The End
By mid-August, the Soviet invasion of America had stalled. It had been a fantastic victory - never before had such a large army been able to fight so far from a friendly base, and against unmeasureable odds. STAKVA in Moscow worked hard on the problems, but Russian experiance in warfare, and all that had been learned from nearly twenty years of war could not beat one simple fact - American tanks had to travel at most around two thousand miles from the factory, while Russian tanks had to travel double, if not triple that.
The pressure was begining to mount on the Soviet troops, hard pressed and far from home. The air was at best contested, and missions mounted by both sides took extreme losses again and again. However, with Los Angeles secure, the Soviets could bring in large supply convoys reasonably intact, and this helped to stiffen resistance against the Americans.
The American counter-attack came in mid-August, and was simple, yet effective. A two pronged attack, one from the north, and the other from the south, to pinch the Russian troops off from their ports and supplies, and save much fighting while ending Soviet ambitions in America.
The Northern Pincer.
The American plan went off without any problems. Russian troops, weary from continual fighting, short of tanks and mechanized formations could not hold the Americans back. It seemed all was lost, until in the Amerika Front Command Center in Los Angeles a message from the Kremlin was de-coded.
The firebird has been released from it's cage.
Hardly a half hour passed before a Ilyushin Il-28 was hovering over the main body of American formations making up the northern pincer. It dropped its payload.
Epicenter of the nuclear explosion used to destroy the Northern Pincer.
The exact same was replayed seven minuites later with the Southern Pincer.
The aftermath was a strange situation, as the resulting chaos created a lull in the fighting, allowing both sides to regroup, and enter the age where nuclear weapons were as much a weapon as tanks and rifles. The Kremlin had made one solid bet - that Americans would not allow President Truman to use nuclear bombs on his own citizens, or his own cities - and the bet paid off. However, Truman declared that so long as he was in a position to lead America, no surrender would be made.
What resulted was even more pressure on the Soviet pocket in south-western America. Millions of men poured towards the Soviet lines, leading to trench warfare and mass attacks not seen since the First World War.
The bleak position of Soviet troops, faced by hundreds of American divisions.
The huge casualty list from the American front convinced the entire Soviet High Command that there was only one choice left, as be it a bloody and questionable one.
They would have to kill thousands to save millions.
The Soviet Atlantic Fleet, for long relegated to patrol duties off the European mainland, sortied into the mid-Atlantic, and under radio silence, slipped to within 100km of the American Eastern Seaboard.
On dawn on August 25th, four carrier bombers took off. Each carried a single nuclear bomb. Two headed for Washington DC, the other two for New York and Boston.
All four found thier targets.
By mid-August, the Soviet invasion of America had stalled. It had been a fantastic victory - never before had such a large army been able to fight so far from a friendly base, and against unmeasureable odds. STAKVA in Moscow worked hard on the problems, but Russian experiance in warfare, and all that had been learned from nearly twenty years of war could not beat one simple fact - American tanks had to travel at most around two thousand miles from the factory, while Russian tanks had to travel double, if not triple that.
The pressure was begining to mount on the Soviet troops, hard pressed and far from home. The air was at best contested, and missions mounted by both sides took extreme losses again and again. However, with Los Angeles secure, the Soviets could bring in large supply convoys reasonably intact, and this helped to stiffen resistance against the Americans.
The American counter-attack came in mid-August, and was simple, yet effective. A two pronged attack, one from the north, and the other from the south, to pinch the Russian troops off from their ports and supplies, and save much fighting while ending Soviet ambitions in America.
The Northern Pincer.
The American plan went off without any problems. Russian troops, weary from continual fighting, short of tanks and mechanized formations could not hold the Americans back. It seemed all was lost, until in the Amerika Front Command Center in Los Angeles a message from the Kremlin was de-coded.
The firebird has been released from it's cage.
Hardly a half hour passed before a Ilyushin Il-28 was hovering over the main body of American formations making up the northern pincer. It dropped its payload.
Epicenter of the nuclear explosion used to destroy the Northern Pincer.
The exact same was replayed seven minuites later with the Southern Pincer.
The aftermath was a strange situation, as the resulting chaos created a lull in the fighting, allowing both sides to regroup, and enter the age where nuclear weapons were as much a weapon as tanks and rifles. The Kremlin had made one solid bet - that Americans would not allow President Truman to use nuclear bombs on his own citizens, or his own cities - and the bet paid off. However, Truman declared that so long as he was in a position to lead America, no surrender would be made.
What resulted was even more pressure on the Soviet pocket in south-western America. Millions of men poured towards the Soviet lines, leading to trench warfare and mass attacks not seen since the First World War.
The bleak position of Soviet troops, faced by hundreds of American divisions.
The huge casualty list from the American front convinced the entire Soviet High Command that there was only one choice left, as be it a bloody and questionable one.
They would have to kill thousands to save millions.
The Soviet Atlantic Fleet, for long relegated to patrol duties off the European mainland, sortied into the mid-Atlantic, and under radio silence, slipped to within 100km of the American Eastern Seaboard.
On dawn on August 25th, four carrier bombers took off. Each carried a single nuclear bomb. Two headed for Washington DC, the other two for New York and Boston.
All four found thier targets.
