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The brand Imperial Japanese Army main battle tank on display to public for the first time. This is a big leap forward to the light tanks the IJA used during WWII.
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IJA officers with the new Type 37 assault rifle.
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Field testing of the brand new German G-1 rifle.
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The copywriting and background story are left to you. The year was during World War II. The text and stories should be as long as possible.
 
Comrade Harps timeline
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Flag of the Provisional Government of New Guinea (1914-1919), later renamed New Guinea Republic (1919-1949) - Based on the most neutral colors excluding the white colors.

The German New Guinea colony in the Pacific was practically defenceless when WW1 broke out in July 1914. By prior arrangement, Britain’s Pacific allies, Australia and Japan, proceeded to carve up Germany’s Pacific protectorates between themselves. The naval German East Asia Squadron was small and mostly at sea north of the equator and was quickly rounded up by Japanese intervention; the Imperial Japanese Navy then proceeded to occupy the numerous German Pacific island possessions north of the equator. South the equator, the Governor of German New Guinea responded to an Australian demand to surrender with a statement of independence and “neutral cooperation.” This didn’t prevent an Australian occupation of German territories below the equator but did allow that to be done peacefully. The Australian government recognised the newly formed Provisional Government of New Guinea as a domestic administration, allowing it a great deal of autonomy and encouraged its development of trade deals which were favourable to Britain. This backfired on the Australians at Versaille. While the Australian’s framed their demands for a League of Nations Mandate to administer the former German possessions south of the equator as being essential to its national interests, the American, British and Japanese delegations lobbied to recognise the New Guinea Republic (NGR) as a sovereign nation, the Japanese delegation adding that it should be demilitarized. The 1919 Treaty of Versaille resolved that all of Germany’s former Pacific possessions be demilitarised, with those north of the equator to be Mandated to Japan, and, with the exception of German Samoa (which was mandated to New Zealand) those south of the equator to be governed as the sovereign territory of the New Guinea Republic. Australia was left with little option other than to recognise the new nation and establish “hegemonic guidance” over its otherwise independent political and economic governance.

During the late 1930s, the Japanese government quietly militarised it’s former German colonies and was in a good position to invade the New Guinea Republic following the attack on Pearl Harbor. Australian air, land and naval forces put up a heroic but hopeless defence of the NGR at its request. By June 1942 the entirety of the NGR was occupied by Japanese troops, but not before the Australian government (as per its racist White Australia Policy) evacuated most of its white population. From these, the Australian recruited NGR refugees for Armed Forces, in which:
  • the Army formed a full NGR company inside the New Guinea Volunteer Rifles, before been disbanded and formed as the NG Battalion
  • the Navy form enough sailors to complement a Bathurst-class corvette
  • the RAAF formed the No.121 (NG) RAAF Squadron with US-built Spitfires.
As NGR and Australian officials took stock of the NGR in the wake of the Japanese May 1946 surrender, it became clear that the nation had been devastated. Estimates put NGR’s population loss from 1941 to 1945 at between 25 to 40%, with little in the way of civilian infrastructure left and insufficient NGR citizens able to fill professional government and business positions. Australians soon dominated the country’s public service and its post-war recovery was dependent on Australian assistance. In 1949 the NGR voluntarily entered into the Australian administered Territory of Papua and New Guinea trusteeship and ceased to exist.


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Flag of the Zakarpattia Republic (1919-1945) - Based on former Ukrainian land, they flag is based on the French tricolor, but taking the Ukrainian colors, but puting on the diagonal to diferenciate from their hungry-expanding neighbours.

Zakarpattia emerged as an independent nation in the aftermath of WW1. Occupied by the defeated Austro-Hungarian Empire, it was part of the short-lived nationalist West Ukrainian National Republic and was then occupied by Romania before being invaded by the Hungarian Soviet Republic in the summer of 1919. Claimed as the Ukrainian Zakarpattia Oblast by the Bolsheviks, the region was also subject to significant or total territorial claims by Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Romania. To resolve these conflicting claims it was the French who, at the 1919 Versailles Peace Conference, successfully pushed to create an independent nation. The small nation sovereignty was guaranteed in part by the 1919 Paris Treaty and by its membership of the Little Entente and treaties with Poland and Romania. Proposed names included Carpatho-Ukraine, Subcarpathia and Transcarpathia, but to appease the belligerent governments in Kiev and Moscow and their claim on the region as "the rebel Zakarpattia Oblast", the official name became the Zakarpattia Republic. It survived the claims made on it during the periods of the Munich Agreement and the First Vienna Award thanks largely to the servile efforts of a pro-German government installed as the result of an August 1938 military coup.

Although a junior partner in the series of Polish-Romanian alliance treaties signed in the 1920s and 30s, Zakarpattia refused to support Poland when it was invaded by Germany in September 1939. One consequence of this was that the Poles, who had expected to exercise their pre-existing transit rights through Zakarpattia as part of the Romanian Bridgehead Plan, instead had to make urgent arrangements with the Nordic countries to maintain logistic routes the West. Having served Nazi interests well, Zakarpattia joined the Tri-Partite Pact (Axis) in July 1940 and survived intact despite the Hungarian territorial claims associated with Second Vienna Awards of November.

It joined the war on the 23 June 1941 (when three bombers (claimed to be Socialist Unions, but resembling a Luftwaffe He-111) bombed the village of Uzhok) and contributed with the Zakarpattia Expeditionary Army (ZEA - single division of 20,000 men, plus units of the Army Air Corps, which brought observation, fighter, bomber and transport aircraft) on the Ukrainian front alongeside Hungarian and Slovak troops. Although they mostly participated in garrison duties during the advance, some units saw action during the battles of Uman and Kiev under the command of the German 17th Army.

With it's entry in the war, Zakarpattia became one of the Western Allies targets (that were in range of their heavy bombers), alongeside the others junior members of the Axis like Romania, Hungary, Croatia, Bulgaria and Greece (outside of the bombers range were the Baltic States).

Zakarpattia was invaded by the Red Army in August 1944 and soon became part of the fluid battleline that characterised the post-Nazi German revival on the Eastern Front. However, Zakarpattian forces were exhausted and played a negligible part in the ongoing war, finally succumbing to total Red Army occupation and annexation by Ukraine by the end of October 1945.

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Flag of Macaronesia Federation (1975-current) - Based on the most common colors of the Macaronesias archipelagos (also similar to the flag used by the monarchy, excluding the yellow shield)

The collapse of the Portuguese overseas territories ended with the last two nations gaining independence on July 1975 (Macaronesia Federation of the 1 of July and Cape Verde on the 5 of July) and the Second Portuguese Republic (aka Estado Novo) ceased to exist. As they are not imperialists, the government of the Portuguese Socialist Republic has never claimed sovereignty over Portugal’s overseas possessions.

The Macaronesia Federation territories are based on the archipelagos of Azores and Madeira. Due to it's small size, they weren't requested to much by the UN against the Socialist forces apart for the Macaronesia Air Defence Identification Zone. Besides that, they were among the most supportive member of the United Nations.
 
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The cause of the Anglo-Thailand border conflict in 1942 was that the Free British army crossed the border (of course the border between British India and Thailand) and began to plunder and burn villages and farmland. Many towns were looted by the Free British army. At that time, the king of Thailand was furious and announced the severance of diplomatic relations with the Free Britain. A month later, the Thai army assembled troops in the border area and was ready to cross the border to retaliate against the British army at any time. The Japanese army also joined the conflict, because the Free British army looted many Japanese companies and their property equipment, and many Japanese compatriots died at gunpoint of the Free British troops, which led to the Japanese government to send troops to the Central South Peninsula to support the Thai army's attack the Free Britain.
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Photos of the Thai army going to the border to prepare to fight. With the help and support of Japan, Thailand's weapons and industrial equipment have been renovated. In particular, after the reform, the Thai army became the first army in Southeast Asia to integrate into modern warfare.
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Many Japanese tanks and half-track vehicles are delivered to the Thai army, especially Ke-Ho, because light tanks are quite easy to shuttle between the rainforest and are quite suitable for deployment and military operations in the tropics.
 
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The brand Imperial Japanese Army main battle tank on display to public for the first time. This is a big leap forward to the light tanks the IJA used during WWII.
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IJA officers with the new Type 37 assault rifle.
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Field testing of the brand new German G-1 rifle.
It's your turn to send three photos
 
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The Luftwaffe close air support jets conduct precision strikes in New York.
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The brand new aircraft of the Luftwaffe is displayed during Operation Humpback Whale.
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Japanese Nakajima G10N bombers also took part in the invasion of New York.
 
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The Luftwaffe close air support jets conduct precision strikes in New York.
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The brand new aircraft of the Luftwaffe is displayed during Operation Humpback Whale.
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Japanese Nakajima G10N bombers also took part in the invasion of New York.
The problem is that neither Germany nor Japan intends to invade the United States, and even they don't seem to want to invade America, but send three photos of the Indian battlefield tomorrow.
 
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In 1942, the Japanese navy carried out military construction on an island in the Bay of Bengal in the Indian Ocean, that is, to build a submarine base to support the Japanese naval forces and the German submarine fleet in the Indian Ocean.
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Japanese submarines entered the base for inspection and repair. After the overhaul, they were directly filled with fuel, ammunition and supplies, and then attacked and hunted the Free British Navy. However, German submarine also came to the base from time to time for overhaul and then set out to hunt British ships
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There is a lot of equipment, supplies, fuel and ammunition in this base, as well as advanced repair equipment and defense systems. It also operates advanced experimental shielding devices to shield British radar detection, so this base can be said to be of great strategic significance
 
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In 1942, the Japanese navy carried out military construction on an island in the Bay of Bengal in the Indian Ocean, that is, to build a submarine base to support the Japanese naval forces and the German submarine fleet in the Indian Ocean.
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Japanese submarines entered the base for inspection and repair. After the overhaul, they were directly filled with fuel, ammunition and supplies, and then attacked and hunted the Free British Navy. However, German submarine also came to the base from time to time for overhaul and then set out to hunt British ships
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There is a lot of equipment, supplies, fuel and ammunition in this base, as well as advanced repair equipment and defense systems. It also operates advanced experimental shielding devices to shield British radar detection, so this base can be said to be of great strategic significance
That is to say, it is not detected by British radar, that is, British radar cannot detect the location of the base.
 

The Sudeten War: History of the World after an Alternate 1938 by @Onkel Willie

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As the Sudetenland Crisis boiled, and the RLM wasn't still ready for the war, it had to get every equipment possible. Among them were few (less than 20) He-112B's intended for Japan were allocated to the IV./JG 132. As the Sudeten Crisis escalated into a War, the fighters would see action against both Czechoslovakian and Soviet aircrafts. While they proven a good aircraft compared to the Bf-109B/C's, they weren't enough airframes, and none survived the end of the war.

Decisive Darkness: What if Japan hadn't surrendered in 1945? by @The Red

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The Goodyear F2G "Super Corsair" was a low-level interceptor with anti-ship capabilities for the US Marines used during the Japanese Campaign. Initially, due to the delays with the engines and the time of it's first flight, both the F7F Tigercat, F8F Bearcat and modernized F4U Corsairs could perform the same tasks as the F2G. But as the Typhoon Louise hit Okinawa and destroyed many Allied equipment based in the island. To fill the gap as fast as possible, 500 of the F2G-1 (ground variant, as the carrier variant -2 wasn't needed) were ordered.
Sidenote: To replace the Marines TBM Avengers also lost in the Typhoon, they were re-equiped with TBY-2/3 Sea Wolfs aircrafts while AD Skyraiders and AM Maulers were ordered into production.

Can it Carry Bombs? by @whatisinaname

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In June of 1945, the first Dorniers Do-335A1 began to supplement the Bf-109K's and Ta-152H's fighters on the Western Front. Encounters with the Do-335A1s during July and August showed the allied leadership that the Germans are able to continue to produce new aircraft types even with allied bombing. What the allied leadership did not know is that the Germans had dispersed much of there production facilities during early 1945, this was now starting to pay dividends for the Germans. Apart from the A12 conversion trainers and a subvariant of the A1, the A1b (capable of carrying R4M rockets, althought never used in combat), all other variants were cancelled.
 
The problem is that neither Germany nor Japan intends to invade the United States, and even they don't seem to want to invade America, but send three photos of the Indian battlefield tomorrow.
I will do another timeline for the meantime.

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IDF forces on the defensive after the Arab coalition invades Israel, December 2012.
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John McCain, 44th President of the United States (2005-2013?)
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Volgograd is hit by the stray Israeli Jericho nuclear missile that was origingally intended to target Tehran. This action is what Russia used to fire on NATO and U.S. targets, resulting in the Nuclear Apocalypse.

From this timeline:
 
I will do another timeline for the meantime.

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IDF forces on the defensive after the Arab coalition invades Israel, December 2012.
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John McCain, 44th President of the United States (2005-2013?)
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Volgograd is hit by the stray Israeli Jericho nuclear missile that was origingally intended to target Tehran. This action is what Russia used to fire on NATO and U.S. targets, resulting in the Nuclear Apocalypse.

From this timeline:
Well, You can send it the order dawn Indian battlefield photos tomorrow.
 
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In June 1942, the Japanese-Thai coalition finally launched an attack on India in order to end the Free Britain and join the German-Italian coalition forces in Pakistan. The Thai army also received many Type 5 medium tanks and Chi-Setank for the formation of Thai armored divisions.
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The Japanese army has made great changes in its strategic system and tactical system, but the most obvious is that the investment of the armed command vehicle will provide considerable advantages in command.
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The Japanese army has also invested considerable tactical bombers, all of which are jets. The Japanese military is keenly aware that the jets will gradually dominate the sky and complete tasks that the old propeller aircraft have not completed before. This is a photo of jet tactical bombers flying to India.
 
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Indian soldiers during the defense of Calcutta from Japanese attacks.
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Elephants were used to bring supplies to allied forces in the China-India-Burma theater.
 
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It is quite easy for Japanese attack aircraft to destroy British tanks. After all, British Indian tanks are relatively old, and some tanks are provided by the United States, and there are not many tanks assisted by the United States, so British tanks can only be unlucky live targets and can only sit and wait for death to accept the fate of being destroyed by Japanese attack aircraft one
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The greatest achievements of Japanese surprise fighters were the quite successful beheading operation in Delhi, India, the assassination of William Slim, and the destruction of the Free British army headquarters to severely damaged the British chain of command, which indeed hit the British command system.
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During the Battle of Kolkata, Japanese jet bombers often caused heavy losses to British defense forces, British anti-aircraft guns could not shoot down rapid jet bombers, and Japanese jet bombers mercilessly bombed every bunker and defense line of British positions in Calcutta.
 
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It is quite easy for Japanese attack aircraft to destroy British tanks. After all, British Indian tanks are relatively old, and some tanks are provided by the United States, and there are not many tanks assisted by the United States, so British tanks can only be unlucky live targets and can only sit and wait for death to accept the fate of being destroyed by Japanese attack aircraft oneView attachment 737638
The greatest achievements of Japanese surprise fighters were the quite successful beheading operation in Delhi, India, the assassination of William Slim, and the destruction of the Free British army headquarters to severely damaged the British chain of command, which indeed hit the British command system.
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During the Battle of Kolkata, Japanese jet bombers often caused heavy losses to British defense forces, British anti-aircraft guns could not shoot down rapid jet bombers, and Japanese jet bombers mercilessly bombed every bunker and defense line of British positions in Calcutta.
That is to say, the unlucky British commander was killed by a Japanese air-to-surly guided bomb. You can definitely imagine it.
 
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The Japanese continued to shell British positions. Generally speaking, after the Japanese-Thai coalition repulsed the British army in Myanmar, they gradually launched a counterattack. The Indian National Army also launched an uprising. A large number of defected Indian soldiers and armed rebels opposed to British colonial rule gathered in the rural areas of Kolkata, and they continued to gain the support of Japanese arms. India will not forget Japan's kindness in the future India independence
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Japanese submarines launch missiles, targeting British radar stations and military bases, as well as supply stations and fuel facilities, which can severely damage the rear supply system and reconnaissance system of the British army. The end of Free Britain is coming.
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Facing the Japanese war machine, the Free British tank division realized that the Free Britain was about to lose, but they refused to admit defeat. They had to fight until the last minute, even if they used extreme means to die, it had nothing to do with returning. If they could not be defeated, they would take the enemy to die in the sea of fire.
 
Comrade Harps timeline:
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Luftwaffe Fiat BR.21 been shoot down over the North Sea, 1943
When Fiat sold the BR.20 to Japan in 1937 and Mitsubishi was contracted to support the type in IJA service, Fiat later acquired a license to build both the G4M (as Fiat BR.21) and the A6M (sub-contracting the type to Breda as Breda BA.90), both ending production in Italy by the time of its surrender in September 1943 (With 194 BR.21s (in torpedo bomber, dedicated maritime attack (with a few handful German machines been fitted to carry the Hs-239A-1 anti-ship missile) and transports) and 25 BA.90 - 240 of the later where ordered by the RLM after the factory fell into German hands, but only 87 left the factory before been destroyed by Allied bombing).
Entering in service with Italy in 1941, the Luftwaffe later acquired the type for service over the Atlantic and as a transport in the Eastern Front. By the time of the German armistice with the Allies in mid-1944, around 40 aircrafts remained in Luftwaffe inventory spread across the Reich (plus two operated by the ANR). All, but three (operated by KG200 on special duties) were selected to be converted into Mistel 4S, intended for Operation Iron Hammer (never implemented)

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Italian pilots of the Luftwaffe Italian Legion
With the Hitler assassination on 20 July and the short confusion, the Germans abandonand their occupation of Italy, and disolving the Italian Social Republic and it's armed forces. As the ceasefire is put on effect, Germany releases all Italian POW's, but offered them the option to join them against the Socialist Union (plus volunteers post-1945), by forming their own version of the S.U. International Forces, (the most famous Italian unit been the Luftwaffe's Italian Legion). Among them was Major Adriano Visconti di Lampugnano (the first pilot to shoot down a aircraft with a jet fighter - the Italian-built He-280 as Alfa Romeo's A.R.200) in which it was shoot down in June 1945 while flying a Bf-109K in Poland.
While the Kingdom of Italy did join the war against Japan and send expeditionary forces, some still saw the Socialist Union as the worse threat and joined the German Armed Forces, while the socialists, bitter (and outraged) after the victory of the Monarchy in the elections, also left their home nations to join the S.U. International Forces, including the (almost) all Italian 594th International Escadrille.

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An AAC.1 Toucan (French-built Ju-52/3m) taking off in North Africa to help the evacuation.
When the Hot War started in 1950, the Socialists Forces overrun all remaning democratic (and fascists) nations in Europe. In a similar effect as ten years prior, hundred of thousands of refugees began to fleed the Red menace. But unlike ten years prior, the French Armed Forces (and its allies) helped as much they could, evacuating as much civilians as possible, and sending troops/equipment on the return trip.
For this particular aircraft, it was his last flight, as on their way to France, it was shoot down near the Balearic Islands by a Spanish Republic P-39 Airacobra. The Socialists actually time the attack (with help of spies in North Africa), as they target all enemy targets on the return trip to France, as they know that on the trip to Africa, they are carrying innocent civilians (not wanting to fuel the anti-socialist propaganda the UN is trying to create)
 
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