Germany consolidates (Morgen die ganze Welt)
From Alternative History
Timeline: Morgen die ganze Welt : obsolete
Sunday, July 9 1944 Normandy
After hard fighting the British manage to occupy parts of Caen one month behind schedule.
Thursday, July 13 1944 Middle East
Rommel breaks through the Allied defenses in Jordan. A feint attack was made in the Haifa area. The Afrika Korps races for Suez.
Sunday, July 16 1944 Middle East
Allied forces hastily retreating from Palestine are ambushed in the Sinai when moving through the Mitla pass. The retreat becomes a rout.
Thursday, July 20 1944 Suez
The Allies entrench on the west bank of the Suez canal. The aim of denying the Suez canal to Great Britain has been achieved. Mussolini is still arguing for an invasion of Africa so the Italian Empire can be restored. The OKH decides rather to help the Japanese by threatening an attack on India. Panzergruppe Kleist moves to the Persian/Indian border while the Afrika Korps holds the Suez canal line.
Tuesday, July 25 1944
Normandy
Operation Cobra starts, an attempt by the US army to break out of the Normandy bridgehead. Allied air power has devastated Axis armor. The Allies have a secret weapon of their own in the form of air-to-ground anti-tank rockets. It is not possible to stop the breakout. Von Kluge in control of Axis forces agrees it is time to use Germany's most fearsome weapon. The nerve gas attack is called "operation surprise"
Wednesday, July 26 1944 operation surprise
Axis artillery throws 25,000 tons of nerve gas at the Normandy bridgehead concentrating at the American forces attacking at Saint-Lô. The surprise is complete. Like the Russians the Americans now find gas masks ineffective. Operation Cobra is stopped dead in its tracks. Small Axis platoons in chemical suits cross the lines. General Patton desperately tries to form a new defence line but his HQ is strafed by jets dropping nerve gas. He perishes together with the staff. The American position is a shambles. Fi-103 cruise missiles are directed at invasion ports armed with nerve gas warheads. Many miss the target but the few that hit bring the supply lines to a stop.
Thursday, July 27 1944 Normandy
German jets are now dropping nerve gas on the Normandy beaches, making an evacuation impossible. Axis forces reach the coast at Omaha beach. Allied ships are targeted by jets dropping nerve gas bombs. The crew of Duke Of York is overcome by nerve gas and the great battleship beaches itself at Omaha. When Allied command realizes what is happening all warships are quickly withdrawn.
Friday, July 28 1944 Normandy
Allied forces in Normandy are trapped. The beaches are contaminated and any resistance is crushed with nerve gas. Generals Montgomery and Bradley escape by aircraft. One million dazed Allied soldiers are rounded up, 400,000 have perished in nerve gas attacks. Nerve gas stocks are now exhausted.
Saturday, July 29 1944 Normandy
Hitler in a radio speech implores the Allies to stop the war as the prisoner-of-war camps are overflowing. He offers peace negotations with the West and threatens gas attacks on England if the Allies don't accept peace terms.
Wednesday, August 2 1944 Normandy
The OKH is taken aback by the success of the battle of Normandy. Normally such a victory would be followed up with annihilation of the enemy but the Allies are still safe at the other side of the Channel. General Guderian inspects the invasion beaches and he recommends copying the design of the invasion barges and building up a fleet to take the fight to the enemy. The Kriegsmarine points out that the enemy air forces have to be destroyed first.
Friday, August 4 1944 London
The Allies are in a state of shock. Their best fighting forces are wiped out in one stroke. About 10% of V1s now carry Tabun and all life is wiped out where they crash. Fortunately V1s are very vulnerable and inaccurate. Most are shot down before reaching their target. Adapting quickly, Londoners learn that when a V1 crashes down and there is no explosion you check the wind direction and run hell for leather. There is no thought of accepting German peace terms. The Royal Air Force can keep German bombers away from British cities and the V-1 offensive is too diffuse to do much damage. Ominously German radio has resurrected the old marching songs "bomben auf Engeland" and "Wir fahren gegen Engeland".
Wednesday, August 9 1944 London
Allied scientists have tested samples of Tabun and analyzed symptoms in Allied soldiers. They report That the Nazis are using a new type of gas called nerve gas. The gas penetrates the skin making gas masks ineffective. Only full-body suits offer protection. Nerve gas research facilities are immediately set up in London and Atlanta. The Allies are 10 years behind in the technology. Millions of full-body suits are ordered.
Sunday, August 13 1944 Murmansk
Finnish/German forces reach Murmansk and Archangelsk, cutting off the supply of Allied aid to the Soviet Union.
Monday, August 14 1944 RAF
The RAF starts using poison gas in its night raids as retaliation for V1 nerve gas attacks. This is more an inconvenience than a danger because most civilians have gas masks.
Monday, August 21 1944 Ural
Axis forces reach the Ural-Volga line. Perm, Jekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk and Orenburg are captured and will be developed into strongpoints. The frontline will be the new border of Germany. A large airbase is built in Ula from where remaining industrial centers will be bombed, mainly Sverdlovsk and Magnitogorsk.
Tuesday, August 22 1944 Berlin
A regular air cargo service between Berlin and Tokyo is established using Ju-390 transporters. Germany sends blueprints and equipment to Japan. The return flights carry rubber and Wolfram, a very important metal for tools and jet engines.
Friday, September 08 1944 The Hague
The first V-2 rocket is launched at London from The Hague and lands at Chiswick with a terrific blast. The supersonic rocket gives no warning and many Londoners are overcome by nerve gas. The era of modern warfare has begun. London and major cities are evacuated after this new threat.
Friday, September 22 1944 Atlantic
The Americans are starting to use electronic countermeasures against guided bomb attacks on shipping. The German success rate drops to zero.
October,12 1944 Regensburg
A modified Me-262 HGIII with a 45 degree swept wing reaches mach 0.96, transsonic speed in level flight. The standard Me-262 has a horizontal speed of mach 0.7 and a mach limit of 0.86. This is a research aircraft but the results are so good that Messerschmit decides to base his next design on it. The Allies are now more than 5 years behind in aircraft technology, although American engineers think they are slightly ahead.
