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ROUND 22 - (dec 1944 + jan, feb 1945)
GERMANY TURN 22 - WINTER 1945

PURCHASE
GE: 1 Sub, 3 FTR, Rockets, 2 Tanks, 20 Inf (Milits) AA
NOR: Lyngen Line: Fort + Blockhouse

COMBAT

OPERATION PENGUIN
GE: 2 V-2 Rockets SBR> Belgium = damage
GE: 1 V-2 Rocket SBR> FRA (Paris) = damage

OPERATION BODENPLATTE
GE: 2 FTR SBR> Holl/Belg: Airbase + 2 FTR
Loss GE: all units + Loss Allies: 1 FTR
(Half of the german Figthers was lost to friendly AA-fire on their way home to Germany because of secrecy and radio silence)

BATTLE OF THE BULGE
W. GE: Inf, Art, 2 Tanks, Mech attack> Holl/Belg: 8 Inf, 4 Art, 3 Tanks, AA (total Allies)
Loss GE: 2 Tanks + Loss Allies: Inf, Tank (US) + Malmedy Massacre (Peiper murder 84 US POWs)
attacker retreat

NON-COMB MOVE
OPERATION NORDLICHT - RETREAT TO LYNGEN LINE
Finnmark: 2 MNT Inf to North Norway (Norway really need to be split in 3 territories)

OPERATION HANNIBAL
sz 113: 2 Liners, 3 Trannies to sz 115 + load 4 Inf + 9 civilian units + move to sz 114 + offload GE

This was the largest evacuation by sea in history. 22 Passenger Liners and 1000 merchant ships of all types evacuated 350 000 soldiers + 900 000 civilians from East Prussia to Germany

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USSR TURN 22 - WINTER 1945

YALTA CONFERENCE - ARGONAUT/CRICKET
Stalin agree to join the war against Japan. FDR and Winston is happy.

Also, swedish diplomat Raol Wallenberg disappear in Ljubyanka Prison for some reason.

Far left, Wallenberg meet the Sovjet police

PURCHASE
3 FTR, 3 TAC, Bmb, 6 Tanks, 2 Inf, Art
(Production is scaled down because the war will soon end)

COMBAT
BALTIC SEA CAMPAIGN
sz 115: 1 Sub attack> sz 114: 1 Liners, 2 Trannies
Loss Ge: all units.
This includes :
SS Wilhelm Gustloff = 9 500 casualties -largest loss of life in a ship sinking in history
MV Goya = 6500 casualties
SS General Steuben = 4 000
Orion 4 000
SS Hansa unknown

PRUSSIA - VISTULA - ODER OFFENSIVE
Baltic: 7 Inf, 6 Art, 4 Tanks attack> Pol: 2 Blockhouse, 9 Inf, 2 Art, Tank, AA, TAC
E. Pol: 6 Inf, 6 Art, 4 Tank, 6 Mech attack> Pol:
Rus: 4 FTR, 5 TAC, BMB attack> Pol:
Loss USSR: 9 Inf, 3 Art, 4 Tanks, 3 TACs + Loss Ge: all units

BUDAPEST OFFENSIVE
Rom: 8 Inf, 4 Art, Tank + 3 FTR, 2 TAC attack> Hungary: Inf + 2 Inf (Hun)
Loss Axis: all units

NON-COMB MOVE
THE DECEMBER INCIDENT
Greece: 200 000 civilians demonstrate against the UK troops

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JAPAN TURN 22 - WINTER 1945

PURCHASE
DD, Tranny, 2 FTR, TAC, Inf

COMBAT

JAP: 1 BMB SBR> Guam: Airbase
Loss JAP: all units
JAP: 1 BMB SBR> Marianas Isl: Airbase
Loss JAP: all units

OPERATION SHO-GO
sz 6: 1 CV, 2 Air, BB, CA, DD, Sub attack> sz 35: 7th Fleet, TF 38, TG 30
sz 37: BB, CA, DD attack> sz 35:
sz 43: BB, CA, DD attack> sz 35:
Formosa: FTR, TAC, BMB attack> sz 35:
Loss JAP: 1 CV, 2 Air, 2 BB, 3 CA, DD, TAC + Loss US: 2 CV, 4 Air, BB damaged, DD
attacker retreat to sz 20

FTR land in Luzon (Phil)
4 Trannies to sz 35 + 3 Inf, Tank, AA offload in Luzon (Phil)
(At this point I think maybe Phil should be split in several islands, but contestet terr works too)

sz 6: DD attack> sz 20: 2 Subs
Loss US: 1 Sub + 1 Sub submerged (Japanese Destroyers never got the radar tech)

COLLECT INCOME CONV DISRUPTION
2 Subs in sz 6 = loss 2 IPC
3 Subs in sz 19 = loss 2 IPC
1 Sub in sz 20 = loss 1 IPC
1 Sub in sz 36 = loss 2 IPC
1 Sub in sz 37 = loss 2 IPC
1 Sub in sz 42 = loss 1 IPC
CV, BB, CA, DD in sz 41 = loss 4 IPC

Total loss = 14 IPC (in real world 1 400 000 tons of merchant shipping)

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USA TURN 22 - WINTER 1945

George Marshall become first US five star general
Douglas MacArthur become second US five star general
Eisenhower become third US five star general

Audie Murphy (19) become most decorated US combat soldier of WWII

Ecuador, Argentina, Paraguay, Venezuela and Uruguay DOW the Axis

PURCHASE
East: CV, 2 Air, CA, Sub, Tranny, 3 FTR, TAC, 5 BMB
West: CV, 2 Air, CA, DD, Tranny, FTR, TAC, BMB
Palau: Airbase
Marianas Isl: Airbase

COMBAT IN EUROPE
LARGEST RAID ON BERLIN EVER
UK: 6 BMB SBR> GE (Berlin): = total damage
OPERATION VERITABLE
UK: 3 BMB SBR> W. GE: = total damage

NON-COMB MOVE EUROPE
S. FRA: 6th Army to FRA
CHENOGNE MASSACRE
US troops kill 80 german POWs as retaliation for Malmedy

COMBAT PACIFIC
OPERATION MATTERHORN
Guam: BMB SBR> Jap: Airbase = total damage
Marianas: BMB SBR> Jap: Naval Base = total damage

THE SOUTH CHINA SEA RAID
TF 38:
2 cv-Air SBR> Formosa: Airbase = total damage
2 cv-Air SBR> Hong Kong: Naval Base = total damage
2 cv-Air SBR> Hainan = total damage
2 cv-Air SBR> FIC = total damage

OPERATION MUSKETEER
sz 35 east part: 7th Fleet to sz 35 west part: FTR scramble + 2 Kamikaze
Loss US: CV, CA, DD, Tranny + Loss JAP: all units
Marines, 2 Inf, Art + FTR, TAC amp> Luzon: 3 Inf, Tank, AA
Loss US: 2 Inf, TAC + Loss Jap: all units

OPERATION DETACHMENT - RISING THE FLAG ON IWO JIMA
TF 52: 2 CV, 4 Air, 2 BB, CA, DD, Tranny to sz 17: kamikaze
Loss US: CV, 2 Air + Loss Jap: all units
Marines amp> Iwo Jima: Inf, AA
Loss JAP: all units

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CHINA TURN 22 - WINTER 1945
PURCHASE
KMT: 2 Inf
CCP: 2 Inf

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UK TURN 22 - WINTER 1945
Mustafa (Turk) and Ahmad Pasha (Egy) DOW the Axis.
Ahmad Pasha is assassinated right after this announcement

UK Home Guard is stood down (war is soon to end)

Also king George II of Greece leave his throne vacant.
Archbishop Damaskinos as new Greece player.
Winston is no longer wanted as protector of Greece. Brits must go home.

PURCHASE
UK: DD, 2 FTR, 2 BMB

COMBAT

OPERATION VERITABLE
UK: 3 BMB SBR> GE (Berlin) = total damage
UK: 3 BMB SBR> W. GE = total damage
UK: 1 BMB SBR> Nor= total damage

RAF BALTIC SEA CAMPAIGN
UK: BMB attack> (minelaying) sz 113: CA, DD, Liner, Tranny,
Loss GE: all units

This include Passenger Liners:
SS Deutschland =unknown casualties of 10 000 passengers
Thielbek = 8 000
Cap Arcona = 5 000
warships: Admiral Scheer, Schlesien, Lutzow and destroyers

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ITALY TURN 22 - WINTER 1945

OPERATION SUNRISE
General Karl Wolf meet Allen Dulles (CIA) to negotiate surrender of N. It.

Himmler negotiate surrender with aid from diplomat Folke Bernadotte (strict neutral Sweden)

Bela Miklos, the new Hungarian player, switch side and DOW Adolf

Tito form Yugoslavia government

Mannerheim (FIN) DOW Adolf

Per Albin (strict neutral Sweden) cease all trade with Germany

Karl Renner proclaim government of Free Austria

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ANZAC AND UK PAC TURN 22 - WINTER 1945

COMBAT
OPERATION CAPITAL - INVASION OF BURMA
India: 4 Inf, Art, Tank, BMB (UK) + 4 Inf (Punjab) + 2 Inf (Gurkha) attack> Burma: 3 Inf (JAP) + Inf (BU)
Loss Allies: 1 Inf + Loss JAP: all units

BATTLE OF RAMREE ISLAND
1000 japanese soldiers retreat into crocodile-infestet mangrove swamps.
Only 20 survive.
This is known as the worst animal attack ever recordet. If it’s true. Historians differ

Burma switch side and join the Allies.
1 Inf (BU) join the Allies.

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FRANCE TURN 22 - WINTER 1945
Syria and Lebanon DOW Axis

PURCHASE
FRA: 2 Inf, Art

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ROUND 23 (march april may 1945)
GERMANY TURN 23 - SPRING 1945

Adolf issues the Nero decree = destroy and burn everything

PURCHASE
FTR, Tank, 10 Inf (milits)

COMBAT

OPERATION SPRING AWAKENING
G. GE: 2 Inf, Art, Tank + TAC attack> Hungary: 8 Inf, 4 Art, Tank, AA
Loss GE: Inf, Tank, TAC + Loss USSR: Inf
attacker retreat

NON-COMB MOVE
Mass suicides start in East Germany

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USSR TURN 23 - SPRING 1945

PURCHASE
3 FTR, 3 TAC, 6 Tanks, 2 Inf, 2 Art

COMBAT

BERLIN OFFENSIVE
Pol: 10 Inf, 10 Art, 6 Tanks + 4 FTR, 4 TAC attack> GE: 6 Inf, 2 Art, AA 3 FTR
Loss USSR: 4 Inf, 2 Tanks, FTR + Loss GE: all units

VIENNA-PRAGUE OFFENSIVE
Hun: 10 Inf, 4 Art, 2 Tanks, 6 Mech + 2 TAC attack> Great GE: 12 Inf, 2 Art, Tank, FTR
Loss USSR: 3 Inf + Loss GE: all units

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JAPAN TURN 23 - SPRING 1945

PURCHASE
Tranny, 2 FTR, Inf

COMBAT

OPERATION TEN-GO
sz 20: BB, DD + FTR, TAC attack> sz 19: 3 Subs (US)
Loss US: 1 Sub + 2 Subs submerge
FTR, TAC land on Okinava

COLLECT INCOME CONVOY DISRUPTION
2 Subs in sz 6 = loss 4 IPC
2 Subs in sz 19 = loss 2 IPC
2 Subs in sz 20 = loss 2 IPC
1 Sub in sz 36 = loss 2 IPC
1 Sub in sz 37 = loss 2 IPC
1 Sub in sz 44 = loss 2 IPC
1 Sub in sz 42 = loss 2 IPC
CV, BB, CA, DD in sz 41 = loss 4 IPC
total loss 20 IPC

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USA TURN 23 - SPRING 1945

FDR is dead. Truman become 33rd President.

UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE IN SAN FRANCISCO

Chile and Brazil DOW Japan

PURCHASE
East: CV, 2 Air, CA, Sub, Tranny, 3 FTR, TAC, 5 BMB
West: CV, 2 Air, Tranny, FTR, TAC, BMB
Iwo Jima: Airbase

COMBAT EUROPE
UK: 2 BMB SBR> neutral Swiss cities Bern and Zurich by accident.
UK: 4 BMB SBR> W. GE = total damage

INVASION OF WEST GERMANY
FRA: 4 Inf, 5 Art, 4 Tanks attack> W. GE: 3 Blockhouses, 7 Inf, 4 Art, AA, 2 FTR
Holl/Belg: 3 Inf, 2 Art, Tank attack> W. GE:
Norm: 10 Mech attack> W. GE:
UK: 4 FTR, 4 TAC attack> W. GE
Loss US: Inf + Loss Ge: all units

OPERATION GRAPESHOT
S. IT: 2 Inf, Art, Tank attack> N. It: 3 Blockhouses, 1 MNT, AA (GE) + 3 Alp Inf (IT)
Loss Axis: all units surrender without any fighting

COMBAT PACIFIC

OPERATION STARVATION
Guam: BMB SBR> Japan: Naval Base = total damage
Marianas BMB SBR> Japan: Naval Base = total damage

OPERATION ICEBERG
TF 52: 3 CV, 5 Air, 3 BB, 3 CA, 3 DD, 4 Trannies attack> sz 19: BB, DD, FTR, TAC
Loss US: 3 BB damaged + Loss JAP: all units
4 Marines, 3 Inf, Art, Tank attack> Okinava: Inf, FTR
Loss US: Inf, Tank + Loss Jap: all units

OPERATION MUSKETEER
sz 35: 2 Trannies + 2 Inf, Art amp> Mindanao: Inf
Loss Jap: all units

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CHINA TURN 23 - SPRING 1945

COMBAT
SECOND GUANGXI CAMPAIGN
Yunnan: 6 Inf attack> Kwangsi: 2 Inf, Art
Loss KMT: 1 Inf + Loss JAP: all units

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UK TURN 23 - SPRING 1945

OPERATION UNTHINKABLE
Winston consider backstabbing Stalin and attack the Red Army in Germany to save Poland.
Patton agree.
Truman rule out the operation as military unfeasible.

The Arab League is formed in Cairo.

The king of kings, Reza Pahlavi of Persia, demands all UK and USSR troops leave Persia ASAP!!!

King Ibn Saud (Saudi Arabia) and Johan (Norway) DOW Tokyo Kid

From left: king Farouk, Truman, Pahlavi, Winston, Johan, Ibn and Tokyo Kid far right.

PURCHASE
CV, 2 Air, 2 FTR, 2 BMB

COMBAT

UK: 1 BMB SBR> Nor = total damage
UK: 2 BMB SBR> W. Ge: = total damage
UK: 2 BMB attack> sz 113: sink all remaining ships

INVASION OF WESTERN GERMANY
Holl/Belg: 4 Inf, 3 Art, Tank attack> W. Ge: 2 Fort, 2 Blockhouses, 4 Inf, AA, 2 FTR
UK: 2 Trannies to sz 110 + 2 Inf + 2 Inf (CAN) amp> W. GE
Loss Ge: all units

NON-COMB MOVE
Adolf give up and all Axis forces in Denmark and Norway surrender.
UK, Tranny w Inf to sz 112 + offload in Nor
UK: Tranny w Inf to sz 112 + offload in Den

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ITALY TURN 23 - SPRING 1945
Musso and Clara is hanged.
Adolf and Eva commit suicide
Two of the main Axis players have left the game

The new Italian player, Badoglio DOW Tokyo Kid

COMBAT

BATTLE OF POLJANA
Yugo: 2 Inf (Partisan) attack> Slovenia/Trieste: Inf (GE) + Inf (Serb)
Loss Axis: all units + 100 000 serbs, croats and cossacks is massacred
Because Trieste was UK responsibility, Tito is now in conflict with Winston.
This was the last official battle in Europe, but because France is last in the Turn order, The Second Battle of the Alps will be the last battle in this Blog

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ANZAC AND UK PAC TURN 23 - SPRING 1945

COMBAT
BATTLE OF MALACCA STRAIT
Ceylon: DD attack> sz 37: CA
Loss JAP: all units

NON-COMB MOVE
sz 41: CV, BB, CA, DD to sz 19

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FRANCE TURN 23 - SPRING 1945

Jodl signs the unconditional surrender at Reims, France.
Stalin is not present.

de Gaulle DOW Badoglio because he want to grab a piece of Italy

PURCHASE
2 Inf, Art

COMBAT
SECOND BATTLE OF THE ALPS
S. It: Inf, Tank, FTR attack> N. It: Inf (IT)
Loss IT: all units
Truman is not happy and stop de Gaulle.

NON-COMB MOVE

THE SELIFA MASSACRE IN ALGERIA
Alg: Inf murder 40 000 civilians

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ROUND 24 (june july aug 1945) the final round
GERMANY TURN 24 - SUMMER 1945

POTSDAM CONFERENCE - TERMINAL
The Allied Control Council takes power and supreme autorothy of Germany.
De Gaulle resist this Agreement. Germany belongs to France now.

Stalin, Truman and Winston also demand unconditional surrender of Japan.

Also a lot of Axis war criminals are arrested: left on the pic

The situation in Europe after the war

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USSR TURN 24 - SUMMER 1945

Stalin (USSR) and Choibalsan (Mongolia) DOW Tokyo Kid (Japan)

PURCHASE
3 FTR, 3 TAC, 6 Tanks, 2 Inf, 2 Art

COMBAT

SOVJET-JAPAN WAR
Amur: 8 Inf, 8 Art, 7 Tanks + 2 FTR, 2 TAC, BMB attack> Manchuria: 6 Inf, Art, Tank, FTR, TAC, 3 Inf Manchuko
Loss USSR: Inf, Tank + Loss JAP: all units

Amur: 7 Inf + 3 FTR, TAC attack> North Korea: 4 Inf, 2 FTR
Loss JAP: all units