December 16 Japanese planes attack American shipping while US aircraft strike at air bases.
On Mindoro wile the landing forces consolidates their beachhead after beating Japanese counter attacks and begin to construct a landing strip.

December 18 British troops begin an offensive against the rebellious Communist forces and capture on of the ELAS strong points on the Piraeus road and capture a large supply of weapons and ammunition with soviet markings.

December 19 Japanese high command orders that the Japanese 35th Army on Leyte is no longer to be reinforced or supplied to safe Japanese ships, nonetheless, fighting continues to the north of Ormoc and throughout the northwest of the island ( the Japanese have loosed numerous ships in a attempt to send supply's to Leyte and therefore have decided like in OTL that no ship is to be send there ).

December 20 British General Scobie issues a warning to civilians to stay out of areas occupied by ELAS forces because they may be subjected to bombing raids. British tanks and armored cars lifted the siege of Kifissia RAF base by ELAS troops.
Troops of the French First Army capture Mühlhausen in Alsace, while the French 2nd Armored Division takes Strasbourg.

December 23 under procure from the soviet union The government of Turkey declares war on Germany ( turkey unlike in OL has come under the soviet union sphere and was procured in the decoration of war by the soviet union ).
Despite Japanese attempts to slow the British advance in Burma the British 14th Army hase now advanced another 50 miles down the railway corridor to Mandalay and have occupied the Japanese bases of Wuntho and Nankan after heavy fighting.

December 24 A day after the government of Turkey declares war on Germany both Germany Bulgaria and Italy jointly declare war on turkey. The allies cross the Saar near the Franco-German border. Troops of the French First Army capture Mühlhausen in Alsace, while the French 2nd Armored Division takes Strasbourg .
The Luftwaffe launches from specially modified He111 bombers some 50 V-1 bombs in flight who are aimed at Manchester of the 50 launch only 7 bomb hit the target area and 42 fall nearby in this attack 97 people are killed and 67 are injured after this attack Steps are taken to strengthen antiaircraft defenses ( the German are beginning to launch them from airborne platforms in order to prevent the destruction of their land based Mobil launchers ).

December 25 Fighting between the Greek government forces and the communist forces still continues with British forces actively assisted the government forces, the Greece city of ardini which is under control of ELAS forces receives large supply of shipment from turkey ( turkey has declared war only on Germany and other axis members but is forced by the soviet union to supply weapons to the ELAS forces believing that a Communist Greece wile help ).
General MacArthur announces that the Leyte campaign has ended with Japanese losses totaling 113,221 ( the Leyte campaign happened like in OTL but because the Japanese did not send their fleet in to battle the battle of Leyte gulf never happened as the want to safe their fleet from destruction and keep it to protect the Japanese home island ).

December 26 wile the British government is happy that the Turks join the war against the axis the are not happy that it is now a major supply route to the ELAS forces in Greece preventing the British from attacking the Germans/Italian forces now dug in across Greece border with Albania. Japanese naval force arriving from Indochina bombards the American beachhead on Mindoro. The force consists of 2 cruisers and 6 destroyers. An American PT Boat sinks one of the destroyers.

December 27 Only after four days the Bulgarian army moves in turkey the Turks who believed that no axis forces would move as mostly the toughed it was a symbolic declaration of war.

December 28 The British and Americans under pressure from the smaller nation and the deuteron relation ship with the soviet union decide to call a meeting of all allied nation except the soviet union to discus the war in Europe ( the smaller countries want pace now their country's are liberated , France wants Corsica and Poland and Denmark want to se their country's liberated but with the soviet doing different things then attacking the Germans on the eastern front and the civil war in Greece and the annexation of Finland has shifted the relationship with the soviet union a lot plus the fact the US is begin to become wary of fighting major battles in Germany even if the halve almost complete air power ) the Bulgarian army with help of some Luftwaffe units capture the Turkish city of babaeski near Istanbul ( the Bulgarian army retreated to their borders when the Germans begin to pull back to defend it).

December 29 Germany warns turkey that Istanbul wile be target by the Luftwaffe if its dos not surrender but the Turks refuse and latter the day 40 Bulgarian Do-17 bombers and their escort drop their bombs on Istanbul killing 300 people wile not so far in the distance the Bulgarian army is moving towards the city itself ( the RAF station in Greece has worry of it on as it is surrounded by axis nation and in the middle of a civil war which still going on ).

December 30 the allies meet in new York to disuse the further of the war in Europe wile some have objections the realization that Germany is still in the fight and the soviet union is not on happy terms any more is for many nation a reason to decide in new York if peace should be made with Germany. General Groves, head of the Manhattan Project, reports that the first two atomic bombs should be ready by August 1, 1945 ( the Americans have not yet decided to use it on Germany ore Japan ).
British 2nd Army gains ground west of the Maas River, near Venlo ( my home town ) to the north and south of Aachen, the US 9th and 1st Armies continue attacks. Southern elements of US 3rd Army reach the Saar River.

December 31 On Leyte, various Japanese counterattacks in the northwest are repulsed by American forces. Up to this point, the Japanese have suffered about 70,000 casualties, almost all killed, in the battles on Leyte. American casualties number 19,500 dead and wounded. The US 6th Army is being withdrawn from the island, in preparation for the invasion of Luzon, and the US 8th Army is replacing it.
First day of the allies meeting in new York with more and more different in the country's opinion of ending the war against Germany ore not ( the large country's like the France want to capture Corsica which haze the former Vichy government on it wile great Britain who is heavily involved in a civil war in Greece is becoming worried that the war wile be a long wane and the US believe that holding on to until their A-bombs are ready wile the smaller country's like the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxemburg request to end the war but Denmark ,Poland and Yugoslavia want to continuo the war until their country's are free).

1945

January 1 The German Luftwaffe makes a series of heavy attacks on Allied airfields in Belgium, Holland and northern France with heavy JU-390 bombers escorted by ME-262 , FW-190 and FW-200/50 fighter planes.

January 2 Elements of the US 3rd Army reach Saarlautern ,to the south, the US 7th Army advances to the Rhine river after the Germans have withdrawn across it at Kehl.
In New York the talks continue with both peace and war factions evenly divided.
About 1,000 USAAF bombers nominally attack troop concentrations and communications in western Germany while about 1,000 RAF bombers strike Nuremburg and Ludwigshafen but the improvement of German AA rockets and mobile radar Technology give the allies heavy loses ( the German have a slight better AA rocket Technology wile not so good it getting better with each try ).

January 3 The first use of a American helicopter made by Sikorsky is used fore convoy escort duties.
There are British landings at the northwest tip of Akyab Island in the Arakan area with a Commando and an Indian brigade are involved but there is little resistance from the Japanese as most of them have pull back to man the Burma emperor line.
Another raid on the Ploesti oil fields in Romania is mad with heavy damage to the oil fields after the raid the USAAF and British bomber fly over turkey to return to their air fields on Grete ( the raids have bin intensified now turkey is also in war with the axis and the allies now can use the their air space to return ore in emergence to land there ).

January 4 Elements of British 2nd Army clear the last pockets of German resistance west of the Maas River ,to the right, the US 9th Army ceases the offensive toward the Roer River , the US 3rd Army forces of US 20th Corps concentrates forces for the capture of Saarlautern, where reconnaissance indicates there is an intact bridge over the Saar River.
The talks in new York after 6 days come to a final end with compromises made to begin talks with Germany only if it is in the allied nations come out favouring ( Poland and Yugoslavia are to only country's not happy Denmark is not happy to but believes it has a good change in the talks ).
Akyab Island is completely occupied by forces of the British 14th Army but the Japanese destroyed most of the port and airfield forcing the British to repair it.
After a heavy 5 day battle, the Bulgarians take Istanbul after heavy street to street fighting and massive bombing from the air ( the Turkish defenders wile good armed are not able to keep the city from a wheal train veteran army ).

January 6 Elements of the US 3rd Army enter Saareguemines which is defended by German forces.
In Holland, the British 2nd Army is held up southwest of Arnhem by the German demolition of dikes and the consequent flooding.
The US ambassador in Switzerland informed the Swiss government to transfer a message to the Germans for talks about pace.

January 7 The US 3rd Army is rebuff in the Siegfried Line northwest of Saarlautern.
The German foreign ministry informs the German ambassador to begin a prematurely talks over a possible peace talks ( Hitler after hearing this refuse to allow any discussions to take place even despite pressures of several high ranking German officials ).
With Greece liberated the British begin concentrating to invaded the still Italian hold Dodecanese islands and mainly the 50,000 strong Italian/German army on Rhodes with a landing of a large British force ( the Italian Dodecanese islands are still du heavy presence of Italian and German forces under their control).

January 8 The US 3rd Army treys for a second time to brake true the Siegfried Line but this time on two places and with heavy air support. U-boat arrives in Japan carrying an ME-163 rocket-powered interceptor, 64 tons of mercury, heavy water, some 20 Luftwaffe officers as well as German and Japanese engineers to help the already present Germans in Japan ( this is the last German transport heading to and from Japan ).
the soviets begin operation red storm with 63 divisions hitting the German hold panther line at Smolensk.
Do-217s based from Rhodes and armed with improved fritz X radio-controlled missile, score two hits and severe damage the naval ship the HMS Rockwood ( Germany maintained a small air detachment on the island as much of the German Luftwaffe is busy on the eastern front ).

January 9 The US 3rd Army reports the establishment of two of the Saar river on both sides of Sarreguemines and inside the town after the second attempt of braking true the Siegfried Line. Elements of US 6th Army begin their landing on Luzon at Lingayen Gulf wile the US 1st Corps come ashore, from the ships Task Force 78, around San Fabian ,the assault units are from the US 43rd and 6th Infantry Divisions , the US 14th Corps disembarks, from ships of Task Force 79, near Lingayen village. The assault units are from US 37th and 40th Divisions. The Japanese have 200,000 troops in the north of the island, wile a force of 1500,000 strong around Manila and to the south , in response the Japanese begin air attacks in which the battleship USS Mississippi and two cruisers are hit , in a night attack by explosive boats several landing craft and transports are damaged ( wile the lety landing where like OTL here on Luzon the are more forces to keep the island under Japanese control ).
British/free Greece forces enter the town of ardini and with this the ELAS forces are gut of from the Turkish supply line.
The soviet breach the panther line with the soviet Smolensk front wile a second soviet army made of 60 divisions attack the Germans in Novgorod 100 miles to the South of Leningrad.

January 10 The US 3rd Army is engaged in fighting around the two bridgeheads over the Saar River with American forces within 4 miles of Saarbrucken.
A German counterattack, with tanks and infantry, near Saarlouis is defeated as US forces advance further into the German held Siegfried Line. To the right of the Allied line, the US 7th Army and French 1st Army continue offensive operations but have yet to break true.
US forces continue to come ashore on Luzon with their beachhead now several miles wide and deep.
Hitler is killed at Wolfsschanze in Rastenburg when a bomb in the building he was in detonates killing him and several other persons ( the plotters took thier changes after hearing the allies wanted to take about pace and Hitler refusing to do so because the plot in July 1944 never happened the attack was move until the ride moment ).

January 11 The US 3rd Army continues to defend its bridgeheads on the Saar River while the US 7th Corps (part of US 1st Army) launches an attack west of Aachen directed at Duren.
On Luzon, the US 25th Division and an armored group land at Lingayen to reinforce the American beachhead with the first serious fighting begins ashore , there are more Kamikaze attacks on the American ships many smaller craft are damaged.
Do-217s based in Rhodes launch Another attack with fritz x missiles sinking the British naval ship HMS Dulverton ( this ship will be the last British ship sunk by the Germans in the war with a cease fire to be mad ).
Japanese forces initiate Operation Kongo involving 6 submarines launching Kaiten torpedoes against Allied naval bases in the attack 1 landing craft is sunk and 1 munitions ship is damaged wile operation king the attack on the US main land is begins ( the Japanese Sub are the I-401,1-403,I-404 and I-407).
Germans forces surrounded in Novgorod retreat to German control Leningrad wile the battle of Smolensk is fought a massive soviet artillery barrage along the panther line begins forcing the Germans to remain and giving the soviet the time to attack the two places.
A German shadow government is put in place after Hitler dead , general Rommel in charge of the Hamburg line request a cease fire to be taken place.

January 12 German counterattacks against the US 3rd Army bridgeheads over the Saar River are repulsed by the US forces. the Western Allies accept a temporary cease fire with Germany comes in effect on the 13th.
General Heinrichs is appointed to the post of the commander of free Finnish defense forces in Leningrad ( the finish forces who mange to escape towards German control soviet union are a force of 27,000 ).
The Red Army recaptures Novgorod the battle of Smolensk is being won by sheer numbers by the soviet forces pushing the desperate Germans defenders back.
After a day fighting forces loyal to the German Shadow government get control of Berlin wile some SS units outsite berlin still resist( some SS and Gestapo units in Berlin resisted but the majority of Berlin was captured in the first day with some SS and Gestapo pockets to clear which happen on this day but the SS still resistance the German shadow government forces outside Berlin as much of the SS is on the west or Europe front but who are closely guarded by loyal shadow government troops to prevent them from doing some thing stupid).
A emergency meeting is held between Roosevelt and Churchill in London after hearing from Hitler dead and a new government taking place ( both the US and UK where already going to talk with Germany but the did not believe with Hitler in charge that a peace talk would work but now with a new government in place the think that pace on the western front can be a possibility ).

January 13 In the Philippines the US escort carrier USS Salamana, is badly damaged in a Kamikaze attack wile the Luzon bridgehead is steadily being extended.
The first attack by the soviet against the panther line is made with the Soviet 1st Ukrainian Front launching a offensive against Cherkassy.
at the SHAEF headquarters in Rheims, France, the Chief-of-Staff of the German Armed Forces High Command, General Erwin von Witzleben ( he was a member of the originally July 1944 plot and would if the plot succeed become the commander of the whole Wehrmacht ) signs the cease fire document which will halt all German attacks against the allies in which General Dwight D. Eisenhower signing as the Supreme Allied Commander for the allies.
Goering joins the Shadow government with this the German Shadow government has full control over the Luftwaffe (Goering saw the righting on the wall and join the Shadow government giving them much needed Luftwaffe control but some people in the shadow government don trust Goering as much but for now the neat him be a member of the new government ).
Donitz orders all U-boats to cease offensive operations and return to their bases in Germany (Donitz is a member of the shadow government this order is only for the subs in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean with subs in the Barents Sea ordered only to attack soviet ships ).

January 14 In Liberated Greece continue fighting is reported between the British and ELAS forces even with their supply line cut of with war now in Turkey.
The Soviet 1st Ukrainian Front manage to get a beachhead over the Dnieper river wile the soviet forces in Smolensk managing to capture the city.
The battle of Berlin continuing between German troops loyal to Shadow government and some SS units around Berlin is ended when Himmler is killed in an air attack (Himmler after hearing that Hitler was dead put op the arms with loyal SS units in fighting the Shadow government but with each day the Shadow government got more control and the SS was doomed when the Luftwaffe join the Shadow government ).

january 15 The Secretary's of State of the US , Britain and Germany meet in Zurich Switzerland to talk about putting a permanent peace deal in place with a cease fire now in affect with a new government in place and with Adolf Hitler dead .
after the have a beachhead on the Dnieper river the soviet Army succeeds in encircling several German divisions in the area of Cherkassy wile being pounded by German defenders still holding other part of the panther line.
The invasion of Rhodes which was planed to take place is cancelled by the British but the British will remain on their guard as the Italy is still in war with the British ( Italy has begun to look what the peace negations will be between the Germans and the allies before making their on move ).
Some SS units begin to join the shadow government after Himmler death in fear of being attack by German forces loyal to the Shadow government.

January 16 The Germans forces from army group Dnieper start their offensive to relieve the Cherkassy pocket.
The new German high command after being cleared of former Hitler supporters orders panzer and army divisions facing the allies in Germany to be move to counter the soviet advances on the eastern front wile keeping the reast facing the allies until a permanent peace deal has bin signed ( the new German government moves all panzer divisions facing the allies to the front in the east wile keeping enough force to counter the allies until a permanent deal has bin made ).

January 17 The Russians begin to lay down a tremendous artillery barrage against the Cherkassy pocket wile making their opening larger wile the soviet of the Smolensk front capture the town of orsa.

January 18 The soviet union after hearing from the peace talks in Switzerland are outrage and blame the allies from bailing out on them after getting the wanted wile Stalin tell his closest circle that the death of Hitler and the change of government would not stop the soviet union and its allies in ending the war ( the soviet received world of the cease fire and a message from the US ambassador in Moscow that the allies are in talks with Germany , Stalin orders that the soviet army most deploy a large number of troops in order to prevent turkey from making peace with the allies).
German Dnieper army battles the soviet holding the beachhead at the Cherkassy opening hoping to recapture the town and close the Dnieper panther line.
All German military units pledge allegiance to the Shadow government after the dead of Himmler removes all resistance to the new government, the first people are arrested with Joseph Goebbels , Martin Bormann , Adolf Eichmann ,and several other top Nazi Party Nazi government officials to be tried for crimes against Germany several other lower officials are also being tried ( the shadow government feels itself strong enough to arrest them , the will be tried fore crimes against Germany mostly to remove the Nazi government and other wise to please the allies to go ahead with the peace talks ).

January 19 On Luzon, the US attacks are now being concentrated to the south of the beachhead with the aim of striking to Manila.
In Leningrad the soviet have surrounded the Germans in the city from both sides.
Several Soviet marshals plead with Stalin to seek peace with Germany knowing that with peace coming in west Europe the Germans can deploy more troops to counter tire forces.

January 21 There are British landings at the northern tip of Ramree Island Burma with the British 4th and 71st Indian Brigades are put ashore the battleship, Queen Elizabeth, and an escort carrier are in support but there is little resistance with this the British land behind the strong Japanese defended Burma emperor line ( the British instead of attacking the Burma emperor line direct on the go around it as the have full naval control now ).
On Luzon, the US 1st Corps is engaged in heavy fighting near Carmen and Rosario.
Stalin has his peace seeking marshals executed ( Stalin dos not want peace and believe that the Germans can not stop them with ever force the bare against the soviet army ).
After a trip of 5900 miles the four I-400 subs in the middle of the night begin to surf with their crew begin to prepare the planes for the attack on the US mainland with the targets being los angels , san Francisco and san Diego with four planes hitting each city as this is a suicide mission all planes are pack with as much explosive as the can carry and have orders to inflect as much damage as the can ( the US has relax it guard on the west coast in middle of 1944 after the put it up after the 1943 san Francisco raid believing that the Japanese did not have the power any more to strike and also believing the have a good defense of the west coast ).

January 22 The land route from India to China through Burma is declared free of Japanese and now open to convoys.
The second US raid has happened wit of the 12 Seiran aircraft 9 hitting their targets ( the san Francisco group of four planes lost won after it was hit buy AA fire wile the other three hit the city killing 29 people the san Diego group of four planes hit their city killing 23 people and the los angles group of four one hit the Hollywood sign destroying it two other hit the city and one unfertile flow over the city and crash in a field with a total of 7 people killed ).

January 23 In Zurich the most imported talk in history of Europe begins with the news of the second US raid the US want this peace as much as the want to deploy their troops now in Europe to the pacific front .
Ramree Island Burma is cleared of Japanese forces and the British begin using it to build a air field to attack the Japanese at their flank wile Myinmu is taken the by 20th Indian Division. This division and the other British 33rd Corps units, which have crossed the Irrawaddy north of Mandalay, attract significant Japanese counterattacks because of the threat posed to Mandalay.
the Germans in Leningrad still hold out thanks to Germans ship operating from shore and German fighter planes who drop supplies to the soldiers in the city.

January 24 The soviet begin their on planes establishing their on Polish Committee as the Provisional Government of Poland , the USA and Britain declare their continued recognition of the Polish government in exile, based in London.
several wealthy business people including Howard Hughes , William Hearst and Henry Ford give a large donation in rebuilding the Hollywood sign after it was destroyed in the second US raid.

January 25 In Zurich talks continue with Germany refusing to leave Denmark until the allies can guarantee it complete neutrality and that it wile remain it in the future wile the US and UK want that that Germany returns control over the Corsica to the France .heavy fighting between the US 37th Division part of the ( US 14th Corps) near Clark Field air base Philippines .
the battle to close the opening at Cherkassy the soviet made continues ( the Germans begin to send more army divisions to the east from their former front in the west now the peace talks become more solid something the soviet have begum aware of and desperately try to get all the advance of the massive breakout ).

January 26 There are British landings on Chedube Island south of Ramree when a small force of Marines come ashore and in a battle against the Japanese garrison manage to secure the island, late in the day the marines are reinforced by the 36th Indian Brigade to prevent a Japanese counter attack to take place and to secure the island.
In Athens, Greece, ELAS ( the National People's Liberation Army ) is defeated by Greek and British forces ( with war in turkey the ELAS forces could not be supplied with new weapons and ammunition and therefore had no choice to surrender ending the civil war ).

January 27 The talk continuo with the status of demark fix ( Denmark will be neutral and will not be allowed to become a member of any organization ore alliance when the become independent again wile the Netherlands , Belgium and Luxemburg will be allowed to remain under US/UK protection as there are already large numbers of troop station there the discussion about Corsica is change as Germany says that it has no control over it ( Corsica has begum a independent nation under the protection of Italy ).

January 28 The first convoy for three years reaches China through Burma .
The soviet now having enough forces try to get out of Cherkassy towards Kirovograd wile the first Luftwaffe squadrons from the western front arrive in the east ( the Germans now don't have to worry about allied air attacks and begin to move all forces the can ).
Italy thru its Spanish ambassador request to a cease fire with the allies later the next day both Romania, hungary and Bulgaria do the same thing ( all three nation have waited until the situation in Germany was resolved before doing their on move and with Germany and the allies going good in the peace talks the three nations believe that the can also do it ).
with the civil war in Greece ended the soviet demand that their military advisors who where present helping ELAS forces in Greece to be handed over to them telling the Greece and British that the soldier war helping ELAS forces in thier training but the Greece government tells the soviet that all ELAS forces captured ore surrender will be put on trail ( this is not helping a already worse relationship ).

January 31 On Luzon, two regiments belonging to the 11th Airborne Division are landed by sea near Nasugbu southwest of Manila there is little opposition to the landing.
US bombers attack Singapore ( the attack from Sumatra based allied planes are somewhat limit on Singapore as it has a large population and mostly focus on Japanese hold Borneo but with the allies beginning to drive the Japanese back al Japanese targets are free to be hit ). The Soviet Smolensk Front continues to make rapid progress toward Minsk ,In the rear of the advance, a pocket of Hungarian troops is driven from borisov , The Soviets have taken more than 50,000 Axis prisoners in this drive of them only 10,000 are Germans.
The allies and Germans in Zurich sign a Peace.
Italy , Croatia, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria receive their massage that a cease fire is accepted (All vive axis members used the Italian ambassador to request their nation wanted to end the war to form a front ).

The Zurich peace deal

Denmark will become independent and wile remain neutral and wile not become a member of any alliance or organization ( think Austria, the German really did not want to give up Denmark but the US treating to return to war plus a neutral Denmark is better for Germany and the fact that harsh resistance was going on there was tying up a large numbers of German troops ).

The US/UK will be allowed to station troops in the Netherlands, Belgium , Norway and Luxemburg to guarantee their independence in the future.

German forces will abandoning occupied Norway before April 1945 and will leave Denmark before may 1945

Allied forces will leave the German control part on April 1945 and return to Netherlands, Belgium ore France where there will be now more then 200,000 troops permitted to be station on all time in each nation mention ( this includes army , air fore and navy fore the US and UK combined ).

Germany wile disband the SS and Gestapo ( the new German government is already planning to that as both service who were involved in the Berlin uprising ).

The allies will be allowed to screen any German prisoner of war and to put them on trail when needed the rest of the German prisoner of war will be transfer to Germany by neutral Switzerland ( the allies now that most of them will be sent to the eastern front in du time but sending them thru Switzerland will prevent large numbers of soldiers to be sent at once ).

Germany will hand over all allied prisoners thru Switzerland.

Germany will halt all technology, military aid and supplies to Japan ( the US now about the modified Ju-390 and German long range submarines moving to and from Japan ( the US can sink ore destroy both types of transportation and Japan has not send one sins end 1944 ).

Germany will allow al civilians in Germany of Jewish ore other prosecuted groups to leave Germany ( this is fine for Germany ).

Luxemburg will not be allowed to be station troops of any country but will be permitted to become a member of any alliance or organization the chose ( the nation is to small that it can handle a large number of troops ).

Germany wile begin punish those who where started the war wile Germany most allow allied monitors' to be present at those trails ( the German new government has already arrested several former high ranking Nazi Party government officials to be tried for crimes against Germany several other lower officials are also arrested and waiting their trail ).

A second peace deal is to by signed by Italy ,Hungary, Bulgaria , Romania and Croatia in which the agree to halt to war with the allies on the western front.

the Zurich peace deal also applies for the nations who are controlled by Germany the Slovak Republic and Serbia ( both nation have subordinated their foreign, military and economic policy to Germany and therefore the treaty is sign on behave of them by Germany ).

February 1 American advance in the Philippines on all fronts are beginning to slow down by fierce Japanese resistance. US 1st Corps is heavily engaged near Rosario and San Jose while US 11th Corps is struggling to make more ground across the neck of the Bataan Peninsula. a Red Army offensive against the German Army trapped in Leningrad begins with a massive artillery barrage followed by infantry attacks from both sides, the soviet begin to feel the fact that new German reinforcement are coming from the now peaceful west Europe .
Germany begins to move more units to the Eastern Front and begins it plan withdrawal from occupied Norway which should be ended in April ( Germany keeps a strong force to counter the allies in occupied Germany until the leave then a large majority will follow to be sent to the eastern front ).
V-WE Day ( Victory Western Europe ) the war in west Europe is over.

February 2 In preparations of the landings on Iwo Jima B-24 and B-29 bombers raid the island. With peace the British Government announces that the air raid warning system is to discontinued ,The convoy system of escorting merchant ships is disbanded.
The first ME-262 jets shoots down a Russian fighter plane ( a total of 700 have bin produce in several versions and Germany with peace is already working on its successor the ME-270 ).

February 3 The 5 other members of the Axis (Italy, Croatia, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria ) meet in Madrid to begin their one discussion with the allies over peace.
In Wageningen, Netherlands, German General Johannes Blaskowitz of the 25th German Army in Netherlands meets with Lieutenant-General Charles Foulkes, commander of 1st Canadian Corps in order to begin the German with drawl 25th German Army to German territory ( the 25th German Army is to be outfitted with new equipment and then to move to the eastern front ).

February 4 On Luzon, advance units of the US 1st Cavalry Division reach the outskirts of Manila from the north while units of 11th Airborne Division approach from the south.
The Japanese commander has ordered his forces to defend the city and are prepared to fight to the end with more then 40,000 Japanese troops in the city.
The Alexandria Conference begins ( Yalta in the Krimm is still in German hands and therefore Alexandria is chosen as the place to meet ) with Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin and their senior military and political advisors meet to discuss the allies mad pace with the Germans and hoping to restore the damage relationship between them but Stalin is furies at them ( Stalin is keeping it a secret that the soviet forces have orders to continue advancing even after Germany is defeated ).
in a meeting in a now calm Berlin the members of the axis pact agree to send more soldiers to the eastern front with Bulgaria , Hungary, Romania and Italy all agree to send each a extra 100,000 soldiers fore a six month period ( the Germans have already begun to pull some troop from occupied Norway and begin to pull troops to the eastern front station in Germany when the allies have small with drawls from the eras in Germany the occupy but keep troops in the areas in Germany until the Zurich peace deal agreement is complete.).
The soviet 1st and 2 Ukrainian encounter fresh German reinforcement from the west .

February 5 The US forces close in tighter around Manila , the US 11th Corps has completed its attack across the Bataan Peninsula.
The Japanese carrier-battleship Ise, is damaged by a mine off Indochina after escorting a convoy along the Chinese coast towards Indochina ( the Japanese now use the carriers mostly now to defend imported convoy or guard the home island , Formosa and the Japanese holdings on the Chinese coast ).
The Soviet Smolensk Front tries to widen the advance southwards by attacking the city of bobrujsk in their drive toward minks. Not wanting to go back with a new axis government the Shadow government decide to bring back the German empire with the son of the former German emperor as the new head of state .
Dutch troops capture Dr. Anton Mussert in Utrecht, Netherlands , he is the leader of Dutch Nazis ( he was refused entry in Germany as the new government ordered that only German army ore civilians people would be allowed entry this rule dos not implied to the forging people already inside Germany ).

February 6 after Three days of talking the allies ( the UK , US and France ) and the Vive remaining axis country's still at war ( Italy , Hungary, Romania ,Croatia, and Bulgaria as Corsica is being represented by Italy ) end their peace talks with a smaller version of the Zurich peace deal complete.

Madrid peace deal

Italy will renounce all claims on its former holdings in Africa which wile be divided between France and the UK ( Libya will become a France colony and the former east Italian Africa will become British as the toke it in operation swift sands 5 year ago ).

The allies will release all prisoners who are held before beginning in April and to be completed by Augustus wile Italy, Hungary ,Croatia, Romania and Bulgaria will do this to.

Italy will leave their stile occupied territory in France and return it to France ( Italy still holds a small zone it was keeping with German troops in France and which the allies where not able to remove ).

Italy will halt all technology, military aid and supplies to Japan ( this is to prevent the Germans from using Italy to send stuff to Japan ).

Italy , Hungary, Croatia, Romania and Bulgaria wile allow al civilians of Jewish ore other prosecuted groups to leave their country's with out any problems.

Italy will clean and removing all the minefields around Malta and other the laid during the war in the Mediterranean Sea.

Corsica will remain a independent country ( France wanted it return both Italy and Germany where not going to allow that and therefore the US mad a compromise that France would receive Libya in return but France still conceders Corsica a French territory and therefore Corsica is only being recognize as a independent nation by the axis members ).

February 8 First street to street fighting in he eastern suburbs of Manila between the US 1st Cavalry Division and the Japanese defenders wile the US 37th Division is also fighting in the city ( the Japanese commander has ordered that no Japanese will surrender and the fight until the last man ).
Crown Prince Wilhelm Hohenzollern is crowned Wilhelm, Kaiser of Germany and King of Prussia in a ceremony in Berlin with this the shadow government become the new government and declares that the war in the east wile continuo until the soviet want peace.
In the US capitol of Washington, President rooselvelt officially announces that peace with Germany is made and calls on Japan to surrender unconditionally, or face "utter destruction ( this launge is mostly du the two attacks on the US mainland ).

February 9 The British 26th Indian Division completes the capture of Ramree Island.
The Soviets take, bobrujsk north of Minsk wile the Germans in Leningrad still hold out taks to German airdrops and the small new reinforcement begin to tighten up the soviets in the Cherkassy gap ( the Germans are reinforcing the line around Cherkassy and strengthen the garrison in Minsk for the soviet attack wile trying to keep the Germans in surrounded Leningrad alive with air drops .
Two days after the Madrid peace deal is completed the German high command orders the German Italy army of 30,000 strong to move to aid the Hungary/Bulgaria/Romanian offensive in Turkey wile also putting Field Marshall Kesselring in charge of the operation on the Turkish front ( Field Marshall Kesselring was not part of the coup on January 10 but joined the shadow government after and remain in charge of the German Italian army which is now to disbanded to become the army group east ).
The Japanese Cabinet meets in a special session and announces that the sudden change in the war situation in Europe would not change the war objective of the Japanese Government.

February 11 The Alexandria Conference ends with to discuss the allies mad pace with the Germans and hoping to restore the damage relationship between them but the soviet believe that with the allies having made peace in western Europe the soviet union dos not have to attack Japan as it has a non-aggression pact with it but the allies do proms to keep the land lease active until 1945 with review after to lengthen the lend lease if necessary ( the relationship between the allies and the soviet union is stil at a al time low but the Alexandria Conference is a attempt to restore some relationship between them ) .
The Soviets continue to advance toward Minsk.
The new German government meets fro the First time in Berlin with Ludwig Beck as Chancellor in which the discuses ending the Killing of the Jews with destroying the camps in Poland and destroying all evidence related to it second the new government agrees to streamline the war production in a effort to win the eastern war as the now call , third the will according to the Zurich peace deal begin the trials of more the a dozen former high ranking Nazi Party government officials and hundreds of lower officials in order to clean up the government and to remove all resistance and fourth to change the names of the SS and Gestapo after the where involved in the Berlin uprising and to circumcise the treaty which stats that both the SS and Gestapo are to be disbanded (both the SS and Gestapo have bin clean of Himmler and Hitler loyalist and now will become after the name change the new counterparts of what the now are).

February 12 West of Mandalay, units of the British 33rd Corps establish a bridgehead over the Irrawaddy River the advance is led by the British 20th Indian Division, opposite Myinmu thereby breaching the Burma emperor line for the first time.
Peru declarese war on Japan.

February 13 The US Navy forces begin operations in Manila Bay, clearing minefields and shelling landing grounds , Corregidor is bombarded.
In the ground fighting, the US 11th Airborne Division takes Cavite and completes the capture of Nichols Field.
The British 20th Indian Division establishes a solid bridgehead over the Irrawaddy River despite Japanese counterattacks who are trying to close the Burma emperor line.
To relive the 1st Ukrainian Front hold up in the Cherkassy gap the soviet launch a attack with the Soviet 2nd Ukrainian Front attacking the Germans in zarorozje.

February 14 The British 7th Indian Division, part of British 4th Corps, begins to cross the Irrawaddy River near Myaungu , Japanese opposition is heavy as the Japanese try to close the Burma emperor line gap wile in north of Mandalay, the British 19th Indian Division takes Singu despite Japanese resistance.
President Roosevelt and prime minister Churchill in a meeting after getting both peace deals round now begin to focus on the war against Japan with the intention of a unconditional surrender of the empire of Japan and to begin sending part and equipment to turkey by Iraq ( the US is angry at Japan du the two attacks on its mainland which killed 187 Americans wile the secret aid to turkey is to prevent its collapse as it is on able to prevent it from signing its on peace deal as turkey is under the soviet sphere of infuse ).

February 15 Heavy fighting in Manila continues.
The 2nd Ukrainian Front captures zarorozje and now begin to advance to relieve the 1st Ukrainian Front hold up in the Cherkassy gap but begins to get some German resistance as the Germans and their allies begin to receive new army divisions from the west.
The newly crowned Kaiser and the Italian king meet in which the give full support to each other after this meeting the Kaiser wile fly to Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania to seek their continuo support against the soviet union ( with this de relationship between Italy and Germany is becoming much closer as the are both monarchy's ).

February 17 After 15 days of bombing missions over Iwo Jima B-24s and B-29S have drop a total of 6800 tons on the island.
the 2nd Ukrainian Front captures the town of Nikopol in their advance to help the 1st Ukrainian Front to brake out of the Cherkassy gap ,while the German in Leningrad still hold out and the soviet Smolensk front heading toward minks is beginning to slow down with new Panzer armies arriving form the west.

February 19 On Iwo Jima, 2 divisions of the US 5th Amphibious Corps are landed in Operation Detachment ( the landing happened like in OTL but unlike in OTL the Japanese garrison is a force of 32,000 strong and having just like in OTL have prepared exceptionally elaborate and tough defenses so that the eight square miles of the island is completely fortified).
The 2nd Ukrainian Front haze widen in opening with capturing the city of Dnepropetrovsk.

February 20 The US 5th Amphibious Corps makes slow progress toward Mount Suribachi in the south and the first airfield to the north of the beachhead , there are Japanese counterattacks and infiltration attempts during the night. Divisions from the Soviet 2nd Ukrainian Front attack Dneprodzerzhinsk which is defended by three German divisions.
During the night the Soviet 67th Tank Brigade carrying infantry on its tanks attack the town.

February 21 The British 17th Indian Division and supporting armoured units (elements of British 4th Corps) begin to try to make a breakout from the bridgehead at Myaungu and begin their advance toward Meiktila ( the Japanese are still trying to prevent the British from braking out the Burma emperor line gap ).
Fighting in the battle for Manila still continue.
The 2nd Ukrainian Front which was heading to relieve the 1st Ukrainian Front fails to capture the town of Dneprodzerzhinsk wile the other elements of the 2nd Ukrainian Front reach the outskirts of krvoj rog , the Germans still hold out in Leningrad as Stalin want to capture the city first before any advance to the south wile the soviet Smolensk front is begin their encirclement of Minsk.

February 22 The escort carrier USS Bismarck Sea is sunk wile another escort carrier and the fleet carrier USS Saratoga are damaged by Kamikaze attacks near Iwo Jima wile the US 5th Amphibious Corps continue to make slow progress toward Mount Suribachi to the south and the airfield to the north.
After a week touring the nations of Italy ,Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania the Kaiser of Germany returns to Berlin ( with this tour the nations of Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania recognize the Kaiser as the new head of state and their support to continuo the war along side with Germany ).

February 23 Uruguay declares war on Japan.
The battle for Manila is still being fought as the US makes steady progress in capturing the city.
Slow US advance on Iwo Jima is being mad by the US 5th Amphibious Corps.

February 24 On Iwo Jima, forces of US 5th Amphibious Corps continue to advance northward and capture part of the island's second airfield. after several treys the British 17th Indian Division make a breakout near the bridgehead at Myaungu ( the Japanese have withdrawn to defend Mandalay ).
Germany begins a concentrated offensive with Army Group Center attacking Minsk and Leningrad ( minks is almost surrounded and Leningrad completely wile the both Ukrainian Fronts are also beginning to slow down du to new German reinforcements ),

February 25 On Iwo Jima, the advance of US 5th Amphibious Corps continues but there are heavy losses in the area around the second airfield. Army Group Center retakes Bobruisk which was capture by the soviet wile reliving Minsk which still is being attack by the soviet Smolensk front.

February 27 Units of the British 19th Indian Division begin to break out of their bridgehead over the Irrawaddy River, at Habeikkyin, and advance south toward Mandalay against heavy Japanese resistance making it the second force to punch thru the Burma emperor line.
The government of Lebanon declares war on Japan.

February 28 In their advance on Meiktila, the British 17th Indian Division takes Taungtha.
The governments of Iran and Saudi Arabia declare war on Japan.
German IV Army enters Minsk strengthen the German defenders holding the city.

February 30 The advance of British 17th Indian Division toward Meiktila continues. Mahlaing and the Thabuktong airfield are captured during the day with these airfields capture new reinforcements for the British 4th Corps can be flown in to this airfield.
the governments of Syria and Egypt declare war on Japan .
the soviet army begins to feel the new German forces arriving together with their axis allies the forces now number 1,5 million men extra.

February 31 The British 4th Corps begins to attack Meiktila in strength. ( Meiktila is a vital communications centre, serving all the Japanese forces around Mandalay and the Burma emperor line ).
Army north begins shelling the soviet forces surrounding Leningrad wile in Leningrad itself the Germans forces try to keep the soviet out of the city. Roosevelt the scene and offers to mediate peace between USSR and Germany ( the offer is rebuff by Stalin ).

March 1 The 1st US 5th Amphibious Corps has captured the first of the island's airfields wile having foothold at the second airfield on Iwo Jima.
The US forces attacking in Manila resume their attempt to capture the remaining part of Manila still hold by the Japanese with most of the Japanese resistance now largely confined to the old walled section of the town, but fighting is fears but the fighting there is very fierce. German high command orders the army group north to relieve the German in Leningrad and help them brake out.
The German IV Army in Minsk begin a counter attack against the soviet Smolensk front ( the German IV Army is made up of German divisions fresh from Germany and the former front in west Europe totaling more then 400,000 soldiers ).

March 2 The Netherlands issues a postage stamp commemorating the liberation of the its country while ordering the princes Irene division to be sent to the Dutch Indies ( the Dutch Indies are quit with the Japanese forces on Borneo and new guinea contain wile allied bombers are pounding Singapore heavily from bases in Sumatra ).

March 4 Meiktila is still holding out against units of the British 4th Corps. After two days of fighting the US 5th Amphibious Corps fighting on Iwo Jima captures the second of the island's airfields and begin to advance to the southern end of the third airfield.
The German IV Army begins pushing the soviet Smolensk front away from the city of Minks wile near borisov a massive tank battle is beginning ( the soviet Smolensk front is beginning to fell the strain of fighting both army group center and the newly arrive German IV army).

March 5 The third airfield on Iwo Jima is completely occupied by the US 5th Amphibious Corps.
A Japanese counterattacks against British 4th Corps begins against the small town of Taungtha which after a the battle is recaptured by the Japanese wile the British 17th Indian Division outside Meiktila are forced back by the Japanese counter attack .
Army group north begins to push towards Leningrad wile the Germans defenders move to brake out and link with the army group wile the battle of borisov is begin to be turn against the soviet ( wile the soviet have the numbers the Germans now have several tanks and planes who outclass the soviet on weapons and the Germans now can feel mostly everything the have from the western front ).

March 6 Uinits of the Chinese 1st Army reach and capture Lashio in Burma after braking true the Japanese defence ( most of the Japanese defenders where station at the Burma emperor line and therefore the Chinese could brake true ).
The battle of borisov continuous with the German panthers , Panzers IV j and tigers II being able to destroy much of the soviet tanks even if the are outnumber three to one ( The German are beginning to build a new panther version called the panther II with increased armoured protection and a built in stereoscopic rangefinder and having a 88mm gun wile also beginning to design a tank that will replace both the tiger and panther versions in order to streamline the production with the panzer series is going continue to be produce with the panzer X on the drawing boards ( which is a oppugned panzer IV with a 7.5 cm KwK 42 gun used by the panther instead of the 7.5 cm KwK 40 ) the Germans can destroy so much soviet tank because the have full air control over borisov with me-262 jets ,FW-200 , Do 335C-3 (Do 335C-3 is the third version of this plane ) and the newest plane the wf-250 (OTL timeline the FW-Ta 152 ).

March 7 A Japanese counter attack against the British 17th Indian Division is repulse in the town of Meiktila ( most of the attacking Japanese forces where from the and when the counter attack failed the17th Indian Division was able to capture the town ).
The German army group north begins it relieve of Leningrad with a massive attack against the soviet surrounding Leningrad the German IV Army now has push the soviet Smolensk front more then 24 miles away from minks thanks to German air superiority while the soviet 2nd Ukrainian front is halted by the now reinforce army group Dnieper and army group south.

March 8 Part of US Task Force 58 conducts air strikes on targets on Okinawa and nearby shipping.
Two small Japanese warships are sunk, in Tokyo the minister of the navy Admiral Yamamoto orders the remaining Japanese carriers to protect Okinawa from a US invasion ( the battle of lety gulf never happened here therefore the Japanese have still got some carriers patrolling the Japanese home islands ).
after a day of Battling the German defenders and army group north make a opening of 2 miles wide in which the defenders of Leningrad move out wile soviet forces surrounding Leningrad move in wile also trying to close the opening.

March 9 On Iwo Jima, the forces of US 5th Amphibious Corps continue pushing northward with heavy fire support. The southward advance of the British 19th Indian Division reaches the outskirts of Mandalay , the fighting around Meiktila begins again the Japanese bring troops from the Mandalay area in a desperate attempt to free their lines of Communications.
The royal Italian navy steams out for the first time in three years heading to Rhodes which will become the naval base which the axis will use to blockade turkey and to prevent any ship from entering Turkish ports ( Italy is deploying their navy to prevent soviet shipment true the strait of Bosporus and to destroy the Turkish navy wile also prevent the Turkish to land forces on Italian owned Rhodes in the Aegean sea ( the fleet is lead by the battleships RN Giulio Cesare and RN Conte di Cavour part of the 1st Fleet and is made of 17 destroyers from the 7th , 8th 14th and 15th Destroyer Squadrons 10 torpedo boats and 6 submarines which will be based from Rhodes ).

March 10 On Luzon fighting continues south of Laguna de Bay where the US forces are still trying to break through to the east. Roosevelt informs Spanish representatives that no American aid will be forthcoming so long as the Franco dictatorship support the Germans ( because the Germans have mad a peace deal the Spanish have no fear of the US and because of this decision are driven more and more to the axis camp ).

March 11 After three days of moving the last Germans leave Leningrad and with it give the city back to the soviet wile army group north now moves back to a new line at narva-luga-Novgorod ( in the siege and in the battle more then 27,000 of the 200,000 German and Free finish defenders at Leningrad died ore where wounded when a total of 19,000 where captured by the soviet when the token the city back from the Germans ).

March 13 Maymo, to the east of Mandalay, is taken by the British 62nd Indian Brigade cutting the last rail line to Mandalay wile the British 19th Indian Division begin to take Mandalay from the Japanese.
The 1st Italian Fleet encounters British royal navy ships patrolling the Eagan sea as there is now peace between them both fleet do not engage as the 1st Italian Fleet moves to begins in blocking the strait of Bosporus wile using their subs to lay mines to prevent the Turkish navy from engaging them.

March 15 The Japanese forces intensive their efforts against Meiktila but fail to make significant progress against the British 17th Indian Division which is receiving supplies, reinforcements and ground attack support from the air wile the British 19th Indian Division is now involved in house-to-house fighting in the city of Mandalay.
The Turkish navy based from gulcuk steams out with one battle cruiser, two cruisers, two gunboats, four destroyers in order to prevent the 1st fleet from blocking the strait ( in this timeline the Turkish did not receive training from the UK but received training from the soviet union and with the black sea still in control of the Germans the Turkish navy is split thin with one have protecting the south side wile a other fleet is protected the north side of turkey against small German raids ).

March 16 The US offensive in manila continues with most of the Japanese resistance is now confined to a few blocks in the administrative area of the city.
The battle of the Eagan sea ends with a major victory for the royal Italian navy which only lose the destroyer RN dardo but destroys much of the attacking Turkish fleet with one cruiser, two gunboats sunk , one cruiser damage and three destroyers sunk with this battle the Italian now can begin supporting the land operation and lay mines to prevent a further Turkish navy attack ( the Turkish navy had no air support to help the Turkish fleet as much is the Turkish air force is trying to prevent the Bulgarian army from crossing the Bosporus strait wile the other Turkish ship are prevent to help the them as the have problems on their on ).

March 17 Units of the British 19th Indian Division are still engaged in Mandalay but most of the city has been capture in heavy close combat against the Japanese the Chinese army in Burma takes the town Hsipaw on the Burma Road wile a other Chinese Army still trying to advance along the road from Lashio to clear it of Japanese forces .
army group east in turkey now a force of 400,000 German ,Italian, Hungary, Bulgarian and Romania troops under Field Marshall Kesselring begin their advance against a 600,000 strong standing Turkish army guarding the banks of the Bosporus strait with a massive artillery barrage ( the soviets have no force in turkey yet as the soviet have their on problems on the eastern front ).

March 18 Japanese resistance in Manila comes to an end after a long battle , most of the 40,000 Japanese defenders have been killed and the town has been completely destroyed ( like in OTL the US won but at a high price with over 3,030 dead and 15,365 wounded and some 150,000 Filipinos killed ).
heavy fighting in Mandalay and round Meiktila continues. Japanese using Kamikaze attacks with 10 planes hit the carriers USS san Francisco ,USS Yorktown and USS Enterprise but fail to disable any of the aircraft carriers.
After a day of heavy artillery barrage and supported by the now dominate 1st Italian Fleet more then 50,000 axis troops attack the Turkish town of canakkale in order to get a foot hold on the Turkish mainland ( the Turkish government has request the soviet to sent them aid with tanks and planes as their forces are being overrun by army group east ).

March 19 fighting continues on Luzon, with US 14th Corps engaged along the Japanese held Shimbu Line, southeast of Manila.
The US Task Force 58 conducts air raids against naval bases in the Inland Sea, with Kure specifically targeted.
Six Japanese carriers and 3 battleships are damaged but the Japanese respond with Kamikaze attacks which badly damage the carriers USS Franklin and USS Wasp as well as hitting the carriers USS Enterprise and USS Essex .
The soviet agree to a force of 100,000 to be sent to turkey to prevent any axis advance as army group east has now a beach head in and near the town of canakkale ( the Turkish air force in this timeline is mostly mad of soviet build planes received from the soviet after 1941 and planes from Germany the UK and France before 1941 and is a force of some 500 combat planes against a force of 600 axis).

March 20 US Task Force 58 is replenishing in preparation for operations around Okinawa , there are Japanese Kamikaze attacks that fail to achieve significant success ( the Japanese are preparing to use their carrier fleet to hamper the landing on Okinawa but until that happens the will increase the Kamikaze attacks against the US carriers ).

March 21 In order to destroy as much of the US Task Force 58 around Okinawa the Japanese 5th Air Force deploys the first Ohka piloted rocket bombs, slung under Mitsubishi bombers, against the American fleet but du to radar warnings the US shoot sown 17 of the 18 aircraft with the last not hitting any thing ( the Japanese have learned from the Germans who now at peace with the allies continuo their help in aiding the Japanese in secrecy ).
After two days of battling army group east manages to secured a beachhead 10 miles long and four deep inside turkey with the Turks beginning to deploy more forces who are station to halt any axis advance near axis control Istanbul ( the Turkish army is hastily trying To prevent any further outbreak of the army group east ).

March 22 Second attempt by the Ohka piloted rocket bombs but again the fail to achieve significant success against Task Force 58 ( the US commanders do begin to worry with these attacks as the rockets bombs are fast ).
A Turkish submarine slipping thru the Italian laid minefield damage the Italian destroyer nicolo zeno forcing the ship to limp back to Rhodes fore emergency repairs because of this attack Mussolini orders the 1st Italian Fleet to destroy the Turkish fleet as a hole and to sent four minelayers and to deploy four squadrons of Piaggio P.108 Heavy Bombers to the Italian Dodecanese island of Rhodes to begin in attacking Turkish city's ( the bombers will be used to attack Turkish city's and to tie more Turkish fighters who could be used on the east front in turkey ).

March 23 Task Force 58 conduct air raids on Okinawa wile for a second time Japanese submarines make unsuccessful attacks on the American ships.

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