therev said:
trekaddict said:
Divi said:Well, there's Mgen Smedley Butler who historically just died (in 1940); with some work, I'm sure he could at the very least least have been coopted posthumously by the USSA.
Onwards to Socialism said:The Japanese on Kyusu and Honshu, the few of them who were there, put up a fanatical resistance, but the Population mostly kept quiet (AN: Thats something I find a bit odd in HOI2. the Captured Japanese Home inslands should produce a much higher revoltrisk IMVHO) It was tired of war. As soon as Comrade General Pattons tanks reached Tokio or what remained of it after the brutal fighting the troops of the 1st A.P.A. Shock Army did their best to relieve the dangers that threatenend to fall upon the Civilians: Hunger, disiease and disorder. The Occupation authority, headed by Comrade Patton himself was directed by orders from Washington to do the utmost to feed the population and to combat the general disorder that was ravaging the city ever since Imperial rule had collapsed and the Emporer had fled to Korea. Field Kitchens were errected everywhere and many Japanese recieved their first good meal in weeks, because it turned out that the IJA had stopped all deliveries of foodstuffs into the areas that the APA was close to capturing and that possibility had hung voer Tokio for at leas t two weeks. While Comrade Patton was busily consolidating the holdings in southern Honshun Comrade Chaffee and the First Marines drove north to occupy Hokkaido before the remnants of the IJN could bring in any troops from china.
The core and heart of the Japanese Empire was captured. The war was still not over. The fanatical Japanese Generals, centered around the Emporer, refused to give in and once again the USSA was in a situation similar to the one it had been in when the CSA and CAL had collaped, and once again hopes for an early peace collapsed. So the secondary sections of fading sun were puled out of the drawer and planning for operations in Korea began. The APASC was starting to have discreet contacts with Korean rebel leaders and the JAPFoS was allocating troops and shipping space to the oepration which was launched on July 25th, 1945 near Busan this time with the 1st Shock acting as the first wave.
The Japanese launched a minor counterattack in souther China against the bridgehead what lead to a halt of all operations on Korea for some days, but the troops were on the move again in mid-august, and once again the terrain was a harder adversary than the enemy divisions and so progress was slow but steady. The 1st Marine Corps and the 1st APA Shock Army along with the second Mountain Corps drove north and crossed the 38th paralell on September 5th.
From that point on the advance north was relatively easy as the meager Japanese forces on the korean peninsula were forced to spread out even more. by the end of september Korea was free and the Korean people could finally choose what authority to live under.
After the declaration of the Peoples Republic of Korea and the subsequent impromtu parties everywhere the APAs attention turned back north. Supplies were gathered, losses replaced, units re-equipped and everything was readied for what the JAPFoS and the President had been dreading for the last year: a full-scale push into China.
Onwards to Socialism said:The Liberation of Korea as a USSA Ally greatly annoyed the ruling clique in Moscow ( Something that would become eveident later) and Stalin, fearing a USSA-controlled China would be an excellent counterweight to his own ambitions in Asia ordered preparations to be made for an Intervention against the Japanese. This however was not known to USSA authorities until much later. Of a more pressing issue was to eject the Japanese from Manchuria. The no one, including JAPFoS and the President (AN: = me
The hopefully second to last great offensive on the Asian Mainland was launched on October the 1st, calculating correctly that the Japanese puppet Munchurian Infantry would be more gravely hampered by the weather and the terrain than the crack APA Mountaineers that made up the first wave of the assault. Progress was surprisingly quick and on November 1st Comrade General Pattons tanks were on the outskirts of the Industrial centre of Harbin, acting as the Manchurain Capital, capturing it and the end of the same day.
In the face of stiffening Japanese/Manchurian resistance and the quickly worsening weather the JAPFoS considered halting the general advance, a thought reinforced by the repeated failure to capture the last Manchurian strategic location at Changde, thereby forcing them to surrender, but Comrade General Pattons newly named commander of all ground forces in Asia, when asked for his opinion dismissed these thoughts as "rubbish" (AN: Patton said something more jucy of course, but it has been tuned down to fit the younger audience.
Pu Yi who was quickly shipped to America to be reindoctrinated was sentenced to 15 years of prison and rendocitrination for his service to the Japanese ( some also say for his tupidity ) and imprisoned at Fort Leavenworth, along with the surviving leaders of the CSA and CAL. After his release he returned to China were he became the Chief Ideologist.
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Onwards to Socialism said:The advance into Manchuria posed no major difficulties but for bad infrastructure and scattered resistance by Japanese units and ridiculously obsolete Manchurian units ( AN: 36 and 39 INF and two 41 inf against my 1945 INF ). The Units advanced north first, hoping to capture the manchurian capital in Harbin.
The main axis of advance then weeled south in the general direction of Bejing. The Manchurian puppet Empire ceased to exist on December.
The advance into the territory of the RoC was planned for the following spring, but all planning was thrown into chaos:
On January 1st the Soviet Union decleared war on the remnants of the Japanese Empire. Comrade Cannon is said to have remarked: “Now the wolve has shown its true face.” JAPFoS was isntructed to do the previously unthinkable: to actually prepare a full-scale war with the Soviet Union. The APASC was instructed to beginn an infiltration of the USSR. If the APA was to counter the Soviet numerical Superiority it needed excellent intelligence. But the planning for World War 3 was on a backburner as long as World war 2 still raged. After the annexation of Manchuria the next point on the Agenda was the destruction of Mengukuo and after that into the territory of the RoC to keep it out of the Soviets grasp. The 1st APA Shock Army was advancing into Mengukuo when orders reched Comrade Pattons Command Post: The first Division-load of M26 tanks had been shipped to the front and soon the first Division was equipped with the tanks that were vastly superiour to anything the Japanese and Chinese were fielding, and at least on par with the newest line of Soviet Tanks.
In 1946 the UMC had captured some of the Japanese holdouts in the Pacific, rounding up the hungry surviors of numerous Japanese Garrisons. Comrade General Patton was ready to launch the second Phase of this years warplan when an exiting message was passed to him by one of his soldiers:
World War 2 was finally over.
Onwards to Socialism said:When the clouds of world war 2 setteled the world found itself in a completely unprecedented situation. Three major power blocks existed, of which two were the complete ideological oposite to the third but relatively friendly towards it and bitter enemys btween themselves.
The only major participant who remains unaglined is the Republic of China. Once a Japanese Puppet in all but name it just hang in the air and in a war with the two major powers in the world. The pro-japanese gouvernement never signed a formal peace treaty with either of its opponents but the gouvernement in Nanjing quickly called a unilateral cease fire when the Japanese surrendered, although they got the terrotory directly annexed by Japan back in late 46. A peace conference was to be held in Bejing in 1947 but the RoC fell into Warlordism and and Civil War almost instantly after the cease fire took effect. The peace conference was never held and so the state of war never formally ended. (AN: Just like the Situation between south and North Korea ) The RoC is still a nation torn apart by warlords and civil war. The Southern Chinese brisghead was meant to go back to the RoC, but the absence of an organized Chinese Gouvernement in the immediate post-war years lead to the area to be regarded as a “territorial Enclave of the Union” and was admitted into the Union of the Socialist States of America as the “Guanxo Territory”. It was now national Territory if the USSA, never to go back to whatever gouvernement China might have in the future. In the North the USSA holdings were reorganized into the Peoples Republic of China under Comrade Mao who was liberated from a Japanese Prison Camp and sent to the USSA for reducation as his views of the Communist Manifesto were deemed to radical and would have most likely led to disaster in the future. When he returned Comrade General Pattons military Gouvernement turned over the authority to Maos Central Committee.The Japanese Holdings in the NEI and Asia were taken over by the APA and released as Peoples Republics.
The WPO or West Pacific Organisation consits of the USSA, the Peoples Republic of Korea, the Peoples Republic Northern China, the Peoples Republic of Vietnam, the Peopoles Republic of Indonesia and the Peoples Republic of Japan. The President of the USSA is also chairman of the WPO and the WPO defines its primary mission with defending the Communist community in Asia from all foreign threats.
The Warzaw Pact is led by the Soviet Union and contains the Soviet Puppets in Europe minus Metropolitan France which has been returned to the French Gouvernement after USSA pressure ( this was the crisis that shredded the last remains of the wartime alliance between the USSA and the USSR. ) The WP maintains a strong military presence at the borders of Italy and Germany with France but most of the WP forces are along the PRC/Soviet Border.
The AIN ( Alliance of Independent Nations ) is led by Great Britain and consists of the old Western Allies, the Nations of the British Commonwealth, most of south America and Sweden. Its decleared mission is to stay neutral in “any future conflict” and trades with both of the other blocs but is forming a formidable industrial power in itself. Its forces are concentrated in France to fend of any possible WP attacks into France. It has friendly but also wary relations with the USSA (AN: rl USA-PRC) and luckewarm to freezing relations with the Warzaw pact because the USSA policy is to respect the AIN neutrality the WP has made no such declaration.
If war between the WP and the WPO ever breaks out it will be a brutal slogging across east Asia. All blocs stopped their programs for the military applications of Nuclear power after the defeat of Japan, but both sides have ammased huge numbers of tanks and guns along the border and so the world is once again holding its breath.
