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1 September 1939 to 3 July 1940: Warship losses as per otl. British lose HMS Courageous, HMS Royal Oak, HMS Effingham, HMS Curfew, HMS Glorious and HMS Calypso. Germans lose Graf Spee, Blucher and Karlsruhe (Konigsberg would later be salvaged after the timeline's pod and put back into service only as an abandoned hulk for scrapping in years or return to full fledged configuration).
3 July 1940: 1st POD: At Mers-el-Kébir, after the sinking of Bretagne, the Dunkerque and Provence are also sunk by explosion. On 7 July 1940, Vichy France declares war on Britain and the French Navy at Alexandria gets scuttled or sunk in battle. Richelieu is crippled at Dakar as in otl.
9 July 1940: Battle of Calabria goes as per otl.
10 July 1940: Despite the Vichy declaration of war, Britain makes the commitment to defend Malta. A few more Vichy planes are transferred for the Battle of Britain, which proceeds as per otl.
15 August 1940: Greek cruiser Eli sunk as in otl.
31 August 1940: A convoy of ships bound for Alexandria to Malta (Operation Hats) is intercepted by the Italian battlefleet, which destroys the Royal Navy's Mediterranean Fleet. In the battle, the Italians lose 2 old battleships, 3 cruisers (two heavy and one light each) and 10 destroyers in exchange for inflicting major losses on the Royal Navy's Mediterranean Fleet, costing it HMS Eagle, the 4 battleships involved in the battle (including HMS Ramilies and HMS Royal Sovereign, to stay in the Mediterranean), 5 cruisers and 13 destroyers.
Besides defeating the Mediterranean Fleet, the plans for Taranto had been postponed.
17 September 1940: A dive bomber attack sees HMS Sussex capsized in drydock, leaving it a constructive total loss to be repaired until 1943.
25 to 30 September 1940: A bombardment of Dakar sees the sinking of HMS Nelson by a submarine and HMS Hermes by a mass French plane and submarine attack. However, Richelieu has to be declared a constructive total loss. Cap des Palmes is also sunk at Gabon, which occurs on 7 November 1940.
In November 1940, the sortie of the Layotte Pique on a raiding mission in the Pacific results in the cruiser's destruction. MS Aramis is also destroyed in the mission. On 5 November 1940, Jervis Bay is sunk as in otl. Armed merchant cruiser losses for 1940 and 1941 are per otl for Britain and Germany, the sinking of Python done by Canberra and Atlantis done by Canton, with the German ships sunk. R class amcs all sunk by 1942 (Rawalpindi, Rajputana, Ranchi and Ranpura, first 2 sunk as per otl, last 2 by air raids in Sri Lanka on 5 April 1942 with HMS Hector). HMS Worchestershire could be sunk on 3 April 1941 instead of Cheshire 6 months earlier, with HMS Cheshire being torpedoed and salvaged as in otl. HMS Alaunia replacing an armed merchant cruiser in New Zealand as troopship. Fates of German and Japanese auxiliary cruisers are similar to otl, all sunk as auxiliary cruisers sunk by 1943. More Vichy, Italian, Soviet and Romanian auxiliary cruisers sunk than otl, with the former losing more auxiliary cruisers in oceans. Italy loses RAMB class auxiliary cruisers from Italian East Africa to sinking or capture similar to otl. On 1 December 1941, HMS Canton will be sunk by UA.
http://www.navypedia.org/ships/france/fr_co_amc.htm
https://www.postenavalemilitaire.com/t3162-cap-des-palmes-1940-1946
Cap des Palmes sunk off Libreville with Poncelet on 7 November 1940. On 31 October 1940, HMS Moreton Bay sinks auxiliary cruiser Ville D' Oran while escorting the French passenger liner Cuba. Another auxiliary cruiser will be sunk during the Madagascar campaign.
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December 1940: A convoy of ships bound for Malta from Gibraltar ends up being attacked by Italian and French heavy and light cruisers besides battleships. The British lose HMS Ark Royal, Rodney, Hood, Resolution and Barham, along with 6 heavy cruisers and 9 light cruisers in the battle for this convoy. The French lose Strasbourg and 3 heavy and 4 light cruisers while the Italians lose Vittorio Veneto, Andrea Doria, Guilio Cesare and 2 heavy plus 3 light cruisers. This convoy to Malta is successful, though. Apparently, the defeat of Primauguet and 3 French auxiliary cruisers from Dakar off Gibraltar the previous month (25 November) wasn't enough in comparing Royal Navy fleet performance to properly fledged cruisers. Auxiliary cruisers Colombie and Koutoubia sunk in the convoy battle as well, Charles Pluimer sunk on 22 October 1940 (instead of captured that day otl), Mexique rejected for AMC conversion and sunk before the pod.
25 December 1940: HMS Argus is sunk by German cruiser Admiral Hipper, which is later torpedoed and sunk by destroyers. The carrier was escorting a convoy of troopships bound for Madagascar and North Africa.
January 1941: HMS Illustrious is badly damaged by planes while escorting a convoy from Alexandria to Malta and sunk in drydock. The British also lose 2 light cruisers escorting the same convoy. Armoured cruiser San Giorgio also sunk in the same month with the loss of Tobruk, its sister being sunk after the surrender of Italy.
February 1941: In a convoy attack, the British lose HMS Revenge to Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. However, Gneisenau is badly damaged. Later, Gneisenau is sunk by torpedo attacks while Scharnhorst finishes and sinks the Renown class battlecruisers before being sunk itself. In the same month, the cruisers Admiral Scheer, Hawkins, Capetown and Shropshire are lost in combat.
(25 February 1941 attack on Armando Diaz sinks an Italian auxiliary cruiser instead.)
March 1941: Attacks on the cruiser HMS York by Italian motor boats and German bombers leave it a wreck to be scuttled after the successful German invasion of Crete.
April 1941: The Greek campaign results in the destruction of the Greek navy, including the cruiser Averof and 2 pre dreadnoughts. As it was mostly obsolete and at anchor, the destruction is no big deal.
22 May to 1 June 1941: During the battle of Crete, dive bombers sink the cruisers Calcutta, Dido and Leander. The battleship Littorio would provide support for the invasion convoy to Crete and the cruisers Fiji and Coventry will be sunk by gunfire. The German paratrooper losses for Crete would be less than otl.
24 May 1941: Bismarck sinks Prince of Wales before being sunk by HMS King George V, which is later torpedoed and sunk by Prinz Eugen. Prinz Eugen is sunk, however.
July 1941: While escorting a convoy to Malta, the Royal Navy loses HMS Valiant, HMS Queen Elizabeth, HMS Furious (on a diversionary mission), 4 heavy cruisers and 8 light cruisers. However, the Italians lose the battleship Littorio, 3 heavy cruisers and 4 light cruisers. The French lose 3 cruisers of all types. Nevertheless, the convoy gets through to Malta.
10 September 1941: While in Gibraltar, HMS Formidable and HMS Birmingham are sunk by human torpedoes launched from the submarine Sirce. This results in a planned raid on the remaining Italian light cruisers to be cancelled.
27 September 1941: An attack on a Malta convoy results in the loss of 5 British cruisers to the loss of the remaining Italian light cruisers. However, convoys to North Africa could be continued due to British warship losses. In the meantime, the Italian and Vichy French device a solution to reinforce North Africa (campaign having proceeded as per otl with Vichy troops).
13 November 1941: An invasion convoy for Madagascar is attacked by a Vichy French submarine, which sinks a British light cruiser. A German submarine would sink another British light cruiser in the South Atlantic before the end of the month.
19 November 1941: Mutual destruction of HMS Danae and Kormoran in the Indian Ocean.
7 December 1941: At Pearl Harbour, USS Arizona, Utah (training ship) and Oklahoma are lost as in otl. (Or attack in deep water and focus on battleships to sink these 2 battleships and USS West Virginia plus USS California, USS Utah replacing USS California or Nevada).
10 December 1941: Force Z (Now comprising of heavy and light cruisers) is attacked by planes, losing HMS Centurion and 2 cruisers by the end of the day.
15 December 1941: HMS Ajax is sunk by Italian and German submarines. Over the next few days, torpedoes put into HMS Enterprise and HMS Emerald destroy (the former of) them for good. HMS Neptune is also sunk by a minefield while intercepting convoys.
20 December 1941: Bearn and Jeanne D Arc sunk by aircraft from USS Wasp while returning to France with 3 French auxiliary cruisers. Emile Bertin will return to Toulon.
21 December 1941: HMS Audacity sunk as in otl.
11 January 1942: USS Saratoga damaged as in otl.
27 to 28 February 1942: The battles of the Java Sea sees the loss of HMAS Perth, USS Houston, Tromp, Java and De Ruyter. On 1 March, HMS Exeter is also sunk.
29 March 1942: HMS Trinidad sunk by a malfunctioning torpedo and German destroyer torpedoes. The Germans lose destroyers Z26 and Z25, however.
30 April 1942: HMS Charbydis sunk by U 456 (instead of now sunken HMS Edinburgh).
8 May 1942: Battle of Coral Sea proceeds as per otl. The carriers Shoho and Lexington are lost as in otl.
4 June 1942: At Midway, Akagi is not first hit. These carriers counterattack and sink USS Yorktown while USS Enterprise is crippled. Soryu is destroyed as in otl and Kaga later. At night, a counterattack sinks USS Enterprise, USS Northampton and USS Atlanta by surface action and the Americans retreat. The amphibious assault on Midway over the next week is a defeat for Japan, however.
5 June 1942: USS Hornet manages to sink Hiryu, but Akagi cripples Hornet and the planes of Zuiho sink Hornet, which is left to be sunk by planes.
14 June 1942: In the battle for a Malta convoy, a Dido class cruiser is lost. The Malta convoy also loses its merchant ships.
15 June 1942: A torpedo bomber damages an Italian cruiser (Bari), which escapes otherwise unharmed with a damaged bow until encountering HMS Umbra. The presence of the Italian battleship Roma causes the convoy escorts' scattering and destruction. A u boat sinks the HMS Hermione as the convoy retreats.
29 June 1942: The sortie of the Graf Zeppelin against PQ17 sinks HMS Victorious before its loss. HMS Duke of York is also sunk by Tirpitz before its loss.
July 1942: Increased aerial support from the destruction of a Malta convoy leads to the German 10th Air Corps to be moved to the Don, allowing an immediate advance on Stalingrad when supported by paratroopers.
8 to 9 August 1942: Battle of Savo Island. The Americans lose as many cruisers (Chicago instead of Astoria, if Chicago is sunk by midget submarines on 31 May 1942, then HNZMS Achilles is a replacement, if Canberra is sunk, then HMAS Hobart, more likely only USS Chicago could be sunk by midgets on 31 May 1942) as otl. The Japanese still retreat and lose the cruiser Kako.
11 August 1942: A salvo of torpedoes from U73 sinks HMS Indomitable as a last ditch convoy is assembled for Malta, if not Alexandria. USS Juneau is also crippled and sunk by Italian torpedo bombers. The next day, USS Ranger is sunk by German, French and Italian dive bombers and in the night battle, MAS boats sink the cruisers Cairo and Euraylus, the submarine Axum having torpedoed Ohio. In the convoy battle, USS North Carolina is also sunk in the convoy for the loss of Italian battleship Roma. The convoy battle ends with Malta's surrender on 30 August 1942.
23 August 1942: During the Battle of Eastern Solomons, USS Wasp and the carrier Ryujo are sunk in the battle. However, Guadalcanal still holds for the time being, but not for long.
31 August 1942: USS Saratoga torpedoed as in otl, only to be torpedoed and sunk by I 26 later the same day. This sinking would leave the US without any fleet carrier until 1943.
13 September 1942: HMS Archer sunk by German torpedo planes. After the torpedoing of Archer, 10 merchant ships will be sunk by torpedo planes before reaching Archangelsk.
15 September 1942: USS South Dakota sunk by Japanese destroyers with a salvo of torpedoes. Earlier in the day, it had sank the Kirishima and Hiel, besides a Japanese destroyer. The Japanese also cost the Americans an escort carrier, 2 cruisers and a battleship (Maryland) the previous day due to air and submarine attack. The Guadalcanal Campaign would end in an American defeat by early October 1942. Due to carrier losses and information from captured marines, the Japanese decide on an invasion of New Guinea.
30 September 1942: An attempt to rescue troops at Guadalcanal costs the US Navy Boise and the Japanese Furutaka. Aoba is able to escape with heavy damage. Air raids by Japanese carriers will catch the USS Boise and sink it, causing an abandonment of the Guadalcanal rescue and resupply effort.
2 October 1942: HMS Curacoa rammed and sunk by RMS Queen Mary.
October 1942: Negotiations for Turkish entry into WW2 on the Axis side succeed. In December 1942, for the loss of the Soviet battleship Parizhskaya Kommuna and the remains of the Black Sea Fleet, the Turks lose Turgut Reis and 2 cruisers. Another Soviet cruiser would be sunk in the Black Sea. Raids on the Italian coast
8 November 1942: During Operation Torch, a Vichy French submarine sinks USS Philadelphia. Planes and shells from USS Massachusetts also lead to the destruction of the battleship Jean Bart. On 10 November 1942, a salvo of torpedoes sinks the USS Massachusetts, besides the Wichita, besides the USS Santee. This leads to HMS Anson's transfer from the Arctic convoys.
15 November 1942: HMS Biter sunk by a torpedo from U 155.
14 December 1942: HMS Sirius (instead of Argonaut) torpedoed and sunk (worse hull severing) by an Italian submarine (easily butterfliable).
18 December 1942: Cruiser Tenryu sunk as in otl. Tatsuta will also be sunk as in otl on 13 March 1944.
31 December 1942: The battle of convoy JW52 results in the sinking of the cruiser Koln for the loss of the light cruisers Jamaica and Mauritius. Also, another cruiser is sunk by a U boat.
27 March 1943: HMS Dasher lost as in otl due to a gas explosion.
5 April 1943: While launching a second invasion of Midway, the 'prelude to the second Pearl Harbour' sees the destruction of battleships Nevada, Pennsylvania, Colorado and New Mexico, 3 escort carriers and several cruisers and destroyers. However, it is a pyrrhic victory for Japan as the Japanese had lost 3 carriers (all escort carriers and a few aircraft transports) at Midway alone. At 2nd Midway, the Japanese lose 2 battleships and several cruisers and destroyers with a barely successful invasion. The Japanese Navy's last offensive would be underway. (Night battle against invasion convoy and battleships sinks a Japanese light cruiser Jintsu while 3 American light cruisers are sunk.) Submarine attacks on the Midway invasion convoy cause the Japanese to abandon Midway in late 1943.
10 June 1943: A Soviet Navy breakout attempt from Kronstadt sees the destruction of the battleship Oktyabrskaya Revolyutsiya by bomber raids during the preparations (Marat having lost its bow and abandoned without sailing at Leningrad since 1941, Petropavlosk being abandoned and wrecked at Leningrad, which is undergoing an offensive). The battle of the Baltic will cost Germany a few auxiliary cruisers, clearly acting as decoys. However, the Soviet Baltic Fleet has been destroyed or interned. Nevertheless, a disaster for the Germans in the making would occur in the south of Russia.
10 July 1943: HMS Hunter torpedoed and sunk by U 73 during the invasion of Sicily, which alerts the Luftwaffe to the presence of carriers. On 16 July, HMS Attacker would be torpedoed and sunk by German aircraft.
25 July 1943: HMS Asturias torpedoed and damaged by Cagni, but repaired.
12 September 1943: Fritz X sinks HMS Anson, clearly triumphant over the wrecked Italian battleship Impero. USS Arkansas and 2 Omaha class light cruisers have been sunk earlier by the same battleship while providing gunfire support. The carriers Stalker, Battler and Ruler are also sunk by planes. Later, Fritz Xs will sink USS Savannah as well. In the cruiser battle, 3 Italian light cruisers and the French light cruiser Emile Bertin are sunk, with only an American light cruiser sunk by the 3 cruisers. The landings of Messina fail without gunfire support, although Sicily is secured by early 1944.
20 October 1943: The Turkish battlecruiser Yavuz is sunk by USS Indiana. However, USS Washington is later sunk by Fritz Xs and Turkish and German planes in support could only sink USS Oakland and HMS Naiad. The remnants of the Turkish navy are sunk in the battle. Air attacks also sink 2 cruisers during the Dodecanese Campaign, the campaign failing however.
23 October 1943: British light cruiser Argonaut sunk by German torpedo boats in the Bay of Biscay after its destroyer screen was engaged by escorts for Munsterland. The German escort screen is lost shortly and the Munsterland is sunk, however. Only 1 British destroyer could be sunk.
17 November 1943: A torpedo hit on the USS Marblehead leaves it vulnerable to sinking by U 86 the next day.
19 November 1943: The battle for Tarawa ends in the last major Japanese fleet victory of WW2 in the Pacific. Even that would see the destruction of 2 Japanese battleships, plus the Hiyo and Junyo. However, 4 American fleet carriers and an escort carrier group have been sunk for 2 Japanese seaplane carriers and 2 Japanese light fleet carriers.
22 January 1944: The sortie against the Italian carriers Aquila and Sparviero in support of Salerno (the 1st attempt having failed) sees the sinking of elderly Italian cruisers acting as anti aircraft platforms. However, 3 American light carriers have been sunk before the strike could sink the Italian aircraft carrier. Another 2 more light carriers and USS Cleveland will be sunk later in the day. HMS Spartan is also sunk as well (a week after the attack, same day as otl).
18 February 1944: HMS Penelope sunk by U 410 (easily butterfliable).
30 March 1944: The sortie of the German carrier force Z against Arctic convoy JW68 sees the sinking of HMS Unicorn, HMS Newfoundland and a few escort and American light carriers (HMS Striker, HMS Tracker, USS Vincennes, USS Langley). However, the liner Europa has been lost and it was lucky that no other German warships would be lost from air attack apart from the cruiser Emden and the carrier Jade. A counterattack by planes and cruisers sinks HMS Ceylon and USS Milaukee for the loss of Leipzig and Nurnberg. Nevertheless, the Arctic convoys had to be suspended for the moment.
6 June 1944: D Day would result in the destruction by torpedo attack of the Brazilian battleships Rio Grande Do Sul and Minas Gerais, with 2 French battleships and a Dutch cruiser sunk as artificial harbours. It was later found that the battleships could be used to bombard German batteries, contributing to success in creating a bridgehead at Normandy. However, both battleships are total losses after investigation following breakthrough at Normandy.
9 June 1944: HMS Scylla is mined off Normandy and abandoned as scrap metal postwar.
18 June 1944: USS Hornet (ii) is torpedoed by Japanese aircraft off the Marshalls Islands, only to be sunk over the next day (USS Wasp (ii) put out of action for 6 months or more).
19 June 1944: The carrier Taiho is torpedoed, but survives initially. Japanese planes suffer heavy losses, but by 20 June 1944, only Shokaku has been sunk. Japanese attempts to continue the battle on 20 to 21 June 1944 cost the Japanese Taiho in exchange for the carrier San Jacinto (sunk on 19 June), Akagi and Zuikaku in exchange for USS Hornet (ii) sunk and USS Wasp (ii) heavily damaged.
8 July 1944: Human torpedoes cripple the HMS Dragon, leaving it to be sunk as a breakwater.
16 July 1944: In response to the 'Turkey Shoot' off the Caroline Islands and the torpedoing of the Brazilian battleships off Normandy, the last major sortie of the Kriegsmarine sees the carrier Seydlitz, the armoured cruiser Lutzow and a U boat flotilla sink the Brazilian cruisers Rio Grande Do Sul and Bahia off the coast of Recife on 15 August 1944 before interning themselves off Argentina and making a false sale. This would trigger a major response by Britain, America and Brazil. The aircraft carriers of the Royal Navy would sink 2 Deutschland class pre dreadnoughts, a former Dutch cruiser serving as an anti aircraft battery and 2 former Finnish coastal defence ships as these ships sortied as decoys with HMS Howe, HMS Iron Duke and a few cruisers, losing USS Brooklyn in the process.
November 1944: A task force sorties to the Argentinian coast to demand the surrender of the interned warships. This would include 2 Royal Navy fleet carriers, a few escort carriers and cruisers. The Argentinians sink an American battleship and a cruiser (Omaha class) before their navy ended up being sunk. Also, an escort carrier is lost in the campaign.
14 to 18 December 1944: In the Battle of Leyte Gulf, a Japanese dive bomber sinks the light carrier Bataan on 17 December. The battle of Leyte Gulf sees the sinking of USS Franklin (on 18 December) and the Japanese carriers Shinano, Kaiyo and Hosho (on 17 December) and on 18 December, Unryu, Amagi and Katsuragi, plus the remaining aircraft transports sent with the decoy force. Typhoon Cobra soon strikes the US carrier task force, destroying the remaining American light and all Japanese carriers, plus the torpedoed cruisers Isuzu, Nagara (not sunk by Croacker), Yura and Oyodo. In the meantime, the battleships Musashi and Hyuga, in Southern Force, smashes the rebuilt USS California, USS Idaho and USS Mississippi (delayed completion of repairs to USS West Virginia) with Mogami's support before running out of ammunition (former 2 battleships sinking) only to be sunk by destroyers plus an avalanche of 14 inch gunfire and 16 inch gunfire from USS Indiana. Meanwhile, Admiral Shima's force sinks USS Louisville with torpedoes before being pounced by 8 inch gunfire from cruisers and having USS Louisville and Denver heavily damaged and sinking, the entire Southern Force's cruisers (of Nachi, Ashigara, Naka and Tama) being underwater wreckage by sunrise on 18 December. Abukuma and a destroyer squadron will proceed to duel with a destroyer squadron and take heavy losses.
In the Centre Force, Admiral Kurita manages to sink Taffy 3, despite losing to the cruisers Chokai, Kumano, and Chikuma (last 2 crippled in the attack and staggering, 1st scuttled). By 9:30 a. m., USS White Plains and Gambier Bay have been sunk, although Chokai had to be abandoned in place. USS Kitkun Bay will also be fatally crippled by Maya and Takao. USS Kalinin Bay would be crippled by Atago's, Maya's and Takao's gunfire and sunk with the support of Takao. The usage of Long Lances (and no cruiser sunk by submarines in the previous days beforehand) results in Taffy 3's destruction (apart from USS Fanshaw Bay, with a radio report for assistance before being sunk by gunfire and the soon to be sunk by torpedoes USS St. Lo) and soon enough, Taffy 2 comes under attack, although Taffy 2 and a detached Task Force would be the key to defending the Samar bridgehead off Leyte, crippling a Japanese heavy cruiser (Chikuma) during the Taffy 3 attack besides sinking the cruisers Suzuya and Atago. More aggressiveness from Taffy 2 and Taffy 1 will sink the Maya and the Long Lances for the heavy cruisers are running out, despite the destruction of Taffy 2. The 3 Iowa class battleships are soon coming towards the Yamato, Nagato and Ise. Mutsu sunk as in otl and Fuso class off 2nd Midway.
A squadron of Japanese destroyers and cruiser division 16, led by the light cruiser Yubari, engages the cruiser Honolulu. The Honolulu and a few destroyers are sunk at the expense of the Japanese squadron's absolute destruction, including Sendai. A squadron of armoured cruisers would be sunk on 5 January and 13 January while preparing to escort convoys to Leyte.
USS Sangemon is also torpedoed and sunk by Japanese submarine I 56 and sunk.
In the surface battle, the USS Iowa is sunk by Yamato, but not before Yamato is fatally damaged. Missouri would preside over the destruction of Nagato, followed by Ise. The overall tally is one Iowa class battleship sunk and another heavily damaged, but serviceable. The Tone, Kinugusa, Aoba and Takao would be sunk by USS New Orleans, USS Salt Lake City, USS Pensacola and USS Boston, losing the 1st 2 American cruisers and the third badly damaged while sinking Aoba. Agano and an American light cruiser are also sunk in battle which fortunately for America, results in a few destroyer losses.
15 January 1945: HMS Thane torpedoed by a U boat and sunk.
25 January 1945: Kumano sunk by air raids.
March 1945: Kamikaze attacks sink an escort carrier of the Casalanca class off Luzon.
19 May 1945: Air raids leave the cruiser Ibuki a constructive total loss while being converted to a carrier. USS Bennington is left aflame and towed to Brooklyn Naval Yard, which leaves Bennington unsuitable for active service (if not sunk).
30 March 1945: Air raids sink a Gazelle class anti aircraft floating battery in port.
4 May 1945: U 2501 sights a convoy escorted by HMS Black Prince and torpedoes the cruiser. Also, HMS Bellona is also torpedoed and sunk. The knowledge is transmitted to German High Command, which sinks the HMS Uganda for the loss of Konigsberg, the last German light cruiser afloat (, a Spahkreuzer). Air and submarine attacks manage to sink HMS Queen and Trumpeter.
7 May 1945: This scenario's Operation Ten Go sees the destruction of the Japanese Navy's last cruisers by planes from American carriers while operating off Iwo Jima. Many remaining Japanese cruisers will be sunk in port after surviving the battle.
26 July 1945: I 58 sinks the USS Indianapolis while approaching Saipan with uranium.
31 July 1945: Cruiser Myoko sunk by British midget submarines in Singapore.
9 August 1945: A 2nd atomic bomb of America hits Nagasaki [as in otl]. However, Japan fights on.
15 April 1946 to 18 August 1946: The invasion of Kyushu. This invasion (and related campaigns starting from Iwo Jima) costs America a fleet carrier (Intrepid), a few escort carriers and a battleship each, the last by submarine attack. Britain will lose a few escort carriers and a Colossus class light carrier at most. However, the Japanese lose Kyushu. The last cruiser (Sakawa being only cruiser afloat) and destroyer attack on the American beachheads causes only minor casualties on the United States Navy. The invasion of Kyushu is subject to butterflies, though. Japan surrenders by 25 December 1946, the official surrender being done on 2 January 1947. Japan has seen Kyushu and Honshu invaded by the Western Allies and Hokkaido by the Soviets starting 25 August 1946.
Operation Crossroads in this scenario will be targeted on escort carriers. Also, no cruiser sales to foreign nations from WW2 great powers for the first decade after WW2. Katori class and Ioshima class cruisers sunk while escorting convoys or in Operation Ten Go at latest.
No cruiser and fleet carrier sales to foreign nations from WW2 great powers for the first decade after WW2 if not longer and more Essex class carriers built and completed, along with Iowa class battleships and a few more otl unfinished cruisers, only to be commissioned too late for WW2, is the outcome. Soviets get no battleships or only 1 (USS Wyoming) from Western Allies, besides a cruiser (HMS Swiftsure).
All Axis (German, Italian, Japanese, Turkish and Vichy) warships of the aircraft carrier, battleship and cruiser types sunk, and apart from a few (slow) Japanese cruisers sunk in port or salvageable Axis cuisers, permanently. Soviets left with 2 cruisers in the Pacific, US is big winner in capital warships and Britain has a navy to rebuild (HMS Iron Duke, HMS Howe, HMS Vanguard and purchase of Almarante Latorre being only battleships to survive WW2, the last as a training ship, 2 heavy cruisers, a few light cruisers). Fleet aircraft carriers restricted to aircraft maintenance ships, light carriers and Indefatigable class or newer fleet carriers. Heavy cruiser losses for the Allies, less sales to overseas nations. No Falklands War in 1982. Cold War being less intense than otl.
North Africa, Battle of Britain, mainland Balkans campaign, Operation Barbarossa and most of the Battle of the Atlantic similar to otl.
The Soviets spend 1942 and 1943 invading Turkey and destroying Army Group South. In 1943, an advance is made against Leningrad at the expense of going on the defensive in the south and sacrificing Turkey. In 1944, the Allies succeed in invading France and Italy, which is responded with troop withdrawals from the Mediterranean and the Balkans. The Germans last offensive, made against Kursk, fails in July 1944 and leads to an Allied advance to the Rhine and Bavaria by April 1945, a Soviet advance into the Balkans, Ukraine and Belarus in the summer of 1945 and the fall of Berlin by 10 October 1945, resulting in German surrender by 20 October 1945, with the retaking of Leningrad. This will be continued with the surrender of Finland by 5 January 1946, ending WW2 in Europe. The Turks finally surrender on 5 May 1946 to the Soviets, the invasion of Manchuria having occurred a month before. Postwar, the Iron Curtain runs from western Poland to the Czech Republic to Austria to Trieste.
Timeline may be a bit to quite asb and movable there though. Fuel and escorts may make this timeline a bit asb. Subject to butterfly effect.
Even more asb version (may be combined with AANW, but might/ would see this thread moved to asb)
1 September 1939 to 31 August 1940: Warship losses as per otl. British lose HMS Courageous, HMS Royal Oak, HMS Effingham, HMS Curfew, HMS Glorious and HMS Calypso. Germans lose Graf Spee, Blucher, Brummer and Karlsruhe (Konigsberg would later be salvaged after the timeline's pod and put back into service only as an abandoned hulk for scrapping in years or return to full fledged configuration). French lose battleship Bretagne and cruiser Pluton, Italians lose the cruiser Colleoni, Norwegians lose 2 coastal defence ships at Narvik and Greece the cruiser Eli.
1st POD: 31 August 1940: During Operation Hats, a convoy of merchant ships bound for Malta is attacked by the Italian Navy. The Italian Navy sinks 2 British battleships, an aircraft carrier, a battleship, 2 cruisers and 9 destroyers for the loss of a battleship (Caio Duilio), a heavy cruiser and 5 destroyers. The Malta convoy would soon be intercepted and for the loss of another 5 more Italian destroyers and an Italian light cruiser, another 8 more British destroyers and 3 more British cruisers would be sunk.
Besides defeating the Mediterranean Fleet, the plans for Taranto had been postponed.
17 September 1940: A dive bomber attack sees HMS Sussex exploded in drydock, leaving it a constructive total loss to be scrapped. On the same day, the aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious is torpedoed and sunk by the Italian submarine Corallo. The next day, HMS Coventry is torpedoed and sunk by Italian aircraft.
24 September 1940: HMS Wellesley sunk by Luftwaffe.
25 to 30 September 1940: A bombardment of Dakar sees the sinking of HMS Rodney by a submarine and the constructive total loss/ disabling of the already crippled Richelieu. In addition, 2 British heavy cruisers and 4 destroyers are sunk for the loss of 2 Vichy French light cruisers and 3 destroyers. However, Richelieu has to be declared a constructive total loss. Cap des Palmes is also sunk at Gabon, which occurs on 7 November 1940. In the aftermath of the battle, which is followed with the loss of the cruiser Primauguet while breaking through to Toulon from Casablanca with the cruiser Gloire in early October 1940, Vichy France declares war on Britain on 5 October 1940, with all French ships at Alexandria being scuttled to avoid capture.
In November 1940, the sortie of the Layotte Pique on a raiding mission in the Pacific results in the cruiser's destruction. MS Aramis (rearmed along with the cruiser Layotte Pique) is also destroyed in the mission. On 5 November 1940, Jervis Bay is sunk as in otl. Armed merchant cruiser losses for 1940 and 1941 are per otl for Britain and Germany unless mentioned, the sinking of Python done by Canton and Atlantis done by Canton, with the German ships sunk. R class amcs all sunk by 1942 (Rawalpindi, Rajputana, Ranchi and Ranpura, first 2 sunk as per otl, last 2 by air raids in Sri Lanka on 5 April 1942 with HMS Hector). HMS Worchestershire would be sunk on 3 April 1941 instead of Cheshire 6 months earlier, with HMS Cheshire being torpedoed and salvaged as in otl. HMS Alaunia replacing an armed merchant cruiser in New Zealand as troopship. Fates of German and Japanese auxiliary cruisers are similar to otl, all sunk as auxiliary cruisers in otl sunk by 1943, although Pinguin may be sunk by a light or auxiliary cruiser in this timeline instead of HMS Cornwall as in otl. More Vichy, Italian, Soviet and Romanian auxiliary cruisers sunk than otl, with the former losing more auxiliary cruisers in oceans. The remaining Romanian cruisers, being riverbound gunboats, are left to be confiscated by the Soviets postwar. Italy loses RAMB class auxiliary cruisers from Italian East Africa to sinking or capture similar to otl. On 1 December 1941, HMS Canton will be sunk by UA in the South Atlantic.
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Cap des Palmes sunk off Libreville with Poncelet on 7 November 1940. On 31 October 1940, HMS Moreton Bay sinks auxiliary cruiser Ville D' Oran while escorting the French passenger liner Cuba, not captured by the British in this timeline. Another auxiliary cruiser will be sunk during the Madagascar campaign.
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December 1940: A convoy of ships bound for Malta from Gibraltar ends up being attacked by Italian and French heavy and light cruisers besides battleships. The British lose HMS Ark Royal, Rodney, Renown, Resolution and Barham, along with 6 heavy cruisers and 9 light cruisers in the battle for this convoy. The French lose Strasbourg and 3 heavy and 4 light cruisers while the Italians lose Vittorio Veneto, Andrea Doria, Conte Di Cavour and 2 heavy plus 3 light cruisers. This convoy to Malta is successful, though. Apparently, the defeat of Primauguet on 1 October 1940 and 3 French auxiliary cruisers from Dakar off Gibraltar the previous month (25 November) wasn't enough in comparing Royal Navy fleet performance to properly fledged cruisers. Auxiliary cruisers Colombie and Koutoubia sunk in the convoy battle as well, Charles Pluimer sunk on 22 October 1940 (instead of captured that day otl), Mexique rejected for AMC conversion and sunk before the pod. RMS Empress of Britain sunk as in otl on 28 October 1940.
25 December 1940: HMS Argus is sunk by German cruiser Admiral Hipper, which is later torpedoed and sunk by destroyers. The carrier was escorting a convoy of troopships bound for Madagascar and North Africa.
January 1941: HMS Hermes is sunk by planes while escorting a convoy from Alexandria to Malta and sunk at sea. The British also lose 2 light cruisers escorting the same convoy. Armoured cruiser San Giorgio also sunk in the same month with the loss of Tobruk, its sister being sunk after the surrender of Italy in March 1944 by scuttling in drydock while repairing damage inflicted by planes on 28 June 1943. HMS Victory bombed and sunk permanently at Portsmouth.
February 1941: In a convoy attack, the British lose HMS Revenge to Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. However, Gneisenau is badly damaged. Later, Gneisenau is sunk by torpedo attacks while Scharnhorst finishes and sinks the HMS Repulse before escaping. In the same month, the cruisers Admiral Scheer, Hawkins, Capetown and Shropshire are lost in combat. HMS Terror sunk off Libya.
(25 February 1941 attack on Armando Diaz sinks an Italian auxiliary cruiser instead.)
March 1941: Attacks on the cruiser HMS York by Italian motor boats and German bombers leave it a wreck to be scuttled after the successful German invasion of Crete.
April 1941: The Greek campaign results in the destruction of the Greek navy, including the cruiser Averof and 2 pre dreadnoughts. As it was mostly obsolete and at anchor, the destruction is no big deal.
22 May to 1 June 1941: During the battle of Crete, dive bombers sink the cruisers Calcutta, Dido and Leander. The battleships Littorio and Cavour would provide support for the invasion convoy to Crete and the cruiser Fiji will be sunk by gunfire. The German paratrooper losses for Crete would be less than otl. HMS Valiant, HMS Royal Sovereign and HMS Ramilies would also be sunk in exchange for sinking the battleship Guilio Cesare.
24-27 May 1941: Bismarck sinks HMS Hood and HMS Prince of Wales before being sunk by HMS King George V and HMS Formidable. The British also lose HMS Prince of Wales when torpedoed and sunk by Prinz Eugen, while HMS Norfolk is damaged by shellfire from Prinz Eugen, only to be sunk in July 1941. Prinz Eugen is sunk, however.
July 1941: While escorting a convoy to Malta, the Royal Navy loses HMS Formidable, HMS Queen Elizabeth, HMS King George V, HMS Furious (on a diversionary mission), 2 heavy cruisers and 10 light cruisers. However, the Italians lose the battleship Littorio, 4 heavy cruisers and 4 light cruisers. The French lose a heavy cruiser and the battleship Provence. Nevertheless, the convoy gets through to Malta.
3 September 1941: HMS Trident sunk by U-566. This, along with torpedo damage to Lutzow as in otl, means that HMS Trident is unable to torpedo German cruisers on 23 February 1942.
6 September 1941: HMS Nigeria sinks German gunnery training ship Bremse.
10 September 1941: While in Gibraltar, 3 merchant ships are sunk by human torpedoes launched from the submarine Sirce. A planned raid on the remaining Italian light cruisers has been cancelled.
19 September 1941: U-68 is sunk by ramming from HMS Clyde, which is later torpedoed by U-104, sinking the last River-class submarine. On 17 April 1941, HMS Severn has been sunk by Italian submarine Guglielmoti, having sunk 2 Italian submarines (Archimede and Ferraris, Gugliemoti replacing Archimede's career until being sunk on 15 April 1943 instead of Archimede) bound for Bordeaux from Massawa. The 2 otl Italian submarine successes in October 1940 (against Gemma in a friendly fire incident and against HMS Triad) would be repeated in this timeline.
27 September 1941: An attack on a Malta convoy results in the loss of 5 British cruisers to the loss of the remaining Italian light cruisers apart from the light cruiser Garibaldi. However, convoys to North Africa could be continued due to British warship losses. In the meantime, the Italian and Vichy French device a solution to reinforce North Africa (campaign having proceeded as per otl with Vichy troops).
October 1941: The Argentinian invasion of the Falklands results in Argentina joining the Axis and Brazil joining the Allies. However, the destruction of the Brazilian Navy by the Argentine Navy means that the US would have to invade the Falklands in November 1942 with the aid of 2 battleships, several cruisers and destroyers, but the destruction of the Argentinian Navy would cost the US one heavy cruiser (Augusta) and 2 Omaha-class light cruisers. In 1943, Brazil would defeat Argentina and Argentina would join the Allies.
13 November 1941: An invasion convoy for Madagascar is attacked by a Vichy French submarine, which sinks a British light cruiser. A German submarine would sink another British light cruiser in the South Atlantic before the end of the month.
19 November 1941: Mutual destruction of HMS Danae and Kormoran in the Indian Ocean.
7 December 1941: At Pearl Harbour, USS Arizona, Utah (training ship) and Oklahoma are lost as in otl. (Or attack in deep water and focus on battleships to sink these 2 battleships and USS West Virginia plus USS California, USS Utah replacing USS California or Nevada, attack in deep water option is selected).
10 December 1941: Force Z (Now comprising of heavy and light cruisers) is attacked by planes, losing HMS Centurion and 2 cruisers by the end of the day.
15 December 1941: HMS Ajax is sunk by Italian and German submarines. Over the next few days, torpedoes put into HMS Enterprise and HMS Emerald destroy (the former of if not both of, likely both of) them for good in addition to an Alexandria drydock. HMS Neptune is also sunk by a minefield while intercepting convoys.
20 December 1941: Bearn and Jeanne D Arc sunk by aircraft from USS Wasp while returning to France with 3 French auxiliary cruisers. Emile Bertin will return to Toulon.
21 December 1941: HMS Audacity sunk as in otl.
25 December 1941: Decommissioned armoured cruiser Rochester scuttled to prevent capture by Japan.
11 January 1942: USS Saratoga damaged as in otl.
14 February 1942: Submarine Surcouf disappears in the Caribbean.
15 February 1942: Singapore surrenders. RMS Empress of Asia has been sunk 10 days before by planes.
27 to 28 February 1942: The battles of the Java Sea sees the loss of HMAS Perth, USS Houston, Java and De Ruyter. On 1 March, HMS Exeter is also sunk.
29 March 1942: HMS Trinidad sunk by a malfunctioning torpedo and German destroyer torpedoes. The Germans lose destroyers Z26 and Z25, however.
30 April 1942: HMS Charbydis sunk by U 456 (instead of now sunken HMS Edinburgh).
8 May 1942: Battle of Coral Sea proceeds as per otl. The carriers Shoho and Lexington are lost as in otl.
4 June 1942: At Midway, Akagi is not first hit. These carriers counterattack and sink USS Yorktown while USS Enterprise is crippled. Soryu is destroyed as in otl and Kaga later. At night, a counterattack sinks USS Enterprise, USS Northampton and USS Atlanta by surface action and the Americans retreat. The amphibious assault on Midway over the next week is a defeat for Japan, however.
5 June 1942: USS Hornet manages to sink Hiryu, but Akagi cripples Hornet and the planes of Zuiho sink Hornet, which is left to be sunk by planes.
14 June 1942: In the battle for a Malta convoy, a destroyer is lost. The Malta convoy also loses its merchant ships.
15 June 1942: A torpedo bomber damages an Italian cruiser (Bari), which escapes otherwise unharmed with a damaged bow until encountering HMS Umbra. Malta based torpedo bombers are able to contribute to the sinking of 2 obsolete former German Italian cruisers, including Bari. The presence of the Italian battleship Roma causes the convoy's retreat and destruction. A u boat sinks the HMS Cleopatra as the convoy retreats.
29 June 1942: The sortie of the Graf Zeppelin against PQ17 sinks HMS Victorious before its loss. HMS Duke of York is also sunk by Tirpitz before Tirpitz's loss. In addition, Scharnhorst, HMS Iron Duke, USS Wasp and USS North Carolina are also lost in the battle, resulting in PQ17's scattering and destruction. The escorting German cruiser Lutzow is also able to sink HMS Nigeria and USS Tuscaloosa as well before being sunk by US cruiser gunfire.
July 1942: An immediate advance on Stalingrad when supported by paratroopers could be achieved due to fewer paratroop losses at Crete.
9 July 1942: The sinking of HMS Hyacinth by submarine Perla results in submarine Perla sinking minelayer HMS Abdiel before being sunk (both Perla and Abidiel) on 30 August 1942, contributing to Maltese surrender.
31 July 1942: Obsolete cruiser Cattaro (ex-Yugoslav) sunk by HMS Traveller.
8 to 9 August 1942: Battle of Savo Island. The Americans lose as many cruisers (Chicago instead of Astoria, with Chicago sunk by midget submarines on 31 May 1942, then HNZMS Achilles is a replacement, with Canberra sunk in July 1941, then HMAS Hobart is sunk at Savo, only USS Chicago could be sunk by midgets on 31 May 1942) as otl. The Japanese still retreat and lose the cruiser Kako.
11 August 1942: A salvo of torpedoes from U73 sinks HMS Indomitable as a last ditch convoy is assembled for Malta, if not Alexandria. USS Juneau is also crippled and sunk by Italian torpedo bombers. The next day, USS Ranger is sunk by German, French and Italian dive bombers and in the night battle, MAS boats sink the cruiser Cairo , the submarine Axum having torpedoed Ohio. In the convoy battle, USS Washington is also sunk in the convoy for the loss of Italian battleship Roma. Also, 3 Omaha class cruisers, HMS Euraylus and HMS Sirius are sunk for the loss of the cruisers Garibaldi, Attilo Regolo and Bertin, with a Mogador class destroyer sunk by HMS Unbroken the next day. The convoy battle and the destruction of 4 British fast minelayers to submarine and air attacks over 30 August 1942 to 3 September 1942 end with Malta's surrender on 15 September 1942.
23 August 1942: During the Battle of Eastern Solomons, USS Saratoga and the carrier Ryujo are sunk in the battle. However, Guadalcanal still holds for the time being, but not for long.
13 September 1942: HMS Archer is sunk by German torpedo planes. After the torpedoing of Archer, 10 merchant ships will be sunk by torpedo planes before reaching Archangelsk.
15 September 1942: USS South Dakota sunk by Japanese destroyers with a salvo of torpedoes. Earlier in the day, it had sank the Kirishima and Hiel, besides a Japanese destroyer. The Japanese also cost the Americans an escort carrier, a cruiser (San Diego) and a battleship (Maryland) the previous day due to air and submarine attack. The Guadalcanal Campaign would end in an American defeat by early October 1942. Due to carrier losses and information from captured marines, the Japanese decide on an invasion of Midway and of Pearl Harbour.
18 September 1942: HMS Talisman reports the surrender of Malta and sinks several merchant ships after the successful Italian occupation of Malta following its surrender before being sunk itself.
30 September 1942: An attempt to rescue troops at Guadalcanal costs the US Navy Boise and the Japanese Furutaka. Aoba is able to escape with heavy damage. Air raids by Japanese carriers will catch the USS Boise and sink it, causing an abandonment of the Guadalcanal rescue and resupply effort.
2 October 1942: HMS Curacoa rammed and sunk by RMS Queen Mary. By December 1942, RMS Queen Elizabeth has been torpedoed and RMS Queen Mary would sink in a storm. SS Normandie would be repaired sufficiently to allow a return to troopship service in 1944. RMS Empress of Britain lost on 28 October 1940, with U31 and U32 lost in a few days from 28 October 1940.
October 1942: Negotiations for Turkish entry into WW2 on the Axis side succeed. In December 1942, for the loss of the Soviet battleship Parizhskaya Kommuna and the remants of the Black Sea Fleet after the bombing and sinking of Chervona Ukraina and the scuttling of Komintern at Poti, the Turks lose Turgut Reis and 2 cruisers plus several destroyers. Another Soviet cruiser (Komintern) would be sunk in the Black Sea. Raids on the Italian coast have been cancelled.
8 November 1942: During Operation Torch, a Vichy French submarine sinks USS Philadelphia. Planes and shells from USS Massachusetts also lead to the destruction of the battleship Jean Bart. On 10 November 1942, a salvo of torpedoes sinks the USS Massachusetts, besides the Wichita, besides the USS Santee. This leads to HMS Anson's transfer from the Arctic convoys. Axis submarine losses at Casablanca similar to otl.
15 November 1942: HMS Biter sunk by a torpedo from U 155.
December 1942: HMS Ursula sunk by French escorts after sinking merchantmen for French North Africa (Tunisia).
14 December 1942: HMS Argonaut torpedoed and sunk (worse hull severing) by an Italian submarine (easily butterfliable, or may not, may not being the suggestion).
18 December 1942: Cruiser Tenryu sunk as in otl. Tatsuta will also be sunk as in otl on 13 March 1944.
31 December 1942: The battle of convoy JW52 results in the sinking of the cruisers Koln, Leipzig and Nurnberg for the loss of the light cruisers Jamaica, Bermuda, Scylla and Belfast plus the heavy cruisers Frobisher and Vindictive. Also, another cruiser (Belfast) is sunk by a U boat. In the aftermath of the battle, the convoy is forced to scatter with the loss of its merchant ships.
3 January 1943: Italian cruiser Ulpio Trapeno destroyed by Chariot human torpedoes before completion.
27 January 1943: USS Augusta sunk by U-625.
7 February 1943: HMS Torbay sinks the former Italian but now Spanish submarine General Sanjurgo by mistake. In the aftermath of the incident, Spain joins the Axis, but it is too late to prevent North Africa from falling. The entire Spanish submarine fleet would be sunk by December 1943.
26 February 1943: HMS Manxman, the last British minelaying cruiser still afloat, sinks the German tanker Hohenfriedberg, but is sunk by U264.
27 March 1943: HMS Dasher lost as in otl due to a gas explosion.
5 April 1943: While launching a second invasion of Midway, the 'prelude to the second Pearl Harbour' sees the destruction of battleships Nevada, Pennsylvania, Colorado and New Mexico, 3 escort carriers and several cruisers and destroyers. However, it is a pyrrhic victory for Japan as the Japanese had lost 3 carriers (all escort carriers and a few aircraft transports) at 2nd Midway alone. At 2nd Midway, the Japanese lose 2 battleships and several cruisers and destroyers with a barely successful invasion. The Japanese Navy's last offensive would be underway. (Night battle against invasion convoy and battleships sinks a Japanese light cruiser Jintsu while 3 American light cruisers are sunk.) Submarine attacks on the Midway invasion convoy cause the Japanese to abandon Midway in late 1943.
Mid-April 1943: HMS Regent not sunk by minefields. It would sink the Italian merchant ships sunk by HMS Severn and HMS Clyde in otl and a few more Italian, Vichy, Spanish and German merchant ships and contribute to the victory of 23 January 1944 over Italian cruisers before being transferred to the Pacific in 1945, surviving WW2.
24 April 1943: HMS Sahib, with a similar career to its otl counterpart apart from not using Malta and sinking the Italian corvette Gabbiano in addition, is sunk by Italian warships.
10 June 1943: A Soviet Navy breakout attempt from Kronstadt sees the destruction of the battleship Oktyabrskaya Revolyutsiya by bomber raids during the preparations (Marat having lost its bow and abandoned and scuttled without sailing at Leningrad since 1941, Petropavlosk being abandoned and completely wrecked at Leningrad, which is undergoing a successful offensive). The battle of the Baltic will cost Germany a few auxiliary cruisers, clearly acting as decoys. However, the Soviet Baltic Fleet has been destroyed or interned, and scrapped or scuttled in 1943 by 1946. Nevertheless, a disaster for the Germans in the making would occur in the south of Russia.
10 July 1943: HMS Hunter torpedoed and sunk by U 73 during the invasion of Spain, which alerts the Luftwaffe to the presence of carriers. On 16 July, HMS Attacker would be torpedoed and sunk by German aircraft.
25 July 1943: HMS Asturias torpedoed and damaged by Cagni, but repaired or sunk.
9 August 1943: HMS Simoon sinks the French destroyer Mogador in exchange for the loss of HMS Simoon itself to depth charges from destroyer Vincenzo Giorberti.
29 August 1943: Danish Navy sunk and rendered unsalvageable to avoid capture by the Germans.
12 September 1943: Fritz X sinks HMS Anson, clearly triumphant over the wrecked Italian battleship Impero for the loss of HMS Howe. USS Indiana would triumph over the French battlecruiser Dunkerque. USS Arkansas and an Omaha class light cruiser would be sunk by Fritz X weapons while providing gunfire support. The carriers Stalker, Battler and Ruler are also sunk by planes. Later, Fritz Xs will sink USS Savannah as well. In the cruiser battle, all 5 Spanish light cruisers are sunk, with only an American light cruiser of the Omaha class sunk by the 5 Spanish cruisers. The landings against Cartagena initially fail without gunfire support, although southern Spain including Cartagena and Cadiz is secured by November 1943. This, plus the withdrawal of German troops and planes to Spain from Italy, would facilitate the surrender of Italy on 8 March 1944.
23 October 1943: British light cruiser Ceylon sunk by German torpedo boats in the Bay of Biscay after its destroyer screen was engaged by escorts for Munsterland. The German escort screen is lost shortly and the Munsterland is sunk, however. Only 3 British destroyers could be sunk, however.
1 November 1943: An Italian light cruiser (Guilio Germanico) is destroyed while near completion with the destruction of Naples' drydock by bombing. By this time, four Italian cruisers of the Capitani Romani class have been cancelled before completion and three ships of this class (including Guilio Germanico) have been sunk, with three ships of the Capitani Romani class to be destroyed in January 1944, one ship surrendered to the Allies and one ship would be bombed and destroyed at Genoa.
17 November 1943: A torpedo hit on the USS Marblehead leaves it vulnerable to sinking (by U 86) the next day.
19 November 1943: The battle for Tarawa ends in the last major Japanese fleet victory of WW2 in the Pacific. Even that would see the destruction of 2 Japanese battleships, plus the Hiyo and Junyo. However, 4 American fleet carriers and an escort carrier group have been sunk for 2 Japanese seaplane carriers and 2 Japanese light fleet carriers.
20 January 1944: The Turkish battlecruiser Yavuz is sunk by USS Indiana. However, USS Indiana is later sunk by Fritz Xs in 1945, having taken part in the 1944 Mediterranean Campaigns, and Turkish and German planes in support could only sink USS Oakland and several American destroyers. The remnants of the Turkish navy and the seagoing fast destroyers of the Romanian and Bulgarian navies are sunk in the battle. Air attacks also sink a cruiser during the Dodecanese naval Campaign, the campaign failing however for the Allies despite heavy naval losses for the Axis.
22 January 1944: The sortie against the Italian carriers Aquila and Sparviero in support of the Sicily and Malta landings (after the capture of southern Spain and the Spanish surrender) sees the sinking of elderly Italian cruisers acting as anti aircraft platforms. However, 3 American light carriers have been sunk before the strike could sink the Italian aircraft carrier. Another 2 more light carriers and USS Cleveland will be sunk later in the day for the loss of both Italian aircraft carriers. Finally, the last Italian warship sortie would cost the Italians on 23 January 1944 all its remaining light cruisers sunk in exchange for HMS Spartan sunk. In the aftermath of the airstrikes, both drydocks at La Spezia and Genoa, plus the wrecked before German capture Italian carriers and warships at these ports, are destroyed with bomber planes. HMS Gambia is also sunk as well with a glider bomb (a week after the attack, same day as otl for HMS Spartan). However, the losses of both carriers would result in a nearly aborted Italian armistice on 8 March 1944 and a subsequent invasion of Italy by Germany, tying up dozens of German divisions even though these divisions are needed for the defence of France and the Eastern Front. The largest purpose built Italian warship to make it to the surrender ceremony on 9 March 1944 would be the light cruiser Ottaviano Augusto, only one light cruiser.
30 March 1944: The sortie of the German carrier force Z (consisting of the carrier Seydlitz, the liner Europa, 2 German predreadnoughts and cruisers Emden and Konigsberg, the latter being salvaged) against Arctic convoy JW68 sees the sinking of HMS Unicorn and HMS Royalist. However, the carrier Seydlitz has been lost and it was lucky that no other German warships would be lost from air attack apart from the liner Europa (its sister ship Bremen destroyed as in otl in March 1941 and broken up, the remains being scuttled in December 1946) and the carrier Seydlitz. A counterattack by the German cruisers and predreadnoughts sinks HMS Uganda, HMS Newfoundland, USS Raleigh and USS Milaukee for the loss of Konigsberg, Emden and both German predreadnoughts sunk by USS Alabama. Nevertheless, the Arctic convoys had to be suspended for the moment due to D-Day.
11 May 1944: HMS Tally Ho sinks the cruiser Kashima. On 27 May 1944, the cruiser Kitakami is severely damaged and rebuilt only to be sunk on 7 May 1945.
29 May 1944: USS Block Island sunk by a U-boat, with its attacker soon sunk afterwards.
6 June 1944: D Day would result in the wrecking by torpedo attack of 2 Dutch cruisers, with 2 French battleships and a Dutch cruiser sunk as artificial harbours. It was later found that the cruisers could be used to bombard German batteries, contributing to success in creating a bridgehead at Normandy. However, both cruisers are total losses after investigation following breakthrough at Normandy.
9 June 1944: HMS Diadem is mined off Normandy and abandoned as scrap metal postwar, but only after 20 more years of postwar service.
18 June 1944: USS Hornet (ii) is torpedoed by Japanese aircraft off the Marshalls Islands, only to be sunk over the next day (USS Wasp (ii) put out of action for 6 months or more if not sunk).
19 June 1944: The carrier Taiho is torpedoed, but survives initially. Japanese planes suffer heavy losses, but by 20 June 1944, only Shokaku has been sunk. Japanese attempts to continue the battle on 20 to 21 June 1944 cost the Japanese Taiho in exchange for the carrier San Jacinto (sunk on 19 June), Akagi and Zuikaku in exchange for USS Hornet (ii) sunk and USS Wasp (ii) heavily damaged/ sinking.
8 July 1944: Human torpedoes cripple the HMS Caroline, leaving it to be sunk as a breakwater.
16 July 1944: In response to the 'Turkey Shoot' off the Caroline Islands and the torpedoing of the Dutch cruisers off Normandy, the last major sortie of the Kriegsmarine sees the carrier Jade and a former Dutch cruiser readied and 2 former Finnish coastal defence ships purchased for a sortie in the Arctic in late 1945.
August 1944: Air raid sinks the pre-dreadnought training ship Condorcet in Toulon. The accomodation ship Ocean is also scuttled. Postwar, France is treated as a defeated Axis nation together with other Axis nations.
22 August 1944: An escort carrier raid on Norway costs the British 4 escort carriers in return for destroyed Norwegian airbases and several sunken U-boats.
14 to 18 December 1944: In the Battle of Leyte Gulf, a Japanese dive bomber sinks the light carrier Bataan on 17 December. The battle of Leyte Gulf sees the sinking of USS Franklin (on 18 December) and the Japanese carriers Shinano, Kaiyo and Hosho (on 17 December) and on 18 December, Unryu, Amagi and Katsuragi, plus the remaining aircraft transports sent with the decoy force. Typhoon Cobra soon strikes the US carrier task force, destroying the remaining American light and all Japanese carriers, plus the torpedoed cruisers Isuzu, Nagara (not sunk by Croacker), Yura and Oyodo. In the meantime, the battleships Musashi and Hyuga, in Southern Force, sinks the rebuilt USS Utah, USS Idaho and USS Mississippi with Mogami's support before running out of ammunition (former 2 battleships sinking) only to be sunk by destroyers plus an avalanche of 14 inch gunfire and 16 inch gunfire from USS Alabama. Meanwhile, Admiral Shima's force sinks USS Louisville with torpedoes before being pounced by 8 inch gunfire from cruisers and having USS Louisville and Denver heavily damaged and sinking, the entire Southern Force's cruisers (of Nachi, Ashigara, Naka and Tama) being underwater wreckage by sunrise on 18 December. Abukuma and a destroyer squadron will proceed to duel with a destroyer squadron and take heavy losses.
In the Centre Force, Admiral Kurita manages to sink Taffy 3, despite losing to the cruisers Chokai, Kumano, and Chikuma (last 2 crippled in the attack and staggering, 1st scuttled). By 9:30 a. m., USS White Plains and Gambier Bay have been sunk, although Chokai had to be abandoned in place. USS Kitkun Bay will also be fatally crippled by Maya and Takao. USS Kalinin Bay would be crippled by Atago's, Maya's and Takao's gunfire and sunk with the support of Takao. The usage of Long Lances (and no cruiser sunk by submarines in the previous days beforehand) results in Taffy 3's destruction (apart from USS Fanshaw Bay, with a radio report for assistance before being sunk by gunfire and the soon to be sunk by torpedoes USS St. Lo) and soon enough, Taffy 2 comes under attack, although Taffy 2 and a detached Task Force would be the key to defending the Samar bridgehead off Leyte, crippling a Japanese heavy cruiser (Chikuma) during the Taffy 3 attack besides sinking the cruisers Suzuya and Atago. More aggressiveness from Taffy 2 and Taffy 1 will sink the Maya and the Long Lances for the heavy cruisers are running out, despite the destruction of Taffy 2. The 3 Iowa class battleships are soon coming towards the Yamato, Nagato and Ise. Mutsu sunk as in otl and Fuso class off 2nd Midway.
A squadron of Japanese destroyers and cruiser division 16, led by the light cruiser Yubari, engages the cruiser Honolulu. The Honolulu and a few destroyers are sunk at the expense of the Japanese squadron's absolute destruction, including Sendai. A squadron of armoured cruisers would be sunk on 5 January and 13 January while preparing to escort convoys to Leyte.
USS Sangemon is also torpedoed and sunk by Japanese submarine I 56 and sunk.
In the surface battle, the USS Iowa is sunk by Yamato, but not before Yamato is fatally damaged. Missouri would preside over the destruction of Nagato, followed by Ise and the surviving Kongo class battlecruisers. The overall tally is one Iowa class battleship sunk and another heavily damaged and later sunk. The Tone, Kinugusa, Aoba and Takao would be sunk by USS Salt Lake City, USS Pensacola, USS New Orleans and USS Boston, losing the 1st 2 American cruisers and the third badly damaged while sinking on the way home. Agano and an American light cruiser are also sunk in battle which fortunately for America, results in a few destroyer losses.
15 January 1945: HMS Thane torpedoed by a U boat and sunk.
25 January 1945: Kumano sunk by air raids.
March 1945: Kamikaze attacks sink an escort carrier of the Casalanca class off Luzon. A successful bombing raid which sinks the former Italian/Thai light cruisers off Trieste still under construction results in the breakout and sinking of the Italian liners Rex and Conte di Savoia by destroyers.
25 March 1945: HMS Shakespeare sinks a Japanese merchant ship and reports its convoy to a British destroyer flotilla, but Japanese counterattacks render it a total loss. Before its wrecking, it had sank the Spanish submarine General Mola in July 1943, a Spanish heavy cruiser on 6 August 1943 and several smaller warships/ merchantmen.
19 May 1945: Air raids leave the cruiser Ibuki a constructive total loss while being converted to a carrier. USS Bennington is left aflame and towed to Brooklyn Naval Yard, which leaves Bennington unsuitable for active service (if not sunk).
30 March 1945: Air raids sink a Gazelle class anti aircraft floating battery in port. On 9 to 16 April 1945, the remaining Gazelle class cruisers and a decommissioned pre-dreadnought's remains are sunk by bombers.
4 May 1945: U 2501 sights an Arctic convoy escorted by HMS Black Prince and torpedoes the cruiser. Also, HMS Bellona is also torpedoed and sunk. Air and submarine attacks manage to sink HMS Queen and Trumpeter.
7 May 1945: This scenario's Operation Ten Go sees the destruction of the Japanese Navy's last cruisers by planes from American carriers while operating off Iwo Jima. Many remaining Japanese cruisers will be sunk in port after surviving the battle.
28 June 1945: In response to the U2501's attacks, the former Dutch cruiser Gelderland, 2 former Finnish coastal defence ships and the carrier Jade sortie only to be sunk by 2 Implacable class carriers and the remaining British and American light and escort carriers, destroying the German Navy's last heavy ships. The only major losses incurred in the battle for the Allies are 2 British light carriers.
26 July 1945: I 58 sinks the USS Indianapolis while approaching Saipan with uranium.
31 July 1945: Cruiser Myoko sunk by British midget submarines in Singapore. It will be scuttled in deep water postwar.
9 August 1945: A 2nd atomic bomb of America hits Nagasaki [as in otl]. However, Japan fights on.
12 August 1945: USS Texas rendered a total loss by Japanese torpedoes. After the war, all surviving US battleships of the 14 inch gunned type will be expended in Operation Crossroads.
October 1945: Shortly before the German surrender, an XXI U boat sinks the Chilean and Peruvian cruisers and a Chilean battleship.
15 April 1946 to 18 August 1946: The invasion of Kyushu. This invasion (and related campaigns starting from Iwo Jima) costs America a fleet carrier (Intrepid), a few escort carriers and the heavy cruiser Chester each, the last by submarine attack. Britain will lose a few escort carriers and a Colossus class light carrier at most. However, the Japanese lose Kyushu. The last cruiser (Sakawa being only cruiser afloat) and destroyer attack on the American beachheads causes only minor casualties on the United States Navy. The invasion of Kyushu is subject to butterflies, though. Japan surrenders by 25 December 1946, the official surrender being done on 2 January 1947. Japan has seen Kyushu and Honshu invaded by the Western Allies and Hokkaido by the Soviets starting 25 August 1946.
Operation Crossroads in this scenario will be targeted on escort carriers. Also, no cruiser sales to foreign nations from WW2 great powers for the first decade after WW2. Katori class and Ioshima class cruisers sunk while escorting convoys or in Operation Ten Go at latest.
No cruiser and fleet carrier sales to foreign nations from WW2 great powers for the first decade after WW2 if not longer and more Essex class carriers built and completed, along with Iowa class battleships and a few more otl unfinished cruisers, only to be commissioned too late for WW2, is the outcome. Soviets get no battleships or only 1 (USS Wyoming) from Western Allies, besides a cruiser (USS Brooklyn) and postwar. By the end of the war, all Grampus-class submarines have been sunk, the last being HMS Rorqual to a Japanese plane in February 1946, 1st 4 Grampus-class losses as in otl, HMS Porpoise sunk by depth charges in August 1942.
All Axis (German, Italian, Japanese, Turkish, Romanian, Spanish, Thai, Finnish, Argentine and Vichy) warships of the aircraft carrier, battleship and cruiser types sunk, and apart from a few (slow) Japanese and Romanian cruisers sunk in port and scrapped or salvageable as war reparation Axis-national cruisers, permanently. Soviets left with 2 cruisers in the Pacific, US is big winner in capital warships and Britain has a navy to rebuild (HMS Vanguard being the only battleship to survive WW2, 2 heavy cruisers, a few light cruisers). Fleet aircraft carriers restricted to aircraft maintenance ships, light carriers and Indefatigable class or newer fleet carriers. Heavy cruiser losses for the Allies, less sales to overseas nations. No Falklands War in 1982. Cold War being less intense than otl. Thai coastal defence ships sunk in deep water in 1946 in this timeline, Franco-Thai War occuring roughly as in otl with a few weeks of delay compared to otl.
North Africa, Battle of Britain, mainland Balkans campaign, Operation Barbarossa and most of the Battle of the Atlantic similar to otl. Unless mentioned in this timeline or mined/ missing in otl, all British submarine losses (including HMS P32) are similar to otl. All British submarine losses are same as otl until April 1941, though. HMS Usk and HMS Undaunted would be sunk by the Vichy French in 1941 and 1942 respectively. HMS P33 and HMS Proteus would survive in this timeline. 1942-1945 submarine losses same as otl for Royal Navy subs unless mentioned in this timeline or lost to mines/ disappearance in otl. All Spanish, Argentine and Brazilian submarines would be sunk by the end of WW2. Norwegian, Polish, Brazilian, Dutch, Yugoslav and Greek submarine losses same as otl in numbers along with the scuttling of all Danish submarines. Axis (German, Italian, Japanese, Vichy (French), Turkish, Finnish, Thai, Romanian, Spanish and Argentine) submarine losses higher in this timeline than otl for each Axis nation in this timeline. Soviet submarine losses are otl for Northern and Pacific Fleets and total for Baltic (including Estonian and Latvian) and Black Sea Fleets. American submarine losses (55) slightly higher than otl in this WW2. German and Italian merchant ship scuttlings and captures in or off Latin American ports same as otl. Coastal defence ships and ironclads of the Netherlands being scuttled to prevent capture by Germany or Japan or unable to be salvaged/ recaptured for postwar-Dutch service after scuttling by Germany and Japan.
The Soviets spend 1942 and 1943 invading Turkey and destroying Army Group South. In 1943, an advance is made against Leningrad at the expense of going on the defensive in the south and sacrificing Turkey. In 1944, the Allies succeed in invading France and Italy remains occupied by German troops until it is too late, which is responded with troop withdrawals from the Mediterranean and the Balkans. The Germans last offensive, made against Kursk, fails in July 1944 and leads to an Allied advance to the Rhine and Bavaria by June 1945, a Soviet advance into the Balkans, Ukraine and Belarus in the summer of 1945 and the fall of Berlin by 10 October 1945, resulting in German surrender by 20 October 1945, with the retaking of Leningrad. This will be continued with the surrender and formation of an SSR of Finland by 5 January 1946, ending WW2 in Europe. The Turks finally surrender on 5 May 1946 to the Soviets, the invasion of Manchuria having occurred a month before. Postwar, the Iron Curtain runs from western Poland to the Czech Republic to Austria to Trieste.
Timeline may be a bit to quite asb and movable there though. Fuel and escorts may make this timeline a bit/ rather asb. Subject to butterfly effect.