ukrainian fronts in order to drive them back behind the previous held Bismarck/Buh river line ( the Germans have two army groups in the Administrative Area Ukraine which are army group north Ukraine and army group south Ukraine , both army groups where created by field marshal Rommel when he became Kommandant von Allen deutschen Kräften im Osten ).
June 17 A royal Dutch navy Kingfisher floatplane launched from the cruiser HNLMS Ruyter spots several small sailing boats heading to the island of Buru and in the engagement the cruiser HNLMS Ruyter , destroyers HMNLS Tjerk Hiddes , HMNLS Van Galen and two Royal Australian Navy destroyers manage to sink the small boats with no loses to the Dutch/Australian squadron , latter the survivors of the small boats explain that the are part of the Republik Indonesia Timur newly created who was ordered to bring man and supplies from the RIT control island of Celebes to the island of Buru in order to reinforce the Japanese /RIT garrison there as the fear that with Ambon almost under Dutch control the island of Buru is next and therefore despite allied naval ship patrolling the Dutch Indies try to get supplies to their holdings ( the Vought OS2U Kingfisher has replaced the Fokker C 11W floatplane originally aboard the HNLMS Ruyter as it became harder to operated them without spare parts , more then 6 Vought OS2U Kingfisher where received under the land lease from the US in 1943 of which two operate from the cruiser , the Dutch/Australian squadron is patrolling around the island of Ambon as where the Ambon campaign still is going on , the Republic Indonesia navy/Republic Indonesia angkatan laut ( RIAL ) mostly use small boats supplied by the reaming Japanese imperial navy present on the island of Celebes ).
June 18 USAAF XX Bomber Command increase their attacks in targets in the Japanese puppet State of Manchuria ( the USAAF is thinking about using nuclear weapons on targets in Manchuria to destroy the Japanese capacity to defend themselves on mainland china ). June 19 Beria and his henchmen are tried by a special session of the Supreme Court of the USSR ( the new politburo members already have a sentence in mind for him and his former henchmen's ).
The battle outside the Romanian held city of Cetatea Albã continuous as slowly the Romanian fourth army who is part of German army group south Ukraine pushes the elements of the soviet 4th Ukrainian Front away from the city ( the central alliance nations also have army's on the east front under German command with the Romanian third army and Romanian fourth army are part of German army group south Ukraine and the German army group north Ukraine has the Armata Italiana in Russia (ARMIR) , Slovak Army Group and the Hungarian third army as it central alliance participants ).
June 21 In Hong Kong the Japanese imperial army garrisons controlling Hong Kong and Macau still holds out despite several attempts by the combined Chinese forces surrounding the city from capturing even with American and Chinese aircraft flying daily missions against the garrisons. The first Fallschirmjägers are drop from Luftwaffe transport planes over the besiege city of Kiev and despite heavy soviet AA the first 1000 Fallschirmjägers manage to join the 100,000 German defenders who in the still besieged city are holding the soviet 2nd Ukrainian Front and the 3rd Belorussian Front away wile also tying up two large soviet fronts preventing them from aiding the soviet fronts battling the German army groups.
The new politburo orders that all 53 Internal Troops divisions and 20 Internal Troops brigades active in the soviet union are to be reduced in numbers and it functions to be taken over by special units of the soviet army ( this includes the gulag labor camps and guarding the borders of the soviet union ).
June 23 With a new regime in power in the soviet union and believing that mediating a between the soviets and the Germans will benefit the united states president Truman offers to mediate between them in the hopes of ending the eastern war and showing the US congress who still is busy with the Congressional peace deal Investigating Committee that making peace with Germany was a mistake and the US has to move on in ending the war in Europe and create peace there ( the Congressional peace deal Investigating Committee is still questioning people related to the Zurich peace deal and because of that president Truman wants to show the people of the united states that he is concerned about making peace as he knows that the empire of Germany and the central alliance are here to stay and a collapse of Germany ore the soviet union is not in the best interest in the united states who still is fighting the empire of Japan in the pacific ).
Believing now is the right thing to students from schools , universities and other young people in the Finish capitol city of Helsinki go on the street demanding that the soviet union leafs Finland and free elections are to be held , the demonstration which number 5,000 begins small and peaceful both are watch by the Finish democratic army and soviet Helsinki garrison troops who have orders not to brake the demonstration up yet.
June 25 In the Kremlin the new politburo after hearing the request from the united states to mediate between them and Germany is put under consideration as operation red force after a very good start is now going bad for the soviet forces on the east front as the German continuo their counter attacks and recapturing territory the soviet previous captured during the operation. More then 20,000 protesters have join the students in their protest for free elections and the removal of the soviet union from Finland , latter in the day a crowed gathered around the Yleisradio radio building which was heavily guarded by FDA soldiers who refused to allow the delegation to broadcast their demands what resulted was the delegation who wanted to entered where arrested by GRU agents who where present near the building causing a fight to brake out in which the GRU agents fire on the crowd killing many ( the GRU has taken over several of the former NKVD duty's as it is being disbanded du its link with Beria and where present to monitor the radio station in case its occupants decided to join the protesters , the FDA soldiers who where guarding the building where also shoot and when news reached other FDA soldiers that the soviet fired on FDA soldiers and a innocent crowd many begin to question which side the belong to).
June 26 The first bombing mission of MIAG attached B-24 Liberators based out of Iran against targets in the independent Republic of Mahabad is done when 3 B-24s drop 11,800 kg of bombs on Mahabad which is the capitol of the self proclaim independent Republic of Mahabad ( the US Military Iran Advisory Group which trains and assist the Imperial Iranian Army which now has almost more then 20,000 soldiers ready to move in the region wile the US also has send more then 30 Stuart light tanks which are donated to the Imperial Iranian Army but are operated by the US Military Iran Advisory Group which was formed after the Washington DC agreement between the soviet union and Iran in where the united states promised both nations to help Iran in resolving the independent Republic of Mahabad matter in return of the soviet pullback from Iran ).
The finish Communist Party Secretary and chairman of the government Otto Ville Kuusinen request that the soviet union assist in his view a demonstration that is becoming a threat to the finish democratic republic survivability this is manly because several FDA soldiers have chosen the side of the protesters and that several FDA military depots in the finish capitol have bin raided with their weapons distributed to other protesters. The Germans start operation Falke which involves German army group Belarus forces consist of more then 1000 tanks and will try to outflank the soviet who are poring out the German Belarus panther line gap the have created ( the central alliance nations on the east front who are part of German army group Belarus are the German-Italian Panzer Army and the Spanish Expeditionary Corps Russia ).
June 27 More Arado Ar 232 transport plane manage to land successful on landings strips in Kurdish controlTurkey despite roaming Turkish and soviet fighters ( the Luftwaffe uses these airstrips in remote areas control by the Kurdish forces in order to send more weapons and equipment to the Kurdish fighters then the previous air drops where doing plus with the soviet having lost a majority of fighters over the east front many fighters detachments have bin send to bolster the soviet air force leaving the Turkish air force mostly alone battling the central alliance in the air making it easier for the Luftwaffe to land transport planes in Turkey itself ). Under orders from the new politburo minister of defense Zhukov authorizes the soviet Helsinki garrison to assist the FDA in bringing order to the city of Helsinki wile also ordering troops present in other parts of Finland to prevent any demonstration from spilling out and to take any action needed and also authorizing more troops to be send to assist the soviet Helsinki garrison and FDA ( the politburo fears that if the situation in Helsinki is not resolved quickly the it could spread and the Germans ore even the united states will get involved , Marshall Zhukov did not participant in the marshal coup but was asked as somebody who is hugely popular with the military to take op the positions of commander of the soviet forces and Ministry of Defense for the time being as the now that he only has the best interest in mind of the soviet union and is not a threat to the new politburo ).
Second day of operation Falke as the soviet 1st and 2nd Belorussian Fronts believing that the Germans would attack them head on are surprise to notice the German have outflank them and are attacking them from the sides wile other German forces begin to close the 200 miles long deep gap in the Belarus panther line in the aim to enclose the soviet fronts and to them destroy them. June 28 Soldiers of the soviet Helsinki garrison begin to be station outside the finish Parliament building and are deployed at key bridges and crossroads and have begun reliving FDA soldiers guarding military depots that have not yet bin raided by the protestors in the finish capitol.
June 29 With news about demonstrations in Helsinki arriving at the desk of Admiral Canaris he orders Oberstleutnant Otto Skorzeny who already was making planes to deployed the RSK to Turkey to instead prepare the RSK and a group of free finish soldiers under his command to be drop in Helsinki where the are to take command , aiding , training and organizingtghe Finish resistance to the soviets in Helsinki ,the only thing he dos not like is that he has no more then four days before he will be drop in the city ( the now Oberstleutnant Otto Skorzeny was already busy getting to now the RSK soldiers when he was ordered to appear before Admiral Canaris where he heard about his new mission ).
After two days of fighting the soviet marshal in command of the Belarus sector which has the 1st , 2nd and 3rd Belorussian Fronts under his control decides he can not risk being encircled as the massive flanking attack by German army group Belarus , the closing of the Belarus panther line gap by other German forces and the lack of air support are costing him dearly but he knows that with his forces now retreating the soviet who probably can hold out longer du having more manpower available will lose any advantage the have , but he also knows that with the new regime change in Moscow any retreat if absolutely needed to be don will not be punish as hard as if he wanted to retreat under the Stalin regime , after thinking it thru he orders his adjutant to send a message to the General Headquarters of the soviet armed forces in which he request orders to continuo ore has permission to prevent the Germans from closing the Belarus panther line gap his forces have created ( the German army groups north and south Ukraine are fighting their way back to the Bismarck/Buh river line wile the Turkish front remain stable after the failed attempt of the soviet 1st Turkish front and Turkish army to cross the Bosporus strait and capture the Bulgarian occupied city of Istanbul was halted by German army group east lead by Field Marshall Kesselring who with the situation on the Turkish front stable again is ordered to redeploy several German and Romanian army divisions to aid the German army group south Ukraine , the German army group east consist of the Bulgarian 2nd Occupation Corps , Bulgarian 2nd and 4th army Corpo di Spedizione Italiano in Turkey( CSIT ) which also has the Corsica Legion étrangère Corse under its command , two divisions of the royal Romanian army and the German Tenth Army made mostly op of infantry divisions ).
June 30 A large group of protesters gatherers in front of the finish Parliament Building where a large force of the soviet Helsinki garrison is present when soviet units begin shooting into the crowd from the rooftops of neighboring buildings , but the crowd supplied by arms taken from the FDA or given by finish soldiers who have joined the uprising begin to shoot back escalating a already dangerous situation. Marshall Zhukov commander of the soviet forces and Ministry of Defense reads the message send by the commander of the Belarus sector and begins to think that with the Stalin regime in power the operation red force was going wheal and now whit a new regime in power the table again have turned in favor to the Germans , latter a day later he sends his message to the commander of the Belarus sector a message that will decide operation red force successes and also the war itself.
Monday, October 8, 2007
Part 28 1946
May 2 The French 1st Foreign Regiment debarks from a transport ship in the Syrian Port of Lattakia where the under a agreement signed between the French republic and the republic of Syria will assist in the patrolling of the Syrian border and help in training the Syrian army ( the French 1st Foreign Regiment is the first French army regiment to enter the now independent republic of Syria sins the French left the country under British pressure in 1945 their main task is to help protecting the Syrian/Turkish border will also helping in training the Syrian army , the British du the Kurdish uprising in Iraq have accepted that Syria falls under French influence but also warn that the French republic must respect Syrian newly given independence ore else it will intervene as it dos not want the region destabilize any furder).
May 3 The Kurdish uprising in north Iraq has turned in to a war between the Iraqforce versus the Kurdish rebels wile in east Turkey the Kurdish rebels and their German help have force the Turkish/soviet armed forces to deploy more troops to east Turkey ( the soviet have send more troops to aid them and have increase the Kurdish deportations to camps in the soviet union will also helping the Turks in setting camps up in Turkey itself ).
May 5 Kommandant Ost Field marshal Rommel in his German eastern command headquarters receive more disturbing reports of the soviet being up to something from reports from Luftwaffe recon missions over soviet territory and the fact that the front line is to quit with exception from artillery barrages and the occasion tank and infantry attacks the soviet al across the entire eastern front have bin quit for a while something that butters him very much ( Field marshal Rommel has not bin idle and has use the time sins he became Commander of All German Forces in the East to increase the defenses and the strength of German and central alliance forces under his command ).
May 6 The carrier RN Aquila arrives in its new home of Taranto where it will be deployed from for its sea and carrier trails (Prime Minister Mussolini has already ordered that the first combat mission of the RN Aquila must be don before 1947 and if nesacary before the German use the their carrier the SMS Graf zeppelin in order to show the world and its fellow central alliance members that Italy has is again a force to be reckon with ).
After more then four months being besieged the Japanese imperial garrison of Fort Bayard is destroyed and the city is captured by the combined forces of Nationalist and Communist Chinese forces leaving only Canton , Hong Kong and Hainan under Japanese control in the south Chinese theater and controlling a coast area from shanghai up to Beijing ( Hong Kong which is also under siege for more then four months is still holding on despite several attempts of the combined Chinese army besieging it and daily USAAF XX Bomber Command bombers raids attacking the Japanese garrison ).
May 7 In the early morning the 1st , 2nd and 3rd Belorussian Fronts begin their massive attacks against the German Belarus panther line wile the 1st , 2nd , 3rd and 4th Ukrainian Fronts begin their attack on the German Bismarck/ Buh River line.
May 8 Despite having warning of the soviet build up the Germans are still surprise at the shear offensive the soviet have started as in the first 24 hours of operation red force the three Belorussian Fronts have managed to brake the German Belarus panther line in several places wile the 2nd and 3rd Ukrainian Fronts have already reach the leveled out city of Kiev.
May 9 Operation red force continuous s as the 2nd Ukrainian Front artillery begins to rain on the German garrison holding the city of Kiev and the massive push of the 1st , 2nd and 3rd Belorussian Fronts seems to push the Germans defenders in some places away from their former positions will in the German eastern command headquarters desperate attempts are made to think of counter moves before a total destruction of the German forces in the east happens. May 10 After three days the soviets begin to notice that despite having amassed the largest army ever seen the battle is not over as Luftwaffe fighters battle their soviet counterparts for control of the skies as Panzer IV/ X , Panther , Tiger I and II tanks dual against T-34 and IS tanks wile German panzer grenadiers and soviet infantry in some places fight hand to hand.
The iraqforce commander from his Bagdad headquarters begins using his new power which under order 18 from prime minster Churchill are given to him as he orders the SAS to begin small raids against the Kurdish in north Iraq and Turkey will increasing the attempts to prevent weapons to be smuggled over to the Kurdish forces in north Iraq and to created order in the city’s ( order 18 allows the commander of the 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 , the order was sign on April 18 1946 by prime minster Churchill and is to restore law and order to the kingdom of Iraq will not trying to escalated the eastern war ).
May 11 Kiev is slowly surrounded with more then 100,000+ German troops trapped but who are still fighting from well defended positions causing the 2nd Ukrainian Front surrounding the city to suffer heavily ( the Germans under field marshal Rommel had time to prepare their defenses and with the information gathered where already in a high state of readiness ).
A major military offensive against the Japanese/RIT controlled island of Ambon begins when more then 3000 royal Dutch marines land to take back the island and to use the island for future operations against other Japanese/RIT Dutch East Indies controlled islands ( this is a attempt by the Dutch government in Den Hague to recapture all of the still occupied Dutch East Indies and to defeated the Japanese imperial army and pro Japanese Republic of East Indonesia/Republik Indonesia Timur ( RIT ) forces holding those islands ).
May 12 The battle for the skies over the eastern front heats up with the soviets having amassed more then 4 to 1 in ratio in fighters , but the Germans have their one secret weapons in several well strategy placed AA rocket batteries who together with the well trained Luftwaffe pilots begin to take the soviet number and surprise out of the equation ( the soviet still use prop fighter will the Germans use the modern ME-262 , DO-335C heavy fighter and FW-250 fighter types will also having new AA rockets placed in strategic locations to intercept the soviet air forces fighters ).
A day after the Ambon campaign has started the royal Dutch navy and Royal Australian Navy begin their support mission of the 3000 Dutch marines in shelling Japanese/RIT coastal positions on the island (the RIT forces and Japanese imperial army have a 1,300 strong force present on the island, the Celebes/Maluku/Lesser and Sunda Islands and parts of Dutch/Australian new guinea are still under control of the Japanese /RIT forces but are isolated du allied navy and air power 0preventing them from getting supply’s) .
May 13 Wile the soviet 2nd Ukrainian Front still tries to destroy the Germans defending Kiev in the eastern command headquarters Field marshal Rommel counter orders begin to show some results with German forces managing to slow the soviet onslaught in several places of the battle field , with the battle fore Belarus despite the three Belorussian Fronts massive numbers begins to slow down as with each day that passes the Germans begin to gain more and more control over the skies and in some places where the soviet air force is no longer present to attack the soviet advance in a desperate attempt to buy time ( the soviet air force has massed in large numbers causing some areas of the battle field to have no ore limit air cover something the Germans are using to full effect forcing the soviet to spread their air force ).
May 14 General Patton is made military governor of the former Japanese island of Formosa as the US forces which are still battling have now got more then 70 % of the island under control , during the four month Formosa campaign the Americans suffered 36,726 dead or missing and more then 104,540 wounded will the Japanese imperial army suffered more then 130,000 dead and missing and more then 42,000 wounded with still 60,000 Japanese soldiers resistance with hit and run actions and suicide attacks against the American forces present on the island ( General Patton was made military governor in order to keep him away from Europe where he before was a commander of a US Europe force corps and as far as possible from Germany will also keeping him in a place where he can no longer be a critic of the Truman administration which he considers weak for heaving signed the Zurich peace deal , General Patton main goal as military governor is to get full control over the island , to restore order and to keep the Chinese Nationalist and Communist from taking control over Formosa of which both claim as theirs is resolved ).
Stalin who was briefed by defense minister Marshal Smyon Timoshenko orders that the soviet troops must fight harder ore else are to be punish du the results of operation red force not going the way Stalin wants , latter Marshal Semyon Timoshenko tells a fellow marshal that the Stalin is no longer has the best interest for the country and that Germany and the central alliance can not be as easily defeated as the toughed ( more and more marshals begin to rallies that the Great Patriotic War can not be won despite the number of troops fighting as the Germans and here CA allies are united in their fight to stop the soviet union and the soviet union has no longer the friends and the support it once hade to help them in their struggle which no has enter its 5th year ).
May 15 With operation red force going on in the east front the soviet 1st Turkish front and the Turkish army launches several attempts to cross the Bosporus strait and to recapture the Bulgarian occupied city of Istanbul but all attempts fail du strong resistance of the Istanbul defenders preventing the soviet and Turks from getting a beach head ( this is the first major action the Turks and soviet have done after the recaptured everything up to the Bosporus and Dardanelles strait leaving only the Marmara Region in Bulgarian and central alliance control but the attacks failed du the Turkish army having to deploy more then 200,000 troops in order to battle the Kurdish in east Turkey and with the Turkish front du operation red force not having a high priority ).
May 16 The 1st and 2nd Belorussian Fronts are losing more tanks and soldiers than the can replace despite inflicting heavy loses to the Germans with only having managed to greater a gap in the Belarus panther line which is 200 miles long and 60 miles deep will the 3rd Belorussian Front has joined the 2nd Ukrainian Front in their siege of Kiev.
Despite daily B-29 bomber raids and the starvation that has hit the Japanese home islands the Japanese people still carry on with their daily lives will outside Tokyo in a newly constructed bunker the Supreme War Council under leadership from prime minster yamamoto still believes that the Americans will accept a partial surrender and allow the Japanese empire to keep the territory its still controls ( the Japanese have now several new weapons in use in which the try desperately to turn the tide will US bombers from their bases in Marianas and Okinawa islands continuo their daily attacks on city’s and other targets in great numbers and raiding with their naval taskforce on Japanese coastal targets plus with the Americans now also focusing their attention to the Japanese puppet state of Manchuria the Japanese know that time is running out but still the believe that the united states will accepted a peace deal like the did with Germany ).
May 17 Commanders of the soviet forces receive new orders written by Stalin in which he demands that if no major victory is secured in the next 48 hours people will be arrested for failing to achieve their goals , hearing this several division front commanders and even several high ranking military officers feel that Stalin has no longer the best intensions for the soviet union in mind (a increasing group of high ranking military officers have kept quit even with the several times Stalin had arrested soldiers and officers he felt where not op to their job this time the believe he has gone to far as operation red force is only 10 days old and result are can still come as the believe the Germans can not hold out against the large number of soviet troops for long ).
May 19 The siege of Kiev by the 2nd Ukrainian Front continuous as the German defenders continue to hold out despite supplies that are now dwindling will attempts by the Luftwaffe and German army to supply them only help a little bit.
With Stalin new orders clear in their heads many soviet officers try to spore their troops on in a attempts to save them self knowing that the battle is not going fast enough to please Stalin.
May 20 NKVD security forces begin to carry out Stalin orders as the arrest more then 80,000 soldiers of the Ukrainian and Belorussian Fronts and their families are arrested with the charge of being traitors of the Homeland and allowing the fascist to stall the soviet union in their rightful quest to liberate Europe from oppression ( Stalin still considers the Germans fascist despite having overthrown Hitler in a coup and dos not want to listen to any reason to make peace with the empire of Germany ).
May 21 24 hours after the beginning of the may 20 purge the marshals who where in contact with each other before the Stalin orders came in decide enough is enough and begin in communicating with each other and to look how many other soviet army commanders and their divisions will join them in a possible action against Stalin ( the marshals where in contact with each other and number about four high ranking members of the soviet army who feel that Stalin is throwing lives away end is no longer in control of the soviet state ).
May 22 The battle of the east front still continuous with German forces almost exhausted from trying to slow the massive soviet fronts will soviets have almost lost their air advantage over the battle field which gives the German Luftwaffe the power to hit the soviet ground forces. Under the Treaty of London ( same treaty as in OTL ) the Kingdom of Transjordan is founded and also becomes a member of the united nations ( unlike OTL where the membership in the United Nations was vetoed by the soviet union here in the DDW timeline the members of the UN accepted the request as the soviet union du the east war dos not want to upset the UK as it still receive together with the united states lend lease witch has bin expended to run until 1947 ).
May 24 Several marshals and other high ranking soviet military and political figures gather for their most importing meeting ever outside Moscow and guarded by loyal soldiers to prevent the NVDK from getting wind of this important meeting which will decide the actions the will take.
May 25 The city of Canton becomes the second Chinese city to fall in a short order as the combined Chinese army defeats the Japanese garrison holding the city , later the Chinese and US army Detachment 202 of the Central Intelligence Group discover the ruins of a Japanese secret military medical unit which had its headquarters in Canton ( the secret military medical unit is latter to be expose as Unit 8604 which conducted biological warfare and human experiments but no person ore important records are found as the where evacuated by submarines during the four months siege , the Central Intelligence Group has replaced the OSS main united states intelligence agency with military and civilian Branches ).
May 27 In Iran the Imperial Iranian Army is preparing with the help of some American advisers to retake the territory the independent Republic of Mahabad has taken as under the agreement Iran and the soviet made in Washington D.C. a month ago ( the Imperial Iranian Army will not as strong as the where before the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran 5 years ago knows that the retaking the IRM hold territory is the only way to get the soviet union to leave their country as agreed and with the help from the united states who already has begon to show interest in the Iranian oil fields has promise to aid Iran in retaking IRM hold territory , the IRM is only recognize by some central alliance nations as a independent nation but is regarded as part of Iran by the United Nations ).
May 28 With the Dutch marines still pushing to take control of the island a regiment of the KNIL is send to aid them in Ambon campaign will Dutch and Australian naval vessel continuo shelling Japanese and RIT coastal position and Dutch B-25 Mitchell and Australian B-24 Liberator bombers do the same from the sky based from basses in Australia and Dutch/ Portuguese Timor.
May 29 Before the sun has set the marshal coup begins when several hastily gathered and coup loyal soviet divisions begin their move in the capitol of the soviet union to end the reign of Stalin.
May 3 The Kurdish uprising in north Iraq has turned in to a war between the Iraqforce versus the Kurdish rebels wile in east Turkey the Kurdish rebels and their German help have force the Turkish/soviet armed forces to deploy more troops to east Turkey ( the soviet have send more troops to aid them and have increase the Kurdish deportations to camps in the soviet union will also helping the Turks in setting camps up in Turkey itself ).
May 5 Kommandant Ost Field marshal Rommel in his German eastern command headquarters receive more disturbing reports of the soviet being up to something from reports from Luftwaffe recon missions over soviet territory and the fact that the front line is to quit with exception from artillery barrages and the occasion tank and infantry attacks the soviet al across the entire eastern front have bin quit for a while something that butters him very much ( Field marshal Rommel has not bin idle and has use the time sins he became Commander of All German Forces in the East to increase the defenses and the strength of German and central alliance forces under his command ).
May 6 The carrier RN Aquila arrives in its new home of Taranto where it will be deployed from for its sea and carrier trails (Prime Minister Mussolini has already ordered that the first combat mission of the RN Aquila must be don before 1947 and if nesacary before the German use the their carrier the SMS Graf zeppelin in order to show the world and its fellow central alliance members that Italy has is again a force to be reckon with ).
After more then four months being besieged the Japanese imperial garrison of Fort Bayard is destroyed and the city is captured by the combined forces of Nationalist and Communist Chinese forces leaving only Canton , Hong Kong and Hainan under Japanese control in the south Chinese theater and controlling a coast area from shanghai up to Beijing ( Hong Kong which is also under siege for more then four months is still holding on despite several attempts of the combined Chinese army besieging it and daily USAAF XX Bomber Command bombers raids attacking the Japanese garrison ).
May 7 In the early morning the 1st , 2nd and 3rd Belorussian Fronts begin their massive attacks against the German Belarus panther line wile the 1st , 2nd , 3rd and 4th Ukrainian Fronts begin their attack on the German Bismarck/ Buh River line.
May 8 Despite having warning of the soviet build up the Germans are still surprise at the shear offensive the soviet have started as in the first 24 hours of operation red force the three Belorussian Fronts have managed to brake the German Belarus panther line in several places wile the 2nd and 3rd Ukrainian Fronts have already reach the leveled out city of Kiev.
May 9 Operation red force continuous s as the 2nd Ukrainian Front artillery begins to rain on the German garrison holding the city of Kiev and the massive push of the 1st , 2nd and 3rd Belorussian Fronts seems to push the Germans defenders in some places away from their former positions will in the German eastern command headquarters desperate attempts are made to think of counter moves before a total destruction of the German forces in the east happens. May 10 After three days the soviets begin to notice that despite having amassed the largest army ever seen the battle is not over as Luftwaffe fighters battle their soviet counterparts for control of the skies as Panzer IV/ X , Panther , Tiger I and II tanks dual against T-34 and IS tanks wile German panzer grenadiers and soviet infantry in some places fight hand to hand.
The iraqforce commander from his Bagdad headquarters begins using his new power which under order 18 from prime minster Churchill are given to him as he orders the SAS to begin small raids against the Kurdish in north Iraq and Turkey will increasing the attempts to prevent weapons to be smuggled over to the Kurdish forces in north Iraq and to created order in the city’s ( order 18 allows the commander of the 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 , the order was sign on April 18 1946 by prime minster Churchill and is to restore law and order to the kingdom of Iraq will not trying to escalated the eastern war ).
May 11 Kiev is slowly surrounded with more then 100,000+ German troops trapped but who are still fighting from well defended positions causing the 2nd Ukrainian Front surrounding the city to suffer heavily ( the Germans under field marshal Rommel had time to prepare their defenses and with the information gathered where already in a high state of readiness ).
A major military offensive against the Japanese/RIT controlled island of Ambon begins when more then 3000 royal Dutch marines land to take back the island and to use the island for future operations against other Japanese/RIT Dutch East Indies controlled islands ( this is a attempt by the Dutch government in Den Hague to recapture all of the still occupied Dutch East Indies and to defeated the Japanese imperial army and pro Japanese Republic of East Indonesia/Republik Indonesia Timur ( RIT ) forces holding those islands ).
May 12 The battle for the skies over the eastern front heats up with the soviets having amassed more then 4 to 1 in ratio in fighters , but the Germans have their one secret weapons in several well strategy placed AA rocket batteries who together with the well trained Luftwaffe pilots begin to take the soviet number and surprise out of the equation ( the soviet still use prop fighter will the Germans use the modern ME-262 , DO-335C heavy fighter and FW-250 fighter types will also having new AA rockets placed in strategic locations to intercept the soviet air forces fighters ).
A day after the Ambon campaign has started the royal Dutch navy and Royal Australian Navy begin their support mission of the 3000 Dutch marines in shelling Japanese/RIT coastal positions on the island (the RIT forces and Japanese imperial army have a 1,300 strong force present on the island, the Celebes/Maluku/Lesser and Sunda Islands and parts of Dutch/Australian new guinea are still under control of the Japanese /RIT forces but are isolated du allied navy and air power 0preventing them from getting supply’s) .
May 13 Wile the soviet 2nd Ukrainian Front still tries to destroy the Germans defending Kiev in the eastern command headquarters Field marshal Rommel counter orders begin to show some results with German forces managing to slow the soviet onslaught in several places of the battle field , with the battle fore Belarus despite the three Belorussian Fronts massive numbers begins to slow down as with each day that passes the Germans begin to gain more and more control over the skies and in some places where the soviet air force is no longer present to attack the soviet advance in a desperate attempt to buy time ( the soviet air force has massed in large numbers causing some areas of the battle field to have no ore limit air cover something the Germans are using to full effect forcing the soviet to spread their air force ).
May 14 General Patton is made military governor of the former Japanese island of Formosa as the US forces which are still battling have now got more then 70 % of the island under control , during the four month Formosa campaign the Americans suffered 36,726 dead or missing and more then 104,540 wounded will the Japanese imperial army suffered more then 130,000 dead and missing and more then 42,000 wounded with still 60,000 Japanese soldiers resistance with hit and run actions and suicide attacks against the American forces present on the island ( General Patton was made military governor in order to keep him away from Europe where he before was a commander of a US Europe force corps and as far as possible from Germany will also keeping him in a place where he can no longer be a critic of the Truman administration which he considers weak for heaving signed the Zurich peace deal , General Patton main goal as military governor is to get full control over the island , to restore order and to keep the Chinese Nationalist and Communist from taking control over Formosa of which both claim as theirs is resolved ).
Stalin who was briefed by defense minister Marshal Smyon Timoshenko orders that the soviet troops must fight harder ore else are to be punish du the results of operation red force not going the way Stalin wants , latter Marshal Semyon Timoshenko tells a fellow marshal that the Stalin is no longer has the best interest for the country and that Germany and the central alliance can not be as easily defeated as the toughed ( more and more marshals begin to rallies that the Great Patriotic War can not be won despite the number of troops fighting as the Germans and here CA allies are united in their fight to stop the soviet union and the soviet union has no longer the friends and the support it once hade to help them in their struggle which no has enter its 5th year ).
May 15 With operation red force going on in the east front the soviet 1st Turkish front and the Turkish army launches several attempts to cross the Bosporus strait and to recapture the Bulgarian occupied city of Istanbul but all attempts fail du strong resistance of the Istanbul defenders preventing the soviet and Turks from getting a beach head ( this is the first major action the Turks and soviet have done after the recaptured everything up to the Bosporus and Dardanelles strait leaving only the Marmara Region in Bulgarian and central alliance control but the attacks failed du the Turkish army having to deploy more then 200,000 troops in order to battle the Kurdish in east Turkey and with the Turkish front du operation red force not having a high priority ).
May 16 The 1st and 2nd Belorussian Fronts are losing more tanks and soldiers than the can replace despite inflicting heavy loses to the Germans with only having managed to greater a gap in the Belarus panther line which is 200 miles long and 60 miles deep will the 3rd Belorussian Front has joined the 2nd Ukrainian Front in their siege of Kiev.
Despite daily B-29 bomber raids and the starvation that has hit the Japanese home islands the Japanese people still carry on with their daily lives will outside Tokyo in a newly constructed bunker the Supreme War Council under leadership from prime minster yamamoto still believes that the Americans will accept a partial surrender and allow the Japanese empire to keep the territory its still controls ( the Japanese have now several new weapons in use in which the try desperately to turn the tide will US bombers from their bases in Marianas and Okinawa islands continuo their daily attacks on city’s and other targets in great numbers and raiding with their naval taskforce on Japanese coastal targets plus with the Americans now also focusing their attention to the Japanese puppet state of Manchuria the Japanese know that time is running out but still the believe that the united states will accepted a peace deal like the did with Germany ).
May 17 Commanders of the soviet forces receive new orders written by Stalin in which he demands that if no major victory is secured in the next 48 hours people will be arrested for failing to achieve their goals , hearing this several division front commanders and even several high ranking military officers feel that Stalin has no longer the best intensions for the soviet union in mind (a increasing group of high ranking military officers have kept quit even with the several times Stalin had arrested soldiers and officers he felt where not op to their job this time the believe he has gone to far as operation red force is only 10 days old and result are can still come as the believe the Germans can not hold out against the large number of soviet troops for long ).
May 19 The siege of Kiev by the 2nd Ukrainian Front continuous as the German defenders continue to hold out despite supplies that are now dwindling will attempts by the Luftwaffe and German army to supply them only help a little bit.
With Stalin new orders clear in their heads many soviet officers try to spore their troops on in a attempts to save them self knowing that the battle is not going fast enough to please Stalin.
May 20 NKVD security forces begin to carry out Stalin orders as the arrest more then 80,000 soldiers of the Ukrainian and Belorussian Fronts and their families are arrested with the charge of being traitors of the Homeland and allowing the fascist to stall the soviet union in their rightful quest to liberate Europe from oppression ( Stalin still considers the Germans fascist despite having overthrown Hitler in a coup and dos not want to listen to any reason to make peace with the empire of Germany ).
May 21 24 hours after the beginning of the may 20 purge the marshals who where in contact with each other before the Stalin orders came in decide enough is enough and begin in communicating with each other and to look how many other soviet army commanders and their divisions will join them in a possible action against Stalin ( the marshals where in contact with each other and number about four high ranking members of the soviet army who feel that Stalin is throwing lives away end is no longer in control of the soviet state ).
May 22 The battle of the east front still continuous with German forces almost exhausted from trying to slow the massive soviet fronts will soviets have almost lost their air advantage over the battle field which gives the German Luftwaffe the power to hit the soviet ground forces. Under the Treaty of London ( same treaty as in OTL ) the Kingdom of Transjordan is founded and also becomes a member of the united nations ( unlike OTL where the membership in the United Nations was vetoed by the soviet union here in the DDW timeline the members of the UN accepted the request as the soviet union du the east war dos not want to upset the UK as it still receive together with the united states lend lease witch has bin expended to run until 1947 ).
May 24 Several marshals and other high ranking soviet military and political figures gather for their most importing meeting ever outside Moscow and guarded by loyal soldiers to prevent the NVDK from getting wind of this important meeting which will decide the actions the will take.
May 25 The city of Canton becomes the second Chinese city to fall in a short order as the combined Chinese army defeats the Japanese garrison holding the city , later the Chinese and US army Detachment 202 of the Central Intelligence Group discover the ruins of a Japanese secret military medical unit which had its headquarters in Canton ( the secret military medical unit is latter to be expose as Unit 8604 which conducted biological warfare and human experiments but no person ore important records are found as the where evacuated by submarines during the four months siege , the Central Intelligence Group has replaced the OSS main united states intelligence agency with military and civilian Branches ).
May 27 In Iran the Imperial Iranian Army is preparing with the help of some American advisers to retake the territory the independent Republic of Mahabad has taken as under the agreement Iran and the soviet made in Washington D.C. a month ago ( the Imperial Iranian Army will not as strong as the where before the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran 5 years ago knows that the retaking the IRM hold territory is the only way to get the soviet union to leave their country as agreed and with the help from the united states who already has begon to show interest in the Iranian oil fields has promise to aid Iran in retaking IRM hold territory , the IRM is only recognize by some central alliance nations as a independent nation but is regarded as part of Iran by the United Nations ).
May 28 With the Dutch marines still pushing to take control of the island a regiment of the KNIL is send to aid them in Ambon campaign will Dutch and Australian naval vessel continuo shelling Japanese and RIT coastal position and Dutch B-25 Mitchell and Australian B-24 Liberator bombers do the same from the sky based from basses in Australia and Dutch/ Portuguese Timor.
May 29 Before the sun has set the marshal coup begins when several hastily gathered and coup loyal soviet divisions begin their move in the capitol of the soviet union to end the reign of Stalin.
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