Post by lordroel on Jun 21, 2015 16:52:18 GMT
October 11th 2017
As tension with Venezuela rises to an all-time high, the Netherlands parliament authorizes the sending of naval assets to the islands of Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao to safe guard those islands.
November 14th 2017 to May 1st 1940
When the Royal Netherlands Navy Taskforce consisting of De Zeven Provinciën class frigates HNLMS De Zeven Provinciën (flagship), HNLMS Evertsen, Zuiderkruis class support ship HNLMS Zuiderkruis , Karel Doorman (M) class frigate HNLMS Van Amstel ,Amphibious Transport Ships HNLMS Rotterdam , HNLMS Johan de Witt ,Holland class Offshore Patrol Vessels, HNLMS Holland and HNLMS Friesland are about to depart Naval base Den Helder under the command of Rear Admiral Willem de Fries and can begin their journey to deliver the 1st and 2nd Marine Battalions to the islands of Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao and to patrol the islands territorial waters which are being violated repeatedly by the Venezuela Navy since the start of the increasing tensions between the Netherlands and Venezuela a strange light engulfs the Taskforce which is gathered in Naval base Den Helder. Before anybody can react the light disappears and where once was the modern naval base which they were laying in a moment ago is change into a naval base only known in old pictures.
May 2nd 1940
A day after the Royal Netherlands Navy Taskforce was transported from Naval base Den Helder in the year 2017 to 1940 confusion still was great among the Taskforce and the now 1940s Royal Netherlands Navy who now played host to eight Royal Netherlands Navy ships from 78 years in the future. Taskforce commander Rear Admiral Willem de Fries who after contact was made a day earlier with his 1940s counterparts was spending most of his time talking with the Chief of Naval Staff Admiral J.Th. Furstner, Prime Minster Dirk Jan de Geer, Minster of War and Navy, Adriaan Dijxhoorn and even with Queen Wilhelmina where he talks about the strange light that brought the Taskforce almost 78 years into the past and about the German invasion of the Netherlands which is about to begin eight days ( May 10th ) from now.
May 4th 1940
Three days after the arrival of the Taskforce from the future the Netherlands government asks Rear Admiral Willem de Fries to assume the position of Commander of the navy in the Netherlands due his knowledge about the future events and his commanding the most advance navy in the world. Rear Admiral Willem de Fries agrees to the request, but informs both the Prime Minster and the Minster of War and Navy that he will command the Navy his way or no way, knowing that they have no choice they accept his request. Knowing that time is not on their side Rear Admiral Willem de Fries orders the following thing things happen (1) on the outbreak of war the Amphibious Transport Ships HNLMS Rotterdam, HNLMS Johan de Witt and Zuiderkruis class support ship HNLMS Zuiderkruis will depart towards the United Kingdom carrying the 1st and 2nd Marine Battalion as he believes that they are more useful if the remain intact (2) HNLMS Holland to be assigned the role of flagship of the Ijsselmeer squadron which will consist of Z-class torpedo boats HNLMS Z-3 and Z-5 , Brinio class gunboats HNLMS Brinio and HNLMS Friso (3) HNLMS Friesland be assigned the role of flagship of the North Sea Squadron which consist of Flores class sloop, HNLMS Flores and sloop HNLMS Johan Maurits van Nassau ( 4) preparations to be made to bring as much warships men and supplies to safely , this includes floating all ships under construction or destroying them if that is not possible (5) to establish contact with the British and to coordinate matters related to the defense of the country (6) .
May 6th 1940
Contact is establishing with the British who are informed about the arrival of the Royal Netherlands Navy Taskforce of the future which at first is thought of as a joke. This changes when Admiral G.C. Dickens, the British naval attaché in The Hague is invited onboard De Zeven Provinciën class frigates HNLMS De Zeven Provinciën now flagship of the entire royal Netherlands Navy where he meets with Rear Admiral Willem de Fries Commander of the Navy in the Netherlands and during their meeting both admirals discuss about issues rating from the new ships to cooperation between the Royal Netherlands Navy and the British Royal Navy.
May 7th 1940
Java-class cruiser HNLMS Sumatra escorted by Karel Doorman (M) class frigate HNLMS Van Amstel out on sea on neutrality patrol are spotted by two German Luftwaffe planes who take picture of both of them. As the Netherlands is not yet at war with Germany the two warships are forced to let the two Luftwaffe planes fly over them.
The Royal Netherlands Army outer defenses are put on full alert and the main defense lines the second highest alert.
May 9th 1940
Commander-in-Chief of the Netherlands armed forces General Winkelman agrees to the idea of Commander of the Navy in the Netherlands Rear Admiral Willem de Fries to designate one infantry regiment for boarding amphibious transport ships HNLMS Rotterdam and HNLMS Johan de Witt when the go to the United Kingdom when war breaks out (the infantry regiment will be used to form the core of a Netherlands Army in exile together with the 1st and 2nd Marine Battalions).
From Royal Netherlands Army Aviation Brigade, Gilze-Rijen air field a General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle takes off for its firs mission (the Royal Netherlands Army in 2015 bought four MQ-9 Reapers of which two where onboard Zuiderkruis class support ship HNLMS Zuiderkruis).
Admiral G.C. Dickens, the British naval attaché in The Hague informs Rear Admiral Willem de Fries Commander of the Navy that the 2nd Irish Guards Battalion and the 2nd Welsh Guards Battalion are being made ready for departure to the Netherlands and that the British Expeditionary Force already in France is moving towards the border of Belgium and Luxemburg as provided by the information supplied by Rear Admiral Willem de Fries during their meeting on May 6th.
North Sea Squadron consisting of Holland class Offshore Patrol Vessel HNLMS Friesland (flagship) and Flores class sloop, HNLMS Flores and sloop HNLMS Johan Maurits van Nassau during a neutrality patrol of the coast of the small West Frisian Island of Rottumeroog is intercepted by the K-Class cruiser KMS Köln who flows the three vessels of the North Sea Squadron for a half hour before suddenly heading back to German territorial waters.
May 10th 1940
What should be the day that Germany should attack the Netherlands and begin their invasion, turns into a day with nothing happening. This worries Rear Admiral Willem de Fries Commander of the Navy from his new office at the Ministry of Defence in The Hague and he decides to send one of his two MQ-9 Reapers based at Royal Netherlands Army Aviation Brigade, Gilze-Rijen air field to fly over assembly points in Germany who were known to be used by the German Army for the intended invasion of the Netherlands.
Colonel Hans Oster, an Abwehr (German intelligence) officer passes along information to his friend, the Netherlands military attaché in Berlin Major Gijsbertus J. Sas that the invasion of the Netherlands, Belgium, France and Luxemburg has been put on hold by Adolf Hitler mostly due the presence of the Netherlands Taskforce which he finds worrying.
The 3rd (Provisional) Marine Battalion is form in Rotterdam and consists of some 450 marines who are station in barracks in the city of Rotterdam. The 3rd (Provisional) Marine Battalion is augmented with 120 Marines from the Taskforce own 1st and 2nd Marine Battalions.
May 11th 1940
Commander-in-Chief of the Netherlands armed forces General Winkelman using the information supplied by both aerial flights over Germany by the MQ-9 Reapers and information passed by sources inside Germany instructs that the field army units belonging to the Royal Netherlands Army may allowed to grant urgent leave requests again, something that was suspended on May 7th when the Royal Netherlands Army was placed on full alert.
Anton Mussert leader of the National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands is shot to death by an unknown assassin outside his home in The Hague.
May 12th 1940
First Lord of the Admiralty and a member of the British War Cabinet Winston Churchill after arriving for a secret meeting with Admiral G.C. Dickens, the British naval attaché in The Hague, Rear Admiral Willem de Fries Commander of the Navy and Chief of Naval Staff Admiral J.Th. Furstner in The Hague is offered a ride in one of the two NH90: Tactical Transport Helicopters station onboard Zuiderkruis class support ship HNLMS Zuiderkruis , an offer he accepts without question ( as the invasion of the low counties and France has not happen , Neville Chamberlain still clings onto power unlike in OTL where the invasion of low counties and France was the last blow to his position as prime minster and he was forced to resign on May 10th ).
May 13th 1940
Twelve days since the arrival of Netherlands Taskforce from the future the Cabinet-De Geer II (formed in 1939) falls due information provided by the Taskforce that prime minster Dirk Jan de Geer might be a future traitor and deserter and such the members of the Cabinet-De Geer II removes their trust in his ability for leading the Netherlands in these hard times.
May 14th 1940
Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy is ask by Queen Wilhemina who after having discuss it with Rear Admiral Willem de Fries to form a national unity government (hence forth known as Cabinet-Gerbrandy I) with him as prime minster (Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy was appointed prime minster of the government in exile in OTL and such Queen Wilhemina who was briefed by Rear Admiral Willem de Fries considers him the best choice to lead a government of national unity in this difficult time).
May 15th 1940
The Cabinet-Gerbrandy I announces that the threat from Germany is too great to ignore and instead of waiting for Germany to invade the Netherlands and knowing what information they have received from the Taskforce from the future, they have informed the German ambassador to the Netherlands that from this day onwards the Kingdom of the Netherlands is at war with the Third Reich.
Commander-in-Chief of the Netherlands armed forces General Winkelman, under orders from the government, orders that army units belonging to the Royal Netherlands Army based in the provinces of Friesland, Groningen Drenthe, South Holland and Limburg are put on high alert.
Rear Admiral Willem de Fries Commander of the Navy authorities the Reaper detachment based out of the Royal Netherlands Army Aviation Brigade, Gilze-Rijen air field to arm the two MQ-9 Reapers for combat missions over Germany (The MQ-9 Reapers can carry AGM-114 Hellfire air to ground missiles, GBU-12 Paveway II laser-guided bombs ore AIM-92 Stinger air-to-air missile ).
Escorted by British Destroyers HMS Whitshed, HMS Vesper, HMS Malcolm and light cruiser HMS Calcutta, two transport ships carrying the 2nd Irish Guards Battalion and the 2nd Welsh Guards Battalion begin their journey toward the Netherlands.
May 16th 1940
British Royal Air Force aircraft are permitted to enter Netherlands airspace but warned not to venture above naval base Den Helder airspace as it is considered a free fire zone due it being protected by De Zeven Provinciën class frigates HNLMS De Zeven Provinciën, HNLMS Evertsen, and Karel Doorman (M) class frigate HNLMS Van Amstel while not on patrol.
Hitler in front of the Reichstag in a speech declares war on the Netherlands who he considers are being manipulating by the Anglo-French onto declaring war on the peaceful country of Germany.
The Netherland East and West Indies and Netherlands Guiana formally declare the existence of a state of war with the Third Reich.
The National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands (NSB) is declared to be an illegal movement by the Netherlands government due it being a threat to the security of the Netherlands.
May 17th 1940
The Cabinet-Gerbrandy I despite not wanting to hurt the local tourism business were forced to shut down the Ouwehands Zoo located on a hill near the town of Rhenen orders it to close down the sightseeing tower, as it can be used as a place for enemy agents to survey the local defense which are part of the Grebbe Line (The government has been briefed by Rear Admiral Willem de Fries Commander of the Navy who told them that the local lookout tower part of the zoo was used by German officers in civilian clothes to survey the local defenses in the previous months and as a result the government who believes that the defense of the country is more important has ordered that that section of the zoo was to be closed until futher notice).
The 2nd Irish Guards Battalion and the 2nd Welsh Guards Battalion arrive in the port town of Ijmuiden together with their destroyer and cruiser escort. Both British battalions will remain in the port town until they have unloaded everything onboard the transport ships before they will board trains that will bring them to the Grebbe Line and Peel-Raam Line where they will take position alongside the 4th infantry division of the Royal Netherlands Army.
The 5th Battalion, the Loyal Regiment and 1st Battalion, the Royal Norfolk Regiment depart the United Kingdom onboard transports ships for their journey towards the Netherlands where they are planning to join the 2nd Irish Guards Battalion and the 2nd Welsh Guards Battalion at the Grebbe Line and Peel-Raam Line.
Karel Doorman (M) class frigate HNLMS Van Amstel rendezvous at the Hook of Holland with the light cruiser HMS Calcutta who is to escort the frigate towards Portsmouth where it will unload some research material for British scientists to study (the research material includes items like four Mark 46 torpedoes, some Diemaco C8A1 5.56 mm carbines, Diemaco C7 LSW light machineguns, Glock 17 pistols, FN MAG general purpose machineguns and even a Land Rover Defender parked on the helideck of the frigate).
Rear Admiral Willem de Fries Commander of the Navy after long consideration decides that the 1st and 2nd Marine Battalions who have until now been mostly been waiting onboard amphibious transport ships HNLMS Rotterdam and HNLMS Johan de Witt are to be deployed in and around the city of Den Helder while some elements of the 1st and 2nd Marine Battalions who were not already assigned to the 3rd (Provisional) Marine Battalion are moved to where they are needed.
May 18th 1940
A British-French Army delegation including General Lord Gort, (commander of the British Expeditionary Force in France) and French general Maurice Gamelin (Supreme Commander of all French armed forces) visit Den Helder where a small exposition of military hardware from the future is being shown (some items being shown to the British-French Army delegation are: Stingers surface to air missile, Gill anti-tank missile, Panzerfaust 3 anti-tank weapons, M107 anti-materiel sniper rifles, FN MAG general purpose machineguns and even a BVS10 armored all-terrain personnel carrier and a Fennek light armored reconnaissance vehicle ).
First Lord of the Admiralty and a member of the British War Cabinet Winston Churchill arrive for his second and now public visit to the Netherlands to discuss matters of importance with Rear Admiral Willem de Fries Commander of the Navy and to visit the 2nd Irish Guards Battalion and the 2nd Welsh Guards Battalion who are now arriving at their positions at the Grebbe Line and Peel-Raam Line.
The Marine Air Defense battery equipped with each four Fennek Stinger Weapon Platforms is deployed in and around the Netherlands capital of Den Hague (The Marine Air Defense battery was establishing in 2014 to provide mobile air defense for the Royal Netherlands Marine corps and had four Fennek Stinger Weapon Platforms onboard the Zuiderkruis class support ship HNLMS Zuiderkruis).
Somewhere in a park in Berlin, colonel Oster, an Abwehr (German intelligence) officer meets with his friend; the Netherlands military attaché in Berlin ,major Sas where he passes the information that Adolf Hitler will arrive at the Führer headquarter of Felsennest (Rock Nest) near the village Rodert on May 19th where he will have meeting with Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess , Reichsmarschall Herman Göring, Reich Minister for Foreign Affairs Joachim von Ribbentrop and Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler , when major Sas ask his friend if this mean that the invasion of the low country’s and France is to begin shortly then , colonel Oster responds yes. After the meeting major Sas back at the Netherlands embassy transmit his report to the Ministry of Defense in The Hague where it is quickly sent to Rear Admiral Willem de Fries who after reading colonel Oster report comes to the conclusion that the opportunity to kill many Nazis in one blow has come much easier than he anticipated and begins working on a plan that might prevent more lives from being lost ( in OTL Adolf Hitler did meet with high ranking Nazi officials at Felsennest before the beginning of the invasion of the low country’s and France on May 10th 1940).
May 19th 1940
Decapitation strike
Flying several kilometers up in the air two MQ-9 Reapers unnoticed by the naked eye fly over the small complex which makes up Führer headquarter Felsennest, only receiving encrypted radio messages from their operators back at Gilze-Rijen air field when absolute necessary.
Carrying each four GBU-39 guided bombs (1) the two Reapers monitor any movement in and around the small German bunker complex and after several hours (Reapers can fly for more than 14 hours fully loaded) over their target they notice a large vehicle convoy arriving at the bunker complex, this arrival triggers the two AIs of the Reapers (2) to activate both their targeting devices that will guide the GBU-39s onto target.
When the large vehicle convoy has stopped near a small bunker located in the center and people beginning to enter it the two Reapers receive permission to drop their payloads on and around the bunker. A couple of minutes after having received the permission the first Reaper drops its four GBU-39s followed seconds later by the other Reaper who also drops its four GBU-39s.
Dropping at a high speed the three GBU-39s penetrate the bunker while the other five GBU-39s hit the ground around detonating and killing everybody inside and outside the bunker ,staying high in the sky the two Reapers after their strike continue to observe what now has turned into chaos on the ground as personal not effected by the blast try to cope what just happened.
1- The GBU-39 Small Diameter Bomb (SDB) is a 113 kg guided bomb which has a warhead of 23 kg able to penetrate some 3 feet of steel reinforced concrete, the Zuiderkruis class support ship HNLMS Zuiderkruis was not only carrying GBU-39s intended for a Royal Netherlands Air Force squadron operating F-35 Lightning IIs from the island of Aruba but also GBU-12 PAVEWAY II laser-guided bombs both who can be fired from the MQ-9 Reaper.
2 - American MQ-9 Reapers began flying with AIs as its operatizing system instead of being controlled by human operators in 2016, this new AI system makes it possible for human operators to only have to observe and control only when needed. In 2017 the four Netherlands Reapers where upgraded with the AI system just before they were to send onboard Zuiderkruis class support ship HNLMS Zuiderkruis to the island of Aruba.
Business as usual or is it
While in Germany events are playing around that will change history, Karel Doorman (M) class frigate HNLMS Van Amstel and here escort the light cruiser HMS Calcutta arrive in the British naval base of Southampton where it will unload here research material and afterwards is going to play host to many high ranking British naval officers who are eager to see a warship from 78 years into the future.
The 5th Battalion, the Loyal Regiment and 1st Battalion, the Royal Norfolk Regiment onboard their transport ships arrive at the port town of Ijmuiden where they begin unloading unaware that they might never see action in the Netherlands.
Late in the evening at the Ministry of Defense in The Hague, Rear Admiral Willem de Fries who watching out of the window of his office reflects that eighteen days ago he and more than 2,500 of his brave sailors and marines were transported 78 years into the past by a blinding flash of light. But that is no longer important; they are here to stay and have to make the best of it, now only the event earlier in the day maters which if all turns out well might have saved the Netherlands from destruction that’s if he can get answers to two questions, did Hitler survive the Reaper strike on the bunker which the admiral finds highly unlikely as nothing much of the bunker was left standing and who is going to assume the leadership of Germany with Hitler death.
May 20th 1940
A day after the attack that changed history in Europe a group called the Council for a Democratic Germany (Rat für ein demokratisches Deutschland (CDG) quickly formed after hearing that Hitler was killed by an allied air strike (something they manage to conceal) in order of restoring democracy in Germany launched an internal coup d'état and except facing some resistance by SS units and the Reich Main Security Office under the leadership of its director, SS-Obergruppen führer Reinhard Heydrich who were stopped by Heer units operated by falsified orders issued (1) which showed that Reinhard Heydrich working together with Joseph Goebbels where responsible for the death of Adolf Hitler, Rudolf Hess , Herman Göring, Joachim von Ribbentrop and Heinrich Himmler ( the Council for a Democratic Germany consist of Generaloberst Ludwig Beck, General Halder (Chief of Staff of the Army High Command), Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, Carl Goerdeler, Admiral Wilhelm Canaris (Chief of the Abwehr ) , Colonel Hans Oster (deputy head of Abwehr ), Generalmajor Henning von Tresckow (general staff officer of Army Group A ) and Erwin von Witzleben ( commander of the 1st Army ).
(1) The falsified orders simply called the May 20th order was issued by General Halder (Chief of Staff of the Army High Command) and which are:
I. The Führer Adolf Hitler is dead by the hands of an unscrupulous clique of SS and party leaders who seek to seize power for their own selfish purposes.
II. In this hour of highest danger, the government of the Reich has declared a state of military emergency for the maintenance of law and order and at the same time has transferred the executive power, with the supreme command of the Wehrmacht, to me.
III. Acting under my function as Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces I have transfer the executive power to a group of loyal Germans who will govern the Third Reich in these difficult times and who have control over:
a) All section and units of the Wehrmacht, including the Waffen-SS, RAD and the OT, within their area of command;
b) All public authorities (of the Reich, Germany, the states and the municipalities), especially the entire law enforcement police, security police and administrative police;
c) All office bearers and subdivisions of the NSDAP and those of its affiliated associations;
d) The transportation services and public utilities
IV. The holders of executive power are responsible for the maintenance of order and public security. They especially have to ensure:
a) The protection of communication.
b) The elimination of the SD (Security Service).
c) The arrest of SA, SS, NSDAP, RSHA and Gestapo personal that refuse to comply with orders issued by the executive power.
d) Any opposition against the military power of enforcement is to be broken ruthlessly.
And thus in this hour of highest danger for the Fatherland, unity of the Wehrmacht and the maintenance of full discipline is the uppermost requirement.
That is why I make it the duty of all commanders of the Heer (army), Kriegsmarine (navy) and the Luftwaffe (air force) to support the holders of executive power to carry out their difficult task with all means at their disposal and to guarantee the compliance of their directives by the subordinate sections. The German soldier stands before a historical task. It will depend on his energy and attitude whether the Third Reich will overcome these difficult times.
May 21st 1940
Two days after the Council for a Democratic Germany (Rat für ein demokratisches Deutschland (CDG) had seized control of the Third Reich its members began working on a way to end the war which Adolf Hitler had started when he ordered the invasion of Poland on September 1st 1939, after some discussion they decided to send a letter which would be delivered by the German ambassador to Switzerland to his British counterpart and in it would read that Germany wants to end the war and that they want to discuss terms in a city of the allies (British, French, Polish, Norwegians and the Netherlands) choosing.
Karel Doorman (M) class frigate HNLMS Van Amstel after having spent two days of playing host to many high ranking British naval officers in the British naval base of Southampton begins its two day journey back to the Netherlands naval base of Den Helder (some of the high ranking British naval officers are Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound and Third Sea Lord and Controllers of the Navy Vice-Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser while First Lord of the Admiralty and a member of the British War Cabinet Winston Churchill and King George VI visit the frigate on its first day in the British naval base of Southampton).
Flying high above Germany one of the two (now part of the Royal Netherlands Army Aviation Brigade) MQ-9 Reapers armed with eight AGM-114 Hellfire air to ground missiles and four AIM-92 Stinger air-to-air missiles ready to engage when needed begins to find that many of the German staging places to be used for the intended invasion of the low country’s and France are empty or showing no abnormal activity at all indicating that the new Junta controlling Germany has not planned an invasion of for the low country’s ore France at this moment.
May 22nd 1940
The letter written by the Council for a Democratic Germany is presented by the German ambassador to Switzerland to his counterpart in the British embassy in Geneva who after the German ambassador has left quickly phones the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Lord Halifax to inform him about his meeting and the context of the letter he was given. After the call with the British ambassador has concluded Lord Halifax traveled to 10 Downing Street to discuss the peace letter with Prime minster Neville Chamberlain. After a hour of discussing the peace letter the prime minster orders Lord Halifax to contact his British, French, Polish, Norwegians and Netherlands counterparts and to inform them of the letter before any action will be taken.
Admiral Canaris (Chief of the Abwehr and member of the Council for a Democratic Germany) informs Dr. Carl Friedrich Goerdeler who was chosen as the chairman of the Council for a Democratic Germany and thus unofficially the head of state of the Third Reich that all personal of the Gestapo, SD and RSHA who were given a choice to join the Abwehr have done so and the few that have not (most come from the SD) have been taken care of. Admiral Canaris also informs Dr. Goerdeler that according to his sources that all the nations who are at war with Germany have received the peace letter from the British and that in a couple of days according to his estimates they will either respond positivity to the letter or ignore it completely.
The Marine Air Defense battery (four Fennek Stinger Weapon Platforms) which was deployed in and around the Netherlands capital of Den Hague stands down as the treat of German invasion has decreased to a level that Commander-in-Chief of the Netherlands armed forces General Winkelman feels that the presence of the Marine Air Defense battery is no longer necessary.
Three days after colonel Oster, an Abwehr (German intelligence) officer had passed information regarding Adolf Hitler visit to the Führer headquarter Felsennest which lead to his death in the Reaper strike to his friend; the Netherlands military attaché in Berlin, major Sas the two meet again in public bar where colonel Oster asked his friend if the Netherlands was behind the killing of Adolf Hitler as it happen a day after he gave the information to him in which the major replies if I knew I would not tell you as you would not believe me at all.
May 24th 1940
With several high ranking British and French naval officers onboard De Zeven Provinciën class frigate HNLMS Evertsen launches one of its 32 SM-2 Medium Range Block IVA surface-to-air missiles against a remotely controlled Fokker D.XVII biplane which took off from the Royal Netherlands Army Aviation Brigade 3rd Regiment (Training, Support and Depots) airfield located on the island of Texel and after only a minute of flight the SM-2 Medium Range Block IVA surface-to-air missile hits the remotely controlled Fokker D.XVII biplane which explodes in a spectacular result and with it end the sea to air demonstration for the high ranking British and French naval officers ( the Fokker D.XVII biplane was already considered obsolete by the Royal Netherlands Army Aviation Brigade and thus could be modified by a engineers and mechanics from the 2017 Taskforce into a the remotely controlled aircraft to be used for this demonstration ).
After two weeks of training which began on May 7th the 4th (Provisional) Marine Battalion is form in Rotterdam and consists of some 600 recruits which where already undergoing training at the time of the arrival of the Netherlands 2017 taskforce on May 1st and who were given training by instructors from the 1st and 2nd Marine Battalions ( the 3rd (Provisional) Marine Battalion and 4th (Provisional) Marine Battalion are not yet regular marine battalions which will take time and until they have reach the standards of training of the 1st and 2nd ( future ) Marine Battalions they will remain (Provisional) Marine Battalions ).
The soldier and officers of the British Royal Army 2nd Irish Guards Battalion (part of the 20th Independent Infantry Brigade which is made up of the 2nd Irish Guards Battalion, 5th Battalion, the Loyal Regiment , 1st Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment and the 2nd Welsh Guards Battalion ) which is deployed at alongside the Royal Netherlands Army 4th infantry division ( 8th Infantry Regiment, 11th Infantry Regiment , 19th Infantry Regiment and 8th Artillery Regiment ) and the 2nd ( future ) Marine Battalion at the Grebbe Line and Peel-Raam Line are given the change to ride in one of the eight Bushmaster Protected Mobility Vehicles ore one of several ( Sixty total ) BVS10 armored all-terrain personnel carriers which where onboard the Taskforce when it arrived from the future.
With the second day of the ceasefire in effect between Germany and the British, French, Polish, Norwegians and Netherlands telephones continue to ring across Europe as the last details for a meeting between the six nations is being made. In the late evening an agreement is made with the Belgian government offering to be the neutral place for all six head of states to come to a peace agreement as the Belgians have too much to lose if the war resumes as they remember 1914 all too well (The peace meeting will be held on May 25th in the Belgian capitol of Brussels).
May 25th 1940
At the Royal Palace of Brussels home of the Belgain king Leopold III the head of states of the six nations at war (Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain of the United Kingdom, Prime Minister Paul Reynaud of France, Prime Minister of the Polish Government in Exile Władysław Sikorski , Prime Prime Minister of Norway Johan Nygaardsvold , Prime Minister Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy of the Netherlands and representing the Provisional Government of Germany , the chairman of the Council for a Democratic Germany and unofficially the head of state of the Third Reich Dr. Carl Friedrich Goerdeler ) meet where the four nations head of states give only four demands to Dr. Carl Friedrich Goerdeler which are : German forces must leave Norway ,Denmark and Poland by the end of July , Germany must allow the Permanent Court of International Justice located in The Hague, Netherlands to investigated and if needed prosecute any Germans who are involved in crimes against humanity , the total dismantling of the Nazi regime which includes banning the NSDAP and last but not lease that Germany will have free and fair election held before the end of 1940. Dr. Carl Friedrich Goerdeler who hearing the four demands informs his four counterparts that Germany will agree except that Germany will not leave West Poland as long as the Soviet Union occupies East Poland as he fears that the Soviet Union will invaded the remainder of Poland when Germany leaves and in the worst case scenario will continue by invading Germany. Hearing this Rear Admiral Willem de Fries who is special advisor to the peace talks for the allies offers a solution, to have a British-French-Netherlands force deployed in west Poland alongside he Polish armed forces which in effect create a failsafe in case the Soviet Union invades West Poland and that the all three nations will put pressure on the Soviet Union to give back East Poland to the polish people. Hearing this Dr. Carl Friedrich Goerdeler knowing that any Soviet attack against west Poland with a British-French-Netherlands presence will mean war agrees and after several hours of more discussion the six head of states sign the Peace Treaty of Brussels ending the seventh month long Great European War which began on September 1st 1939 and ended on May 25th 1940.
May 26th 1940
A day after the signing of the Peace Treaty of Brussels the prime minster of the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin tells Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov that he must inform the British and French ambassadors that the Soviet Union will not hand over any former Polish territory the Soviet Union annexed in 1939 as it is now part of the Soviet Union and to inform them that their country’s upcoming presences in West Poland will worsen the relations between the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom and the French Republic which are already at a all time low due the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939 ( the Netherlands does not have a embassy in the Soviet Union since the October Revolution of 1917 and the execution of tsar Nicolas II and his family resulted in a breach in the diplomatic relations between the two countries).
Reichskommissariat für die besetzten norwegischen Gebiete ("Reich Commissariat for the Occupied Norwegian Territories") which is governed by Reichskommissar (Reich Commissar) Josef Terboven and General Franz Böhme Commander of German military forces in Norway meet with General Claude Auchinleck Commander of the Anglo-French ground forces in Norway and Commander-in-chief of the Royal Norwegian Armed Forces Otto Ruge who inform them that as under the agreement of the Peace Treaty of Brussels all 100,000 German troops have to be out of German occupied Norway by the end of July , and that all French-British-Polish-Norwegians forces present in Norway will not intervene with the German withdrawal.
Rear Admiral Willem de Fries Commander of the Navy in the Netherlands orders his command staff (most come from the Taskforce from 2017) to begin planning the Netherlands contribution to the upcoming British-French-Netherlands force which will be deployed in West Poland in order to support the returning Polish government and to prevent the Soviet Union from invading West Poland now the Germans under the Peace Treaty of Brussels will withdraw and hand back the Polish territory they invaded on September 1st 1939 back to a Polish people.
The Reichsbevollmächtigter Cecil von Renthe-Fink is ask by Prime Minister of Denmark Thorvald Stauning that while the kingdom of Denmark did not sign the Peace Treaty of Brussels due the Germans before the death of Adolf Hitler on May 19th 1940 made it clear that they would respect Danish sovereignty and territorial integrity and such the country was never at war with Germany despite having surrender to Germany after they had invaded Denmark on April 9th 1940 they request that all German forces depart the country at the soonest opportunity. When Reichsbevollmächtigter informs the prime minster that the Provisional Government of Germany has requested him to ask if Denmark will allow German troops coming back Norway to pass through the country, the prime minster agrees but only if the Germans follow pre select routes which will be guarded by the Royal Danish Army and monitored by British and French officials who will observe that Germany withdraws its forces as agreed under the Peace Treaty of Brussels.
May 27th 1940
The Provisional Government of Germany governed by the Council for a Democratic Germany (Rat für ein demokratisches Deutschland) publish their official list of some of the minsters who will govern the Third Reich until the first free and fair election since 1932 can be held, some of the people on this list are: President of Germany (Regent/Reichsverweser) and chairman of the Council for a Democratic Germany: Dr. Carl Friedrich Goerdeler , Reichs Chancellor Ludwig Beck ,Vice-Reichs Chancellor Wilhelm Leuschner , Secretary of State Ulrich Wilhelm Graf von Schwerin von Schwanenfeld , State Secretary to the Chancellor Count Peter Yorck von Wartenburg , Minister of Foreign Affairs: Ulrich von Hassell and Minister of Interior: Ludwig Schwamb.
The first British units belonging to the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in France begin embarking transport ships for their journey back towards the United Kingdom now that the BEF presence in the French Republic is no longer required.
A British and French naval officer are assigned by their governments to act as what is called by Rear Admiral Willem de Fries Commander of the Navy in the Netherlands the Polish Planning Staff which is working on the Netherlands contribution to the upcoming British-French-Netherlands force which will be deployed in West Poland.
The IJsselmeer squadron (consisting of Holland class Offshore Patrol Vessel HNLMS Holland, Z-class torpedo boats HNLMS Z-3 and Z-5, Brinio class gunboats HNLMS Brinio and HNLMS Friso ) and the North Sea Squadron (consisting of Holland class Offshore Patrol Vessel HNLMS Friesland, HNLMS Flores and sloop HNLMS Johan Maurits van Nassau ) are disbanded.
May 28th 1940
The Netherlands government orders 36 Fokker D.XXI single-engine fighters who will join the already 36 Fokker D.XXIs already in uses with the Royal Netherlands Army Aviation Brigade.
The Royal Netherlands 2nd (future) Marine Battalion previous deployed at the Grebbe Line and Peel-Raam Line is ordered back to Netherlands naval base of Den Helder where it will prepare as the main Netherlands contribution to the upcoming British-French-Netherlands force which will be deployed in West Poland.
As agreed under the Peace Treaty of Brussels the first German military forces previous deployed in Norway arrive by ferry in the Danish town of Hirtshals where observed by British and French officials and escorted by the Royal Danish Army they will move through Denmark to Germany.
May 29th 1940
Holland class Offshore Patrol Vessel, HNLMS Friesland departs Naval base Den Helder to begin a two week patrol in the North Sea.
A Netherlands inspection team belonging to the Royal Netherlands Army arrives in the United Kingdom to inspect 24 of a total 96 Infantry Tank Mark IIs which are to be shipped to the Netherlands. The 24 Infantry Tank Mark IIs are part of a payment of research material belonging to the 2017 Taskforce which the United Kingdom received who in return paid the Netherlands with military hardware both in order to strengthen the Royal Neterlands Army and in the hopes that they will receive more research material.
The Royal British Army 5th Battalion, the Loyal Regiment part of the 20th Independent Infantry Brigade previous deployed at the Grebbe Line and Peel-Raam Line begins boarding transport ships which will take them back to the United Kingdom.
May 30th 1940
The GVH (GVH is short for Groep Helicpoters) is establish at Maritiem Vliegkamp De Kooy (Dutch: Maritime Aviation Site De Kooy) and will be the home base for the nine helicopters (five NH90: Frigate Helicopters and four NH90: Tactical Transport Helicopters) which were part of the 2017 Taskforce.
The British-French-Netherlands force which is to be sent to West Poland in order to support the returning Polish government and to prevent the Soviet Union from invading West Poland is renamed as the Poland Stabilization Force or PSF for short.
May 31st 1940
The first meeting between United States Ambassador to the Netherlands, George A. Gordon and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Eelco Nicolaas van Kleffens happens. During their one hour meeting the Minister conforms the rumors that a Taskforce from the future arrived almost twenty-nine days ago and a that the Netherlands in the upcoming weeks is planning to send one or two naval ships who were formally part of the 2017 Taskforce towards the Netherlands East Indies to bolster the Royal Netherlands Navy presence there.
Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain of the United Kingdom informs Prime Minister of the Polish Government in Exile Władysław Sikorski that the British and French governments have decided that there will be a referendum held in the Free City of Danzig which will have two choices which are to become a independent country ore to become part of Germany ore Poland.
A Netherlands transport ship departs the port of Harwich with onboard 24 Infantry Tank Mark IIs who will form the 1st tank squadron, Lichte Divisie -Royal Netherlands Army.
June 1st 1940
A Royal Netherlands Army Aviation Brigade, MQ-9 Reapers unmanned aerial vehicle flying over the North Sea spots the Scharnhorst class battleships, KMS Gneisenau and KMS Scharnhorst and their escort leaving Naval Base Wilhelmshaven.
German Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ulrich von Hassell, member of the Provisional Government of Germany and the Council for a Democratic Germany (Rat für ein demokratisches Deutschland) is given a letter signed by Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain of the United Kingdom and Prime Minister Paul Reynaud of France that a referendum will be held in the Free City of Danzig to decide its future.
The Netherlands transport ship with onboard 24 Infantry Tank Mark IIs arrives in the port of Rotterdam where it will unload it cargo who will then be transported to the city of Amersfoort where also the Depot Squadron Armored Cars is located and where the 1st tank squadron, Lichte Divisie will be formed as the training tank squadron for the Royal Netherlands Army.
June 2nd 1940
Lieutenant general H.A.C. Fabius head of the Generale Staf sectie III or for short GS III (GS III is the main central intelligence agency and is divided into three sections which are: GS IIIA-foreign intelligence, GS IIIB-internal intelligence and GS IIIC-counter espionage) has his first meeting with the newest section head who is to run GS IIID-future intelligence and who was an naval officer in Rear Admiral Willem de Fries general staff onboard the De Zeven Provinciën class frigate, HNLMS De Zeven Provinciën where he represented the Military Intelligence and Security Service of the Netherlands.
June 3rd 1940
Holland class Offshore Patrol Vessel, HNLMS Friesland rendezvous with a British taskforce made up of aircraft carriers, HMS Ark Royal, HMS Glorious and their escort who are patrolling the coast of Norway.
French Army, Colonel Charles de Gaulle is made military attaché attached to the French embassy in the Netherlands. This is mostly due Prime Minister Paul Reynaud of France having heard what the future of this colonel was to be and as a result has given him a new post somewhere out of France but still important enough that Colonel de Gaulle is not going to complain too much to those who want to listen to him.
The Polish 10th Armored Cavalry Brigade begins boarding several transports ships in the French port of Le Harve who will bring them to the Netherlands Naval base Den Helder where they will join the Free Polish Navy (destroyers ORP Błyskawica, ORP Grom, and ORP Burza) and the Royal British and Netherlands Navy’s who together with the Royal Netherlands 2nd (future) Marine Battalion (onboard the Amphibious Transport Ship, HNLMS Rotterdam) will then head towards the German occupied Polish city of Gdynia where the2nd (future) Marine Battalion will establish the first presence of the British-French-Netherlands force ( Poland Stabilization Force) in the Polish Republic while the Polish 10th Armored Cavalry Brigade will move towards Warsaw to establish the first polish armed presence in the country sins the fall of Poland on October 6th 1939.
June 4th 1940
The Polish underground army or also known as the Union of Armed Struggle commanders Stefan Rowecki ( in charge of areas under German occupation ) and General Michał Tokarzewski-Karaszewicz ( in charge of areas under Soviet occupation ) meet in a undisclosed location somewhere in German occupied Poland where they meet with a staff member of Prime Minister of the Polish Government in Exile Władysław Sikorski who informs them that the Polish Government in Exile wants them to focus their attention towards freeing Eastern Poland from the Soviets and that all armed resistance in West Poland will stop as the Germans are beginning their redraw back into Germany.
June 5th 1940
Netherlands Prime Minister Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy signs the order for the Royal Netherlands Navy to end any design work on Project 1047 (a class of Dutch battlecruisers).
The Netherlands-Polish-British taskforce carrying the Royal Netherlands 2nd (future) Marine Battalion and the Polish 10th Armored Cavalry Brigade depart the Netherlands Naval base Den Helder for the German occupied Polish city of Gdynia where it will form the first presence of the British-French-Netherlands force (Poland Stabilization Force) in the Polish Republic.
June 6th 1940
Generale Staf sectie IIID- future intelligence (part of GS III, the main Netherlands central intelligence agency) head lieutenant commander Klaus Molen meets with Major General Sir Stewart Graham Menzies head of MI6 (British Secret Intelligence Service) in London where the they discuss ways to improve corporation between the two countries, in this meeting lieutenant commander Klaus Molen also brief Major General Sir Stewart Graham Menzies regarding the Cambridge Four.
Holland class Offshore Patrol Vessel, HNLMS Friesland which is still patrolling the coast of Norway together with the British taskforce made up of aircraft carriers, HMS Ark Royal, HMS Glorious and their escort rescues using its NH90: Frigate Helicopter two British pilot flying a Blackburn Skua dive bomber /fighter who due a malfunction where unable to land on HMS Ark Royal and forced to ditch their plane in the ice cold waters.
A British transport ship departs the port of Harwich with onboard 24 Infantry Tank Mark IIs, the second shipment of Infantry Tank Mark IIs which are to be shipped to the Netherlands.
June 7th1940
President Antanas Smetona of Lithuania meets with Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov in the Lithuania capital of Vilnius where President Antanas Smetona informs foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov that the Soviet-Lithuanian Mutual Assistance Treaty is now outdated now the treat of attack by Germany with its change in government is no longer there and that he hopes that the 20,000 Soviet soldiers station in the country can be reduced to a symbolic level, he also assurances that Lithuania will continue to honored the mutual assistance pact ( he knows what will happen if he breaks that ) In responds foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov informs President Antanas Smetona that he will inform prime minster of the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin about the Lithuania request of reducing the Soviet troop presence in the country.
King Haakon VII of Norway, Crown Prince Olav flying onboard a British RAF transport plane from the city of Tromsø back to Oslo which he was forced
to leave on April 9th 1940.
The British transport ship with onboard the second batch of 24 Infantry Tank Mark IIs arrives in the port of Rotterdam where it unloads it cargo. After the tanks have been unloaded they will be transported to the city of Amersfoort where they will form the 2nd tank squadron, Lichte Divisie , Royal Netherlands Army.
June 8th 1940
Prime minster of the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin informs Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov who has flown back to Moscow after his meeting with President Smetona in the Lithuania capital that the Soviet Union has no intention to reduce the troop level in Lithuania and that if Lithuania is not carful in what it says or does he even might decide to invade the country as he considers the request by President Smetona a direct violation of the mutual assistance pact which states that the Soviet Union can station up to 20,000 of their troops in the country.
The French Foreign Legion, 13th Foreign Legion Demi-Brigade and the Polish Independent Highland Brigade who with the Germans are leaving Norway as agreed under the Peace Treaty of Brussels and who are still garrisoned at the Norwegian city of Narvik begins boarding British transport ships who will take them towards the German occupied Polish city of Gdynia where they after having disembarked will move to the city of Poznań where they will be based out of.
The second Fokker T.IX twin-engine bomber prototype takes off for its first test flight from Schiphol. The T.IX is designed and built by Fokker for the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army Air Force as a replacement for their obsolete Martin-built bombers and the Royal Netherlands Army Aviation Brigade who sees it as a replacement for 16 Fokker T.V twin-engine bombers currently in service with the Royal Netherlands Army Aviation Brigade.
June 9th 1940
Major General Sir Stewart Graham Menzies head of MI6 (British Secret Intelligence Service) orders his staff to begin an investigation into the possibility that the information provided by the Generale Staf sectie IIID- future intelligence concurring Kim Philby, Donald Duart Maclean, Guy Burgess and Anthony Blunt or also know as the Cambridge Four could be Soviet spies.
New Orleans-class heavy cruiser USS Vincennes and destroyers Truxtun-class destroyer USS Truxton and Clemson-class destroyer USS Simpson arrive at the French naval base of Toulon for a friendly port call.
Two day after his meeting with the Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov the president of Lithuania meets in secret with President of Estonia Konstantin Päts and President of Latvia Kārlis Ulmanis in the Estonia capital of Tallinn where they discuss the Soviet Union presences in their countries (25,000 Soviet soldiers in Estonia, 30,000 in Latvia and 20,000 in Lithuania) where they came to the conclusion that the only way to keep their countries independent is to get help from the French and United kingdom , during their talks they also disuse the idea of creating a Baltic military alliance in order to stand united against any possible Soviet invasion of their countries.
Holland class Offshore Patrol Vessel, HNLMS Friesland arrives in the recently liberated Norwegian capitol of Oslo for a port call.
June 10th 1940
American President Franklin Roosevelt gives a speech at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia. In the speech he says that the United States will support the forces of freedom in Europe when needed and urges the Soviet Union to return the Polish territory they sized in 1939 back to the Polish Republic.
The Holland class Offshore Patrol Vessel, HNLMS Friesland which is laying in the Oslo is visited by the King Haakon VII of Norway, Crown Prince Olav and the recently returned Netherlands ambassador to Norway.
The Netherlands-Polish-British taskforce carrying the Royal Netherlands 2nd (future) Marine Battalion and the Polish 10th Armored Cavalry Brigade after a slow five day journey arrive at the German occupied Polish city of Danzig where it will form the first presence of the British-French-Netherlands force (Poland Stabilization Force) in the Polish Republic.
President of Estonia Konstantin Päts meets with the British ambassador to Estonia where he request in the name of three Baltic countries for protection against the Soviet Union despite the three countries having singed mutual assistance treaty with the Soviet Union at a time they feared against possible attacks by Nazi Germany which now due the change of government in Germany is no longer something they have to fear off.
June 11th 1940
The Norwegian Sleipner-class destroyer HNoMS Odin is re-commissioned into the Royal Norwegian Navy after having been captured and pressed into Kriegsmarine a month ago.
The first Fokker T.IX twin-engine bomber prototype which was damaged when it collided with a hangar door on March 8th of this year after three months of repairing takes off on its 51st test flight from Schiphol (there are two Fokker T.IX twin-engine bomber prototype flying with a third and fourth under construction and who when completed will be tested by the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army Air Force).
French Army, Colonel Charles de Gaulle in his function as the military attaché attached to the French embassy in the Netherlands visit the 1st tank squadron, Lichte Divisie , Royal Netherlands Army during one of their training session where British Army instructors are teaching Netherlands soldiers and officers how to operate and work with the 24 Infantry Tank Mark IIs which form the 1st tank squadron.
The British government and the Provisional Government of Germany come to an agreement that the German auxiliary cruiser Orion which sins the end of the Seven months’ war on May 25th has been at anchored near Campbell Island, New Zealand is to be allowed to enter a New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy naval base where it will be disarmed and then allowed to travel back towards Germany.
In the still German occupied Polish city of Gdynia the commander of the Royal Netherlands 2nd (future) Marine Battalion and brigadier-general Stanisław Maczek commander of the Polish 10th Armored Cavalry Brigade meet the Regierungspräsidenten of the Reichsgau Danzig-Westpreussen (the restored Prussian Province of West Prussia) Fritz Hermann, German commander of the military garrison in Danzig and the mayor of the city Georg Lippke where the Netherlands commander informs the Germans that the Royal Netherlands 2nd (future) Marine Battalion will assume the role as garrison of the city until a referendum has been held which will decide if the Free City of Danzig becomes an independent country or become part of Germany or Poland. The Netherlands commander also informs the German officials that due the port of Danzig being the disembarkation of the British-French-Netherlands force (Poland Stabilization Force) for security reasons and in order to avoid confrontation with Polish forces returning home all German forces presented in the city will requested to leave the city.
Prime minster of the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin is informed by Minister of Internal Affairs Beria that the NKVD has received reports that the presidents of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have meth each other and that rumors are being circulated that they have asked the United Kingdom for assistance in ending the mutual assistance treaty they have with the Soviet Union now Germany is no longer a threat. The same evening Stalin orders that the Red Army's Leningrad Military District to implement a total land, sea and air blockade of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania by June 13th.
June 12th 1940
The Polish 10th Armored Cavalry Brigade after a full day of unloading at the now Netherland-Polish controlled city of Gdynia ( the brigade consist of one tank battalion equipped with 12 Renault FT light tanks and 24 Hotchkiss H35 light tanks, two motorized cavalry squadrons, one anti-tank battery and one anti-aircraft battery ) together with the 23rd infantry Company which is equipped ( part of the Royal Netherlands 2nd (future) Marine Battalion ) with the BvS 10 All Terrain Armored Vehicles begins their journey to Warsaw where the 10th Armored Cavalry Brigade is to establish the first Polish army presence in the Polish capitol sins the end of the Polish Campaign.
Siam and Japan sign a non-aggression pact.
British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain in a meeting with several members of his cabinet informs them that he has bowel cancer and will resign as prime minster in order to seek treatment in the Netherlands by doctors who are part of the Netherlands 2017 taskforce and that he will advise the King to have Lord Halifax to be the next prime minster who will lead a caretaker cabinet (replaces the current war cabinet) until the time that new elections can happen.
Soviet Army units begin to move to their positions near the Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania borders with the Soviet Union while the Soviet Baltic Fleet begins to have its warships move in to position so they can begin the total land, sea and air blockade of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania which will go into effect on June 13th .
Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov sends a diplomatic note to the governments of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in which it reads that due the three governments having conspired against the Soviet Union and violating the mutual assistance treaty they signed , the Soviet Union feels that new governments that are capable of adhering to the mutual assistance pact must be formed and that unspecified but "sufficiently large" number of Soviet troops are to be allowed to enter Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania territories. The note also reads that as of June 13th a total land, sea and air blockade will be in effect as long as the three Baltic countries have not fulfilled the two conditions.
Royal Navy's New Zealand Division, Leander-class light cruiser, HMS Achilles departs Devonport Naval Base, Auckland for here link up with the German auxiliary cruiser Orion which is at anchored near Campbell Island, New Zealand where the cruiser will then escort the Orion to Devonport Naval Base, for disarmament after which the German naval ship will be allowed to begin its journey back home.
Rear Admiral Willem de Fries Commander of the Navy suggest to Prime Minister Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy that the establishment of a research and development organization which will be responsible for research and development, purchase and selling of designs and technology to other countries might be a good idea as it will allow the Netherlands to sell information from the future just like the deal they made with the United Kingdom to other countries in return for military hardware or payments related to the transferred designs or technology.
June 13th 1940
The French Foreign Legion, 13th Foreign Legion Demi-Brigade ( two battalions ) and the Polish Independent Highland Brigade ( four battalions ) arrive at the Netherland-Polish controlled city of Gdynia where after the have unloaded and assembled their forces will then head towards the still German controlled city of city of Poznań.
British submarine HMS Odin while running at the surface encounters Italian Freccia-class destroyer Strale and the Folgore-class destroyer Baleno who are on a routine patrol.
Holland class Offshore Patrol Vessel, HNLMS Friesland departs Norway to begin here journey back towards naval base Den Helder after having spent two weeks patrolling in the North Sea.
British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain goes to Buckingham Palace to resign and advise the King to send for Lord Halifax who commands the support of most government MPs. In a resignation broadcast that same evening, Chamberlain informs the nation that due his health and returning of peace across Europe that he is resigning as prime minster and that Lord Halifax will assume the role for the duration until new elections which date is still to be decided can be held.
The Polish underground army Commanders Stefan Rowecki (in charge of areas under German occupation) orders his forces to begin conducting operations in public view despite large number of German forces still present in country.
The first German forces begin leaving the Netherland-Polish controlled city of Gdynia under the watchful eye of the Royal Netherlands 2nd (future) Marine Battalion).
Rotterdam-class amphibious transport dock HNLMS Rotterdam, Karel Doorman (M) class frigate HNLMS Van Amstel and Admiralen-class destroyer HNLMS Van Galen (part of the old navy ) depart the Netherland-Polish controlled city of Gdynia after they had unloaded the Royal Netherlands 2nd (future) Marine Battalion) and begin their journey back to Naval base Den Helder, Netherlands. De Zeven Provinciën-class frigate HNLMS Evertsen and sloop HNLMS Johan Maurits van Nassau (part of the old navy ) will remain based out of Gdynia where together with the Polish Navy will patrol the Polish territorial waters.
June 14th 1940
United States President Roosevelt signs the Naval Expansion Act, which will see the increase of carrier, cruiser, and submarine tonnage of the United States Navy by 167,000 tons, increased auxiliary shipping by 75,000 tons, and increased the number of authorized naval aircraft to 4,500 planes.
Two Soviet bombers who are part of enforcing the naval and air blockade of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania down a Finnish passenger airplane flying from Tallinn to Helsinki carrying three diplomatic pouches from the United states legations in Tallinn, Riga and Helsinki.
A day after his resignation as prime minster of Great Britain the now former prime minster Neville Chamberlain boards a passenger plane destined for the Netherlands where doctors belonging to the Netherlands 2017 taskforce will treat him for bowel cancer.
Royal Navy's New Zealand Division, Leander-class light cruiser, HMS Achilles links up with the German auxiliary cruiser Orion which is still anchored near Campbell Island, New Zealand. After having transferred a New Zealand boarding party to the Orion both ships begin their two day journey towards Devonport Naval Base, Auckland.
The Polish 10th Armored Cavalry Brigade and the 23rd infantry Company (part of the Royal Netherlands 2nd (future) Marine Battalion) arrive in Warsaw.
Rear Admiral Willem de Fries Commander of the Navy is given the go ahead by Prime Minister Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy to go continue his idea for a creation of a research and development organization which will be responsible for research and development, purchase and selling of designs and technology to other countries.
Prince Bernhard takes a test flight onboard one of the two Fokker T.IX twin-engine bomber prototypes being test flown by the Royal Netherlands Army Aviation Brigade.
June 15th 1940
The Government of Finland sends a diplomatic protest to the Soviet Union regarding the downing of a Finnish passenger airplane which killed all 9 on board.
President Franklin Roosevelt establishes the National Defense Research Committee to help plan and organize American defense preparations.
A large demonstration is staged outside the Soviet embassy in the Estonia capital of Tallinn in responds to the total land, sea and air blockade of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania which now has entered its second day.
Holland class Offshore Patrol Vessel, HNLMS Friesland arrives back at naval base Den Helder after having spent two weeks patrolling in the North Sea.
June 16th 1940
The Government of Finland sends a diplomatic protest to the Soviet Union regarding the downing of a Finnish passenger airplane which killed all 9 on board.
President Franklin Roosevelt establishes the National Defense Research Committee to help plan and organize American defense preparations.
A large demonstration is staged outside the Soviet embassy in the Estonia capital of Tallinn in responds to the total land, sea and air blockade of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania which now has entered its second day.
Holland class Offshore Patrol Vessel, HNLMS Friesland arrives back at naval base Den Helder after having spent two weeks patrolling in the North Sea.
June 17th 1940
Royal Navy's New Zealand Division personal and the crew of the German auxiliary cruiser Orion which is moored in Devonport Naval Base, Auckland begin the removal of all weapons onboard the Orion.
Research and Development Organization (Dutch: Onderzoek en Ontwikkeling Deinst, OOD) begins it work (the OOD is part of the Ministry of War and Navy, Dutch: ministerie van Oorlog en van Marine) three days after Rear Admiral Willem de Fries Commander of the Navy was given the go ahead by Prime Minister Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy. The OOD will be head by an officer of the 2017 Taskforce.
The Polish Government in Exile and the Netherlands government sign an agreement in which the Polish Air Force will receive 50 Koolhoven F.K.58 single engine, interceptor-fighter aircraft (2).
The French government asks the Netherlands government what they want in return for payment of research material.
June 18th 1940
Anti-Soviet demonstrations break out in Lithuania capital of Vilnius and in the Latvia capital of Riga following the Anti-Soviet demonstration which has held three days earlier in the Estonia capital of Tallinn in responds to the total land, sea and air blockade of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania which now has entered its fifth day.
No. 85 Squadron RAF ( fighter squadron equipped with the Hawker Hurricane) becomes the last of the 6 fighter squadrons part of the British Air Forces in France to hand back to the United Kingdom.
In responds to the increasing tension between the Soviet Union and Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania and to guard the German Province of East Prussia (German: Provinz Ostpreußen ) from any attack by West Poland the Oberkommando des Heeres , the Supreme High Command of the German Army issues the order for the German 7th Panzer Division under the command of Generalmajor Erwin Rommel to be redeployed to the German Province of East Prussia where it will operate as part of Army Group North (German: 'Heeresgruppe Nord') under the command of Generaloberst Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb.
June 19th 1940
Research and Development Organization (Dutch: Onderzoek en Ontwikkeling Deinst, OOD) hands the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Dutch: Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken) a list they can send to the French of what they have to offer them and also a list put together with the assistance of both the Royal Netherlands Army and Royal Netherlands Navy of what they would like to have in return for it.
Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov having called the ambassadors of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to his office, issues a statement that if they do not end the Anti-Soviet demonstrations going on in their countries the 25,000 Soviet soldiers in Estonia, 30,000 in Latvia and 20,000 in Lithuania will. The three Baltic ambassadors responds is simple if the total land, sea and air blockade of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania ends , the Anti-Soviet demonstrations going on in their countries will surely also end , but they also say that their countries will not allow the Soviet forces deployed in their countries to be used to end any demonstrations as long as they are peaceful or if they are violate , which they claim is a job for their countries police and armed forces and not of the Soviet armed forces deployed in their countries.
On the orders from the Oberkommando der Marine, the Supreme High Command of the German Navy, work on aircraft carrier A ( German: Flugzeugträger A ) or also known as Graf Zeppelin at the Deutsche Werke shipyard in Kiel and of Flugzeugträger B at Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft in Kiel is stopped.
June 20th 1940
A sailor belonging to Taskforce 2017 during his of time at a bar outside Naval Base Den Helder is noticed by two men sitting at a nearby table who discover that he is using a strange flat device connected with a strange small box standing on his table. Unknown to him the young sailor who knowing that Rear Admiral Willem de Fries gave orders to all 2017 personnel that no 2017 technology is allowed of the base, thinks it is not going to be much of a problem as he has done it several times without any problem, after he has packed both his iPad 6 and his small iCharger 1 into his back pack and leaving the bar he fails to notice the two men following him. Several hours the young sailor is found death in an ally, and his back pack missing.
More than half of the German forces previous deployed in the now Netherland-Polish controlled city of Gdynia have left the city.
Norman Baillie-Stewart a former British army officer who is known as one of the persons associated with the nickname Lord Haw-Haw who was in custody by the German Abwehr by order of the Council for a Democratic Germany (German: Rat für ein demokratisches Deutschland ) is handed over to British SIS (Secret Intelligence Service or also commonly known as MI6 ) agents in the Netherlands border town of Coevorden, located in the northeastern Netherlands. Also handed over are Captain Sigismund Payne Best and Major Richard Henry Stevens who were two British SIS agents who on November 9th 1939 where captured by the now defunct German Sicherheitsdienst (English: SD-Security Service) in the Venlo Incident.
President Franklin Roosevelt appoints two prominent Republicans to his cabinet: Henry L. Stimson as secretary of war, and Frank Knox as secretary of the Navy.
Soviet Union arranges for a number of pro-Soviet demonstrations in several cities in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in responds to the anti-Soviet demonstrations which are being held in those countries.
June 21st 1940
The body of the young sailor found death a day ago is brought aboard the Zuiderkruis-class support ship HNLMS Zuiderkruis laying in Naval Base Den Helder where a autopsy will be preform on his body. Meanwhile the site of the crime scene where the sailor was found is investigated by 2017 Royal Netherlands Marechaussee ( Central Investigation and Information Division ) officers who were onboard the 2017 taskforce in order to find any clue that might lead to the killers.
After four days of hard work by the Royal Navy's New Zealand Division personal and the crew of the German auxiliary cruiser Orion, the now disarmed German auxiliary cruiser Orion departs Devonport Naval Base, Auckland, New Zeeland for her journey back to Germany after having here 6 × 15 cm (5.9 in) guns, 1 x 7.5 cm (3.0 in) gun, 2 x 3.7 cm (1.5 in) guns, 4 x 2 cm (0.79 in) anti-aircraft guns, 6 x 53.3 cm (21.0 in) torpedo tubes, mines and her single Arado Ar 196 A-1 shipboard reconnaissance aircraft removed or disabled as agreed by the British government and the Provisional Government of Germany in order for the Orion to be allowed to begin it journey back home.
Romanian Prime Minister Gheorghe Tătărescu and minister for external affairs Ion Gigurtu who seeing the Soviet Union blockading Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania and worried that the Soviet Union who is known to lay claim to parts of Romania might do the same thing or worst invade Romania during a meeting with the ambassadors of France and the ambassadors of United Kingdom are informed that France and the United Kingdom guarantee of the independence of the Kingdom of Romania still stands.
The 1st 'Warsaw' Fighter Squadron which is one of four Polish fighter squadrons ( the other three are the 2nd 'Kraków-Poznań' Fighter Squadron, 3rd 'Dęblin' Fighter Squadron and 4th Fighter Squadron ) who are operated by the Polish Armed Forces in the West in France becomes the first Polish fighter squadron to again operate from a Polish airfield (Okęcie airport ). The squadron which operates the French build and designed Bloch MB.152 fighters (1) is slated to be reinforced by the 2nd 'Kraków-Poznań' Fighter Squadron in upcoming month.
June 22st 1940
HMT Lancastria (HMT is short for Hired Military Transport ), a converted troopship in service with the Royal Navy is handed back to British Cunard liner where she will renamed back to her old name of Lancastria.
The British War Office approves the design of the Tank, Cruiser, Chamberlain Mk I ( based on the Centurion Main battle tank ) which will be fitted with a Ordnance Quick-Firing 17-pounder (or just 17-pdr) gun which is slated to go into production in the upcoming months ( Both the Chamberlain Mk I and the 17-pdr are several of the designs that where part of the research material handed over by the Netherlands on May 29th 1940 ).
Soviet ambassador to Belgium Yevgeny Vladimirovich Rubinin did not know what was laying before him on his desk, but when the two men who after showing first their papers that they belong to the NKVD and then a letter written and signed by the chief of the Soviet security and secret police Lavrentiy Beria himself in which it stood that these two men where to be given all assistance they needed, the ambassador decided that he defiantly did not need to now but he did what the two men told, after calling his secretary to hold a Aeroflot Lisunov Li-2 passenger plane he knew was going to depart from Brussels Airport this day he placed the bloodied and strange looking back pack into a large wooden box which would be flown together with the ambassador and the two NKVD agents to Moscow.
June 23rd 1940
The Bureau of Information and Propaganda of the Headquarters of Związek Walki Zbrojnej ( English: Union of Armed Struggle) operating out of Paris orders the beginning of Operation Z (Polish: Związek Z, where "Z" comes from the Polish word " Związek ," meaning " Soviet" ). Operation Z which will be led by General Michał Tokarzewski-Karaszewicz ( in charge of areas under Soviet occupation ) will be consist of a complex of sabotage, subversion and black-propaganda activities in the Soviet occupied Poland.
The Soviet Union propose that Finland should revoke Petsamo mining rights from the British-Canadian company and transfer them to the Soviet Union, or to a joint venture owned by the Soviets and the Finns.
Aeroflot Lisunov Li-2 passenger plane carrying the Soviet ambassador to Belgium , two NKVD agents and a small wooden box lands at military airfield outside Moscow. With an armed escort the box is transported to the Lubyanka Building where chief of the Soviet security and secret police Lavrentiy Beria has his office.
On the 10th day of the total land, sea and air blockade of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania by the Soviet Union, Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov gives the ambassadors of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania a ultimatum:
Soviet ultimatum to Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania
(1) The resignation of President Antanas Smetona of Lithuania , President Konstantin Päts of Estonia and President Kārlis Ulmanis of Latvia.
(2) That governments be immediately formed in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania capable of assuring and determined to assure the proper fulfillment of the Treaty of Mutual Assistance between the Soviet Union, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania and to suppress firmly the enemies of this Treaty.
(3) That free entry into the territory of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania be immediately assured for units of the army of the Soviet Union which will be stationed in the most important centers of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania and which will be sufficiently numerous to assure the enforcement of the Treaty of Mutual Assistance between the Soviet Union, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania and to put an end to acts of provocation directed against the garrisons of the Soviet Union station in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
(4) That an answer be given by 10:00 am the next morning.
June 24th 1940
Having met with the Ambassador from the United Kingdom to Lithuania Sir Charles Orde, Lithuania Ministers of Foreign Affairs Juozas Urbšys went to the President's Office where he briefed the Council of Minsters regarding the meeting he had with the ambassador and informed them the United Kingdom could not guarantee the independence of Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia so short after having gone to war with a country (Germany )over a guarantee of independence ( Poland), the ambassador did mention that the United Kingdom would condemn any Soviet actions and offered unspecific support to any government in exile which might be form if the Soviet Union took over Lithuania. It was President Antanas Smetona after Ministers of Foreign Affairs Juozas Urbšys briefing ended who held this speech “who decided that the future of a nation was in the hands of a foreign power who claims to have the best interest with us but yet demands that we give up our independence we won over 20 years ago, thus our country, even if it is only a symbolic defense of independence ought to resist by all means, including force of arms, even in the absence of any hope of winning. Yes the Soviet Union will devastate the country to a greater extent but no more than they will if we surrender to them; however, such an event would reverberate in the consciousness of Lithuanians, reminding them that the nation stood up for its honor as best it could. In other words, defending oneself will count for much in the future”. Hearing this passionate speech the misters knew , Lithuania would not accept the Soviet ultimatum.
In Estonia the Government and the Committee for Foreign affairs met with President Päts who received word about the Lithuania decision not to comply with the Soviet ultimatum. After a long and sometimes heated session it was decided that Estonia would stand by Lithuania and Latvia in not accepting the Soviet ultimatum.
The Empire of Japan request that the United Kingdom close the Burma Road, a land supply route into China.
Netherlands aircraft manufacturer Fokker decides to cancel work on the Fokker D.XXIII ( D23 ) single-seat fighter in favor of Fokker D.XXIV ( D24 ) which will be a license version of the Supermarine Spitfire. ( Supermarine not only has given license rights to Fokker to produce their own version of the Spitfire but also will help them setting up a assembly line and supply the engines for the plane, in return, the Netherlands Research and Development Organization (Dutch: Onderzoek en Ontwikkeling Deinst) gave Supermarine all the information they managed to find regarding the future development of the Spitfire).
At the third floor of the Lubyanka Building an office guarded by several heavily armed NKVD agents was located, this office was the seat of power of one of the most powerful men in the Soviet Union, Lavrentiy Beria chief of the Soviet security and secret police who was now after some trial and error was deciding if he wanted to see Avengers 2, Men in Black 5 ore the Justice League movie on his iPad 6 he managed to acquired. It had taken Beria some effort but lucky for him the backpack in which the iPad 6 was in had the instruction book still in it, together with the iCharger 1 a small powerstation Beria now had the most powerful electronic device in the Soviet Union, a device he planned to keep secret for Stalin himself as the iPad 6 had something call a app installed called iPedia, a app Beria used several times sins he acquired the iPad 6. Some of the articles he read including his own execution in 1953, a world war and the collapse of the Union in 1991. But these things could change, Beria knew of that, as he was about to select his movie a messenger arrived into his office with news that Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia had refuse to accept the ultimatum opposed on them, Beria knew what would happen next the Soviet Union would invade and crush them. But for now he planned to watch Avengers 2 and later on he would secure his future and the iPad 6 would play a major role in it.
Baltic War
The Baltic War began on 10:00 AM on June 24th 1940. Despite a desperate fight the three Baltic counties of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania where invaded by a Soviet force of some 235,000 men, 8,000 artillery pieces, 1,510 tanks and 500 armored vehicles while inside Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania themselves more then 66,946 men, 1,630 artillery pieces, 1,065 tanks and 150 armored vehicles moved to seized pre-planned objectives.
Many small engagements were fought but in the end the Soviet Army was victorious suffering only 265 men death or wounded versus more then 2,150 Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania soldiers and civilians dead. The battle in the Baltic Sea was not much different as the superior fire power and naval presences of the Soviet Navy quickly destroyed the three small navies of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The only victory for the tiny Baltic navy’s was the sinking of the Soviet battleship Oktyabrskaya Revolutsiya which happen at 1:22 PM when the Estonian Navy Kalev class mine laying submarine ENS Lembit firing four torpedoes managed to sink the here with 870 of here 1,149 sailors and officers still aboard.
ENS Lembit would be the only survivor of either the Estonian Navy or the Latvia Navy to survive the Baltic War, the other ships were destroyed in their harbors or sunk while trying to run the Soviet naval blockade.
By 3:00 pm the Soviet army was in full control of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, the government s of Estonian and of Lithuania where the only two of the three who managed to flee the country into German East Prussia, where they would set up governments in exile. The Latvia government refused to leave and instead gave Kārlis Reinholds Zariņš Ambassador and Consul General of Latvia in the United Kingdom extraordinary powers.
June 25th 1940
Unable to meet with Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov United States ambassador to the Soviet Union Thurston is forced to content with Soviet deputy foreign minister Lozovsky. Ambassador Thurston after having condemned the invasion is told by deputy foreign minister Lozovsky that the Soviet Union only acted against Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in order to free their people from oppressive governments who only cared to exploit them.
Chief Designer for Supermarine's Joseph Smith sitting at his desk was looking at the final design specs for the new version of the Spitfire he was planning to build. The Spitfire designated GM V ( G stands for Rolls-Royce Griffon engine and V is the fourth spitfire model ) will be twice as heavy, more than twice as powerful then the Mk I , the Spitfire GM V will also be different in having a Rolls-Royce Griffon engine in place of the Merlin engine used by the Mk I to Mk III models. Joseph Smith knows that the Spitfire GM V will be a fighter years ahead of it time and all thanks to the Netherlands Research and Development Organization (Dutch: Onderzoek en Ontwikkeling Deinst) who transferred a complete file of the spitfire containing the chronological history of all versions of the Spitfire, from conception to phasing out, marks, models , engines and design drawings to Supermarine.
The Polish 1st Grenadier Division (Polish: 1. Dywizja Grenadierów ) which sins May 25th 1940 has been deployed out of a military base in Colombey-les-Belles in Lorraine, France recive order to begin embarkation on British and French ships who will transport them to West Poland where the division will join the already in west Poland deployed 10th Armored Cavalry Brigade ( deployed in Warsaw ) and the Polish Independent Highland Brigade (deployed in Poznań w ). The 1st Grenadier Division is organized according to the French model and is equipped with French weapons and uniforms and has some 13,000 enlisted soldiers and 3,180 officers as part of it, the 2nd Rifle Division (Polish: 2 Dywizja Strzelców Pieszych ) will remain in France for the time being until enough transport ships are available to ship them to West Poland.
“Spontaneous” pro-Soviet demonstrations (accompanied by Soviet tanks and troops) are held in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania a day after the Soviet army invaded the three Baltic countries.
Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, member of the parliament and the Halifax lead cabinet in a speech to the House of Commons concerning the Soviet Union invasion of the Baltic countries “ we have defeated one evil to see the rising of another, we cannot stand by watching until it is too late as we have done before , as we now all too well what the Soviet Union true intentions is, the domination of all of Europe and give them time they might succeed and that is something we cannot give them”.
A briefing in Germany
In his office in the Reich Chancellery (German: Reichskanzlei), an office which not long ago was used by Adolf Hitler, its new occupier chairman of the Council for a Democratic Germany and unofficially the head of state of the Third Reich Dr. Carl Friedrich Goerdeler was reading some papers while waiting for Abwehr (German intelligence) officer colonel Oster to give him an intelligence briefing he had requested. Colonel Oster after having seated himself began his briefing:
Estonian Navy Kalev-class mine laying submarine ENS Lembit had been spotted heading to Kiel and is most likely to arrive there in the upcoming days.
A group of former SS and NSDAP members has been meeting with each other in the Slovak Republic (Slovak: Slovenská republika) capitol of Bratislava. Goerdeler ask what the Abwehr plans to do about these meetings in which Colonel Oster replies watch, observe and arrest them. Friedrich Goerdeler then after having received the answer he wanted wrote a down a note to meet President of Slovakia Jozef Tiso and to remind him that the "protection treaty" (Treaty on the protective relationship between the Third Reich and the Slovak State) which made Slovak subordinated its foreign, military, and economic policy to that of Germany with the change of government in Germany was still in effect.
After the brief pause Colonel Oster went on with his briefing, almost all of the 100,000 Germans forces have left Norway, while most of the German forces formerly in German occupied Poland also have left.
Reinhard Heydrich and Joseph Goebbels who are being held at Spandau Prison on charges of killing Adolf Hitler, Rudolf Hess , Herman Göring, Joachim von Ribbentrop and Heinrich Himmler and trying to launch a hostile takeover of the country are still insisting that they were not behind the May 19th 1940 attack ,something both Goerdeler and Colonel Oster now is true but they also know they need scapegoats to be trialed.
After completing his briefing Colonel Oster stood up and gave Goerdeler a sealed envelope and said from friends who want to help us. Goerdeler opening the envelope saw several pages of text and a drawing which look like a flag, curious about who gave the colonel the envelope, the colonel replied , you would not believe me if I told you but all I can say that they have the best interest for us and asking to many question will only lead to answers whey don’t want to know.
June 26th 1940
By orders of Lavrentiy Beria chief of the Soviet security and secret police a Soviet Army tank mechanic named Mikhail Kalashnikov is send to a NKVD Special Technical Bureau secret research and development laboratory just outside Moscow. Lavrentiy Beria who having discovered on his iPedia app installed on the iPad 6 in his possession that Mikhail Kalashnikov will develop the AK-47 assault rifle wants to use the new assault rifle as a gift to Stalin while keeping other designs he is planning to build in his newly set up secret research and development laboratory for himself.
A French Army commission of tank development is set up to work on new French tanks designs, their first order of business is to answer three questions: (1) continue the work on the Char G1 , the replacement project for the Char D2 medium tank, (2) begin work on a new tank design (AMX-30 ) which design details are part of a still to work out research-hardware deal between the Netherlands government and the French government (3) licenses produce the British Chamberlain Mk I ( based on the Centurion Main battle tank ) which is being development in the United kingdom.
Prime Minister Władysław Sikorski together with President Władysław Raczkiewicz flying a Royal Air Force Bristol Bombay transport aircraft escorted by Bloch MB.152 fighters of the 1st 'Warsaw' Fighter Squadron land at Okęcie airport located in the Włochy district of Warsaw, Poland. Stepping down the ladder of the plane Prime Minister Władysław Sikorski is greeted by the Polish Commander-in-Chief Marshal Edward Rydz-Śmigły who had arrived several days earlier, Colonel Stefan Rowecki the commander of the Związek Walki Zbrojnej (English: Union of Armed Struggle ) resistance organization in West Poland and General Stanisław Maczek commander of the 10th Armored Cavalry Brigade. After having greeted them Prime Minister Władysław Sikorski addresses the gathered Polish, French and British new reporters and says” today is the beginning of the Third Polish Republic, a day that for now on will be a national holiday, but do not forget that when we celebrate this day we must not forget there is still part of our country being occupied by a neighbor who isn't afraid to bully the weak, but we say to them, we are not afraid of them, we will reclaim our entire country, even if we have to take 60 years to do it”.
Events in the Baltic
The first Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians prisoners of war are shipped by the department in charge of POWs, the Peoples Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD )to 8 prison camps located in the Soviet Union ( The 8 camps which can house a total of 68,000 prisoners of wars are not the only camps the NKVD uses for Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians prisoners as there is also a camp signified for those in “special isolation” and 2 camps for “identified” officers, policemen, gendarmes, agents and those equal to them”).
The Estonian Defense League (Estonian: Kaitseliit), a paramilitary armed forces of the Republic of Estonia is declared illegal by the Soviet occupiers. However some of the Estonian Defense League have begun to hide their weapons on their own initiative while also beginning to setting up communication lines with members of the now disbanded Estonian Army.
Commander-in-chief of the Estonian Army Johan Laidoner is arrested by the NKVD and together with several other political and military leaders of the country is send to the Vladimir Prison, a prison for political prisoners of the Soviet regime located 100 miles northeast of Moscow.
Netherlands ambassador to Latvia, de Decker informs his government that the NKVD has begun arresting large numbers of people in Latvia.
June 27th 1940
The third Fokker T.IX twin-engine bomber prototype and first to be tested by pilots of the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army Air Force ( Dutch: Militaire Luchtvaart van het Koninklijk Nederlands-Indisch Leger, ML-KNIL) takes off for its first test flight from Schiphol. The Fokker T.IX is intended to replace their obsolescent Martin B-10 bombers of which more than 83 are in service with the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army Air Force.
The Soviet Union bolded by its victory in the Baltic War demands either demilitarization or a joint fortification effort on the island of Åland.
The German military intelligence organization Abwehr becomes the first user of the Enigma machine when they set up two-way radio communication between Königsberg, capital of East Prussia and Berlin.
The Swedish company Svenska Aeroplan AB ( English: Swedish Aeroplane Company Limited ,SAAB) signs a an licenses agreement with Fokker to produce 89 Fokker G.I twin-engine fighter planes which will be designated as SAAB 18 in Swedish service.
Rear Admiral Willem de Fries Commander of the Navy in the Netherlands is presented with the autopsy report of the young sailor killed on June 20th 1940. Reading it Rear Admiral Willem de Fries discovers that the young sailor was shot three times at close range with a weapon firing with what is identified as a 7.62×25mm cartridge, which in 1940 is produced and used by Germany, Soviets Union , Spain ore China. Rear Admiral Willem de Fries knowing that there are more question then answers decides to wait on the report from the 2017 Royal Netherlands Marechaussee ( Central Investigation and Information Division ) officers who are doing the criminal investigation before deciding what action he will take.
Type IID U-boat U-138 is commissioned with the German Kriegsmarine. With U-138 commissioned only U-139 and U-140 will enter into service as Oberkommando der Marine, the Supreme High Command of the German Navy has decided to stop any production of the Type IID U-boat.
The Norwegian Sleipner-class destroyer HNoMS Tor which was scuttled by her own crew on April 9th 1940 after having been raised and send to the state-owned Norwegian naval yard where she was repaired and fitted out is re-commissioned into the Royal Norwegian Navy becoming the second Sleipner-class destroyer to return into service with the Royal Norwegian Navy after having been either captured or destroyed by the Germans.
Events in Poland
In the Chancellery of the Prime Minister of Poland (Polish: Kancelaria Prezesa Rady Ministrów) located in Warsaw, Prime Minister Władysław Sikorski has his first meeting with the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Poland (Polish: Rada Ministrów w Polsce). The meeting which is attended by several minsters is the first meeting of the government of the Polish Third republic.
While Prime Minister Władysław Sikorski is discussing politics, Commander-in-Chief Marshal Edward Rydz-Śmigły is discussing the armored strength of the 10th Armored Cavalry Brigade together with General Stanisław Maczek its commander. General Stanisław Maczek informs the Marshal that sins June 14th when the brigade arrived in Warsaw they have been searching and repairing all armored tanks they could find and have now have a fleet made up of 12 Renault FT light tanks, 24 Hotchkiss H35 light tanks ( donated by the French ), 10 7TP light tanks, 18 TK (TK-3) tankettes and 3 Panzer III Ausf. D medium tanks ( left by the Germans ). The general also reports that mechanics from the brigade together with workers of the Państwowe Zakłady Inżynieryjne (English: National Engineering Works ) are working round the clock to repair any tank that can be recovered.
Events in the Baltic
In the German Province of East Prussia (German: Provinz Ostpreußen ) Kazys Škirpa, Lithuanian military attaché to Germany meets with both President of Lithuania Antanas Smetona and Prime Minister Kaarel Eenpalu where Kazys Škirpa informs them that the new German government will not publicly support them but also not will hand them over to the Soviet Union.
The Communist Party of Latvia (Latvian: Latvijas Komunistiskā partija) together with the Workers' Youth League of Latvia which were banned in Latvia with the removing of the Ulmanis government from power are legalized again and allowed to operate openly with the full backing of the Soviet Union.
Estonian Navy Kalev-class mine laying submarine ENS Lembit arrives in the German naval base of Kiel after having managed to evade the Soviet Navy who want here sunk in responds to here sinking the Soviet battleship Oktyabrskaya Revolutsiya. Soon as it arrives a German Kriegsmarine officer and two guards board the sub to inform the captain that the crew will be interned, all navigation aids and maps will be confiscated and all here armaments will be removed. The Kriegsmarine officer says privately to ENS Lembit captain that as a fellow submariner he is impressed that ENS Lembit managed to sink a Soviet battleship and also has a message from Konteradmiral (English: Rear Admiral) Karl Dönitz, Führer der U-Boote (English: Leader of the U-boats) that the crew of ENS Lembit are to be treated as guest of the German submarine service.
June 28th 1940
French military attaché to the Netherlands, Colonel Charles de Gaulle request Prime Minister Paul Reynaud of France to give him command of a tank regiment. Colonel Gaulle who has mange thanks to help from some 2017 admirers, discovered why Prime Minister Paul Reynaud sent him to the Netherlands believe he is more useful in command then behind the desk.
British prime minster Halifax having begun a two day trip to the Netherlands lands at Schiphol airport where he is greeted by Netherlands Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy and his special advisor Rear Admiral Willem de Fries. After having boarded one of the four NH90: Tactical Transport Helicopters which are operated by the GVH ( is short for Groep Helicpoters) the world first helicopter squadron they fly towards Den Helder navy base where are reception is being held onboard Zuiderkruis class support ship HNLMS Zuiderkruis. After the reception was over which included many high ranking political and military officials from both the United Kingdom and the Netherlands the NH90: Tactical Transport Helicopter carrying Halifax flew to a villa where former British prime minster Chamberlain was being treated for bowel cancer by 2017 doctors . There both the former and current prime minster talk and during that that meeting prime minster Halifax informed Chamberlain that a new modern tank would be named after him, when Chamberlain joked why not a navy ship, prime minster Halifax responded that somebody veto that.
Lavrentiy Beria chief of the Soviet security and secret police manages to convince Stalin of starting a Soviet atomic bomb project, while Beria explains that the cost and efforts will be huge , he explains to Stalin that whoever possess such a bomb controls the world and thus the risk and cost will be worth it. Stalin impress by Beria explanation allows him to start the a small scale project at the Academy of Sciences for the investigation into the possibility of an atomic bomb ( this in OTL began only in 1942). Stalin is however unaware that Beria already has ordered that several important figures in nuclear physics are to be gathered to start this investigation using some of his notes made after reading several articles from his iPedia app installed on his iPad 6.
The Alien Registration Act (the Smith Act) is passed by the United States Congress and which requires aliens to register and be fingerprinted. The Act also makes it illegal to advocate the overthrow of the United States government.
Royal Netherlands Navy O 12-class submarines HNLMS O 14 and HNLMS O 15 who have been patrolling the Caribbean (Netherlands West Indies) sins October 31st 1939 begin their journey back to the Netherlands.
Supreme Commander of the Royal Netherlands Army , General Winkelman attending a shooting ranch own by arms manufacturer, Artillerie Inrichtingen (A.I.) is shown by them a prototype of the AG-40 ( AG means in Dutch assault rifle ) assault rifle. The AG-40 which is based on the AK-47 was developed in a record time with the help from 2017 marines and several AK-47s that were used by the 2017 Taskforce as training purpose. General Winkelman is also shown a mockup of the AI MAG general-purpose machine gun together with the FN MAG of which is based on and a tube like form called the Pantservuist-1 (English: Armored Fist-1 or short PV-1) Bazooka.
German ambassador to the Soviet Union Friedrich-Werner Graf von der Schulenburg who after being summed to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is informed by Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov that unless the Kalev-class mine laying submarine ENS Lembit and its crew are handed over to the Soviet Union for punishment the German-Soviet Commercial Agreement of February 11th 1940 might be canceled. Ambassador von der Schulenburg responds that the Soviet Union has nothing worry about as the crew of ENS Lembit are interned ( as guest of the German submarine service ) and the submarine disarmed and under full control of the German Kriegsmarine, he also tell the minister Molotov that he is not capable to decide these maters himself and that he has to communicate with Berlin on what their plan for ENS Lembit is. Hearing this answer minister Molotov warns that Germany must not stall as the Soviet Union considers this a priority mater which must be handled quickly.
Events in the Baltic
Commander-in-Chief of the Lithuanian air branch, Brigadier General Antanas Gustaitis who was in hiding sins the Soviet invasion of Lithuanian is found by NKVD security troops and send to the Vladimir Prison located near Moscow where he will join other political and military leaders of the three Baltic countries already being hold in the prison.
June 29th 1940
The British Dominions Secretary informs the Australian Government that the United kingdom will send a fleet to the Far East in order to provide a counterweight to the Empire of Japan which the United kingdom knows thanks to information provided by the Netherlands 2017 taskforce might poses a threat to the region.
British prime minster Halifax on his second day and last day visiting to the Netherlands meets with queen Wilhelmina and later together with Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld inspects the 1st tank squadron, Lichte Divisie -Royal Netherlands Army which operates 24 infantry Tank Mark IIs and which crews are being trained by the British army.
Lavrentiy Beria chief of the Soviet security and secret police after having read the Spetsnaz article on the iPedia app installed on his iPad 6 decided that it would not be a bad thing to have a NKVD special force unit under his control. For this reason he invited Colonel Ilya Grigoryevich Starinov who he knew thanks to an article on his iPedia app would be consider the founding father for this unit. Beria explain the colonel what his idea was of creating the Secretariat of Special Operations of the NKVD which the colonel will be in command of. The Secretariat of Special Operations of the NKVD will consist of NKVD Spetsgruppa "A" who will be used for special operations at home, abroad and also be charge of protecting the NKVD Special Technical Bureaus Beria is setting up. ( the NKVD Special Technical Bureaus are named with a number and the first letter of the lead designer working at that bureau).
Émile Bertin-light cruiser Émile Bertin arrives in Vlissingen, Zeeland, Netherlands where she is slated to pick up the research material that the French Republic will receive in return for transferring Renault R40 light tanks, SOMUA S35 cavalry tanks and Panhard 178 armored cars to the Netherlands. The Research and Development Organization (Dutch: Onderzoek en Ontwikkeling Deinst, OOD) has made available to the French what they accepted the following: detailed information regarding French fighter planes and tanks, detailed information regarding infantry weapons , four Mark 46 torpedoes, 8 Diemaco C8A1 5.56 mm carbines, 2 Diemaco C7 LSW light machineguns, 12 Glock 17 pistols and 2 FN MAG general purpose machineguns).
Speaking true a Funk-Stunde microphone set up at the Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft (English: State Broadcasting Company, RRG), the Chairman of the Council for a Democratic Germany and unofficially the head of state of the Third Reich Dr. Carl Friedrich Goerdeler address the German nation and announces that he will assume the function of Reichspräsident (English: President of the Reich ) almost 41 days after he became the unofficially head of state of the Third Reich. He says that title of Führer will never again be used in honor of the slain Adolf Hitler who will be forever known as its only user. Reichspräsident Goerdeler also announces that a German constituent assembly called the Parlamentarischer Rat (German for "Parliamentary Council") will draft a new constitution of the German Reich (Grundgesetz). ( the current Constitution which is also known as the Weimar Constitution (Weimarer Verfassung) was created in 1919 and still in use as of 1940).
A Polish Military Commission arrives in Sweden to arrange for the return of interned Orzeł-class submarine ORP Sęp and Wilk class submarines ORP Ryś and ORP Żbik to West Poland ore also known as the Third Polish Republic.
British Royal Navy Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound and First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill are given a briefing by Generale Staf sectie IIID- future intelligence (part of GS III, the main Netherlands central intelligence agency) head lieutenant commander Klaus Molen who gives them a briefing at the Admiralty House, home of First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill on what would have happened with the royal navy if the Seven Month War as it called had continue if not for the arrival of the 2017 taskforce. Lieutenant commander Klaus Molenalso also explain to them about the Pacific War ( Pearl Harbor attack, sinking of force Z, battle of Singapore and other events related to the Pacific War ). After the briefing ends both Sir Dudley Pound and Admiralty Winston Churchill having socked up all the information spend another hour discussing with lieutenant commander Klaus Molen events relating to the Pacific War.
June 30th 1940
Lavrentiy Beria chief of the Soviet security and secret police while reading an article about president Hilary Clinton on the iPedia app installed on his iPad 6 when a pop up on his iPad 6 screen appeared. The pop up which read ‘4 days left until iPedia app can no longer be used ,reconnect to Internet to keep using app‘. Beria did not know what it meant but after reading the iPad 6 manual and the internet article on the iPedia he knew that he had only a couple of days left before he would be unable to gather more information about many things he found to be vital to his agenda.
French navy, Émile Bertin-light cruiser Émile Bertin departs Vlissingen, Zeeland, Netherlands carrying a treasure trove of research material the French Republic has received from the Netherlands in return for transferring Renault R40 light tanks, SOMUA S35 cavalry tanks and Panhard 178 armored cars to the Netherlands.
The 1. Kompanie and 2. Kompanie of the Bataillon Brandenburg, the German special force unit under the control of the Abwehr, the main German military intelligence organization land at the Vajnory air base ( operated by the Slovak Air Force ) located near the village of Vajnory, close to the Slovak capital Bratislava. The two companies are there because the Abwehr has been observing a group of former SS and NSDAP members meeting at various location in and around the capitol of the Slovak Republic. Admiral Wilhelm Canaris the head of the Abwehr who believe these former SS and NSDAP members might attempt a coup has decided to arrest them and not wanting to use the Slovak Army or the Hlinka Guard who he feels might inform the former SS and NSDAP members he decides to use the Bataillon Brandenburg, the only elite special force unit allowed in Germany with the disbanding of the SS.
Captain Philippe François Marie de Hauteclocque ( also known as Leclerc de Hauteclocque in OTL ) is given new instructions to join the 2nd French Military Mission to Poland ( the first one was from 1918 to 1939 ).
Sitting behind his desk in the oval office, president Roosevelt was reading a analysis on the De Zeven Provinciën-class frigate of the Royal Netherlands Navy. This analysis which was written by the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) using information provided by United States Ambassador to the Netherlands, George A. Gordon who was given a tour of De Zeven Provinciën-class frigate, HNLMS De Zeven Provinciën on June 16th and the United States naval attaché to the Netherlands who used his contacts in the Royal Netherlands Navy. The ONI analysis which was only two pages long had several things written on it: the De Zeven Provinciën-class frigate while classified as a frigate by the Royal Netherlands Navy was almost the size and weight of a Omaha-class light cruiser, the frigate is able to detect objects up to 200 miles with their radar compared to the CXAM radar system entering service in the United States Navy which can detect objects up to 50 miles, the frigate has the capacity to fire what are called surface-to-air missiles which can hit air targets up to 80 miles away and are armed with a warhead enough to destroy a single aircraft in one hit, the frigate needs only a crew of 232 compared to the Omaha-class which needs 458. Reading this and more president Roosevelt knew that whatever that frigate came from and he had heard the rumors already , the United States of America had to know more about these ships that where in the possession of the Royal Netherlands Navy , thus he decided to give Director of Naval Intelligence Rear Adm. Walter S. Anderson instructions to find out everything about these new strange ships of the Royal Netherlands Navy and how to use the information gathered so far to improve the United states Navy.
July 1st 1940
In the Soviet Union the Shchuka class submarine SC-137 is launched.
French navy, Émile Bertin-light cruiser Émile Bertin carrying a treasure trove of research material the French Republic has received from the Netherlands arrives in the French Naval base of Toulon where several trucks are waiting to bring the research materials to locations where they can be dismantled and studied.
Director of Naval Intelligence Rear Adm. Walter S. Anderson after receiving instructions by president Roosevelt to find out more about the strange ships from the future in possession of the Royal Netherlands Navy decides to create the Netherlands Desk which primary mission is to find out everything about these ships and what they might have that will improve the United States Navy.
At the Vajnory air bases ( operated by the Slovak Air Force ) located near the village of Vajnory, close to the Slovak capital Bratislava the officers of the 1. Kompanie and 2. Kompanie of the Bataillon Brandenburg are briefed by agents of the Abwehr about what they might encounter when they begin their assault on several location which are used by former SS and NSDAP members. The operation which is slated to begin on July 2nd will see one of the two Brandenburg companies seal the area of, while the second makes the arrest which might turn into a firefight as it is speculated by the Abwehr that former SS soldiers are being assigned to protect the high ranking former SS and NSDAP members.
President Roosevelt sign another naval construction bill. This provides for the construction of 45 more ships and provides 550 million dollars (US) for this and for other projects.
July 2nd 1940
Magda" Goebbels wife of former Reich Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels who was arrested on charges of killing Adolf Hitler, Rudolf Hess , Herman Göring, Joachim von Ribbentrop and Heinrich Himmler on May 19th and attempting to stage a coup arrives with her six children in Rome, Italy as she feels that with the majority of the German population believing that her husband was behind the death of the beloved Führer, it is no longer safe for here to remain in Germany despite her wishes to remain and support her husband who is still under arrest at a undisclosed location waiting for his trail to begin.
In the early morning the 1. and 2. companies of the Bataillon Brandenburg begin their assignment in arresting several high ranking SS and NSDAP members. After the 1. Kompanie has cordon of the area where their targets are in the 2. Kompanie swoops in and surprising the former SS soldiers who were assigned to protect the high ranking former SS and NSDAP members and who were in most cases unable to put up a fight are arrested. By the end of the operation several former high SS and NSDAP members are arrested of which the biggest are Karl Hermann Frank ( former Secretary of State of the Reich Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia ) and Konrad Ernst Eduard Henlein (former Reichsstatthalter and Gauleiter of the Reichsgau Sudetenland ).
A Swedish delegation belonging to the company Svenska Aeroplan AB ( English: Swedish Aeroplane Company Limited ,SAAB) arrives in the Netherlands to visit the Fokker production line for the Fokker G.I twin-engine fighter planes which the Swedes bought the licenses right of and hope to produce as the SAAB 18 in Swedish service.
July 3rd 1940
A Netherlands transport ship departs the port of Harwich with onboard 24 Infantry Tank Mark IIs. The 24 Infantry Tank Mark IIs will join the already 48 Infantry Tank Mark IIs in use with the Lichte Divisie-Royal Netherlands Army, with another 24 to be delivered by the end of the year.
A Swedish Air Force officer part of the Swedish delegation visiting the Fokker production line for the Fokker G.I twin-engine fighter planes is invited to fly a Fokker T.IX twin-engine bomber prototype which the Swedish pilots accepts.
Reichspräsident (English: President of the Reich ) Dr. Carl Friedrich Goerdeler during a meeting with the Chief of the Abwehr (German intelligence) Admiral Canaris is informed that all former high SS and NSDAP members arrested the day before are being sent to Spandau Prison where they will kept isolated until their trails begins.
HMS Hood is send to Rosyth Shipyard for a major a refit which will place here out of commission for at least a year with where she will receive the flowing modifications: new internal machinery , rearranging and remodeled torpedo bulges and side armor, improvement of deck armor/protection over vital areas, removal of armored conning tower and the 5" side armor, new superstructure and masts fore and aft similar to that of the King George V-class, new funnels, addition of a catapult, dual hangars and Walrus seaplanes, improved antiaircraft (AAA) protection ,upgraded fire control and an extended forecastle deck.
July 4th 1940
The Netherlands transport ship which departed the port of Harwich 24 hours before arrives in the Port of Rotterdam with onboard 24 Infantry Tank Mark IIs. The Mark IIs who after having been unloaded will be transported to city of Amersfoort where they will form the 3rd tank squadron, Lichte Divisie, Royal Netherlands Army.
Former Prime Minister of France Pierre Laval while crossing the street in Paris is hit by a car and dies of the wounds cause not short after. The car drives on and is later found empty by the French police.
A batch of 12 pre-production AG-40 assault rifles (based on the AK-47) build by arms manufacturer, Artillerie Inrichtingen are handed over to the 1st Royal Netherlands 2nd (future) Marine Battalion) for evaluation and field testing.
The first Koolhoven F.K.58 single engine, interceptor-fighter aircraft is handed over to the Polish Air Force.
July 5th 1940
The Estonian Communist Party and several front organizations form the Estonian Working People’s League (Estonian: Eesti Tootava Rahva Liit).
Royal Danish Navy Niels Juel-class coastal defense ship HDMS Niels Juel and Herluf Trolle-class coastal defense ship HDMS Peder Skram depart Danish Naval Base Frederikshavn for the Faroe Islands where they will represent the handover of British control of the island to Danish control (the British occupation of the Faroe Islands began on April 12th 1940 and despite the 7 months war being over sins May 25th 1940 has not ended as the British wanted to be sure that there was no German present in Denmark itself before they would hand over control of the island back to the Danish government).
It was a day after the iPedia app installed on his iPad 6 had stopped working but the 10 days that he was able to read the iPedia app, Lavrentiy Beria chief of the Soviet security and secret police was able to start the Soviet atomic bomb project, begin the development of an assault rifle, establishing the Secretariat of Special Operations and many other things that would be useful for his new goal of ruling the Soviet Union.
July 6th 1940
Kārlis Reinholds Zariņš Ambassador and Consul General of Latvia in the United Kingdom and the de-facto head of the Latvia government in exile meets with German Ambassador to the United Kingdom Herbert von Dirksen.
Reichspräsident (English: President of the Reich) Dr. Carl Friedrich Goerdeler orders Minister of Justice, Franz Gürtner to begin the trail against Reinhard Heydrich and Joseph Goebbels.
United States Director of Naval Intelligence Rear Adm. Walter S. Anderson who instructed by president Roosevelt set up the Netherlands Intelligence Division not short after the his meeting with the president set one of his officers to meet with Igor Sikorsky, a man known for his work on helicopters and therefore the best person to make a analysis regarding the helicopters flying in the Neterlands.
The British Directorate of Tank Design which was asked to design the Tank, Cruiser, Chamberlain Mk I (based on the Centurion Main battle tank), armed with a Ordnance Quick-Firing 17-pounder (or just 17-pdr) by the British War Office using the research material handed over by the Netherlands gives Vauxhall Motors the contract to build a design mockup of the Chamberlain Mk I.
Generalmajor Erwin Rommel, commander of the German 7th Panzer Division having set up his command in the German Province of East Prussia (German: Provinz Ostpreußen) travels to Königsberg, capital of East Prussia where he meets with Generalleutnant Ferdinand Schaal who commands the 10th Panzer Division, together the 7th Panzer Division and the 10th Panzer Division are for now the two only two panzer divisions subordinated to Army Group North (German: 'Heeresgruppe Nord') who is under the command of Generaloberst Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb.
July 7th 1940
The Nederlandse Organisatie voor Toegepast Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek or TNO (Dutch Organization for Applied Scientific Research), a nonprofit company in the Netherlands established by law in 1932 to support companies and governments with innovative, practicable knowledge with the help of Research and Development Organization (Dutch: Onderzoek en Ontwikkeling Deinst, OOD) creates the TNO Defensie en Veiligheid (English: TNO Defence and Security).
Rachele Mussolini, wife of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini has a private meeting with Magda Goebbels wife of former Reich Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels.
The Swedish Government approves the request of Poland to have Orzeł-class submarine ORP Sęp and Wilk class submarines ORP Ryś and ORP Żbik currently interned by Sweden sins September 17th 1939 return to them.
Royal Danish Navy Niels Juel-class coastal defense ship HDMS Niels Juel and Herluf Trolle-class coastal defense ship HDMS Peder Skram arrive at Tórshavn, the capital and largest town of the Faroe Islands.
German Minister of Justice, Franz Gürtner begins his work on assembling a team of prosecutors and lawyers who have the job of prosecuting Reinhard Heydrich and Joseph Goebbels, two men that thanks to the now de-Goebbelfied Reichs Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda have been made the biggest monsters in the entire country for their role in the killing of Hitler and their attempted coup of May 19th 1940.
Sir Howard William Kennard who was from 1937 to the fall of Warsaw on September 28th 1939 the former Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Poland arrives back to city of Warsaw to resume his function as Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Poland.
July 8th 1940
Zuiderkruis-class support ship, HNLMS Zuiderkruis escorted by Holland-class offshore patrol vessel, HNLMS Holland and Flores-class gunboat HNLMS Flores (old Navy) depart Netherlands naval base of Den Helder where they will bring supplies for the Royal Netherlands 2nd (future) Marine Battalion) deployed out of the Netherland-Polish controlled city of Gdynia.
In the presences of Danish crown Prince Frederick who had flown onboard a Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor operated by Det Danske Luftfartselskab (English: Danish Air Lines) who landed on a hastily constructed airfield near the town of Sørvágur the British transfer control of the Faroe Islands to the Kingdom of Denmark.
In the Chancellery of the Prime Minister of Poland (Polish: Kancelaria Prezesa Rady Ministrów) located in Warsaw, Prime Minister Władysław Sikorski is informed by Commander-in-Chief Marshal Edward Rydz-Śmigły that the 10th Armored Cavalry Brigade who now fields some 51 tanks needs more and better tanks that until the Państwowe Zakłady Inżynieryjne (English: National Engineering Works) can restart production it is a good idea to ask the British or French to supply to donate some in order to bring the 10th Armored Cavalry Brigade up to full strength.
July 9th 1940
Igor Sikorsky was thrilled what he had seen in the past few days, the photos taken in the Netherlands of helicopters prove that his work on the VS-300 Helicopter was the right way to go, also the photos he had receive, gave him so many ideas that he did not know where to start in the first place. But first he had to write a detailed report for the Naval Intelligence Office who had supplied him with all the photos in information they had gathered before he could think of working on a new helicopter design he wanted to build.
Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Poland Sir Howard William Kennard having not yet been back in his function for more than two days in a meeting with Prime Minister Władysław Sikorski informs the prime minster that he will send the request for military hardware to the office of the British prime minster.
While Royal Danish Navy Niels Juel-class coastal defense ship HDMS Niels Juel while remain based out of Tórshavn, the capital and largest town of the Faroe Islands which is now back under Danish control, Herluf Trolle-class coastal defense ship HDMS Peder Skram carrying Danish crown Prince Frederick departs Tórshavn and begins it two day journey back to Danish Naval Base Frederikshavn.
July 10th 1940
Netherlands arms manufacturer, Artillerie Inrichtingen already created a prototype of the Pantservuist-1 (English: Armored Fist-1 or short PV-1) Bazooka begins work on development of the 2.54 cm Incendiary Rocket which will be fired by the PV-1.
Former British prime minster Chamberlain siting outside in the garden of the villa made available by the Netherlands government smiles after just been informed by the Royal Netherlands Navy doctors from 2017 that the treatment for his bowel cancer was working and that with good medication, diet end treatment he will be able to live for several more years. Having heard this good news Chamberlain decided that it is time to write his memories now that he is still able.
De Schelde and Rotterdamse Shipyards and the Polish Navy come to an agreement to have Orzeł-class submarine ORP Sęp still in Sweden to go back to De Schelde and Rotterdamse Shipyards where it will be given a large maintenance before completing her shakedown that due the German invasion of Poland was never completed.
Armed merchant cruiser RMS Corfu arrives at Belfast, United Kingdom for disarmed by Harland and Wolff Ltd, a Northern Irish heavy industrial company, specializing in shipbuilding. When RMS Corfu eight 6 inch and two 12 pounder guns have been removed she will be released to her owners to be reconditioned back into a Royal Mail Ship and ocean liner she was before she was requisitioned by the British Admiralty.
July 11th 1940
NKVD secret police troops raid a small farm house just outside the city of Dobromyl a former city of the Second Polish Republic but now part of the Drohobych Oblast, one of six oblasts (the other five are Lviv Oblast, Rivne Oblast, Stanislav (Ivano-Frankivsk) Oblast, Tarnopil (Ternopil) Oblast, and Volyn Oblast) established on the territory of West Ukraine following the 1939 Soviet invasion of Poland. The NKVD secret police in the raid execute seven residence of the house which was used by the Bureau of Information and Propaganda of the Headquarters of Związek Walki Zbrojnej (English: Union of Armed Struggle) as part of Operation Z (Polish: Związek Z, where "Z" comes from the Polish word " Związek," meaning " Soviet") resulting in a severe blow to the sabotage, subversion and black-propaganda activities being conducted in and around the city of Dobromyl.
Two Master-at-Arms (United States Navy equivalent to the United States Army Military Police) and one high ranking naval officer belonging to Naval Intelligence, Netherlands Intelligence Division arrive to pick in Igor Sikorsky office to pick up his report on the Netherlands helicopters, before they left the naval officer makes it clear to Igor Sikorsky that the report is top secret. When the three naval personnel are gone Igor Sikorsky thinks the report is top secret but I can still use what I have found out to build my next helicopter design.
The in the United States of America based Northrop Aircraft Incorporated is informed by the Royal Norwegian Ministry of Defense (Norwegian: Det kgl. Forsvarsdepartement) that the contract for the delivery of 24 Northrop N-3PB Nomad single-engine floatplane for use by the Royal Norwegian Navy Air Service (Marinens Flyvevesen) and can proceed and that the payment of 3,250,000 Norwegian krone (other 3,250,000 Norwegian krone where paid before the German invasion) will be made when the first Northrop N-3PB prototype has flown.
July 12th 1940
A delegation belonging to Supermarine, a British aircraft manufacturer famous for building the Supermarine Spitfire arrives in the Netherlands where they are to work with their Fokker counterparts in setting up an assembly line for the production of the Fokker D.XXIV (D24), the license version of the Spitfire.
Union of Armed Struggle commander General Michał Tokarzewski-Karaszewicz (in charge of areas under Soviet occupation) when attempting to cross the Polish-Soviet border at the San River in Jaroslaw on the way to Warsaw is spotted and in a fire fight with NKVD border guards is wounded and arrested.
In his office in the Reich Chancellery (German: Reichskanzlei) the most powerful person in the Third Reich, Reichspräsident (English: President of the Reich) Dr. Carl Friedrich Goerdeler looked at the drawing of a black-red-gold flag which where given him by Abwehr (German intelligence) officer colonel Oster who in turn got it from his friend the Netherlands military attaché in Berlin, major Sas several weeks ago and toughed as he had done several times before sins receiving the drawing if it was the right time to change the Nazi flag and replace it with the design he had in front of him or wait as Adolf Hitler was still considered by many people in the country a martyr and hero and changing a flag Hitler himself design would be a wrong thing to do as the new provisional government he was leading claimed to have acted to save Germany from those who killed Adolf Hitler. Looking at the flag drawing again he decided that it was not a matter that needed attention at once and that for now there were other presence matters he had to attend.
July 13th 1940
Four Netherlands technicians belonging to De Schelde and Rotterdamse Shipyards board a KLM DC-3 from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (Dutch: Luchthaven Schiphol) to Stockholm Bromma Airport where they then will travel to Orzeł-class submarine ORP Sęp so they can make here ready for her journey to the Netherlands.
At a small airfield located somewhere in the Ukrainian SSR, a wounded Polish general Michał Tokarzewski-Karaszewicz who was arrested by NKVD border guards when he attempted to cross into Polish territory is put into a waiting Soviet Air Force Lisunov PS-84 cargo/passenger utility aircraft for a flight to Moscow.
Zuiderkruis-class support ship, HNLMS Zuiderkruis escorted by Holland-class offshore patrol vessel, HNLMS Holland and Flores-class gunboat HNLMS Flores (old Navy) after a five day journey arrive at Gdynia Naval Base, the biggest and most important Polish naval base which at the moment is also the home of De Zeven Provinciën-class frigate HNLMS Evertsen and sloop HNLMS Johan Maurits van Nassau (old navy) who together with G-class destroyer ORP Garland (Loaned to Polish Navy from May 3rd 1940 onwards), Grom-class destroyer ORP Błyskawica, Wicher-class destroyer ORP Burza, Orzeł-class submarine ORP Orzeł and Wilk class submarine ORP Wilk patrol the Polish territorial waters and also show their presence in the Baltic Sea.
Four Koolhoven F.K.58 single engine, interceptor-fighter aircraft handed over to the Polish Air Force on July 4th 1940 by Koolhoven aircraft manufacturer (Dutch: Vliegtuigenfabriek Koolhoven) begin flying with the 1st 'Warsaw' Fighter Squadron who is already flying 18 French designed Bloch MB.152 fighters.
More than 500 Germans who are the last of the German military forces in Norway board the German hospital/transport ship Wilhelm Gustloff in Oslo harbor ending the German presence in Norway which began on April 6th 1940 when they invaded the Kingdom.
July 14th 1940
Captain Philippe François Marie de Hauteclocque (also known as Leclerc de Hauteclocque in OTL) arrives in the capital of the Polish Third Republic where he will join a dozen other French Army officers who are as part of the 2nd French Military Mission to Poland will be attached to the Polish General Staff.
Hub van Doorne, co-owner of Van Doorne's Automobielfabriek (Dutch: Van Doorne's vehicle factory) or short for DAF was a looking at a BvS 10 Armoured All-Terrain Vehicle that his company had receive for study and reverse engineering. This particle BvS 10 was one of sixty that was transported by the 2017 taskforce when they arrived in 1940 and now without many spare parts it would be difficulty to maintain them probably and such his company had been given the task to see if they could together with 2017 Netherlands Marine Corps personal be able to manufacturer the spare parts needed to keep the BvS 10s in service.
Wiceadmirał Józef Unrug, commander of the Polish Navy who was released by the Germans as part of their agreement to withdraw from Poland visit the 204 meter long and 27,800 tons weighing Zuiderkruis-class support ship, HNLMS Zuiderkruis which is laying anchored inside Gdynia Naval Base.
The captain of Kalev-class mine laying submarine ENS Lembit who submarine is interned (as guest of the German submarine service) in the German naval base of Kiel in absentia is sentenced to death by a People's Court in the Soviet Union for ordering and sinking the Soviet battleship Oktyabrskaya Revolutsiya and the death of 870 of here 1,149 sailors and officers during the Baltic War of June 24th 1940.
July 15th 1940
Candidates of the Estonian Working People’s League are approved by 92.8% of voters participating in the election for a new Chamber of Deputies. In Lithuania and Latvia the elections that where held where won by the Latvian Working People's League that won with 97.8% and the Union of the Working People of Lithuania that won with 99% of the votes.
Netherlands technicians belonging to De Schelde and Rotterdamse Shipyards after a two day inspection of Orzeł-class submarine ORP Sęp come to the conclusion that with minimal repairs to be conducted in Sweden the submarine will be able to travel to the Netherlands without much trouble.
In the Polish Third Republic capital of Warsaw, French Captain Philippe François Marie de who is part of the 2nd French Military Mission to Poland visit the Royal Netherlands Marine Corps 23rd infantry Company (future) who is deployed in the Polish Capitol as part of the Netherlands contribution to the British-French-Netherlands force or also know as the Poland Stabilization Force or PSF for short.
July 16th 1940
In the Baltic Sea the Polish Grom-class destroyers ORP Grom and Wicher-class destroyer ORP Burza together with De Zeven Provinciën-class frigate HNLMS Evertsen begin a two day naval exercise with Zuiderkruis-class support ship, HNLMS Zuiderkruis also taking part.
Southampton-class light cruiser HMS Glasgow and I-class destroyer HMS Imogen collide in heavy fog off Duncansby Head, North of Scotland. Imogen catches fire and is abandoned (17 killed, 133 rescued by HMS Glasgow), drifting 20 miles South before sinking. HMS Glasgow suffers a 6 foot gash above the water line (2 killed) and is forced to sail to Liverpool for repairs.
July 17th 1940
Preparations begin on Orzeł-class submarine ORP Sęp to have it towed to the Swedish shipbuilder Kockums MV A/B, Malmö, where the submarine will be given repairs in order for it to be allowed to haed safely to De Schelde and Rotterdamse Shipyards, Netherlands.
General of the Infantry (German: General der Infanterie) Alexander von Falkenhausen (who was Chiang Kai-Shek's military advisor from 1934 to 1937) in a conversation with his close friend Reichspräsident Dr. Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, request that Germany restarts its relations with China that where frozen when the previous German government under Hitler chose to have closer relation with Japan instead of with China.
July 18th 1940
During the "Democratic National Convention in Chicago: President Franklin D. Roosevelt is nominated for an unprecedented third term in office."
A day after a meeting with his friend General of the Infantry Alexander von Falkenhausen, Reichspräsident Dr. Carl Friedrich Goerdeler brings up the topic of restarting German-China relations with Minister of Foreign Affairs Ulrich von Hassell who suggest that it the current moment the main efforts has to be in restoring relations with their fellow European countries before they begin to focusing on China.
In the United States, the Vought-Sikorsky VS-300 single-engine helicopter designed by Igor Sikorsky and flown by him manages to stay 15-minute in the air while also staying practically stationary over one place during the entire time it is airborne. While this flight shows the VS-300 can remain airborne for more than 15 minutes, Igor Sikorsky knows that thanks to the pictures he has studied which showed the strange helicopters flying in the Netherlands that he has still plenty of work ahead of him, before his own helicopters will be able to achieve what those strange helicopters are rumored to be capable of doing.
Royal Navy County class heavy cruiser HMS Cumberland leaves Simonstown, near Cape Town, South Africa in order to rendezvous with the former German auxiliary cruiser Orion who departed Devonport Naval Base, Auckland, New Zeeland on June 21st 1940 and who will be escorted by HMS Cumberland true the Suez Canal.
Hardliner and very much anti-Roosevelt Yosuke Matsuoka is appointed to the role of Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs (外務大臣 Gaimu Daijin).
July 17th 1940
Preparations begin on Orzeł-class submarine ORP Sęp to have it towed to the Swedish shipbuilder Kockums MV A/B, Malmö, where the submarine will be given repairs in order for it to be allowed to haed safely to De Schelde and Rotterdamse Shipyards, Netherlands.
General of the Infantry (German: General der Infanterie) Alexander von Falkenhausen (who was Chiang Kai-Shek's military advisor from 1934 to 1937) in a conversation with his close friend Reichspräsident Dr. Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, request that Germany restarts its relations with China that where frozen when the previous German government under Hitler chose to have closer relation with Japan instead of with China.
July 18th 1940
During the "Democratic National Convention in Chicago: President Franklin D. Roosevelt is nominated for an unprecedented third term in office."
A day after a meeting with his friend General of the Infantry Alexander von Falkenhausen, Reichspräsident Dr. Carl Friedrich Goerdeler brings up the topic of restarting German-China relations with Minister of Foreign Affairs Ulrich von Hassell who suggest that it the current moment the main efforts has to be in restoring relations with their fellow European countries before they begin to focusing on China.
In the United States, the Vought-Sikorsky VS-300 single-engine helicopter designed by Igor Sikorsky and flown by him manages to stay 15-minute in the air while also staying practically stationary over one place during the entire time it is airborne. While this flight shows the VS-300 can remain airborne for more than 15 minutes, Igor Sikorsky knows that thanks to the pictures he has studied which showed the strange helicopters flying in the Netherlands that he has still plenty of work ahead of him, before his own helicopters will be able to achieve what those strange helicopters are rumored to be capable of doing.
Royal Navy County class heavy cruiser HMS Cumberland leaves Simonstown, near Cape Town, South Africa in order to rendezvous with the former German auxiliary cruiser Orion who departed Devonport Naval Base, Auckland, New Zeeland on June 21st 1940 and who will be escorted by HMS Cumberland true the Suez Canal.
Hardliner and very much anti-Roosevelt Yosuke Matsuoka is appointed to the role of Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs (外務大臣 Gaimu Daijin).
July 19th 1940
United State President Roosevelt signs the "Naval Expansion" or "Two-Ocean Navy Act" allowing for a massive extra 1,325,000 tons of warships, 100,000 tons of auxiliary shipping and 15,000 aircraft.
July 20th 1940
Equipped with the Bloch MB.152 fighters , the 2nd 'Kraków-Poznań' Fighter Squadron becomes the second Polish fighter squadron after the 1st 'Warsaw' Fighter Squadron to operate from Okęcie airport.
Royal Navy County class heavy cruiser HMS Cumberland rendezvous with the former German auxiliary cruiser Orion where it will escort Orion true the Suez Canal.
July 21st 1940
In a prison cell deep underneath the Lubyanka Building, headquarters of the NVKD the head of the feared Soviet security and secret police Lavrentiy Beria visit the imprisoned Polish General Michał Tokarzewski-Karaszewicz where Beria makes an offer to him, assist in destroying the Polish resistance in the Soviet Union ore face trail for crimes against the Soviet Union with the most likely outcome that he will be found guilty and executed. General Michał Tokarzewski-Karaszewicz weak and badly treated by his NVKD guards responds is simple, ‘’never in my life will i aid those who occupy my country’’.
The newly elected Chamber of Deputies proclaims the establishment of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic and declares its desire for membership in the Soviet Union. The Chamber declares all land in Estonia the property of the people in common and nationalizes all banks and large industrial enterprises. This is also happens in Latvia and Lithuania where their parliaments adopted resolutions to convert their states to Soviet Socialist Republics and to accept these newly established SSRs into the Soviet Union.
July 22th 1940
Deutsche Werke shipyard personal in Kiel, Germany begin work on dismantling aircraft carrier A (German: Flugzeugträger A) or also known as Graf Zeppelin which work was stopped less than a month ago by orders of the Oberkommando der Marine, the Supreme High Command of the German Navy now that there is no need for the carrier. Flugzeugträger B which is at Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft in Kiel will also be dismantled.
Netherlands ambassador to Latvia, de Decker together with other ambassadors after being summoned to the office of Minister-President of Latvia Augusts Kirhenšteins who was made Minister-President of Latvia after the country was invaded by the Soviet Union is informed that the newly established Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic (Latvian: Latvijas Padomju Sociālistiskā Republika) no longer needs any foreign ambassador and that they have one week to leave the country.
Southampton-class light cruiser HMS Glasgow which was damaged in a collision with I-class destroyer HMS Imogen on July 16th is taken in hand for repairs at Liverpool.
July 23rd 1940
Honorary consul in Kovno, Lithuania, Jan Zwartendijk who directs the Philips plants in Lithuania during a phone conversation with Netherlands ambassador to Latvia, de Decker and also his superior is informed by de Decker that with the forceful closing of the Netherlands embassy in Latvia by the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic, Zwartendijk will be made unofficial representative of the Netherlands to both Latvia and Lithuania for as long as he remains in the country.
Royal Netherlands Navy O 12-class submarines HNLMS O 14 and HNLMS O 15 who departed the Caribbean (Netherlands West Indies) on June 28th 1940 arrive at naval base Den Helder.
At Blohm & Voss Shipyard in Hamburg, the battleship Bismarck, first of her class undergoes an inclining test (a test performed on a ship to determine its stability, lightship weight and the coordinates of its center of gravity).
July 24th 1940
Type IID U-boat U-139 is commissioned with the German Kriegsmarine with Kapitänleutnant Robert Bartels in command. With the commissioning of U-139 only one Type IID U-boat remains to be commissioned and that is U-140 due the Oberkommando der Marine, the Supreme High Command of the German Navy having decided to stop any production of the Type IID U-boat.
Zuiderkruis-class support ship, HNLMS Zuiderkruis having spent 11 days at Gdynia Naval Base,Poland of which 2 days where she took part in a joint Polish-Netherlands navy exercise begins its 5 day journey back to the Netherlands escorted by Holland-class offshore patrol vessel, HNLMS Holland and sloop HNLMS Johan Maurits van Nassau (old navy), who is relieved by Flores-class gunboat HNLMS Flores (old Navy).
Admiral Hipper-class heavy cruiser KMS Admiral Hipper departs Kiel naval base together with Scharnhorst-class battleships KMS Scharnhorst and her sister ship KMS Gneisenau for the Baltic Sea where they will conduct naval exercises.
July 25th 1940
United States President Roosevelt orders a partial trade embargo on aviation fuel, lubricants and high-grade scrap metal to Japan.
Now former Netherlands ambassador to Latvia, de Decker boards a Swedish Aerotransport (A.B.A.) Douglas DC-3 which will fly him to Stockholm, Sweden where he will then board a KLM flight to Amsterdam.
French Ambassador to Poland Léon Noël meets with Polish Prime Minister Władysław Sikorski where he informs the prime minster that the French government is willing to transfer large amount of military hardware to the Polish Third Republic.
Van Kinsbergen-class sloop HNLMS Van Kinsbergen departs Aruba for a visit to Suriname.
July 26th 1940
The Danish Government signs a order for 24 Supermarine Spitfire to be bought from Supermarine in order to replace the 12 destroyed Fokker D.XXI single-engine fighters (destroyed by the Luftwaffe during the invasion of Denmark) and to strengthen the Hærens Flyvertropper (English: Danish Army Air Corps).
The French Republic and the United Kingdom come to an agreement to increase military shipments over the Burma Road which is used to transport supplies to the Chinese National Revolutionary Army who are fighting the against the Imperial Japanese Army in China.
In Iran the Shah's police squad unexpectedly arrived at the residence of opposition politician Mohammad Mossadegh, searching and ransacking his house. Although no incriminating evidence against him was found, he arrested by the police and taken to the central prison in Tehran nonetheless.
Reichspräsident (English: President of the Reich) Dr. Carl Friedrich Goerdeler speaking true a Funk-Stunde microphone set up at the Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft (English: State Broadcasting Company, RRG) informs the German people that the a tomb for the slain Fuhrer Adolf Hitler will be constructed in Berlin and who will be designed by the Albert Speer.
July 27th 1940
With work on the Type IID U-boat having stopped with only one yet to enter into service with the German Kriegsmarine, the Type VIIB U-boat U-73 is launched at Bremer Vulkan in Bremen. The Type VIIB production unlike the Type IID has not yet been halted with at least 12 of her class yet to enter into service bringing the total U-boat fleet in service to at least 107 as of this date.
Deutschland-class heavy cruiser KMS Admiral Scheer who sins February 1st 1940 was in dry dock at the Kriegsmarinewerft Wilhelmshaven where she received modifications like having a new, raked clipper bow fitted, here heavy command tower replaced with a lighter structure, additional anti-aircraft guns also installed is re-commissioned with the Kriegsmarine.
July 28th 1940
The first D.XXI-6, a upgraded Fokker D.XXI single-engine fighter of which the Royal Netherlands Army Aviation Brigade has ordered an additional 36 is flown. (The Royal Netherlands Army Aviation Brigade already operates 36 Fokker D.XXI single-engine fighters).
The Czechoslovak National Liberation Committee (or informally known as the Provisional Government of Czechoslovakia) under the leadership of former Czechoslovak President, Edvard Beneš is invited by the West Polish Government to relocate their committee and the 1st Czechoslovak Division (a understrength force made up of infantry regiments, with a combined strength of 5,000 men) that is still deployed in France to Warsaw.
Norwegian Crown Prince Olav visit Sleipner-class destroyer HNoMS Odin which is after being re-commissioned into the Royal Norwegian Navy on June 11th was sent to the Royal Norwegian Navy's shipyard at Karljohansvern, Horten for repairs (HNoMS Tor sister ship of HNoMS Odin was also raised and is being worked on at the Royal Norwegian Navy's shipyard together with HNoMS Balder, two others, HNoMS Sleipner and HNoMS Gyller are in service with only one, HNoMS Æger being too badly damaged and is slated to be scrapped).
July 29th 1940
Reichspräsident (English: President of the Reich) Dr. Carl Friedrich Goerdele meets with Großadmiral (English: Grand Admiral) Raeder, Commander-in-Chief (German: Oberbefehlshaber der Marine) of the Kriegsmarine where they discuss the future of the Kriegsmarine and where they come to the conclusion that the focus of the Kriegsmarine is not the Royal Navy anymore but from now on the Soviet Navy operating in the Baltic Sea, Norwegian Sea and the Barents Sea.
By royal decree, the Regiment Huzaren Prins Bernhard is raised at the cavalerieschool in Apeldoorn. The regiment which will remain part of the Lichte Divisie, Royal Netherlands Army will see the 1st tank squadron, 2nd tank squadron and 3rd tank squadrons (each equipped with 24 Infantry Tank Mark IIs) who were until today operated separately being combined into one regiment.
July 30th 1940
A Fairey Swordfish torpedo bomber biplane operated by 812 Naval Air Squadron of the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm collides with another Swordfish south of North Coates during an exercise killing all four pilots of the two Swordfishes.
HMS Hood in dock at Rosyth Shipyard where she sins July 3rd is undergoing a major refit is visited by First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill and Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound.
July 31st 1940
Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal, Revenge-class battleship HMS Resolution, Queen Elizabeth-class battleship HMS Valiant and escort arrive at the French Navy (French: Marine Nationale) base at Mers-el-Kébi for a port visit.
August 1st 1940
The Empire of Japan Japan’s Foreign Minister Matsuoka Yōsuke in a press interview announced the government’s policy to build a so-called “Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere.” The term Greater East Asia implies that in addition to the core region of Japan, Manchukuo, and China, the sphere is to include Southeast Asia, Eastern Siberia, and possibly the outer regions of Australia, India, and the Pacific Islands.
British Duke Edward and duchess Wallis set sail from Lisbon, Portugal, to assume the governorship of the Bahamas in the West Indies.
August 2nd 1940
Fokker delivers the first of 5 ordered Fokker T.VIII-W/C twin-engined torpedo-bomber and reconnaissance floatplanes to the Finnish Air Force(The delivery of the 5 Fokker T.VIII-W/Cs was delayed due the Seven Months War, the Soviet blockade of the three Baltic nations and later the Baltic War).
The British government signs an agreement with the Polish government to deliver a still to be determined number of light tanks to augment the 10th Armored Cavalry Brigade, the only Polish tank brigade currently being fielded by the Polish Army.
August 3rd 1940
The second batch of 12 pre-production AG-40 assault rifles designated as the AG-40 Model I by Artillerie Inrichtingen, the company in charge of producing arms and ammunition for the Royal Netherlands Army is handed over to the 1st Royal Netherlands future) Marine Battalion) for evaluation and field testing (The AG-40 Model I are handmade versions of the AG-40 which itself is a copy of the AK-47, the AG-40 Model II the follow up of the AG-40 Model I will be made in larger numbers).
August 4th 1940
Rear Admiral Willem de Fries Commander of the Navy in the Netherlands (Dutch: Commandant Zeestrijdkrachten in Nederland) meets with Admiral G.C. Dickens, the British naval attaché in The Hague to disuse the British naval participation in the Baltics as only the Netherlands has ships deployed out of West Poland as part of its contribution to the Poland Stabilization Force or PSF for short.
August 5th 1940
In Amersfoort at the Bernhard barracks, also home of the Regiment Huzaren Prins Bernhard, the 3rd Armoured Car Squadron - 3e E. Paw is raised, this armored car squadron will take over 10 M.39 Landsverk armored cars from the Depot Squadron Armoured Cars.
Armored car squadrons of the Royal Netherlands Army
The 1st Armoured Car Squadron - 1e E. Paw is equipped with 12 M.36 Landsverk armored cars and is garrisoned in Den Bosch, in the Isabelle barracks.
The 2nd Armoured Car Squadron - 2e E. Paw is equipped with 12 M.38 Landsverk armored cars and is garrisoned in Amersfoort, in the Bernhard barracks.
The 3rd Armoured Car Squadron - 3e E. Paw is equipped with 12 M.39 Landsverk armored cars and is garrisoned in Amersfoort, in the Bernhard barracks.
The Depot Squadron Armoured Cars is equipped with 2 M.39 Landsverk armored cars and 5 Vickers-Carden-Loyd tankettes and is garrisoned in Amersfoort, in the Bernhard barracks.
First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill having been informed by the Admiral G.C. Dickens, the British naval attaché in The Hague that the Netherlands is not happy that there are no British warships operating in the Baltics orders Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound to send as soon as possible one or more ships to the Baltic in a show that they are committed to the defense of its allies.
August 6th 1940
The Supreme Soviet accepts Estonia as the 16th republic of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
British prime minster Halifax approves the proposal of Minister of Shipping Ronald Cross to have all ships belonging to the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania currently in British ports to be seized.
August 7th 1940
The Supreme Soviet accepts Latvia as the 17th and Lithuania as the 18th republics of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics a day after Estonia was already made part of the Soviet Union.
August 8th 1940
Fokker delivers the second of five ordered Fokker T.VIII-W/C twin-engine torpedo-bomber and reconnaissance floatplanes to the Finnish Air Force.
During a ceremony at the Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft, Kiel the third member of the Admiral Hipper-class heavy cruiser KMS Prinz Eugen is commissioned which was also attended by Reichspräsident (English: President of the Reich) Dr. Carl Friedrich Goerdele, Commanders-in-Chief (German: Oberbefehlshaber der Marine) of the Kriegsmarine Großadmiral Raeder and the Regent of Hungary, Admiral Miklós Horthy (he commanded the battleship SMS Prinz Eugen from November 24th 1917 to March 1st 1918).
August 9th 1940
The Soviet Union closes down all of the Philips plants in Lithuania and informs all of its foreign employers, including Jan Zwartendijk who directs all Philips plants in Lithuania that they are no longer needed and therefore are requested to leave the Soviet Union.
Java-class light cruiser HNLMS Sumatra (Dutch: Hr.Ms. Sumatra) departs naval base Den Helder for the Netherlands East Indies where she will join her sister ship HNLMS Java, De Ruyter-class light cruiser HNLMS De Ruyter (Dutch: Hr.Ms. De Ruyter), Tromp-class light cruiser HNLMS Tromp (Dutch: Hr.Ms. Tromp) and seven Admiralen-class destroyers who are operating out of the Netherlands East Indies.
August 10th 1940
The Polish government reestablish Polskie Linie Lotnicze LOT S.A, an airline which before the German invasion of Poland was the flag carrier of the country.
Elli-class protected cruiser HHMS Elli takes part in the celebrations of the Feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos while at anchor near the island of Tinos (in OTL she was sunk by a Italian submarine on this date).
Sir Donald Somervell, Attorney General for England and Wales informs British prime minster Halifax that he thinks that Norman Baillie-Stewart a former British army officer who is known as one of the persons associated with the nickname Lord Haw-Haw in prison sins June 20th 1940 cannot successfully be tried on charges of high treason, committed by taking German citizenship in March 1940 and instead has decided to try him on the lesser charge of "committing an act likely to assist the enemy" during the Seven Months War.
August 11th 1940
The Oberkommando der Marine, the Supreme High Command of the German Navy makes the decision to have Grampus-class mine-laying submarine HMS Seal, return to the Royal Navy as a symbolic gesture to their British counterparts. HMS Seal which was the only British submarine they captured at sea during the Seven Months War had a crew of 57 officers and sailors of HMS Seal which a couple of days after the signing of the Peace Treaty of Brussels where sent onboard a train which brought them to neutral Belgium where they were later picked up by the Royal Navy.
A Category 2 hurricane struck the Georgia and South Carolina coast in the United States of Americas killing fifty people.
August 12th 1940
The headquarters of the 1st Czechoslovak Division (under the control of the Czechoslovak National Liberation Committee ore informally known as the Provisional Government of Czechoslovakia) arrives in the West Polish city of Kraków, the closet major city near German occupied Czechoslovakia and the German puppet state of the Slovak Republic. While the 1st Czechoslovak Division is setting up shop in Kraków, the Czechoslovak National Liberation Committee under the leadership of former Czechoslovak President, Edvard Beneš who accepted the invitation by the West Polish Government to relocate their committee and the 1st Czechoslovak Division begin to arrive in the capitol of the Polish Third Republic.
August 13th 1940
The first O 21-class submarine, HNLMS O 21 is commissioned with the Royal Netherlands Navy with three more of here class (O 22, O 23 and O 24) expected to be commissioned by the end of 1940 and with four more to be commissioned in 1941.
A Royal Australia Air force (RAAF) Lockheed Hudson A16-97, crashed in hilly country about eight miles from Canberra killing four crew, three members of the Australian Cabinet (Minister for the Army and Repatriation Brigadier Geoffrey Austin Street, Minister for Air and Civil Aviation James Valentine Fairbairn and Vice-President of the Executive Council and Minister in charge of Scientific and Industrial Research Sir Henry Somer Gullett) and the Chief of the General Staff General Sir Cyril Brudenell Bingham White.
Jan van Amstel-class minesweepers HNLMS Willem van Ewijck, HNLMS Abraham van der Hulst and HNLMS Pieter Florisz begin sweeping the minefield designated "Schulpengat Buiten " which was laid by the minelayer HNLMS Willem van der Zaan on September 3rd 1939 but now that there is no need for minefields and to prevent any ship from being harmed the Royal Netherlands Navy has decided to remove all minefields that where laid in the period of the Seven Months War.
August 14th 1940
The Netherlands tugboat named Zwarte Zee the strongest tugboat in the world and own by L. Smit & Co`s Internationale departs Den Helder with an assignment to tow Orzeł-class submarine ORP Sęp still in Sweden to De Schelde and Rotterdamse Shipyards, Netherlands.
Former Czechoslovak President Edvard Beneš now leader of the Czechoslovak National Liberation Committee (or informally known as the Provisional Government of Czechoslovakia) arrives in the Polish Third Republic capital of Warsaw and meets in the Chancellery of the Prime Minister of Poland (Polish: Kancelaria Prezesa Rady Ministrów) Prime Minister Władysław where they discuss the reestablishment of Czechoslovakia-Poland relations who began when thy where invited by the West Polish Government to relocate their committee and the 1st Czechoslovak Division on July 28th 1940.
August 15th 1940
British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC), the British state-owned airline transfer two Lockheed Model 14 Super Electra to the reestablish Polskie Linie Lotnicze LOT S.
Leader of the Czechoslovak National Liberation Committee Edvard Beneš visit the headquarters of the 1st Czechoslovak Division in the West Polish city of Kraków.
Royal Air Force No. 54 Squadron based at RAF Hornchurch becomes the first squadron to receive the Supermarine Spitfire Mk II (the Mk II and the yet to produce Mk III are going the last of the early Merlin-powered variants with the Spitfire Mk V who was previous known as the Spitfire GM V being the first Spitfire to be designed using knowledge obtain from the Netherlands Research and Development Organization (Dutch: Onderzoek en Ontwikkeling Deinst).
Soviet Army Colonel Pavel Batitsky and Chief of Staff of Soviet military advisers at the headquarters of Chiang Kai-shek dies of a heart attack at age 30 (in an alternate future Pavel Batitsky would be chosen to execute Lavrenty Beria).
August 16th 1940
The Royal Hungarian Army (Hungarian: Magyar Királyi Honvédség) orders another batch of twenty Toldi I 38M light tanks bringing the total ordered Toldi I to 62.
Lavrentiy Beria chief of the Soviet security and secret police smiled when he again toughed about the unknown Soviet Colonel Pavel Batitsky who the previous day at age 30 had died of a heart attack, it was not hard to make it look like a heart attack, thanks to the iPedia app installed on his iPad 6 (iPedia app no longer works but the iPad 6 works fine) he managed to find about his future and when he read who was to shoot hem he of course had to take care of it. Lucky for Beria this opponent of him was a low raking officer somewhere in China who could be easy deal with, other however who might be high ranking he had to be careful with, but thanks to the knowledge he now possess, Beria knew that would not be a problem for him.
Generaloberst and the Chief of the Oberkommando der Luftwaffe (OKL) General Staff Generaloberst Hans Jeschonnek who with the death of Reichsmarschall Herman Göring on May 18th 1940 is the new supreme commander of the Luftwaffe during a meeting with Reichspräsident (English: President of the Reich) Dr. Carl Friedrich Goerdele have a discussion about who should become the new Minister of Aviation (German: Reichsluftfahrtministerium, RLM), after some debate the come to the conclusion that Generaloberst Erhard Milch should become the new Minister of Aviation.
The first transport ship carrying some of the 15,830 soldiers and officers belonging to the Polish 2nd Rifle Division (Polish: 2 Dywizja Strzelców Pieszych ), formerly part of the now disbanded Polish Army in France arrives in the port of at Gdynia Naval Base, Poland.
August 17th 1940
The 3rd 'Dęblin' Fighter Squadron and 4th 'Łódź' Fighter Squadron are activated at the Krosno Airport located near the town of Krosno. The two fighter squadron each operate 9 Bloch MB.152 fighters with the ultimate goal to supplement their numbers with additional Koolhoven F.K.58 fighters.
In the United states, the former Democrat Wendell Willkie, delivered his formal acceptance speech as the Republican nominee for president from his home in Elwood, Indiana.
The Duke of Windsor is sworn in as governor-general of Bermuda.
200 Czechoslovaks (they were part of the Czechoslovak Legion in the then Polish Second Republic) interned by the Romanians at Jarmolinka on September 19th 1939 when they crossed into Romania are released and sent over the border to Polish Third Republic where they are welcomed by several officers of the 1st Czechoslovak Division.
August 18th 1940
Admiral G.C. Dickens, the British naval attaché in The Hague informs Chief of Naval Staff Admiral J.Th. Furstner that Leander-class light cruiser HMS Ajax has been nominated for service In the Baltics. Admiral J.Th. Furstner tells then that the Germans might be offended if HMS Ajax would serve in the Baltics in which Admiral G.C. Dickens responds, that was the reasons why First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill chose HMS Ajax in the first place.
Jan Nowak-Jeziorański, a representative of Polish Prime Minister Władysław arrives in Helsinki where he is to convey a message from Prime Minister Władysław to Chief of Defence of the Finnish Defence Forces Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim about setting up a defense cooperation between them in face of increasing hostile both countries are facing with the Soviet Union.
The keel of the Cleveland-class Light Cruiser USS Columbia is laid down by New York Shipbuilding Corporation in Camden, New Jersey, United States.
Netherlands tugboat named Zwarte Zee arrives in the Swedish shipbuilder owned and operated Kockums MV A/B shipyard in Malmö.
August 19th 1940
German Minister of Justice, Franz Gürtner makes it public true a radio message that the trail of Reinhard Heydrich and Joseph Goebbels will begin on September 8th 1940 at a secure location somewhere in Germany (the location is not mention in order to prevent Heydrich and Goebbels from being rescued by their sympathizers and to prevent them from disclosing the fact that they are simple scapegoats who were blamed for the death of Adolf Hitler).
A meeting between United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King in Heuvelton near Ogdensburg, New York where President Franklin D. Roosevelt discuss the creation of a joint North America defense board who role it is provide policy-level consultation on bilateral defense matters. Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King however informs Roosevelt that he has to reject the creation of a joint North America defense board at this moment.
The Chinese city of Chongqing is bomb by fifty four G3M2 Type 96 bombers escorting by twelve A6M2 Model 11 Zero fighters which is the first combat mission of the Zero fighter.
50 Renault R35 light tanks who were part of batch of a hundred ordered before April 1939 by Poland fifty (the first 50 had arrived in Poland in July 1939 but the majority of them where destroyed during the German invasion of Poland) arrive at Gdynia Naval Base as part of the agreement made by the French government on July 25th 1940 to rebuild the Polish army by supplying them with the needed military hardware. The Renault R35 light tanks will be assigned to the 10th Armored Cavalry Brigade which at this moment operates two armored regiments (the 1st Polish armored regiment and the 2nd Polish armored regiment) who together operate 12 Renault FT light tanks, 24 Hotchkiss H35 light tanks, 10 7TP light tanks, 18 TK (TK-3) tankettes and 4 Panzer III Ausf. D medium tanks.
As tension with Venezuela rises to an all-time high, the Netherlands parliament authorizes the sending of naval assets to the islands of Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao to safe guard those islands.
November 14th 2017 to May 1st 1940
When the Royal Netherlands Navy Taskforce consisting of De Zeven Provinciën class frigates HNLMS De Zeven Provinciën (flagship), HNLMS Evertsen, Zuiderkruis class support ship HNLMS Zuiderkruis , Karel Doorman (M) class frigate HNLMS Van Amstel ,Amphibious Transport Ships HNLMS Rotterdam , HNLMS Johan de Witt ,Holland class Offshore Patrol Vessels, HNLMS Holland and HNLMS Friesland are about to depart Naval base Den Helder under the command of Rear Admiral Willem de Fries and can begin their journey to deliver the 1st and 2nd Marine Battalions to the islands of Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao and to patrol the islands territorial waters which are being violated repeatedly by the Venezuela Navy since the start of the increasing tensions between the Netherlands and Venezuela a strange light engulfs the Taskforce which is gathered in Naval base Den Helder. Before anybody can react the light disappears and where once was the modern naval base which they were laying in a moment ago is change into a naval base only known in old pictures.
May 2nd 1940
A day after the Royal Netherlands Navy Taskforce was transported from Naval base Den Helder in the year 2017 to 1940 confusion still was great among the Taskforce and the now 1940s Royal Netherlands Navy who now played host to eight Royal Netherlands Navy ships from 78 years in the future. Taskforce commander Rear Admiral Willem de Fries who after contact was made a day earlier with his 1940s counterparts was spending most of his time talking with the Chief of Naval Staff Admiral J.Th. Furstner, Prime Minster Dirk Jan de Geer, Minster of War and Navy, Adriaan Dijxhoorn and even with Queen Wilhelmina where he talks about the strange light that brought the Taskforce almost 78 years into the past and about the German invasion of the Netherlands which is about to begin eight days ( May 10th ) from now.
May 4th 1940
Three days after the arrival of the Taskforce from the future the Netherlands government asks Rear Admiral Willem de Fries to assume the position of Commander of the navy in the Netherlands due his knowledge about the future events and his commanding the most advance navy in the world. Rear Admiral Willem de Fries agrees to the request, but informs both the Prime Minster and the Minster of War and Navy that he will command the Navy his way or no way, knowing that they have no choice they accept his request. Knowing that time is not on their side Rear Admiral Willem de Fries orders the following thing things happen (1) on the outbreak of war the Amphibious Transport Ships HNLMS Rotterdam, HNLMS Johan de Witt and Zuiderkruis class support ship HNLMS Zuiderkruis will depart towards the United Kingdom carrying the 1st and 2nd Marine Battalion as he believes that they are more useful if the remain intact (2) HNLMS Holland to be assigned the role of flagship of the Ijsselmeer squadron which will consist of Z-class torpedo boats HNLMS Z-3 and Z-5 , Brinio class gunboats HNLMS Brinio and HNLMS Friso (3) HNLMS Friesland be assigned the role of flagship of the North Sea Squadron which consist of Flores class sloop, HNLMS Flores and sloop HNLMS Johan Maurits van Nassau ( 4) preparations to be made to bring as much warships men and supplies to safely , this includes floating all ships under construction or destroying them if that is not possible (5) to establish contact with the British and to coordinate matters related to the defense of the country (6) .
May 6th 1940
Contact is establishing with the British who are informed about the arrival of the Royal Netherlands Navy Taskforce of the future which at first is thought of as a joke. This changes when Admiral G.C. Dickens, the British naval attaché in The Hague is invited onboard De Zeven Provinciën class frigates HNLMS De Zeven Provinciën now flagship of the entire royal Netherlands Navy where he meets with Rear Admiral Willem de Fries Commander of the Navy in the Netherlands and during their meeting both admirals discuss about issues rating from the new ships to cooperation between the Royal Netherlands Navy and the British Royal Navy.
May 7th 1940
Java-class cruiser HNLMS Sumatra escorted by Karel Doorman (M) class frigate HNLMS Van Amstel out on sea on neutrality patrol are spotted by two German Luftwaffe planes who take picture of both of them. As the Netherlands is not yet at war with Germany the two warships are forced to let the two Luftwaffe planes fly over them.
The Royal Netherlands Army outer defenses are put on full alert and the main defense lines the second highest alert.
May 9th 1940
Commander-in-Chief of the Netherlands armed forces General Winkelman agrees to the idea of Commander of the Navy in the Netherlands Rear Admiral Willem de Fries to designate one infantry regiment for boarding amphibious transport ships HNLMS Rotterdam and HNLMS Johan de Witt when the go to the United Kingdom when war breaks out (the infantry regiment will be used to form the core of a Netherlands Army in exile together with the 1st and 2nd Marine Battalions).
From Royal Netherlands Army Aviation Brigade, Gilze-Rijen air field a General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle takes off for its firs mission (the Royal Netherlands Army in 2015 bought four MQ-9 Reapers of which two where onboard Zuiderkruis class support ship HNLMS Zuiderkruis).
Admiral G.C. Dickens, the British naval attaché in The Hague informs Rear Admiral Willem de Fries Commander of the Navy that the 2nd Irish Guards Battalion and the 2nd Welsh Guards Battalion are being made ready for departure to the Netherlands and that the British Expeditionary Force already in France is moving towards the border of Belgium and Luxemburg as provided by the information supplied by Rear Admiral Willem de Fries during their meeting on May 6th.
North Sea Squadron consisting of Holland class Offshore Patrol Vessel HNLMS Friesland (flagship) and Flores class sloop, HNLMS Flores and sloop HNLMS Johan Maurits van Nassau during a neutrality patrol of the coast of the small West Frisian Island of Rottumeroog is intercepted by the K-Class cruiser KMS Köln who flows the three vessels of the North Sea Squadron for a half hour before suddenly heading back to German territorial waters.
May 10th 1940
What should be the day that Germany should attack the Netherlands and begin their invasion, turns into a day with nothing happening. This worries Rear Admiral Willem de Fries Commander of the Navy from his new office at the Ministry of Defence in The Hague and he decides to send one of his two MQ-9 Reapers based at Royal Netherlands Army Aviation Brigade, Gilze-Rijen air field to fly over assembly points in Germany who were known to be used by the German Army for the intended invasion of the Netherlands.
Colonel Hans Oster, an Abwehr (German intelligence) officer passes along information to his friend, the Netherlands military attaché in Berlin Major Gijsbertus J. Sas that the invasion of the Netherlands, Belgium, France and Luxemburg has been put on hold by Adolf Hitler mostly due the presence of the Netherlands Taskforce which he finds worrying.
The 3rd (Provisional) Marine Battalion is form in Rotterdam and consists of some 450 marines who are station in barracks in the city of Rotterdam. The 3rd (Provisional) Marine Battalion is augmented with 120 Marines from the Taskforce own 1st and 2nd Marine Battalions.
May 11th 1940
Commander-in-Chief of the Netherlands armed forces General Winkelman using the information supplied by both aerial flights over Germany by the MQ-9 Reapers and information passed by sources inside Germany instructs that the field army units belonging to the Royal Netherlands Army may allowed to grant urgent leave requests again, something that was suspended on May 7th when the Royal Netherlands Army was placed on full alert.
Anton Mussert leader of the National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands is shot to death by an unknown assassin outside his home in The Hague.
May 12th 1940
First Lord of the Admiralty and a member of the British War Cabinet Winston Churchill after arriving for a secret meeting with Admiral G.C. Dickens, the British naval attaché in The Hague, Rear Admiral Willem de Fries Commander of the Navy and Chief of Naval Staff Admiral J.Th. Furstner in The Hague is offered a ride in one of the two NH90: Tactical Transport Helicopters station onboard Zuiderkruis class support ship HNLMS Zuiderkruis , an offer he accepts without question ( as the invasion of the low counties and France has not happen , Neville Chamberlain still clings onto power unlike in OTL where the invasion of low counties and France was the last blow to his position as prime minster and he was forced to resign on May 10th ).
May 13th 1940
Twelve days since the arrival of Netherlands Taskforce from the future the Cabinet-De Geer II (formed in 1939) falls due information provided by the Taskforce that prime minster Dirk Jan de Geer might be a future traitor and deserter and such the members of the Cabinet-De Geer II removes their trust in his ability for leading the Netherlands in these hard times.
May 14th 1940
Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy is ask by Queen Wilhemina who after having discuss it with Rear Admiral Willem de Fries to form a national unity government (hence forth known as Cabinet-Gerbrandy I) with him as prime minster (Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy was appointed prime minster of the government in exile in OTL and such Queen Wilhemina who was briefed by Rear Admiral Willem de Fries considers him the best choice to lead a government of national unity in this difficult time).
May 15th 1940
The Cabinet-Gerbrandy I announces that the threat from Germany is too great to ignore and instead of waiting for Germany to invade the Netherlands and knowing what information they have received from the Taskforce from the future, they have informed the German ambassador to the Netherlands that from this day onwards the Kingdom of the Netherlands is at war with the Third Reich.
Commander-in-Chief of the Netherlands armed forces General Winkelman, under orders from the government, orders that army units belonging to the Royal Netherlands Army based in the provinces of Friesland, Groningen Drenthe, South Holland and Limburg are put on high alert.
Rear Admiral Willem de Fries Commander of the Navy authorities the Reaper detachment based out of the Royal Netherlands Army Aviation Brigade, Gilze-Rijen air field to arm the two MQ-9 Reapers for combat missions over Germany (The MQ-9 Reapers can carry AGM-114 Hellfire air to ground missiles, GBU-12 Paveway II laser-guided bombs ore AIM-92 Stinger air-to-air missile ).
Escorted by British Destroyers HMS Whitshed, HMS Vesper, HMS Malcolm and light cruiser HMS Calcutta, two transport ships carrying the 2nd Irish Guards Battalion and the 2nd Welsh Guards Battalion begin their journey toward the Netherlands.
May 16th 1940
British Royal Air Force aircraft are permitted to enter Netherlands airspace but warned not to venture above naval base Den Helder airspace as it is considered a free fire zone due it being protected by De Zeven Provinciën class frigates HNLMS De Zeven Provinciën, HNLMS Evertsen, and Karel Doorman (M) class frigate HNLMS Van Amstel while not on patrol.
Hitler in front of the Reichstag in a speech declares war on the Netherlands who he considers are being manipulating by the Anglo-French onto declaring war on the peaceful country of Germany.
The Netherland East and West Indies and Netherlands Guiana formally declare the existence of a state of war with the Third Reich.
The National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands (NSB) is declared to be an illegal movement by the Netherlands government due it being a threat to the security of the Netherlands.
May 17th 1940
The Cabinet-Gerbrandy I despite not wanting to hurt the local tourism business were forced to shut down the Ouwehands Zoo located on a hill near the town of Rhenen orders it to close down the sightseeing tower, as it can be used as a place for enemy agents to survey the local defense which are part of the Grebbe Line (The government has been briefed by Rear Admiral Willem de Fries Commander of the Navy who told them that the local lookout tower part of the zoo was used by German officers in civilian clothes to survey the local defenses in the previous months and as a result the government who believes that the defense of the country is more important has ordered that that section of the zoo was to be closed until futher notice).
The 2nd Irish Guards Battalion and the 2nd Welsh Guards Battalion arrive in the port town of Ijmuiden together with their destroyer and cruiser escort. Both British battalions will remain in the port town until they have unloaded everything onboard the transport ships before they will board trains that will bring them to the Grebbe Line and Peel-Raam Line where they will take position alongside the 4th infantry division of the Royal Netherlands Army.
The 5th Battalion, the Loyal Regiment and 1st Battalion, the Royal Norfolk Regiment depart the United Kingdom onboard transports ships for their journey towards the Netherlands where they are planning to join the 2nd Irish Guards Battalion and the 2nd Welsh Guards Battalion at the Grebbe Line and Peel-Raam Line.
Karel Doorman (M) class frigate HNLMS Van Amstel rendezvous at the Hook of Holland with the light cruiser HMS Calcutta who is to escort the frigate towards Portsmouth where it will unload some research material for British scientists to study (the research material includes items like four Mark 46 torpedoes, some Diemaco C8A1 5.56 mm carbines, Diemaco C7 LSW light machineguns, Glock 17 pistols, FN MAG general purpose machineguns and even a Land Rover Defender parked on the helideck of the frigate).
Rear Admiral Willem de Fries Commander of the Navy after long consideration decides that the 1st and 2nd Marine Battalions who have until now been mostly been waiting onboard amphibious transport ships HNLMS Rotterdam and HNLMS Johan de Witt are to be deployed in and around the city of Den Helder while some elements of the 1st and 2nd Marine Battalions who were not already assigned to the 3rd (Provisional) Marine Battalion are moved to where they are needed.
May 18th 1940
A British-French Army delegation including General Lord Gort, (commander of the British Expeditionary Force in France) and French general Maurice Gamelin (Supreme Commander of all French armed forces) visit Den Helder where a small exposition of military hardware from the future is being shown (some items being shown to the British-French Army delegation are: Stingers surface to air missile, Gill anti-tank missile, Panzerfaust 3 anti-tank weapons, M107 anti-materiel sniper rifles, FN MAG general purpose machineguns and even a BVS10 armored all-terrain personnel carrier and a Fennek light armored reconnaissance vehicle ).
First Lord of the Admiralty and a member of the British War Cabinet Winston Churchill arrive for his second and now public visit to the Netherlands to discuss matters of importance with Rear Admiral Willem de Fries Commander of the Navy and to visit the 2nd Irish Guards Battalion and the 2nd Welsh Guards Battalion who are now arriving at their positions at the Grebbe Line and Peel-Raam Line.
The Marine Air Defense battery equipped with each four Fennek Stinger Weapon Platforms is deployed in and around the Netherlands capital of Den Hague (The Marine Air Defense battery was establishing in 2014 to provide mobile air defense for the Royal Netherlands Marine corps and had four Fennek Stinger Weapon Platforms onboard the Zuiderkruis class support ship HNLMS Zuiderkruis).
Somewhere in a park in Berlin, colonel Oster, an Abwehr (German intelligence) officer meets with his friend; the Netherlands military attaché in Berlin ,major Sas where he passes the information that Adolf Hitler will arrive at the Führer headquarter of Felsennest (Rock Nest) near the village Rodert on May 19th where he will have meeting with Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess , Reichsmarschall Herman Göring, Reich Minister for Foreign Affairs Joachim von Ribbentrop and Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler , when major Sas ask his friend if this mean that the invasion of the low country’s and France is to begin shortly then , colonel Oster responds yes. After the meeting major Sas back at the Netherlands embassy transmit his report to the Ministry of Defense in The Hague where it is quickly sent to Rear Admiral Willem de Fries who after reading colonel Oster report comes to the conclusion that the opportunity to kill many Nazis in one blow has come much easier than he anticipated and begins working on a plan that might prevent more lives from being lost ( in OTL Adolf Hitler did meet with high ranking Nazi officials at Felsennest before the beginning of the invasion of the low country’s and France on May 10th 1940).
May 19th 1940
Decapitation strike
Flying several kilometers up in the air two MQ-9 Reapers unnoticed by the naked eye fly over the small complex which makes up Führer headquarter Felsennest, only receiving encrypted radio messages from their operators back at Gilze-Rijen air field when absolute necessary.
Carrying each four GBU-39 guided bombs (1) the two Reapers monitor any movement in and around the small German bunker complex and after several hours (Reapers can fly for more than 14 hours fully loaded) over their target they notice a large vehicle convoy arriving at the bunker complex, this arrival triggers the two AIs of the Reapers (2) to activate both their targeting devices that will guide the GBU-39s onto target.
When the large vehicle convoy has stopped near a small bunker located in the center and people beginning to enter it the two Reapers receive permission to drop their payloads on and around the bunker. A couple of minutes after having received the permission the first Reaper drops its four GBU-39s followed seconds later by the other Reaper who also drops its four GBU-39s.
Dropping at a high speed the three GBU-39s penetrate the bunker while the other five GBU-39s hit the ground around detonating and killing everybody inside and outside the bunker ,staying high in the sky the two Reapers after their strike continue to observe what now has turned into chaos on the ground as personal not effected by the blast try to cope what just happened.
1- The GBU-39 Small Diameter Bomb (SDB) is a 113 kg guided bomb which has a warhead of 23 kg able to penetrate some 3 feet of steel reinforced concrete, the Zuiderkruis class support ship HNLMS Zuiderkruis was not only carrying GBU-39s intended for a Royal Netherlands Air Force squadron operating F-35 Lightning IIs from the island of Aruba but also GBU-12 PAVEWAY II laser-guided bombs both who can be fired from the MQ-9 Reaper.
2 - American MQ-9 Reapers began flying with AIs as its operatizing system instead of being controlled by human operators in 2016, this new AI system makes it possible for human operators to only have to observe and control only when needed. In 2017 the four Netherlands Reapers where upgraded with the AI system just before they were to send onboard Zuiderkruis class support ship HNLMS Zuiderkruis to the island of Aruba.
Business as usual or is it
While in Germany events are playing around that will change history, Karel Doorman (M) class frigate HNLMS Van Amstel and here escort the light cruiser HMS Calcutta arrive in the British naval base of Southampton where it will unload here research material and afterwards is going to play host to many high ranking British naval officers who are eager to see a warship from 78 years into the future.
The 5th Battalion, the Loyal Regiment and 1st Battalion, the Royal Norfolk Regiment onboard their transport ships arrive at the port town of Ijmuiden where they begin unloading unaware that they might never see action in the Netherlands.
Late in the evening at the Ministry of Defense in The Hague, Rear Admiral Willem de Fries who watching out of the window of his office reflects that eighteen days ago he and more than 2,500 of his brave sailors and marines were transported 78 years into the past by a blinding flash of light. But that is no longer important; they are here to stay and have to make the best of it, now only the event earlier in the day maters which if all turns out well might have saved the Netherlands from destruction that’s if he can get answers to two questions, did Hitler survive the Reaper strike on the bunker which the admiral finds highly unlikely as nothing much of the bunker was left standing and who is going to assume the leadership of Germany with Hitler death.
May 20th 1940
A day after the attack that changed history in Europe a group called the Council for a Democratic Germany (Rat für ein demokratisches Deutschland (CDG) quickly formed after hearing that Hitler was killed by an allied air strike (something they manage to conceal) in order of restoring democracy in Germany launched an internal coup d'état and except facing some resistance by SS units and the Reich Main Security Office under the leadership of its director, SS-Obergruppen führer Reinhard Heydrich who were stopped by Heer units operated by falsified orders issued (1) which showed that Reinhard Heydrich working together with Joseph Goebbels where responsible for the death of Adolf Hitler, Rudolf Hess , Herman Göring, Joachim von Ribbentrop and Heinrich Himmler ( the Council for a Democratic Germany consist of Generaloberst Ludwig Beck, General Halder (Chief of Staff of the Army High Command), Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, Carl Goerdeler, Admiral Wilhelm Canaris (Chief of the Abwehr ) , Colonel Hans Oster (deputy head of Abwehr ), Generalmajor Henning von Tresckow (general staff officer of Army Group A ) and Erwin von Witzleben ( commander of the 1st Army ).
(1) The falsified orders simply called the May 20th order was issued by General Halder (Chief of Staff of the Army High Command) and which are:
I. The Führer Adolf Hitler is dead by the hands of an unscrupulous clique of SS and party leaders who seek to seize power for their own selfish purposes.
II. In this hour of highest danger, the government of the Reich has declared a state of military emergency for the maintenance of law and order and at the same time has transferred the executive power, with the supreme command of the Wehrmacht, to me.
III. Acting under my function as Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces I have transfer the executive power to a group of loyal Germans who will govern the Third Reich in these difficult times and who have control over:
a) All section and units of the Wehrmacht, including the Waffen-SS, RAD and the OT, within their area of command;
b) All public authorities (of the Reich, Germany, the states and the municipalities), especially the entire law enforcement police, security police and administrative police;
c) All office bearers and subdivisions of the NSDAP and those of its affiliated associations;
d) The transportation services and public utilities
IV. The holders of executive power are responsible for the maintenance of order and public security. They especially have to ensure:
a) The protection of communication.
b) The elimination of the SD (Security Service).
c) The arrest of SA, SS, NSDAP, RSHA and Gestapo personal that refuse to comply with orders issued by the executive power.
d) Any opposition against the military power of enforcement is to be broken ruthlessly.
And thus in this hour of highest danger for the Fatherland, unity of the Wehrmacht and the maintenance of full discipline is the uppermost requirement.
That is why I make it the duty of all commanders of the Heer (army), Kriegsmarine (navy) and the Luftwaffe (air force) to support the holders of executive power to carry out their difficult task with all means at their disposal and to guarantee the compliance of their directives by the subordinate sections. The German soldier stands before a historical task. It will depend on his energy and attitude whether the Third Reich will overcome these difficult times.
May 21st 1940
Two days after the Council for a Democratic Germany (Rat für ein demokratisches Deutschland (CDG) had seized control of the Third Reich its members began working on a way to end the war which Adolf Hitler had started when he ordered the invasion of Poland on September 1st 1939, after some discussion they decided to send a letter which would be delivered by the German ambassador to Switzerland to his British counterpart and in it would read that Germany wants to end the war and that they want to discuss terms in a city of the allies (British, French, Polish, Norwegians and the Netherlands) choosing.
Karel Doorman (M) class frigate HNLMS Van Amstel after having spent two days of playing host to many high ranking British naval officers in the British naval base of Southampton begins its two day journey back to the Netherlands naval base of Den Helder (some of the high ranking British naval officers are Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound and Third Sea Lord and Controllers of the Navy Vice-Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser while First Lord of the Admiralty and a member of the British War Cabinet Winston Churchill and King George VI visit the frigate on its first day in the British naval base of Southampton).
Flying high above Germany one of the two (now part of the Royal Netherlands Army Aviation Brigade) MQ-9 Reapers armed with eight AGM-114 Hellfire air to ground missiles and four AIM-92 Stinger air-to-air missiles ready to engage when needed begins to find that many of the German staging places to be used for the intended invasion of the low country’s and France are empty or showing no abnormal activity at all indicating that the new Junta controlling Germany has not planned an invasion of for the low country’s ore France at this moment.
May 22nd 1940
The letter written by the Council for a Democratic Germany is presented by the German ambassador to Switzerland to his counterpart in the British embassy in Geneva who after the German ambassador has left quickly phones the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Lord Halifax to inform him about his meeting and the context of the letter he was given. After the call with the British ambassador has concluded Lord Halifax traveled to 10 Downing Street to discuss the peace letter with Prime minster Neville Chamberlain. After a hour of discussing the peace letter the prime minster orders Lord Halifax to contact his British, French, Polish, Norwegians and Netherlands counterparts and to inform them of the letter before any action will be taken.
Admiral Canaris (Chief of the Abwehr and member of the Council for a Democratic Germany) informs Dr. Carl Friedrich Goerdeler who was chosen as the chairman of the Council for a Democratic Germany and thus unofficially the head of state of the Third Reich that all personal of the Gestapo, SD and RSHA who were given a choice to join the Abwehr have done so and the few that have not (most come from the SD) have been taken care of. Admiral Canaris also informs Dr. Goerdeler that according to his sources that all the nations who are at war with Germany have received the peace letter from the British and that in a couple of days according to his estimates they will either respond positivity to the letter or ignore it completely.
The Marine Air Defense battery (four Fennek Stinger Weapon Platforms) which was deployed in and around the Netherlands capital of Den Hague stands down as the treat of German invasion has decreased to a level that Commander-in-Chief of the Netherlands armed forces General Winkelman feels that the presence of the Marine Air Defense battery is no longer necessary.
Three days after colonel Oster, an Abwehr (German intelligence) officer had passed information regarding Adolf Hitler visit to the Führer headquarter Felsennest which lead to his death in the Reaper strike to his friend; the Netherlands military attaché in Berlin, major Sas the two meet again in public bar where colonel Oster asked his friend if the Netherlands was behind the killing of Adolf Hitler as it happen a day after he gave the information to him in which the major replies if I knew I would not tell you as you would not believe me at all.
May 24th 1940
With several high ranking British and French naval officers onboard De Zeven Provinciën class frigate HNLMS Evertsen launches one of its 32 SM-2 Medium Range Block IVA surface-to-air missiles against a remotely controlled Fokker D.XVII biplane which took off from the Royal Netherlands Army Aviation Brigade 3rd Regiment (Training, Support and Depots) airfield located on the island of Texel and after only a minute of flight the SM-2 Medium Range Block IVA surface-to-air missile hits the remotely controlled Fokker D.XVII biplane which explodes in a spectacular result and with it end the sea to air demonstration for the high ranking British and French naval officers ( the Fokker D.XVII biplane was already considered obsolete by the Royal Netherlands Army Aviation Brigade and thus could be modified by a engineers and mechanics from the 2017 Taskforce into a the remotely controlled aircraft to be used for this demonstration ).
After two weeks of training which began on May 7th the 4th (Provisional) Marine Battalion is form in Rotterdam and consists of some 600 recruits which where already undergoing training at the time of the arrival of the Netherlands 2017 taskforce on May 1st and who were given training by instructors from the 1st and 2nd Marine Battalions ( the 3rd (Provisional) Marine Battalion and 4th (Provisional) Marine Battalion are not yet regular marine battalions which will take time and until they have reach the standards of training of the 1st and 2nd ( future ) Marine Battalions they will remain (Provisional) Marine Battalions ).
The soldier and officers of the British Royal Army 2nd Irish Guards Battalion (part of the 20th Independent Infantry Brigade which is made up of the 2nd Irish Guards Battalion, 5th Battalion, the Loyal Regiment , 1st Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment and the 2nd Welsh Guards Battalion ) which is deployed at alongside the Royal Netherlands Army 4th infantry division ( 8th Infantry Regiment, 11th Infantry Regiment , 19th Infantry Regiment and 8th Artillery Regiment ) and the 2nd ( future ) Marine Battalion at the Grebbe Line and Peel-Raam Line are given the change to ride in one of the eight Bushmaster Protected Mobility Vehicles ore one of several ( Sixty total ) BVS10 armored all-terrain personnel carriers which where onboard the Taskforce when it arrived from the future.
With the second day of the ceasefire in effect between Germany and the British, French, Polish, Norwegians and Netherlands telephones continue to ring across Europe as the last details for a meeting between the six nations is being made. In the late evening an agreement is made with the Belgian government offering to be the neutral place for all six head of states to come to a peace agreement as the Belgians have too much to lose if the war resumes as they remember 1914 all too well (The peace meeting will be held on May 25th in the Belgian capitol of Brussels).
May 25th 1940
At the Royal Palace of Brussels home of the Belgain king Leopold III the head of states of the six nations at war (Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain of the United Kingdom, Prime Minister Paul Reynaud of France, Prime Minister of the Polish Government in Exile Władysław Sikorski , Prime Prime Minister of Norway Johan Nygaardsvold , Prime Minister Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy of the Netherlands and representing the Provisional Government of Germany , the chairman of the Council for a Democratic Germany and unofficially the head of state of the Third Reich Dr. Carl Friedrich Goerdeler ) meet where the four nations head of states give only four demands to Dr. Carl Friedrich Goerdeler which are : German forces must leave Norway ,Denmark and Poland by the end of July , Germany must allow the Permanent Court of International Justice located in The Hague, Netherlands to investigated and if needed prosecute any Germans who are involved in crimes against humanity , the total dismantling of the Nazi regime which includes banning the NSDAP and last but not lease that Germany will have free and fair election held before the end of 1940. Dr. Carl Friedrich Goerdeler who hearing the four demands informs his four counterparts that Germany will agree except that Germany will not leave West Poland as long as the Soviet Union occupies East Poland as he fears that the Soviet Union will invaded the remainder of Poland when Germany leaves and in the worst case scenario will continue by invading Germany. Hearing this Rear Admiral Willem de Fries who is special advisor to the peace talks for the allies offers a solution, to have a British-French-Netherlands force deployed in west Poland alongside he Polish armed forces which in effect create a failsafe in case the Soviet Union invades West Poland and that the all three nations will put pressure on the Soviet Union to give back East Poland to the polish people. Hearing this Dr. Carl Friedrich Goerdeler knowing that any Soviet attack against west Poland with a British-French-Netherlands presence will mean war agrees and after several hours of more discussion the six head of states sign the Peace Treaty of Brussels ending the seventh month long Great European War which began on September 1st 1939 and ended on May 25th 1940.
May 26th 1940
A day after the signing of the Peace Treaty of Brussels the prime minster of the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin tells Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov that he must inform the British and French ambassadors that the Soviet Union will not hand over any former Polish territory the Soviet Union annexed in 1939 as it is now part of the Soviet Union and to inform them that their country’s upcoming presences in West Poland will worsen the relations between the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom and the French Republic which are already at a all time low due the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939 ( the Netherlands does not have a embassy in the Soviet Union since the October Revolution of 1917 and the execution of tsar Nicolas II and his family resulted in a breach in the diplomatic relations between the two countries).
Reichskommissariat für die besetzten norwegischen Gebiete ("Reich Commissariat for the Occupied Norwegian Territories") which is governed by Reichskommissar (Reich Commissar) Josef Terboven and General Franz Böhme Commander of German military forces in Norway meet with General Claude Auchinleck Commander of the Anglo-French ground forces in Norway and Commander-in-chief of the Royal Norwegian Armed Forces Otto Ruge who inform them that as under the agreement of the Peace Treaty of Brussels all 100,000 German troops have to be out of German occupied Norway by the end of July , and that all French-British-Polish-Norwegians forces present in Norway will not intervene with the German withdrawal.
Rear Admiral Willem de Fries Commander of the Navy in the Netherlands orders his command staff (most come from the Taskforce from 2017) to begin planning the Netherlands contribution to the upcoming British-French-Netherlands force which will be deployed in West Poland in order to support the returning Polish government and to prevent the Soviet Union from invading West Poland now the Germans under the Peace Treaty of Brussels will withdraw and hand back the Polish territory they invaded on September 1st 1939 back to a Polish people.
The Reichsbevollmächtigter Cecil von Renthe-Fink is ask by Prime Minister of Denmark Thorvald Stauning that while the kingdom of Denmark did not sign the Peace Treaty of Brussels due the Germans before the death of Adolf Hitler on May 19th 1940 made it clear that they would respect Danish sovereignty and territorial integrity and such the country was never at war with Germany despite having surrender to Germany after they had invaded Denmark on April 9th 1940 they request that all German forces depart the country at the soonest opportunity. When Reichsbevollmächtigter informs the prime minster that the Provisional Government of Germany has requested him to ask if Denmark will allow German troops coming back Norway to pass through the country, the prime minster agrees but only if the Germans follow pre select routes which will be guarded by the Royal Danish Army and monitored by British and French officials who will observe that Germany withdraws its forces as agreed under the Peace Treaty of Brussels.
May 27th 1940
The Provisional Government of Germany governed by the Council for a Democratic Germany (Rat für ein demokratisches Deutschland) publish their official list of some of the minsters who will govern the Third Reich until the first free and fair election since 1932 can be held, some of the people on this list are: President of Germany (Regent/Reichsverweser) and chairman of the Council for a Democratic Germany: Dr. Carl Friedrich Goerdeler , Reichs Chancellor Ludwig Beck ,Vice-Reichs Chancellor Wilhelm Leuschner , Secretary of State Ulrich Wilhelm Graf von Schwerin von Schwanenfeld , State Secretary to the Chancellor Count Peter Yorck von Wartenburg , Minister of Foreign Affairs: Ulrich von Hassell and Minister of Interior: Ludwig Schwamb.
The first British units belonging to the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in France begin embarking transport ships for their journey back towards the United Kingdom now that the BEF presence in the French Republic is no longer required.
A British and French naval officer are assigned by their governments to act as what is called by Rear Admiral Willem de Fries Commander of the Navy in the Netherlands the Polish Planning Staff which is working on the Netherlands contribution to the upcoming British-French-Netherlands force which will be deployed in West Poland.
The IJsselmeer squadron (consisting of Holland class Offshore Patrol Vessel HNLMS Holland, Z-class torpedo boats HNLMS Z-3 and Z-5, Brinio class gunboats HNLMS Brinio and HNLMS Friso ) and the North Sea Squadron (consisting of Holland class Offshore Patrol Vessel HNLMS Friesland, HNLMS Flores and sloop HNLMS Johan Maurits van Nassau ) are disbanded.
May 28th 1940
The Netherlands government orders 36 Fokker D.XXI single-engine fighters who will join the already 36 Fokker D.XXIs already in uses with the Royal Netherlands Army Aviation Brigade.
The Royal Netherlands 2nd (future) Marine Battalion previous deployed at the Grebbe Line and Peel-Raam Line is ordered back to Netherlands naval base of Den Helder where it will prepare as the main Netherlands contribution to the upcoming British-French-Netherlands force which will be deployed in West Poland.
As agreed under the Peace Treaty of Brussels the first German military forces previous deployed in Norway arrive by ferry in the Danish town of Hirtshals where observed by British and French officials and escorted by the Royal Danish Army they will move through Denmark to Germany.
May 29th 1940
Holland class Offshore Patrol Vessel, HNLMS Friesland departs Naval base Den Helder to begin a two week patrol in the North Sea.
A Netherlands inspection team belonging to the Royal Netherlands Army arrives in the United Kingdom to inspect 24 of a total 96 Infantry Tank Mark IIs which are to be shipped to the Netherlands. The 24 Infantry Tank Mark IIs are part of a payment of research material belonging to the 2017 Taskforce which the United Kingdom received who in return paid the Netherlands with military hardware both in order to strengthen the Royal Neterlands Army and in the hopes that they will receive more research material.
The Royal British Army 5th Battalion, the Loyal Regiment part of the 20th Independent Infantry Brigade previous deployed at the Grebbe Line and Peel-Raam Line begins boarding transport ships which will take them back to the United Kingdom.
May 30th 1940
The GVH (GVH is short for Groep Helicpoters) is establish at Maritiem Vliegkamp De Kooy (Dutch: Maritime Aviation Site De Kooy) and will be the home base for the nine helicopters (five NH90: Frigate Helicopters and four NH90: Tactical Transport Helicopters) which were part of the 2017 Taskforce.
The British-French-Netherlands force which is to be sent to West Poland in order to support the returning Polish government and to prevent the Soviet Union from invading West Poland is renamed as the Poland Stabilization Force or PSF for short.
May 31st 1940
The first meeting between United States Ambassador to the Netherlands, George A. Gordon and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Eelco Nicolaas van Kleffens happens. During their one hour meeting the Minister conforms the rumors that a Taskforce from the future arrived almost twenty-nine days ago and a that the Netherlands in the upcoming weeks is planning to send one or two naval ships who were formally part of the 2017 Taskforce towards the Netherlands East Indies to bolster the Royal Netherlands Navy presence there.
Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain of the United Kingdom informs Prime Minister of the Polish Government in Exile Władysław Sikorski that the British and French governments have decided that there will be a referendum held in the Free City of Danzig which will have two choices which are to become a independent country ore to become part of Germany ore Poland.
A Netherlands transport ship departs the port of Harwich with onboard 24 Infantry Tank Mark IIs who will form the 1st tank squadron, Lichte Divisie -Royal Netherlands Army.
June 1st 1940
A Royal Netherlands Army Aviation Brigade, MQ-9 Reapers unmanned aerial vehicle flying over the North Sea spots the Scharnhorst class battleships, KMS Gneisenau and KMS Scharnhorst and their escort leaving Naval Base Wilhelmshaven.
German Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ulrich von Hassell, member of the Provisional Government of Germany and the Council for a Democratic Germany (Rat für ein demokratisches Deutschland) is given a letter signed by Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain of the United Kingdom and Prime Minister Paul Reynaud of France that a referendum will be held in the Free City of Danzig to decide its future.
The Netherlands transport ship with onboard 24 Infantry Tank Mark IIs arrives in the port of Rotterdam where it will unload it cargo who will then be transported to the city of Amersfoort where also the Depot Squadron Armored Cars is located and where the 1st tank squadron, Lichte Divisie will be formed as the training tank squadron for the Royal Netherlands Army.
June 2nd 1940
Lieutenant general H.A.C. Fabius head of the Generale Staf sectie III or for short GS III (GS III is the main central intelligence agency and is divided into three sections which are: GS IIIA-foreign intelligence, GS IIIB-internal intelligence and GS IIIC-counter espionage) has his first meeting with the newest section head who is to run GS IIID-future intelligence and who was an naval officer in Rear Admiral Willem de Fries general staff onboard the De Zeven Provinciën class frigate, HNLMS De Zeven Provinciën where he represented the Military Intelligence and Security Service of the Netherlands.
June 3rd 1940
Holland class Offshore Patrol Vessel, HNLMS Friesland rendezvous with a British taskforce made up of aircraft carriers, HMS Ark Royal, HMS Glorious and their escort who are patrolling the coast of Norway.
French Army, Colonel Charles de Gaulle is made military attaché attached to the French embassy in the Netherlands. This is mostly due Prime Minister Paul Reynaud of France having heard what the future of this colonel was to be and as a result has given him a new post somewhere out of France but still important enough that Colonel de Gaulle is not going to complain too much to those who want to listen to him.
The Polish 10th Armored Cavalry Brigade begins boarding several transports ships in the French port of Le Harve who will bring them to the Netherlands Naval base Den Helder where they will join the Free Polish Navy (destroyers ORP Błyskawica, ORP Grom, and ORP Burza) and the Royal British and Netherlands Navy’s who together with the Royal Netherlands 2nd (future) Marine Battalion (onboard the Amphibious Transport Ship, HNLMS Rotterdam) will then head towards the German occupied Polish city of Gdynia where the2nd (future) Marine Battalion will establish the first presence of the British-French-Netherlands force ( Poland Stabilization Force) in the Polish Republic while the Polish 10th Armored Cavalry Brigade will move towards Warsaw to establish the first polish armed presence in the country sins the fall of Poland on October 6th 1939.
June 4th 1940
The Polish underground army or also known as the Union of Armed Struggle commanders Stefan Rowecki ( in charge of areas under German occupation ) and General Michał Tokarzewski-Karaszewicz ( in charge of areas under Soviet occupation ) meet in a undisclosed location somewhere in German occupied Poland where they meet with a staff member of Prime Minister of the Polish Government in Exile Władysław Sikorski who informs them that the Polish Government in Exile wants them to focus their attention towards freeing Eastern Poland from the Soviets and that all armed resistance in West Poland will stop as the Germans are beginning their redraw back into Germany.
June 5th 1940
Netherlands Prime Minister Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy signs the order for the Royal Netherlands Navy to end any design work on Project 1047 (a class of Dutch battlecruisers).
The Netherlands-Polish-British taskforce carrying the Royal Netherlands 2nd (future) Marine Battalion and the Polish 10th Armored Cavalry Brigade depart the Netherlands Naval base Den Helder for the German occupied Polish city of Gdynia where it will form the first presence of the British-French-Netherlands force (Poland Stabilization Force) in the Polish Republic.
June 6th 1940
Generale Staf sectie IIID- future intelligence (part of GS III, the main Netherlands central intelligence agency) head lieutenant commander Klaus Molen meets with Major General Sir Stewart Graham Menzies head of MI6 (British Secret Intelligence Service) in London where the they discuss ways to improve corporation between the two countries, in this meeting lieutenant commander Klaus Molen also brief Major General Sir Stewart Graham Menzies regarding the Cambridge Four.
Holland class Offshore Patrol Vessel, HNLMS Friesland which is still patrolling the coast of Norway together with the British taskforce made up of aircraft carriers, HMS Ark Royal, HMS Glorious and their escort rescues using its NH90: Frigate Helicopter two British pilot flying a Blackburn Skua dive bomber /fighter who due a malfunction where unable to land on HMS Ark Royal and forced to ditch their plane in the ice cold waters.
A British transport ship departs the port of Harwich with onboard 24 Infantry Tank Mark IIs, the second shipment of Infantry Tank Mark IIs which are to be shipped to the Netherlands.
June 7th1940
President Antanas Smetona of Lithuania meets with Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov in the Lithuania capital of Vilnius where President Antanas Smetona informs foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov that the Soviet-Lithuanian Mutual Assistance Treaty is now outdated now the treat of attack by Germany with its change in government is no longer there and that he hopes that the 20,000 Soviet soldiers station in the country can be reduced to a symbolic level, he also assurances that Lithuania will continue to honored the mutual assistance pact ( he knows what will happen if he breaks that ) In responds foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov informs President Antanas Smetona that he will inform prime minster of the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin about the Lithuania request of reducing the Soviet troop presence in the country.
King Haakon VII of Norway, Crown Prince Olav flying onboard a British RAF transport plane from the city of Tromsø back to Oslo which he was forced
to leave on April 9th 1940.
The British transport ship with onboard the second batch of 24 Infantry Tank Mark IIs arrives in the port of Rotterdam where it unloads it cargo. After the tanks have been unloaded they will be transported to the city of Amersfoort where they will form the 2nd tank squadron, Lichte Divisie , Royal Netherlands Army.
June 8th 1940
Prime minster of the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin informs Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov who has flown back to Moscow after his meeting with President Smetona in the Lithuania capital that the Soviet Union has no intention to reduce the troop level in Lithuania and that if Lithuania is not carful in what it says or does he even might decide to invade the country as he considers the request by President Smetona a direct violation of the mutual assistance pact which states that the Soviet Union can station up to 20,000 of their troops in the country.
The French Foreign Legion, 13th Foreign Legion Demi-Brigade and the Polish Independent Highland Brigade who with the Germans are leaving Norway as agreed under the Peace Treaty of Brussels and who are still garrisoned at the Norwegian city of Narvik begins boarding British transport ships who will take them towards the German occupied Polish city of Gdynia where they after having disembarked will move to the city of Poznań where they will be based out of.
The second Fokker T.IX twin-engine bomber prototype takes off for its first test flight from Schiphol. The T.IX is designed and built by Fokker for the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army Air Force as a replacement for their obsolete Martin-built bombers and the Royal Netherlands Army Aviation Brigade who sees it as a replacement for 16 Fokker T.V twin-engine bombers currently in service with the Royal Netherlands Army Aviation Brigade.
June 9th 1940
Major General Sir Stewart Graham Menzies head of MI6 (British Secret Intelligence Service) orders his staff to begin an investigation into the possibility that the information provided by the Generale Staf sectie IIID- future intelligence concurring Kim Philby, Donald Duart Maclean, Guy Burgess and Anthony Blunt or also know as the Cambridge Four could be Soviet spies.
New Orleans-class heavy cruiser USS Vincennes and destroyers Truxtun-class destroyer USS Truxton and Clemson-class destroyer USS Simpson arrive at the French naval base of Toulon for a friendly port call.
Two day after his meeting with the Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov the president of Lithuania meets in secret with President of Estonia Konstantin Päts and President of Latvia Kārlis Ulmanis in the Estonia capital of Tallinn where they discuss the Soviet Union presences in their countries (25,000 Soviet soldiers in Estonia, 30,000 in Latvia and 20,000 in Lithuania) where they came to the conclusion that the only way to keep their countries independent is to get help from the French and United kingdom , during their talks they also disuse the idea of creating a Baltic military alliance in order to stand united against any possible Soviet invasion of their countries.
Holland class Offshore Patrol Vessel, HNLMS Friesland arrives in the recently liberated Norwegian capitol of Oslo for a port call.
June 10th 1940
American President Franklin Roosevelt gives a speech at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia. In the speech he says that the United States will support the forces of freedom in Europe when needed and urges the Soviet Union to return the Polish territory they sized in 1939 back to the Polish Republic.
The Holland class Offshore Patrol Vessel, HNLMS Friesland which is laying in the Oslo is visited by the King Haakon VII of Norway, Crown Prince Olav and the recently returned Netherlands ambassador to Norway.
The Netherlands-Polish-British taskforce carrying the Royal Netherlands 2nd (future) Marine Battalion and the Polish 10th Armored Cavalry Brigade after a slow five day journey arrive at the German occupied Polish city of Danzig where it will form the first presence of the British-French-Netherlands force (Poland Stabilization Force) in the Polish Republic.
President of Estonia Konstantin Päts meets with the British ambassador to Estonia where he request in the name of three Baltic countries for protection against the Soviet Union despite the three countries having singed mutual assistance treaty with the Soviet Union at a time they feared against possible attacks by Nazi Germany which now due the change of government in Germany is no longer something they have to fear off.
June 11th 1940
The Norwegian Sleipner-class destroyer HNoMS Odin is re-commissioned into the Royal Norwegian Navy after having been captured and pressed into Kriegsmarine a month ago.
The first Fokker T.IX twin-engine bomber prototype which was damaged when it collided with a hangar door on March 8th of this year after three months of repairing takes off on its 51st test flight from Schiphol (there are two Fokker T.IX twin-engine bomber prototype flying with a third and fourth under construction and who when completed will be tested by the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army Air Force).
French Army, Colonel Charles de Gaulle in his function as the military attaché attached to the French embassy in the Netherlands visit the 1st tank squadron, Lichte Divisie , Royal Netherlands Army during one of their training session where British Army instructors are teaching Netherlands soldiers and officers how to operate and work with the 24 Infantry Tank Mark IIs which form the 1st tank squadron.
The British government and the Provisional Government of Germany come to an agreement that the German auxiliary cruiser Orion which sins the end of the Seven months’ war on May 25th has been at anchored near Campbell Island, New Zealand is to be allowed to enter a New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy naval base where it will be disarmed and then allowed to travel back towards Germany.
In the still German occupied Polish city of Gdynia the commander of the Royal Netherlands 2nd (future) Marine Battalion and brigadier-general Stanisław Maczek commander of the Polish 10th Armored Cavalry Brigade meet the Regierungspräsidenten of the Reichsgau Danzig-Westpreussen (the restored Prussian Province of West Prussia) Fritz Hermann, German commander of the military garrison in Danzig and the mayor of the city Georg Lippke where the Netherlands commander informs the Germans that the Royal Netherlands 2nd (future) Marine Battalion will assume the role as garrison of the city until a referendum has been held which will decide if the Free City of Danzig becomes an independent country or become part of Germany or Poland. The Netherlands commander also informs the German officials that due the port of Danzig being the disembarkation of the British-French-Netherlands force (Poland Stabilization Force) for security reasons and in order to avoid confrontation with Polish forces returning home all German forces presented in the city will requested to leave the city.
Prime minster of the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin is informed by Minister of Internal Affairs Beria that the NKVD has received reports that the presidents of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have meth each other and that rumors are being circulated that they have asked the United Kingdom for assistance in ending the mutual assistance treaty they have with the Soviet Union now Germany is no longer a threat. The same evening Stalin orders that the Red Army's Leningrad Military District to implement a total land, sea and air blockade of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania by June 13th.
June 12th 1940
The Polish 10th Armored Cavalry Brigade after a full day of unloading at the now Netherland-Polish controlled city of Gdynia ( the brigade consist of one tank battalion equipped with 12 Renault FT light tanks and 24 Hotchkiss H35 light tanks, two motorized cavalry squadrons, one anti-tank battery and one anti-aircraft battery ) together with the 23rd infantry Company which is equipped ( part of the Royal Netherlands 2nd (future) Marine Battalion ) with the BvS 10 All Terrain Armored Vehicles begins their journey to Warsaw where the 10th Armored Cavalry Brigade is to establish the first Polish army presence in the Polish capitol sins the end of the Polish Campaign.
Siam and Japan sign a non-aggression pact.
British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain in a meeting with several members of his cabinet informs them that he has bowel cancer and will resign as prime minster in order to seek treatment in the Netherlands by doctors who are part of the Netherlands 2017 taskforce and that he will advise the King to have Lord Halifax to be the next prime minster who will lead a caretaker cabinet (replaces the current war cabinet) until the time that new elections can happen.
Soviet Army units begin to move to their positions near the Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania borders with the Soviet Union while the Soviet Baltic Fleet begins to have its warships move in to position so they can begin the total land, sea and air blockade of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania which will go into effect on June 13th .
Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov sends a diplomatic note to the governments of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in which it reads that due the three governments having conspired against the Soviet Union and violating the mutual assistance treaty they signed , the Soviet Union feels that new governments that are capable of adhering to the mutual assistance pact must be formed and that unspecified but "sufficiently large" number of Soviet troops are to be allowed to enter Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania territories. The note also reads that as of June 13th a total land, sea and air blockade will be in effect as long as the three Baltic countries have not fulfilled the two conditions.
Royal Navy's New Zealand Division, Leander-class light cruiser, HMS Achilles departs Devonport Naval Base, Auckland for here link up with the German auxiliary cruiser Orion which is at anchored near Campbell Island, New Zealand where the cruiser will then escort the Orion to Devonport Naval Base, for disarmament after which the German naval ship will be allowed to begin its journey back home.
Rear Admiral Willem de Fries Commander of the Navy suggest to Prime Minister Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy that the establishment of a research and development organization which will be responsible for research and development, purchase and selling of designs and technology to other countries might be a good idea as it will allow the Netherlands to sell information from the future just like the deal they made with the United Kingdom to other countries in return for military hardware or payments related to the transferred designs or technology.
June 13th 1940
The French Foreign Legion, 13th Foreign Legion Demi-Brigade ( two battalions ) and the Polish Independent Highland Brigade ( four battalions ) arrive at the Netherland-Polish controlled city of Gdynia where after the have unloaded and assembled their forces will then head towards the still German controlled city of city of Poznań.
British submarine HMS Odin while running at the surface encounters Italian Freccia-class destroyer Strale and the Folgore-class destroyer Baleno who are on a routine patrol.
Holland class Offshore Patrol Vessel, HNLMS Friesland departs Norway to begin here journey back towards naval base Den Helder after having spent two weeks patrolling in the North Sea.
British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain goes to Buckingham Palace to resign and advise the King to send for Lord Halifax who commands the support of most government MPs. In a resignation broadcast that same evening, Chamberlain informs the nation that due his health and returning of peace across Europe that he is resigning as prime minster and that Lord Halifax will assume the role for the duration until new elections which date is still to be decided can be held.
The Polish underground army Commanders Stefan Rowecki (in charge of areas under German occupation) orders his forces to begin conducting operations in public view despite large number of German forces still present in country.
The first German forces begin leaving the Netherland-Polish controlled city of Gdynia under the watchful eye of the Royal Netherlands 2nd (future) Marine Battalion).
Rotterdam-class amphibious transport dock HNLMS Rotterdam, Karel Doorman (M) class frigate HNLMS Van Amstel and Admiralen-class destroyer HNLMS Van Galen (part of the old navy ) depart the Netherland-Polish controlled city of Gdynia after they had unloaded the Royal Netherlands 2nd (future) Marine Battalion) and begin their journey back to Naval base Den Helder, Netherlands. De Zeven Provinciën-class frigate HNLMS Evertsen and sloop HNLMS Johan Maurits van Nassau (part of the old navy ) will remain based out of Gdynia where together with the Polish Navy will patrol the Polish territorial waters.
June 14th 1940
United States President Roosevelt signs the Naval Expansion Act, which will see the increase of carrier, cruiser, and submarine tonnage of the United States Navy by 167,000 tons, increased auxiliary shipping by 75,000 tons, and increased the number of authorized naval aircraft to 4,500 planes.
Two Soviet bombers who are part of enforcing the naval and air blockade of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania down a Finnish passenger airplane flying from Tallinn to Helsinki carrying three diplomatic pouches from the United states legations in Tallinn, Riga and Helsinki.
A day after his resignation as prime minster of Great Britain the now former prime minster Neville Chamberlain boards a passenger plane destined for the Netherlands where doctors belonging to the Netherlands 2017 taskforce will treat him for bowel cancer.
Royal Navy's New Zealand Division, Leander-class light cruiser, HMS Achilles links up with the German auxiliary cruiser Orion which is still anchored near Campbell Island, New Zealand. After having transferred a New Zealand boarding party to the Orion both ships begin their two day journey towards Devonport Naval Base, Auckland.
The Polish 10th Armored Cavalry Brigade and the 23rd infantry Company (part of the Royal Netherlands 2nd (future) Marine Battalion) arrive in Warsaw.
Rear Admiral Willem de Fries Commander of the Navy is given the go ahead by Prime Minister Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy to go continue his idea for a creation of a research and development organization which will be responsible for research and development, purchase and selling of designs and technology to other countries.
Prince Bernhard takes a test flight onboard one of the two Fokker T.IX twin-engine bomber prototypes being test flown by the Royal Netherlands Army Aviation Brigade.
June 15th 1940
The Government of Finland sends a diplomatic protest to the Soviet Union regarding the downing of a Finnish passenger airplane which killed all 9 on board.
President Franklin Roosevelt establishes the National Defense Research Committee to help plan and organize American defense preparations.
A large demonstration is staged outside the Soviet embassy in the Estonia capital of Tallinn in responds to the total land, sea and air blockade of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania which now has entered its second day.
Holland class Offshore Patrol Vessel, HNLMS Friesland arrives back at naval base Den Helder after having spent two weeks patrolling in the North Sea.
June 16th 1940
The Government of Finland sends a diplomatic protest to the Soviet Union regarding the downing of a Finnish passenger airplane which killed all 9 on board.
President Franklin Roosevelt establishes the National Defense Research Committee to help plan and organize American defense preparations.
A large demonstration is staged outside the Soviet embassy in the Estonia capital of Tallinn in responds to the total land, sea and air blockade of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania which now has entered its second day.
Holland class Offshore Patrol Vessel, HNLMS Friesland arrives back at naval base Den Helder after having spent two weeks patrolling in the North Sea.
June 17th 1940
Royal Navy's New Zealand Division personal and the crew of the German auxiliary cruiser Orion which is moored in Devonport Naval Base, Auckland begin the removal of all weapons onboard the Orion.
Research and Development Organization (Dutch: Onderzoek en Ontwikkeling Deinst, OOD) begins it work (the OOD is part of the Ministry of War and Navy, Dutch: ministerie van Oorlog en van Marine) three days after Rear Admiral Willem de Fries Commander of the Navy was given the go ahead by Prime Minister Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy. The OOD will be head by an officer of the 2017 Taskforce.
The Polish Government in Exile and the Netherlands government sign an agreement in which the Polish Air Force will receive 50 Koolhoven F.K.58 single engine, interceptor-fighter aircraft (2).
The French government asks the Netherlands government what they want in return for payment of research material.
June 18th 1940
Anti-Soviet demonstrations break out in Lithuania capital of Vilnius and in the Latvia capital of Riga following the Anti-Soviet demonstration which has held three days earlier in the Estonia capital of Tallinn in responds to the total land, sea and air blockade of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania which now has entered its fifth day.
No. 85 Squadron RAF ( fighter squadron equipped with the Hawker Hurricane) becomes the last of the 6 fighter squadrons part of the British Air Forces in France to hand back to the United Kingdom.
In responds to the increasing tension between the Soviet Union and Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania and to guard the German Province of East Prussia (German: Provinz Ostpreußen ) from any attack by West Poland the Oberkommando des Heeres , the Supreme High Command of the German Army issues the order for the German 7th Panzer Division under the command of Generalmajor Erwin Rommel to be redeployed to the German Province of East Prussia where it will operate as part of Army Group North (German: 'Heeresgruppe Nord') under the command of Generaloberst Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb.
June 19th 1940
Research and Development Organization (Dutch: Onderzoek en Ontwikkeling Deinst, OOD) hands the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Dutch: Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken) a list they can send to the French of what they have to offer them and also a list put together with the assistance of both the Royal Netherlands Army and Royal Netherlands Navy of what they would like to have in return for it.
Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov having called the ambassadors of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to his office, issues a statement that if they do not end the Anti-Soviet demonstrations going on in their countries the 25,000 Soviet soldiers in Estonia, 30,000 in Latvia and 20,000 in Lithuania will. The three Baltic ambassadors responds is simple if the total land, sea and air blockade of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania ends , the Anti-Soviet demonstrations going on in their countries will surely also end , but they also say that their countries will not allow the Soviet forces deployed in their countries to be used to end any demonstrations as long as they are peaceful or if they are violate , which they claim is a job for their countries police and armed forces and not of the Soviet armed forces deployed in their countries.
On the orders from the Oberkommando der Marine, the Supreme High Command of the German Navy, work on aircraft carrier A ( German: Flugzeugträger A ) or also known as Graf Zeppelin at the Deutsche Werke shipyard in Kiel and of Flugzeugträger B at Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft in Kiel is stopped.
June 20th 1940
A sailor belonging to Taskforce 2017 during his of time at a bar outside Naval Base Den Helder is noticed by two men sitting at a nearby table who discover that he is using a strange flat device connected with a strange small box standing on his table. Unknown to him the young sailor who knowing that Rear Admiral Willem de Fries gave orders to all 2017 personnel that no 2017 technology is allowed of the base, thinks it is not going to be much of a problem as he has done it several times without any problem, after he has packed both his iPad 6 and his small iCharger 1 into his back pack and leaving the bar he fails to notice the two men following him. Several hours the young sailor is found death in an ally, and his back pack missing.
More than half of the German forces previous deployed in the now Netherland-Polish controlled city of Gdynia have left the city.
Norman Baillie-Stewart a former British army officer who is known as one of the persons associated with the nickname Lord Haw-Haw who was in custody by the German Abwehr by order of the Council for a Democratic Germany (German: Rat für ein demokratisches Deutschland ) is handed over to British SIS (Secret Intelligence Service or also commonly known as MI6 ) agents in the Netherlands border town of Coevorden, located in the northeastern Netherlands. Also handed over are Captain Sigismund Payne Best and Major Richard Henry Stevens who were two British SIS agents who on November 9th 1939 where captured by the now defunct German Sicherheitsdienst (English: SD-Security Service) in the Venlo Incident.
President Franklin Roosevelt appoints two prominent Republicans to his cabinet: Henry L. Stimson as secretary of war, and Frank Knox as secretary of the Navy.
Soviet Union arranges for a number of pro-Soviet demonstrations in several cities in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in responds to the anti-Soviet demonstrations which are being held in those countries.
June 21st 1940
The body of the young sailor found death a day ago is brought aboard the Zuiderkruis-class support ship HNLMS Zuiderkruis laying in Naval Base Den Helder where a autopsy will be preform on his body. Meanwhile the site of the crime scene where the sailor was found is investigated by 2017 Royal Netherlands Marechaussee ( Central Investigation and Information Division ) officers who were onboard the 2017 taskforce in order to find any clue that might lead to the killers.
After four days of hard work by the Royal Navy's New Zealand Division personal and the crew of the German auxiliary cruiser Orion, the now disarmed German auxiliary cruiser Orion departs Devonport Naval Base, Auckland, New Zeeland for her journey back to Germany after having here 6 × 15 cm (5.9 in) guns, 1 x 7.5 cm (3.0 in) gun, 2 x 3.7 cm (1.5 in) guns, 4 x 2 cm (0.79 in) anti-aircraft guns, 6 x 53.3 cm (21.0 in) torpedo tubes, mines and her single Arado Ar 196 A-1 shipboard reconnaissance aircraft removed or disabled as agreed by the British government and the Provisional Government of Germany in order for the Orion to be allowed to begin it journey back home.
Romanian Prime Minister Gheorghe Tătărescu and minister for external affairs Ion Gigurtu who seeing the Soviet Union blockading Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania and worried that the Soviet Union who is known to lay claim to parts of Romania might do the same thing or worst invade Romania during a meeting with the ambassadors of France and the ambassadors of United Kingdom are informed that France and the United Kingdom guarantee of the independence of the Kingdom of Romania still stands.
The 1st 'Warsaw' Fighter Squadron which is one of four Polish fighter squadrons ( the other three are the 2nd 'Kraków-Poznań' Fighter Squadron, 3rd 'Dęblin' Fighter Squadron and 4th Fighter Squadron ) who are operated by the Polish Armed Forces in the West in France becomes the first Polish fighter squadron to again operate from a Polish airfield (Okęcie airport ). The squadron which operates the French build and designed Bloch MB.152 fighters (1) is slated to be reinforced by the 2nd 'Kraków-Poznań' Fighter Squadron in upcoming month.
June 22st 1940
HMT Lancastria (HMT is short for Hired Military Transport ), a converted troopship in service with the Royal Navy is handed back to British Cunard liner where she will renamed back to her old name of Lancastria.
The British War Office approves the design of the Tank, Cruiser, Chamberlain Mk I ( based on the Centurion Main battle tank ) which will be fitted with a Ordnance Quick-Firing 17-pounder (or just 17-pdr) gun which is slated to go into production in the upcoming months ( Both the Chamberlain Mk I and the 17-pdr are several of the designs that where part of the research material handed over by the Netherlands on May 29th 1940 ).
Soviet ambassador to Belgium Yevgeny Vladimirovich Rubinin did not know what was laying before him on his desk, but when the two men who after showing first their papers that they belong to the NKVD and then a letter written and signed by the chief of the Soviet security and secret police Lavrentiy Beria himself in which it stood that these two men where to be given all assistance they needed, the ambassador decided that he defiantly did not need to now but he did what the two men told, after calling his secretary to hold a Aeroflot Lisunov Li-2 passenger plane he knew was going to depart from Brussels Airport this day he placed the bloodied and strange looking back pack into a large wooden box which would be flown together with the ambassador and the two NKVD agents to Moscow.
June 23rd 1940
The Bureau of Information and Propaganda of the Headquarters of Związek Walki Zbrojnej ( English: Union of Armed Struggle) operating out of Paris orders the beginning of Operation Z (Polish: Związek Z, where "Z" comes from the Polish word " Związek ," meaning " Soviet" ). Operation Z which will be led by General Michał Tokarzewski-Karaszewicz ( in charge of areas under Soviet occupation ) will be consist of a complex of sabotage, subversion and black-propaganda activities in the Soviet occupied Poland.
The Soviet Union propose that Finland should revoke Petsamo mining rights from the British-Canadian company and transfer them to the Soviet Union, or to a joint venture owned by the Soviets and the Finns.
Aeroflot Lisunov Li-2 passenger plane carrying the Soviet ambassador to Belgium , two NKVD agents and a small wooden box lands at military airfield outside Moscow. With an armed escort the box is transported to the Lubyanka Building where chief of the Soviet security and secret police Lavrentiy Beria has his office.
On the 10th day of the total land, sea and air blockade of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania by the Soviet Union, Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov gives the ambassadors of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania a ultimatum:
Soviet ultimatum to Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania
(1) The resignation of President Antanas Smetona of Lithuania , President Konstantin Päts of Estonia and President Kārlis Ulmanis of Latvia.
(2) That governments be immediately formed in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania capable of assuring and determined to assure the proper fulfillment of the Treaty of Mutual Assistance between the Soviet Union, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania and to suppress firmly the enemies of this Treaty.
(3) That free entry into the territory of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania be immediately assured for units of the army of the Soviet Union which will be stationed in the most important centers of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania and which will be sufficiently numerous to assure the enforcement of the Treaty of Mutual Assistance between the Soviet Union, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania and to put an end to acts of provocation directed against the garrisons of the Soviet Union station in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
(4) That an answer be given by 10:00 am the next morning.
June 24th 1940
Having met with the Ambassador from the United Kingdom to Lithuania Sir Charles Orde, Lithuania Ministers of Foreign Affairs Juozas Urbšys went to the President's Office where he briefed the Council of Minsters regarding the meeting he had with the ambassador and informed them the United Kingdom could not guarantee the independence of Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia so short after having gone to war with a country (Germany )over a guarantee of independence ( Poland), the ambassador did mention that the United Kingdom would condemn any Soviet actions and offered unspecific support to any government in exile which might be form if the Soviet Union took over Lithuania. It was President Antanas Smetona after Ministers of Foreign Affairs Juozas Urbšys briefing ended who held this speech “who decided that the future of a nation was in the hands of a foreign power who claims to have the best interest with us but yet demands that we give up our independence we won over 20 years ago, thus our country, even if it is only a symbolic defense of independence ought to resist by all means, including force of arms, even in the absence of any hope of winning. Yes the Soviet Union will devastate the country to a greater extent but no more than they will if we surrender to them; however, such an event would reverberate in the consciousness of Lithuanians, reminding them that the nation stood up for its honor as best it could. In other words, defending oneself will count for much in the future”. Hearing this passionate speech the misters knew , Lithuania would not accept the Soviet ultimatum.
In Estonia the Government and the Committee for Foreign affairs met with President Päts who received word about the Lithuania decision not to comply with the Soviet ultimatum. After a long and sometimes heated session it was decided that Estonia would stand by Lithuania and Latvia in not accepting the Soviet ultimatum.
The Empire of Japan request that the United Kingdom close the Burma Road, a land supply route into China.
Netherlands aircraft manufacturer Fokker decides to cancel work on the Fokker D.XXIII ( D23 ) single-seat fighter in favor of Fokker D.XXIV ( D24 ) which will be a license version of the Supermarine Spitfire. ( Supermarine not only has given license rights to Fokker to produce their own version of the Spitfire but also will help them setting up a assembly line and supply the engines for the plane, in return, the Netherlands Research and Development Organization (Dutch: Onderzoek en Ontwikkeling Deinst) gave Supermarine all the information they managed to find regarding the future development of the Spitfire).
At the third floor of the Lubyanka Building an office guarded by several heavily armed NKVD agents was located, this office was the seat of power of one of the most powerful men in the Soviet Union, Lavrentiy Beria chief of the Soviet security and secret police who was now after some trial and error was deciding if he wanted to see Avengers 2, Men in Black 5 ore the Justice League movie on his iPad 6 he managed to acquired. It had taken Beria some effort but lucky for him the backpack in which the iPad 6 was in had the instruction book still in it, together with the iCharger 1 a small powerstation Beria now had the most powerful electronic device in the Soviet Union, a device he planned to keep secret for Stalin himself as the iPad 6 had something call a app installed called iPedia, a app Beria used several times sins he acquired the iPad 6. Some of the articles he read including his own execution in 1953, a world war and the collapse of the Union in 1991. But these things could change, Beria knew of that, as he was about to select his movie a messenger arrived into his office with news that Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia had refuse to accept the ultimatum opposed on them, Beria knew what would happen next the Soviet Union would invade and crush them. But for now he planned to watch Avengers 2 and later on he would secure his future and the iPad 6 would play a major role in it.
Baltic War
The Baltic War began on 10:00 AM on June 24th 1940. Despite a desperate fight the three Baltic counties of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania where invaded by a Soviet force of some 235,000 men, 8,000 artillery pieces, 1,510 tanks and 500 armored vehicles while inside Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania themselves more then 66,946 men, 1,630 artillery pieces, 1,065 tanks and 150 armored vehicles moved to seized pre-planned objectives.
Many small engagements were fought but in the end the Soviet Army was victorious suffering only 265 men death or wounded versus more then 2,150 Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania soldiers and civilians dead. The battle in the Baltic Sea was not much different as the superior fire power and naval presences of the Soviet Navy quickly destroyed the three small navies of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The only victory for the tiny Baltic navy’s was the sinking of the Soviet battleship Oktyabrskaya Revolutsiya which happen at 1:22 PM when the Estonian Navy Kalev class mine laying submarine ENS Lembit firing four torpedoes managed to sink the here with 870 of here 1,149 sailors and officers still aboard.
ENS Lembit would be the only survivor of either the Estonian Navy or the Latvia Navy to survive the Baltic War, the other ships were destroyed in their harbors or sunk while trying to run the Soviet naval blockade.
By 3:00 pm the Soviet army was in full control of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, the government s of Estonian and of Lithuania where the only two of the three who managed to flee the country into German East Prussia, where they would set up governments in exile. The Latvia government refused to leave and instead gave Kārlis Reinholds Zariņš Ambassador and Consul General of Latvia in the United Kingdom extraordinary powers.
June 25th 1940
Unable to meet with Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov United States ambassador to the Soviet Union Thurston is forced to content with Soviet deputy foreign minister Lozovsky. Ambassador Thurston after having condemned the invasion is told by deputy foreign minister Lozovsky that the Soviet Union only acted against Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in order to free their people from oppressive governments who only cared to exploit them.
Chief Designer for Supermarine's Joseph Smith sitting at his desk was looking at the final design specs for the new version of the Spitfire he was planning to build. The Spitfire designated GM V ( G stands for Rolls-Royce Griffon engine and V is the fourth spitfire model ) will be twice as heavy, more than twice as powerful then the Mk I , the Spitfire GM V will also be different in having a Rolls-Royce Griffon engine in place of the Merlin engine used by the Mk I to Mk III models. Joseph Smith knows that the Spitfire GM V will be a fighter years ahead of it time and all thanks to the Netherlands Research and Development Organization (Dutch: Onderzoek en Ontwikkeling Deinst) who transferred a complete file of the spitfire containing the chronological history of all versions of the Spitfire, from conception to phasing out, marks, models , engines and design drawings to Supermarine.
The Polish 1st Grenadier Division (Polish: 1. Dywizja Grenadierów ) which sins May 25th 1940 has been deployed out of a military base in Colombey-les-Belles in Lorraine, France recive order to begin embarkation on British and French ships who will transport them to West Poland where the division will join the already in west Poland deployed 10th Armored Cavalry Brigade ( deployed in Warsaw ) and the Polish Independent Highland Brigade (deployed in Poznań w ). The 1st Grenadier Division is organized according to the French model and is equipped with French weapons and uniforms and has some 13,000 enlisted soldiers and 3,180 officers as part of it, the 2nd Rifle Division (Polish: 2 Dywizja Strzelców Pieszych ) will remain in France for the time being until enough transport ships are available to ship them to West Poland.
“Spontaneous” pro-Soviet demonstrations (accompanied by Soviet tanks and troops) are held in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania a day after the Soviet army invaded the three Baltic countries.
Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, member of the parliament and the Halifax lead cabinet in a speech to the House of Commons concerning the Soviet Union invasion of the Baltic countries “ we have defeated one evil to see the rising of another, we cannot stand by watching until it is too late as we have done before , as we now all too well what the Soviet Union true intentions is, the domination of all of Europe and give them time they might succeed and that is something we cannot give them”.
A briefing in Germany
In his office in the Reich Chancellery (German: Reichskanzlei), an office which not long ago was used by Adolf Hitler, its new occupier chairman of the Council for a Democratic Germany and unofficially the head of state of the Third Reich Dr. Carl Friedrich Goerdeler was reading some papers while waiting for Abwehr (German intelligence) officer colonel Oster to give him an intelligence briefing he had requested. Colonel Oster after having seated himself began his briefing:
Estonian Navy Kalev-class mine laying submarine ENS Lembit had been spotted heading to Kiel and is most likely to arrive there in the upcoming days.
A group of former SS and NSDAP members has been meeting with each other in the Slovak Republic (Slovak: Slovenská republika) capitol of Bratislava. Goerdeler ask what the Abwehr plans to do about these meetings in which Colonel Oster replies watch, observe and arrest them. Friedrich Goerdeler then after having received the answer he wanted wrote a down a note to meet President of Slovakia Jozef Tiso and to remind him that the "protection treaty" (Treaty on the protective relationship between the Third Reich and the Slovak State) which made Slovak subordinated its foreign, military, and economic policy to that of Germany with the change of government in Germany was still in effect.
After the brief pause Colonel Oster went on with his briefing, almost all of the 100,000 Germans forces have left Norway, while most of the German forces formerly in German occupied Poland also have left.
Reinhard Heydrich and Joseph Goebbels who are being held at Spandau Prison on charges of killing Adolf Hitler, Rudolf Hess , Herman Göring, Joachim von Ribbentrop and Heinrich Himmler and trying to launch a hostile takeover of the country are still insisting that they were not behind the May 19th 1940 attack ,something both Goerdeler and Colonel Oster now is true but they also know they need scapegoats to be trialed.
After completing his briefing Colonel Oster stood up and gave Goerdeler a sealed envelope and said from friends who want to help us. Goerdeler opening the envelope saw several pages of text and a drawing which look like a flag, curious about who gave the colonel the envelope, the colonel replied , you would not believe me if I told you but all I can say that they have the best interest for us and asking to many question will only lead to answers whey don’t want to know.
June 26th 1940
By orders of Lavrentiy Beria chief of the Soviet security and secret police a Soviet Army tank mechanic named Mikhail Kalashnikov is send to a NKVD Special Technical Bureau secret research and development laboratory just outside Moscow. Lavrentiy Beria who having discovered on his iPedia app installed on the iPad 6 in his possession that Mikhail Kalashnikov will develop the AK-47 assault rifle wants to use the new assault rifle as a gift to Stalin while keeping other designs he is planning to build in his newly set up secret research and development laboratory for himself.
A French Army commission of tank development is set up to work on new French tanks designs, their first order of business is to answer three questions: (1) continue the work on the Char G1 , the replacement project for the Char D2 medium tank, (2) begin work on a new tank design (AMX-30 ) which design details are part of a still to work out research-hardware deal between the Netherlands government and the French government (3) licenses produce the British Chamberlain Mk I ( based on the Centurion Main battle tank ) which is being development in the United kingdom.
Prime Minister Władysław Sikorski together with President Władysław Raczkiewicz flying a Royal Air Force Bristol Bombay transport aircraft escorted by Bloch MB.152 fighters of the 1st 'Warsaw' Fighter Squadron land at Okęcie airport located in the Włochy district of Warsaw, Poland. Stepping down the ladder of the plane Prime Minister Władysław Sikorski is greeted by the Polish Commander-in-Chief Marshal Edward Rydz-Śmigły who had arrived several days earlier, Colonel Stefan Rowecki the commander of the Związek Walki Zbrojnej (English: Union of Armed Struggle ) resistance organization in West Poland and General Stanisław Maczek commander of the 10th Armored Cavalry Brigade. After having greeted them Prime Minister Władysław Sikorski addresses the gathered Polish, French and British new reporters and says” today is the beginning of the Third Polish Republic, a day that for now on will be a national holiday, but do not forget that when we celebrate this day we must not forget there is still part of our country being occupied by a neighbor who isn't afraid to bully the weak, but we say to them, we are not afraid of them, we will reclaim our entire country, even if we have to take 60 years to do it”.
Events in the Baltic
The first Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians prisoners of war are shipped by the department in charge of POWs, the Peoples Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD )to 8 prison camps located in the Soviet Union ( The 8 camps which can house a total of 68,000 prisoners of wars are not the only camps the NKVD uses for Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians prisoners as there is also a camp signified for those in “special isolation” and 2 camps for “identified” officers, policemen, gendarmes, agents and those equal to them”).
The Estonian Defense League (Estonian: Kaitseliit), a paramilitary armed forces of the Republic of Estonia is declared illegal by the Soviet occupiers. However some of the Estonian Defense League have begun to hide their weapons on their own initiative while also beginning to setting up communication lines with members of the now disbanded Estonian Army.
Commander-in-chief of the Estonian Army Johan Laidoner is arrested by the NKVD and together with several other political and military leaders of the country is send to the Vladimir Prison, a prison for political prisoners of the Soviet regime located 100 miles northeast of Moscow.
Netherlands ambassador to Latvia, de Decker informs his government that the NKVD has begun arresting large numbers of people in Latvia.
June 27th 1940
The third Fokker T.IX twin-engine bomber prototype and first to be tested by pilots of the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army Air Force ( Dutch: Militaire Luchtvaart van het Koninklijk Nederlands-Indisch Leger, ML-KNIL) takes off for its first test flight from Schiphol. The Fokker T.IX is intended to replace their obsolescent Martin B-10 bombers of which more than 83 are in service with the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army Air Force.
The Soviet Union bolded by its victory in the Baltic War demands either demilitarization or a joint fortification effort on the island of Åland.
The German military intelligence organization Abwehr becomes the first user of the Enigma machine when they set up two-way radio communication between Königsberg, capital of East Prussia and Berlin.
The Swedish company Svenska Aeroplan AB ( English: Swedish Aeroplane Company Limited ,SAAB) signs a an licenses agreement with Fokker to produce 89 Fokker G.I twin-engine fighter planes which will be designated as SAAB 18 in Swedish service.
Rear Admiral Willem de Fries Commander of the Navy in the Netherlands is presented with the autopsy report of the young sailor killed on June 20th 1940. Reading it Rear Admiral Willem de Fries discovers that the young sailor was shot three times at close range with a weapon firing with what is identified as a 7.62×25mm cartridge, which in 1940 is produced and used by Germany, Soviets Union , Spain ore China. Rear Admiral Willem de Fries knowing that there are more question then answers decides to wait on the report from the 2017 Royal Netherlands Marechaussee ( Central Investigation and Information Division ) officers who are doing the criminal investigation before deciding what action he will take.
Type IID U-boat U-138 is commissioned with the German Kriegsmarine. With U-138 commissioned only U-139 and U-140 will enter into service as Oberkommando der Marine, the Supreme High Command of the German Navy has decided to stop any production of the Type IID U-boat.
The Norwegian Sleipner-class destroyer HNoMS Tor which was scuttled by her own crew on April 9th 1940 after having been raised and send to the state-owned Norwegian naval yard where she was repaired and fitted out is re-commissioned into the Royal Norwegian Navy becoming the second Sleipner-class destroyer to return into service with the Royal Norwegian Navy after having been either captured or destroyed by the Germans.
Events in Poland
In the Chancellery of the Prime Minister of Poland (Polish: Kancelaria Prezesa Rady Ministrów) located in Warsaw, Prime Minister Władysław Sikorski has his first meeting with the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Poland (Polish: Rada Ministrów w Polsce). The meeting which is attended by several minsters is the first meeting of the government of the Polish Third republic.
While Prime Minister Władysław Sikorski is discussing politics, Commander-in-Chief Marshal Edward Rydz-Śmigły is discussing the armored strength of the 10th Armored Cavalry Brigade together with General Stanisław Maczek its commander. General Stanisław Maczek informs the Marshal that sins June 14th when the brigade arrived in Warsaw they have been searching and repairing all armored tanks they could find and have now have a fleet made up of 12 Renault FT light tanks, 24 Hotchkiss H35 light tanks ( donated by the French ), 10 7TP light tanks, 18 TK (TK-3) tankettes and 3 Panzer III Ausf. D medium tanks ( left by the Germans ). The general also reports that mechanics from the brigade together with workers of the Państwowe Zakłady Inżynieryjne (English: National Engineering Works ) are working round the clock to repair any tank that can be recovered.
Events in the Baltic
In the German Province of East Prussia (German: Provinz Ostpreußen ) Kazys Škirpa, Lithuanian military attaché to Germany meets with both President of Lithuania Antanas Smetona and Prime Minister Kaarel Eenpalu where Kazys Škirpa informs them that the new German government will not publicly support them but also not will hand them over to the Soviet Union.
The Communist Party of Latvia (Latvian: Latvijas Komunistiskā partija) together with the Workers' Youth League of Latvia which were banned in Latvia with the removing of the Ulmanis government from power are legalized again and allowed to operate openly with the full backing of the Soviet Union.
Estonian Navy Kalev-class mine laying submarine ENS Lembit arrives in the German naval base of Kiel after having managed to evade the Soviet Navy who want here sunk in responds to here sinking the Soviet battleship Oktyabrskaya Revolutsiya. Soon as it arrives a German Kriegsmarine officer and two guards board the sub to inform the captain that the crew will be interned, all navigation aids and maps will be confiscated and all here armaments will be removed. The Kriegsmarine officer says privately to ENS Lembit captain that as a fellow submariner he is impressed that ENS Lembit managed to sink a Soviet battleship and also has a message from Konteradmiral (English: Rear Admiral) Karl Dönitz, Führer der U-Boote (English: Leader of the U-boats) that the crew of ENS Lembit are to be treated as guest of the German submarine service.
June 28th 1940
French military attaché to the Netherlands, Colonel Charles de Gaulle request Prime Minister Paul Reynaud of France to give him command of a tank regiment. Colonel Gaulle who has mange thanks to help from some 2017 admirers, discovered why Prime Minister Paul Reynaud sent him to the Netherlands believe he is more useful in command then behind the desk.
British prime minster Halifax having begun a two day trip to the Netherlands lands at Schiphol airport where he is greeted by Netherlands Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy and his special advisor Rear Admiral Willem de Fries. After having boarded one of the four NH90: Tactical Transport Helicopters which are operated by the GVH ( is short for Groep Helicpoters) the world first helicopter squadron they fly towards Den Helder navy base where are reception is being held onboard Zuiderkruis class support ship HNLMS Zuiderkruis. After the reception was over which included many high ranking political and military officials from both the United Kingdom and the Netherlands the NH90: Tactical Transport Helicopter carrying Halifax flew to a villa where former British prime minster Chamberlain was being treated for bowel cancer by 2017 doctors . There both the former and current prime minster talk and during that that meeting prime minster Halifax informed Chamberlain that a new modern tank would be named after him, when Chamberlain joked why not a navy ship, prime minster Halifax responded that somebody veto that.
Lavrentiy Beria chief of the Soviet security and secret police manages to convince Stalin of starting a Soviet atomic bomb project, while Beria explains that the cost and efforts will be huge , he explains to Stalin that whoever possess such a bomb controls the world and thus the risk and cost will be worth it. Stalin impress by Beria explanation allows him to start the a small scale project at the Academy of Sciences for the investigation into the possibility of an atomic bomb ( this in OTL began only in 1942). Stalin is however unaware that Beria already has ordered that several important figures in nuclear physics are to be gathered to start this investigation using some of his notes made after reading several articles from his iPedia app installed on his iPad 6.
The Alien Registration Act (the Smith Act) is passed by the United States Congress and which requires aliens to register and be fingerprinted. The Act also makes it illegal to advocate the overthrow of the United States government.
Royal Netherlands Navy O 12-class submarines HNLMS O 14 and HNLMS O 15 who have been patrolling the Caribbean (Netherlands West Indies) sins October 31st 1939 begin their journey back to the Netherlands.
Supreme Commander of the Royal Netherlands Army , General Winkelman attending a shooting ranch own by arms manufacturer, Artillerie Inrichtingen (A.I.) is shown by them a prototype of the AG-40 ( AG means in Dutch assault rifle ) assault rifle. The AG-40 which is based on the AK-47 was developed in a record time with the help from 2017 marines and several AK-47s that were used by the 2017 Taskforce as training purpose. General Winkelman is also shown a mockup of the AI MAG general-purpose machine gun together with the FN MAG of which is based on and a tube like form called the Pantservuist-1 (English: Armored Fist-1 or short PV-1) Bazooka.
German ambassador to the Soviet Union Friedrich-Werner Graf von der Schulenburg who after being summed to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is informed by Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov that unless the Kalev-class mine laying submarine ENS Lembit and its crew are handed over to the Soviet Union for punishment the German-Soviet Commercial Agreement of February 11th 1940 might be canceled. Ambassador von der Schulenburg responds that the Soviet Union has nothing worry about as the crew of ENS Lembit are interned ( as guest of the German submarine service ) and the submarine disarmed and under full control of the German Kriegsmarine, he also tell the minister Molotov that he is not capable to decide these maters himself and that he has to communicate with Berlin on what their plan for ENS Lembit is. Hearing this answer minister Molotov warns that Germany must not stall as the Soviet Union considers this a priority mater which must be handled quickly.
Events in the Baltic
Commander-in-Chief of the Lithuanian air branch, Brigadier General Antanas Gustaitis who was in hiding sins the Soviet invasion of Lithuanian is found by NKVD security troops and send to the Vladimir Prison located near Moscow where he will join other political and military leaders of the three Baltic countries already being hold in the prison.
June 29th 1940
The British Dominions Secretary informs the Australian Government that the United kingdom will send a fleet to the Far East in order to provide a counterweight to the Empire of Japan which the United kingdom knows thanks to information provided by the Netherlands 2017 taskforce might poses a threat to the region.
British prime minster Halifax on his second day and last day visiting to the Netherlands meets with queen Wilhelmina and later together with Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld inspects the 1st tank squadron, Lichte Divisie -Royal Netherlands Army which operates 24 infantry Tank Mark IIs and which crews are being trained by the British army.
Lavrentiy Beria chief of the Soviet security and secret police after having read the Spetsnaz article on the iPedia app installed on his iPad 6 decided that it would not be a bad thing to have a NKVD special force unit under his control. For this reason he invited Colonel Ilya Grigoryevich Starinov who he knew thanks to an article on his iPedia app would be consider the founding father for this unit. Beria explain the colonel what his idea was of creating the Secretariat of Special Operations of the NKVD which the colonel will be in command of. The Secretariat of Special Operations of the NKVD will consist of NKVD Spetsgruppa "A" who will be used for special operations at home, abroad and also be charge of protecting the NKVD Special Technical Bureaus Beria is setting up. ( the NKVD Special Technical Bureaus are named with a number and the first letter of the lead designer working at that bureau).
Émile Bertin-light cruiser Émile Bertin arrives in Vlissingen, Zeeland, Netherlands where she is slated to pick up the research material that the French Republic will receive in return for transferring Renault R40 light tanks, SOMUA S35 cavalry tanks and Panhard 178 armored cars to the Netherlands. The Research and Development Organization (Dutch: Onderzoek en Ontwikkeling Deinst, OOD) has made available to the French what they accepted the following: detailed information regarding French fighter planes and tanks, detailed information regarding infantry weapons , four Mark 46 torpedoes, 8 Diemaco C8A1 5.56 mm carbines, 2 Diemaco C7 LSW light machineguns, 12 Glock 17 pistols and 2 FN MAG general purpose machineguns).
Speaking true a Funk-Stunde microphone set up at the Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft (English: State Broadcasting Company, RRG), the Chairman of the Council for a Democratic Germany and unofficially the head of state of the Third Reich Dr. Carl Friedrich Goerdeler address the German nation and announces that he will assume the function of Reichspräsident (English: President of the Reich ) almost 41 days after he became the unofficially head of state of the Third Reich. He says that title of Führer will never again be used in honor of the slain Adolf Hitler who will be forever known as its only user. Reichspräsident Goerdeler also announces that a German constituent assembly called the Parlamentarischer Rat (German for "Parliamentary Council") will draft a new constitution of the German Reich (Grundgesetz). ( the current Constitution which is also known as the Weimar Constitution (Weimarer Verfassung) was created in 1919 and still in use as of 1940).
A Polish Military Commission arrives in Sweden to arrange for the return of interned Orzeł-class submarine ORP Sęp and Wilk class submarines ORP Ryś and ORP Żbik to West Poland ore also known as the Third Polish Republic.
British Royal Navy Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound and First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill are given a briefing by Generale Staf sectie IIID- future intelligence (part of GS III, the main Netherlands central intelligence agency) head lieutenant commander Klaus Molen who gives them a briefing at the Admiralty House, home of First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill on what would have happened with the royal navy if the Seven Month War as it called had continue if not for the arrival of the 2017 taskforce. Lieutenant commander Klaus Molenalso also explain to them about the Pacific War ( Pearl Harbor attack, sinking of force Z, battle of Singapore and other events related to the Pacific War ). After the briefing ends both Sir Dudley Pound and Admiralty Winston Churchill having socked up all the information spend another hour discussing with lieutenant commander Klaus Molen events relating to the Pacific War.
June 30th 1940
Lavrentiy Beria chief of the Soviet security and secret police while reading an article about president Hilary Clinton on the iPedia app installed on his iPad 6 when a pop up on his iPad 6 screen appeared. The pop up which read ‘4 days left until iPedia app can no longer be used ,reconnect to Internet to keep using app‘. Beria did not know what it meant but after reading the iPad 6 manual and the internet article on the iPedia he knew that he had only a couple of days left before he would be unable to gather more information about many things he found to be vital to his agenda.
French navy, Émile Bertin-light cruiser Émile Bertin departs Vlissingen, Zeeland, Netherlands carrying a treasure trove of research material the French Republic has received from the Netherlands in return for transferring Renault R40 light tanks, SOMUA S35 cavalry tanks and Panhard 178 armored cars to the Netherlands.
The 1. Kompanie and 2. Kompanie of the Bataillon Brandenburg, the German special force unit under the control of the Abwehr, the main German military intelligence organization land at the Vajnory air base ( operated by the Slovak Air Force ) located near the village of Vajnory, close to the Slovak capital Bratislava. The two companies are there because the Abwehr has been observing a group of former SS and NSDAP members meeting at various location in and around the capitol of the Slovak Republic. Admiral Wilhelm Canaris the head of the Abwehr who believe these former SS and NSDAP members might attempt a coup has decided to arrest them and not wanting to use the Slovak Army or the Hlinka Guard who he feels might inform the former SS and NSDAP members he decides to use the Bataillon Brandenburg, the only elite special force unit allowed in Germany with the disbanding of the SS.
Captain Philippe François Marie de Hauteclocque ( also known as Leclerc de Hauteclocque in OTL ) is given new instructions to join the 2nd French Military Mission to Poland ( the first one was from 1918 to 1939 ).
Sitting behind his desk in the oval office, president Roosevelt was reading a analysis on the De Zeven Provinciën-class frigate of the Royal Netherlands Navy. This analysis which was written by the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) using information provided by United States Ambassador to the Netherlands, George A. Gordon who was given a tour of De Zeven Provinciën-class frigate, HNLMS De Zeven Provinciën on June 16th and the United States naval attaché to the Netherlands who used his contacts in the Royal Netherlands Navy. The ONI analysis which was only two pages long had several things written on it: the De Zeven Provinciën-class frigate while classified as a frigate by the Royal Netherlands Navy was almost the size and weight of a Omaha-class light cruiser, the frigate is able to detect objects up to 200 miles with their radar compared to the CXAM radar system entering service in the United States Navy which can detect objects up to 50 miles, the frigate has the capacity to fire what are called surface-to-air missiles which can hit air targets up to 80 miles away and are armed with a warhead enough to destroy a single aircraft in one hit, the frigate needs only a crew of 232 compared to the Omaha-class which needs 458. Reading this and more president Roosevelt knew that whatever that frigate came from and he had heard the rumors already , the United States of America had to know more about these ships that where in the possession of the Royal Netherlands Navy , thus he decided to give Director of Naval Intelligence Rear Adm. Walter S. Anderson instructions to find out everything about these new strange ships of the Royal Netherlands Navy and how to use the information gathered so far to improve the United states Navy.
July 1st 1940
In the Soviet Union the Shchuka class submarine SC-137 is launched.
French navy, Émile Bertin-light cruiser Émile Bertin carrying a treasure trove of research material the French Republic has received from the Netherlands arrives in the French Naval base of Toulon where several trucks are waiting to bring the research materials to locations where they can be dismantled and studied.
Director of Naval Intelligence Rear Adm. Walter S. Anderson after receiving instructions by president Roosevelt to find out more about the strange ships from the future in possession of the Royal Netherlands Navy decides to create the Netherlands Desk which primary mission is to find out everything about these ships and what they might have that will improve the United States Navy.
At the Vajnory air bases ( operated by the Slovak Air Force ) located near the village of Vajnory, close to the Slovak capital Bratislava the officers of the 1. Kompanie and 2. Kompanie of the Bataillon Brandenburg are briefed by agents of the Abwehr about what they might encounter when they begin their assault on several location which are used by former SS and NSDAP members. The operation which is slated to begin on July 2nd will see one of the two Brandenburg companies seal the area of, while the second makes the arrest which might turn into a firefight as it is speculated by the Abwehr that former SS soldiers are being assigned to protect the high ranking former SS and NSDAP members.
President Roosevelt sign another naval construction bill. This provides for the construction of 45 more ships and provides 550 million dollars (US) for this and for other projects.
July 2nd 1940
Magda" Goebbels wife of former Reich Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels who was arrested on charges of killing Adolf Hitler, Rudolf Hess , Herman Göring, Joachim von Ribbentrop and Heinrich Himmler on May 19th and attempting to stage a coup arrives with her six children in Rome, Italy as she feels that with the majority of the German population believing that her husband was behind the death of the beloved Führer, it is no longer safe for here to remain in Germany despite her wishes to remain and support her husband who is still under arrest at a undisclosed location waiting for his trail to begin.
In the early morning the 1. and 2. companies of the Bataillon Brandenburg begin their assignment in arresting several high ranking SS and NSDAP members. After the 1. Kompanie has cordon of the area where their targets are in the 2. Kompanie swoops in and surprising the former SS soldiers who were assigned to protect the high ranking former SS and NSDAP members and who were in most cases unable to put up a fight are arrested. By the end of the operation several former high SS and NSDAP members are arrested of which the biggest are Karl Hermann Frank ( former Secretary of State of the Reich Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia ) and Konrad Ernst Eduard Henlein (former Reichsstatthalter and Gauleiter of the Reichsgau Sudetenland ).
A Swedish delegation belonging to the company Svenska Aeroplan AB ( English: Swedish Aeroplane Company Limited ,SAAB) arrives in the Netherlands to visit the Fokker production line for the Fokker G.I twin-engine fighter planes which the Swedes bought the licenses right of and hope to produce as the SAAB 18 in Swedish service.
July 3rd 1940
A Netherlands transport ship departs the port of Harwich with onboard 24 Infantry Tank Mark IIs. The 24 Infantry Tank Mark IIs will join the already 48 Infantry Tank Mark IIs in use with the Lichte Divisie-Royal Netherlands Army, with another 24 to be delivered by the end of the year.
A Swedish Air Force officer part of the Swedish delegation visiting the Fokker production line for the Fokker G.I twin-engine fighter planes is invited to fly a Fokker T.IX twin-engine bomber prototype which the Swedish pilots accepts.
Reichspräsident (English: President of the Reich ) Dr. Carl Friedrich Goerdeler during a meeting with the Chief of the Abwehr (German intelligence) Admiral Canaris is informed that all former high SS and NSDAP members arrested the day before are being sent to Spandau Prison where they will kept isolated until their trails begins.
HMS Hood is send to Rosyth Shipyard for a major a refit which will place here out of commission for at least a year with where she will receive the flowing modifications: new internal machinery , rearranging and remodeled torpedo bulges and side armor, improvement of deck armor/protection over vital areas, removal of armored conning tower and the 5" side armor, new superstructure and masts fore and aft similar to that of the King George V-class, new funnels, addition of a catapult, dual hangars and Walrus seaplanes, improved antiaircraft (AAA) protection ,upgraded fire control and an extended forecastle deck.
July 4th 1940
The Netherlands transport ship which departed the port of Harwich 24 hours before arrives in the Port of Rotterdam with onboard 24 Infantry Tank Mark IIs. The Mark IIs who after having been unloaded will be transported to city of Amersfoort where they will form the 3rd tank squadron, Lichte Divisie, Royal Netherlands Army.
Former Prime Minister of France Pierre Laval while crossing the street in Paris is hit by a car and dies of the wounds cause not short after. The car drives on and is later found empty by the French police.
A batch of 12 pre-production AG-40 assault rifles (based on the AK-47) build by arms manufacturer, Artillerie Inrichtingen are handed over to the 1st Royal Netherlands 2nd (future) Marine Battalion) for evaluation and field testing.
The first Koolhoven F.K.58 single engine, interceptor-fighter aircraft is handed over to the Polish Air Force.
July 5th 1940
The Estonian Communist Party and several front organizations form the Estonian Working People’s League (Estonian: Eesti Tootava Rahva Liit).
Royal Danish Navy Niels Juel-class coastal defense ship HDMS Niels Juel and Herluf Trolle-class coastal defense ship HDMS Peder Skram depart Danish Naval Base Frederikshavn for the Faroe Islands where they will represent the handover of British control of the island to Danish control (the British occupation of the Faroe Islands began on April 12th 1940 and despite the 7 months war being over sins May 25th 1940 has not ended as the British wanted to be sure that there was no German present in Denmark itself before they would hand over control of the island back to the Danish government).
It was a day after the iPedia app installed on his iPad 6 had stopped working but the 10 days that he was able to read the iPedia app, Lavrentiy Beria chief of the Soviet security and secret police was able to start the Soviet atomic bomb project, begin the development of an assault rifle, establishing the Secretariat of Special Operations and many other things that would be useful for his new goal of ruling the Soviet Union.
July 6th 1940
Kārlis Reinholds Zariņš Ambassador and Consul General of Latvia in the United Kingdom and the de-facto head of the Latvia government in exile meets with German Ambassador to the United Kingdom Herbert von Dirksen.
Reichspräsident (English: President of the Reich) Dr. Carl Friedrich Goerdeler orders Minister of Justice, Franz Gürtner to begin the trail against Reinhard Heydrich and Joseph Goebbels.
United States Director of Naval Intelligence Rear Adm. Walter S. Anderson who instructed by president Roosevelt set up the Netherlands Intelligence Division not short after the his meeting with the president set one of his officers to meet with Igor Sikorsky, a man known for his work on helicopters and therefore the best person to make a analysis regarding the helicopters flying in the Neterlands.
The British Directorate of Tank Design which was asked to design the Tank, Cruiser, Chamberlain Mk I (based on the Centurion Main battle tank), armed with a Ordnance Quick-Firing 17-pounder (or just 17-pdr) by the British War Office using the research material handed over by the Netherlands gives Vauxhall Motors the contract to build a design mockup of the Chamberlain Mk I.
Generalmajor Erwin Rommel, commander of the German 7th Panzer Division having set up his command in the German Province of East Prussia (German: Provinz Ostpreußen) travels to Königsberg, capital of East Prussia where he meets with Generalleutnant Ferdinand Schaal who commands the 10th Panzer Division, together the 7th Panzer Division and the 10th Panzer Division are for now the two only two panzer divisions subordinated to Army Group North (German: 'Heeresgruppe Nord') who is under the command of Generaloberst Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb.
July 7th 1940
The Nederlandse Organisatie voor Toegepast Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek or TNO (Dutch Organization for Applied Scientific Research), a nonprofit company in the Netherlands established by law in 1932 to support companies and governments with innovative, practicable knowledge with the help of Research and Development Organization (Dutch: Onderzoek en Ontwikkeling Deinst, OOD) creates the TNO Defensie en Veiligheid (English: TNO Defence and Security).
Rachele Mussolini, wife of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini has a private meeting with Magda Goebbels wife of former Reich Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels.
The Swedish Government approves the request of Poland to have Orzeł-class submarine ORP Sęp and Wilk class submarines ORP Ryś and ORP Żbik currently interned by Sweden sins September 17th 1939 return to them.
Royal Danish Navy Niels Juel-class coastal defense ship HDMS Niels Juel and Herluf Trolle-class coastal defense ship HDMS Peder Skram arrive at Tórshavn, the capital and largest town of the Faroe Islands.
German Minister of Justice, Franz Gürtner begins his work on assembling a team of prosecutors and lawyers who have the job of prosecuting Reinhard Heydrich and Joseph Goebbels, two men that thanks to the now de-Goebbelfied Reichs Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda have been made the biggest monsters in the entire country for their role in the killing of Hitler and their attempted coup of May 19th 1940.
Sir Howard William Kennard who was from 1937 to the fall of Warsaw on September 28th 1939 the former Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Poland arrives back to city of Warsaw to resume his function as Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Poland.
July 8th 1940
Zuiderkruis-class support ship, HNLMS Zuiderkruis escorted by Holland-class offshore patrol vessel, HNLMS Holland and Flores-class gunboat HNLMS Flores (old Navy) depart Netherlands naval base of Den Helder where they will bring supplies for the Royal Netherlands 2nd (future) Marine Battalion) deployed out of the Netherland-Polish controlled city of Gdynia.
In the presences of Danish crown Prince Frederick who had flown onboard a Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor operated by Det Danske Luftfartselskab (English: Danish Air Lines) who landed on a hastily constructed airfield near the town of Sørvágur the British transfer control of the Faroe Islands to the Kingdom of Denmark.
In the Chancellery of the Prime Minister of Poland (Polish: Kancelaria Prezesa Rady Ministrów) located in Warsaw, Prime Minister Władysław Sikorski is informed by Commander-in-Chief Marshal Edward Rydz-Śmigły that the 10th Armored Cavalry Brigade who now fields some 51 tanks needs more and better tanks that until the Państwowe Zakłady Inżynieryjne (English: National Engineering Works) can restart production it is a good idea to ask the British or French to supply to donate some in order to bring the 10th Armored Cavalry Brigade up to full strength.
July 9th 1940
Igor Sikorsky was thrilled what he had seen in the past few days, the photos taken in the Netherlands of helicopters prove that his work on the VS-300 Helicopter was the right way to go, also the photos he had receive, gave him so many ideas that he did not know where to start in the first place. But first he had to write a detailed report for the Naval Intelligence Office who had supplied him with all the photos in information they had gathered before he could think of working on a new helicopter design he wanted to build.
Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Poland Sir Howard William Kennard having not yet been back in his function for more than two days in a meeting with Prime Minister Władysław Sikorski informs the prime minster that he will send the request for military hardware to the office of the British prime minster.
While Royal Danish Navy Niels Juel-class coastal defense ship HDMS Niels Juel while remain based out of Tórshavn, the capital and largest town of the Faroe Islands which is now back under Danish control, Herluf Trolle-class coastal defense ship HDMS Peder Skram carrying Danish crown Prince Frederick departs Tórshavn and begins it two day journey back to Danish Naval Base Frederikshavn.
July 10th 1940
Netherlands arms manufacturer, Artillerie Inrichtingen already created a prototype of the Pantservuist-1 (English: Armored Fist-1 or short PV-1) Bazooka begins work on development of the 2.54 cm Incendiary Rocket which will be fired by the PV-1.
Former British prime minster Chamberlain siting outside in the garden of the villa made available by the Netherlands government smiles after just been informed by the Royal Netherlands Navy doctors from 2017 that the treatment for his bowel cancer was working and that with good medication, diet end treatment he will be able to live for several more years. Having heard this good news Chamberlain decided that it is time to write his memories now that he is still able.
De Schelde and Rotterdamse Shipyards and the Polish Navy come to an agreement to have Orzeł-class submarine ORP Sęp still in Sweden to go back to De Schelde and Rotterdamse Shipyards where it will be given a large maintenance before completing her shakedown that due the German invasion of Poland was never completed.
Armed merchant cruiser RMS Corfu arrives at Belfast, United Kingdom for disarmed by Harland and Wolff Ltd, a Northern Irish heavy industrial company, specializing in shipbuilding. When RMS Corfu eight 6 inch and two 12 pounder guns have been removed she will be released to her owners to be reconditioned back into a Royal Mail Ship and ocean liner she was before she was requisitioned by the British Admiralty.
July 11th 1940
NKVD secret police troops raid a small farm house just outside the city of Dobromyl a former city of the Second Polish Republic but now part of the Drohobych Oblast, one of six oblasts (the other five are Lviv Oblast, Rivne Oblast, Stanislav (Ivano-Frankivsk) Oblast, Tarnopil (Ternopil) Oblast, and Volyn Oblast) established on the territory of West Ukraine following the 1939 Soviet invasion of Poland. The NKVD secret police in the raid execute seven residence of the house which was used by the Bureau of Information and Propaganda of the Headquarters of Związek Walki Zbrojnej (English: Union of Armed Struggle) as part of Operation Z (Polish: Związek Z, where "Z" comes from the Polish word " Związek," meaning " Soviet") resulting in a severe blow to the sabotage, subversion and black-propaganda activities being conducted in and around the city of Dobromyl.
Two Master-at-Arms (United States Navy equivalent to the United States Army Military Police) and one high ranking naval officer belonging to Naval Intelligence, Netherlands Intelligence Division arrive to pick in Igor Sikorsky office to pick up his report on the Netherlands helicopters, before they left the naval officer makes it clear to Igor Sikorsky that the report is top secret. When the three naval personnel are gone Igor Sikorsky thinks the report is top secret but I can still use what I have found out to build my next helicopter design.
The in the United States of America based Northrop Aircraft Incorporated is informed by the Royal Norwegian Ministry of Defense (Norwegian: Det kgl. Forsvarsdepartement) that the contract for the delivery of 24 Northrop N-3PB Nomad single-engine floatplane for use by the Royal Norwegian Navy Air Service (Marinens Flyvevesen) and can proceed and that the payment of 3,250,000 Norwegian krone (other 3,250,000 Norwegian krone where paid before the German invasion) will be made when the first Northrop N-3PB prototype has flown.
July 12th 1940
A delegation belonging to Supermarine, a British aircraft manufacturer famous for building the Supermarine Spitfire arrives in the Netherlands where they are to work with their Fokker counterparts in setting up an assembly line for the production of the Fokker D.XXIV (D24), the license version of the Spitfire.
Union of Armed Struggle commander General Michał Tokarzewski-Karaszewicz (in charge of areas under Soviet occupation) when attempting to cross the Polish-Soviet border at the San River in Jaroslaw on the way to Warsaw is spotted and in a fire fight with NKVD border guards is wounded and arrested.
In his office in the Reich Chancellery (German: Reichskanzlei) the most powerful person in the Third Reich, Reichspräsident (English: President of the Reich) Dr. Carl Friedrich Goerdeler looked at the drawing of a black-red-gold flag which where given him by Abwehr (German intelligence) officer colonel Oster who in turn got it from his friend the Netherlands military attaché in Berlin, major Sas several weeks ago and toughed as he had done several times before sins receiving the drawing if it was the right time to change the Nazi flag and replace it with the design he had in front of him or wait as Adolf Hitler was still considered by many people in the country a martyr and hero and changing a flag Hitler himself design would be a wrong thing to do as the new provisional government he was leading claimed to have acted to save Germany from those who killed Adolf Hitler. Looking at the flag drawing again he decided that it was not a matter that needed attention at once and that for now there were other presence matters he had to attend.
July 13th 1940
Four Netherlands technicians belonging to De Schelde and Rotterdamse Shipyards board a KLM DC-3 from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (Dutch: Luchthaven Schiphol) to Stockholm Bromma Airport where they then will travel to Orzeł-class submarine ORP Sęp so they can make here ready for her journey to the Netherlands.
At a small airfield located somewhere in the Ukrainian SSR, a wounded Polish general Michał Tokarzewski-Karaszewicz who was arrested by NKVD border guards when he attempted to cross into Polish territory is put into a waiting Soviet Air Force Lisunov PS-84 cargo/passenger utility aircraft for a flight to Moscow.
Zuiderkruis-class support ship, HNLMS Zuiderkruis escorted by Holland-class offshore patrol vessel, HNLMS Holland and Flores-class gunboat HNLMS Flores (old Navy) after a five day journey arrive at Gdynia Naval Base, the biggest and most important Polish naval base which at the moment is also the home of De Zeven Provinciën-class frigate HNLMS Evertsen and sloop HNLMS Johan Maurits van Nassau (old navy) who together with G-class destroyer ORP Garland (Loaned to Polish Navy from May 3rd 1940 onwards), Grom-class destroyer ORP Błyskawica, Wicher-class destroyer ORP Burza, Orzeł-class submarine ORP Orzeł and Wilk class submarine ORP Wilk patrol the Polish territorial waters and also show their presence in the Baltic Sea.
Four Koolhoven F.K.58 single engine, interceptor-fighter aircraft handed over to the Polish Air Force on July 4th 1940 by Koolhoven aircraft manufacturer (Dutch: Vliegtuigenfabriek Koolhoven) begin flying with the 1st 'Warsaw' Fighter Squadron who is already flying 18 French designed Bloch MB.152 fighters.
More than 500 Germans who are the last of the German military forces in Norway board the German hospital/transport ship Wilhelm Gustloff in Oslo harbor ending the German presence in Norway which began on April 6th 1940 when they invaded the Kingdom.
July 14th 1940
Captain Philippe François Marie de Hauteclocque (also known as Leclerc de Hauteclocque in OTL) arrives in the capital of the Polish Third Republic where he will join a dozen other French Army officers who are as part of the 2nd French Military Mission to Poland will be attached to the Polish General Staff.
Hub van Doorne, co-owner of Van Doorne's Automobielfabriek (Dutch: Van Doorne's vehicle factory) or short for DAF was a looking at a BvS 10 Armoured All-Terrain Vehicle that his company had receive for study and reverse engineering. This particle BvS 10 was one of sixty that was transported by the 2017 taskforce when they arrived in 1940 and now without many spare parts it would be difficulty to maintain them probably and such his company had been given the task to see if they could together with 2017 Netherlands Marine Corps personal be able to manufacturer the spare parts needed to keep the BvS 10s in service.
Wiceadmirał Józef Unrug, commander of the Polish Navy who was released by the Germans as part of their agreement to withdraw from Poland visit the 204 meter long and 27,800 tons weighing Zuiderkruis-class support ship, HNLMS Zuiderkruis which is laying anchored inside Gdynia Naval Base.
The captain of Kalev-class mine laying submarine ENS Lembit who submarine is interned (as guest of the German submarine service) in the German naval base of Kiel in absentia is sentenced to death by a People's Court in the Soviet Union for ordering and sinking the Soviet battleship Oktyabrskaya Revolutsiya and the death of 870 of here 1,149 sailors and officers during the Baltic War of June 24th 1940.
July 15th 1940
Candidates of the Estonian Working People’s League are approved by 92.8% of voters participating in the election for a new Chamber of Deputies. In Lithuania and Latvia the elections that where held where won by the Latvian Working People's League that won with 97.8% and the Union of the Working People of Lithuania that won with 99% of the votes.
Netherlands technicians belonging to De Schelde and Rotterdamse Shipyards after a two day inspection of Orzeł-class submarine ORP Sęp come to the conclusion that with minimal repairs to be conducted in Sweden the submarine will be able to travel to the Netherlands without much trouble.
In the Polish Third Republic capital of Warsaw, French Captain Philippe François Marie de who is part of the 2nd French Military Mission to Poland visit the Royal Netherlands Marine Corps 23rd infantry Company (future) who is deployed in the Polish Capitol as part of the Netherlands contribution to the British-French-Netherlands force or also know as the Poland Stabilization Force or PSF for short.
July 16th 1940
In the Baltic Sea the Polish Grom-class destroyers ORP Grom and Wicher-class destroyer ORP Burza together with De Zeven Provinciën-class frigate HNLMS Evertsen begin a two day naval exercise with Zuiderkruis-class support ship, HNLMS Zuiderkruis also taking part.
Southampton-class light cruiser HMS Glasgow and I-class destroyer HMS Imogen collide in heavy fog off Duncansby Head, North of Scotland. Imogen catches fire and is abandoned (17 killed, 133 rescued by HMS Glasgow), drifting 20 miles South before sinking. HMS Glasgow suffers a 6 foot gash above the water line (2 killed) and is forced to sail to Liverpool for repairs.
July 17th 1940
Preparations begin on Orzeł-class submarine ORP Sęp to have it towed to the Swedish shipbuilder Kockums MV A/B, Malmö, where the submarine will be given repairs in order for it to be allowed to haed safely to De Schelde and Rotterdamse Shipyards, Netherlands.
General of the Infantry (German: General der Infanterie) Alexander von Falkenhausen (who was Chiang Kai-Shek's military advisor from 1934 to 1937) in a conversation with his close friend Reichspräsident Dr. Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, request that Germany restarts its relations with China that where frozen when the previous German government under Hitler chose to have closer relation with Japan instead of with China.
July 18th 1940
During the "Democratic National Convention in Chicago: President Franklin D. Roosevelt is nominated for an unprecedented third term in office."
A day after a meeting with his friend General of the Infantry Alexander von Falkenhausen, Reichspräsident Dr. Carl Friedrich Goerdeler brings up the topic of restarting German-China relations with Minister of Foreign Affairs Ulrich von Hassell who suggest that it the current moment the main efforts has to be in restoring relations with their fellow European countries before they begin to focusing on China.
In the United States, the Vought-Sikorsky VS-300 single-engine helicopter designed by Igor Sikorsky and flown by him manages to stay 15-minute in the air while also staying practically stationary over one place during the entire time it is airborne. While this flight shows the VS-300 can remain airborne for more than 15 minutes, Igor Sikorsky knows that thanks to the pictures he has studied which showed the strange helicopters flying in the Netherlands that he has still plenty of work ahead of him, before his own helicopters will be able to achieve what those strange helicopters are rumored to be capable of doing.
Royal Navy County class heavy cruiser HMS Cumberland leaves Simonstown, near Cape Town, South Africa in order to rendezvous with the former German auxiliary cruiser Orion who departed Devonport Naval Base, Auckland, New Zeeland on June 21st 1940 and who will be escorted by HMS Cumberland true the Suez Canal.
Hardliner and very much anti-Roosevelt Yosuke Matsuoka is appointed to the role of Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs (外務大臣 Gaimu Daijin).
July 17th 1940
Preparations begin on Orzeł-class submarine ORP Sęp to have it towed to the Swedish shipbuilder Kockums MV A/B, Malmö, where the submarine will be given repairs in order for it to be allowed to haed safely to De Schelde and Rotterdamse Shipyards, Netherlands.
General of the Infantry (German: General der Infanterie) Alexander von Falkenhausen (who was Chiang Kai-Shek's military advisor from 1934 to 1937) in a conversation with his close friend Reichspräsident Dr. Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, request that Germany restarts its relations with China that where frozen when the previous German government under Hitler chose to have closer relation with Japan instead of with China.
July 18th 1940
During the "Democratic National Convention in Chicago: President Franklin D. Roosevelt is nominated for an unprecedented third term in office."
A day after a meeting with his friend General of the Infantry Alexander von Falkenhausen, Reichspräsident Dr. Carl Friedrich Goerdeler brings up the topic of restarting German-China relations with Minister of Foreign Affairs Ulrich von Hassell who suggest that it the current moment the main efforts has to be in restoring relations with their fellow European countries before they begin to focusing on China.
In the United States, the Vought-Sikorsky VS-300 single-engine helicopter designed by Igor Sikorsky and flown by him manages to stay 15-minute in the air while also staying practically stationary over one place during the entire time it is airborne. While this flight shows the VS-300 can remain airborne for more than 15 minutes, Igor Sikorsky knows that thanks to the pictures he has studied which showed the strange helicopters flying in the Netherlands that he has still plenty of work ahead of him, before his own helicopters will be able to achieve what those strange helicopters are rumored to be capable of doing.
Royal Navy County class heavy cruiser HMS Cumberland leaves Simonstown, near Cape Town, South Africa in order to rendezvous with the former German auxiliary cruiser Orion who departed Devonport Naval Base, Auckland, New Zeeland on June 21st 1940 and who will be escorted by HMS Cumberland true the Suez Canal.
Hardliner and very much anti-Roosevelt Yosuke Matsuoka is appointed to the role of Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs (外務大臣 Gaimu Daijin).
July 19th 1940
United State President Roosevelt signs the "Naval Expansion" or "Two-Ocean Navy Act" allowing for a massive extra 1,325,000 tons of warships, 100,000 tons of auxiliary shipping and 15,000 aircraft.
July 20th 1940
Equipped with the Bloch MB.152 fighters , the 2nd 'Kraków-Poznań' Fighter Squadron becomes the second Polish fighter squadron after the 1st 'Warsaw' Fighter Squadron to operate from Okęcie airport.
Royal Navy County class heavy cruiser HMS Cumberland rendezvous with the former German auxiliary cruiser Orion where it will escort Orion true the Suez Canal.
July 21st 1940
In a prison cell deep underneath the Lubyanka Building, headquarters of the NVKD the head of the feared Soviet security and secret police Lavrentiy Beria visit the imprisoned Polish General Michał Tokarzewski-Karaszewicz where Beria makes an offer to him, assist in destroying the Polish resistance in the Soviet Union ore face trail for crimes against the Soviet Union with the most likely outcome that he will be found guilty and executed. General Michał Tokarzewski-Karaszewicz weak and badly treated by his NVKD guards responds is simple, ‘’never in my life will i aid those who occupy my country’’.
The newly elected Chamber of Deputies proclaims the establishment of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic and declares its desire for membership in the Soviet Union. The Chamber declares all land in Estonia the property of the people in common and nationalizes all banks and large industrial enterprises. This is also happens in Latvia and Lithuania where their parliaments adopted resolutions to convert their states to Soviet Socialist Republics and to accept these newly established SSRs into the Soviet Union.
July 22th 1940
Deutsche Werke shipyard personal in Kiel, Germany begin work on dismantling aircraft carrier A (German: Flugzeugträger A) or also known as Graf Zeppelin which work was stopped less than a month ago by orders of the Oberkommando der Marine, the Supreme High Command of the German Navy now that there is no need for the carrier. Flugzeugträger B which is at Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft in Kiel will also be dismantled.
Netherlands ambassador to Latvia, de Decker together with other ambassadors after being summoned to the office of Minister-President of Latvia Augusts Kirhenšteins who was made Minister-President of Latvia after the country was invaded by the Soviet Union is informed that the newly established Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic (Latvian: Latvijas Padomju Sociālistiskā Republika) no longer needs any foreign ambassador and that they have one week to leave the country.
Southampton-class light cruiser HMS Glasgow which was damaged in a collision with I-class destroyer HMS Imogen on July 16th is taken in hand for repairs at Liverpool.
July 23rd 1940
Honorary consul in Kovno, Lithuania, Jan Zwartendijk who directs the Philips plants in Lithuania during a phone conversation with Netherlands ambassador to Latvia, de Decker and also his superior is informed by de Decker that with the forceful closing of the Netherlands embassy in Latvia by the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic, Zwartendijk will be made unofficial representative of the Netherlands to both Latvia and Lithuania for as long as he remains in the country.
Royal Netherlands Navy O 12-class submarines HNLMS O 14 and HNLMS O 15 who departed the Caribbean (Netherlands West Indies) on June 28th 1940 arrive at naval base Den Helder.
At Blohm & Voss Shipyard in Hamburg, the battleship Bismarck, first of her class undergoes an inclining test (a test performed on a ship to determine its stability, lightship weight and the coordinates of its center of gravity).
July 24th 1940
Type IID U-boat U-139 is commissioned with the German Kriegsmarine with Kapitänleutnant Robert Bartels in command. With the commissioning of U-139 only one Type IID U-boat remains to be commissioned and that is U-140 due the Oberkommando der Marine, the Supreme High Command of the German Navy having decided to stop any production of the Type IID U-boat.
Zuiderkruis-class support ship, HNLMS Zuiderkruis having spent 11 days at Gdynia Naval Base,Poland of which 2 days where she took part in a joint Polish-Netherlands navy exercise begins its 5 day journey back to the Netherlands escorted by Holland-class offshore patrol vessel, HNLMS Holland and sloop HNLMS Johan Maurits van Nassau (old navy), who is relieved by Flores-class gunboat HNLMS Flores (old Navy).
Admiral Hipper-class heavy cruiser KMS Admiral Hipper departs Kiel naval base together with Scharnhorst-class battleships KMS Scharnhorst and her sister ship KMS Gneisenau for the Baltic Sea where they will conduct naval exercises.
July 25th 1940
United States President Roosevelt orders a partial trade embargo on aviation fuel, lubricants and high-grade scrap metal to Japan.
Now former Netherlands ambassador to Latvia, de Decker boards a Swedish Aerotransport (A.B.A.) Douglas DC-3 which will fly him to Stockholm, Sweden where he will then board a KLM flight to Amsterdam.
French Ambassador to Poland Léon Noël meets with Polish Prime Minister Władysław Sikorski where he informs the prime minster that the French government is willing to transfer large amount of military hardware to the Polish Third Republic.
Van Kinsbergen-class sloop HNLMS Van Kinsbergen departs Aruba for a visit to Suriname.
July 26th 1940
The Danish Government signs a order for 24 Supermarine Spitfire to be bought from Supermarine in order to replace the 12 destroyed Fokker D.XXI single-engine fighters (destroyed by the Luftwaffe during the invasion of Denmark) and to strengthen the Hærens Flyvertropper (English: Danish Army Air Corps).
The French Republic and the United Kingdom come to an agreement to increase military shipments over the Burma Road which is used to transport supplies to the Chinese National Revolutionary Army who are fighting the against the Imperial Japanese Army in China.
In Iran the Shah's police squad unexpectedly arrived at the residence of opposition politician Mohammad Mossadegh, searching and ransacking his house. Although no incriminating evidence against him was found, he arrested by the police and taken to the central prison in Tehran nonetheless.
Reichspräsident (English: President of the Reich) Dr. Carl Friedrich Goerdeler speaking true a Funk-Stunde microphone set up at the Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft (English: State Broadcasting Company, RRG) informs the German people that the a tomb for the slain Fuhrer Adolf Hitler will be constructed in Berlin and who will be designed by the Albert Speer.
July 27th 1940
With work on the Type IID U-boat having stopped with only one yet to enter into service with the German Kriegsmarine, the Type VIIB U-boat U-73 is launched at Bremer Vulkan in Bremen. The Type VIIB production unlike the Type IID has not yet been halted with at least 12 of her class yet to enter into service bringing the total U-boat fleet in service to at least 107 as of this date.
Deutschland-class heavy cruiser KMS Admiral Scheer who sins February 1st 1940 was in dry dock at the Kriegsmarinewerft Wilhelmshaven where she received modifications like having a new, raked clipper bow fitted, here heavy command tower replaced with a lighter structure, additional anti-aircraft guns also installed is re-commissioned with the Kriegsmarine.
July 28th 1940
The first D.XXI-6, a upgraded Fokker D.XXI single-engine fighter of which the Royal Netherlands Army Aviation Brigade has ordered an additional 36 is flown. (The Royal Netherlands Army Aviation Brigade already operates 36 Fokker D.XXI single-engine fighters).
The Czechoslovak National Liberation Committee (or informally known as the Provisional Government of Czechoslovakia) under the leadership of former Czechoslovak President, Edvard Beneš is invited by the West Polish Government to relocate their committee and the 1st Czechoslovak Division (a understrength force made up of infantry regiments, with a combined strength of 5,000 men) that is still deployed in France to Warsaw.
Norwegian Crown Prince Olav visit Sleipner-class destroyer HNoMS Odin which is after being re-commissioned into the Royal Norwegian Navy on June 11th was sent to the Royal Norwegian Navy's shipyard at Karljohansvern, Horten for repairs (HNoMS Tor sister ship of HNoMS Odin was also raised and is being worked on at the Royal Norwegian Navy's shipyard together with HNoMS Balder, two others, HNoMS Sleipner and HNoMS Gyller are in service with only one, HNoMS Æger being too badly damaged and is slated to be scrapped).
July 29th 1940
Reichspräsident (English: President of the Reich) Dr. Carl Friedrich Goerdele meets with Großadmiral (English: Grand Admiral) Raeder, Commander-in-Chief (German: Oberbefehlshaber der Marine) of the Kriegsmarine where they discuss the future of the Kriegsmarine and where they come to the conclusion that the focus of the Kriegsmarine is not the Royal Navy anymore but from now on the Soviet Navy operating in the Baltic Sea, Norwegian Sea and the Barents Sea.
By royal decree, the Regiment Huzaren Prins Bernhard is raised at the cavalerieschool in Apeldoorn. The regiment which will remain part of the Lichte Divisie, Royal Netherlands Army will see the 1st tank squadron, 2nd tank squadron and 3rd tank squadrons (each equipped with 24 Infantry Tank Mark IIs) who were until today operated separately being combined into one regiment.
July 30th 1940
A Fairey Swordfish torpedo bomber biplane operated by 812 Naval Air Squadron of the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm collides with another Swordfish south of North Coates during an exercise killing all four pilots of the two Swordfishes.
HMS Hood in dock at Rosyth Shipyard where she sins July 3rd is undergoing a major refit is visited by First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill and Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound.
July 31st 1940
Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal, Revenge-class battleship HMS Resolution, Queen Elizabeth-class battleship HMS Valiant and escort arrive at the French Navy (French: Marine Nationale) base at Mers-el-Kébi for a port visit.
August 1st 1940
The Empire of Japan Japan’s Foreign Minister Matsuoka Yōsuke in a press interview announced the government’s policy to build a so-called “Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere.” The term Greater East Asia implies that in addition to the core region of Japan, Manchukuo, and China, the sphere is to include Southeast Asia, Eastern Siberia, and possibly the outer regions of Australia, India, and the Pacific Islands.
British Duke Edward and duchess Wallis set sail from Lisbon, Portugal, to assume the governorship of the Bahamas in the West Indies.
August 2nd 1940
Fokker delivers the first of 5 ordered Fokker T.VIII-W/C twin-engined torpedo-bomber and reconnaissance floatplanes to the Finnish Air Force(The delivery of the 5 Fokker T.VIII-W/Cs was delayed due the Seven Months War, the Soviet blockade of the three Baltic nations and later the Baltic War).
The British government signs an agreement with the Polish government to deliver a still to be determined number of light tanks to augment the 10th Armored Cavalry Brigade, the only Polish tank brigade currently being fielded by the Polish Army.
August 3rd 1940
The second batch of 12 pre-production AG-40 assault rifles designated as the AG-40 Model I by Artillerie Inrichtingen, the company in charge of producing arms and ammunition for the Royal Netherlands Army is handed over to the 1st Royal Netherlands future) Marine Battalion) for evaluation and field testing (The AG-40 Model I are handmade versions of the AG-40 which itself is a copy of the AK-47, the AG-40 Model II the follow up of the AG-40 Model I will be made in larger numbers).
August 4th 1940
Rear Admiral Willem de Fries Commander of the Navy in the Netherlands (Dutch: Commandant Zeestrijdkrachten in Nederland) meets with Admiral G.C. Dickens, the British naval attaché in The Hague to disuse the British naval participation in the Baltics as only the Netherlands has ships deployed out of West Poland as part of its contribution to the Poland Stabilization Force or PSF for short.
August 5th 1940
In Amersfoort at the Bernhard barracks, also home of the Regiment Huzaren Prins Bernhard, the 3rd Armoured Car Squadron - 3e E. Paw is raised, this armored car squadron will take over 10 M.39 Landsverk armored cars from the Depot Squadron Armoured Cars.
Armored car squadrons of the Royal Netherlands Army
The 1st Armoured Car Squadron - 1e E. Paw is equipped with 12 M.36 Landsverk armored cars and is garrisoned in Den Bosch, in the Isabelle barracks.
The 2nd Armoured Car Squadron - 2e E. Paw is equipped with 12 M.38 Landsverk armored cars and is garrisoned in Amersfoort, in the Bernhard barracks.
The 3rd Armoured Car Squadron - 3e E. Paw is equipped with 12 M.39 Landsverk armored cars and is garrisoned in Amersfoort, in the Bernhard barracks.
The Depot Squadron Armoured Cars is equipped with 2 M.39 Landsverk armored cars and 5 Vickers-Carden-Loyd tankettes and is garrisoned in Amersfoort, in the Bernhard barracks.
First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill having been informed by the Admiral G.C. Dickens, the British naval attaché in The Hague that the Netherlands is not happy that there are no British warships operating in the Baltics orders Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound to send as soon as possible one or more ships to the Baltic in a show that they are committed to the defense of its allies.
August 6th 1940
The Supreme Soviet accepts Estonia as the 16th republic of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
British prime minster Halifax approves the proposal of Minister of Shipping Ronald Cross to have all ships belonging to the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania currently in British ports to be seized.
August 7th 1940
The Supreme Soviet accepts Latvia as the 17th and Lithuania as the 18th republics of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics a day after Estonia was already made part of the Soviet Union.
August 8th 1940
Fokker delivers the second of five ordered Fokker T.VIII-W/C twin-engine torpedo-bomber and reconnaissance floatplanes to the Finnish Air Force.
During a ceremony at the Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft, Kiel the third member of the Admiral Hipper-class heavy cruiser KMS Prinz Eugen is commissioned which was also attended by Reichspräsident (English: President of the Reich) Dr. Carl Friedrich Goerdele, Commanders-in-Chief (German: Oberbefehlshaber der Marine) of the Kriegsmarine Großadmiral Raeder and the Regent of Hungary, Admiral Miklós Horthy (he commanded the battleship SMS Prinz Eugen from November 24th 1917 to March 1st 1918).
August 9th 1940
The Soviet Union closes down all of the Philips plants in Lithuania and informs all of its foreign employers, including Jan Zwartendijk who directs all Philips plants in Lithuania that they are no longer needed and therefore are requested to leave the Soviet Union.
Java-class light cruiser HNLMS Sumatra (Dutch: Hr.Ms. Sumatra) departs naval base Den Helder for the Netherlands East Indies where she will join her sister ship HNLMS Java, De Ruyter-class light cruiser HNLMS De Ruyter (Dutch: Hr.Ms. De Ruyter), Tromp-class light cruiser HNLMS Tromp (Dutch: Hr.Ms. Tromp) and seven Admiralen-class destroyers who are operating out of the Netherlands East Indies.
August 10th 1940
The Polish government reestablish Polskie Linie Lotnicze LOT S.A, an airline which before the German invasion of Poland was the flag carrier of the country.
Elli-class protected cruiser HHMS Elli takes part in the celebrations of the Feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos while at anchor near the island of Tinos (in OTL she was sunk by a Italian submarine on this date).
Sir Donald Somervell, Attorney General for England and Wales informs British prime minster Halifax that he thinks that Norman Baillie-Stewart a former British army officer who is known as one of the persons associated with the nickname Lord Haw-Haw in prison sins June 20th 1940 cannot successfully be tried on charges of high treason, committed by taking German citizenship in March 1940 and instead has decided to try him on the lesser charge of "committing an act likely to assist the enemy" during the Seven Months War.
August 11th 1940
The Oberkommando der Marine, the Supreme High Command of the German Navy makes the decision to have Grampus-class mine-laying submarine HMS Seal, return to the Royal Navy as a symbolic gesture to their British counterparts. HMS Seal which was the only British submarine they captured at sea during the Seven Months War had a crew of 57 officers and sailors of HMS Seal which a couple of days after the signing of the Peace Treaty of Brussels where sent onboard a train which brought them to neutral Belgium where they were later picked up by the Royal Navy.
A Category 2 hurricane struck the Georgia and South Carolina coast in the United States of Americas killing fifty people.
August 12th 1940
The headquarters of the 1st Czechoslovak Division (under the control of the Czechoslovak National Liberation Committee ore informally known as the Provisional Government of Czechoslovakia) arrives in the West Polish city of Kraków, the closet major city near German occupied Czechoslovakia and the German puppet state of the Slovak Republic. While the 1st Czechoslovak Division is setting up shop in Kraków, the Czechoslovak National Liberation Committee under the leadership of former Czechoslovak President, Edvard Beneš who accepted the invitation by the West Polish Government to relocate their committee and the 1st Czechoslovak Division begin to arrive in the capitol of the Polish Third Republic.
August 13th 1940
The first O 21-class submarine, HNLMS O 21 is commissioned with the Royal Netherlands Navy with three more of here class (O 22, O 23 and O 24) expected to be commissioned by the end of 1940 and with four more to be commissioned in 1941.
A Royal Australia Air force (RAAF) Lockheed Hudson A16-97, crashed in hilly country about eight miles from Canberra killing four crew, three members of the Australian Cabinet (Minister for the Army and Repatriation Brigadier Geoffrey Austin Street, Minister for Air and Civil Aviation James Valentine Fairbairn and Vice-President of the Executive Council and Minister in charge of Scientific and Industrial Research Sir Henry Somer Gullett) and the Chief of the General Staff General Sir Cyril Brudenell Bingham White.
Jan van Amstel-class minesweepers HNLMS Willem van Ewijck, HNLMS Abraham van der Hulst and HNLMS Pieter Florisz begin sweeping the minefield designated "Schulpengat Buiten " which was laid by the minelayer HNLMS Willem van der Zaan on September 3rd 1939 but now that there is no need for minefields and to prevent any ship from being harmed the Royal Netherlands Navy has decided to remove all minefields that where laid in the period of the Seven Months War.
August 14th 1940
The Netherlands tugboat named Zwarte Zee the strongest tugboat in the world and own by L. Smit & Co`s Internationale departs Den Helder with an assignment to tow Orzeł-class submarine ORP Sęp still in Sweden to De Schelde and Rotterdamse Shipyards, Netherlands.
Former Czechoslovak President Edvard Beneš now leader of the Czechoslovak National Liberation Committee (or informally known as the Provisional Government of Czechoslovakia) arrives in the Polish Third Republic capital of Warsaw and meets in the Chancellery of the Prime Minister of Poland (Polish: Kancelaria Prezesa Rady Ministrów) Prime Minister Władysław where they discuss the reestablishment of Czechoslovakia-Poland relations who began when thy where invited by the West Polish Government to relocate their committee and the 1st Czechoslovak Division on July 28th 1940.
August 15th 1940
British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC), the British state-owned airline transfer two Lockheed Model 14 Super Electra to the reestablish Polskie Linie Lotnicze LOT S.
Leader of the Czechoslovak National Liberation Committee Edvard Beneš visit the headquarters of the 1st Czechoslovak Division in the West Polish city of Kraków.
Royal Air Force No. 54 Squadron based at RAF Hornchurch becomes the first squadron to receive the Supermarine Spitfire Mk II (the Mk II and the yet to produce Mk III are going the last of the early Merlin-powered variants with the Spitfire Mk V who was previous known as the Spitfire GM V being the first Spitfire to be designed using knowledge obtain from the Netherlands Research and Development Organization (Dutch: Onderzoek en Ontwikkeling Deinst).
Soviet Army Colonel Pavel Batitsky and Chief of Staff of Soviet military advisers at the headquarters of Chiang Kai-shek dies of a heart attack at age 30 (in an alternate future Pavel Batitsky would be chosen to execute Lavrenty Beria).
August 16th 1940
The Royal Hungarian Army (Hungarian: Magyar Királyi Honvédség) orders another batch of twenty Toldi I 38M light tanks bringing the total ordered Toldi I to 62.
Lavrentiy Beria chief of the Soviet security and secret police smiled when he again toughed about the unknown Soviet Colonel Pavel Batitsky who the previous day at age 30 had died of a heart attack, it was not hard to make it look like a heart attack, thanks to the iPedia app installed on his iPad 6 (iPedia app no longer works but the iPad 6 works fine) he managed to find about his future and when he read who was to shoot hem he of course had to take care of it. Lucky for Beria this opponent of him was a low raking officer somewhere in China who could be easy deal with, other however who might be high ranking he had to be careful with, but thanks to the knowledge he now possess, Beria knew that would not be a problem for him.
Generaloberst and the Chief of the Oberkommando der Luftwaffe (OKL) General Staff Generaloberst Hans Jeschonnek who with the death of Reichsmarschall Herman Göring on May 18th 1940 is the new supreme commander of the Luftwaffe during a meeting with Reichspräsident (English: President of the Reich) Dr. Carl Friedrich Goerdele have a discussion about who should become the new Minister of Aviation (German: Reichsluftfahrtministerium, RLM), after some debate the come to the conclusion that Generaloberst Erhard Milch should become the new Minister of Aviation.
The first transport ship carrying some of the 15,830 soldiers and officers belonging to the Polish 2nd Rifle Division (Polish: 2 Dywizja Strzelców Pieszych ), formerly part of the now disbanded Polish Army in France arrives in the port of at Gdynia Naval Base, Poland.
August 17th 1940
The 3rd 'Dęblin' Fighter Squadron and 4th 'Łódź' Fighter Squadron are activated at the Krosno Airport located near the town of Krosno. The two fighter squadron each operate 9 Bloch MB.152 fighters with the ultimate goal to supplement their numbers with additional Koolhoven F.K.58 fighters.
In the United states, the former Democrat Wendell Willkie, delivered his formal acceptance speech as the Republican nominee for president from his home in Elwood, Indiana.
The Duke of Windsor is sworn in as governor-general of Bermuda.
200 Czechoslovaks (they were part of the Czechoslovak Legion in the then Polish Second Republic) interned by the Romanians at Jarmolinka on September 19th 1939 when they crossed into Romania are released and sent over the border to Polish Third Republic where they are welcomed by several officers of the 1st Czechoslovak Division.
August 18th 1940
Admiral G.C. Dickens, the British naval attaché in The Hague informs Chief of Naval Staff Admiral J.Th. Furstner that Leander-class light cruiser HMS Ajax has been nominated for service In the Baltics. Admiral J.Th. Furstner tells then that the Germans might be offended if HMS Ajax would serve in the Baltics in which Admiral G.C. Dickens responds, that was the reasons why First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill chose HMS Ajax in the first place.
Jan Nowak-Jeziorański, a representative of Polish Prime Minister Władysław arrives in Helsinki where he is to convey a message from Prime Minister Władysław to Chief of Defence of the Finnish Defence Forces Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim about setting up a defense cooperation between them in face of increasing hostile both countries are facing with the Soviet Union.
The keel of the Cleveland-class Light Cruiser USS Columbia is laid down by New York Shipbuilding Corporation in Camden, New Jersey, United States.
Netherlands tugboat named Zwarte Zee arrives in the Swedish shipbuilder owned and operated Kockums MV A/B shipyard in Malmö.
August 19th 1940
German Minister of Justice, Franz Gürtner makes it public true a radio message that the trail of Reinhard Heydrich and Joseph Goebbels will begin on September 8th 1940 at a secure location somewhere in Germany (the location is not mention in order to prevent Heydrich and Goebbels from being rescued by their sympathizers and to prevent them from disclosing the fact that they are simple scapegoats who were blamed for the death of Adolf Hitler).
A meeting between United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King in Heuvelton near Ogdensburg, New York where President Franklin D. Roosevelt discuss the creation of a joint North America defense board who role it is provide policy-level consultation on bilateral defense matters. Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King however informs Roosevelt that he has to reject the creation of a joint North America defense board at this moment.
The Chinese city of Chongqing is bomb by fifty four G3M2 Type 96 bombers escorting by twelve A6M2 Model 11 Zero fighters which is the first combat mission of the Zero fighter.
50 Renault R35 light tanks who were part of batch of a hundred ordered before April 1939 by Poland fifty (the first 50 had arrived in Poland in July 1939 but the majority of them where destroyed during the German invasion of Poland) arrive at Gdynia Naval Base as part of the agreement made by the French government on July 25th 1940 to rebuild the Polish army by supplying them with the needed military hardware. The Renault R35 light tanks will be assigned to the 10th Armored Cavalry Brigade which at this moment operates two armored regiments (the 1st Polish armored regiment and the 2nd Polish armored regiment) who together operate 12 Renault FT light tanks, 24 Hotchkiss H35 light tanks, 10 7TP light tanks, 18 TK (TK-3) tankettes and 4 Panzer III Ausf. D medium tanks.
