The Co-Prosperity Sphere
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Well, with German science no longer weighed down by the Nazis' 'Aryan Science' BS, I wouldn't be so sure. Goring is dead too, which is a big help for the Luftwaffe, as we can finally get some competent leadership there.
Also, you don't need jets to combat jets, at least not the first-generation ones. An OTL example was the P-51 Mustang, which could match Soviet first-generation jets like the MiG-15 and the MiG-17 pound for pound. And the Germans had an equivalent, development of which was actually completed, just not put into mass production: the Do-335 Arrow.
Also, you don't need jets to combat jets, at least not the first-generation ones. An OTL example was the P-51 Mustang, which could match Soviet first-generation jets like the MiG-15 and the MiG-17 pound for pound. And the Germans had an equivalent, development of which was actually completed, just not put into mass production: the Do-335 Arrow.
Everyone can do so, but I'm not coop working on any TL soon. That said everyone is free to use my ideas as inspiration.
Not exactly sure abotu that right now, but I'll think about it soon. ;D
That is actually a very good point.
Will make a new TL (besides my old ones that will continue) with more infuence and paricipation for all readers to be a active part of the decision processes there: look here!
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Chapter 309: National Monarchism: United Kingdom of the Netherlands Aschwinism
Chapter 309: National Monarchism: United Kingdom of the Netherlands Aschwinism
Coming in many variations and shapes, the National Monarchism that ruled over the United Kingdom of the Netherlands was called Aschwinism, because the former Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld (later Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands) who had married Princess Juliana of the Netherlands in 1939 had fled with her to England after the German invasion. He was then succeeded by his brother Prince Aschwin of Lippe-Biesterfeld as the newly proclaimed King (King Aschwin I.) of this German puppet state. Aschwin himself hoped that by gaining the support of his new state for the Axis Central Powers, they could get a mild peace deal and even maintain most of their own land and colonies. His form of National Monarchism was closely styled and portrayed after the German Way, or Wilhelmism and Aschwin himself was secretly a member and supporter of the Burgundian Order. It was thanks to his propaganda ans support that the Order that hoped to integration of the former regions of the Duchy of Burgundy and the Kingdom of Burgundy to grow as a powerful state and buffer between the Empire of France and the Empire of Germany. In their Propaganda they often portrayed the United Netherlands as if the Franche-Comté (the former Franche Comté de Bourgogne) and all of the Duchy of Burgunde was still a part of their glorious nation. Besides some French, Dutch, Flemish, Walloon and German members, numbering 62,000 at it's high, Aschwin found the strongest support inside of the German Government and Military itself. While his plan to rename the Kingdom of the United Netherlands into the Kingdom of Burgundy was not that popular and stayed a suggestion for now, his plans to integrate his kingdom and it's colonies back into the German Empire as another King under Emperor Wilhelm III's reign was highly popular among many Germans and even some Dutch, Flemisch, Walloon and French that supported his plans.
As Aschwin surrounded himself with followers who liked his ideas, plans and ideals he became strong support from the National Monarchist Movement in the Netherlands (Dutch: Nationaal-Monarchistische Beweging in Nederland) who grew to 100,000 members in 1941. His supporters were civil servants, farmers, business people and soldiers who liked his rule and reforms. Many of these opposing his rule came from the socialist unions, and the Protestant and Catholic Churches. These supporters wished for a stronger state with a strict order and control that would put the "national interest" above the individual interest and the interest of social groups, that had characterized Dutch society until then. Their party was anti-parliamentary and authoritarian, but not anti-semitic or with a racist ideology until 1936, when it was influenced by Meinoud Rost van Tonningen. It also began to sympathize with the aggressive foreign policy of Italy and Germany. Practical demands of the NRB were: abolition of individual voting rights, corporatism, a duty to work and serve in the army, limits on the freedom of the press, laws against strikes. It demanded a reunification of the Netherlands with Flanders and French Flanders in a Greater Netherlands, which would also control a large colonial empire consisting of the Belgian Congo, Dutch East Indies and perhaps even a once again Dutch South Africa. As King Aschwin delivered most of this hopes quickly, his support as well as membership in the NRB grew rapidly, even if the integration of the Belgian Congo and a Dutch South Africa would only be archived after a peace deal. In the meantime Aschwin supported school books and teachers that promoted that the Dutch were another German subculture and language, just like the Bavarian or Saxons and should one day be reintegrated into their bigger brother state, the German Empire.
A comman salute in Aschwin's Kingdom of the United Netherlands was "Hou Zee!", wich connoted courage and referred to the glorious maritime history of the Dutch Republic and it's fights against England. It also began using titles like Kameraad for men (comrade) and Kameraadske ('comradess', a neologism) for women. One party slogan was "Mussert or Moscow" (reffering to Anton Mussert the founder of the MRB and a strong supporter of King Aschwin), evoking the Fascist Royalist/ National Monarchist defense against supposed Communist subversion and for support of the Eastern Crusade. Theis symbol was the Prince's Flag as well as the wolfsangel (a hooked symbol of a wolf trap) on a white disc was set against an orange field. As his support grew King Aschwin proudly proclaimed the creation of the United Netherlands Volunteer forces for the Eastern Crusade (including over 46,000 soldiers, two Infantry, one Motorized and one tank Division) to fight alongside fellow European Monarchic Nations against Bolshevism.
Coming in many variations and shapes, the National Monarchism that ruled over the United Kingdom of the Netherlands was called Aschwinism, because the former Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld (later Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands) who had married Princess Juliana of the Netherlands in 1939 had fled with her to England after the German invasion. He was then succeeded by his brother Prince Aschwin of Lippe-Biesterfeld as the newly proclaimed King (King Aschwin I.) of this German puppet state. Aschwin himself hoped that by gaining the support of his new state for the Axis Central Powers, they could get a mild peace deal and even maintain most of their own land and colonies. His form of National Monarchism was closely styled and portrayed after the German Way, or Wilhelmism and Aschwin himself was secretly a member and supporter of the Burgundian Order. It was thanks to his propaganda ans support that the Order that hoped to integration of the former regions of the Duchy of Burgundy and the Kingdom of Burgundy to grow as a powerful state and buffer between the Empire of France and the Empire of Germany. In their Propaganda they often portrayed the United Netherlands as if the Franche-Comté (the former Franche Comté de Bourgogne) and all of the Duchy of Burgunde was still a part of their glorious nation. Besides some French, Dutch, Flemish, Walloon and German members, numbering 62,000 at it's high, Aschwin found the strongest support inside of the German Government and Military itself. While his plan to rename the Kingdom of the United Netherlands into the Kingdom of Burgundy was not that popular and stayed a suggestion for now, his plans to integrate his kingdom and it's colonies back into the German Empire as another King under Emperor Wilhelm III's reign was highly popular among many Germans and even some Dutch, Flemisch, Walloon and French that supported his plans.
As Aschwin surrounded himself with followers who liked his ideas, plans and ideals he became strong support from the National Monarchist Movement in the Netherlands (Dutch: Nationaal-Monarchistische Beweging in Nederland) who grew to 100,000 members in 1941. His supporters were civil servants, farmers, business people and soldiers who liked his rule and reforms. Many of these opposing his rule came from the socialist unions, and the Protestant and Catholic Churches. These supporters wished for a stronger state with a strict order and control that would put the "national interest" above the individual interest and the interest of social groups, that had characterized Dutch society until then. Their party was anti-parliamentary and authoritarian, but not anti-semitic or with a racist ideology until 1936, when it was influenced by Meinoud Rost van Tonningen. It also began to sympathize with the aggressive foreign policy of Italy and Germany. Practical demands of the NRB were: abolition of individual voting rights, corporatism, a duty to work and serve in the army, limits on the freedom of the press, laws against strikes. It demanded a reunification of the Netherlands with Flanders and French Flanders in a Greater Netherlands, which would also control a large colonial empire consisting of the Belgian Congo, Dutch East Indies and perhaps even a once again Dutch South Africa. As King Aschwin delivered most of this hopes quickly, his support as well as membership in the NRB grew rapidly, even if the integration of the Belgian Congo and a Dutch South Africa would only be archived after a peace deal. In the meantime Aschwin supported school books and teachers that promoted that the Dutch were another German subculture and language, just like the Bavarian or Saxons and should one day be reintegrated into their bigger brother state, the German Empire.
A comman salute in Aschwin's Kingdom of the United Netherlands was "Hou Zee!", wich connoted courage and referred to the glorious maritime history of the Dutch Republic and it's fights against England. It also began using titles like Kameraad for men (comrade) and Kameraadske ('comradess', a neologism) for women. One party slogan was "Mussert or Moscow" (reffering to Anton Mussert the founder of the MRB and a strong supporter of King Aschwin), evoking the Fascist Royalist/ National Monarchist defense against supposed Communist subversion and for support of the Eastern Crusade. Theis symbol was the Prince's Flag as well as the wolfsangel (a hooked symbol of a wolf trap) on a white disc was set against an orange field. As his support grew King Aschwin proudly proclaimed the creation of the United Netherlands Volunteer forces for the Eastern Crusade (including over 46,000 soldiers, two Infantry, one Motorized and one tank Division) to fight alongside fellow European Monarchic Nations against Bolshevism.
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At the moment, the Axis is winning. Freedom Through Monarchy FOR EVERYONE!
At least in the overall war they still lose some battles here and there ;D
Chapter 310: The Communist Party of Burma Rebellion
Chapter 310: The Communist Party of Burma Rebellion:
The Communist Party of Burma had fought for independence from Great Britain and later against the Japanese supported Government of the Kingdom of Burma, from wich they claimed it was a mere Japanese puppet regime inside the Co-Prosperity Sphere. While in Insein prison in July 1941, Thakin Soe and Than Tun had co-authored the Insein Manifesto, which declared fascis royalism as the major enemy in the coming war and called for temporary co-operation with the British and the establishment of a broad coalition alliance that should include the Soviet Union. It followed the Popular Front line advanced by the Bulgarian communist leader Georgi Dimitrov, at the Seventh Comintern Congress in 1935. This was against the prevailing opinion of the Dobama Movement, including Thakin Aung San, who had secretly left Myanmar with a group of young men, who later became known as the Thirty Comrades, to receive military training from the Japanese and founded the Burma Independence Army (BIA), later renamed the Burma Defence Army (BDA) and subsequently the Burma Royal National Army (BNA), that fought for the Allies (not to be confused with the Royal Burmese Army (RBA) that fought for the Burmese Kingdom, the Japanese and the Co-Prosperity Sphere. After the declaration of the pro-Japanese, Pro-Coprospist government, Soe had gone underground in the Irrawaddy Delta to organize armed resistance soon after the invasion, and Than Tun as Minister of Land and Agriculture was able to pass on intelligence to Soe. Other communist leaders Thakin Thein Pe and Tin Shwe made contact in July 1942 with the exiled colonial government in Simla, India. The Royal Burmese Government saw them as much as traitors as the other way around, declaring in their propaganda that the Communists rebellions since before the war with Japan started were a secret collaboration with the British European Colonialists, so they could claim instability and continue their rule over Burma for longer.
Inside the Communist Party was also Thakin Ba Hein, who was considered the father of the Communist Party of Burma that was founded in 1939. He had fought for Burmese independence since before the Japanese arrived and was the President of the All-Burma Students' Union in 1935. Ba Hien had translated Marxist literature for the Nagani Book Club in Rangoon. He was a leader of the Dobama Asiayone(Burmese: တို့ဗမာအစည်းအရုံး, We Burmans Association, DAA, known as Thakins) and the leftist Freedom Bloc. He organized the oil workers in Yenengyaung. One of the first Thakin to join the Communist Party of Burma in 1939 and was imprisoned by the British in Mandalay from 1940 to 1942. After he got free from there, he served in the wartime government of Ba Maw and secretly conspired with the communists. After the outbreak of the war between the Soviet Union (Comintern) and the Co-Prosperity Sphere in 1942 he and other known Communists or sympathizers in the governments of the Co-Prosperity Sphere had been arrested. Freed by Communist rebels, who were accomplished by British and Indian special forces (Cindits, officially known as the Long Range Penetration Groups). Despite their hate for the Soviet Union and the Communists themselves, the Allies took all the help they could get, so they armed and trained the CPB with paradrops of supplies, equipment, weapons and even soldiers to fight alongside them. Many of this forces were shot down by Co-Prosperity Sphere fighters before they could even reach their destination points, but the few that survived helped the resistance groups in Burma (not just the Communists) greatly in their efforts to resist the Royal Burmese Army and Government and their Japanese and Co-Prosperity Sphere supporters. Thakin went underground and led the communist resistance in the Toungoo area.
The Communist Party of Burma had fought for independence from Great Britain and later against the Japanese supported Government of the Kingdom of Burma, from wich they claimed it was a mere Japanese puppet regime inside the Co-Prosperity Sphere. While in Insein prison in July 1941, Thakin Soe and Than Tun had co-authored the Insein Manifesto, which declared fascis royalism as the major enemy in the coming war and called for temporary co-operation with the British and the establishment of a broad coalition alliance that should include the Soviet Union. It followed the Popular Front line advanced by the Bulgarian communist leader Georgi Dimitrov, at the Seventh Comintern Congress in 1935. This was against the prevailing opinion of the Dobama Movement, including Thakin Aung San, who had secretly left Myanmar with a group of young men, who later became known as the Thirty Comrades, to receive military training from the Japanese and founded the Burma Independence Army (BIA), later renamed the Burma Defence Army (BDA) and subsequently the Burma Royal National Army (BNA), that fought for the Allies (not to be confused with the Royal Burmese Army (RBA) that fought for the Burmese Kingdom, the Japanese and the Co-Prosperity Sphere. After the declaration of the pro-Japanese, Pro-Coprospist government, Soe had gone underground in the Irrawaddy Delta to organize armed resistance soon after the invasion, and Than Tun as Minister of Land and Agriculture was able to pass on intelligence to Soe. Other communist leaders Thakin Thein Pe and Tin Shwe made contact in July 1942 with the exiled colonial government in Simla, India. The Royal Burmese Government saw them as much as traitors as the other way around, declaring in their propaganda that the Communists rebellions since before the war with Japan started were a secret collaboration with the British European Colonialists, so they could claim instability and continue their rule over Burma for longer.
Inside the Communist Party was also Thakin Ba Hein, who was considered the father of the Communist Party of Burma that was founded in 1939. He had fought for Burmese independence since before the Japanese arrived and was the President of the All-Burma Students' Union in 1935. Ba Hien had translated Marxist literature for the Nagani Book Club in Rangoon. He was a leader of the Dobama Asiayone(Burmese: တို့ဗမာအစည်းအရုံး, We Burmans Association, DAA, known as Thakins) and the leftist Freedom Bloc. He organized the oil workers in Yenengyaung. One of the first Thakin to join the Communist Party of Burma in 1939 and was imprisoned by the British in Mandalay from 1940 to 1942. After he got free from there, he served in the wartime government of Ba Maw and secretly conspired with the communists. After the outbreak of the war between the Soviet Union (Comintern) and the Co-Prosperity Sphere in 1942 he and other known Communists or sympathizers in the governments of the Co-Prosperity Sphere had been arrested. Freed by Communist rebels, who were accomplished by British and Indian special forces (Cindits, officially known as the Long Range Penetration Groups). Despite their hate for the Soviet Union and the Communists themselves, the Allies took all the help they could get, so they armed and trained the CPB with paradrops of supplies, equipment, weapons and even soldiers to fight alongside them. Many of this forces were shot down by Co-Prosperity Sphere fighters before they could even reach their destination points, but the few that survived helped the resistance groups in Burma (not just the Communists) greatly in their efforts to resist the Royal Burmese Army and Government and their Japanese and Co-Prosperity Sphere supporters. Thakin went underground and led the communist resistance in the Toungoo area.
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Grr, why must they oppose Freedom Through Monarchy?
It's hard to tell. Honestly at this time the line between good (monarchial powers) and evil (Stalinist Russia and America under FDR) is very blurred so anything can happen.
I would say and argue the ACP and C-PS Powers are still the mostly bad guys TTL for now, but then again, there are no true heroes and good guys in war, depending on either side the others are evil and they themselves are the good powers, so ... ;D
That said the democratic Allies would be my favorites for a good faction TTL, even if I like writing and exploring the other powers and ideologies TTL. ^^
Tomorrow: Vietnamese Coprospism
Chapter 311: Operation Seemöwe (Operation: Seagull)
Chapter 311: Operation Seemöwe (Operation: Seagull)
With the Allied Equipment and Prisoners taking at Dunkirk, the Axis Central Powers equipped parts of their forces, but the German Empire intended to do more. Since the Imperial German Air Force did not manage to defeat the Royal Air Force yet and the British Premier Winston Churchill unwilling to negotiate for peace, the German High Command invented a plan to disrupt peace and stability in England, bringing the British Government to it's knees. To do so the remaining German Paratroopers trained Army forces for the so called Operation Seemöwe (Operation: Seagull), a operation intended to land German forces disguised as British Forces to spy, sabotage and further prepare a actual future planned German Invasion of the Axis Central Powers on the Southern Coast of England.
“Herman, ready for our big day tomorrow?” questioned one of the German Paratroopers as he and his friend were heading to their barracks after the last training day, ready for their landing in England tomorrow.
“As ready as I'll ever be Fritz.” smiled Herman Steinhard amused as they headed towards their sleeping beds in the barracks.
“I think it will be hard wearing these damn British Uniforms during the Operator.” declared Friedrich sill a little nervous about their air landing tomorrow.
“Still better than having to use their inferior Allied Weapons.” smiled Herman disappointing that they would have to use the enemies equipment and weapons to better disguise during their operation they had trained for months for by now.
“Unbelievable how a pure Germanic Race like the English can side with this crossbreed Americans.” laughed Friedrich Engelbein disappointed at the Anglo-Saxons English on the island, just like the Frankonian French who still remained on the side of the Allies outside of Europe. How could someone side with these Americans, who were racial impure according to German Propaganda. Mixing with all kinds of Neger (African-Americans) and even Asians in North America there was no doubt for Friedrich that a pure and German led Europe would beat them in this war.
“Don't be so harsh on the Anglo-Saxons, they are just misinformed by their government and lured in by false American promises. These Americans just try to keep Germany down and even end the other Germanic Empires of England and France to bring forth their own Imperialism to rule the World.” believed Herman their own news that the Allies led by the Americans just intended to rule themselves, by weakening the European Empires with this Second Great War.
“You know what's the best thing is about this mission?” questioned Friedrich with a huge grin on his face.
“Clearly not the British food.” joked Herman with a disgusted look on his face. How could a great nation survive without Sauerkraut or Bratwurst, a good and solid meal.
“You're right there.” nodded Friedrich smiling widely. “It's to stay undercover for some time, you know live a fine English life with some fine English girl I will meet there.” laughed Engelbein with a dreamily smile on his face.
“But Friedrich, you already have a girl back in Colonia.” laughed Herman amused by the thoughts of his fellow comrade in the German Paratroopers.
“What are the chances of them ever knowing about each other?” questioned Friedrich still smiling as he entered their Barracks first, where the pin-up poster of Berta was pinned up on the wall to have one female face staring back at them in a room full of male soldiers.
“You're right, they will not suspect anything, just like Churchill isn't suspecting that one of our objectives is to kill him during our operation.” grinned Herman hoping that the end of the British Mobster (as German propaganda portrayed Churchhill and Franklin D. Roosevelt) by assassination would quickly bring an end to this war in a great German Victory. Sadly for former Reich Aviation Minister and now Air Admiral Hermann Göring, they would only manage to kill Churchill's double.
With the Allied Equipment and Prisoners taking at Dunkirk, the Axis Central Powers equipped parts of their forces, but the German Empire intended to do more. Since the Imperial German Air Force did not manage to defeat the Royal Air Force yet and the British Premier Winston Churchill unwilling to negotiate for peace, the German High Command invented a plan to disrupt peace and stability in England, bringing the British Government to it's knees. To do so the remaining German Paratroopers trained Army forces for the so called Operation Seemöwe (Operation: Seagull), a operation intended to land German forces disguised as British Forces to spy, sabotage and further prepare a actual future planned German Invasion of the Axis Central Powers on the Southern Coast of England.
“Herman, ready for our big day tomorrow?” questioned one of the German Paratroopers as he and his friend were heading to their barracks after the last training day, ready for their landing in England tomorrow.
“As ready as I'll ever be Fritz.” smiled Herman Steinhard amused as they headed towards their sleeping beds in the barracks.
“I think it will be hard wearing these damn British Uniforms during the Operator.” declared Friedrich sill a little nervous about their air landing tomorrow.
“Still better than having to use their inferior Allied Weapons.” smiled Herman disappointing that they would have to use the enemies equipment and weapons to better disguise during their operation they had trained for months for by now.
“Unbelievable how a pure Germanic Race like the English can side with this crossbreed Americans.” laughed Friedrich Engelbein disappointed at the Anglo-Saxons English on the island, just like the Frankonian French who still remained on the side of the Allies outside of Europe. How could someone side with these Americans, who were racial impure according to German Propaganda. Mixing with all kinds of Neger (African-Americans) and even Asians in North America there was no doubt for Friedrich that a pure and German led Europe would beat them in this war.
“Don't be so harsh on the Anglo-Saxons, they are just misinformed by their government and lured in by false American promises. These Americans just try to keep Germany down and even end the other Germanic Empires of England and France to bring forth their own Imperialism to rule the World.” believed Herman their own news that the Allies led by the Americans just intended to rule themselves, by weakening the European Empires with this Second Great War.
“You know what's the best thing is about this mission?” questioned Friedrich with a huge grin on his face.
“Clearly not the British food.” joked Herman with a disgusted look on his face. How could a great nation survive without Sauerkraut or Bratwurst, a good and solid meal.
“You're right there.” nodded Friedrich smiling widely. “It's to stay undercover for some time, you know live a fine English life with some fine English girl I will meet there.” laughed Engelbein with a dreamily smile on his face.
“But Friedrich, you already have a girl back in Colonia.” laughed Herman amused by the thoughts of his fellow comrade in the German Paratroopers.
“What are the chances of them ever knowing about each other?” questioned Friedrich still smiling as he entered their Barracks first, where the pin-up poster of Berta was pinned up on the wall to have one female face staring back at them in a room full of male soldiers.
“You're right, they will not suspect anything, just like Churchill isn't suspecting that one of our objectives is to kill him during our operation.” grinned Herman hoping that the end of the British Mobster (as German propaganda portrayed Churchhill and Franklin D. Roosevelt) by assassination would quickly bring an end to this war in a great German Victory. Sadly for former Reich Aviation Minister and now Air Admiral Hermann Göring, they would only manage to kill Churchill's double.
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Chapter 312: The Rising Sun in the Sky
Chapter 312: The Rising Sun in the Sky:
Takamitsu Mitsuoki, better known as the Japanese Red Baron, or the Red Sun Pilot, was famous for his skills as a fighter pilot and the Nakajima Ki-43-III Hayabusa (Oscar) he had painted completely red (with the exception of a white ring around the red sun emblem) to stand out. Clearly inspired by the German Red Baron, Mitsuoki was famous for his shot down of Allied fighters and bombers during the Battle of the Philippine Sea and would have participated in the Battle of Midway, hadn't the Imperial Japanese Navy send him to Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia to train their newly established local air forces for the Co-Prosperity Sphere. He later fought above Burma and Annam against Allied fighters and bombers and was rejoined with more purely naval air forces over New Guinea. With the heavy losses of Midway he was relocated to Japan to help train new pilots, for the first time accompanied by army pilots and instructors. With 85 known shot downs of enemy aircraft he was a living hero and legend to the young cadets and future pilots and hoped to inspire them all. Unknown to him by now, his legend would later help the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Force to form the Kamikaze wings that would suicidal attack Allied ships to stop their advance towards the Japanese Home Islands and the core of the Co-Prosperity Sphere.
Takamitsu Mitsuoki, better known as the Japanese Red Baron, or the Red Sun Pilot, was famous for his skills as a fighter pilot and the Nakajima Ki-43-III Hayabusa (Oscar) he had painted completely red (with the exception of a white ring around the red sun emblem) to stand out. Clearly inspired by the German Red Baron, Mitsuoki was famous for his shot down of Allied fighters and bombers during the Battle of the Philippine Sea and would have participated in the Battle of Midway, hadn't the Imperial Japanese Navy send him to Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia to train their newly established local air forces for the Co-Prosperity Sphere. He later fought above Burma and Annam against Allied fighters and bombers and was rejoined with more purely naval air forces over New Guinea. With the heavy losses of Midway he was relocated to Japan to help train new pilots, for the first time accompanied by army pilots and instructors. With 85 known shot downs of enemy aircraft he was a living hero and legend to the young cadets and future pilots and hoped to inspire them all. Unknown to him by now, his legend would later help the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Force to form the Kamikaze wings that would suicidal attack Allied ships to stop their advance towards the Japanese Home Islands and the core of the Co-Prosperity Sphere.
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Huh? Why are there kamikaze pilots - you established already that the war would be won by Japan and the others...
It will be but overall Kamikaze pilotes have a few points going for them after having some accidential hits to discover these idea first:
1) Wihout returning their range is nerly double with the same amound of fuel, at least on paper.
2) Because they don't turn around after a attack and head straight to the target they were actually harder to hit OTL and their own hit ratio sadly was better then many regulair Japanese naval bombers.
3) When they focuss mostly on outdated, older planes (still around but not for good use against Allied fighters by now) and shortly trained pilotes (that's all it truely needs) they can be a good addition to the war efford and much faster trained and used then regular pilots were OTL. It's one of the concept of using the Asian Mass Banzai Charges (or like he Soviet ones) just in aerial combad.
4) While the ACP and C-PS will win the war, they will do so in a peace deal and not unrealistically conquer the USA or so, that means before the end and Allied war exhauston there still can come some nasty hits and losses for the ACP and C-PS. The losses in skilled pilotes and fighters/bombers at Midway still is huge even if not as devastating then OTL, so Kamikaze is not the worst idea to compensate in a counter measure. OTL Japan lacked many C-PS allies and had fewer industries so this time the effect of Kamikaze groups could be better than OTL too, when more planes can be faster produced overall. Don't foget Japan tries two strategies TTL, class and masses in their forces, that dramatically seperate between elite divisions and modern forces (most in the Pacific by now) and more massly produces more regular asian forces (mostly in China and India).
Well the question is how they win and what kind of victory, there will be a Cold War TL of TTL following up. After all if I had not spoiled it in anyway TTL would be named differently. ;D