~I The 2nd War to end all wars I~
1941-1944
Richard Reynolds is the name, but my boys call me "Rich Ray"
After we whip'ed them Canadians back in the War of Annexation, I retired for a bit to my lounge in the newly given property of Quebec City or as I call the city, "Key-beck City". The world was becoming a better place, at least here in America: Canada is now part of our nation, most of Central America is under control in the form of the state of "Centralia" and our military power is almost comparable to that of the Kaiser! These are indeed good times here in America. Shame we still got this Great Depression going on here...at least it is starting to all come back to us:
That specific nation is now nothing more than a minor after from what I heard the Persians and Indians whip'ed them into obscurity.
Our national think-tank is starting up research on carrier battle group. As might as our Army is, our navy is a laughing matter (even if it is better than the Germans.) My buddy Eugene Cooper is Admiral of the Atlantic Fleet, and he tells me his ships are as good as new, but he wished he'd have more ships to serve the navy more effectively. I don't blame FDR for not giving him what he wants. The last thing he needs is more money being spend on something that we might not even use in the world. Apparently though, he thought it was a good idea to ally with France, a
F.A.S.C.I.S.T country with no democracy what so ever. I think that is very un-American, but then again, I am merely a General, and politics is not my game. At least one good thing happened:
Darn you Wilhelm! You made our boys die for NOTHING!
It was like FDR said the same thing, cause 2 months later, we lost one of our puppet states, and a important one too.
FDR said it was actually a good thing, cause now we can justify to completely annex them.
The think tank is now researching on Aircraft carriers apparently. I guess someone though it was a good idea to put them "airplanes" and launch them from a ship....actually, that's not a bad idea after all. We also found out the Dutch are no longer part of the "Big 8" as I like to call them and got replaced by the Italians. At least they didn't go fascist, but then again they also have a King of Italy. A few months later, we got a telephone call from the French military Consul Bernard Achille that their nation has -get this- declared war on the German Empire to reclaim what was lost! They are dead as a dod-
*sigh* Why does FDR even bother?
Looks like we are in the war! Our allies the Soviets have also joined in, giving the Germans a 2-front war, just like the last one, but this time the Germans have the Japanese in Asia and in the Pacific, so now us and the Soviets have to deal with 2 fronts as well...ugh I hate logistics. So we found out the Chinese have also declared war against Japan and is facing them and Germany, and apparently FDR uses this excuse to ally with the Chinese...I guess that works too.
I'm no good in Chinese, but I came up with this greeting: Knee How. (Means "Hello" in Chinese)
So while the Frenchies and the Russkies fight out the Germans, my chief-of-staff of the Armies in the eastern seaboard Robert G. Calhoun suggested we land our armies in Europe while the Kaisers armies are busy in the Soviet Union and France. The question was, where? I mentioned invading Greenland from Denmark (who was an ally of the Kaiser) and from there invade Denmark itself and on to Northern Germany. Seems Calhoun liked my idea and sent in Luke to invade.
Luke Wallace is a fellow "West Pointer" as I call my buds who graduated from there.
Godthab was occupied in 8 days flat thanks to our airplanes being able to access the snowy and frozen terrain where our regular troops could not make it. In the meantime, FDR has the think-tank work on a new protect code-named "The Manhattan Project" which is just making "Nuclear Weapons" which apparently have the power to destroy....a whole lot of things. (I'd say it all, but the effects are apparently classified...) So anyways, my Corps landed in Denmark and started occupying one of the Danish Islands near Copenhagen.
One of my men made sure that we raided a Danish pastry shop to get one of them Danish pastries we have been hearing from German ads lately.
Meanwhile, Cooper caught the Danish Fleet in Oresund and engaged their fleet.
Whip'em!
We then managed to catch up with one of the German Armies who for some odd reason did not bother to bring any artillery or mech with them...
The battle was faster than I expected to go, and the Germans were losing 2,000 men a day....
Cooper won the day when some last minute Soviet Naval forces came in to assist.
mhmm
Our men whip'ed the Germans at Aabenraa and sent August packing for Berlin apparently!
Indeed sire, they were whip'ed good.
Our occupation of Denmark forced them out of the war, and for good,
Their monarch was not pleased.
More Corps of the US arrived in our new landing zone and began the slow process of marching to Berlin to show the Kaiser we mean it when we say we want France to get back what was once theirs.
Pictured: Some of our men fighting more Germans.
Unforgettably during the course of the war, the German navy manged to escape Europe and land in a small German force on Cape Brenton Island. Truly an embarrassment for the administration, but our armies whip'ed them on the spot, along with the navy that transported those Germans there.
A brother-in-law lives there and he said he saw a Panzer-class tank roll into his backyard and had to hide the family in a bunker they so happened to have.
The good news that came from the war was that the great depression ended! Huzzah for American efficiency!
My money was returned after the bank committed suicide.
Our armies in the meantime were doing a good whip of the German forces there, occupying a lot of territory in the North.
Our boys are winning, that's for sure
France though was having a lot of trouble: their country was occupied in Europe under the iron fist of General Adolf Hitler and the government-in-exile had to launch a propaganda campaign to boast moral in the country. "Free French" forces were working inside occupied-France to attempt to harass occupying German forces there. The Soviets in the meanwhile were doing their best to fight off a German invasion of their land in the west and a Japanese invasion of Siberia. FDR decided that the situation was too dangerous for American forces to continue operations, and he made us start withdrawing. After a new negotiations with the Imperial Government, they struck up a deal that had the Germans give us their insignificant colony in South America in return for peace. The Germans needed to get rid of the colony anyways.
So much for freedom and democracy, eh?
The think-tank soon started researching Public Road Transit-system. FDR decided that we can not just watch the Germans just own Europe, we so decided to fund the French and Soviet war efforts by giving them in total $600 in aid every day for they are in the war. Unforgettably, this would not be enough, for soon afterwords, the Germans forced a rather harsh peace on France....
There goes France....
So now the Kaiser rules supreme in Europe with an iron fist and we only have the communist Soviets and the directional Chinese as allies to oppose the new superpower in the word....I was surprised, but not superseded at the same time. The French should of known that a war with the Germans would prove to be their demise, but as they are, they were too proud of it. Now we have 2 World Wars, 2 times the Germans whip'ed the world, and 2 times we managed to get away with out losing anything....so I am right when 1944 would not be the year of their liberation...
We will get our revenge someday, and hopefully someday will be very soon.
(//That's all for this update. Hope this was a good taste of warfare.
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