Chapter 10 - Returning to our Roots
August 9th, 1945
June 23rd, 1945
AUSS Washington, AUSS Atlantic Navy, MittelEuropa Liberation Force, Brittany, Commune of France
With the Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere finally defeated, the American Union State with her honorable allies turned their attention to the place where the Second Weltkrieg all started, Europe. This invasion had been in the planning ever since 1943, and now was the time, every man who fought for liberty, freedom, democracy, and their home would be avenged, no longer would the Reds and their devilish ways torment and enslave the people of Europe, no longer would their ideology threaten the world like it once did, no longer shall the red flag wave over any continent, for the American Eagle has come, and it will not show mercy. Field Marshall Patton, Supreme MittelEuropa Atlantic Commander (Supreme MittelEuropa Pacific Commander was Erich von Manstein of the Kaiserreich) was in his office in the AUSS Washington, an aircraft carrier manufactured in 1944. Today was the day, the day of Liberation, D-Day, The Brittany Invasion. Most of the men were scared, not wanting to live the horrors of fighting war, but it had to be done, God demanded it, America demanded it. To give the men a reminder of what they were fighting for, and what all mattered in the end, Field Marshall Patton drafted himself a speech and on the hour before the guns started firing, her delivered a speech to all soldiers in the ships and in Exeter waiting for transportation. This was his speech.
"Soldiers, Sailors, and Airmen of the European Liberation Force.
You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you. In company with our brave Allies and brothers-in-arms on other fronts, you will bring about the destruction of the French War Machine, the elimination of Marxist Tyranny over the oppressed peoples of Europe, and security for all humans in a free world.
Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well trained, well equipped and has fought on many battlefields. He will fight until he cannot fight no more.
But this is the year 1945! Much has happened since the Syndicalist Triumphs of 1941 and 1942. MittelEuropa has inflicted upon the French great defeats, in open battle man-to-man. Our Air-Offensive has made the once famed city of Paris look like Chicago after we got our hands on it, do you remember 1938? Our Home-Front has granted us the ability to wage war in all places of the world, we have made history, we broke the fortresses of Britain and Japan, and we will do it again! The tide has turned! Today, the Freemen of the world all march to victory over the Red Menace!
I have full confidence in your courage, devotion to your duty, and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than victory and the total destruction of the cancer that is Marxism, Communism, Syndicalism, and Totalism!
Good luck! And let us all beseech the blessings of our almighty God upon this righteous and noble undertaking.
Mark my words, our Stronger and Better America will triumph over the Weaker and Lesser Internationale, to Victory!" -Field Marshall George S. Patton, June 1945
AUS Soldiers getting off an AUS Transport during D-Day, the start of the Liberation of Europe. These men did not fight for conquers like their enemies did, they fought to end conquering and liberate all those from the iron jaws of France.
February 25th, two days after the Empire of Japan surrendered to MittelEuropa forces in the Pacific under the command of Erich von Manstein. American Occupation Forces were being built up to secure the island as the main army and marines were beginning to be pulled out to Anchorage, Alaska Commonwealth. As American Troops were being sent to Britain, Long ordered the creation of four American Garrisons to oversee the Home Islands of Japan. The Kuril Islands however were to be put under Russian administration and protection for now (as in Russia would gain military access to deter and Syndicalist forces), Japan was also to be restored as an independent royal republic rather than a crazed empire wanting to enslave the entirety of East Asia and Oceania. Emperor Hirohito was permitted to be the Head of State of the new Japan but he was forced to relinquish his previous powers over the Japanese Government, and had basically just become a figurehead. In Canada, despite Radical Canadian Protests, nine Canadian-American Divisions were created mostly from American supporters who gladly supported the idea of fighting for America and creating a Canada Commonwealth. The very idea of Canadians fighting for the American Dream sickened most of the hateful Canadians who were either former Royal Canadian Soldiers and or those who experienced harsh American Occupation, it was a nightmare come true. They believed Canada should become independent and rejoin the Entente in an effort to destroy American influence, which would not happen as long as the American Union State was as powerful as it was. Most of the protest were peaceful, except one, the Vancouver Island Protest. Vancouver Island had been under American Occupation ever since the Dominion of Canada surrendered in 1940, but the people there were very militant, it was one of the only places where AUS Garrisons actually had to fight Canadian Radical Rebels. When news reached the island of Canadian men serving in the AUS Military, it was the final straw for the radical populace living there. Spearheaded by John Robert Nicholson, former Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia (A Canadian Province that included Vancouver Island), he called for open revolt against the 'American Murders', preaching death and destruction to all Americans in the Canadian Homeland. He was allowed to incite hatred due to American Law, but when he gathered a group four hundred Canadian men who shared his belief and armed themselves, he had crossed the line. The AUS Military District of Vancouver Island lead by General Cameron issued an order to the AUS Garrison force to arrest John Nicholson and his group, but the few troops who were sent to their hideout in Port Hardy were shot and killed on sight, and so began another rebellion in the American Union State, however instead of the vanquished terrorist group the Klu Klux Klan, it was a new Canadian Terrorist Organization, the Vancouver Liberation Army. Their aim? Death to America and Freedom for Canada, was it accomplished? No.
Canadian Terrorists of the VLA (Vancouver Liberation Army) somewhere in northern Vancouver Island, camping out and awaiting the inevitable response from the Military Governor of Vancouver Island, General Cameron.
With the murder of AUS Troops in Port Hardy General Cameron promised revenge and in doing so ordered a large force of some five hundred men against the four hundred Canadian Terrorists who had seized the port and the city, blocking merchant ships from other countries from the port and forcing them to dock somewhere else. The AUS Troops were also assisted by Canadian Minute Men who despite being anti-American they were willing to fight to make sure Canada didn't become something sinister. The Siege of Port Hardy began in early March as the winter was dying away, the civilian population was evacuated before the battle by the terrorist group in order to gain a better reputation among Canadians, but it was in vain as Siege of Port Hardy was a success and the terrorist group was forced to flee into the wilderness after their leader, John Nicholson, was killed by an American Sniper while operating a radio tower outside Port Hardy. His successor, Chuck Crate, lead the VLA into the island's wilderness while being chased by American Special Operation Forces, he was eventually assassinated by AUS Troops and the following week the terrorist group of the Vancouver Liberation Army surrendered to the American Union State, ending their unjust insurrection. With the hiccup in the Americas over, Quebec and Mexico were asked to send what they could of their mobilized army to ports awaiting transportation for the British Isles, why? Because these troops would be needed for the D-Day Brittany Landings which were scheduled to begin in the summer no matter what. The plan was to get a foothold in France by Winter, hold out during the Winter, and bring death to the Internationale in 1946. MittelEuropa had been planning this for years, Operation Overlord was to be a full scale invasion of Brittany, and if successful it was to be followed by another landing in Normandy and Atlantic Occitania to encircle any enemy armies in those areas. There were five designated sectors where the main assault on Brittany would occur: Texas (American Landing), Vegas (American Landing), Zeus (Quebecois, Mexican, Free MittelEuropa Landing), Bronze (British, American Landing), and Kampf (German, American Landing). With the planning done all what needed to be done was the moving of American forces to Southern England where they would cross the channel to Brittany, seizing the city of Brest, and make a breakout. Ships from the Pacific Theater were now in full transport to American East Coast Ports ranging from Boston to Miami, transporting goods and men across the Atlantic. D-Day was near, and everybody in the free world couldn't wait for it. The Pacific American Troops who arrived in Anchorage were now in transport to Georgia and to Atlanta Commonwealth's various ports, itching for war. By May 1945, most of the AUS Army (along with a few other MittelEuropa divisions) was in Britain, waiting for the next month to start, waiting for Liberation. Red Europe was coming to an end.
AUSS Inconquerable undergoing a naval procedue called ASW or Anti-Submarine Warfare during the mass transportation of American Supplies, Men, and Goods to the British Isles for the upcoming war on mainland Europe.
MittelEuropa Battle Map of Operation Overlord (Brittany Landings - D-Day) and Brittany from the Second Weltkrieg. Following the stunning victory in Brittany, the Commune and it's allies were forced into a defensive war, only taking the offensive during the attempted Paris Encirclement.
June 23rd, 1945, D-Day began, the Invasion of Brittany began, the Liberation of Europe had began. At 1:00 AM, Vegas Beach was invaded by American Paratroopers and Soldiers, catching the French entirely off guard, they thought the American Landings would happen in Normandy, not Brittany. As the hours went by, more landings occurred, such as Kampf Beach, followed by Texas Beach, then Bronze Beach, and finally Zeus Beach. Six Divisions quickly secured the whole of Brest but they were put under heavy French Assault, despite this, with sixty other divisions, America was able to secure Brest and her allies were getting their armies to France as fast as they could. In early July, as things were beginning to cool down in Brittany (American troops were low on organization which forced them to postpone the assault out of Brittany and into France proper), the Commune of France held the Bastille Day Celebrations in order to calm the people and stop the rising dissent against the Internationale's grip over their countries. It was pathetic to the eyes of President Huey Long, if there was one way to show that you're a weak nation begging for support, this was it. The Commune of France, the nation that started this whole war when it unjustly declared war upon Germany for it's rightful land (Alsace-Lorraine) was now on the verge of destruction, Europe, was entering a new age. The only real threat that the American Union State still had was the German Union, and the Socialist Republic of Italy, two nations who enslaved half of Eastern Europe. If Italy could hold the Alps, then their future would be secured, and if the German Union kept onto the Rhein, then they too would be secure until a breakthrough which would claim thousands of lives. For now, the AUS Armies dug in, and waited for the order to attack France.
"There are those who said this day would never come, what are they to say now?" -President Huey Long
American, British, and German Armored Cars, Tanks (or Panzers in German), supplies, and artillery make the long journey to the front from Kampf Beach, the beach where the most bloodiest fighting took place between the French Defenders and the German Avengers.
With Brest secured and with eighty-four divisions, all a combination from all MittelEuropa nations, the breakout from Brest was ordered, and so Operation Napoleon Dynamite was put into the affect (the Invasion and Destruction of the Commune of France and it's grip over Europe), the end of the godless Totalists in Paris was nigh, they were only backed up by the German Union, the Italians just cowered. The first two attacks on Lorient and Saint-Brieuc were amazing success, countless French lives were lost as morale dropped in the French Army, the machine that took over Europe had just broken. After those areas fell the French and German Union formed a defensive line all across Rennes but this was in vain because of the combined American and German Blitzkrieg through their defensive and it ended in an entire army being encircled and taken into POW Camps. When the lower French and German Union Lines collapsed the Northern French Army in Rennes was pushed out of the area by a combined force of Free MittelEuropa Divisions aided by North American MittelEuropa Divisions. Rennes quickly fell after, leaving Saint-Nazaire as the last place in Brittany still under enemy control, it fell hours after Rennes did. Brittany was liberated from Syndicalist madness, and MittelEuropa dug in and waited for the next assault plan, the Invasion of Normandy and other parts of Northern France, eventually ending in a Siege of Paris. But, as this was all happening, more and more divisions from America were arriving in France, and the Kaiser himself set foot onto Europe once more and let's just say he was very happy to be back home, Europe. Now, it was just a matter of marching East, to destroy the strongholds in Naples and Paris, to Liberate Berlin, Copenhagen, Vienna, Sarajevo, Zagreb, Budapest, Kiev, Minsk, Lwow, Warsaw, Vilnius, Riga, and Brussels. Democracy and Freedom had prevailed in the end, it was only a matter of time until the Red Nightmare was over.
American Union State Marines oversee the transfer of an entire army of German Union Prisoners who surrendered after they were encircled and defeated by German and American arms. Whether it was because they had the same blood or not soldiers of the Kaiserliche Heer were never reported having negative feelings of the German Union Soldiers as most were conscripts and support for the radical socialist regime in Berlin was merely a vocal minority. These prisoners would all survive the upcoming Liberation of Europe and the end of the Internationale.
French Soldiers of the Commune of France advance through a forest somewhere in southern Brittany during Operation Cobra, the Breakout from Brittany and into France Proper, these soldiers did not survive as most were killed during an ambush by British Royal Marines.
End of Chapter Ten
Another Chapter, Another Ending as I like to say. I really hope (once again, I think I've said this on every chapter) you all, whoever is reading, loved it, whether you're a communist or a far right guy (or if you know you're just you). I'm glad the Christmas Break is over because guess what? We're back on schedule, well, hopefully we are, this was supposed to be out on Saturday but...Fallout...so majestic, anyway that's off topic. I was not lying when I said that the French army had shattered, Germany is the only thing that is keeping France alive and my god Italy is doing absolutely noting, I'm serious. Might I add this was not the first time American troops have taken Brittany before, remember the American-Entente War? Yeah well Canada actually invaded the Commune at Brittany and in order to annex the Canadians I had to take parts of Brittany, it was so weird I didn't even include it in the actual chapter. You all might want to know about custom events as well, I haven't given up on them I've just let it go for now (otherwise Japan would NOT have the Rising Sun Flag as their Flag, no it'd be the modern day flag) because I'm pretty sure that it's an Event ID problem but since I can't find free IDs for events well...it'll have to be plain old Kaiserreich for now, which is not a bad thing, it's certainly more exciting than let's say the original game, but I digress. If you're wondering why this is a little short the I have your answer, simply put: It's because I wanted this to be all about returning to Europe and a signal to all that Syndicalism will fall and Democracy will prevail (at least here anyway). Now, I know you all have many questions such as: What are you going to do with France and Italy? What are you going to do after WK2 is over? What will be the next world conflict? Will the Long Doctrine be put into affect in Central America and South America? All will be answered in time, and that is it. Goodbye, I hope you all had a merry Christmas, and get ready for the end of the Commune of France! Onward America! Lick Them Over There!