Photos from Featherston's Confederacy/ TL-191

[Gaius Julius Magnus]

A surviving panel from the infamous Confederate "Hyperman" comic book series. Despite being created in the U.S. and often fighting Confederate spies as villains, the original Superman comic strip was popular on both sides of the U.S.-C.S. border with children, young adults, and soldiers. This popularity persisted even after the Confederate government banned the sale of the book in the country. This lead to the creation of Hyperman to serve as a state-sponsored replacement series. As many comic historians have gone on to note, the similarities between the two didn't just stop with their appearances but many a plot for issues were just plagiarized from the Superman comic series.

Following the war, the series was, unsurprisingly, outlawed with most issues being destroyed by U.S. occupational authorities. Today, surviving issues in relatively good condition are valued at rather high prices due to their rarity. Although he hasn't made any re-appearance in comics since the series cancellation in 1944, the Hyperman character served as the primary inspiration for the mid-2000s comic miniseries; Superman - Southern Soldier, which depicts an alternate history with Superman who landed in the Confederacy instead of the US.

 

[A Piece of History]

A digital re-creation of the images of Presidents Jefferson Davis, Robert E Lee and Stonewall Jackson, which once graced the surface of Stone Mountain. The images were carved into the mountain in 1912, 50 years after the Confederate victory in the War of Secession.

After the Confederate loss in the Great War, Stone Mountain became a popular retreat for Confederate revanchists, though the Freedom Party never held a rally here.

In 1944, after the conquest of the Confederate States, the images were erased by the US Army through the use of sandblasting, though the image remains a popular symbol for Confederate nationalists, even today, often recreated in graffiti.

 

[A Piece of History]

Here are some TL-191 versions of the remaining mission intros from the Russian Campaign of COD: WaW

"American Campaign"

The first one I've already done here.

Their Land is Our Land
"The U.S. army's advance into the Confederacy is swift and brutal. In mere months, we have reached Fredericksburg, the last line of defense before the Confederate capital. We outnumber the Confederates 30 to 1. Wave upon wave upon of our infantry are unleashed to clear the way for our army. Once we have control of Fredericksburg, we will begin the march to Richmond. Then, we will ensure that every sacrifice is repaid in blood."

Blood and More Blood
"We have lost many brave men, but their sacrifice is not in vain. Our barrels now form a line of steel so powerful that all Confederate resistance will be crushed beneath its mighty treads. Today, we will watch as Fredericksburg falls along with all those foolish enough to stand in our way."

Ring of Steel
"With the line of Fredericksburg now broken, nothing stands between the U.S. army and Richmond. Everyday, we carve deeper into Confederate territory. Everyday, fear and desperation erode their will. When our train reaches Richmond, they will have nowhere else to hide."

Extermination
"Our grip tightens around the grey heart of Richmond. The Snake demands all to shed their last drop of blood in its defense. The old, the young, the weak. If they stand for the Confederacy, they die for the Confederacy. Building by building, room by room, one snake at a time."

Heart of Dixie
"The U.S. army encircles the Confederate Capitol-their congressional building and final stronghold of Featherston's Confederacy. In the surrounding streets, we choke the life from those who would still dare to defend it. It is an honor and a privilege to play a part in this glorious battle. When our flag flies over the city, our enemy's defeat and humiliation will be beyond question. Our vengeance will be complete..."

Collapse
"The path towards our glorious victory has been a journey of blood and brutality. All of it has been necessary. When the flag of the United States flies atop the Confederate Capitol... All of Richmond will know that the evil of Featherston's Confederacy has been wiped from the face of the earth."

"Caribbean Campaign"

"The Bahamas - little more than sand, trees and a small Confederate Military base. Miller's reconnaissance team landed there almost a week ago. Since then - we've heard nothing. The waiting's over, we're going in. For all we know they're already dead. If what little we know about what the Confederates are doing to the Colored folk, it better not be true. "

"Years after the raid on the Bahamas, we're heading up an all-out assault on Confederate-occupied Haiti... No POW's to rescue this time... Our mission: take the airfield and find proof of their atrocities. Alongside familiar faces, fresh faced recruits. The older guys like Miller, Sergeant Sullivan and myself, we're known as "The old breed". "Old"... we're not even out of our twenties."

"We're all numbed by all those dead Colored bodies. We just never knew anyone could be capable of doing that; I still can't believe it. Most of its population, in a blink of an eye, gone. Now it's down to me and me alone, to lead these men, my brothers, safely through this campaign. AA fire from Port-au-Prince airfield is knocking our planes right out of the sky. Taking this airfield is our only priority. Whatever the cost."

"Though we've taken the airfield, the enemy still holds onto most of the inland areas of the island. A maze of trenches and artillery positions run right through this whole Godforsaken rock. The enemy's dug in deep and we have to get our hands dirty. Flamethrowers. We'll burn 'em out."

"Getting this far has been tougher than any of us could ever have imagined. Taking the airfield and the mortar pits showed us that the enemy will fight to the death for every last inch of this rock. They're making their last stand in the jungles and caves that surround the heavy guns on the point. We take them... and we take back Haiti."

"The Battle of Port-au-Prince finally came to an end in November of 1943. Three bitter months after it was supposed to. When we shipped out for Cuba, the airfield became a vital asset in the campaign. Among those stationed there are the crews of the US Navy Black Panthers. Men who would risk everything before they would leave any of us in enemy waters."

"Status report? The last few months on Cuba have taken their toll... Morale is low. It's the rain, sir... and the mud. Barrels are getting bogged down. Supplies aren't getting through. We can't even get the wounded out. Yes, sir... Understood... "

"Everything that was asked of us - we've done. Every night we lay in a filthy foxhole - prayin' the enemy won't slit our throats. Every day we spent crawling through the mud and the dirt while bullets whistled all around. But this is the last time we're gonna have to put our lives on the line. This is the enemy's last stand. When we take Habana, we go home. All of us."

I. WANT. THIS. GAME. NOW!!!!!

 

[Allochronian]

On the ninth hour of the ninth day of the ninth month, the guns fell silent

"The End of the War".
A Graphic Record.
Sept. 9, 1917.
9 A.M.

 

[Gaius Julius Magnus]

Keith David as the (in)famous Black Marxist Revolutionary, Cassius, from the film Reds!. Released in 1985 (the 70th anniversary of the Red Rebellion), the film was one of the first prominent depictions on film of the Red Uprising rather than as a backdrop as in other Great War films. Attending the premiere of the film was Cassius Madison who was both named after Red leader and whose father, Scipio/Xerxes, was depicted in the film.

 

[TheFieldMarshal]

William Dudley Pelley
Leader of the American Freedom Party a northern spin off of the southern Freedom Party.
Pelley was famously arrested during the Second Great War for fomenting dissent against the US.
Pelley was eventually executed for high treason against the United States

 

[A Piece of History]

Camp Determination prisoners after being liberated by the United States Army. This photo and others like it roused public sympathy in the United States for the Negroes of the former Confederacy

 

[Gaius Julius Magnus]

A photo of a statue memorializing Confederate war hero, Robert E. Lee, located in Richmond shortly before it's destruction by the U.S Army. As part of the occupation of the former Confederacy following the SGW, the U.S. Army began a campaign of the systematic destruction or removal of monuments to the former nation's leaders and heroes as a way to prevent rallying points for former Confederates and unrepentant Freedomites. By the end, the vast majority had been either destroyed or made museum pieces.

 

[Noah Secades]

Is that a picture from South Africa?

picture taken from the Great Pacific War

Chinese Provisional Government soldiers in action against the Japanese.

The Chinese Provisional government was in fact one of three governments at the time claiming to be the authentic government of China. This would create great difficulty in the war with the USA backing the Chinese National Government led by Wang Jingwei and the Germans backing the Chinese Provisional Government led by Dai Li. There was also the Radical Socialist Peoples Democratic Republic of China which was backed by none of the major powers.

Troops of the Chinese National Government

Soldier of the Peoples Republican Army

PHoto of People President Peng Duhai leader of the Democratic Republic of China

Ummmm does anyone know what year the Great Pacific War took place?

 

[Captain Reynolds]

Ummmm does anyone know what year the Great Pacific War took place?

I think people believe it takes place in hte 1960s, if going by "After the End"

 

[Marklin]

I think people believe it takes place in hte 1960s, if going by "After the End"

60s or 70s.

 

[Gaius Julius Magnus]

American (left) and German (right) soldiers conversing with one another during a joint military exercise between the U.S. and German Empire in the 1960s.

 

[Dutch_Atlantic_13]

American (left) and German (right) soldiers conversing with one another during a joint military exercise between the U.S. and German Empire in the 1960s.

Given the helmets, wouldn't the German soldier be the one to the left and the American to the right?

 

[Gaius Julius Magnus]

Given the helmets, wouldn't the German soldier be the one to the left and the American to the right?

I went with the Eastern German on the left as a Tl-191 American soldier because the Western German on the right's design is based off OTL's US's design and since in Tl-191 the Confederates used that design it likely wouldn't be used by the US Army. Whereas I imagine the German Empire of this world probably wouldn't have that compunction.

 

[Dutch_Atlantic_13]

I went with the Eastern German on the left as a Tl-191 American soldier because the Western German on the right's design is based off OTL's US's design and since in Tl-191 the Confederates used that design it likely wouldn't be used by the US Army. Whereas I imagine the German Empire of this world probably wouldn't have that compunction.

Okay. I forgot the United States in this time line adopted the coal-scuttle style of helmet.

 

[Allochronian]

Images from Fascist Britain

Oswald Mosley, ca. 1930's, President of the British Union of Fascists

Mosley during a speech, 1930's

Banner of the British Union of Fascists during a rally

BUF Propaganda

Followers of Mosley greet him with the "Fascist Salute"

A Pro-Referendum poster shortly before the start of the Second Great War

Oswald Mosley visits Benito Mussolini in 1936

Some footage of the BUF: http://footage.framepool.com/en/search/stop+war+let+the+people+vote/

*I made some changes to the original story here. My version has Mosley becoming prime minister and Italy joining the side of the Entente Powers. The latter would eventually see the rise of Mussolini and be another country that is against the German Empire.

 

[Historyman 14]

Paris, 1925. In the backdrop of a once again nation defeated, gave rise to a chaotic social environment for intellectuals, artists, and innovators, called the Lyon Era, or Lyon Republic for the Fourth Republic. This all came to a end in 1930 with the rise of Action Francaise to power.

 

[Historyman 14]

Turkish and Arabic residents celebrate the Ottoman–German alliance by ritually slaughtering a goat, Wünsdorf, Germany, 1923.

 

[Historyman 14]

Freach Jews, 1940. With the rise of Action Française, the persecution of the Jews became an active policy, from being banned from all professional jobs (Jewish Doctors being first targeted)to being forces to wear badges to identify as Jews and forced to live in ghettos. With the Black Destruction, the popular theory being the Action Française had plotted they own 'Jewish Destruction' but was beaten before it could be carry out.

 

[TheFieldMarshal]

General Smedley Butler
Butler was the highest decorated marine in US History earning two medals of honor. First for helping to lead the attack on Fort William Rufus (The Concrete Battleship) and Second for bravery under fire during the battle of Haida Gwaii. Butler died of a Fever three days before the start of The Second Great War.