Nice to see that Spain has been finally liberated, but your forces have taken massive losses. I take it the Axis are suffering as badly?
They are. The problem is that Germany has a usable IC of about 600.
Finally, Spain has fallen! Patton has reasons to be happy. Let's see what happens in France.
I will have to figure out how to break into France. I need to divert men someplace that is not France to create a backdoor or create a boatload of marines to storm the beaches someplace as they are all defended.
Just caught up once more and its proving, as ever, a very good read. Excellent gains, now to see which is the next nation to be liberated.
I actually have liberated another nation. You will see what it is in this update.
Is anyone going to consider my plans for a partition of Algeria?
I apologize, but I must have missed that post. It might have gone up while I was posting an update. could you please repeat it.
Great progress! Germany's hold on the world is slipping, Any chance of a map showing both liberated africa and still to be liberated africa?
I can do that. It will not be in this update, but it will be in the next one.
Despite the ecstatic celebration that resulted from the liberation of the blood soaked country of Spain, Truman and his generals were not getting there hopes up. Despite this success, it did not mean the war was over. The Germans where ready and waiting in France and scouting would reveal that the beaches of Brittany and Normandy were no longer devoid of men. Focus was thus put on Africa. If North Africa could be secured, then the American Army could poor into the Middle East. If they secured it, they would then have three options. They could enter Europe through the backdoor known as the Balkans, smash into German-held India, or storm into Russia. The Germans knew this too, and the Americans expected them to fight tooth and nail for the region and expected that resistance would only increase as they approached the Suez Canal.
In the African theater, Bradley had successfully secured Agedebia. Lemnitzer had also been forced out of the region of Murzuk.
This was important because As long as the region of Murzuk held, the region of Socna was a dangerous salient and Bradley could prevent reinforcements from reaching it by striking Aujila, the only Italian held province that bordered it. He therefore stroke said province, where the advance into Murzuk had originated from, to both prevent the region of Murzuk from falling and to prevent reinforcements from reaching Socna and stopping Clark's advance.
Admiral King's newly christened Atlantic Fleet was also ordered to Casablanca to escort the transport fleets that had been used to ferry troops to the African and European fronts to the West African coast.
The release of Nigeria had created a situation where the armies that had been advancing into enemy territory where now far behind the lines.
Rather then advancing overland to the new positions, they were ordered to the sea so they could be transported to their new positions more quickly.
Meanwhile in North Africa, some German units managed to sneak past Bradley and enter Socna but they were quickly defeated.
Shortly thereafter, on October 18, Bradley announced the liberation of the new nation of Benin-Sahel.
Along with the creation of a nation that had never existed before, the date was significant for another reason. The date marked the end of the French overseas empire. With this last liberation, the French no longer laid claim to ANY overseas territories other then the insignificant island of Madagascar.
Back in North Africa, Clark had finally secured Socna
Clark then began his advance into the region of Aujila. While this seemed like an insignificant region, it would see some of the heaviest and fiercest fighting of the entire African theater.
Back in Central Africa, The sea lifted troops reached their destination just in time to stop an Italian offensive into Doula.
After stopping this attack, the various armies were ordered to positions along the line to try and stop the Italian advance all along the line.
More men then arrived and halted the assault on Bata
Marshal then began an offensive into Yaounde. The offensive met little resistance and managed to send the Italians running with their tail between their legs.
Shortly thereafter, Clark's advance into Aujila was halted. Bradley, however, quickly launched an attack on the region from Agedabia and forced the the German and Italian soldiers there into a retreat.
Shortly thereafter, Simpson arrived and launched an attack on the region of Msus.
The attack would ultimately fail, and it would be the first of many failed attempts to take the province by American troops.
Bradley, however, advanced toward the city of Benghazi
Bradley, however, with a much larger force then Simpson's, was able to secure the Benghazi region.
Meanwhile, in Central Africa, the Germans and Italians had succeeded in advancing unopposed to the Nigerian border in all but three places. These were Doula, Bata, and Nkongsamba. Bradley ordered the remaining soldiers who had not yet taken up their positions to the provinces along the Nigerian border to try and halt the advance and through them back. General Eagles, newly arrived in Nkongsamba, also managed to throw back a German and Italian advance into the province.
While the war in Africa had up to this point remained mobile, the defeats in Msus and Aujila where beginning to worry Bradley. He had nightmares of the North African campaign turning into Spain part 2, just on a much longer front. That campaign had turned into a scene out of the first world war and Bradley did not relish that happening to him. For now, all he could was wait and hope that the defeats did not become a trend.