The war had me absent from the public scene for sometime. I, as Vice President of the United States, would like to endorse both bills officially.
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((Silence... nothing but silence...))
It is unfortunate that the most radical of these bills passed, but it is what it is; the war plans have been formulated, and soon American soldiers will be fighting for freedom around the world.
It is unfortunate that the most radical of these bills passed, but it is what it is; the war plans have been formulated, and soon American soldiers will be fighting for freedom around the world.
((Why exactly? He's Secretary of Defence, rather important right now...))
((Gloa, McCahill was Secretary of the Treasury, not State as it says in your recap... [not that it matters a great deal...]))
Sorry, laziness impeded my work just enough to push writing the update into a weekend that included a cruise from Turku to Stockholm and back.
I will begin working now.
I will begin working now.
Name: William Michael Wallace
Age: 5th March, 1896(aged 57)
Occupation(s): Nominee for Governor of New York
Formerly:
Admiral(1932-53), served in the Pacific Fleet from '39-'48
Rear Admiral(1929-32)
Captain(1925-29)
Commander(1922-25)
Lieutenant(1915-22)
Cadet(1913-15)
Affiliation: Republican
Biography: Born in 1896 to John and Marsha Wallace, William had an average childhood in his hometown of Selma, Alabama. His father was a retired army veteran who had taken up a job as a salesman to bring in a source of income, his mother a housewife. He was a very adventurous boy who also loved the sea, forcing his parents any time he could to take him down south to see the gulf. He applied for the United States Naval Academy in 1913 and was accepted, but when the war started later that year, he requested that he be sent to serve on a ship and experience the war. He served dutifully and with courage and at the closure of the war in 1916, he had achieved the rank of Lieutenant, he also resumed his studies at the USNA and graduated on May 9th, 1919. He continued his gradual climb up the ranks, reaching Commander in 1922, Captain in 1925, Rear admiral in 1929 and finally Admiral in 1932. He served at the naval headquarters and dealt with positioning of fleets and the planning of strategy until 1939, when the Second World War broke out and he was assigned to the Pacific Fleet. He went on to serve in the Fleet until 1948 whereupon he took up service in the Pentagon. He retired in 1953 to take up politics.
Age: 5th March, 1896(aged 57)
Occupation(s): Nominee for Governor of New York
Formerly:
Admiral(1932-53), served in the Pacific Fleet from '39-'48
Rear Admiral(1929-32)
Captain(1925-29)
Commander(1922-25)
Lieutenant(1915-22)
Cadet(1913-15)
Affiliation: Republican
Biography: Born in 1896 to John and Marsha Wallace, William had an average childhood in his hometown of Selma, Alabama. His father was a retired army veteran who had taken up a job as a salesman to bring in a source of income, his mother a housewife. He was a very adventurous boy who also loved the sea, forcing his parents any time he could to take him down south to see the gulf. He applied for the United States Naval Academy in 1913 and was accepted, but when the war started later that year, he requested that he be sent to serve on a ship and experience the war. He served dutifully and with courage and at the closure of the war in 1916, he had achieved the rank of Lieutenant, he also resumed his studies at the USNA and graduated on May 9th, 1919. He continued his gradual climb up the ranks, reaching Commander in 1922, Captain in 1925, Rear admiral in 1929 and finally Admiral in 1932. He served at the naval headquarters and dealt with positioning of fleets and the planning of strategy until 1939, when the Second World War broke out and he was assigned to the Pacific Fleet. He went on to serve in the Fleet until 1948 whereupon he took up service in the Pentagon. He retired in 1953 to take up politics.
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Welcome Admiral Wallace! It is good to see some another man to lead this navy!
((And yay, update!))
((And yay, update!))
((Poor Mr. Carlsson... he can't get no love...))
I'll try to include him in the 1940 update, but just getting it together in any form is proving surprisingly tough.
I'll try to include him in the 1940 update, but just getting it together in any form is proving surprisingly tough.
((Take your time, Sir Bob. We can amuse ourselves until it's ready!
Hmmmm, I just noticed we hit 500 pages; yayz))
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Sir Richard Horshington:
I shall hereby announce the retreat to "losing" money aiding the army as i also announce that I nor my family will never participate in political matter's or such. This decision is final as I am encouraging a organization in the German Nation to help starving children and women as a result of the disaster that we left there.
(( So, that's the end of the sad tale of the Horshington's))
I shall hereby announce the retreat to "losing" money aiding the army as i also announce that I nor my family will never participate in political matter's or such. This decision is final as I am encouraging a organization in the German Nation to help starving children and women as a result of the disaster that we left there.
(( So, that's the end of the sad tale of the Horshington's))
Name : James Morgan May
Born : 26th April, 1914
Occupation: Trader
Affiliation: (still not affiliated)
Biography: James was born in a small town in Connecticut, named Cupraville, his father was also a trader, from which son was influenced by. James had always been a man of great personality and honor, he now control's JMMETC the biggest trading of ressources in the northern Atlantic sea, he then aspired to create a party in politic's with a motto . "We believe, We do, We achieve", It is also known that James had been accused to drug dealing, in which case is still followed, we believe that he joined the army as a high ranking officer that his courage led to many crucial victories, he has been desired by local parties, and I think thet he will be desired amongst major political parties as well...
Born : 26th April, 1914
Occupation: Trader
Affiliation: (still not affiliated)
Biography: James was born in a small town in Connecticut, named Cupraville, his father was also a trader, from which son was influenced by. James had always been a man of great personality and honor, he now control's JMMETC the biggest trading of ressources in the northern Atlantic sea, he then aspired to create a party in politic's with a motto . "We believe, We do, We achieve", It is also known that James had been accused to drug dealing, in which case is still followed, we believe that he joined the army as a high ranking officer that his courage led to many crucial victories, he has been desired by local parties, and I think thet he will be desired amongst major political parties as well...
The Second World War
1940: Midnight in the Devil’s Garden
1940: Midnight in the Devil’s Garden
With NATO’s chances of victory seeming slim unless American intervention was put on an accelerated schedule from the sluggish one that had prevailed in 1939, concentrated almost solely on recovering men and material losses suffered at pearl Harbor and various Pacific Islands, McCahill urged congress on January 1st 1940 to vote ahead of schedule on the War Acts that he had placed under deliberation three months earlier. On January 12th, the House and Senate passed the Selective Service, National Industry, Military Research, Industrial Incentives and Women’s Work Acts with little opposition outside of that to NIA. As the rest of the legislation was quickly put into action, NIA and IIA were quickly put out of action by a challenge from New York based Jameson Auto Parts, who had failed to convert to a war footing before February 1st, and were about to be seized temporarily by the NWB.
1. The Supreme Court in session during Jameson v. NIA.
The administration’s lawyers tried their best to prevent NIA from being declared unconstitutional, but once the National Labor Union’s support was thrown behind Jameson Auto Parts after a lengthy three-week deliberation, NIA was doomed. The act, and the IIA with it, was declared unconstitutional on March 2nd. The United States Military would thus have to receive its weapons the traditional way; by ordering them from private companies. In response to this reality, the US Congress passed the Military Goods Act, based on a suggestion by Secretary of Defense Richard Jarvis, which expanded tax breaks and subsidies on war industries.
The President expressed his disappointment with the failure of NIA to make it past the Supreme Court, and also stated that he “wished [he] could have done more,” but, at the time of the trial, he had been busy coordinating the political execution of Operation Threshold. The first part of the plan to stop the Japanese advance in the Pacific was the blunting of the Empire’s naval offensive capability. In April 1940, almost a full year after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the US 1st Pacific Fleet and US 3rd Pacific Fleet, known as Task Force One, intercepted a message detailing the Japanese 1st and 2nd Air Fleets’ joint move to the outskirts of the Solomons in preparation for the Japanese invasion of the islands.
Having joined up with the US 2nd Pacific Fleet, British 3rd Pacific Fleet, and 1st and 2nd Australian Fleets, the massive Task Force One headed to intercept the Japanese Fleet 20 miles north of Satawan Atoll. Found in 1902 by American explorer Roland Gould, and subsequently left alone by all of civilization except for the flag planted by Gould, the tiny American holding would soon witness the largest naval battle in the history of mankind. Beginning at 4AM on April 24th, after the Australian 1st Fleet stumbled into the 1st Air Fleet’s forward flotilla, the Battle of Satawan lasted six days, resulted in the Japanese losing four aircraft carriers to the Americans’ two and Brits’ one, the deaths of more than 12,000 NATO and Japanese sailors, and only ended after the unexpected arrival of the 2nd and 4th Imperial Japanese Fleets distracted the bulk of Task Force one long enough for the main Japanese fleet to disengage.
2. A picture by USN Pilot Thomas Leahy of the fighting on the second day.
Satawan crippled the Japanese navy, leaving it with one working carrier and without any fleets that could even hope to challenge the largest NATO fleet, the US 1st Pacific, which in itself had been merged with the 3rd Pacific, unless all 3 Air Fleets were merged, which they were. The Japanese Navy and Empire were thus put on the defensive by a battle that, when judged without the bigger picture, had been far from decisive, and is often marked down as a bloody tactical stalemate. In the NATO countries however, the battle was hailed up and down the newspapers as “Decisive” and “A Knockout Blow.”
In the jungles of Papua New Guinea, Malaya and Burma however, the Japanese advance continued relentlessly, and even though the large-scale invasion of the Solomons had been thwarted, Japanese High Command was determined to advance into the island chain. Later in the year, American and Australian troops would face the full consequences of this determination, but before the Pacific Theater experienced its next great campaign in the fall, all eyes would be fixed on the skies of Great Britain.
3. British planes over Essex, c. May 1940.
It was obvious that, after the Fall of France, the Germans would attempt to bring the United Kingdom to its knees. With the US Navy engaged in the Pacific and mid-Atlantic, there was only one obstacle to a German cross-channel invasion; the Royal Navy. As long as the dreadnoughts and aircraft carriers of the Admiralty sill patrolled the English Channel and North Sea, and as long as the Royal Air Force was capable of countering the German Air Force’s attempts at bombing the block out of existence, there was no chance of a German invasion force successfully crossing the Channel. In May 1940, Hitler thus approved an air campaign unlike any other before seen, and directed it against the RAF.
By June 1st, the RAF, despite having a near 2-1 kill-loss ratio in the massive dogfights against the German fighter and bomber squadrons, was approaching a critical state. Its airfields were barely capable of serving it; its pilots were fatigued, shell-shocked, and near impossible to replace fast enough; and the Germans seemed to have none of these problems. In response, President McCahill approved an acceleration of the schedule to transport American planes and aviation personnel [1], which saw USAF presence in the isles triple in two months. The fresh American pilots, planes, and the airfield reparation and expansion capabilities they came with quickly turned the tide.
For Hitler and Wilhelm IV, the price of the Battle of Britain was the image of German invincibility, and the German Air Force, which proved unable to ever fully recoup its losses, as subsequent campaigns and destruction of building facilities further gnawed away at the air force that had humbled Prague, Paris and Warsaw with impunity. For the British, the price was measured in destroyed houses; in civilians killed by the crossfire and the missing of targets; in the fields and ruined houses littered with unexploded bombs and shrapnel. For the Americans, the price of accelerated involvement had been over a quarter of the pilots and planes sent since the beginning of the war. In return, the latter two combatants however, had in the words of President McCahill, “gained the freedom of the world.”
4. A wounded marine and his friends at Choiseul, in the Solomons, c. September 1940.
By late November of 1940 the Pacific Theater seemed to have channeled itself into these three islands off the coast of Papua New Guinea. 120,000 NATO soldiers now faced an estimated 90,000 Japanese troops, transported and reinforced as if by magic in the dead of night, in a contest that would see the Americans and Australians suffer 38,000 dead, taken by disease, the jungle and relentless Japanese assaults. And as the campaign seemed to go nowhere in the long fall of an election year, President McCahill prepared to face the referendum on his turbulent term, as the National Conventions drew nearer.
[1] – The schedule had originally been agreed in a clandestine meeting between Minister of Defense Neville Chamberlain and Vice-President Adlai Carlsson, both outspoken pacifists, who had come up with an intentionally slower schedule than originally planned in order to avoid spooking the Germans with a rapid military buildup in the event of peace negotiations.
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A little shorter than I hoped, due to writer’s block.
Anyway, Primary time. Parties are: Progressive, Republican, Independent.
I announce that I hope to seek re-election under the nomination of the Progressive party. I hope to continue to offer strong leadership, global cooperation with our international allies (and the wider global community) and continuity in this immeasurably important time. Should I receive the nomination, I would of course extend an offer for the continuation of the unity government to the Republicans, so that America is not divided by petty party politicking, but rather stands united in the face of international fascism.
((Also; Spitfires ))
((Also; Spitfires
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I announce that I shall be running as president under no banner (Independent) you all think that i am new but, i have great ideas...
((Platform is coming soon))
((Platform is coming soon))
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Is nobody willing to run for the party my father supported so courageously? ((Since my character is technically part of the war, he can't run. ))
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Speaking solely in my capacity as a private citizen, I endorse President Phillip McCahill's bid for a second term.
An excerpt from Vice Admiral Christopher Sullivan's letter to the Senate Committee on Naval Affairs regarding the composition of the Fleet:
Though it may seem at first glance that Allied naval might is unchallenged in both the Atlantic and the Pacific, it is my considered belief that the fight is not over and that we have instead entered an entirely new phase, both in the current conflict and in all naval combat to follow. Rather than remain complacent with our seeming invulnerability, I believe we should allocate resources away from our heavy surface fleet elements, such as battleships, and instead focus on expanding our force of aircraft carriers, submarines, and destroyers.
The virtues of the aircraft carrier have been amply proven by the war in the Pacific and I shall not waste the committee's time expounding on them further. However, I believe that our continued investment in direct-combat vessels, exemplified by the battleship, is vastly out of proportion to their efficacy in modern naval conflict. Though our navy is the largest and most advanced in the world, it remains mired in tradition regarding its construction priorities and too easily impressed by the size of a capital ship's guns. The United States Navy would be best served not just by scaling back on battleships but completely terminating the construction of future vessels of that class and gradually phasing out all heavy direct-combat vessels currently in service, with the last model to be decommissioned by 1945 at the latest.
Though we remain one of the most progressive naval services on Earth with our early adoption and extensive use of the aircraft carrier, I believe the United States Navy remains woefully behind in the areas of submarine warfare and anti-submarine operations. Submarines serve a crucial role in both targeting enemy naval assets and in disrupting supply lines and it is my belief that we must expand our investment in this area of the fleet to assure American naval supremacy in the second half of the century. With a larger, better-trained force of submariners, I believe we can sever the supply lines connecting Brazil with the European Axis, as well as terminate the supplies and reinforcements flowing to the Imperial Japanese Army in the South Pacific. A subsurface blockade around Japan will also cut the flow of vital resources, including oil, from their colonies to the home islands, and would likely speed the end of the war.
An expanded investment in our destroyers, both as escorts for our aircraft carriers and as submarine hunters, is the final aspect of my proposal. Both the Imperial Japanese Navy and the Imperial German Navy have invested heavily in submarine warfare and I believe we must counter their focus accordingly with light, swift escorts mounting modern sonar systems to root them out before they can attack our carriers. With rapid advances in torpedoes and aircraft-delivered ordinance vastly outpacing our own ability to defend against these projectiles, we must abandon the old school of massive cannons and thick plating; instead, we should shift our efforts toward methods of active detection and pre-emptive countermeasures.
While my proposal may seem radical and costly, I believe these measures are essential to naval modernization and I encourage the Congress to act as soon as possible. It is true that there will be a large initial cost in shifting our production away from a heavy surface fleet to a lighter, more adaptable force, but I believe these priorities will actually save tax dollars in the long run and ensure that the United States Navy remains the most powerful naval armada on the planet.
An excerpt from Vice Admiral Christopher Sullivan's letter to the Senate Committee on Naval Affairs regarding the composition of the Fleet:
Though it may seem at first glance that Allied naval might is unchallenged in both the Atlantic and the Pacific, it is my considered belief that the fight is not over and that we have instead entered an entirely new phase, both in the current conflict and in all naval combat to follow. Rather than remain complacent with our seeming invulnerability, I believe we should allocate resources away from our heavy surface fleet elements, such as battleships, and instead focus on expanding our force of aircraft carriers, submarines, and destroyers.
The virtues of the aircraft carrier have been amply proven by the war in the Pacific and I shall not waste the committee's time expounding on them further. However, I believe that our continued investment in direct-combat vessels, exemplified by the battleship, is vastly out of proportion to their efficacy in modern naval conflict. Though our navy is the largest and most advanced in the world, it remains mired in tradition regarding its construction priorities and too easily impressed by the size of a capital ship's guns. The United States Navy would be best served not just by scaling back on battleships but completely terminating the construction of future vessels of that class and gradually phasing out all heavy direct-combat vessels currently in service, with the last model to be decommissioned by 1945 at the latest.
Though we remain one of the most progressive naval services on Earth with our early adoption and extensive use of the aircraft carrier, I believe the United States Navy remains woefully behind in the areas of submarine warfare and anti-submarine operations. Submarines serve a crucial role in both targeting enemy naval assets and in disrupting supply lines and it is my belief that we must expand our investment in this area of the fleet to assure American naval supremacy in the second half of the century. With a larger, better-trained force of submariners, I believe we can sever the supply lines connecting Brazil with the European Axis, as well as terminate the supplies and reinforcements flowing to the Imperial Japanese Army in the South Pacific. A subsurface blockade around Japan will also cut the flow of vital resources, including oil, from their colonies to the home islands, and would likely speed the end of the war.
An expanded investment in our destroyers, both as escorts for our aircraft carriers and as submarine hunters, is the final aspect of my proposal. Both the Imperial Japanese Navy and the Imperial German Navy have invested heavily in submarine warfare and I believe we must counter their focus accordingly with light, swift escorts mounting modern sonar systems to root them out before they can attack our carriers. With rapid advances in torpedoes and aircraft-delivered ordinance vastly outpacing our own ability to defend against these projectiles, we must abandon the old school of massive cannons and thick plating; instead, we should shift our efforts toward methods of active detection and pre-emptive countermeasures.
While my proposal may seem radical and costly, I believe these measures are essential to naval modernization and I encourage the Congress to act as soon as possible. It is true that there will be a large initial cost in shifting our production away from a heavy surface fleet to a lighter, more adaptable force, but I believe these priorities will actually save tax dollars in the long run and ensure that the United States Navy remains the most powerful naval armada on the planet.
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