Maximilian's legacy: Interwar and Post World War 2

In March 29, the Soviet Red Army invaded the Polish Kresy taking Wilno and Baranowicze, however that would be as far the Red Army would advance until the Polish army organized and flanked them at the Battle of Brzesc and sending them back to Baranowicze. This was because of the horrible leadership and the officers were inept. Also their tank the T-40 was weak against the Polish 7TP and this was because most of the heavy Soviet armour was in Ukraine and Finland.

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Speaking of which, the Battle of Zaporizhia was coming to an end after 8 grueling months of vicious street to street fighting and house fights between the Austrian and Ukrainian armies vs the Soviet Red Army. After the Austrians used infiltration tactics with it's Jagdkommandos they managed to destroy multiple guns and the Soviets couldn't just overwhelm them with tanks because the Austrians had built their own Panzerwagens called the Panzerkampfwagen Turun and their gun, while weaker to the Soviet T-34's 76.2mm gun, with it having a 75.0mm gun, it was much more fast using a Weiss engine. By April 16, the Battle of Zaporizhia was finished and the Austrians went on the counteroffensive pushing the Red Army back to the Donbass.

432025-6227e80f8e0e6b49bab19404c7ce23dd.jpg Austrian Turun tank
images (6).jpeg Austrian Jagdkommandos

In Finland, General Mannerheim had finished the construction of the Mannerheim line, a major defensive line similar to the Siegfried Line in Germany, stretching from Lake Ladoga to the Gulf of Finland. When the Red Army attacked Finland again they utterly smashed their heads against the impregnable line, so Soviet General Semyon Timoshenko had to draw up new plans for the invasion of Finland.

images (7).jpeg Mannerheim line
images (9).jpeg Timoshenko

In the Caucasus, the combined Turkish and Persian armies invaded and quickly captured the Tbilisi, the capital of the Georgia and Chechnya forcing Stalin to redeploy Soviet soldiers to stop the Turkish and Persian advance.

images (10).jpeg Turkish soldiers

Now it's time to go back to the Pacific front.​
 
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In March 29, with the capture of Denmark, the British were able to make Copenhagen into their new airbase and use it for their raids.

The first air raid was in Hamburg, April 13, a Friday, a day that would be known as "Schwarzer Freitag" after 3 hours Hamburg was in ruins, but Germany didn't give in. In April 20 Kaiser Wilhelm gave a radio speech saying "The German people together with her allies are a resilient people and will not give in to a ideology. We will fight them in the air, in the sea, and in the coldest regions of Europa. Wer werden uns niemals ergeben."

View attachment 474706 Bombing of Hamburg aftermath

This gave a morale boost to the German people, who were going to need it because two days later the second blitz began this time in Berlin, however the German Imperial Airforce had a secret weapon to take on the UoB's Spitfire plane: Messerschmitt BF 109.

The Battle of Berlin was in the balance between the manoeuvrable Spitfire against the faster Messerschmitt and for three nights the two airforces dueled in the skies and the battle was beginning to turn in German's favor with British pilots being downed in enemy territory while German pilots that survived will simply get in other plane and fight again.

View attachment 474708 UoB Spitfire
View attachment 474707 Messerschmitt BF 109

But the final nail in the coffin was not from Germany, but from Britain's archnemsis: The Commonwealth of Canada.

When the Second Weltkrieg broke out the Commonwealth was in a interesting position, it hadn't declared war on the UoB, yet, instead waited for one of the Allies to approach Canada with a offer to regain the British throne. That offer would come after the Battle of Cam Ranh Bay and Mexico needed another sea Ally to help them take on the Japanese and the Yamato. Canada agreed to help them and began to mobilize all of her Commonwealth allies such as Australia, New Zealand, and the Falklands. But mobilization was slow and both Mexico and all the other Allies were getting peeved at seeing Canada basically sit this out, until in March 13 when Canada and her Allies were finally ready and the Commonwealth's pride arrived in the port of Veracruz: The Mighty Hood and three more Battleships and together with three other Mexican battleships: Maximiliano, Agustín II, and Emiliano nicknamed "The Three Emperors" began to leave port in what would be known as Operation Hunter or Hunt down the Yamato.

View attachment 474713 HMS The Mighty Hood

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Reclaim the Birthright"

But what the Commonwealth gave to Mexico in it's arrival would be invaluable: Radar technology.

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Immediately during the Battle of Berlin, Mexico sent it to Germany and the tide forever changed in Germany's favor now German air command could see British planes and be able to send up their planes before the British could ever expect them. By the 5th of May the British Air commander, Hugh Dowding finally called of the blitz.

The first victory Germany had gain and now the British Flying Corp was severely wounded. Now it was time for Germany to show her new military power.

The Western front was now in the balance, while in the Eastern front the Soviet Union would suffer three humiliating defeats at the hands of Austria, Finland, and Poland.​
Bear in mind that ITTL, the Japanese fleet had more than just the Yamato. Because they previously had an arms race with Mexico and USA, they were able to complete most ships they planned for the 8-8 fleet. Which means Japan actually has a large fleet 16cinch and 18 inch battleships of 2 Nagato class, 2 Tosa class, 4 Amagi class and 2 Yamato class. Nagato, Tosa and Amagi were ships that built during the arms race while the Yamato class is a more recent design.

ITTL, due to the Great Depression, only half of their planned 8-8 fleet were completed. After both nations signed the agreement to stop the arms race, Japan actually postponed construction on the remaining ships while focus on their new secret super battleship project which later resulted in the Yamato instead.

The idea is that while the Japanese were lower in numbers, its ships would be superior in quality and gunnery compared to Mexico and USA to fight larger fleet with smaller number.

The IJN Battlefleet would also be assisted by cruisers destroyers and torpedo boats whom will harrass enemy fleet at night causing chaos and havoc then let the battleships finished the leftover in the next morning.
 

Speaking of which, the Battle of Zaporizhia was coming to an end after 8 grueling months of vicious street to street fighting and house fights between the Austrian and Ukrainian armies vs the Soviet Red Army. After the Austrians used infiltration tactics with it's Jagdkommandos they managed to destroy multiple guns and the Soviets couldn't just overwhelm them with tanks because the Austrians had built their own Panzerwagens called the Panzerkampfwagen OberÖsterreich and their gun, while weaker to the Soviet T-34's 76.2mm gun, with it having a 74.0mm gun, it was much more fast using a Steyr engine. By April 16, the Battle of Zaporizhia was finished and the Austrians went on the counteroffensive pushing the Red Army back to the Donbass.

View attachment 474838 Austrian OberÖsterreich tank
View attachment 474839 Austrian Jagdkommandos


View attachment 474840 Mannerheim line
View attachment 474841 Timoshenko

In the Caucasus, the combined Turkish and Persian armies invaded and quickly captured the Tbilisi, the capital of the Georgia and Chechnya forcing Stalin to redeploy Soviet soldiers to stop the Turkish and Persian advance.

View attachment 474842 Turkish soldiers

Now it's time to back to the Pacific front.​

For the Austrian tank, the correct gun caliber is 75mm, and also i think you should use one of these as the image for the tank instead given the fact that Austria ITTL used alot of Czech and Hungarian designs. This tank and the whole Turan line in my opinion is the best Hungarian equivalent to German Panzer III/IV
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And i think perhaps the tank name should be Skoda T-43M Turan III since naming it as OberOsterreich sounds like its made in Austria while in reality its a Czech/Hungarian tank.

Also the correct engines for Austrian tanks should be Skoda or Manfred Weiss because Steyr is a weapon manufacturer where as both Skoda ans Manfred Weiss produced machinery and weapons for the A-H military.
 
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September 24, the Marina Imperial and the Royal Navy left the Port of Salina Cruz and the strength of the combined Fleet was 6 Battleships, 12 Cruisers, 8 light cruisers, and 20 Destroyers. The Fleet was going to Cam Ranh Bay and connect with the Pacific fleet in the area. However during the journey they encountered a Japanese squadron of 2 battleships and 3 destroyers. The battle lasted for one hour and one Japanese battleship and one Japanese destroyer were sunk, while one Mexican destroyer was lost. But the ships that escaped warned the main fleet and Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto decided to confront them before they could reach Cam Ranh Bay, so he gather up a fleet of 10 Battleships, including Yamato, 14 cruisers, and 20 Destroyers.

220px-Isoroku_Yamamoto.jpg Admiral Yamamoto

On the October 8 the two fleets came face to face at the Paracel Islands, the battle began with the Japanese breaking into two arrow head formations with Yamato in the middle while the two naval admirals, Hilario Rodriguez Malpica the younger, son of his more famous father, and Lord Mountbatten, decided to mirror the Japanese tactics and split into two arrow heads but with the Mighty Hood and the Three Emperors in the middle.

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170px-Admiral_Lord_Louis_Mountbatten,_1943._TR1230_(cropped).jpg Lord Mountbatten
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The battle began with the four arrows colliding and all-out mayhem broke out with sailors firing and screaming orders. But the main battle was between the Battleships, Yamato opened fired and the first salvo struck the Hood in her side, the Three Emperors fired back hitting her in bow and stern. Realizing she was outnumbered, Yamato called for help and two battleships Nagato and Fusō came to her rescue and Fusō fired on the Agustín II, while Nagato cut in front of Maximiliano.
Now it was a Equal battle; it was Yamato vs The Mighty Hood and Emiliano while the Fusō vs Agustín II and Nagato vs Maximiliano.

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Yamato focused all fire on the Hood and Hood was now suffering severe damage while Emiliano fired all heavy shells into Yamato's right side, puncturing a massive hole causing her to lean. Meanwhile the Fusō was gaining the upper hand on the much slower Agustín II and in flanking maneuver fired straight into her ammo compartment causing her to explode and sink rapidly. Fusō was heading straight to help Nagato, who was doing much poorly against the better armoured and better gunned Maximiliano, until she was hit from behind, damaging her rudder, the shot came from the HMS Duke of York, Lord Mountbatten's flagship, that managed to break through the melee. Fusō was now rudderless and was helpless as Duke of York gave the final Coup de Grace, sinking Fusō. Duke of York's victory was short live however when a explosion was heard, a sickening feeling came to Mountbatten as he turned to see what caused the explosion and to his absolute horror it was the former Mighty Hood.

300px-HMS_Duke_of_York_during_an_Arctic_convoy.jpg Duke of York


Hood was already damaged but the final blow came when Yamato fired again and the shells went into Hood's ammo compartment, already exposed from the holes, causing her to explode.
Yamato then focused all attention on Emiliano, while he fired into her bow again, but it did minimal damage and Yamato fired hitting his turret and just as Yamato was about to deliver the final blow, Duke of York intervened striking her left side and Yamato was already taking in water from her right side and now from both sides. Duke of York fired all heavy shells he had, gouging a massive hole in her middle and that's when the opportunity presented itself and Duke of York delivered the final shot and what could only be described as a thousand sticks of dynamite exploding at the same time, Yamato exploded, not only did she exploded, it was torn in half from the explosion and was now sinking and at the same time Nagato desperately trying to retreat was destroyed to by Maximiliano, but no one noticed.

Both sides saw this and both stopped the fighting, with Japan losing the pride of the IJN, while Mexico and The Commonwealth suffering massive casualties both sides withdrew.

The Battle of Paracel Islands was, what could only be described as a Pyrrhic Japanese victory because while the Japanese Navy managed to stopped the combined Fleet from reaching Cam Ranh Bay and destroyed multiple ships: 3 battleships, 5 cruisers, 4 light cruisers, and 8 Destroyers, they none the less suffered casualties with them losing 3 battleships, 5 cruisers, and half of their destroyers, but the most damning loss was both the Yamato and her captain: Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto.

The combined Fleet went to port in friendly German Papua New Guinea for repairs and to calculate on what their new strategy should be, while Japanese limped back to Japan and were thinking on how to break the news of Yamato's destruction and Yamamoto's death.

Meanwhile on land the Japanese were having a field day.​
 
September 24, the Marina Imperial and the Royal Navy left the Port of Salina Cruz and the strength of the combined Fleet was 6 Battleships, 12 Cruisers, 8 light cruisers, and 20 Destroyers. The Fleet was going to Cam Ranh Bay and connect with the Pacific fleet in the area. However during the journey they encountered a Japanese squadron of 2 battleships and 3 destroyers. The battle lasted for one hour and one Japanese battleship and one Japanese destroyer were sunk, while one Mexican destroyer was lost. But the ships that escaped warned the main fleet and Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto decided to confront them before they could reach Cam Ranh Bay, so he gather up a fleet of 10 Battleships, including Yamato, 14 cruisers, and 20 Destroyers.

View attachment 474945 Admiral Yamamoto

On the October 8 the two fleets came face to face at the Paracel Islands, the battle began with the Japanese breaking into two arrow head formations with Yamato in the middle while the two naval admirals, Hilario Rodriguez Malpica the younger, son of his more famous father, and Lord Mountbatten, decided to mirror the Japanese tactics and split into two arrow heads but with the Mighty Hood and the Three Emperors in the middle.

View attachment 474947 Battle of Paracel Islands
View attachment 474948 Lord Mountbatten
View attachment 474949 Admiral Malpica the Younger

The battle began with the four arrows colliding and all-out mayhem broke out with sailors firing and screaming orders. But the main battle was between the Battleships, Yamato opened fired and the first salvo struck the Hood in her side, the Three Emperors fired back hitting her in bow and stern. Realizing she was outnumbered, Yamato called for help and two battleships Nagato and Fusō came to her rescue and Fusō fired on the Agustín II, while Nagato cut in front of Maximiliano.
Now it was a Equal battle; it was Yamato vs The Mighty Hood and Emiliano while the Fusō vs Agustín II and Nagato vs Maximiliano.

View attachment 474950 HMS Hood
View attachment 474951 Nagato
View attachment 474952 Fusō


Yamato focused all fire on the Hood and Hood was now suffering severe damage while Emiliano fired all heavy shells into Yamato's right side, puncturing a massive hole causing her to lean. Meanwhile the Fusō was gaining the upper hand on the much slower Agustín II and in flanking maneuver fired straight into her ammo compartment causing her to explode and sink rapidly. Fusō was heading straight to help Nagato, who was doing much poorly against the better armoured and better gunned Maximiliano, until she was hit from behind, damaging her rudder, the shot came from the HMS Duke of York, Lord Mountbatten's flagship, that managed to break through the melee. Fusō was now rudderless and was helpless as Duke of York gave the final Coup de Grace, sinking Fusō. Duke of York's victory was short live however when a explosion was heard, a sickening feeling came to Mountbatten as he turned to see what caused the explosion and to his absolute horror it was the former Mighty Hood.

View attachment 474956 Duke of York


Hood was already damaged but the final blow came when Yamato fired again and the shells went into Hood's ammo compartment, already exposed from the holes, causing her to explode.
Yamato then focused all attention on Emiliano, while he fired into her bow again, but it did minimal damage and Yamato fired hitting his turret and just as Yamato was about to deliver the final blow, Duke of York intervened striking her left side and Yamato was already taking in water from her right side and now from both sides. Duke of York fired all heavy shells he had, gouging a massive hole in her middle and that's when the opportunity presented itself and Duke of York delivered the final shot and what could only be described as a thousand sticks of dynamite exploding at the same time, Yamato exploded, not only did she exploded, it was torn in half from the explosion and was now sinking and at the same time Nagato desperately trying to retreat was destroyed to by Maximiliano, but no one noticed.

Both sides saw this and both stopped the fighting, with Japan losing the pride of the IJN, while Mexico and The Commonwealth suffering massive casualties both sides withdrew.

The Battle of Paracel Islands was, what could only be described as a Pyrrhic Japanese victory because while the Japanese Navy managed to stopped the combined Fleet from reaching Cam Ranh Bay and destroyed multiple ships: 3 battleships, 5 cruisers, 4 light cruisers, and 8 Destroyers, they none the less suffered casualties with them losing 3 battleships, 5 cruisers, and half of their destroyers, but the most damning loss was both the Yamato and her captain: Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto.

The combined Fleet went to port in friendly German Papua New Guinea for repairs and to calculate on what their new strategy should be, while Japanese limped back to Japan and were thinking on how to break the news of Yamato's destruction and Yamamoto's death.

Meanwhile on land the Japanese were having a field day.​
Why do I had a feeling that the Japanese gonna overrun Indochina through a Blitzkrieg like OTL?

Also, if such is the case, Hong Kong will be the first to fell to the hands of the Japanese, then followed by Shanghai and afterward the whole Indochina would be overrun by the Japanese Army blitzkrieg with the supports of the Navy's carriers. I could imagine that the IJN shore-based medium bombers from Formosa and dive bombers/torpedo bombers launched from carriers had already marked the damaged Mexican battle fleet moored at Cam Ranh as high priorities targets as these ships still had functioning guns which can be used to defend the base, so putting them out of action is a must.

At this point, Mexico and Britain still underestimate the true potentials of carriers and still stick to conventional battleship doctrines, but after the loss of Indochina with the tattered Imperial Army in full retreat to German's Malayan Peninsula down south, they would learn it the hard way that carriers are slowly dominating the new era of Naval Warfare.
 
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The situations of the Pacific War in the Second Weltkrieg is pretty simple, Japanese Carriers of the Kido Butai are become more and more effective at sinking Allies capital ships and with the Japanese Army effortlessly steamrolling through defenses. You can actually have Mexico pulled a Prince of Wales and Repulse like this:
After the inconclusive battle in South China Sea between Japanese and the combine Mexican/British battlefleets. The Marina Imperial decided its utmost urgent to send more ships to the Pacific Fleet A task force consists of several Capitani Romani class destroyers and three Mexican Reina Victoria Eugenia light cruisers with two Mexican battlecruisers of one new Mexican G3/Imperator fast battleships and one older refitted Mexican Mackensen class with 38cm guns as their flagship, the fleet embarked from the Mexican Pacific port to Saigon, they stopped at German New Guinea for refuel and arrived Saigon a week before the Japanese Army invasion start.

This battlefleet however had no AA cover as most of the Mexican Army planes on the ground were destroyed by air raids by the Japanese carrier planes while the Mexican carriers in the at Cam Ranh were not yet ready to operate any sorties due to bad weather and need for new repair and aircrafts after that unfortunate battle against the Japanese fleet. So basically this fleet were assigned to the Mexican base at Cam Ranh and on the day that the Japanese begin their invasion, this battlefleet was tasked with the job to hunt down the Japanese transport convoy heading to Indochina, but unfortunately while on the way, they encountered the Japanese shore-based G3M and G4M medium bombers laden with torpedoes and bombs making the living hell out of them, made matters worse when the radar that supposed to assist the fire control of AA guns on Mexican ships malfunctioned in bad weather and this resulted in the two capital ships lost after dodging several torpedoes and aerial bombs dropped on them.

The final blow for the Mexican G3/Imperator would be a torpedo hit right in its left shafts, disabling the ship's rudder and caused it to run in circle and flooded quickly, another torp hit on the same side would spell doom for it as the concentrated torpedo hits caused the ship to drop its speed and slowly capsizing. The fate of the Mexican Mackensen type was slightly better, after managed to dodge 6 torpedoes, two torpedo hits the engine room and caused massive flooding, despite the crews best attempt at trying to keep the ship afloat, the vintage Great War era battlecruiser received its final blow with a torpedo hit on the bow, causing the ship to dropped speed and in danger of capsizing. The situation on the Mackensen class become futile and so they basically evacuate the crews from the ship and let one of the nearby destroyer to scuttle the ship. In the end, only a handful of destroyers managed to bail out alive and

The aftermath of the battle between the Mexican battle fleet and the Imperial Japanese Navy medium bombers is an utter military disaster and to make matters worse, this would only be a beginning in a series of misfortune for Imperial Mexican forces in their war efforts in the Pacific. Perhaps having this military disaster and most of their moored battleships being destroyed by the Japanese would help Marina Imperial to urgently speeding up its carriers readiness to combat the Japanese fleet.

For the Mexican battlefleet
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The Mexican G3 type Fast Battleship
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The refitted WW1 era Mexican Mackensen class
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The Mexican Reina Victoria Eugenia type cruisers
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The Mexican Capitani Romani type destroyers.

As for the Japanese medium bombers, these planes had excellent range and good performance for their time, but they lacked self-sealing fuel tanks and armor, which means they are quite prone to catching fire when got hit.
Because the crews had no protection, the only things pilots can rely on is their maneuverability and speed, although this advantage too would quickly lost in later years as the Allies would bring faster and better armored combat planes to the war.
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The Mitsubishi G4M Betty Medium/Torpedo Bomber
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During the Blitz and battles in Eastern Europe, The Japanese Army had been utterly steamrolling the Mexican, Spanish, British, and Beiyang armies on April 20 the Japanese landed in Indochina at two places in Da Nang and Thua Thien Hue blindsiding the small Mexican colonial force of 10,000 alongside with 15,000 Vietnamese soldiers against a army of 50,000 Japanese soldiers. The colonial soldiers made their last stand in the former Imperial capital of Hue and they resisted for a astonishing 15 days but morale finally collapsed on May 6 after the neighboring Kingdom of Siam declared war and invaded Indochina from the East. So with morale gone, ammunition running out, and finally being surrounded, the Mexican army surrendered.

The Mexican soldiers were sent back to Japan to be placed in work camps while the Vietnamese soldiers were executed for siding with the Mexicans. Indochina was split with Siam gaining Cambodia and Japan placing the "Empire of Vietnam" little more than a Japanese puppet.

1280px-LocationEmpireofVietnam.svg.png Empire of Vietnam

Concurrently in May 3 the British colony of Hong Kong was seized after a lightening fast assault and the British defenders there did the best they could but they were outnumbered, outgunned, and alone. In Spanish Malaya, the IJN bombed the utter hell out of Kuala Lumpur and within a few short days, the Imperial Japanese Army invaded both Peninsulas and the Spanish defenders barely put up a resistance and they surrendered on 15 of May.

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Japanese_troops_final_stages_to_conquest_Singapore,_Johore_Bahru_(AWM_127900).jpeg Battle of Kuala Lumpur

In the Raj, German and Mexican colonial authorities heavily censured the news from the war in order to not risk revolts and Independence movements, but one man Subhas Chandra Bose knew of the defeats and was in Tokyo organizing a deal with the Japanese government on helping India gain Independence.
While in the Raj, WW1 veterans Paul Lettow Vorbeck and Pascual Orozco were organizing the Indian, German, and Mexican colonial army totaling a impressive 200,000 men at the German Governed region of Burma waiting for the inevitable Japanese attack.

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images (1).jpeg General Pascual Orozco
images (2).jpeg Indian army in Burma

In Shanghai, the Japanese utterly surrounded the city and general Zhoulin ordered a retreat. The Battle of Shanghai lasted from January to late May 24 and the Battle was especially damaging for the Beiyang Army, because they lost their best soldiers that were trained by Germany and were armed by Mexico. The only good news in all of this was disastrous defeat of the NRA of Chiang Kai Shek at the Battle of Peking from April to May 17 ending the Second Northern Expedition and results angered the Japanese and were beginning to rethink their alliance with the Kuomintang.

PLA_Enters_Peking.jpg Beiyang Army marching in Peking​
 
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During the Blitz and battles in Eastern Europe, The Japanese Army had been utterly steamrolling the Mexican, Spanish, British, and Beiyang armies on April 20 the Japanese landed in Indochina at two places in Da Nang and Thua Thien Hue blindsiding the small Mexican colonial force of 10,000 alongside with 15,000 Vietnamese soldiers against a army of 50,000 Japanese soldiers. The colonial soldiers made their last stand in the former Imperial capital of Hue and they resisted for a astonishing 15 days but morale finally collapsed on May 6 after the neighboring Kingdom of Siam declared war and invaded Indochina from the East. So with morale gone, ammunition running out, and finally being surrounded, the Mexican army surrendered.

The Mexican soldiers were sent back to Japan to be placed in work camps while the Vietnamese soldiers were executed for siding with the Mexicans. Indochina was split with Siam gaining Cambodia and Japan placing the "Empire of Vietnam" little more than a Japanese puppet.

View attachment 475020 Empire of Vietnam

Concurrently in May 3 the British colony of Hong Kong was seized after a lightening fast assault and the British defenders there did the best they could but they were outnumbered, outgunned, and alone. In Spanish Malaya, the IJN bombed the utter hell out of Kuala Lumpur and within a few short days, the Imperial Japanese Army invaded both Peninsulas and the Spanish defenders barely put up a resistance and they surrendered on 15 of May.

View attachment 475021 Battle of Hong Kong
View attachment 475022 Battle of Kuala Lumpur

In the Raj, German and Mexican colonial authorities heavily censured the news from the war in order to not risk revolts and Independence movements, but one man Subhas Chandra Bose knew of the defeats and was in Tokyo organizing a deal with the Japanese government on helping India gain Independence.
While in the Raj, WW1 veterans Paul Lettow Vorbeck and Pascual Orozco were organizing the Indian, German, and Mexican colonial army totaling a impressive 200,000 men at the German Governed region of Burma waiting for the inevitable Japanese attack.

View attachment 475023 Paul von Lettow Vorbeck
View attachment 475024 General Pascual Orozco
View attachment 475025 Indian army in Burma

In Shanghai, the Japanese utterly surrounded the city and general Zhoulin ordered a retreat. The Battle of Shanghai lasted from January to late May 24 and the Battle was especially damaging for the Beiyang Army, because they lost their best soldiers that were trained by Germany and were armed by Mexico. The only good news in all of this was disastrous defeat of the NRA of Chiang Kai Sheik at the Battle of Peking from April to May 17 ending the Second Northern Expedition and results angered the Japanese and were beginning to rethink their alliance with the Kuomintang.

View attachment 475026 Beiyang Army marching in Peking​

Correction: This should be East Asia or Indochina, because this is the Pacific theatre we are talking about. secondly, its Chiang Kai Shek without an i.
 
Speaking of which, i think you also forgot to mention Philippines, but since the US has not entered the war yet, Japan technically was not allowed to invade it under international Treaties on neutrality. However, we all knew its just a matter of time before the US entered the war and the fall of Philippines is pretty much guaranteed to happen sooner or later.
 
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Speaking of which, i think you also forgot to mention Philippines, but since the US has not entered the war yet, Japan technically was not allowed to invade it under international Treaties. However, we all knew its just a matter of time before the US entered the war and the fall of Philippines is pretty much guaranteed to happen sooner or later.
I know, I'm just saving the US for later probably 1942ish.
 
In December, the German Army finally revealed their new tank: the Panzerkampfwagen or Panzer III, this absolutely demolished the now outdated French AMC 35 medium cavalry tank and in the German Operation codenamed Götterdammerung they managed to kicked the Anglo French army out of Schleswig-Holstein and into the German Danish border. What stopped the operation from going further was the new British Matilda Mark II tank forcing Germany to stop and upgrade the Panzer III's turret.

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1941
The Italian Front was going poorly for the Sardinians, in the front against the Austrians, just like in the First Weltkrieg, had stagnated again and no advancements had been made with the Italian General Italo Balbo being held back at the Piave River becoming this war's Isonzo Front. As for the Sardinian industry: it was in ruins after the First Weltkrieg and even after the rise of Mussolini it never really recovered and were forced to either reuse old Weltkrieg equipment or take French equipment.

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200px-Villar-Perosa_M15.jpg Villa Perosa M15

In the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, the situation was different: while the Mezzogiorno was poor, they received major investments from Germany, Austria, and Mexico to beef them up as a counter to the Kingdom of Sardinia, so the Two Sicilies was fairly better off then their Sardinian counterpart, with them having a fairly moderate Navy including: Dante Alighieri, Napoli, and Roma (later renamed Palermo) but was also "given", actually sold back to, three of Mexico's Capitani Romani Light cruisers including: Pompeo Magno, Ottaviano Augusto, and Cornelio Silla even though these ships were obsolete by the start of the Second Weltkrieg they were still better against the more weaker Sardinian Navy.

1280px-Italian_battleship_Dante_Alighieri.jpg Dante Alighieri

After the defeats of the Soviet Union, a lull entered the front as the Red Army reorganized itself and dealt with the Ottoman and Persian armies. This provided the perfect time for the Austrian Navy to organize and plan with the Sicilian and Mexican Mediterranean Fleet; consisting of Battleships: Leonardo de Vinci, Cristobal Colón, Hernán Cortés, Matamoros, and Sor Juana and two aircraft carriers: Grito de Guerra and Tenochtitlan; the Austrian High Admiral, and Weltkrieg veteran, Miklos Horthy, began planning Operation Novara: the taking of the Island of Sardinia.

On January 13, The Mexican aircraft carriers were used for the first time using Fokker XXI fighters converted into bombers (Mexican air doctrine did not change even after the disaster of Cam Ranh Bay, with them still using fighters) and after three days of bombing the Sardinian port and capital, Calgliari, the Sardinians refused to surrender and when the bombs ran out the three navies came in bombarded the city, however the Sardinian Navy came to the rescue (they barely lasted a hour before being blown to bits).

The city finally gave in on January 24 and 25,000 Sicilian, MEF, and Austrian soldiers landed, thus beginning the Sardinian campaign. Battles included the Battle of Pula, Olbia, and finally Alghero and after Alghero fell Sardinia capitulated.

Mussolini called upon France's help to stop the Allied advance, France was angered with the Sardinians because with France busy in the Spanish, Danish, Rhineland, and Alsace Lorraine Fronts this greatly stretched the French forces but nonetheless, rather then risk a repeat of the Austrian offensive in the First Weltkrieg, they sent in reinforcements.

In the Balkans, a much more interesting state of affairs was happening:

Bulgaria and Romania, even though they were part of the Anti Comintern pact, pleaded neutrality with both sure that the Danubian, German, Ottoman, and Mexican armies had this under control, even with the defeats, but what they didn't count on was their neighbors.

Serbia, after the First Weltkrieg was a shell of it's former self. With half of it's territory gone to Bulgaria and with crippling war debts placed upon them by Austria, the country was ready to explode. In 1934, King of Serbia, Alexander I, abolished both the constitution and Senate and made himself absolute King. Before the Second Weltkrieg Alexander set the country on a completely jingoistic militant route, almost or similar to Japan, and by the outbreak of the war Serbia, even though they had a population of 1,500,000 mobilized a astonishing 750,000 soldiers.

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This in no way went unheeded, Bulgaria saw what was happening and began a silent mobilization and to guarantee it's northern border signed a Treaty with Romania dropping all of Bulgaria's claims on Dobruja. However south of Bulgaria's border was the fascist 4th of August Regime in Greece.

Greece, even though they didn't entered the Weltkrieg, still suffered. The Greek industry was barely developed, the population was barely literate, but worst was the declining popularity of the monarchy. During the Weltkrieg, Greece was under both the control of King Constantine I and Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos. Both were very antagonistic to one another, Constantine greatly supported the Central Powers (even going to as far as try to organize the marriage between his youngest daughter, Princess Katherine, to Crown Prince Emiliano) while Venizelos was staunchly Pro Entente and these two butted heads to the point that Constantine dismissed him in October 1914. Venizelos was so convinced of allied victory that he was planning a coup to overthrow the King, that was until the disastrous British defeats in the Mediterranean sealed the fate of both the Allies and Venizelos. Humiliated, Venizelos committed suicide in May 30, 1915.

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250px-Ελευθέριος_Βενιζέλος.jpg Eleftherios Venizelos

With Greek neutrality secured King Constantine was hopeful that Greece would be compensated in Albanian Epirus, however that didn't happen, instead Germany ended up snubbing Greece and the embarrassment from not only failing to gain Epirus but letting the Ottoman empire grow to the point that gaining Constantinople and completing the Megali idea was now impossible. Things only got worst after the Great Depression. George II, Constantine's successor, couldn't handle the depression and the Greek Republicans rosed up and overthrew the monarchy in 1934 and was replaced by the Second Hellenic Republic, it barely lasted a year untill being overthrown itself in 1935 by royalists and fascists led by Officer Ioannis Metaxas. Metaxas restore the monarchy and made himself "Prime Minister" and under him massive repression followed.

With the beginning of the Second Weltkrieg, Greece proclaimed their neutrality but secretly they were building up their army to go to war with the Ottoman Empire. Now while Serbia and Greece both seemed similar they were not allies, in fact both barely noticed each other and hated each other; Alexander was a absolute monarch while Greece was a dictatorship, it was just a pure coincidence that both declared war on Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire on February 14, 1941.​
 
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Bulgaria, unaware that Greece was just acting on it's own accord, thought this was a Third Balkan League against Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire, so they completely jumped the gun and declared war on Greece catching them off guard. The Serbian army poured through the Serbo Bulgarian border and managed to recapture half of Macedonia and advance on Bulgaria until they stopped them at the Battle of the Great Timok River in February 27.

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Meanwhile the Bulgarian declaration of war forced Greece to redirect men, giving the Turks time to call up men to face the Greek Army and the first battle was the Battle of Edirne in which the battle became a bloody stalemate, while on sea the Hellenic Navy was duking it out with Ottoman Navy. The Hellenic Navy was largely obsolete with budget and industrial issues, so they never constructed any new ships during the Interwar years in fact most of their destroyers were destroyers they bought from Germany with one example being the Navarinon was actually the German Type 1934A ZClass destroyers Greece bought in 1935.
Because of this the Hellenic Navy was soundly beaten back by the more larger and modern Ottoman Navy, with the most damning battle being at ironically at the Battle of Elli on February 23.

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300px-E_Class_Destroyer_Profile.png Navarinon

Meanwhile in Burma, the Japanese, Thai, and their allies: The Indian Nation Army and the State of Burma numbering at around 495,700 soldiers outnumbering the German-Mexican army 3:1, however the Japanese were in for a nasty surprise.
On February, the Japanese invaded from two places: from sea and from Thailand but instead of encountering resistance right away instead they found none but what they did found was guerilla forces being led by two WW1 veterans who were experienced in these tactics. The first defeat was in the Battle of Yenangyaung, where Lettow Vorbeck defeated the Japanese army and destroyed their supplies. Furious the Japanese retaliated in burning Burmese villages and killing anyone suspected of fighting, but still the Japanese advanced in Burma but were constantly being harassed by Orozco who blew up railways, destroying Japanese supplies, and attacked lone squadrons.

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In the Raj, the colonial officials continued to raise Indian troops and that's when South African soldiers arrived led by Smuts and they were the ones who fought the Japanese head on with mixed results.
In Vietnam, a dire situation was happening: after the fall of Indochina the Mexican Pacific fleet was stuck in Cam Ranh Bay, blockaded by the Japanese Navy, who decided to just use the Mexican ships as target practice for their fighters and bombers. Realizing that the combined Fleet wasn't going to make it they decided to break out and head straight to where the fleet was. In the night of February 28, one by one Mexican destroyers and light cruisers managed to slip away from the Japanese ships, they had to abandon the bigger and slower Battleships and Carriers and damaged ships by placing explosives on a timer and use the smaller ships. In the morning, the explosives went of causing gigantic explosion which woked the Japanese who found out the Mexicans had escaped and they panicked and sent out patrol boats to find them but it was to late, the Mexicans escaped. In revenge the Japanese executed Mexican slave workers and immediately took the time and effort to try and salvage the ships with the only three being the Imperator, Monterey, and Bernardo Reyes all three failed to explode properly and now the Japanese renamed Tshushima, Meiji and Taishō. The Mexican ships rendezvous with the combined Fleet in Papua New Guinea and they all decided to wait until more ships arrived including aircraft carriers.​
 
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They wanted to keep them afloat as decoys to fool the Japanese.

Well tbh that was pretty dumb, they should have flooded all of their BBs and scuttle those before they left. They simply cannot let those modern battleships in the hands of the enemy. This is where i would say scuttling the fleet would be a better option and also a more realistic one here in this scenario.
 
The Mexican home front was working to the absolute extreme with women working in the factories and men working in the shipbuilding docks, while refugees from the Netherlands, Belgium, Ireland, and Denmark flooding into the country straining the government's ability to accommodate them. While in Baja California the first two brigades of 11,000 of Russian White Emigres was formed, with Empress Anastasia's brother Tsarevich Alexei Romanov as their head, speaking of which, Empress Anastasia gave birth to a son, Felix von Habsburg Iturbide-Saxe Coburg und Gotha-Romanov on May 16, 1941 finally giving a heir to the Mexican throne. The plan was to send them to the Raj and through Tibet, then to Beiyang control parts, hopefully they would be able to seize Vladivostok and start a new Russian Civil War.

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images.jpeg Felix von Habsburg-Iturbide-Saxe Coburg-Romanov
images (1).jpeg Russian White army

In Asia, a sortie of ships belonging to the Indian Imperial Navy, a branch of the Imperial German Navy, attacked and destroyed two Japanese destroyers, Momi and Matsu, forcing Japan to send in more ships to finally neutralize the German, Mexican, and Canadian navies. However a major breakthrough happened: American cryptographers were able to determine the Japanese date, strength, and place of the battle at Ceylon. President Roosevelt and the US military gave the information to Mexico because they rather not have a dominate Japan which could threaten the Philippines. Mexico, now armed with this information went all out; learning from the failures of Cam Ranh Bay, Paracel Islands, the Japanese campaigns, and finally from the Sardinian campaign with the effectiveness of Carriers and bombers decided to use the carriers at their full potential and bought from the US: Douglas Dauntless dive bombers, along with hundreds of Grumman Wildcat fighters to finally go toe to toe with Japan. The Battle of Ceylon would decide the fate of the Pacific War.​
 
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Tbh i feels that bit about the Cam Ranh fleet you wrote is a bit off, Most navies would never allow their modern battleships to fall into enemy hands, either they would scuttle their ships like Vichy France did at Toulon OTL or escape to join their allies like the battleship Lorraine OTL.

Anyway, for the Ju-87 and Bf-109 carrier variants, just remember, its Ju-87C and the Bf-109T.
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Ju-87C for Graf Zeppelin
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Bf-109T for Graf Zeppelin
Although tbh, these two planes too, are ill-suited for carrier operations, their inline engines are too heavy and taken too much space onboard compared to radials. Also the Bf-109 landing gears are prone to buckle like the Spitfire even when landing on the ground, thats why i suggest you use the modified F4F Wildcat prototype No.2 instead, with Grumman quality and reliability are the reasons why the US choose their planes as the primary of the US Navy fighters throughout the war.
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Grumman XF4F-2 Wildcat prototype
 
Tbh i feels that bit about the Cam Ranh fleet you wrote is a bit off, Most navies would never allow their modern battleships to fall into enemy hands, either they would scuttle their ships like Vichy France did at Toulon OTL or escape to join their allies like the battleship Lorraine OTL.

Anyway, for the Ju-87 and Bf-109 carrier variants, just remember, its Ju-87C and the Bf-109T.
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Although tbh, these two planes too, are ill-suited for carrier operations, their inline engines are too heavy and taken too much space onboard compared to radials. Also the Bf-109 landing gears are prone to buckle like the Spitfire even when landing on the ground, thats why i suggest you use the modified F4F Wildcat prototype No.2 instead, with Grumman quality and reliability are the reasons why the US choose their planes as the primary of the US Navy fighters throughout the war.
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Grumman XF4F-2 Wildcat prototype
I have fixed the ships, now take a look and tell me what you think. As for the battle wjat would be the best plan of action in this alternate Battle of Midway?
 
Alternatively, you should edit that previous part and could add the details like Mexican fleet before they break out has set the demolition charges on the remaining damgaed capital ships at the harbor but the ones on the damaged Imperator and two more abandoned/damaged battleships failed to explode while the rest were successfully blown up, making the Japanese only managed to capture three ships
 
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