Kingdom of the Netherlands : a alternate star trek timeline

[eurowatch]

Feb 22, 2018 22:08:00 GMT lordroel said:

February 7th

The royal Netherlands military intelligence service inform prime minister Smit that they can not guarantee that a plan in which the Germans or the United States are to declare war With each other without drawing the Japanese empire or the Netherlands into it. He is advised to wait as they believe Germany will do something that will drive the United States to declare war on them.

The easiest way to avoid Japan joining the war would probably be to re-open trade With them. Running out of resources for their ambitious military programs was one of the most important reasons why they started the Pacific War in the first place.

[stevep]

Interesting to see this revived. Would have preferred to see the Dutch supporting the allies after the German western offensive if nothing else. Might have been decisive in preventing the fall of France and Belgium and destroying a lot of the German armoured units. It would have exposed the homeland to ground attacks but the Germans had committed pretty much everything they had free to the operation and wouldn't have had a lot spare for such attacks unless they really stripped the garrison in Poland, which might tempt Stalin to move.

Not sure the destruction of the Pearl Harbour attack force would have stopped the Japanese, both because so much was already in operation and also they will be desperate for fuel in a situation which is only likely to get worse.

[lordroel]

Feb 23, 2018 12:25:04 GMT stevep said:

Interesting to see this revived. Would have preferred to see the Dutch supporting the allies after the German western offensive if nothing else. Might have been decisive in preventing the fall of France and Belgium and destroying a lot of the German armoured units. It would have exposed the homeland to ground attacks but the Germans had committed pretty much everything they had free to the operation and wouldn't have had a lot spare for such attacks unless they really stripped the garrison in Poland, which might tempt Stalin to move.

Not sure the destruction of the Pearl Harbour attack force would have stopped the Japanese, both because so much was already in operation and also they will be desperate for fuel in a situation which is only likely to get worse.

Not revived but re-posted, mostly because the Kingdom of the Netherlands : a alternate star trek timeline AH.com thread is death and the other hand is that the wiki where it has been posted on has decided to end the its service, thus i decided to re-post it here in all its glory.

[lordroel]

Part 9 1943

January 9th
Soviet forces surrounding Stalingrad ask for the surrender of the German 6th Army.

January 14th
British prime minister Winston Churchill and American president Franklin Roosevelt meet at Casablanca, Morocco where they agree on the unconditional surrender of Germany.

First D-23 Fokker Meteoor T.1 jet fighter trainer version rolls of the production line. More then twelve have been ordered by the KLm, more then 100 D-23 Fokker meteoor M.1 jet fighter have been ordered with production of both versions to begin in early 1944.

January 27th
The first American pilots who where forced to land in the Netherlands arrive at the interment camp on the island of Texel. Like with the British, the Americans are held for four weeks before being allowed to escape the interment camp.

February 1st
A British Stirling bomber carrying an advance British designed radar crashes on Netherlands soil after its crew where forced to choose between crashing in German occupied Belgium or the neutral Netherlands. After the crew who died on impact were handed over to the British embassy, a team belonging to the KLm used explosives destroy the remains of the bomber.

February 2nd
The remains of the German 6th army surrenders at Stalingrad

February 15th
After having successfully protested to the Netherlands government regarding the Netherlands building ships and tanks for German use, the British government makes a similar protests to the Swedish government regarding Sweden building boats for the Germans.

February 25th
HNLMS Soerabaja, a training ship for the KNM East Indies Squadron is decommissioned. Her role is taken over by the cruiser Hr. Ms. Java.

April 7th
Bolivia declares war on Germany and Italy.

April 20th
Former admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, now a private citizen, visits the island of Hawaii.

April 25th
From a friendly Japanese citizen living near Pearl harbor naval base, Isoroku Yamamoto uses a binocular to observe the carriers USS Enterprise and USS Hornet laying in the harbor.

April 27th
Isoroku Yamamoto boards a plane heading back to Japan after spending a week in Hawaii. Having learned much about the US Navy he comments to a friend back home , "in some way I am glad that we have not awoken a sleeping giant by attacking it, as I surly believe our nation would have paid the ultimate price in doing so."

May 9th
The Japanese Imperial Army begins a massive operation in the Chinese province of Hunan.

May 13th
German Afrika Korps and Italian troops in North Africa surrender to Allied forces.

May 17th
After eight days the Japanese imperial army ends its massive operation in the province of Hunan. More then 60,000 civilians are killed and the American papers who write about it call it the Hunan Massacre. But as the war in Europe is bigger news the articles written about the Hunan massacre only appear in the back pages of most news papers.

June 15th
German general Heinz Guderian tells Adolf Hitler that the new Panzer V (Puma) (1) is not yet ready for battle.

July 10th
Watched by an orbiting KNRS Amsterdam , the allies launch operation Husky and begin the invasion of Sicily.

July 25th
Netherlands space centre Guyana near the town of Kajana is founded. The space centre which falls under the direct command of the KNRD is to become the main launch facility for the Royal Netherlands Space Force. The entire space centre is a closely guarded secret and is guarded by the Netherlands Army 2nd special forces regiment who have orders to keep it that way.

King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy has prime minister Mussolini arrested and appoints marshal Pietro Badoglio as new prime minister.

Augustus 23rd
The battle of Kursk ends with a serious strategic defeat for the German forces.

September 7th
KNIL 1st tank battalion receives the its first T-10 Panter tanks and T-15 Jachtpanter tank destroyers. The T-10 and T-15 of which 34 each are to be fielded by the 1st tank company of the 1st tank battalion will join the American made M2 light tanks in service with the battalion which is based on the island of Java. With their new tanks in service the M2 Will now be used primary as a support tank instead of being as frontline units.

September 8th
General Dwight Eisenhower announces the surrender of Italy on radio, an hour later Italian prime minister marshal Badoglio also announces the surrender of Italy to the allies.

September 22nd
Carriers USS Yorktown, USS Lexington and USS Essex from the safely of the Norwegian sea launch an air strike against Kåfjord in northern Norway where the German battleship KMS Tirpitz is laying. In the air strike more then 1,000 of Tirpitz's crew of 1,700 die and the battleship sinks to the bottom of the fjord.

October 5th
After seeing the power of carriers against battleships, prince Bernhard approaches vice-admiral Janssen With the suggestion that the Royal Netherlands Navy starts fielding its own Aircraft carriers. As he put it: "every great navy needs to have an aircraft carrier." After some consideration Janssen agrees to hand the suggestion over to the oversight commision for consideration.

October 7th
After much consideration the oversight commision agrees to order the construction of an aircraft carrier to serve as flagship for the KM East Indies squadron and lynchpin for the defence against a possible Japanese invasion.

October 13th
The new government of Italy sides with the Allies and declares war on Germany.

October 17th
A small segment of the New Fijenoord-Rotterdamsche space yard is completed in a factory somewhere in the Netherlands and beamed to orbit by KNRS Amsterdam before the KNRS Marowijne uses its tractor beam to bring it to moon orbit where it joins several other small segments already assembled.

November 19th
In order to continue updating their knowledge about the strength of the American Pacific fleet in Hawaii, an Imperial Japanese submarine launches a floatplane to survey Pearl Harbor. After having done a quick survey of the naval base and remaining undetected, the floatplane returns safely to its mother submarine.

November 22nd
In Cairo, American president Roosevelt and Chinese president Chiang Kai-shek meet In their discussion, president Chiang Kai-shek request more aid by the Americans in order to battle the Japanese forces in China however president Roosevelt tells that the Chinese they have to hold on until Germany is defeated before more aid can be send to them.

November 28th
British prime minister Winston Churchill, American president Franklin Roosevelt and Soviet premier Josef Stalin meet at Tehran, Iran, where they discuses future European strategies, the United Nations, Turkey, Italy, China, the Russian frontiers, Poland, and Germany's eastern frontier.

December 4th
Bolivia declares war on Germany and her remaining allies in Europe.

December 17th
Work on moon base Eisinga is progressing on schedule. The Royal Netherlands engineering corpsmen who are building it estimates that the first permanent occupants can begin working and living in the moon base in less then a year.

December 26th
US navy and the British Royal Navy warships sink the German battlecruiser KMS Scharnhorst and two of here escorting destroyers in the battle of the North Cape.

(1) The Puma tank is the OTL Panther tank which is already in use by the Royal Netherlands Army and therefore the Germans where forced to choose an other name for their tank.

[lordroel]

Part 10 1944

January 4th
The 1st Ukrainian front belonging to the Soviet Union enters Poland.

January 10th
The German ambassador is informed that With the falling value of the Deutche mark, the Netherlands now wants a different method of payment like gold or precious gems. With the Netherlands now having being Germany's most important source of oil, raw materials and tank destroyers much importance is placed upon this request.

January 20th
The German siege of Leningrad is lifted.

January 22nd
US and British troops land a force of 50,000 men at Anzio, south of Rome.

February 7th
KNRS Amsterdam leaves Earth orbit for the first time since it arrived in 1936. Its destination is Mars where it will for now remain in orbit as the KNRD headquarters in Den Helder (1) fear that the risk that the flagship is spotted is increasing and that with moon base Eisinga and Nieuw Fijenoord-Rotterdamsche space yard being build, KNRS Amsterdam can begin exploring other planets with the orbit of Mars as its new home.

February 11th
With KNRS Amsterdam now orbiting Mars, plans for its exploration are being made. As the KNRD has only visited Mars with its shuttles it has never sent a person to the surface. Now with KNRS Amsterdam orbiting Mars this is about to change.

February 15th
Captain De Jong authorizes the stellar cartography department on board KNRS Amsterdam to begin searching for a landing site for the first astronaut to walk on the surface of Mars.

March 4th
The USAF makes its first attack on Berlin.

March 20th
Four astronauts are beamed down to the surface of Mars wearing EV suits (2). During the hour they are on the surface they plant the Netherlands flag, sing the national anthem, put up a small weather station and bring back samples of Mars soil back to the orbiting KNRS Amsterdam for studying.

March 25th
After months of planning construction can finally begin on the Willem van Oranje, the Royal Netherlands navy first Aircraft carrier. Her design is heavily based on the American Midway-class carriers and Will carry a total of eighty D-23V fighters and twenty Kolibrie helicopters.
 
April 1st
Possible as a joke, the head of Shell states that they Will Accept Polish jews as payment for their oil. Wheter it was serious or not is still debated but what is known is that the Germans take him up on that and use it as an opportunity to wipe out the Warzaw ghetto.

April 3rd
A reconnaissance plane belonging to the British fleet air arm flies over Kåfjord where the sunken German battleship KMS Tirpitz rests. The reconnaissance plane conforms that the Germans are not making any attempts to raise her.

April 17th
The Japanese imperial army launches a massive operation in the Chinese provinces of Henan, Hubei, Guangxi and Hunan. More then 600,000 men are involved in the largest land operation ever conducted by the Japanese imperial army in China, facing them are 345,000 men belonging to the Chinese national revolutionary army.

April 18th
American battleship USS California joins USS Arkansas in Northern Ireland waters. She is preparing for her new role as shore bombardment ship at the upcoming invasion of Normandy(3).

April 19th 
The Citizens of the Warzaw ghetto are given the choice of being moved to the Netherlands or to Treblinka. Naturally, all choose the Netherlands. 

The first train filled With 7.000 jews is stopped at the Dutch border while the government debates what they are going to do. In the end, it is decided that they Will shipped to a refugee camp in Drenthe. Many refugee camps are already under construction to meet an expected flood of Germans fleeing from the Red Army.
 
May 8th
Koolhoven helikopter industrie shows some high ranking officers belonging to the Royal Netherlands Air Force,naval aviation service and East Indies Air Force their first prototype of the KH-2 Kolibrie II helicopter (4).

June 6th
The allies begin the invasion of Normandy.

June 12th
Germany launches the first V-1 flying bombs against Britain from launch sites in occupied Belgium. As several of the V-1 launch sides are close to the Netherlands province of Zeeland, the air defense command Zeeland and the KLm present in Zeeland are put on high alert.

July 4th
The first two KNRD personal arrive at moon base Eisinga. With this the base receive its first permanent occupants and when fully complete will be able to house twelve Space Force personell.

July 20th
A failed assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler is made.

July 21st
The British Firestorm jet fighter enters into service with the British RAF (5).

Augustus 15th
The Allies launch a second invasion of France, between Cannes and Toulon.

Augustus 22nd
British fleet air arm torpedo bombers with escorting fighters attack the German battleship KMS Gneisenau which is laying in dock in Kiel where she was undergoing a replacement of her turrets. The attack results in fires breaking out which set off an explosion that destroys most of her bow.

Augustus 23rd
Romania breaks with Germany, surrenders to the Soviet Union and joins the Allies.

Augustus 25th
Finland requests an armistice with the Soviet Union.

The French city of Paris is liberated

Augustus 26th
Romania declares war on Germany.

Augustus 31st
A Mars rock is given to queen Wilhelmina for her birthday by rear admiral Doorman.

September 2nd
Allied troops enter Belgium.

September 9th
Bulgaria signs an armistice with the Allies.

September 11th
Due to heavy allied bombing the German V-2 rocket launch sites in occupied Belgium are moved forty miles inside Germany. This cause problems for the Netherlands as now V-2 rockets will fly over the country towards targets in England and allied controlled Antwerp. The air defense command headquarters in Den Haag puts all eleven provinces air defense commands at high alert with radar stations Den Helder and Nieuw-Milligen, which have been upgraded heavily since the first came online, will track and report any V-2 rocket flying over the Netherlands and report any over flight to the provinces air defense commands.

September 19th
Finland and the Soviet Union sign an armistice, ending the conflict between their countries.

October 7th
Royal Netherlands air force 306th fighter squadron (6) becomes the first jet operated fighter squadron whit more then fourteen D-23 Fokker meteoor M.1 jet fighters.

November 2nd
Canadian troops take Zeebrugge in Belgium, Belgium is now entirely liberated.

November 6th
President Roosevelt wins a fourth term, Queen Wilhelmina and prime minister Smit send a telegram the same day congratulating him with his fourth term in office.

November 15th
A German V-2 rocket crashed outside the Netherlands city of Amersfoort. This is the first time Dutch engineers are able to study a real wreckage of a V-2 rocket instead of studying it on the holodeck in the office of the KNM special operations.

November 20th
The number of refugees in the Netherlands surpasses 200.000. Most of them are civilians fleeing from the fighting, but there are many Wehrmacht deserters among them. Thight controls are in place to make sure any criminals are caught right away. At this point, pilots landing at airports or in fields have become so common that a system is established With the Germans to give back all the military Equipment the deserters had with them and hand over the ones who didn't make it for burial. 

November 28th
The first Allied convoy enters the port of Antwerp since its liberation in September. The allies are allowed to use Dutch waters as long as they are not escorted by warships. The Royal Netherlands Navy has guaranteed a passage free of sea mines and is doubling its patrol in order to prevent the Germans from laying mines or hampering the allied convoys.

December 6th
Queen Juliana makes a speech where she calls on the Sinterklaas spirit of her people to have compassion for the refugees currently living in Drenthe . She also reaffirms Dutch neutrality and their Mission to help refugees, "the only side the Netherlands Will choose in this terrible conflict is that of the weak and defenceless."

December 7th
At the Belgium city of Liege a conference is held by general Dwight Eisenhower who announces the decision for the main land effort into Germany to be led by British field marshal Bernard Montgomery.

December 15th
The battle of the Bulge begins as German forces attempt a breakthrough in the Ardennes region.

December 20th
The Japanese imperial army operation against the Chinese national revolutionary army ends with more then 76,000 Chinese being killed, wounded or captured while the Japanese imperial army loses only 17,000 killed or wounded.

December 23th
Secret negotiations begin between The Netherlands, Germany and the Allies. The Germans want Dutch assitance in Operation Hannibal (the evacuation of East Prussia), which the Dutch are willing to give as long as they won't be transporting soldiers or military Equipment. The Soviets are straight up against the Whole plan, warning the Dutch that if they do this they Will be seen as co-belligerent of Germany. In the end a comprimise is reached where the Dutch ships will fly white flags and allow American observers on board to Ensure the ships aren't used for any military purpose. The Dutch Will also stop selling raw materials and equipment to Germany. This agreement marks a looming breech between the east and west.

December 31st
Hungary, now led by a Soviet controlled government, declares war on Germany.

(1) The KNRD headquarters in Den Helder is still using the cover of the office of the Royal Netherlands Navy special operations.

(2) The environmental suit is only worn by royal Netherlands space force personal who have passed the holodeck course onboard KNRS Amsterdam.

(3) USS California and USS Arkansas are together with USS Nevada and USS Texas the four US navy battleships to take part in the invasion of Normandy.

(4) the KH-2 Kolibrie II helicopter is an enlarged version of the KH-1 Kolibrie of which more then fourt are in service with the KLm and eighteen with the Royal Netherlands naval aviation service.

(5) the Firestorm jet fighter was to have been named Meteor, but to avoid confusion with the D-23 Fokker Meteoor jet fighter the name was changed to Firestorm.

(6) the 306th fighter squadron is one of fourteen fighter squadron the royal Netherlands air force has, the others are the 311th, 312th, 313th, 314th, 315th, 316th, 322nd, 323rd, 324th, 325th, 326th, 327th and 328th squadron.

[lordroel]

Part 11 1945

January 9th
Twelve KNRD personal now live and work at moon base Eisinga. Expansion of the moon base is under way to facilitate more space force personal and construction of a second moon base is also underway.

January 17th
Fokker R&D begins working on the D-23 Fokker meteoor M.2 jet fighter and carrier variant of the D-23. The M.2 is major improvement over the M.1, having a longer fuselage, greater fuel capacity and a standard ejection seat.

Soviet forces liberate Warsaw, Poland.

January 18th
Citing lack of payment, the Netherlands cancels all trading contracts With Germany.

January 20th
German forces in Hungary surrender to the Soviet army.

A fleet of Dutch ships arrive in Gdynia to aid in evacuation efforts. Comprised primarly of ocean liners, cargo ships and a hospital ship, they rechieve a disproportionate number of sick, children and elderly to free up the German ships for soldiers. Doctors and nurses are forced to work around the clock to save as many lives as they can. 
The Dutch fleet is escorted by the light cruiser Hr.Ms. De Ruyter and the destroyers Hr.Ms. Piet Hein and Gerald van Callenburgh (all flying white flags) to avoid any Soviets With itchy triggerfingers causing an international incident. 
The refugees would be sailed all the way to Amsterdam to ensure their safety.

January 30th
After rechieving a warning by Hr.Ms De Ruyter, German destroyer Z38 sinks the Soviet submarine S-13. 

February 4th
Belgium is now cleared of all German forces.

February 26th
After many visit to the surface of Mars, the KNRD stellar cartography department has used data gathered during those walks and from satelite scans to find the right place for building the first base on Mars.

March 1th
The number of German refugees living in the Netherlands surpasses 500.000. Despite the constant crackdowns by police and supporting army units, there is a thriving black market in the camps.

March 10th
Under pressure by Japan, Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia declare their independence from France. Japan uses this as an excuse to send troops into the countries to "aid" their fight against a potential French offensive

March 12th
The provisional government of the French republic issues a statement that they do not recognize the independence of the empire of Vietnam, kingdom of Laos and Cambodia and that as they are part of the French republic, French Indochina is theirs to govern.

March 15th
German V-2 rockets continue to hit England and Belgium, seven V-2 rockets have crashed onto Netherlands territory killing thirteen people and wounding several dozens since the Germans started launching them from Germany. At this point the German ambassador apoligising to The Hague has become a standard occurence.

March 19th
311th fighter squadron of the KLm receives its D-23 Fokker meteoor M.1 jet fighters. The squadron is the only Dutch fighter squadron based in Netherlands Guyana and so was very low on the pecking order when it came to new Equipment.

March 20th
Grand admiral Dönitz is convinced by a Dutch diplomat to use the Aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin as an evacuation ship. The ship is hastily made sea-worthy, loaded With as many evacuees as possible and joins the evac fleet, being towed by a trio of tow boats.

March 27th
The Western Allies slow their advance and allow the Soviet army to take Berlin.

March 28th
Argentina declares war on Germany, the last country to do so.

March 29th
The Soviet army enters Austria, the Allies take Frankfurt.

March 30th
Work on the New Fijenoord-Rotterdamsche space yard orbiting the moon is progressing on schedule. Two shuttles operating out of moon base Eisinga are assigned to assist in the construction.

April 5th
Right after arriving in Amsterdam, the improvised refugee ship Graf Zeppelin suffers damage to her keel and needs to be taken into dock to prevent her from sinking. No one is sure how the damage was caused and her crew is not excatly interested in finding out. 

April 7th
Japanese admiral Toyoda, commander-in-chief of the combined fleet orders the battleship Yamato and four carriers to being operations along the coast of the Chinese province of Guangxi in order to show that not all glory belongs to the imperial army.

April 12th
President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies suddenly, vice president Harry S. Truman becomes president of the United States.

April 15th
The Japanese battleship Yamato, armoured aircraft carrier Taihō, light aircraft carriers Hiyō, Jun'yō and Shōhō and their escort begin bombing and shelling missions against Chinese forces in Guangxi province.

April 16th
The KMS Prinz Eugen causes a diplomatic incident when it Crosses into Dutch waters carrying over one thousand refugees and flying a white flag. She is escorted to Den helder while a discussion begins about what to do now? Naturally the Dutch agree to accept the refugees but what about the ship and her crew? Do they get the same status as refugees or should they be back to Germany? And what about the ship itself? Should she be towed back to Kiel, handed over to the Americans or stay in Den Helder?

April 17th
In the end, what to do With the crew was solved by Hitler himself. After hearing about Prinz Eugen's defection he goes on a tirade, declares the crew outlaws and demand that the Netherlands are invaded. This demand is ignored by the OKW, they have niether the resources to launch an invasion nor any intention of adding yet another country to the list of enemies they are fighting. 

April 21st
Soviet forces launch assaults on the German forces in and around the city of Berlin.

Construction on the second moon base begins by the Royal Netherlands engineering corps, the base is to be named Nieuw Amsterdam Maan Basis.

April 25th
First contact between Soviet and American troops at the river Elbe, near Torgau in Germany.

April 27th
Soviet armies complete the encirclement of German forces in Berlin.

April 28th
Benito Mussolini is captured by Italian Partisans and unceremoniously executed.

April 27th
Adolf Hitler and his wife Eva Hitler commit suicide inside the Führerbunker.

April 30th
US Strategic air forces in Europe and the British air ministry declare an end to strategic bombing in Europe.

May 2nd
The battle of Berlin ends when German general Helmuth Weidling, commander of the Berlin defense area, unconditionally surrenders the city of Berlin to Soviet General Vasily Chuikov.

British field marshal Montgomery tells German general of the army, admiral Hans von Friedeburg and three others to surrender unconditionally. They command what remains of the German forces in Helgoland, Schleswig-Holstein, Denmark, and all other islands.

May 3rd
Rocket scientist Wernher von Braun and 120 members of his team surrender to US forces.

May 4th
Near Hamburg, the unconditional surrender of one million German troops in Denmark and northern Germany to the Canadian 1st army and British 2nd army is arranged.

May 5th
Denmark is liberated by Allied troops.

The Netherlands government decide to close the interment camps on the island of Texel and in the province of Utrecht where British and American airman where held. The interment camp in the province of Friesland where Germans airman are held is to remain open as the Germans for now have no place to return to. Procedures begin for some of them to be granted Dutch citizenship if they want it.

May 7th
The Netherlands government announces that the 700,000 refuges living in refugee camps in the provinces of North Brabant, Zeeland, Drenthe and Limburg can go back to their home countries of Germany or Belgium when the situation is stable enough. Those who choose to stay can become Dutch citizens.

May 8th
Washington, D.C., US President Harry Truman officially announces the unconditional surrender of Germany and with it the second world war officially ends.

The Hague declares that With over four hundred thousand refugees evacuated to safety, Operation Hannibal has been a resounding sucsess.

May 9th
Dr. Anton Mussert, leader of the banded Netherlands national socialist movement, holds a memorial for Adolf Hitler. The memorial is not that impressive, being held in a café in The Hauge and is attended by less then thirty people. Rather tellingly, no Germans partake in the memorial.

Moscow radio announces Josef Stalin's proclamation of the unconditional surrender of Germany.

May 10th
The Dutch ministry of foreign affairs announces that since the soveriegn nation of Germany no longer exsist, they have confiscated the German legation, consulate and other German properties in The Netherlands. All properties will be returned to their rightful owners when Germany is re-established as an independent nation. In the meantime the legation acts as support for all the German citizens now stuck in bureaucratic limbo.

May 19th
Disguised as a German refugee, Heinrich Himmler tries to get through the Netherlands border. However he is detected by one of the thousands of small sensors placed along the Dutch-German border and is picked up by a Dutch army patrol. Seeing the vehicle, Himmler initially tries to play stupid but after realising that the soldiers is not falling for it and knows who he is, he surrenders to the commanding sergeant believing he is safe.

May 20th
The Royal Netherlands Military Intelligence Service bring Himmler to a safehouse somewhere in the Netherlands where he is identified and later throughly questioned by MID agents.

May 22nd
Chairman Janssen and pm Smit decide to keep Himmler in the safehouse until the beginning of the Nuremberg Trials they know are soon to begin and continue questioning him until handing him over to the British.

May 27th
Prime minister Smit announces that he will step down as prime minister in 1949. This announcement comes after his political party becomes the largest party in the cabinet for the third time.

June 5th
The European advisory committee announces the unconditional political capitulation of Germany. Control of the country is divided into four occupation zones, with the United States, Great Britain, France and the Soviet Union each controlling one zone.

June 7th
The Dutch Navy does a head count of all German ships to have defected to them. It totals to one Aircraft carrier, one heavy cruiser, three u-boots, two destroyers and a lot of cargo ships. They still haven't figured out what to do With them.

June 8th
During a patrol along the coast of Netherlands Borneo, the Dutch submarine O-19 becomes stuck after hitting a sandbank.

June 13th
The destroyers Hr.Ms. Bloys van Treslong and Hr.Ms. Witte de With (1) use their guns and torpedoes to destroy O-19 after attempts to pull her off the sandbank were met with failure.

July 16th
To late to be used in the war against Germany the United States tests the first atomic bomb at the Alamo-gordo airbase in New Mexico. The blast is monitored by an orbiting class-1 probe which transmit the data to the KNRD headquarters in Den Helder where it eventually ends up on the desk of pm Smit.

July 30th
The first Belgium refugees return to their home country. Some have been living in a Dutch refugee camp since the Germans invaded in 1940 and will need a lot of time re-adjusting. The Belgian government offers its most sincerest gratitude to the Dutch people in a speech that ends With "even in our darkest hour, Belgium now knows it can always rely on our Dutch brothers and sisters to help us."

Augustus 12th
In the dessert of New Mexico, the United States test their second atomic bomb. Again the blast is picked up by a class-1 probe and sent to Den Helder where the date is analyzed.

September 18th
Typhoon Makurazaki kills 3,746 people in Japan. The Japanese imperial navy and imperial army are mobilized to aid the people effected.

September 20th
Mohandas Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru demand that all British troops depart India.

October 20th
The United Nations is founded.

November 4th
Work on the first Mars base begins. Unlike the two moon base which are build above ground, the Mars base will be build primary underground.

November 16th
88 German scientists arrive in the United States to help in the development of rocket technology.

November 20th
The Nuremberg trials begin. Eager to see justice be served, the Dutch government hands Heinrich Himmler over to the Americans and British for prosecution.

November 26th
Heinrich Himmler is transported to the German border by two MID agents who hand an unwilling Himmler over to two British MI6 agents after a quick conversation. The British later bring him to a location in Germany for interrogation.

December 4th
The United Nations charter is ratified by the United States senate, becoming the third nation to join the new international organization.

December 15th
Heinrich Himmler is transported by the British to Nuremberg where he will face trial.

December 17th
Japan, Manchuria, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Mengjiang united autonomous government (2) and China-Nanking (3) sign the charter for the creation of the Greater East Asia Alliance.

December 21st
General Patton dies from injuries sustained in a car accident on December 9th.

(1) All eight Admiralen-class destroyers are still in service with the Dutch navy and have been modernized with same weapons, sonar and radar systems used by the Gerard Callenburgh-class destroyer..

(2) The Mengjiang united autonomous government is an autonomous area in Inner Mongolia operating under Japanese control.

(3) The republic of China-Nanking is the official Japanese backed rival of the republic of China led by generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek.

[lordroel]

Part 12 1946

January 5th
The US resumes diplomatic relationships with Siam. This is the result of the United States seeing the Greater East Asia Aliance as a threat and has decided to resume its diplomatic relation with Siam to prevent the country from falling into Japan's sphere of influence.

January 10th
The first meeting of the United Nations is held in London.

The United States army establishes its first radar contact with the moon. The Nieuw Fijenoord-Rotterdamsche space yard is not detected as it is posititioned at the far side of the moon.

January 14th
The Dutch government announces that all Germans airmen in the internenment camp who have decided they want to go home will be handed over to the Red Cross as a neutral party. All Germans who want to stay in the Netherlands Will later be granted Dutch citizenship.

January 17th
The UN security Council hold its first session.

March 2nd
The royal Netherlands East Indies army, air force and navy begin a large scale military excersise named operation Samen Sterk (Strong Together) on the island of Java. The goal of the excersise is to improved the communications between the three services, test out new tactics and weapon systems and show strenght to Japan.

March 6th
The provisional government of the French republic calls for UN sanctions to be placed on Vietnam, Laos and  Cambodia and that all member nations do not recognize their independence.

March 15th
British premier Clement Attlee agrees with India's right to independence.

March 16th
First prototype of the KH-2 Kolibrie II helicopter flies in the Netherlands.

March 22nd
On the island of Java the military excise ends. In the last twenty days much experience has been gained in terms of co-operations between the different branches, use of new weapons systems and discovery of problems. As a result operation Samen Sterk is rated a sucsess among the top brass.

April 1st
Singapore becomes a crown colony.

April 16th
Observed by an orbiting class-1 probe, the United States test its first V-2 rocket at the White Sands missile range.

May 17th
A month after the first Soviet–Japanese neutrality pact ended, the Soviet Union and the Japanese empire renew it in a signing ceremony in Tokyo. The second Soviet–Japanese neutrality pact will now end in 1950.

June 4th
At moon base Eisinga, the personal stationed there observe a large solar prominence extending over 300,000 miles.

June 15th
The Netherlands government decides not to join the United Nations and instead to become a non-member observer.

July 4th
The Philippines gain independence from United States. Under an agreement between the two countries the newly created United States Army in the Philippine (USAP) will remain in the country to defend the Philippine islands and support the Philippine army.

July 17th
The last flight of the Fokker D-21 mono-wing fighter with the KLm. With that the only fighter planes still in use with the KLm are the Fokker G-1 fighter-cruiser, D-22 fighter and the new D-23 meteoor jet fighter. The Royal Netherlands East Indies Air Force still uses the Fokker D-21 in a limited capacity.

July 25th
The first underwater test of atomic bomb happens at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific ocean. One of the ships sunk in the test is the USS Langley, the first Aircraft carrier build by the United States.

September 2nd
The interim government of India takes charge.

September 9th
During a routine survey mission over Mars the KNRS Adriaen Block encounters a malfunction and is forced to make a hard landing on the surface. Fortunantly all personal onboard manage to be beamed onboard the orbiting KNRS Amsterdam.

September 12th
After the KNRS Adriaen Block has been towed onboard the KNRS Amsterdam using its tractor beam, it's is determined that the hard landing caused major damage to the shuttlepod that can not be repaired With the tools availeble. Therefor it is decided to send it to Guyana Space Centre for reverse engineering.

September 20th
KNRS Adriaen Block arrives at the Guyana space centre after being towed there by KNRS Maas.

October 1st
Heinrich Himmler is found guilty on al four charges at the Nuremberg trails and sentenced to death by hanging.

October 16th
Nazi war criminals convicted in the Nuremberg trials are executed by hanging in a gymnasium at the Nuremberg Palace of Justice premises.

The United Nations first meeting in New York is held.

October 29th
The Allied control council of Germany issues a Directive in which the border between the Soviet and Western zones are closed.

November 5th
John F Kennedy, a veteran of the war in Europe, is elected to the US house of representatives.

November 8th
A riot in the Vietnamese city of Haiphong breaks out.

November 10th
Martial law is declared allowing the Vietnamese and Japanese armies to use any means to quell the riots in and around the city of Haiphong.

November 12th
The Japanese heavy cruisers Nachi and Kuma begins a naval bombardment of the city of Haiphong, killing over 3,000 Vietnamese civilians in one afternoon. This  show of force by the Japanese ends the riots as quickly as it began.

November 13th
Construction of the first Mars base is progressing as planned. The name for the base has been approved by rear admiral Doorman and is to be Mars base Hellas, named after the location the base is being build at.

December 8th
The United Nations recommends that member countries do not establish diplomatic relations With Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. This comes short of the demands by the provisional government of France, who wanted sanctions to be placed on them and for them not to be recognize as independent nations.

December 16th
Siam joins the United Nations after declining membership in the Greater East Asia Alliance.

December 19th
Three KLm squadrons are now equipped with the D-23 meteoor M.1 jet fighter and one squadron whit the training version of the Fokker D-23 meteoor T.1 jet fighter.

December 31st
President Truman delivers proclamation 2714 which officially ends hostilities in world war II.

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Part 13 1947

January 1st
The United States and Great Britain join their German zones of administration.

January 8th
A storage facility used by the Artillery Inrichtingen in the Netherlands city of Delft explodes , large quantity of AG-37 assault rifles , MG-37 machine guns , RW-1 rocket-propelled grenade launchers and ammunition are destroyed , eight workers at the storage facility die in the explosion.

February 1st
Fokker aircraft corporation East Indies begins the production of the D-23 Fokker meteoor M.1 jet fighter for the royal Netherlands East Indies air force.

February 7th
Arabs and Jews reject British proposal to split Palestine.

February 10th
The Netherlands broadcasting foundation is founded (1).

February 12th
One of the royal Netherlands space force class-1 probe orbiting earth observes a meteor impact in Sikhote-Alin, Soviet Union.

March 12th
President Truman introduces the Truman-doctrine to fight communism.

March 18th
The Chinese city of Chengdu in the province of Sichuan (2) is captured by the Japanese imperial army, the city was a major stronghold for the Chinese nationalist.

April 8th
Moon base Eisinga telescopes observe the largest sunspot since the moon base became operational.

April 15th
From Hilversum in the Netherlands, radio Netherlands world radio begins broadcasting.

May 7th
General MacArthur retires as field marshal of the Philippine army, after having served in this function for almost 10 years.

May 11th
The first D-23 Fokker meteoor M.2 jet fighter enters in to service with the KLm. Production of the D-23 Fokker meteoor M.1 jet fighter is stopped in favor of the new model.

June 24th
A flying saucer is sighted over Mount Rainier, Washington, by pilot Ken Arnold (3).

Augustus 14th
India and Pakistan gain independence from Great Britain.

Augustus 19th
The New Fijenoord-Rotterdamsche space yard is completed and orbiting above the far side of the moon. With its completion the KNRD can begin assembling, maintaining and building Dutch spaceships whitout needing to rely solely on the KNRS Amsterdam anymore.

September 18th
The United States Army Air Force, along with some components of the United States Navy's air arm, becomes the United States Air Force.

September 28th
With Nieuw Fijenoord-Rotterdamsche space yard now in use the KNRD launches its first warp capable vessel, named KNRS ER-1 (4), from a launch bay located at space centre Guyana. After reaching orbit KNRS ER-1, escorted by KNRS Paramaribo, uses its impulse drive to fly to New Fijenoord-Rotterdamsche space yard where it would be deployed out of during the test flights.

September 30th
Pakistan joins the United Nations.

October 1st
Rear admiral Doorman arrived at New Fijenoord-Rotterdamsche space yard where he inspects KNRS ER-1, and speaks to commander Jonan Andre and lieutenant commander A.B. Ruben who were going to fly KNRS ER-1 on her first warp flight.

October 3rd
With KNRS Batavia behind it acting as a chase vessel, KNRS ER-1 left New Fijenoord-Rotterdamsche space yard and then moon orbit before activating its warp drive. Reaching a top speed of warp 1, KNRS ER-1 return to sublight when it reached Mars orbit where it was greeted by the waiting KNRS Amsterdam.

October 14th
American test pilot, captain Chuck Yeager flies Bell X-1 faster than the speed of sound, not knowing that the KNRD eleven days before had a spaceship fly faster then the speed of light.

November 10th
After two years of building, Nieuw Amsterdam moon base is completed and has place for more then sixty KNRD personal (5).

November 12th
Aircraft carrier Willem van Oranje is launched. 

November 25th
New Zealand ratifies the statute of Westminster and thus becomes independent of legislative control by the United Kingdom.

November 29th
The United Nations votes for the partition of Palestine and the creation of an independent Jewish state.

December 18th
The first prototype of Fokker S-11 Instructor, which is the new training aircraft for the KLm flies from Schiphol.

December 20th
After four successful warp 1 flights, KNRS ER-1 flew it fastest and longest run, reaching a top speed of warp 2.1 before dropping to sublight near Jupiter. KNRS Amsterdam which had arrived earlier was waiting for KNRS ER-1 to bring her on board, and then to bring her back to the Nieuw Fijenoord-Rotterdamsche space yard where KNRS ER-1 operates out of.

(1) The Netherlands Broadcasting Foundation (Nederlandse Omroep Stitching) is a government owned broadcaster who have created the NOS to be the main Netherlands news suppliers so they can control and have supervision over the flow of news and prevent secrets from coming out in the open.

(2) The Chinese province of Qinghai, Gansu,Yunnan and part of the province of Sichuan are still under control of free Chinese forces as they are called in the international media.

(3) The flying saucer the pilot saw was in fact KNRS Maas and her pilot was in the impression that no aircraft was in the area. After returning to  Guyana space centre the pilot was given a reprimand by his commanding officer and a 30 days grounding.

(4) ER-1 is short for Experimentele Ruimteschip in Dutch translating to Experimental Spaceship. The ER-1 is based on the NX-Alpha test vehicle Earth Starfleet in a different future and timeline used. The prototype has a capacity for two crewmembers and an estimated top speed of warp 3.

(5) Nieuw Amsterdam moon base is equipped with all the facilities needed to function including its own transporter room, holodeck for training and amusement, a launch bay for a maximum of two shuttles of the type 7 and 15 and a small hydroponic garden.

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Part 14 1948


January 14th
KNRS ER-2 (1) is launched from Guyana Space Centre.

January 4th
Great Britain grants independence to the Republic of Burma(2) as a member of the Commonwealth of Nations.

March 18th
France, Great Britain, Belgium and Luxembourg sign the treaty of Brussels.

April 19th
Burma joins the United Nations. It is the second country on mainland Southeast Asia to join the United Nations and the second to be offered a membership in the Greater East Asia Alliance but like Siam is joining the United Nations instead.

May 14th
The declaration of Independence of Israel is made.

The United States grants Israel de facto recognition.

May 15th
The British mandate of Palestine is officially terminated. The same day expeditionary forces from Egypt, Transjordan, Syria and Iraq enter Israel and clash with Israeli forces.

The Dutch governments announces that they recognize Israel as an independent nation.

May 20th
In a grand ceremony the Aircraft carrier Hr.Ms. Willem van Oranje is launched. As the first fleet carrier Built by the Dutch Navy great expectations are placed on her.

May 27th
In less then eight minutes and flying at warp 2.5, KNRS ER-2 makes her longest warp flight yet from Mars to Neptune.

June 1st
Hr.Ms. Willem van Oranje depart Den Helder for the Dutch East Indies where she Will serve as flagship of the Dutch Navy's East Indies sqaudron.

June 8th
KNRS Amsterdam visits the asteroid belt for a four day survey Mission. The goal of the survey is to find out if mining of the asteroid belt (3) is economic feasible.

June 12th
After a four day survey KNRS Amsterdam leaves with valuable data on the asteroids. Now knowing what materials there are out there, the KNRD can begin thinking of creating mining installations there to extract those materials.

June 24th
The Soviet Union cuts off all land and sea routes to West Berlin in an attempt to pressure the Allies to leave the city.

June 26th
US denounces the Soviet blockade of Berlin. The same day the US and British pilots begin operating an airbridge to West Berlin.

July 3rd
Four KH-2 Kolibrie II painted blue begin flying for the KLm as VIP choppers. They are the first of a batch of 60 ordered by the Royal Netherlands Air Force.

July 15th
US President Harry Truman is nominated for another term.

July 20th
President Truman issues the second peacetime military draft in the United States amid increasing tensions with the Soviet Union.

September 4th
Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands decides after long period of having tought about it not to abdicate so that princes Juliana can continue raising her four daughters without the burden of being head of state.

October 8th
The first DAF build moon rovers are driven on the moon by personal of Moon base Eisinga and Nieuw Amsterdam moon base which each received one rover. The rover allows the personal to explore the Moon beyond the moon base as before they were limited to a hundred meters beyond the airlock or were forced to use the transporter to get to a location.

November 4th
Space centre Guyana personal begins building the ER-3, the first warp 4 capable spaceship which is equipped with two phase banks and one torpedo launcher bank. It is also the first ER (4) spaceship which will be Built at Nieuw Fijenoord-Rotterdamsche space yard as the ER-3 is to big to be launched from Guyana Space Centre.

December 28th
The US announces a study to launch an Earth satellite.

December 29th
US state department announces work on placing objects into Earth orbit.

(1) KNRS ER-2 was the backup for ER-1 in case something happened during the test flights but with ER-1 having successfully completed both the first warp 1 and warp 2 flight with a Dutch-build spaceship, the ER-2 can now assist in testing with the ER-1 while performing other duties at the same time.

(2) Burma joined the Commonwealth of Nations as a defence against the Japanese-led Greater East Asia Alliance.

(3) The Royal Netherlands Spaces Force is still dependent on resources from the Netherlands and her colonies. The cost of operating the KNRD is also very high and the hope is that mining the asteroid belt can help lower those costs.

(4) The ER-3 spaceship is the prototype for a yet to be build class which will function as a patrol ship for use in the Solar system.

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Part 15 1949

January 1st

The United Nations sponsored ceasefire brings an end to the Indo-Pakistan war.

February 28th

With KNRS ER-2 now operational, KNRS ER-1 receives its first major upgrade (1) in order to allow it to be used for assisting in the construction and assembly of ER-3 and future Dutch spaceships at New Fijenoord-Rotterdamsche space yard.

April 4th

The North Atlantic Treaty is signed in Washington D.C., creating the NATO defense alliance (2).

May 11th

Siam officially changes its name to Thailand.

May 12th

The Soviet land blockade of Berlin ends.

May 13th

The first British produced jet bomber, Canberra, makes its first test flight.

May 14th

President Truman signs a bill establishing a rocket test range at Cape Canaveral.

May 27th

The last T-20 Tjiger tank and T-25 Jachttijger tank destroyers to be delivered to the KNIL 3rd tank battalion is handed over to General Spoor, commander of the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army (3).

May 19th

For the fourth time the people of The Netherlands make the Royal Democratic Party the largest party in the cabinet. As promised, prime minister Smit, having been prime minister for twelve years, steps down and gives the party leadership and the prime minister office to Willem Drees, a member of the Royal Democratic Party since 1940 and a member of the oversight commission since 1945.

May 23rd

The Federal republic of West Germany is proclaimed.

May 27th

The Dutch ministry of foreign affairs announces that it will return the German legation, consulate and other German properties in The Hauge which were seized in 1945 and hand them over to the Federal republic of West Germany.

June 26th

Mars base Hellas (4) is completed. This Mars base, which is build mostly underground, can house more then 120 royal Netherlands space force personal.

July 20th

Israel's nineteen months of fighting for independence ends.

July 28th

The Soviet Union successfully detonates their first atom bomb (5). The explosion is observed by a class-5 probe orbiting earth, their first major observation since they have begun replacing the four class-1 probes which are being retired and dismantled for study at Netherlands space centre Guyana.

October 1st

The United Republic of China (6) is officially proclaimed.

October 7th

The Democratic Republic of Germany is officially established.

October 14th

The United States recognizes the United Republic of China as an independent nation, the first nation to do so.

October 16th

Civil war ends in Greece with a communist surrender.

October 20th

The Soviet Union recognizes the United Republic of China, in return the United Republic of China renounces their claims on the second East Turkestan republic (7).

November 6th

With Mars base Hellas now operational, work on a simpler Mars base can begin by the Royal Netherlands engineering corps. The location chosen for the second Mars base is Utopia Planitia.

November 20th

The Jewish population in the state of Israel reaches 1,000,000. Of them more then 14,000 are Dutch Jews.

November 27th

Burma recognizes the United Republic of China.

December 30th

India recognizes the United Republic of China.

December 31st

More then eighteen countries recognize the United Republic of China (8).

(1) The upgrades KNRS ER-1 will receive are a transport and tractor beam so that it can tow materials beamed up by Guyana space centre or other facilities used by the Royal Netherlands Space Force and bring it to New Fijenoord-Rotterdamsche space yard, Moon base Eisinga or Nieuw Amsterdam moon base. KNRS ER-2 is also scheduled to receive the same upgrades when its confirmed that the upgrades ER-1 received work without any problems.

(2) The KNIL 3rd tank battalion is one of the three tank battalion in service with the Royal Netherlands East Indies army. Each tank battalion has three companies consisting of twelve T-10 Panter tanks, one company of twenty T-25 Jachttijger tank destroyers and one company of twelve T-20 Tjiger tanks.

(3) The Kingdom of the Netherlands is not a member of NATO and has chosen not to become a member as it believes that it is strong enough to defend it's interest and independence without being a member of any origination or alliance. It also refuses to be drawn into the cold war between the US and the Soviet Union as it fears that will compromise its neutrality.

(4) Mars base Hellas is equipped with all the facilities needed to function as an independent base and is to date the largest Netherlands build structure on Mars or on the moon.

(5) The Netherlands had hoped that the Soviet Union would not be interested in developing their own atomic bomb but with the information the Soviet Union have received from their spies in the United States they came to the conclusion that they needed their own nuclear weapons to reach parity with the United States.

(6) The United Republic of China is a republic made up of the Chinese nationalists and communist regimes who with only the provinces of Qinghai, Gansu,Yunnan and part of the province of Sichuan under their control have decided to join forces in the hopes that they can be recognize by the United Nations and form a strong front against the Japanese empire which controls most of China.

(7) The Chinese nationalists and Chinese communists both claimed the second East Turkestan republic as Chinese Territory which is made up the now former Chinese Xinjiang province.

(8) The Japanese empire and it's led Greater East Asia Alliance do not recognize the United Republic of China but the Japanese empire is now forced temporarly halt any military offensive near the border of the United Republic of China.

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Part 16 1950

January 6th

The United Kingdom recognizes the United Republic of China.

January 31st

President Harry Truman orders the development of the hydrogen bomb in response to the detonation of the Soviet Union's first atomic bomb in 1949.

January 20th

Netherlands Guyana and the Netherlands East Indies are granted more autonomy in governing themselves except for defence, foreign affairs and citizenship which will remain the responsibility of the Netherlands.

February 9th

Construction on Mars base Utopia Planitia by the KNRD begins.

February 11th

2,000 Japanese and Vietnamese imperial army troops attack more then 150 Viet Minh soldiers led by general Vo Nguyen Giap somewhere in the Empire of Vietnam. The attack which last no longer then several hours results in the death of all 150 Viet Minh soldiers, including general Vo Nguyen Giap.

February 21st

Albert Einstein warns against proceeding with development of the hydrogen bomb and ask president Truman to halt the production of the atomic bomb. He feels that these weapons are to dangerous to be used.

February 27th

General Chiang Kai-shek is elected president of the United Republic of China with Mao Zedong becoming prime minister of the United Republic of China.

March 2nd

The city of Xining in the United Republic of China is officially made the capital of the United Republic of China.

March 8th

The Soviet Union announces that they too have developed an atomic bomb, the most powerful city busting weapon ever developed.

March 27th

The Netherlands recognizes the United Republic of China.

April 8th

Rear admiral Doorman (1) retires as the head of the Royal Netherlands Space Force. His position is taken over by the newly promoted rear admiral De Jong, former commander of KNRS Amsterdam.

April 17th

A month before the second Soviet–Japanese neutrality pact is to end, the Soviet Union and the Japanese empire sign a new Soviet–Japanese neutrality pact in Moscow (2).

May 8th

The United Republic of China government asks the United States to train its army.

May 11th

Rear admiral De Jong decides that the risk of discovery of New Fijenoord-Rotterdamsche space yard orbiting above the far side of the Moon is becoming to great, and therefore has decided that when KNRS ER-3 assembly is completed the space yard will be towed to Mars as its new location.

June 1st
The KNIL's first armoured division is formed. It Will consist of three armoured regiments and one mechanised regiment.

June 27th

The United States sends 35 military advisers to the United Republic of China in order to train the United Republic of China army.

July 13th

The flagship of the Royal Netherlands Space Force KNRS Amsterdam under the command of its new captain Jonan Andre (3) travels to the asteroid belt for the second time where it will test and deploy several probes which are to study, observe and mine the asteroid belt for its resources.

July 15th

KNRS Amsterdam launches two class-5 probes which will continue to observe and study the asteroid belt. More then eight class-5 probes are now in use, either orbiting Earth, Mars or now being used to study the asteroid belt.

July 16th

A class-6 probe modified to act as a communication, relay and radio beacon is launched inside the asteroid belt by KNRS Amsterdam. The class-6 probe which will send all the data that the probes have gathered to Mars base Hellas will also act as a communication relay for the probes in case no spaceship is nearby to do that.

July 18th

A Werk Bij (Work Bee or Drone) (4) is launched from KNRS Amsterdam using its dual remote manipulator arms to test if a Werk Bij can be used to handle a M-type asteroid which are rich in metal.

July 20th

After seven days spend in the asteroid belt KNRS Amsterdam's first mission under captain Jonan Andre is over. She will now return back to Mars with enough data for the KNRD to build a mining station in the asteroid belt.

July 24th

Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida begins operations with the launch of a Bumper rocket.

September 8th

A Royal Netherlands Naval Aviation Service KH-2 Kolibrie II helicopter operating out of naval air station Tandjong Priok on the island of Java launches a Mark 8 torpedo for the first time against a dummy target (5).

September 26th

The United Republic of China is admitted to the United Nations.

September 30th

NSC-68 is enacted by president Truman, this report sets the stage for United States foreign policy with the Soviet Union and preparations for a possible war. In it two suggestion for weakening the Soviet Union are mentioned, which are strengthening ties with the Netherlands and to re-establish ties with the empire of Japan.

October 7th

A secret agreement is signed in the capitol of Tibet, Lhasa between the United Republic of China and Tibet. In which the United Republic of China allows Tibet's de facto independence its has since 1912 to continue while also guaranting that the United Republic of China would assist Tibet if the empire of Japan would invade them.

October 21st

Construction of a helicopter cruiser begins at Wilton-Fijenoord dockyard in Schiedam. The cruiser is to be the first of two Celebes class cruisers to be build and is going to replace helicopter cruiser HNLMS Java which is now entering her 25th year in service with the Royal Netherlands Navy.

November 4th

The United Nations ends the diplomatic isolation of Spain.

November 8th

Two F-80 jet fighters belonging to the United States Air Force, operating from Clark Air Base in the Philippines, intercept an Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service Nakajima G10N Fugaku bomber flying out of Formosa. These intercepts happen regulary as both the United States and the Japanese empire want to test each other.

December 4th

Feeling that the New Fijenoord-Rotterdamsche space yard will not sufice for producing and assembling spaceships for the KNRD, plans are made to build a space station which can also act as a ship yard orbiting around Mars. Construction on the space station will begin when the New Fijenoord-Rotterdamsche space yard has arrived at Mars and is planned to become the largest space born object build by the KNRD to date.

December 29th

The CIA creates the Flying Arrows, consisting of former United States Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps pilots and ground crew who Will  fly as the 2nd American Volunteer Group, part of the United Republic of China air force.

(1) Rear admiral Doorman has served as the head of the Royal Netherlands Space Force since 1935.

(2) The third Soviet–Japanese neutrality pact is different then the previous two Soviet–Japanese neutrality pact as it includes all nations in the Soviet and Japanese sphere of influence. The third treaty is also new as it is to be renewed in ten years instead of five years as the pervious two were.

(3) Captain Jonan Andre was together with lieutenant commander A.B. Ruben to pilot KNRS ER-1, the Netherlands' first warp 1 spaceship and because of this he was promoted to captain and given the command of the KNRS Amsterdam.

(4) Werk Bijen are used by the Royal Netherlands Space Force for work at the New Fijenoord-Rotterdamsche space yard with six build as to this date. A Werk Bij can be equipped with a variety of tools, including a set of dual remote manipulator arms or be used as a tug for cargo modules with the cargo-train attachment.

(5) The Mark 8 torpedo which is in service with the KNM is regarded as the most modern and deadliest torpedo in the world and has replace the mark 7 torpedo perviously in service.

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Part 17 1951

January 9th

The new United Nations headquarters officially opens in New York City.

January 27th

Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins by the United States.

February 1st

United Nations General Assembly Resolution 500 (1) is passed in which it is written that the political independence and territorial integrity of the United Republic of China must be respected by the Japanese Empire.

March 20th

After three years of assembling at New Fijenoord-Rotterdamsche space yard, KNRS ER-3 (2), the first warp 4 spaceship build by the Netherlands leaves the space yard, beginning a long period of testing it's systems, many which have never been put together in one spaceship.

April 7th

The United States performs an atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Atoll, 1400 km west of Hawaii. The atmospheric nuclear test is observed by an orbiting class-5 probe which sends the pictures and date it has gathered to the KNRD headquarters in Den Helder as it is programmed to do. This test is the fourth nuclear test an orbiting class-5 probe has observed since January and the first atmospheric nuclear test conducted by the United States.

April 18th

The Treaty of Paris is adopted by France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium and Luxembourg, establishing the European Coal and Steel Community. The Netherlands has refused to join and has only sent a diplomat to observe the signing. The Hague later congratulats the signators for this "important step towards continued European peace and prosperity".

June 3rd

With KNRS ER-3 now in service with the KNRD, the New Fijenoord-Rotterdamsche space yard is towed by the KNRS Maas and KNRS Moraine to its new orbit above Mars.

June 5th

New Fijenoord-Rotterdamsche space yard after a slow two day journey arrives at its new home. With this the only large present of the KNRD near Earth is at the Moon, with moon base Eisinga and moon base Nieuw Amsterdam, both which now house more then 300 KNRD personal each.

September 1st

The United States, Canada, Great Britain, Australia and New Zealand sign a mutual defense pact, called the San Francisco Security Treaty (3) after the city where it is signed. The Netherlands was offered to join but declined, insisting on limiting itself to observers to preserve its neutrality.

September 20th

NATO accepts Greece and Turkey as members.

October 10th

First flight of the Fokker D-24 tornado Jet fighter (4) happens from KLm base Gilze-Rijen. The Fokker D-24 Jet fighter is the second jet fighter build and designed by Fokker and is slated to replace the Meteoor jet fighter in service with the KLm and Royal Netherlands East Indies Air Force.

October 14th

Orbiting above Mars KNRS ER-3 begins testing its torpedo bank when it fires a spatial torpedo (5) towards Amazonis Planitia, the official test and weapons range of the KNRD in the Solar system.

October 26th

Winston Churchill is re-elected prime minister of the United Kingdom.

December 17th

The Dutch government announces that the all Netherlands communist party members are forbidden to be civil servants. The Dutch government has however decided not to ban the Netherlands communist party.

December 20th

While in the state of Idaho, the world's first experimental nuclear power plant opens. In the Netherlands, three fusion power plants (6), located in the towns of Dodewaard, Borssele and Groningen already supply the Netherlands all the electricity it needs.

(1) United Nations General Assembly Resolution 500 is a clear signal to the Empire of Japan that it has to respect the United Republic of China independence and borders.

(2) KNRS ER-3 is a warp 4 capable spaceship, equipped with two phaser banks and one torpedo bank. As it is classed by the KNRD as an experimental spaceship, it will be mostly be used to test out the many systems which in the future will be fitted to KNRD spaceships.

(3) The San Francisco Security Treaty is a military alliance which binds the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Australia and New Zealand in cooperating on defense matters in the Pacific Ocean area while also stating that the Five signatories recognize that an armed attack in the Pacific area on any of them endangers the peace and safety of the others. 

(4) The Fokker D-24 tornado jet fighter is based heavily on the French Mirage III designs.

(5) The spatial torpedo of which KNRS ER-3 carries twelve are smaller then the photon torpedoes KNRS Amsterdam uses. They are much less powerfull but easer to build and therefore KNRS ER-3 is equipped whit the spatial torpedo instead of the photon torpedoes.

(6) The three fusion power plants are disguised as gas-fuel power plants in order to prevent anybody to find out that the use nuclear fusion instead.

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Part 18 1952

January 4th

Mars base Utopia Planitia is completed. The second Dutch Mars base began construction in 1950 and can house more then 200 Royal Netherlands Space Force personal. It will act as the communications and support base for the New Fijenoord-Rotterdamsche space yard and the yet to be build space station/yard.

February 6th

Elizabeth II becomes queen upon the death of her father George VI.

February 13th

KNRD flagship KNRS Amsterdam (1), enters her 18th year of service with the Royal Netherlands Space Force.

February 18th

The republic of Turkey joins NATO.

February 26th

Prime minister Winston Churchill announces that the United Kingdom has its own atomic bomb and that it will begin conducting tests.

March 8th

Koolhoven helikopter industrie, the main helicopter builder  in the Netherlands and famous for building the KH-1 Kolibrie I and KH-2 Kolibrie II helicopters, is again denied permission by the government to sell its helicopters to West Germany, France and Belgium as the Dutch government states that all weapons produced by the Dutch may only be used for the defense of the Netherlands and its colonies (2).

March 22nd

Wernher von Braun publishes an article entitled Man Will Soon Conquer Space which includes ideas for manned flights to the Moon and Mars.

March 29th

United States president Harry S. Truman announces that he will not seek reelection.

April 15th

The USAF flies the B-52 Stratofortress for the first time.

April 30th

The republic of the Philippines joins the San Francisco Security Treaty.

May 21st

Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands opens the Amsterdam-Rhine Canal.

June 10th

Two CIA agents (3) are picked up by the MID as they try to investigate gas-fuel power plant Dodewaard in the Netherlands. Power plant Dodewaard is the cover for one of the three fusion power plants in the Netherlands and has already got heavy security surrounding it, but as the two agents who are arrested are from a friendly country it's decided that the security must be increased.

July 21st

A KNRD class-5 probe suffers a malfunction and enters Earth's atmosphere. During it's descent its spotted by several USAF radars stations located on the East Coast and several USAF jets are scrambled but are unable to intercept the Object as the probe has already used its self-destruct in order to prevent it from falling in the wrong hands.

October 1st

The United Kingdom conducts its first nuclear test between the Montebello Islands, Western Australia. The blast is observed by one of the three remaining KNRD class-5 probes orbiting earth.

October 14th

Entering her first year in service with the Royal Netherlands Space Force, KNRS ER-3 has conducted many tests including flying at warp 3 and its Maximum speed warp 4, using her spatial torpedoes and its phasers against targets set up at the Amazonis Planitia test and weapons range and testing other systems she has onboard. With the data the KNRD has gathered they can begin building upgraded versions of the KNRS ER-3 at New Fijenoord-Rotterdamsche space yard.

November 1st

The United States successfully detonates the first hydrogen bomb at Johnston Atoll, 1400 km west of Hawaii. The hydrogen bomb explodes with a yield of 10.4 megatons and is the largest explosion monitored by the KNRS class-5 probe to date by any of three nations who tested a nuclear bomb.

November 4th

Dwight Eisenhower is elected the 34th President of the US.

December 27th

Former general of the Royal Netherlands Army Henri G. Winkelman dies at the age of 76.

(1) The KNRD has concluded that as long as there is no starship with the capacity of KNRS Amsterdam she is to remain in service despite until more starships of sufficient quality have entered in service with the Royal Netherlands Space Force.

(2) This no foreign weapons sale rule is also in force for the other major weapons manufactures like DAF and Fokker.

(3) The two CIA agents where interrogated by the MID before they were sent on a plane back to the United States. It was found out trough the interrogation that the CIA believes that the gas-fueled power plant Dodewaard is a cover for something but due the heavy security and the fact that nobody who works there will speak about it, they have been unable to find out what is really going on there.

[lordroel]

Part 19 1953

January 6th

A Greater East Asia Alliance conference is held in Phnom Penh, kingdom of Cambodia, and is attended by all Greater East Asia Alliance members countries.

January 9th

A Japanese ferryboat sinks off Pusan, Japanese Korea killing 249 people on board after the ferry suffers a mysterious explosion and sinks as a result. It is latter determined to be an attack by the Korean Liberation Army which is unofficially backed by the Soviet Union.

January 14th

The CIA-sponsored Robertson panel meets to discuss the UFO phenomenon in and around the United States.

January 19th

After four consecutive days of formal meetings, the Robertson panel write their report in which it states that 90 percent of UFO sightings can be identified as meteorological, astronomical, or natural phenomenas while the remaining 10 percent of UFO reports can in all likelihood be similarly explained with detailed study (1).

January 31st

More then 307 people are killed in the United Kingdom after a storm tide coming from the North Sea damages 1,600 km of coastline. In the Netherlands despite the preparations of the Dutch government, more then 185 people are killed when the North Sea storm tide crashes in to the Dutch flood defence system (2).

February 3rd

Construction of the first of four Van Speijk-class frigates (3) for the Royal Netherlands Navy at the Amsterdamsche Droogdok Maatschappij begins.

February 12th

Limited mining at the asteroid belt begins as KNRS ER-1 and KNRS ER-2 using their tractor beams to begin towing small asteroids towards Mars where they are to be processed. KNRS ER-3 which is much larger then KNRS ER-1 and 2 is not assigned to the mining as it is going to install a small unmanned communication and observation station at Pluto.

February 20th

Orbiting the planet Pluto KNRS ER-3 beams austronauts wearing EV suits to the surface of Pluto for the first time. They are to prepare a site for the deployment of the Pluto communication and observation station.

February 22nd

After two days of hard work the Pluto communication and observation station has been fully assembled and is activated. At the same time rock samples have been gathered which are sent back to Moon base Eisinga (4).

March 5th

Josef Stalin dies at age 73.

April 1st

Jan van Baal becomes governor-general of the Netherlands East Indies.

April 17th

At New Fijenoord-Rotterdamsche space yard construction of the first Wolf-class corvette (5) for the KNRD begins with the first of it's class to be completed before 1955.

May 3rd

The Royal Netherlands Air Force orders ten pre-production D-24 tornado M.1 jet fighters to be used for testing at Fokker. This brings the total of Fokker D-24 tornado M.1 jet fighters to twelve , all in service with the 130th evaluation squadron based at Woensdrecht air base, home to the KNLm testing & training center.

May 20th

The Royal Democratic Party becomes the largest party in the Dutch house of representatives for the fifth time and with it Willem Drees can begin his second term as prime minister of the Netherlands.

June 7th

The office of the Royal Netherlands Navy special operations in Den Helder, which is the cover for the headquarters of the KNRD is closed and move to a new secure complex inside the Netherlands space centre Guyana near the town of Kajana.

July 5th

The European Economic Community holds its first assembly in Strasbourg, France.

July 27th

The CIA disbands the Flying Arrows, or officially known as the 2nd American Volunteer Group after two years of training and assisting the United Republic of China air force. During its two year time the Flying Arrows had several encounters with the Imperial Japanese army air service and the smaller republic of China-Nanking air force (6) , which all ended without a shot being fired.

Augustus 8th

New Soviet prime minister Georgi Malenkov announces that the Soviet Union has a hydrogen bomb.

Augustus 29th

The Soviet Union detonates its first hydrogen bomb

September 5th

The United Nations rejects the Soviet Union's suggestion to accept the second East Turkestan republic as a member.

October 15th

After serving for more then 28 years, the Java class cruiser HNLMS Java (7), which was deployed with the KNM East Indies squadron as a training cruiser is decommissioned with her role being taken over by the cruiser HNLMS De Ruyter.

November 20th

Construction of Utopia Planitia space yard begins above Mars. This 300 meter long space yard is the second largest object which the KNRD has constructed since its foundation in 1935 and is also the first to be build with materials produced off-world.

(1) The Robertson panel report has nothing in it about anything related to the Netherlands as it has found no evidences that the Netherlands is involved in the UFO sightings as the Robertson panel report focused most on sightings in and near the United States and not world wide.

(2) The Van Speijk-class frigates are meant to replace four Admiralen class destroyers and are heavily based on the future Van Speijk-class frigates which were in service with the Royal Netherlands Navy in an other timeline...

(3) The Dutch flood defense system was build using information from the future and consist of a series of dams, sluices, locks, dikes, and storm surge barriers built between 1940 and 1950.

(4) Moon base Eisinga is the main research centre for the royal Netherlands space force however more and more of its task are taken over by Mars base Hellas and Mars base Utopia Planitia as the KNRD is moving more and more of its off-world base operations and functions to the two Mars bases while shirnking Moon base Eisinga and New Amsterdam moon base.

(5) The Wolf-class corvette is 50 meter long, has a max speed of warp six, is the first Dutch build starship to have shields, has a crew of 14 of which only the captain and first officer have their own quarters, two phaser banks and one torpedo bank carrying 24 Mark-1 spatial torpedoes, has transport and tractor beams all cramped into a ship which is designed to go very far, very fast and be able to defend itself.

(6) The republic of China-Nanking air force is the official air arm for the republic of China-Nanking which is the puppet country put in place by the Japanese empire in 1940.

(7) With the decommission of HNLMS Java, only one Java class cruiser is in service with the Royal Netherlands Navy and that is helicopter cruiser HNLMS Sumatra, which will be decommissioned as soon as the first of the two Celebes-class cruisers is completed.

[eurowatch]

Having gone on an editing spree to make Roel's posts more readable, I have:
- killed a lot of unnecassery commas and Spaces.
- fixed far to many grammar and spelling mistakes.
- fixed a lot of wrong uses of who and which.
- reclassed the Wolf-Class from scout vessels to corvettes.
- Included the T-25 tank destroyer among the Dutch Inventory.
- Made Dutch diplomats a bit more socialable.
- Used a lot of acronyms to replace the full name of some organisations.
- made the Dutch use their own Language to name Things instead of English.