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First encounter between Francisco Franco and Benito Mussolini, early March 1939
As the Nationalists and their allies began to retreat/surrender/evacuate outside of the Spanish borders, they were all been exiled to Italy, their biggest ally in the conflict. With the end of the conflict, Mussolini saw the massive losses its Corpo Truppe Volontarie (CTV) had suffered. Many of its men, armored vehicles, artilley and aircrafts were lost over Spain. Not wanting to show a week face in the world eyes and to distract the civilian population for the SCW disaster and to rise the moral of its forces, the invasion of Albania was ordered to be executed in early April (delayed by one week due to lack of manpower, something that will be talk later). This contribution in said war (and subsequent losses) is what historians said that is one of the main reasons why the Axis forces loss the war, as the Italians never managed to replace its losses in the SCW, let alone the World War ones.
Talks with Franco would somehow aliviate the manpower issue, with Mussolini forming the Hispanic Legions with Spanish Nationalists-in-exile (and the very rare Portuguese volunteer) in late 1939 (although it is reported that a company of spanish men were present in the Italian invasion of Albania, but not confirmed). With said forces, Nationalists were present wherenever Italian forces were in all branches of the armed forces (from North Africa to Yugoslavia, from a single Squadrilla in Belgium during the Battle of Britain to the Blue Division in Russia). After the disasterous Volgograd, Hitler requested (or more likely, ordered) that all foreign units in the Italians ranks in the Eastern Front (Spanish included) are to be transfered to the German armed forces. The remainer units were still under Italian control until their surrender in September 1943, and all remaining forces voluntarily got absorved to the already existing German units formed earlier.
First TKS built in the Kingdom of Greece.
The Kingdom of Greece and Second Polish Republic had something in common: there were both govern by right-wing, vehemently anti-Communist dictatorships and both governments were major supporters of the French-instigated Cordon Sanitaire. This reflected in their armed forces, as for example, the Hellenic State Aircraft Factory (HSAF) signed a strategic partnership agreement with the Polish aircraft manufacturer PZL (Państwowe Zakłady Lotnicze - State Aviation Works) in 1933, with the PZL.23 reconnaissance bomber, the PZL.24 fighter and the PZL.37 bomber. But its Army would also received partnership agreement with the other Polish weapons manufacturers (with license production).
One of them were the famous TKS (and variants) tankettes (nickname κατσαρίδα (read katsarída) or cockroach), 7TP light tanks and Samochód pancerny wz. 34 armored cars (the very first such Greece received overall). Firearms were also license-built, with Browning wz. 1928, Ckm wz. 30 and Wz. 35 anti-tank rifle (Irony, as both wz.1928 ("clone" of BAR) and wz.30 ("clone" of Browing M1917) are unlicense clones of the two american-made weapons). A hundred each of said were built, with the rest been cancelled after the fall of Poland in 1939 (as unlike the aircrafts, the ground equipment was a continuous contract with the Polish factories till the fall of the nation). By mid-1942, under German pressure, the HSAF cancelled the rest of their own PZL-built aircrafts and began building German designs, like the Bf-109F/G variants, Fw-190A's, etc.
Now talking only with the tanks/armored car, nearly half were kept in Greece (with a company in their small occupied part of Yugoslavia), and the other half were send with the Greek I Army Corps (with the AF Northern Expeditionary Group been attached). When they return in late 1941, many vehicles were lost as their armored vehicles were antiquated, and fighting against numerous Socialist Forces, it was a recepy for disaster. So the Wehrmacht decided to give some of the new tanks to the destroyed armored forces. The Greeks were delicted that they might receive Panzer III and IV's - and they got Renault R-35, Somua S-35, Panzer 35(t) and Panzer II insteads... Never the less, they returned in mid-1942 and they participated in Operation Blue (and nearly 90% of the remaining surviving vehicles were lost in the Volgograd pocket - half of company was caught inside the pocket)
Iraqi military exercises near the border of Kuwait, 1958
Kuwait gained independence in early 1950's, with the fall of Great Britain by the Moscow Pact forces in 1950, and this left a power vaccum in the Middle East, to be fillen by the UN. In 1958, Abdul Karim Qasim seized power in Iraq and shortly after, Qasim announced that Kuwait would be incorporated into Iraq and the military threat was seen, by the UN, as imminent. The reasons for Iraqi belligerence are debatable, but as well as the political gain to be accrued from a successful military campaign, Kuwait's assets at the time included possible oil reserves (confirmed later) and secure access to the sea, which Iraq lacked.
After borders were sealed and defense mounted by Mubarak Abdullah Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and his deputy Colonel Sheikh Saleh Mohammed Al-Sabah against the anticipated invasion, Brigadier General Sheikh Mubarak advised Kuwait's 11th Ruler and 1st Emir Sheikh Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah to invoke Section 4 of the independence agreement, which stated that Kuwait could ask (Free) Britain for military support.
Just five days later, the UN (under request of British) send a entire fleet in Persian Gulf (including two fleet carriers), plus several brigades and companies send at well, it would de-escalate the crisis three months later. The Iraqies (part of the UN itself) became furious about this reaction for their supposted allies, and with Saddam Hussein rise to power, they pull out of the organization.
First encounter between Francisco Franco and Benito Mussolini, early March 1939
As the Nationalists and their allies began to retreat/surrender/evacuate outside of the Spanish borders, they were all been exiled to Italy, their biggest ally in the conflict. With the end of the conflict, Mussolini saw the massive losses its Corpo Truppe Volontarie (CTV) had suffered. Many of its men, armored vehicles, artilley and aircrafts were lost over Spain. Not wanting to show a week face in the world eyes and to distract the civilian population for the SCW disaster and to rise the moral of its forces, the invasion of Albania was ordered to be executed in early April (delayed by one week due to lack of manpower, something that will be talk later). This contribution in said war (and subsequent losses) is what historians said that is one of the main reasons why the Axis forces loss the war, as the Italians never managed to replace its losses in the SCW, let alone the World War ones.
Talks with Franco would somehow aliviate the manpower issue, with Mussolini forming the Hispanic Legions with Spanish Nationalists-in-exile (and the very rare Portuguese volunteer) in late 1939 (although it is reported that a company of spanish men were present in the Italian invasion of Albania, but not confirmed). With said forces, Nationalists were present wherenever Italian forces were in all branches of the armed forces (from North Africa to Yugoslavia, from a single Squadrilla in Belgium during the Battle of Britain to the Blue Division in Russia). After the disasterous Volgograd, Hitler requested (or more likely, ordered) that all foreign units in the Italians ranks in the Eastern Front (Spanish included) are to be transfered to the German armed forces. The remainer units were still under Italian control until their surrender in September 1943, and all remaining forces voluntarily got absorved to the already existing German units formed earlier.
First TKS built in the Kingdom of Greece.
The Kingdom of Greece and Second Polish Republic had something in common: there were both govern by right-wing, vehemently anti-Communist dictatorships and both governments were major supporters of the French-instigated Cordon Sanitaire. This reflected in their armed forces, as for example, the Hellenic State Aircraft Factory (HSAF) signed a strategic partnership agreement with the Polish aircraft manufacturer PZL (Państwowe Zakłady Lotnicze - State Aviation Works) in 1933, with the PZL.23 reconnaissance bomber, the PZL.24 fighter and the PZL.37 bomber. But its Army would also received partnership agreement with the other Polish weapons manufacturers (with license production).
One of them were the famous TKS (and variants) tankettes (nickname κατσαρίδα (read katsarída) or cockroach), 7TP light tanks and Samochód pancerny wz. 34 armored cars (the very first such Greece received overall). Firearms were also license-built, with Browning wz. 1928, Ckm wz. 30 and Wz. 35 anti-tank rifle (Irony, as both wz.1928 ("clone" of BAR) and wz.30 ("clone" of Browing M1917) are unlicense clones of the two american-made weapons). A hundred each of said were built, with the rest been cancelled after the fall of Poland in 1939 (as unlike the aircrafts, the ground equipment was a continuous contract with the Polish factories till the fall of the nation). By mid-1942, under German pressure, the HSAF cancelled the rest of their own PZL-built aircrafts and began building German designs, like the Bf-109F/G variants, Fw-190A's, etc.
Now talking only with the tanks/armored car, nearly half were kept in Greece (with a company in their small occupied part of Yugoslavia), and the other half were send with the Greek I Army Corps (with the AF Northern Expeditionary Group been attached). When they return in late 1941, many vehicles were lost as their armored vehicles were antiquated, and fighting against numerous Socialist Forces, it was a recepy for disaster. So the Wehrmacht decided to give some of the new tanks to the destroyed armored forces. The Greeks were delicted that they might receive Panzer III and IV's - and they got Renault R-35, Somua S-35, Panzer 35(t) and Panzer II insteads... Never the less, they returned in mid-1942 and they participated in Operation Blue (and nearly 90% of the remaining surviving vehicles were lost in the Volgograd pocket - half of company was caught inside the pocket)
Iraqi military exercises near the border of Kuwait, 1958
Kuwait gained independence in early 1950's, with the fall of Great Britain by the Moscow Pact forces in 1950, and this left a power vaccum in the Middle East, to be fillen by the UN. In 1958, Abdul Karim Qasim seized power in Iraq and shortly after, Qasim announced that Kuwait would be incorporated into Iraq and the military threat was seen, by the UN, as imminent. The reasons for Iraqi belligerence are debatable, but as well as the political gain to be accrued from a successful military campaign, Kuwait's assets at the time included possible oil reserves (confirmed later) and secure access to the sea, which Iraq lacked.
After borders were sealed and defense mounted by Mubarak Abdullah Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and his deputy Colonel Sheikh Saleh Mohammed Al-Sabah against the anticipated invasion, Brigadier General Sheikh Mubarak advised Kuwait's 11th Ruler and 1st Emir Sheikh Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah to invoke Section 4 of the independence agreement, which stated that Kuwait could ask (Free) Britain for military support.
Just five days later, the UN (under request of British) send a entire fleet in Persian Gulf (including two fleet carriers), plus several brigades and companies send at well, it would de-escalate the crisis three months later. The Iraqies (part of the UN itself) became furious about this reaction for their supposted allies, and with Saddam Hussein rise to power, they pull out of the organization.
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Decisive Darkness: What if Japan hadn't surrendered in 1945? by @The_Red
The M1B Garand under ownership of an unknow men
While the devastation of the Typhoon Louise in Okinawa forced the US armed forces in said area to be armed with some old firearms (the oldest been the M1917 Lewis and M1917 Enfield - one Marine Defense Battalion was armed with the Mendoza RM-2*), all the Americans Armed Forces (and the foreign forces that also send ground forces - for logistical purposes) were all armed with the most modern equipment at that time.
Handguns:
The handguns were still the same as during the entirety of the war
Submachine Guns:
The main submachines guns became either M3 and M3A1 Grease Guns or Owen** guns, with the rare M1 Thompson been very rare (even rarer was the Lanchester smgs, but it would only be found inside of the British Pacific Fleet ships);
Rifles:
The rifles were almost the same situation as with the handguns, but with several variants, and outside of a M1903A4 Springfield, the Garand was off course the most common Allied firearm, but for late 45, the original M1 became itself been replaced by their new "brothers", been:
- the M1B (a 20 magazine selective-fire version - the mass production version of T20E2),
- the M1C/D (sniper rifle variant of the base M1) and
- the M1T1/2 (mass production of the T26 (T1) and M1E5 (T2) - while nicknamed "Tanker" (and indeed) some tank crew did use such rifle, their were mostly used by the paratroopers and replacing the M1 Carbines in certains formations);
meanwhile, the M1 (and M1A1), while still common, were still been replaced by the earlier mentioned M1T, or the automatic fire M2 or the M3, with a infrared sight attached.
Machine Guns:
The M1919 still was the main Medium MG (the M1917A1 was still used in some units in the Marines and the M2 was still the main HMG, but kept in the fixed positions in the last defenses of Kyushu), with the A4, A6 and the new A7 been introduced (based on the AN/M2 "Stinger" customization); the M1918A2 BAR was actually been replaced with the Winchester Automatic Rifle (ironically shorten for 'WAR') in the US Army, while the Marines (and some foreign units ) were replacing it with the M1945 Johnson (a modernized M1941)
Rocket Launcher
The M9/M9A1 Bazooka (and the M18 - an M9A1 made off alluminion alloy) was still the main "RPG" of 1945, but was been supplement by the Recoiless Rifles (the M18, M20 and M27) by the paratroopers (alongeside some Panzerfausts***), plus the new M20 Rocket Launcher - but unlike in Europe, they were mostly deployed against bunkers and other hardened defences, as enemy armored vehicles were almost non-existing by that point.
Both shotguns and flametrowers were still equal prior to the invasion.
This is off course (outside of video games) a pure contrast to the Japanese, as outside the Type 4 (a near Japanese Garand) and the convertion of Type 97 aircrafts machine gun to ground use, there were units that could barely arms a single company with rifles and ammunitions, let alone whole divisions.
*The US, needing to replace the Typhoon Louise losses, ordered an Mexican company 5,000 Mendoza RM-2 in .30-'06 Sprg., and been proven a success, send them to overseas, and outside of the single Marine Defense Battalion in Okinawa, been used by the occupation forces in Bavaria and Austria (including the Brazilian Occupation Force)
**Been considered the best submachine gun in the Pacific War, MaCarthur (the man that pretty much putts the Americans front and center of every situation) requested that it own forces receive 45,000 Owens from the Australians, and the Aussies had to built several more workshops for the need of almost the entire world; and in a tit-for-tat, received in return some P-51M Mustangs and A-26 Invaders.
***The 82nd Airborne brought a few hundreds from Germany, and they also proven a success, with the caviat that the shorten range meants higher chance of injury or death by the user.
Type 3 Ho-Ni III from wardrawings website
Both the Type 3 Chi-Nu and Type 4 Chi-To were the most common tank of the Japanese in their Home Islands (according to video games and certain documentaries), the reality was much different - other tanks were still the backbone of the IJA, mostly the light tanks Type 95 Ha-Go (and Type 4 Ke-Nu) and Type 98 Ke-Ni (and even improven Tye 2 Ke-To) and the medium tanks Type 97 Chi-Ha (mostly the improved ShinHoto) and Type 1 Chi-He. But while a few hundreds Type 3 and Type 4 were built (the Type 5 Chi-Ri was cancelled, but the single prototype was used in a single battle, more a little latter), lack of fuel and the complexity (and lack of spares to made the situation worse) made many been used more as either mobile or fixed artillery or AT guns wit a turret. With this in mind, many factories began instead focusing on the Anti-Tank variants, as they lack of turret and lighter weight made them much more "economic" in a articional war against the world. In fact, more Type 3 Ho-Ni III and Type 5 Ho-Ru (an open top "Hetzer" based on the Ha-Go with a 47mm gun) were reported than any other IFV.
Most of the listed tanks were present whiting the 1st Armored Division (wit a few add-hoc Independent Armored Brigades in the mix also having one or another) on the Battle of Isesaki, in mid-April, that became the biggest "tank" battle of the Pacific War, were the Division, in a defensive position, was utterly destroyed by just half of the American 13th Armored Division. From the common Type 3 Ho-Ni III's, to the single Type 89 I-Go, Type 5 Chi-Ri prototype and even a single M3 Stuart, the Japanese destroyed just a American company worth of tanks (the most "destroyed" company only lost a platoon worth of tanks), and off course, this doesn't count the tanks that could be repaired and re-used, and off course, half of those destroyed were done so mostly by suicide soldiers with explosive that with direct tank vs tank engagements.
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ZDA timeline
Marcus Sentis, the leader of a Christian cult based in the West Coast of the United States. Sentis intended to create a Christian theocracy of what was once the United States of America. He has a large following of survivors and remaining USCG units in California. He promises liberation to various surviving settlements by accepting the teachings of Jesus Christ. Should they refuse, he threatens them that survivors will "perish in the mouths of the undead."
Alcatraz Island, the headquarters of Marcus Sentis' cult.
A pro-Marcus Sentis USCG patrol boat patrolling the waters around Alcatraz Island.
Marcus Sentis, the leader of a Christian cult based in the West Coast of the United States. Sentis intended to create a Christian theocracy of what was once the United States of America. He has a large following of survivors and remaining USCG units in California. He promises liberation to various surviving settlements by accepting the teachings of Jesus Christ. Should they refuse, he threatens them that survivors will "perish in the mouths of the undead."
Alcatraz Island, the headquarters of Marcus Sentis' cult.
A pro-Marcus Sentis USCG patrol boat patrolling the waters around Alcatraz Island.
Is that Aaron Paul?ZDA timeline
Marcus Sentis, the leader of a Christian cult based in the West Coast of the United States. Sentis intended to create a Christian theocracy of what was once the United States of America. He has a large following of survivors and remaining USCG units in California. He promises liberation to various surviving settlements by accepting the teachings of Jesus Christ. Should they refuse, he threatens them that survivors will "perish in the mouths of the undead."
Alcatraz Island, the headquarters of Marcus Sentis' cult.
A pro-Marcus Sentis USCG patrol boat patrolling the waters around Alcatraz Island.
I think.
I was looking for a charismatic-looking cult leader to represent Marcus Sentis. My first idea was Sean of the True Eye Cult from Dead Rising, but for some reason, pictures from the Wiki do not work on this forum.
harry dexter white 34th president of the united states his presidency caused by the suicide of president winant after the attack on hiroshima would have a significant impact on the beginning of the cold war .
Red Spies in the White House: An Alternate Cold War
by Ulysses Orbis
Volkshalle in Berlin completed in 1947
Japanese troops land on the Hawaiian island of Oahu the Japanese were finally driven off the island on July 4, 1943, which ultimately turned the tide of the Pacific War
Huey Pierce Long Jr. 35th President of the United States