Oct 11, 1940
The Kittyhawk makes its debut. German infantry hates them on first sight (As much as panzer commanders hate the 6 pounders early the next year) as a squadron of them means anywhere from 50-60 heavy machine guns suddenly starts firing amongst them out of nowhere.
Another lurch by the Anglo-French push the Germans back to Amiens and off the coast all the way to Lillie. The way is led by Char Bs and Valentines. The panzers can't hold them back but German AT tanks do them a lot of damage. Although they break their way through there are a lot of broken tanks getting there. Not a few panzers were destroyed as well.
The Germans are starting to figure they aren't going to win this war outright and are starting to hope for a settlement. Except for Hitler and the other fanatics who will settle only for victory or death. This lunge cost the Allies 15,000 dead and 30,000 wounded while the Germans lose 12,500 and 50,000.
Oct 23,1940
The US sells 75 M2 Mediums to GB and 40 to France. The previous battle left them shorter of tanks than they like. Fortunately, the Allies are not short on fighters. and GB sells 75 Hurricanes to Italy. The Hurricanes are being replaced by Spitfires.
The US sells its M2A3 machinery to Italy for 140 Fiat 3000 model 21s which are sent to China. The Italians start churning out M2A3s at 10 a week. The Italians change the twin machine gun turrets to a 35mm gun and add two forward-facing.30 caliber machine guns. This change in design takes a month. The factory is shut down a month and they start producing the upgraded tank in Dec starting at 10 a week.
Italy sets up a Fiat 3000 model 21 factory in Romania. This gets tanks quicker to the front line if war again breaks out. Romania is able to crank out the simpler tank starting at 15 a week.
The US sells Italy 300,000 M1903 Springfields, Romania 200,000, Hungry and Yugoslavia 150,000 each. It is partly paid by 400,000 Carcanos which are shipped to China.
The US sells 150 Kittyhawks to Italy and another 125 to Finland. 300 37 mm Gun M3s are sold to Finland as well. Stalin starts worrying that things might heat up. The Socialist-Capitalist War might start before he is ready. He isn't particularly worried about the Rome Bloc or Finland in and of themselves but what it might mean in the future. He doesn't need their added numbers when fighting the Anglo-French and the Americans!
Nov 1st, 1940
The L3/35s make their debut in China. After being delivered and men being trained with them, they are ready to be unleashed, some 200 of them. Like the Dutch found out even crappy tanks are very useful against an enemy totally unprepared for them. The Japanese, not suspecting that the Chinese had a single tank within several hundred miles where they struck and the Japanese had not a single AT gun or tank in the area. They had to be taken out by infantry, mortar, and artillery. The Chinese were able to launch a major offensive as a result. The Japanese were pushed back 40 miles before the Chinese could be stopped.
For once the Japanese suffered more casualties than the Chinese. They had 9.000 dead and 28,000 wounded compared to the Chinese 6,000 and 12,000. The Japanese are forced to cut back on cruiser production to make AT guns and tanks.
The Kittyhawk makes its debut. German infantry hates them on first sight (As much as panzer commanders hate the 6 pounders early the next year) as a squadron of them means anywhere from 50-60 heavy machine guns suddenly starts firing amongst them out of nowhere.
Another lurch by the Anglo-French push the Germans back to Amiens and off the coast all the way to Lillie. The way is led by Char Bs and Valentines. The panzers can't hold them back but German AT tanks do them a lot of damage. Although they break their way through there are a lot of broken tanks getting there. Not a few panzers were destroyed as well.
The Germans are starting to figure they aren't going to win this war outright and are starting to hope for a settlement. Except for Hitler and the other fanatics who will settle only for victory or death. This lunge cost the Allies 15,000 dead and 30,000 wounded while the Germans lose 12,500 and 50,000.
Oct 23,1940
The US sells 75 M2 Mediums to GB and 40 to France. The previous battle left them shorter of tanks than they like. Fortunately, the Allies are not short on fighters. and GB sells 75 Hurricanes to Italy. The Hurricanes are being replaced by Spitfires.
The US sells its M2A3 machinery to Italy for 140 Fiat 3000 model 21s which are sent to China. The Italians start churning out M2A3s at 10 a week. The Italians change the twin machine gun turrets to a 35mm gun and add two forward-facing.30 caliber machine guns. This change in design takes a month. The factory is shut down a month and they start producing the upgraded tank in Dec starting at 10 a week.
Italy sets up a Fiat 3000 model 21 factory in Romania. This gets tanks quicker to the front line if war again breaks out. Romania is able to crank out the simpler tank starting at 15 a week.
The US sells Italy 300,000 M1903 Springfields, Romania 200,000, Hungry and Yugoslavia 150,000 each. It is partly paid by 400,000 Carcanos which are shipped to China.
The US sells 150 Kittyhawks to Italy and another 125 to Finland. 300 37 mm Gun M3s are sold to Finland as well. Stalin starts worrying that things might heat up. The Socialist-Capitalist War might start before he is ready. He isn't particularly worried about the Rome Bloc or Finland in and of themselves but what it might mean in the future. He doesn't need their added numbers when fighting the Anglo-French and the Americans!
Nov 1st, 1940
The L3/35s make their debut in China. After being delivered and men being trained with them, they are ready to be unleashed, some 200 of them. Like the Dutch found out even crappy tanks are very useful against an enemy totally unprepared for them. The Japanese, not suspecting that the Chinese had a single tank within several hundred miles where they struck and the Japanese had not a single AT gun or tank in the area. They had to be taken out by infantry, mortar, and artillery. The Chinese were able to launch a major offensive as a result. The Japanese were pushed back 40 miles before the Chinese could be stopped.
For once the Japanese suffered more casualties than the Chinese. They had 9.000 dead and 28,000 wounded compared to the Chinese 6,000 and 12,000. The Japanese are forced to cut back on cruiser production to make AT guns and tanks.
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