Part III, cont.
March 25th: The Soviets finally take Helsinki. The Soviet Socialist Region of Finland is created. With little resitance now, the Soviets are able to take the rest of Finland.
March 30th: Stalin orders that the Axis armies be pushed back into Norway, who is an unwilling ally of the Sweedes, then move into Norway hreself. Storuman is taken by the Red Army, but grinds to a hault when faced with stiffened Axis resistance.
April 9th: 150,000 Siberian-trained soldiers are used in a massive Soviet offensive in Sweeden. Armeegruppe C is pushed into Norway, and is supplemented by extra Norwegain fascist units.
Pzkpfw IV are being rushed to the front-line as quick as possible. With combat expierence, the Pzkpfw II Aufs C, armed with a 50mm cannon, beging production to fill the major armore gap in Axis armored units.
April 11th: The Red Air Force begins to attack Axis ships shipping Axis supplies to Sweeden from bases in Finland. In response, the Danish National Freedom Party is able to open negotiations between Germany and Denmark.
April 12th: The Germans are able to use the Dannish city of Copenhagen to ship supplies to Sweeden.
The Germans begin to mass forces in Norway and behind the Ange Line in centeral Sweeden.
March 16th: After a nearly-month long time with no fighting, the Germans and allies begin a counter-Blitzkreig in Sweeden. 800,000 German, Italian, Sweedish, Romanian, Hungarian, and Czechs and thousands of tanks of all types pour all across the 300-km long Agne Line. Massive German Panzer divisions separhead this attack, with infantry and Minor Axis tanks following. The Luftwaffe destroys all of the Red Air Forces permanet air bases (about 60% of all Soviet air bases in Sweeden), and medum bombers strike at Soviet supply lines.
March 20th: Panzer spearheads the port of Harnosand, the main port to resupply the Soviet forces. Axis forces attempt to cut off the Soviet retreat by landing 55,000 men and 600 tanks at Ornskoldvik. Ornskoldvik had remained openly rebellious, so the city was taking with ease.
March 27th: With more forces being landed in Ornskoldvik, the Axis begin to encircel the retreating Red Army.
May 12nd: 600,000 Red Army men surrender after being surrounded and mercilessly pounded by the Luftwaffe and artillery. The remaining 150,000 Soviet soldiers begin the a long route towards Finland, but are attacked by Luftwaffe bombers.
May 15th: Re-enforcements are rushed to Sweeden to protect Lulea Pocket. The Red Navy prepares a Dunkirk-like evacuation plan, but Stalin orders that they weight to see what happens.
May 22nd: The city of Boden is captured by the Germans, and the Lulea pocket continues to shrink. Stalin orders that thousands of soldiers in Finland be sent to Sweeden.
May 31st: The Lulea pocket now extends from Narvik in the north to Lulea in the south. 250,000 Red Army soldiers man this defensive line, which shrikns every day.
Stockholm is bombbed by Red Air Force medium and light bombers. The Sweedish Royal Air Force is able to destroy half the bombers as they are leaving.
June 9th: The Germans begin a massive offensive against the Lulea Pocket. Pzkpfw II Aufs C begin to arrive. The offensive gains 50 miles for the Germans in one week.
June 19th: Kurena is captured, cutting the Lulea Pocket in half. The northern half surrenders after two weeks.
June 21st: The city of Malmberget is entered by the Germans, and are forced to fight building-by-building. Instead, the Luftwaffe pounds the city for 144 (6 days) straight. The Malmberget commander-in-cheif surrenders. The Red Navy begins to encircle Lulea, so another Ornskoldvik will not happen.
June 29th: Pzkpfw IV begin to arrive in imited numbers along the Lulea Pocket. Fearing another trench-war like the European War of 1914-1918, the Luftwaffe prepares paratroppers to jump into Lulea to capture it.
Part IV
July 3rd: Pzkpfw III begin to arrive along the front-line in mass numbers, as production really begins to step up.
July 13th: Denmark is officaly annexed by Germany, with protests from the Entente. Junker Ju 52, modified for the aerial assault on Luela, begint to arrive with paratroppers to "train" in Norway.
July 15th: German paratroppers jump into Oslo, and seize the main govermental command centers. Norway, despite being under the "king" of Sweeden, is beinn rebellious, by not allowing German forces to move through Norway.
July 20th: With very few losses in the Norwegian Campaign, the German paratroppers are launched. 25,000 paratroppers jump in Lulea at dawn. The first thing they capture is the air field 2 miles outside of the city.
July 21st: Transport planes, carrying supplies, weapons, and light vehicles begin to land at the Lulea Air Field under heavy fire.
July 22nd: The German paratroppers, or punktetruppen, and with regular German units, begin to move out of the air field, and into Lulea. With the mass confussion at the front, the German army begins to roll onto Lulea.
July 29th: The regular German army reaches the Lulea air field to find it a a mess of post with barbed wire stretched across them, and soldiers in Soviet uniforms sitting in them. The punktetruppen have taken half of Lulea, and are waiting for regular Wermacht help.
August 9th: The Soviet garrison in Lulea surrenders, ending the Soviet Socialist Republic of Finland's rule of northern Sweeden.
August 10th: Norwa, despite lossing Oslo, prepare to defeat the Germans. The few punktetruppen left in Oslo, now supported by more soldiers, and armor, are a match for the Norwegian Army.
