April 1 The Japanese Special Sea Attack Force is discovered by scout planes from
US navy Task force 52/58 and attacked throughout the day by all the carrier groups with the result of sinking the Japanese battleship IJN Musashi and damaging
a cruiser which is forced to return to port.
The German IV Army receives a new commander namely field marshal Erwin Rommel who now receive orders to push the soviet Smolensk front back to the Belarus panther line , the German group Dnieper and army group south halt the two soviet Ukraine front wile the soviet using massive numbers have pushed the Germans in three places the new German reinforcement from the west has halted any soviet advance in such a way that a new plan that was being toughed of has to begin to relieve the German forces ( the plan which was started involves 40,000 soviet marines of the Soviet 56th Army to attack in two waves supported by gun boats and heavy air power to land at Jalta and alusta on the Crimea and to by pas the German defense at Kerch ).
April 2 At sea, the Japanese Special Sea Attack Force engages the US navy Task Force 58/52 wile Kamikaze strikes damage 2 escort carriers from Japanese fighters base on Okinawa.
After a month patrolling the coast of Turkey the 1st Italian Fleet returns to Italy being replaced by elements of the 2nd Italian Fleet made of the 11th Destroyer Squadron , 7th Cruiser Division and 5 torpedo boats the four minelayers will remain laying mines along the coast of Turkey ( the 1st Italian Fleet returns because the British have begun to complain and protest to the large naval fleet operating from Rhodes and therefore the Italian naval command order it to return to port in Italy and because the Turkish remaining naval vessels stay in port ore where destroyed during the battle of the Eagan sea which Mussolini calls a grand victory for Italy and which he uses to say that Italy after suffering 5 years of hardship is again a force to be reckon with and the Italian naval command believes that a large fleet is not needed to prevent the Turks from doing any thing offensive).
April 3 The first sortie of a AR-234 reconnaissance jet over the Turkish republic is made ( the AR-234 reconnaissance jet is station from a airfield from Bulgaria and helps army group east in their advance in the Turkish republic ).
A day after the naval battle of Okinawa the Japanese Special Sea Attack Force is annihilated by the massive fire power of the US taskforce 58/52 with the US lose the Essex carrier USS Franklin and two escort carriers the USS Gambier Bay and USS Savo Island will also losing 4 destroyers and the battleship USS Indiana and 30 planes , the Japanese Special Sea Attack Force was completely destroyed losing the battleships IJN Fuso, IJN Yamato, IJN Nagato , IJN kirishima and IJN Kongo with only the battleship IJN Yamashiro manigin to limp back to Japan in pursuit of American fighter and bombers the Japanese lose the carriers IJN Hiyo the Light Fleet Carriers IJN Zuiho , IJN Chitose and IJN Chiyoda the destroyers Hatsuzuki , IJN Akitsuki , IJN Wakatsuki , IJN Akashimo, IJN Fujinami , IJN Nowaki , IJN Michisio ,IJN Yamagumo , IJN Asagumo, IJN Shigure , IJN Shiranuhi , IJN Akebono, IJN Ushio and IJN Wakaba the rest of damage ore still intact return to safety the Japanese lose the Cruisers IJN Tama , IJN Atago , IJN Chokai , IJN Maya , IJN Suzuya , CIJN hikuma , IJN Abukuma the rest damage ore still intact return to safety with the naval battle over Japan lose most majority of its naval forces and only halted the Okinawa landings for three days ( with this battle Japan will not be able to do any thing larger then a small attacks against the Americans ).
April 4 On Okinawa, American forces launch Operation Iceberg the invasion of Okinawa (Operation Iceberg should have started on April 1 but the Japanese attack forced the US to delay it for three days ) with two corpses of the US 10th army landing in the area of Hagushi, in the southwest of the island , on land, US forces encounter almost no resistance on the first day and establish a beachhead three miles deep and nine miles wide (Okinawa is 70 miles long and a maximum of 10 miles wide) , Kadena and Yontan airfields are captured , Japanese forces on the island, consisting of 130,000 troops of the Japanese 32nd Army entrenched in concealed positions and caves, mostly to the south of the American landing area along the Shuri Line ).
At sea US Task force 52/58, as well as the British Pacific Fleet conduct air and naval bombardments.
Japanese conventional and Kamikaze air strikes hit the battleship USS West Virginia, and the carrier, HMS Indomitable, along with eight other ships.
April 5 On Okinawa, forces of the US 10th Army easily advance across the island to the east coast and make some progress to the north and south. At sea, in addition to the bombardment and air support missions performed by the US naval forces, there are attacks by the British carriers on Skashima Gunto Island.
A new Japanese cabinet is formed in which admiral yamamoto remains minister of the navy the new cabinet agrees to continue the war until the US ask or becomes tiered from the war as the Sam thing happen in Germany believing the can continue to excites with their empire intact ( the change is different then in OTL because the Germany is still hole the new Japanese cabinet believes as long as the hold out the US becomes tried and then peace can be made ).
Queen Wilhelmina returns to the Netherlands now that all Germans have left the country the Dutch and allied commanders believe it safe for the Queen to return after a 5 years being away.
April 6 On Okinawa more Kamikaze attacks by Japanese planes hitting one escort carrier and other ships wile on the island the first American artillery spotter planes begin operating from Kadena airfield.
the Soviet Commissar for foreign Affairs Molotov, tells the Japanese ambassador that the USSR is wiling to renew the1941 non-aggression pact ( because Germany is still fighting the soviet union Stalin believes that renewing the non-aggression pact will enable the soviet to keep a limit number of army divisions near the borders with Japanese control china ).
April 6 With war in west Europe now over the British government announces that rations of bacon, cooking fats and soap are to be cut , British supplies are to be shared with the seven liberated countries in Europe.
In order to improve the presence the Italian navy crates the Dodecanese naval command which has the islands of Kos, Kalymnos, Samos, Leros, Symi, Astypalaia and Rhodes under it , it also includes several small German old S-boats of the 1939/40 class to patrol the Turkish coast and to support the axis forces on the Turkish soil (the Germans have new S-boats in production with a new S-Boot class 45 who are a much needed improvement over the older German S-boats but who are used in the Baltic ).
April 7 American P-51 Mustang fighters, based on Iwo Jima escort B-29 Superfortress bombers on a raid to Tokyo.
The first Italian P.108 Heavy Bomber raid from Rhodes on Ankara in turkey when 40 P.108 bombers escorted by RE.2005b hit the Turkish capitol for the first time in the war after the attack the bombers fly to German control Ukraine which the refuel and rearm and fly back over the city dropping their bombs and land on Rhodes ( this is the Italian version of the shuttle run the allies used in the war in the first attack on Ankara no planes where damaged but in responds the Turks have begun to deploy some AA units and fighters from the front in order to protect the capitol, the RE.2005b is the second version having have fuel drop tanks will its successor the RE.2006 first prototypes are being tested and should enter service with the Regia Aeronautica in July 1945).
April 8 The forces of the British 14th Army have completed regrouping, following their successes at Mandalay and Meiktila, and are now ready for a final offensive against the remaining Japanese forces at the Burma emperor line.
The British 4th Corps is to advance down the Sittang Valley and British 33rd Corps by the Irrawaddy Valley all of the units have been reorganized to make them more mobile.
The dutch government meets for the first time in the capitol of Den Hauge after being away for 5 years the first act of the day is to crated a new standing army and to begin the trails of Dutch collaborators who aided the Germans and who where arrested ore captured when the Germans closed their borders.
April 9 The royal Dutch air service begins its first full independent operation over Dutch skies patrolling the border of the Netherlands and Germany with most German planes engaged in the east the Dutch spitfires luckily don't encounter any ME-262 but only FW-200 and DO-335C-3 prop fighters patrolling their side of the border ( the Dutch have now 6 squadrons who where in service in the RAF moved to their new home and who now are completely in service the Dutch already have a order of another 6 spitfires squadrons with the latest Mk 21 model who will be received as the RAF is going using the Closter Meteors jets of which some the RAF has 4 squadrons flying from airfields in Gilze-Rijen and Nijmegen together with the US 4 P-51D squadrons several Other British and Americans are also station in Belgium , Norway and France which has also has several B-17 and B-29 bombers station there to counter the German jets and fighter planes ).
April 10 Thazi, east of Meiktila, is captured by the British 4th Corps. The soviet begin massing the invasion fleet in turkey and the soviet port of Batumi which when ready will begin their attack on German controlled jalta.
April 11 Ambon part of the Dutch East Indies is shelled by the battleships Queen Elizabeth , Richelieu and the Dutch cruiser HNLMS Ruyter of the British Eastern Fleet, two escort carriers give air cover and attack installations and shipping.
President Roosevelt dies of a cerebral haemorrhage at Warm Springs in Georgia ,Vice-President Truman becomes President.
April 12 Japanese Kamikaze attacks damage the battleship USS Missouri and the carrier USS Enterprise of the coast from Okinawa.
The British 4th Corps advance continues in the Sittang Valley.
There is fighting at Pyaubwe and Yamethin.
To the west of Meiktila, British 7th Indian Division from (part of British 33rd Corps) captures Kyaukpadaung.
April 14 Japanese Kamikaze attacks achieve hits on several of the YS navy radar picket ships as well as 2 battleships and 8 other vessels the destroyer USS Mannert L Abele is sunk by a Japanese Baka rocket-propelled piloted missile ( this is mostly thanks the still secret contact the Germans have with the Japanese providing them with the knowledge to attack the US navy ).
British carriers attack Sakashima Gunto.
On Okinawa fighting continues on the Motobu Peninsula, in the north, and around Kakazu, in the south, along the Japanese held Shuri Line but US 10th Army forces make little ground in these areas.
The government of Chile declares war on Japan.
April 15 The British 20th Indian Division (part of British 33rd Corps) captures Taungdwingyi and moves toward Magwe and Thayetmyo. Other units of British 33rd Corps are still fighting farther up the Irrawaddy River, Japanese soldier receive order to able the Burma emperor line and to move to prevent further British advances in Burma.
second raid on Ankara with again 40 P.108 bombers and their escorts but this time the Turks are waiting downing 3 planes and damaging 2 in responds the next attack will happen at night will the first V-2 launch against Turkish city will begin in May ( the Soviets have begun to send more planes and even bombers to be used to destroy the Rhodes four air fields and to prevent the Turkish city's to be hit by axis forces from Rhodes and Bulgarian territories ).
April 16 On Okinawa , Japanese Kamikaze attacks damage the battleship USS New York wile on land American forces attack strong Japanese defences in the hilly Motobu Peninsula in the north of the island.
Arakan, Taungup in Burma fall to the British forces.
Japan and the soviet union renew their 1941 non-aggression pact by singing the pact in the Japanese Embassy the treaty will be valid like the old one for a five year period ( with the new treaty the soviet union has noting to fear from the Japanese and can continue their war against Germany knowing that Japan even if the could attack them are to engaged against the Americans ).
April 17 Du to his age Philippe Petain steps down as the head of state of the Corsica Social Republic and is replace by Pierre Laval who was Prime Minister of the Vichy French republic from 1940 to 1944 and was prime minister of the CSR from 1944 to 1945 , Petain will remain President of the Council for the time being.
The royal Dutch navy orders 6 extra ships to be sent to the Dutch Indies to increase the royal Dutch Indies navy these ships are the River class frigate HNLMS Johan Maurits van Nassau of which the Dutch have four in service and three who remain in the Netherlands and the second Flores class gunboat HNLMS Flores and four 126 Feet-class minesweepers ( fore more information about the royal Dutch navy of the DDW timeline go to the royal Dutch navy topic ).
April 20 The last of the Soviet 56th Army troops part of the invasion of jalta and alusta arrive in the Turkish port of Samsun together with the soviet forces in the soviet city of Batumi more then 40,000 troops are ready as the soviet war on the eastern front has halted du to heavy German resistance the fleet will sail when all ship have bin gathered ( in order to keep the invasion as surprise the soviet keep their massive army spread in order to not alert the Germans also the put their MTB and GB boats on land to prevent the Germans from noticing it and will launch them when the fleet sails ).
April 21 The US campaign on Okinawa is the same as in OTL except the landings date.
The US campaign in the Philippines is until now like OTL .
The first test flight of the production version of the Vampire Mk I who is now the second jet fighter to enter RAF service ( the British realise that the need jets to counter the German one jets and therefore have decided that both the meteor and vampire are to replace the prop fighters as soon as possible ).
April 22 The Wurzburg trail has ended ( this is the trail in which Joseph Goebbels , Martin Bormann , Adolf Eichmann , and 17 other top Nazi Party Nazi government officials where being prosecuted with crimes the committed when the Nazi government was in power ) which according to the Zurich deal and the Germans on which to begin anew this is the verdict.
The Wurzburg trail
Martin Bormann Sentenced to death
Hans Frank Sentenced to death
Wilhelm Frick Sentenced to death
Ernst Kaltenbrunner Sentenced to death
Wilhelm Keitel Sentenced to death
Joachim von Ribbentrop Sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment
Alfred Rosenberg Sentenced to death in absentia, ( was in hiding found and arrested sentences latter change to life in jail du helping in arresting Julius Streicher ).
Julius Streicher ( no trial du to him hiding but thanks to a tip from Alfred Rosenberg arrested and later Sentenced to death ).
Baldur von Schirach Sentenced to 20 years of imprisonment
Joseph Goebbels Sentenced to life imprisonment ( as he was only the Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda ).
Adolf Eichmann Sentenced to death
Fritz Sauckel Sentenced to death
April 23 On Okinawa, the attacks of US 24th Corps begin to achieve some gains, notably by US 96th Division.
April 25 In the Irrawaddy Valley, mopping up operations continue. Salin is captured by British forces.
The British 33rd Corps advance is closing on Allanmyo.
The British 5th Indian Division, in the Sittang Valley, continues to advance rapidly and captures of Perwegen.
Japanese forces around Rangoon and in other parts of southern Burma are beginning to withdraw through Pegu to the east in order to withdraw into Thailand to form together with the Thai army a new defensive line there ( the Japanese now have abounded the Burma emperor line completely and begin to move to the border of Thailand to put up a new line there ).
In Burma , armour of the British 14th Army capture Toungoo in the drive south from Meiktila to Rangoon.
April 26 With the last German troops having left Norway as under the Zurich peace deal the Norwegian Crown Prince Olaf enters Oslo with British and Norwegian troops based from free Norway with the Norwegian government in Narvik coming when the last German troops have left Norway.
April 27 On Okinawa, fighting along the Shuri Line continues. American forces employ tanks, flame-throwers and artillery in an effort to destroy Japanese defensive positions.
In the Occupied Dutch East Indies a US/Dutch squadron of 4 cruisers and 8 destroyers, commanded by Admiral Berkey, makes a preparatory bombardment of targets in the Tarakan area in the northeast of the island of Borneo ( the Dutch have the cruiser HNLMS Ruyter and the destroyers HNLMS Kortenaer and HNLMS Banckert im the US/Dutch squadron ).
April 28 In Occupied Dutch East Indies , the preparatory bombardment of targets in the Tarakan area in the northeast of the island of Borneo continues.
After a massive search the German Reich Commissioner of Norway Quisling and some of his supporters are arrested ( because of Norway was divided quisling he never became head of state but because he was loyal to the Germany he was made under Himmler the Reich Commissioners of Norway ).
April 29 In Occupied Dutch East Indies , the preparatory bombardment of targets in the Tarakan area in the northeast of the island of Borneo continues.
April 30 The preparatory bombardment of targets in the Tarakan area in the northeast of the island of Borneo continues , with a small American/Dutch landing force going ashore on the island of Sadan.
First Representatives of the Norwegian government return to Oslo from their previous capitol in Narvik.
May 1 On Okinawa, Japanese counterattacks and infiltration attempts along the Shuri Line area are defeated. There is heavy fighting in the Maeda and Kochi Ridge positions.
About 7000 American/Australian and Dutch forces begin landing on Tarakan Island, near Borneo.
May 2 In Burma British troops make an amphibious landing on the southern tip of Burma, 20 miles south of Rangoon ,there is no Japanese resistance , the British 4th Corps complete the capture Pegu.
second German trail to remove the stain of Germany past as Josef Kramer and 44 others German SS officers stand trial at Luneburg on charges of conspiracy to commit mass murder at Auschwitz and Belsen ( these former SS where arrested during the cleanup of the SS by the new German imperial government ).
May 3 Because of most of the Japanese having withdraw to the Thai border Rangoon is captured by British 26th Indian Division without encountering any Japanese resistance.
The first panzer X rolls from the assembly line watch by Italian army personal ( the replacement of both the panther and tigers still on the drawing boards , the Italians have not yet decided to replace the P40 and P50 with a German panther ore a panzer X ore their on local produced tank but in the mean time the have made the P50C which has al the improvements the panzer IV k the latest German tank has ).
May 4 On Okinawa, Japanese forces launch a counteroffensive from positions in the south, during the night but fail to break through the American lines , Japanese artillery batteries that have remained silent until now to avoid American retaliation, support the assaults.
under the Zurich peace deal the Danish King Christian opens parliament, for the first time in five years after it was annex by the Germans (mostly all German troops have left Denmark and the last German troops to leave is probably on the 20th of may in accordance of the Zurich peace deal ).
May 5 Second day of the Japanese 32nd Army counteroffensive on Okinawa with the US 7th and 77th Divisions holding the assaults the Japanese are supported by Artillery that was formerly concealed , at sea, Kamikaze attacks sink 14 small ships and damage the escort carrier Sangamon, 1 destroyer, and other ships , Some 131 Japanese planes are claimed to be shot down.
Australian and Dutch troops capture the center of Tarakan City on Tarakan Island, off Borneo, taking full possession of the air field.
6 people are killed by a bomb falling from a Japanese balloon near Lakeview, Oregon , The Japanese have been releasing these balloons for some time, hoping that they will drift in the wind over the United States before releasing their explosive cargo ( the Japanese like in OTL launch these balloons after the two attack on the US mainland bringing the death toll from Japanese attack on the US mainland to 194 people killed ).
The War Department announces that about 600,000 troops will remain in the Netherlands , Belgium and the French republic to form the US Europe force.
In order to distract the Germans from the invasion of Jalta both the 1 and 2 Ukraine front launch a massive attack against the Germans group Dnieper in order to distract the Germans from the events that have begun in the black sea.
May 6 On Okinawa the third day of the Japanese counterattacks continue with minor successes.
the Japanese forces retreat from the town of Tarakan island Borneo .
The battle of the black sea begins when the soviet launch their invasion fleet from the ports of Samsun and Batumi the soviet navy having put almost all of their available gun/torpedo boats in to action against the German/Italian black sea fleet in hopes to allow the first wave of 20,000 soviet marines to land at Jalta the battle is fought with the German/Italian black sea fleet having 50 motor torpedo boats and 80 patrol boats station in Sevastopol against the soviet 300 motor torpedo boats and other small grafts protecting the first wave , wile the soviet lose a large number of MTB the do manage to create are corridor in which the first wave can move thru ( the soviet have lost 67 small boats wile the Germans have lost 42 MTB and patrol boats forcing them to retreat to Sevastopol to rearm).
May 7 On Okinawa the Japanese offensive loses momentum with the Japanese forces have sustain losses of at least 5000 killed.
Arriving from Narvik the King of Norway returns home to Oslo , Norway. The first landing group hitting the beach of Jalta is completely destroyed by the German defenders but the soviet have more then 20,000 marines alone in the first wave and late in the day the soviet wile losing 3,700 soldiers keep the city of Jalta with the second invasion fleet heading to alusta and forces facing the Germans in Kerch begin their attack, will the soviet the 1 and 2 Ukraine front keeping the German busy from sending reinforcement to the Germans in the Crimea ( the Germans have a force of 40,000 in the Crimea with most in Kerch and Sevastopol ).
May 8 The US 7th Division on Okinawa completes the elimination of Japanese units that infiltrated into the Tanabaru area.
Fruitless attacks on the Japanese held Shuri Line continue.
The second battle of the black sea begins as the remaining Germans MTB try to halt any soviet forces to land on the Crimea. The soviet after battle themselves out of jalta no begin to move towards Sevastopol will the 1 and 2 Ukraine front have begun to move with the Germans not knowing to send forces to prevent the soviet from getting a foothold on the Crimea ore trying to keep the panther line from falling completely.
May 10 The US government announces plans to withdraw 1.5 million American troops from Europe leaving the US Europe force to protect the now free western country's in Europe from the empire of Germany.
May 12 On Okinawa, American forces conduct a coordinated attack on the Japanese held Shuri Line ,at sea, Kamikaze strikes damage the aircraft carrier USS Bunker Hill and 2 destroyers.
The second battle of the black sea again becomes a soviet success with the soviet landing their second wave at alusta will the battle is won by the soviet the have suffered major loses in order from the German/Italian black sea fleet from retaliating.
May 13 The soviet battling in Jalta and Alusta link up crating a line of 20 miles long and 3 miles deep with more soviet forces on their way will the Germans at Kerch are ordered to begin retreating in order to save themselves. the British offer to mediate between Germany and turkey in getting them peace but the Turks mostly under precur from the soviets decline the offer ( the British are not happy that the eastern war continues but can offer only politic support as the British people do not want the war to resume with Germany and because of the Turks are now under the infuses from the soviets the even if the want can leave without making the current position the are in worse ).
May 14 The Germans decide to halt the panther II tank development and to concerted on producing the panzer X and continue producing the improve version of the panther H and the newest version of the tiger II B version until their replacement arrives ( the German seeing the panther II compared it with the panzer X and saw that it almost match the panther II and therefore decide to cancel it will continue the production of the panther H and tiger IIB version which by now have a lot of their old problems resolved ).
May 15 in Burma the British 26th Indian Division advances from Rangoon toward Prome and links up with the British 20th Indian Division advancing southward.
The soviet begin pouring man and equipment on the beachhead on the Crimea with now more then 5,000 troops coming ashore each day , the Germans at Kerch who have begun to retreat to safety are ordered to from a new line with troops that the Germans have moved from the Dnieper front in order to prevent the soviet from getting out will the German/Italian forces at Sevastopol are ordered to hold the city at all cost with the German/Italian black sea fleet to be moved to Odessa.
May 16 On Okinawa slow American advances and costly Japanese counterattacks continue.
Heavy fighting is reported around the Sugar Loaf Hill and Conical Hill positions. Marines on Sugar Loaf Hill, elements of US 3rd Amphibious Corps, withdraw because of Japanese fire.
the soviet begin to move in to Kerch with the first soviet forces reaching the outskirt of Sevastopol which in the cores of the German holding has bin turned in to a massive fort ( the Germans use the former soviet forts at Sevastopol with improvement , holding the city are 20,000 Germans and 5,000 Italian forces ).
Chancellor Ludwig Beck of the empire of Germany issues an order to the Reichsheer in which he expresses horror at revelations about the Nazi concentration camps and distances the regular military from the atrocities will putting the blame on the SS and Gestapo who in his view where the instruments of evil in the former German regime ( both the SS and Gestapo are still in a small form active but the imperial government is planning to rename them to fit the new empire with the name of the SS to be emperors Protective Squadron (Kaiser Schutzstaffel ore KS) the Gestapo the imperial security service (Reichssicherheitsdienst ore RSD ) and the Wehrmacht again to be called the Deutsches Reichsheer , the NSDAP also is cleared from Hitler loyalist mostly who killed themselves , fled Germany or were arrested by the imperial police ( Reichspolizei ) a new name has not yet bin given but probably the party with the death of Hitler will be completely dissolved and replace with new party's who will replace it ).
May 17 The German garrison on the island of Bornholm hands the island under the Zurich peace deal back to the Danish army making it the last Danish territory to be hand over to Danish control .
The first V-2 is launch from Bulgaria against a target in turkey happens when 7 rockets are fired and which 4 hit their target of Balikesir turkey the city was already being attack by axis air forces ( the axis have now moved away from their landings zone in Canakkale and now begin their advance to the city of Balikesir itself and to widen the axis controlled strip of the Dardanelles strait in order to allow the Italian navy excesses to the sea of Marmara , the now have more then 180,000 troops on the main Turkish land fighting against a force of 200,000 Turkish defenders of which 100,000 are regular troops and 100,000 from the reserve army but the Turkish defenders have lost most of their fighter protection du the fact that the axis are attacking them from two sides ( from bases in Rhodes ,Ukraine and occupied turkey ) the soviet have deployed their soviet Turkish front to protect together with a forces of 300,000 Turkish a outbreak of 250,000 axis troops over the Bosporus strait ).
May 18 Only a month after the royal Dutch air service received full control over their airspace a Dutch Mosquito photo-reconnaissance model flying near the border with Germany collides with its German counterpart a Do 217P reconnaissance aircraft that was shadowing it both planes are damaged but land safely back at their base after the landing both the Dutch and German governments excuse each other from flying in their airspace but at the end it all is settled ( the Dutch received full control over their airspace from the allies when the last German left and all Dutch spitfire squadrons where settled down in their country, the Dutch have 3 Havilland Mosquito of which one squadron is a photo-reconnaissance squadron du the location of the Netherlands the Dutch also have two Vickers Wellington and two B-25 Mitchell squadrons who will remain the only bombers on Dutch soil as the Vickers Wellington will be returned to the RAF in 1946, the Dutch spitfire squadrons are listed as 320,321,323,324,325,326 the Mosquito squadrons 430,431 and the two Vickers Wellington and B-25 Mitchell squadrons as 540,541,542,543,544 the number will change as new squadrons are being created and old one despair ).
May 19 In a pretext of protecting Syria and Lebanon from the war in turkey French troops arrive prompting Arab nationalists to launch protest demonstrations against the landing telling the French troops to leave as Syria and Lebanon in their view are safe from any attack by the Germans.
The first night raid on Ankara happens when a force of 20 P.108 bombers attack the city surprising the Turkish AA defenders again ( because the Turkish have together with the soviet increase the defense of the Turkish capitol a decision is made to stop attacking the Turkish capitol and to concerted in supporting the axis advance on the Turkish mainland ).
The German imperial police after receiving a tip arrest in Flensburg Germany Alfred Rosenberg, the unofficial philosopher of the NSDAP and the person responsible for formulating the racial policies of the party ( he is brought to the German prison in which he will be kept until his hanging as he was already Sentenced to death in absentia making him the last German Nazi official to be found, several small Nazi have fled to Italy but probably will also be hand over the Germans).
May 20 In China , Japanese troops evacuate Hochih, in Kwangsi province, the Japanese Imperial General Staff has decided to redistribute available forces closer to the home islands .
The soviet have now almost complete control over the Crimea as the now have a force of 300,000 troops moving from Kerch and from the port of Jalta , with the Germans still holding Sevastopol and Simferopol will the German survivors of Kerch and troops removed from the Dnieper front put a makeshift line at Krasnoperekopsk.
The last Germans now have left Denmark in accordance of the Zurich peace deal ( the German keep 3 army divisions at the border of Denmark in case something happens the German have also keep a force of 100,00 at the border with France and the low country's with the rest fighting in the east war ).
May 21 With the war in west Europe ended and despite Winston Churchill urging to continue the alliance with the Conservative Party the British Labour Party still votes to withdraw its support from the British coalition government (Winston Churchill hoped that the new situation in Germany and the war in Japan would keep the British coalition government in power but because the Labour Party believe Germany is no tread to great Britain the decide to leave the coalition government ).
Syrian and Lebanese representatives break off negotiations with French representatives who maintain the only reason for the massive French presences is to protect both colony's from the war in turkey but because of this the Arab nationalists now begin to increase their claim to independence, something that was promised when the Free French liberated Syria and Lebanon in 1941, while France presently refuses to recognize anything more than limited self-government.
The soviet 2nd Ukraine front reachs Genichesk, cutting one land route with the Crimea, where sizeable German forces are located.
May 23 Using a tip from Alfred Rosenberg the RSD arrest in Bavaria the former leading Nazi anti-Semitic propagandist, Julius Streicher ( his trail will begin when he has return to Wurzburg , Alfred Rosenberg after helping the German authority's sentences is change to life in jail ).
May 22 Z1018 Italian medium bombers flying from airfields in occupied turkey attack Izmir sinking one Turkish torpedo boat in the attack will losing no planes ( Italy has station the Z 1018 Italian medium bomber both in occupied turkey and Romania and use them to support the axis forces facing the tusk in the Bosporus strait wail the P.108 heavy bomber fly's from Rhodes for long range bombing missions.
May 23 Prime Minister Churchill (leading the Conservative Party) resigns in order to prepare for the election after the British Labour Party withdraw its support from the British coalition government despite attempts by him to keep the coalition government intake , the date of the new election the first in ten years is set on July 5th.
The Dutch government after the incident with the two recon planes decide as first of the former German occupied nations to begin discussing opening of a Representative Office in Berlin in order to avoid possible future incidents ( the Dutch open a Representative Office in Berlin as the feel its to soon after the war to reopen their embassy there but of which only the US and UK have reopened theirs ).
May 25 On Okinawa, during the night, Japanese paratroopers on a suicide mission are landed on American held Yontan airfield and destroy a significant number of aircraft before being wiped out.
The American armed forces Chiefs of Staff set on the first of November as the start date for the invasion of Japan Operation Olympic ( this operation and date are the same as in OTL ).
Churchill asks all Allied commands in Europe, that have received information from the Ultra project, to maintain its secrecy fearing the Germans find out the allies can read the German codes ( the British are sending some information the soviet in helping them after the relation have begun to become as the where pre 1944 ).
May 26 The Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF) is transferred from Rheims to Paris and will become the Headquarters for all allied forces in the low country's , France and Norway an Greece ( all forces includes US, UK , French , Dutch , Belgium, Greece and Norwegian army's forces ).
In the city of Naples Italy the axis members begin to discuses the further of the Tripartite Pact and several other important matters including the eastern war ( the eastern war is the new name of the fighting on the east with the axis not in war any more with the allies all members except Japan are present ).
The soviet 2nd Ukraine front overruns the area between the lower Dnieper and the Crimea thereby cutting the Germans holding Krasnoperekopsk who where trying to hold any soviet advance from the Crimea of will Sevastopol holds thanks to German naval and air support from bases from German Ukraine , Rommel leading the German IV Army now has pushes the soviet Smolensk front away who now only 30 miles from Smolensk ( the battles in the Ukraine are falling apart for the Germans will the Germans in Belarus hold their line and even begin to push the soviet back ).
May 27 The American Europe force receives it first batch of the M26 Pershing to counter the German tanks ( the M26 Pershing tank never saw combat in Europe as the war ended before the first could be sent overseas now the will be used to strengthen the 600,000 American Europe force to counter the German panther ,panzer x and tiger tanks ).
Most of Tarakan the Island of the coast of Borneo is secured by Dutch and Australian forces with Japanese aircraft attacking the Dutch and Australian positions on Tarakan ( Total Dutch/Australian casualties in the campaign are 636 killed and 1760 wounded ).
May 28 On Okinawa, American forces attacking southward, continue to encounter heavy Japanese resistance.
Japanese aircraft a series of strikes against the Allied naval forces around the island , Sinking the US destroyer USS Drexler.
With the French refuse to leave Syrian and Lebanese Fighting breaks out between French troops and Syrians ( the Syrians have begun to ask for weapons from the soviet forces based in turkey to be used to fight the French ).
The soviet 2nd Ukraine front captures Dneprodzerzhinsk ( the Germans do not now how long the can keep the 1st Ukraine front contained will also preventing the 2nd Ukraine front from advancing towards them ).
May 29 French forces shell Damascus and Hama , Syrian gendarmes attack French military posts , Meanwhile, Syrian representatives ask the British and the soviet union for assistance ( the negotiations between the Syrians and the soviet union have bug down as the soviet union want to keep the border with turkey peaceful and because Stalin dos not want to lose the relation he as again building up with the US and UK after the several incidents that happened in the past ).
admiral yamamoto as minister of the Japanese navy replace Admiral Toyoda with Admiral Ozawa as commander of the Combined Fleet.
Belgian socialists call on King Leopold III to abdicate. The former government in exile and some Belgians hold the king in low regard because of his independent policies before the war and his unilateral decision to surrender to the Germans in 1940, without consulting the former BFC allies who were assisting in the defence of Belgium ( he was arrested like in OTL and released from German control after the peace deal was signed ).
The British launch the invasion of Singapore from Dutch Sumatra with British 5th Indian Division spearheading the landing supported by Dutch and British fighters and bombers the British 5th Indian Division manages to get a foothold in the city later in the day ( because of Singapore is close to Dutch Sumatra the city was attack during the war much worst then in OTL forcing the Japanese to deploy more troops but where being strafed by the allied navy and air forces so a decision was made to invade the city ).
May 30 The Iranian government formally requests the withdrawal of American, British and Soviet troops from Iran.
Damascus is bombed by French aircraft, the soviet union warns it will intervene if the French do not stop attacking the Syrian people ( Stalin is beginning to think that the request from the Syrian representatives who want weapons should be answered after the French refuse to halt their attacks on Syria and Lebanon and also orders two divisions who on their way to the Turkish front to be put near the border in case the have to intervene ).
In the situation of the soviet advancing in the Ukraine front the Oberkommando der kaiserliche Streitkräfte( OKS ) orders to fall back to the new Bismarck line which run from Odessa to Kiev all forces holding the lower Dnieper will fight their way to the new line and try to slow the soviet advance will retreating giving German and Romanians troops time to prepare them self , all forces holding the Belarus panther line will try to hold tier line with the soviet pushed back to Smolensk by the German IV Army , and the Germans holding Sevastopol will remain as long as aid can reach them as this is the last city on the Crimea being hold by the German/Italian garrison ( the German give up a large chunk of lower Ukraine to the soviets but believe that is better the losing more then 1,500,000 man ).
Second landing of the British 23rd Indian Division on the shore of Singapore together with the 5th Indian Division , the number 40,000 against a Japanese garrison of 30,000 troops will the first British naval ship begin shelling Japanese position in the city ( the British now that 1 million people are living in the city but now that if the do not take the city back more people will dye from starvation than the battle itself ).
May 31 In Syria , British representatives intervene in the fighting and arrange a ceasefire between French troops and Arab nationalists fearing that the soviet union who has troops in nearby turkey would intervene and cause bigger problems in the region.
The last British military detachment leaves Norway after no German forces are percent in the country ( the only forging forces on Norwegians soil are 30,000 US troops ).
In Naples the axis representatives agree to a decision to create a new defences pact to replace the old Tripartite Pact and to create the kingdom of Croatia ( the Independent State of Croatia which is the old version of Croatia is changed to reflect a new royal alliance between the members of Germany , Bulgaria , Hungary . Romania and Italy and with three small non royal members the chez republic , the Corsica social republic and Serbia who mostly in name are independent but in trued are puppets states of Germany and Italy ).
The Soviet 2nd Ukraine front attacks Krivoy Rog ,wile the soviet 1st Ukraine front thanks to the German retreat begins to move out the Cherkassy gap and begins to ferries tanks across the Dnieper River on rafts and pontoons to aid the outbreak ( the Germans have begun setting up small forces to try to slow the soviet advance hoping to give the Bismarck line a change to prepare and to allow the group south and Dnieper army's to retreat to the new line ).
The battle of Okinawa and the Philippines are progressing currently the same as in OTL
The battle of Singapore continues with Dutch/British and American bombers attacking Japanese troops coming to aid the Japanese defenders at Singapore wile a third British Indian division is made ready to join the 5th and 23rd Indian Division who are now slowly battling house by house to remove the Japanese defenders ( the allies have full naval and iar control over Singapore ).
The Soviet government claims to have taken 180,000 German prisoners in their advance in lower Ukraine.
The Naples agreement
a new defenses pact is to be formed to reflect the changes that have happen and to adapt to the new situation in the world.
The Independent State of Croatia becomes a full member of the newly to formed defenses pact.
The Independent State of Croatia will become the kingdom of Croatia as it is already being lead by a king ( this is also was like in OTL ).
Corsica social republic and Serbia will become full members of the newly to formed defenses pact ( the foreign, military and economic policy will remain in the hands of Germany for Serbia and the Corsica social republic for Italy basically making them puppet with memberships as the have no army and need the support of Germany and Italy to keep them in power ).
The Slovak Republic becomes the Slovak kingdom which will become a independent kingdom with the German Kaiser as it king and receive also a full membership of the newly to formed defenses pact ( the same thing applies to the newly crated Slovak kingdom with its foreign, military and economic policy under German control ).
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The German IV Army receives a new commander namely field marshal Erwin Rommel who now receive orders to push the soviet Smolensk front back to the Belarus panther line , the German group Dnieper and army group south halt the two soviet Ukraine front wile the soviet using massive numbers have pushed the Germans in three places the new German reinforcement from the west has halted any soviet advance in such a way that a new plan that was being toughed of has to begin to relieve the German forces ( the plan which was started involves 40,000 soviet marines of the Soviet 56th Army to attack in two waves supported by gun boats and heavy air power to land at Jalta and alusta on the Crimea and to by pas the German defense at Kerch ).
April 2 At sea, the Japanese Special Sea Attack Force engages the US navy Task Force 58/52 wile Kamikaze strikes damage 2 escort carriers from Japanese fighters base on Okinawa.
After a month patrolling the coast of Turkey the 1st Italian Fleet returns to Italy being replaced by elements of the 2nd Italian Fleet made of the 11th Destroyer Squadron , 7th Cruiser Division and 5 torpedo boats the four minelayers will remain laying mines along the coast of Turkey ( the 1st Italian Fleet returns because the British have begun to complain and protest to the large naval fleet operating from Rhodes and therefore the Italian naval command order it to return to port in Italy and because the Turkish remaining naval vessels stay in port ore where destroyed during the battle of the Eagan sea which Mussolini calls a grand victory for Italy and which he uses to say that Italy after suffering 5 years of hardship is again a force to be reckon with and the Italian naval command believes that a large fleet is not needed to prevent the Turks from doing any thing offensive).
April 3 The first sortie of a AR-234 reconnaissance jet over the Turkish republic is made ( the AR-234 reconnaissance jet is station from a airfield from Bulgaria and helps army group east in their advance in the Turkish republic ).
A day after the naval battle of Okinawa the Japanese Special Sea Attack Force is annihilated by the massive fire power of the US taskforce 58/52 with the US lose the Essex carrier USS Franklin and two escort carriers the USS Gambier Bay and USS Savo Island will also losing 4 destroyers and the battleship USS Indiana and 30 planes , the Japanese Special Sea Attack Force was completely destroyed losing the battleships IJN Fuso, IJN Yamato, IJN Nagato , IJN kirishima and IJN Kongo with only the battleship IJN Yamashiro manigin to limp back to Japan in pursuit of American fighter and bombers the Japanese lose the carriers IJN Hiyo the Light Fleet Carriers IJN Zuiho , IJN Chitose and IJN Chiyoda the destroyers Hatsuzuki , IJN Akitsuki , IJN Wakatsuki , IJN Akashimo, IJN Fujinami , IJN Nowaki , IJN Michisio ,IJN Yamagumo , IJN Asagumo, IJN Shigure , IJN Shiranuhi , IJN Akebono, IJN Ushio and IJN Wakaba the rest of damage ore still intact return to safety the Japanese lose the Cruisers IJN Tama , IJN Atago , IJN Chokai , IJN Maya , IJN Suzuya , CIJN hikuma , IJN Abukuma the rest damage ore still intact return to safety with the naval battle over Japan lose most majority of its naval forces and only halted the Okinawa landings for three days ( with this battle Japan will not be able to do any thing larger then a small attacks against the Americans ).
April 4 On Okinawa, American forces launch Operation Iceberg the invasion of Okinawa (Operation Iceberg should have started on April 1 but the Japanese attack forced the US to delay it for three days ) with two corpses of the US 10th army landing in the area of Hagushi, in the southwest of the island , on land, US forces encounter almost no resistance on the first day and establish a beachhead three miles deep and nine miles wide (Okinawa is 70 miles long and a maximum of 10 miles wide) , Kadena and Yontan airfields are captured , Japanese forces on the island, consisting of 130,000 troops of the Japanese 32nd Army entrenched in concealed positions and caves, mostly to the south of the American landing area along the Shuri Line ).
At sea US Task force 52/58, as well as the British Pacific Fleet conduct air and naval bombardments.
Japanese conventional and Kamikaze air strikes hit the battleship USS West Virginia, and the carrier, HMS Indomitable, along with eight other ships.
April 5 On Okinawa, forces of the US 10th Army easily advance across the island to the east coast and make some progress to the north and south. At sea, in addition to the bombardment and air support missions performed by the US naval forces, there are attacks by the British carriers on Skashima Gunto Island.
A new Japanese cabinet is formed in which admiral yamamoto remains minister of the navy the new cabinet agrees to continue the war until the US ask or becomes tiered from the war as the Sam thing happen in Germany believing the can continue to excites with their empire intact ( the change is different then in OTL because the Germany is still hole the new Japanese cabinet believes as long as the hold out the US becomes tried and then peace can be made ).
Queen Wilhelmina returns to the Netherlands now that all Germans have left the country the Dutch and allied commanders believe it safe for the Queen to return after a 5 years being away.
April 6 On Okinawa more Kamikaze attacks by Japanese planes hitting one escort carrier and other ships wile on the island the first American artillery spotter planes begin operating from Kadena airfield.
the Soviet Commissar for foreign Affairs Molotov, tells the Japanese ambassador that the USSR is wiling to renew the1941 non-aggression pact ( because Germany is still fighting the soviet union Stalin believes that renewing the non-aggression pact will enable the soviet to keep a limit number of army divisions near the borders with Japanese control china ).
April 6 With war in west Europe now over the British government announces that rations of bacon, cooking fats and soap are to be cut , British supplies are to be shared with the seven liberated countries in Europe.
In order to improve the presence the Italian navy crates the Dodecanese naval command which has the islands of Kos, Kalymnos, Samos, Leros, Symi, Astypalaia and Rhodes under it , it also includes several small German old S-boats of the 1939/40 class to patrol the Turkish coast and to support the axis forces on the Turkish soil (the Germans have new S-boats in production with a new S-Boot class 45 who are a much needed improvement over the older German S-boats but who are used in the Baltic ).
April 7 American P-51 Mustang fighters, based on Iwo Jima escort B-29 Superfortress bombers on a raid to Tokyo.
The first Italian P.108 Heavy Bomber raid from Rhodes on Ankara in turkey when 40 P.108 bombers escorted by RE.2005b hit the Turkish capitol for the first time in the war after the attack the bombers fly to German control Ukraine which the refuel and rearm and fly back over the city dropping their bombs and land on Rhodes ( this is the Italian version of the shuttle run the allies used in the war in the first attack on Ankara no planes where damaged but in responds the Turks have begun to deploy some AA units and fighters from the front in order to protect the capitol, the RE.2005b is the second version having have fuel drop tanks will its successor the RE.2006 first prototypes are being tested and should enter service with the Regia Aeronautica in July 1945).
April 8 The forces of the British 14th Army have completed regrouping, following their successes at Mandalay and Meiktila, and are now ready for a final offensive against the remaining Japanese forces at the Burma emperor line.
The British 4th Corps is to advance down the Sittang Valley and British 33rd Corps by the Irrawaddy Valley all of the units have been reorganized to make them more mobile.
The dutch government meets for the first time in the capitol of Den Hauge after being away for 5 years the first act of the day is to crated a new standing army and to begin the trails of Dutch collaborators who aided the Germans and who where arrested ore captured when the Germans closed their borders.
April 9 The royal Dutch air service begins its first full independent operation over Dutch skies patrolling the border of the Netherlands and Germany with most German planes engaged in the east the Dutch spitfires luckily don't encounter any ME-262 but only FW-200 and DO-335C-3 prop fighters patrolling their side of the border ( the Dutch have now 6 squadrons who where in service in the RAF moved to their new home and who now are completely in service the Dutch already have a order of another 6 spitfires squadrons with the latest Mk 21 model who will be received as the RAF is going using the Closter Meteors jets of which some the RAF has 4 squadrons flying from airfields in Gilze-Rijen and Nijmegen together with the US 4 P-51D squadrons several Other British and Americans are also station in Belgium , Norway and France which has also has several B-17 and B-29 bombers station there to counter the German jets and fighter planes ).
April 10 Thazi, east of Meiktila, is captured by the British 4th Corps. The soviet begin massing the invasion fleet in turkey and the soviet port of Batumi which when ready will begin their attack on German controlled jalta.
April 11 Ambon part of the Dutch East Indies is shelled by the battleships Queen Elizabeth , Richelieu and the Dutch cruiser HNLMS Ruyter of the British Eastern Fleet, two escort carriers give air cover and attack installations and shipping.
President Roosevelt dies of a cerebral haemorrhage at Warm Springs in Georgia ,Vice-President Truman becomes President.
April 12 Japanese Kamikaze attacks damage the battleship USS Missouri and the carrier USS Enterprise of the coast from Okinawa.
The British 4th Corps advance continues in the Sittang Valley.
There is fighting at Pyaubwe and Yamethin.
To the west of Meiktila, British 7th Indian Division from (part of British 33rd Corps) captures Kyaukpadaung.
April 14 Japanese Kamikaze attacks achieve hits on several of the YS navy radar picket ships as well as 2 battleships and 8 other vessels the destroyer USS Mannert L Abele is sunk by a Japanese Baka rocket-propelled piloted missile ( this is mostly thanks the still secret contact the Germans have with the Japanese providing them with the knowledge to attack the US navy ).
British carriers attack Sakashima Gunto.
On Okinawa fighting continues on the Motobu Peninsula, in the north, and around Kakazu, in the south, along the Japanese held Shuri Line but US 10th Army forces make little ground in these areas.
The government of Chile declares war on Japan.
April 15 The British 20th Indian Division (part of British 33rd Corps) captures Taungdwingyi and moves toward Magwe and Thayetmyo. Other units of British 33rd Corps are still fighting farther up the Irrawaddy River, Japanese soldier receive order to able the Burma emperor line and to move to prevent further British advances in Burma.
second raid on Ankara with again 40 P.108 bombers and their escorts but this time the Turks are waiting downing 3 planes and damaging 2 in responds the next attack will happen at night will the first V-2 launch against Turkish city will begin in May ( the Soviets have begun to send more planes and even bombers to be used to destroy the Rhodes four air fields and to prevent the Turkish city's to be hit by axis forces from Rhodes and Bulgarian territories ).
April 16 On Okinawa , Japanese Kamikaze attacks damage the battleship USS New York wile on land American forces attack strong Japanese defences in the hilly Motobu Peninsula in the north of the island.
Arakan, Taungup in Burma fall to the British forces.
Japan and the soviet union renew their 1941 non-aggression pact by singing the pact in the Japanese Embassy the treaty will be valid like the old one for a five year period ( with the new treaty the soviet union has noting to fear from the Japanese and can continue their war against Germany knowing that Japan even if the could attack them are to engaged against the Americans ).
April 17 Du to his age Philippe Petain steps down as the head of state of the Corsica Social Republic and is replace by Pierre Laval who was Prime Minister of the Vichy French republic from 1940 to 1944 and was prime minister of the CSR from 1944 to 1945 , Petain will remain President of the Council for the time being.
The royal Dutch navy orders 6 extra ships to be sent to the Dutch Indies to increase the royal Dutch Indies navy these ships are the River class frigate HNLMS Johan Maurits van Nassau of which the Dutch have four in service and three who remain in the Netherlands and the second Flores class gunboat HNLMS Flores and four 126 Feet-class minesweepers ( fore more information about the royal Dutch navy of the DDW timeline go to the royal Dutch navy topic ).
April 20 The last of the Soviet 56th Army troops part of the invasion of jalta and alusta arrive in the Turkish port of Samsun together with the soviet forces in the soviet city of Batumi more then 40,000 troops are ready as the soviet war on the eastern front has halted du to heavy German resistance the fleet will sail when all ship have bin gathered ( in order to keep the invasion as surprise the soviet keep their massive army spread in order to not alert the Germans also the put their MTB and GB boats on land to prevent the Germans from noticing it and will launch them when the fleet sails ).
April 21 The US campaign on Okinawa is the same as in OTL except the landings date.
The US campaign in the Philippines is until now like OTL .
The first test flight of the production version of the Vampire Mk I who is now the second jet fighter to enter RAF service ( the British realise that the need jets to counter the German one jets and therefore have decided that both the meteor and vampire are to replace the prop fighters as soon as possible ).
April 22 The Wurzburg trail has ended ( this is the trail in which Joseph Goebbels , Martin Bormann , Adolf Eichmann , and 17 other top Nazi Party Nazi government officials where being prosecuted with crimes the committed when the Nazi government was in power ) which according to the Zurich deal and the Germans on which to begin anew this is the verdict.
The Wurzburg trail
Martin Bormann Sentenced to death
Hans Frank Sentenced to death
Wilhelm Frick Sentenced to death
Ernst Kaltenbrunner Sentenced to death
Wilhelm Keitel Sentenced to death
Joachim von Ribbentrop Sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment
Alfred Rosenberg Sentenced to death in absentia, ( was in hiding found and arrested sentences latter change to life in jail du helping in arresting Julius Streicher ).
Julius Streicher ( no trial du to him hiding but thanks to a tip from Alfred Rosenberg arrested and later Sentenced to death ).
Baldur von Schirach Sentenced to 20 years of imprisonment
Joseph Goebbels Sentenced to life imprisonment ( as he was only the Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda ).
Adolf Eichmann Sentenced to death
Fritz Sauckel Sentenced to death
April 23 On Okinawa, the attacks of US 24th Corps begin to achieve some gains, notably by US 96th Division.
April 25 In the Irrawaddy Valley, mopping up operations continue. Salin is captured by British forces.
The British 33rd Corps advance is closing on Allanmyo.
The British 5th Indian Division, in the Sittang Valley, continues to advance rapidly and captures of Perwegen.
Japanese forces around Rangoon and in other parts of southern Burma are beginning to withdraw through Pegu to the east in order to withdraw into Thailand to form together with the Thai army a new defensive line there ( the Japanese now have abounded the Burma emperor line completely and begin to move to the border of Thailand to put up a new line there ).
In Burma , armour of the British 14th Army capture Toungoo in the drive south from Meiktila to Rangoon.
April 26 With the last German troops having left Norway as under the Zurich peace deal the Norwegian Crown Prince Olaf enters Oslo with British and Norwegian troops based from free Norway with the Norwegian government in Narvik coming when the last German troops have left Norway.
April 27 On Okinawa, fighting along the Shuri Line continues. American forces employ tanks, flame-throwers and artillery in an effort to destroy Japanese defensive positions.
In the Occupied Dutch East Indies a US/Dutch squadron of 4 cruisers and 8 destroyers, commanded by Admiral Berkey, makes a preparatory bombardment of targets in the Tarakan area in the northeast of the island of Borneo ( the Dutch have the cruiser HNLMS Ruyter and the destroyers HNLMS Kortenaer and HNLMS Banckert im the US/Dutch squadron ).
April 28 In Occupied Dutch East Indies , the preparatory bombardment of targets in the Tarakan area in the northeast of the island of Borneo continues.
After a massive search the German Reich Commissioner of Norway Quisling and some of his supporters are arrested ( because of Norway was divided quisling he never became head of state but because he was loyal to the Germany he was made under Himmler the Reich Commissioners of Norway ).
April 29 In Occupied Dutch East Indies , the preparatory bombardment of targets in the Tarakan area in the northeast of the island of Borneo continues.
April 30 The preparatory bombardment of targets in the Tarakan area in the northeast of the island of Borneo continues , with a small American/Dutch landing force going ashore on the island of Sadan.
First Representatives of the Norwegian government return to Oslo from their previous capitol in Narvik.
May 1 On Okinawa, Japanese counterattacks and infiltration attempts along the Shuri Line area are defeated. There is heavy fighting in the Maeda and Kochi Ridge positions.
About 7000 American/Australian and Dutch forces begin landing on Tarakan Island, near Borneo.
May 2 In Burma British troops make an amphibious landing on the southern tip of Burma, 20 miles south of Rangoon ,there is no Japanese resistance , the British 4th Corps complete the capture Pegu.
second German trail to remove the stain of Germany past as Josef Kramer and 44 others German SS officers stand trial at Luneburg on charges of conspiracy to commit mass murder at Auschwitz and Belsen ( these former SS where arrested during the cleanup of the SS by the new German imperial government ).
May 3 Because of most of the Japanese having withdraw to the Thai border Rangoon is captured by British 26th Indian Division without encountering any Japanese resistance.
The first panzer X rolls from the assembly line watch by Italian army personal ( the replacement of both the panther and tigers still on the drawing boards , the Italians have not yet decided to replace the P40 and P50 with a German panther ore a panzer X ore their on local produced tank but in the mean time the have made the P50C which has al the improvements the panzer IV k the latest German tank has ).
May 4 On Okinawa, Japanese forces launch a counteroffensive from positions in the south, during the night but fail to break through the American lines , Japanese artillery batteries that have remained silent until now to avoid American retaliation, support the assaults.
under the Zurich peace deal the Danish King Christian opens parliament, for the first time in five years after it was annex by the Germans (mostly all German troops have left Denmark and the last German troops to leave is probably on the 20th of may in accordance of the Zurich peace deal ).
May 5 Second day of the Japanese 32nd Army counteroffensive on Okinawa with the US 7th and 77th Divisions holding the assaults the Japanese are supported by Artillery that was formerly concealed , at sea, Kamikaze attacks sink 14 small ships and damage the escort carrier Sangamon, 1 destroyer, and other ships , Some 131 Japanese planes are claimed to be shot down.
Australian and Dutch troops capture the center of Tarakan City on Tarakan Island, off Borneo, taking full possession of the air field.
6 people are killed by a bomb falling from a Japanese balloon near Lakeview, Oregon , The Japanese have been releasing these balloons for some time, hoping that they will drift in the wind over the United States before releasing their explosive cargo ( the Japanese like in OTL launch these balloons after the two attack on the US mainland bringing the death toll from Japanese attack on the US mainland to 194 people killed ).
The War Department announces that about 600,000 troops will remain in the Netherlands , Belgium and the French republic to form the US Europe force.
In order to distract the Germans from the invasion of Jalta both the 1 and 2 Ukraine front launch a massive attack against the Germans group Dnieper in order to distract the Germans from the events that have begun in the black sea.
May 6 On Okinawa the third day of the Japanese counterattacks continue with minor successes.
the Japanese forces retreat from the town of Tarakan island Borneo .
The battle of the black sea begins when the soviet launch their invasion fleet from the ports of Samsun and Batumi the soviet navy having put almost all of their available gun/torpedo boats in to action against the German/Italian black sea fleet in hopes to allow the first wave of 20,000 soviet marines to land at Jalta the battle is fought with the German/Italian black sea fleet having 50 motor torpedo boats and 80 patrol boats station in Sevastopol against the soviet 300 motor torpedo boats and other small grafts protecting the first wave , wile the soviet lose a large number of MTB the do manage to create are corridor in which the first wave can move thru ( the soviet have lost 67 small boats wile the Germans have lost 42 MTB and patrol boats forcing them to retreat to Sevastopol to rearm).
May 7 On Okinawa the Japanese offensive loses momentum with the Japanese forces have sustain losses of at least 5000 killed.
Arriving from Narvik the King of Norway returns home to Oslo , Norway. The first landing group hitting the beach of Jalta is completely destroyed by the German defenders but the soviet have more then 20,000 marines alone in the first wave and late in the day the soviet wile losing 3,700 soldiers keep the city of Jalta with the second invasion fleet heading to alusta and forces facing the Germans in Kerch begin their attack, will the soviet the 1 and 2 Ukraine front keeping the German busy from sending reinforcement to the Germans in the Crimea ( the Germans have a force of 40,000 in the Crimea with most in Kerch and Sevastopol ).
May 8 The US 7th Division on Okinawa completes the elimination of Japanese units that infiltrated into the Tanabaru area.
Fruitless attacks on the Japanese held Shuri Line continue.
The second battle of the black sea begins as the remaining Germans MTB try to halt any soviet forces to land on the Crimea. The soviet after battle themselves out of jalta no begin to move towards Sevastopol will the 1 and 2 Ukraine front have begun to move with the Germans not knowing to send forces to prevent the soviet from getting a foothold on the Crimea ore trying to keep the panther line from falling completely.
May 10 The US government announces plans to withdraw 1.5 million American troops from Europe leaving the US Europe force to protect the now free western country's in Europe from the empire of Germany.
May 12 On Okinawa, American forces conduct a coordinated attack on the Japanese held Shuri Line ,at sea, Kamikaze strikes damage the aircraft carrier USS Bunker Hill and 2 destroyers.
The second battle of the black sea again becomes a soviet success with the soviet landing their second wave at alusta will the battle is won by the soviet the have suffered major loses in order from the German/Italian black sea fleet from retaliating.
May 13 The soviet battling in Jalta and Alusta link up crating a line of 20 miles long and 3 miles deep with more soviet forces on their way will the Germans at Kerch are ordered to begin retreating in order to save themselves. the British offer to mediate between Germany and turkey in getting them peace but the Turks mostly under precur from the soviets decline the offer ( the British are not happy that the eastern war continues but can offer only politic support as the British people do not want the war to resume with Germany and because of the Turks are now under the infuses from the soviets the even if the want can leave without making the current position the are in worse ).
May 14 The Germans decide to halt the panther II tank development and to concerted on producing the panzer X and continue producing the improve version of the panther H and the newest version of the tiger II B version until their replacement arrives ( the German seeing the panther II compared it with the panzer X and saw that it almost match the panther II and therefore decide to cancel it will continue the production of the panther H and tiger IIB version which by now have a lot of their old problems resolved ).
May 15 in Burma the British 26th Indian Division advances from Rangoon toward Prome and links up with the British 20th Indian Division advancing southward.
The soviet begin pouring man and equipment on the beachhead on the Crimea with now more then 5,000 troops coming ashore each day , the Germans at Kerch who have begun to retreat to safety are ordered to from a new line with troops that the Germans have moved from the Dnieper front in order to prevent the soviet from getting out will the German/Italian forces at Sevastopol are ordered to hold the city at all cost with the German/Italian black sea fleet to be moved to Odessa.
May 16 On Okinawa slow American advances and costly Japanese counterattacks continue.
Heavy fighting is reported around the Sugar Loaf Hill and Conical Hill positions. Marines on Sugar Loaf Hill, elements of US 3rd Amphibious Corps, withdraw because of Japanese fire.
the soviet begin to move in to Kerch with the first soviet forces reaching the outskirt of Sevastopol which in the cores of the German holding has bin turned in to a massive fort ( the Germans use the former soviet forts at Sevastopol with improvement , holding the city are 20,000 Germans and 5,000 Italian forces ).
Chancellor Ludwig Beck of the empire of Germany issues an order to the Reichsheer in which he expresses horror at revelations about the Nazi concentration camps and distances the regular military from the atrocities will putting the blame on the SS and Gestapo who in his view where the instruments of evil in the former German regime ( both the SS and Gestapo are still in a small form active but the imperial government is planning to rename them to fit the new empire with the name of the SS to be emperors Protective Squadron (Kaiser Schutzstaffel ore KS) the Gestapo the imperial security service (Reichssicherheitsdienst ore RSD ) and the Wehrmacht again to be called the Deutsches Reichsheer , the NSDAP also is cleared from Hitler loyalist mostly who killed themselves , fled Germany or were arrested by the imperial police ( Reichspolizei ) a new name has not yet bin given but probably the party with the death of Hitler will be completely dissolved and replace with new party's who will replace it ).
May 17 The German garrison on the island of Bornholm hands the island under the Zurich peace deal back to the Danish army making it the last Danish territory to be hand over to Danish control .
The first V-2 is launch from Bulgaria against a target in turkey happens when 7 rockets are fired and which 4 hit their target of Balikesir turkey the city was already being attack by axis air forces ( the axis have now moved away from their landings zone in Canakkale and now begin their advance to the city of Balikesir itself and to widen the axis controlled strip of the Dardanelles strait in order to allow the Italian navy excesses to the sea of Marmara , the now have more then 180,000 troops on the main Turkish land fighting against a force of 200,000 Turkish defenders of which 100,000 are regular troops and 100,000 from the reserve army but the Turkish defenders have lost most of their fighter protection du the fact that the axis are attacking them from two sides ( from bases in Rhodes ,Ukraine and occupied turkey ) the soviet have deployed their soviet Turkish front to protect together with a forces of 300,000 Turkish a outbreak of 250,000 axis troops over the Bosporus strait ).
May 18 Only a month after the royal Dutch air service received full control over their airspace a Dutch Mosquito photo-reconnaissance model flying near the border with Germany collides with its German counterpart a Do 217P reconnaissance aircraft that was shadowing it both planes are damaged but land safely back at their base after the landing both the Dutch and German governments excuse each other from flying in their airspace but at the end it all is settled ( the Dutch received full control over their airspace from the allies when the last German left and all Dutch spitfire squadrons where settled down in their country, the Dutch have 3 Havilland Mosquito of which one squadron is a photo-reconnaissance squadron du the location of the Netherlands the Dutch also have two Vickers Wellington and two B-25 Mitchell squadrons who will remain the only bombers on Dutch soil as the Vickers Wellington will be returned to the RAF in 1946, the Dutch spitfire squadrons are listed as 320,321,323,324,325,326 the Mosquito squadrons 430,431 and the two Vickers Wellington and B-25 Mitchell squadrons as 540,541,542,543,544 the number will change as new squadrons are being created and old one despair ).
May 19 In a pretext of protecting Syria and Lebanon from the war in turkey French troops arrive prompting Arab nationalists to launch protest demonstrations against the landing telling the French troops to leave as Syria and Lebanon in their view are safe from any attack by the Germans.
The first night raid on Ankara happens when a force of 20 P.108 bombers attack the city surprising the Turkish AA defenders again ( because the Turkish have together with the soviet increase the defense of the Turkish capitol a decision is made to stop attacking the Turkish capitol and to concerted in supporting the axis advance on the Turkish mainland ).
The German imperial police after receiving a tip arrest in Flensburg Germany Alfred Rosenberg, the unofficial philosopher of the NSDAP and the person responsible for formulating the racial policies of the party ( he is brought to the German prison in which he will be kept until his hanging as he was already Sentenced to death in absentia making him the last German Nazi official to be found, several small Nazi have fled to Italy but probably will also be hand over the Germans).
May 20 In China , Japanese troops evacuate Hochih, in Kwangsi province, the Japanese Imperial General Staff has decided to redistribute available forces closer to the home islands .
The soviet have now almost complete control over the Crimea as the now have a force of 300,000 troops moving from Kerch and from the port of Jalta , with the Germans still holding Sevastopol and Simferopol will the German survivors of Kerch and troops removed from the Dnieper front put a makeshift line at Krasnoperekopsk.
The last Germans now have left Denmark in accordance of the Zurich peace deal ( the German keep 3 army divisions at the border of Denmark in case something happens the German have also keep a force of 100,00 at the border with France and the low country's with the rest fighting in the east war ).
May 21 With the war in west Europe ended and despite Winston Churchill urging to continue the alliance with the Conservative Party the British Labour Party still votes to withdraw its support from the British coalition government (Winston Churchill hoped that the new situation in Germany and the war in Japan would keep the British coalition government in power but because the Labour Party believe Germany is no tread to great Britain the decide to leave the coalition government ).
Syrian and Lebanese representatives break off negotiations with French representatives who maintain the only reason for the massive French presences is to protect both colony's from the war in turkey but because of this the Arab nationalists now begin to increase their claim to independence, something that was promised when the Free French liberated Syria and Lebanon in 1941, while France presently refuses to recognize anything more than limited self-government.
The soviet 2nd Ukraine front reachs Genichesk, cutting one land route with the Crimea, where sizeable German forces are located.
May 23 Using a tip from Alfred Rosenberg the RSD arrest in Bavaria the former leading Nazi anti-Semitic propagandist, Julius Streicher ( his trail will begin when he has return to Wurzburg , Alfred Rosenberg after helping the German authority's sentences is change to life in jail ).
May 22 Z1018 Italian medium bombers flying from airfields in occupied turkey attack Izmir sinking one Turkish torpedo boat in the attack will losing no planes ( Italy has station the Z 1018 Italian medium bomber both in occupied turkey and Romania and use them to support the axis forces facing the tusk in the Bosporus strait wail the P.108 heavy bomber fly's from Rhodes for long range bombing missions.
May 23 Prime Minister Churchill (leading the Conservative Party) resigns in order to prepare for the election after the British Labour Party withdraw its support from the British coalition government despite attempts by him to keep the coalition government intake , the date of the new election the first in ten years is set on July 5th.
The Dutch government after the incident with the two recon planes decide as first of the former German occupied nations to begin discussing opening of a Representative Office in Berlin in order to avoid possible future incidents ( the Dutch open a Representative Office in Berlin as the feel its to soon after the war to reopen their embassy there but of which only the US and UK have reopened theirs ).
May 25 On Okinawa, during the night, Japanese paratroopers on a suicide mission are landed on American held Yontan airfield and destroy a significant number of aircraft before being wiped out.
The American armed forces Chiefs of Staff set on the first of November as the start date for the invasion of Japan Operation Olympic ( this operation and date are the same as in OTL ).
Churchill asks all Allied commands in Europe, that have received information from the Ultra project, to maintain its secrecy fearing the Germans find out the allies can read the German codes ( the British are sending some information the soviet in helping them after the relation have begun to become as the where pre 1944 ).
May 26 The Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF) is transferred from Rheims to Paris and will become the Headquarters for all allied forces in the low country's , France and Norway an Greece ( all forces includes US, UK , French , Dutch , Belgium, Greece and Norwegian army's forces ).
In the city of Naples Italy the axis members begin to discuses the further of the Tripartite Pact and several other important matters including the eastern war ( the eastern war is the new name of the fighting on the east with the axis not in war any more with the allies all members except Japan are present ).
The soviet 2nd Ukraine front overruns the area between the lower Dnieper and the Crimea thereby cutting the Germans holding Krasnoperekopsk who where trying to hold any soviet advance from the Crimea of will Sevastopol holds thanks to German naval and air support from bases from German Ukraine , Rommel leading the German IV Army now has pushes the soviet Smolensk front away who now only 30 miles from Smolensk ( the battles in the Ukraine are falling apart for the Germans will the Germans in Belarus hold their line and even begin to push the soviet back ).
May 27 The American Europe force receives it first batch of the M26 Pershing to counter the German tanks ( the M26 Pershing tank never saw combat in Europe as the war ended before the first could be sent overseas now the will be used to strengthen the 600,000 American Europe force to counter the German panther ,panzer x and tiger tanks ).
Most of Tarakan the Island of the coast of Borneo is secured by Dutch and Australian forces with Japanese aircraft attacking the Dutch and Australian positions on Tarakan ( Total Dutch/Australian casualties in the campaign are 636 killed and 1760 wounded ).
May 28 On Okinawa, American forces attacking southward, continue to encounter heavy Japanese resistance.
Japanese aircraft a series of strikes against the Allied naval forces around the island , Sinking the US destroyer USS Drexler.
With the French refuse to leave Syrian and Lebanese Fighting breaks out between French troops and Syrians ( the Syrians have begun to ask for weapons from the soviet forces based in turkey to be used to fight the French ).
The soviet 2nd Ukraine front captures Dneprodzerzhinsk ( the Germans do not now how long the can keep the 1st Ukraine front contained will also preventing the 2nd Ukraine front from advancing towards them ).
May 29 French forces shell Damascus and Hama , Syrian gendarmes attack French military posts , Meanwhile, Syrian representatives ask the British and the soviet union for assistance ( the negotiations between the Syrians and the soviet union have bug down as the soviet union want to keep the border with turkey peaceful and because Stalin dos not want to lose the relation he as again building up with the US and UK after the several incidents that happened in the past ).
admiral yamamoto as minister of the Japanese navy replace Admiral Toyoda with Admiral Ozawa as commander of the Combined Fleet.
Belgian socialists call on King Leopold III to abdicate. The former government in exile and some Belgians hold the king in low regard because of his independent policies before the war and his unilateral decision to surrender to the Germans in 1940, without consulting the former BFC allies who were assisting in the defence of Belgium ( he was arrested like in OTL and released from German control after the peace deal was signed ).
The British launch the invasion of Singapore from Dutch Sumatra with British 5th Indian Division spearheading the landing supported by Dutch and British fighters and bombers the British 5th Indian Division manages to get a foothold in the city later in the day ( because of Singapore is close to Dutch Sumatra the city was attack during the war much worst then in OTL forcing the Japanese to deploy more troops but where being strafed by the allied navy and air forces so a decision was made to invade the city ).
May 30 The Iranian government formally requests the withdrawal of American, British and Soviet troops from Iran.
Damascus is bombed by French aircraft, the soviet union warns it will intervene if the French do not stop attacking the Syrian people ( Stalin is beginning to think that the request from the Syrian representatives who want weapons should be answered after the French refuse to halt their attacks on Syria and Lebanon and also orders two divisions who on their way to the Turkish front to be put near the border in case the have to intervene ).
In the situation of the soviet advancing in the Ukraine front the Oberkommando der kaiserliche Streitkräfte( OKS ) orders to fall back to the new Bismarck line which run from Odessa to Kiev all forces holding the lower Dnieper will fight their way to the new line and try to slow the soviet advance will retreating giving German and Romanians troops time to prepare them self , all forces holding the Belarus panther line will try to hold tier line with the soviet pushed back to Smolensk by the German IV Army , and the Germans holding Sevastopol will remain as long as aid can reach them as this is the last city on the Crimea being hold by the German/Italian garrison ( the German give up a large chunk of lower Ukraine to the soviets but believe that is better the losing more then 1,500,000 man ).
Second landing of the British 23rd Indian Division on the shore of Singapore together with the 5th Indian Division , the number 40,000 against a Japanese garrison of 30,000 troops will the first British naval ship begin shelling Japanese position in the city ( the British now that 1 million people are living in the city but now that if the do not take the city back more people will dye from starvation than the battle itself ).
May 31 In Syria , British representatives intervene in the fighting and arrange a ceasefire between French troops and Arab nationalists fearing that the soviet union who has troops in nearby turkey would intervene and cause bigger problems in the region.
The last British military detachment leaves Norway after no German forces are percent in the country ( the only forging forces on Norwegians soil are 30,000 US troops ).
In Naples the axis representatives agree to a decision to create a new defences pact to replace the old Tripartite Pact and to create the kingdom of Croatia ( the Independent State of Croatia which is the old version of Croatia is changed to reflect a new royal alliance between the members of Germany , Bulgaria , Hungary . Romania and Italy and with three small non royal members the chez republic , the Corsica social republic and Serbia who mostly in name are independent but in trued are puppets states of Germany and Italy ).
The Soviet 2nd Ukraine front attacks Krivoy Rog ,wile the soviet 1st Ukraine front thanks to the German retreat begins to move out the Cherkassy gap and begins to ferries tanks across the Dnieper River on rafts and pontoons to aid the outbreak ( the Germans have begun setting up small forces to try to slow the soviet advance hoping to give the Bismarck line a change to prepare and to allow the group south and Dnieper army's to retreat to the new line ).
The battle of Okinawa and the Philippines are progressing currently the same as in OTL
The battle of Singapore continues with Dutch/British and American bombers attacking Japanese troops coming to aid the Japanese defenders at Singapore wile a third British Indian division is made ready to join the 5th and 23rd Indian Division who are now slowly battling house by house to remove the Japanese defenders ( the allies have full naval and iar control over Singapore ).
The Soviet government claims to have taken 180,000 German prisoners in their advance in lower Ukraine.
The Naples agreement
a new defenses pact is to be formed to reflect the changes that have happen and to adapt to the new situation in the world.
The Independent State of Croatia becomes a full member of the newly to formed defenses pact.
The Independent State of Croatia will become the kingdom of Croatia as it is already being lead by a king ( this is also was like in OTL ).
Corsica social republic and Serbia will become full members of the newly to formed defenses pact ( the foreign, military and economic policy will remain in the hands of Germany for Serbia and the Corsica social republic for Italy basically making them puppet with memberships as the have no army and need the support of Germany and Italy to keep them in power ).
The Slovak Republic becomes the Slovak kingdom which will become a independent kingdom with the German Kaiser as it king and receive also a full membership of the newly to formed defenses pact ( the same thing applies to the newly crated Slovak kingdom with its foreign, military and economic policy under German control ).
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