Post by lordroel on Feb 24, 2017 16:19:32 GMT
The A different Dutch war that began my adventure into alternate timelines is here, updated but also the same, so it might look unrealistic some times, but still it is a timeline i hold dearly.
Chapter I
September 1st 1939
Germany invades Poland.
November 6th 1939
A high ranking Netherlands officer informs his government that Germany has plans to invaded the Netherlands in the end of 1939 (this was true in OTL but it chance towards 1940), the Netherlands government begins top secret negations with the French Republic and the United Kingdom to join the anti-axis-nations.
December 4th 1939
The Netherlands government announces the fact that it joins the allies of France and the United Kingdom, 3 days later the first of several thousand British forces arrive in the Netherlands and are sent to the main defense line in the Netherlands.
December 6th 1939
Hitler in front of the Reichstag in a speech declares war onto the Netherlands.
December 7th 1939
The Netherlands East and West Indies and Netherlands Guiana formally declare the existence of a state of war with Germany.
State of Siege is extended to the whole of Netherlands.
December 8th 1939
The first Netherlands soldier dies during a border scuffle that began on the day Germany declared war but like the front of Germany and French it’s a situation of a phony war.
December 12th 1939
Great Britain, the French Republic and the Netherlands decide to create a joint command center to based in London and who job it is to organize the armed forces of the tree countries, Belgium who is surrounded by two nations at war makes it clear that it absolute will remain neutral.
The French guarantees to the Netherlands government that it will send the 7th Army toward Holland with the intention of using it as a mobile buffer and to increase the Royal Netherlands Army.
December 19th 1939
The first French transport arrives in Rotterdam and will be station next to the Netherlands/Belgium border, the French 7th army is excepting to be fully deployed in the country by the end of March.
December 20th 1939
The first British RAF squadron arrive to strengthen the Netherlands Army Aviation Brigade (Dutch: Luchtvaartbrigade) and to counter increasing German recon planes.
March 10th 1940
Germans bomb the naval base of Den Helder to stop British naval forces from using it as a place to strike Hamburg sinking the river gunboat HMNLS Bulgia and minesweepers HMNLS M 1 and HMNLS M 4.
Netherlands and British fighter planes attack the German bomber force with the only victory for the British spitfires. G-1 and D-21 fighter planes mange to shoot down only one M-109 but all airborne G-1 get destroyed, in responds the Royal Netherlands Army places a an order for Spitfires to be bought, in respond of this attack the RAF send four more Spitfire and Hawker Hurricane squadrons to the Netherlands for use as a buffer against the home island itself (a total of 8 RAF fighter squadrons operate out of the Netherlands).
March 19th 1940
In retaliation for the German air raid on Den Helder on March 10th and the German air raid on Scapa Flow on March 16th, British planes and Netherlands bombers attack the German seaplane base at Hornum on Sylt Island no major damage but it is a great thing for the civilian population of the Netherlands .
March 28th 1940
The BFD (British,French,Dutch) War Council meets for the 6th time in London they decide to mine the inshore passages of the Norwegian coast, after the meeting they three governments would negotiate peace only by mutual agreement.
March 29th
Netherlands military attaché Colonel Gijsbertus Sas informs Danish naval attache Captain Frits Kjolsen that Germany is planning on invading Denmark and Norway.
Believing that like the Netherlands the country of Denmark would declare war against the Germans after receiving this information the British army gives orders for a army battalion, two fighter squadrons and several naval ships to be moved to Denmark when ordered.
April 4th 1940
The Danish envoy in Berlin passes on to the Danish government information about a German plan for a surprise attack on Denmark and Norway, the government considers this a real treat due the information and orders a mobilization of its small armed forces and to begin secret negations with the BFD for military assistance.
April 6th 1940
The Kingdom of Denmark receive a British battalion and two fighters squadron of the Hawker Hurricane fighters type who will be station in Copenhagen with a second army battalion is on its way.
Germany declares war against Denmark the same day.
April 8th 1940
The British government informs Norway that they are mining the leads along the coastal waters off Norway with British and Dutch naval ships begin laying mines off the Norwegian coast.
British soldiers land in Iceland to strengthen the Danish forces station there.
Norway that was informed by its Danish counterpart of the German invasion plan and the fact that Denmark is in war begins a partially mobilization of its army but does not believe it will be invaded by Germany.
April 12th 1940
Germany begins Operation Weserübung (in OTL it started in April 9th but do the station of two British army battalions, fighter squadrons and British war ships on Danish ground the plan had to be moved for extra planning to take place).
Germany invades Denmark with the Luftwaffe battling the RAF fighters present in Denmark and the small Danish air force but manages to gain air superiority with the end of the day.
Motorized troops cross the border into Denmark, as amphibious landings are made on the Danish islands and on the waterfront of Copenhagen but fail due the British navy having ship protecting Copenhagen keeping the city and surrounding ground firmly in Danish control.
Norwegian coastal forts open fire on German warships, as the German invasion of Norway begins.
April 13th 1940
After a day fighting the German army has surrounded the Danish army in Copenhagen, Hitler wanting Denmark to surrender orders bombing of Copenhagen to end the Danish resistance, He 111 bombers drop bombs on the city , the Danish government capitulated not shortly afterwards but orders all available Danish naval ships and army units who can to move to safety (those not sunk by the fighting or sunk by their one crew begin their journey to the Netherlands ore the UK the country is annex by Germany due its resistance).
German forces land on Norway with six different forces at widely separated points on the coast and are met by the Norwegian military who were partially mobilize and who manage to delay the landings for a day but at the end are forced to surrender Narvik, Trondheim, Bergen, and Stavanger to the Germans.
April 14th 1940
A British destroyer flotilla is launched against German forces in Narvik in Norway at dawn the flotilla made of five British and one Royal Netherlands Navy destroyer makes contact with five strong German destroyers At Narvik harbour approach the British/Netherlands destroyers are attack from two directions, of the six allied ships the destroyer HNLMS Van Galen and British destroyer HMS Hunter are sunk other four are damage but manege to return to the United Kingdom the five German destroyers are damaged, delaying their departure from Narvik.
April 15th 1940
A allied Expeditionary Force leaves Clyde and heads to Narvik Norway with them is a small Netherlands naval force made of one destroyer and two Gunboats who are escorting a regiment of the Dutch army who will be placed under British command in Norway (unlike OTL the British have their heavy equipment with them due the expectation the would be sent to Denmark but instead due the surrendering of Denmark are to send to Norway instead).
April 16th 1940
In the office of the Belgian Prime Minister two ambassadors of both French and the United Kingdom meet, with both Franc and the Netherlands in war with Germany the neutrality of Belgium is not going to work due to increasing German air patrols over his country.
The ambassadors assure the Prime Minister that their armed forces would aid Belgium in case of joining and it would help allot if Belgium would join aside the three allied nations especially for the French who then have the Maginot line link with the Dutch main defense.
April 17th 1940
After meeting both the two major nation and the Netherlands ambassador the Prime Minister of Belgium informs the German ambassador to Belgium that it will join the allied nations due it having no guarantee the Germans will respect the neutrality of his country and a state war exist between them.
Several hours letter Hitler receive news of the Belgian government discussion of joining the allies in war against Germany, Hitler now more angry of this news is giving assuring that when the invasion of Norway is complete both the Low country s and the French republic will be next as the battle of Norway is not over yet Hitler orders the Luftwaffe to begin a terror campaign against both Belgium and the Netherlands.
April 19th 1940
British and Netherlands troops land in Norway near Trondheim and Narvik. the Netherlands army regiment is equipped with British gear and weapons and is fresh from having trained in the United Kingdom.
German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop informs the foreign press that Germany is not impress with Belgium joining the BFD and the would act and take steps to ensure the Dutch and Belgium people would be free of British and French control. The Belgian government calls on English and French troops to enter the country to aid in its defense the French 7th army who was station in Netherlands moves into Belgium to close the gap left when Belgium was natural.
The British Steamship City of Simla unloads war material in Antwerp, Belgium, for use by British troops who will arrive latter also British fighters from both French and Netherlands airfields begin operating over Belgium.
After two months of training the first Netherlands spitfire squadron become operation with 3 other becoming active as soon as the British can supply them.
April 26th 1940
Germans advance further north of Oslo.
More British troops are landed at Aandalesnes in Norway with the plan of co-operating with the British/Dutch and French troops already at Namsos to surround and then retake Trondheim however the Norwegian commander General Ruge persuaded the Aandalesnes force, to move south in order to give support to his troops still holding out at Lillehammer.
The Danish Army and navy are demobilized which did not got away is put under German control in total 3 Danish subs 4 mine sweepers and 3 torpedo boats managed to get to safely on board the ships were also 270 army soldiers aboard mostly all of them will be sent to increase the newly created Iceland defense force mad op of British and the already present Danish forces.
April 30th 1940
Luftwaffe bombers strike the Dutch city of Amsterdam with fifty aerial bombs mostly of the German bombers are destroyed by the RAF and Dutch army air force but the dead toll is high with over 400 people dead making it the worst bombing as yet the Netherlands government which request more British and French forces to be send to protect the country.
The first British troops arrive in Belgium and elements of the BEF station in France move into Belgium to strengthen the already present French 7th army and Belgian armed forces making a defense line running from Den Helder Netherlands to the Swiss border.
May 1st 1940
BFD troops are forced to withdraw north of Trondheim after sharp fighting.
Norwegian troops attack the Germans south of Narvik, but are beaten back the Dutch army sends another army regiment to the British forces in Namsos.
British troops are landed in the Faeroe Islands.
May 3rd 1940
The British stun the French, Norwegians and the Netherlands by deciding to evacuate southern Norway and to make a defensive line at Namsos.
Adolf Hitler sets May 20th as the date for Operation Sichelschnitt the invasion of western Europe.
May 6th 1940
British ships begin transporting soldiers off Trondheim, Norway and begin moving all British forces to the newly create Namsos line.
BFD and Norwegians forces are order to clear all German forces above Namsos and to capture Narvik from the Germans. Norwegians forces surrender in Lillehammer.
In the United Kingdom, the Labour Party leaders Arthur Greenwood and Clement Attlee refuse to form a unified government with the Conservatives so long as Neville Chamberlain is Prime Minister.
May 10th 1940
French mountain troops capture the port of Narvik, forcing the German defenders into surrendering and putting all of Norway above Namsos under allied control.
Czech agent and German military intelligence service member Paul Thümmel reports to French intelligence via The Hague that a German offensive against the West would begin May 20th.
May 11th 1940
The Romanian Government of Prime Minster George Tatarescu replaces several pro-German Ministers with pro-France officials. Prime Minster George Tatarescu declares the nation will continue its policy of neutrality, with friendship for Britain and France.
Hermann Goring demands that the Swedes allow passage of trains to Norway, filled with German artillery and other war supplies, Swedish negotiators refuse to allow it due the fact northern Norway is still under Norwegian control.
May 15th 1940
German units arrive at the outskirt of the newly created Namsos line and are faced with more than 20,000 defenders who have dug them self in the Luftwaffe is order to destroy the city and force the defenders in to surrendered while the rest of the German army waits for reinforcements Greece rushes troop reinforcements to the frontier with Italian-occupied Albania.
At Buckingham Palace, London, England, King George VI asks Winston Churchill to form a new government after nine days of failed negation to form a unified government, Churchill orders to increase the BFD forces in Norway who still are holding on in Namsos.
May 16th 1940
The British Admiralty reports it has created a vast new minefield in Norwegian waters, extending from Bergen to Namsos making it harder for the Germans to land forces behind allied forces in Norway. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill gives Bomber Command authority to attack Germany.
All Royal Netherlands Army leave is suspended due the information about a planned German attack on the 20 of May.
May 19th 1940
The Royal Netherlands Army Aviation Brigade Fokker T.V bombers escorted by British attack Emden, of the 12 T.Vs taking part in the attack five are shot down but the Netherlands have their revenge of the Amsterdam bombing (no further Netherlands bomber will go into Germany due the fact Netherlands only operated 16 of them).
The German planed invasion is halted due the increasing resistance of the BFD member nations, Hitler orders the invasion to begin as soon as Germany has full control of Norway and the Netherlands/British/French air forces station in the Netherlands and Belgium are destroyed, Herman Goring tells the Fuhrer he will get the job done in leas then a month in which Germany can launch their planed invasion of the west and no Allied force will be intact to resist them.
May 20th 1940
Siting alone in his dugout near the border with Germany, a Royal Netherlands Army soldier can only hear mortars and the occasion machine gun fire coming his way as it has been for the last 7 months but now that all leave has been suspended means something big but he hears no tanks coming his way and no German soldier charging his dugout the only thing he hear is the humming of German planes heading into his country.
May 21st 1940
No German invasion has taken place the day before but German bombers did struck several Netherlands and Belgian airfields that had RAF units on it and has begun striking other military and non-military target the 6th Division of the Norwegian army takes control over Narvik and the Norwegian High Command and government make Narvik the new seat of the government, in total more than 50,000 British French and Norway units now hold a line at Namsos with 2,400 Netherlands troops station there. While the city of Namsos is a ruin due the bombing of the Luftwaffe the line gets stronger each day with more forces arriving in Narvik.
May 29th 1940
The Luftwaffe tries to gain control of the low country's airspace but do the fact the United Kingdom can deploy fighters from its home island is making it harder for them to achieve their objection of having full control over the airspace before the end of the month June.
OVERVIEW
Both the British and French war machine are beginning to run at full level shipping weapons to the Belgian and Dutch army both of which now have link their defense line together and are more capable of defending their country then before joining the war, the Dutch have received all four squadron who are now being use to battle German planes over their country and Belgian also will receive their one planes.
The British have install a radar station in Amsterdam to aid the RAF and Dutch fighters but which are operate by RAF personnel a second radar station is set up in Brussels giving the allies a early warning against incoming Luftwaffe units several more are to be built with the intention of creating a radar screen covering all of the allied nations also the Dutch have purchase four radar sets to be placed in the Dutch-Indies.
Bomber Command has begun increasing it bombing campaign against German cities.
Germany is beginning to deploy more forces to the Norwegian front and putting its bombing campaign against the Low Countries in to a higher gear in hoping to defeat the allied air forces before the planed invasion in June 20.
On the high seas more German subs begin to operate in an effort to stop British supplies from reaching Norway and the Low countries.
Chapter I
September 1st 1939
Germany invades Poland.
November 6th 1939
A high ranking Netherlands officer informs his government that Germany has plans to invaded the Netherlands in the end of 1939 (this was true in OTL but it chance towards 1940), the Netherlands government begins top secret negations with the French Republic and the United Kingdom to join the anti-axis-nations.
December 4th 1939
The Netherlands government announces the fact that it joins the allies of France and the United Kingdom, 3 days later the first of several thousand British forces arrive in the Netherlands and are sent to the main defense line in the Netherlands.
December 6th 1939
Hitler in front of the Reichstag in a speech declares war onto the Netherlands.
December 7th 1939
The Netherlands East and West Indies and Netherlands Guiana formally declare the existence of a state of war with Germany.
State of Siege is extended to the whole of Netherlands.
December 8th 1939
The first Netherlands soldier dies during a border scuffle that began on the day Germany declared war but like the front of Germany and French it’s a situation of a phony war.
December 12th 1939
Great Britain, the French Republic and the Netherlands decide to create a joint command center to based in London and who job it is to organize the armed forces of the tree countries, Belgium who is surrounded by two nations at war makes it clear that it absolute will remain neutral.
The French guarantees to the Netherlands government that it will send the 7th Army toward Holland with the intention of using it as a mobile buffer and to increase the Royal Netherlands Army.
December 19th 1939
The first French transport arrives in Rotterdam and will be station next to the Netherlands/Belgium border, the French 7th army is excepting to be fully deployed in the country by the end of March.
December 20th 1939
The first British RAF squadron arrive to strengthen the Netherlands Army Aviation Brigade (Dutch: Luchtvaartbrigade) and to counter increasing German recon planes.
March 10th 1940
Germans bomb the naval base of Den Helder to stop British naval forces from using it as a place to strike Hamburg sinking the river gunboat HMNLS Bulgia and minesweepers HMNLS M 1 and HMNLS M 4.
Netherlands and British fighter planes attack the German bomber force with the only victory for the British spitfires. G-1 and D-21 fighter planes mange to shoot down only one M-109 but all airborne G-1 get destroyed, in responds the Royal Netherlands Army places a an order for Spitfires to be bought, in respond of this attack the RAF send four more Spitfire and Hawker Hurricane squadrons to the Netherlands for use as a buffer against the home island itself (a total of 8 RAF fighter squadrons operate out of the Netherlands).
March 19th 1940
In retaliation for the German air raid on Den Helder on March 10th and the German air raid on Scapa Flow on March 16th, British planes and Netherlands bombers attack the German seaplane base at Hornum on Sylt Island no major damage but it is a great thing for the civilian population of the Netherlands .
March 28th 1940
The BFD (British,French,Dutch) War Council meets for the 6th time in London they decide to mine the inshore passages of the Norwegian coast, after the meeting they three governments would negotiate peace only by mutual agreement.
March 29th
Netherlands military attaché Colonel Gijsbertus Sas informs Danish naval attache Captain Frits Kjolsen that Germany is planning on invading Denmark and Norway.
Believing that like the Netherlands the country of Denmark would declare war against the Germans after receiving this information the British army gives orders for a army battalion, two fighter squadrons and several naval ships to be moved to Denmark when ordered.
April 4th 1940
The Danish envoy in Berlin passes on to the Danish government information about a German plan for a surprise attack on Denmark and Norway, the government considers this a real treat due the information and orders a mobilization of its small armed forces and to begin secret negations with the BFD for military assistance.
April 6th 1940
The Kingdom of Denmark receive a British battalion and two fighters squadron of the Hawker Hurricane fighters type who will be station in Copenhagen with a second army battalion is on its way.
Germany declares war against Denmark the same day.
April 8th 1940
The British government informs Norway that they are mining the leads along the coastal waters off Norway with British and Dutch naval ships begin laying mines off the Norwegian coast.
British soldiers land in Iceland to strengthen the Danish forces station there.
Norway that was informed by its Danish counterpart of the German invasion plan and the fact that Denmark is in war begins a partially mobilization of its army but does not believe it will be invaded by Germany.
April 12th 1940
Germany begins Operation Weserübung (in OTL it started in April 9th but do the station of two British army battalions, fighter squadrons and British war ships on Danish ground the plan had to be moved for extra planning to take place).
Germany invades Denmark with the Luftwaffe battling the RAF fighters present in Denmark and the small Danish air force but manages to gain air superiority with the end of the day.
Motorized troops cross the border into Denmark, as amphibious landings are made on the Danish islands and on the waterfront of Copenhagen but fail due the British navy having ship protecting Copenhagen keeping the city and surrounding ground firmly in Danish control.
Norwegian coastal forts open fire on German warships, as the German invasion of Norway begins.
April 13th 1940
After a day fighting the German army has surrounded the Danish army in Copenhagen, Hitler wanting Denmark to surrender orders bombing of Copenhagen to end the Danish resistance, He 111 bombers drop bombs on the city , the Danish government capitulated not shortly afterwards but orders all available Danish naval ships and army units who can to move to safety (those not sunk by the fighting or sunk by their one crew begin their journey to the Netherlands ore the UK the country is annex by Germany due its resistance).
German forces land on Norway with six different forces at widely separated points on the coast and are met by the Norwegian military who were partially mobilize and who manage to delay the landings for a day but at the end are forced to surrender Narvik, Trondheim, Bergen, and Stavanger to the Germans.
April 14th 1940
A British destroyer flotilla is launched against German forces in Narvik in Norway at dawn the flotilla made of five British and one Royal Netherlands Navy destroyer makes contact with five strong German destroyers At Narvik harbour approach the British/Netherlands destroyers are attack from two directions, of the six allied ships the destroyer HNLMS Van Galen and British destroyer HMS Hunter are sunk other four are damage but manege to return to the United Kingdom the five German destroyers are damaged, delaying their departure from Narvik.
April 15th 1940
A allied Expeditionary Force leaves Clyde and heads to Narvik Norway with them is a small Netherlands naval force made of one destroyer and two Gunboats who are escorting a regiment of the Dutch army who will be placed under British command in Norway (unlike OTL the British have their heavy equipment with them due the expectation the would be sent to Denmark but instead due the surrendering of Denmark are to send to Norway instead).
April 16th 1940
In the office of the Belgian Prime Minister two ambassadors of both French and the United Kingdom meet, with both Franc and the Netherlands in war with Germany the neutrality of Belgium is not going to work due to increasing German air patrols over his country.
The ambassadors assure the Prime Minister that their armed forces would aid Belgium in case of joining and it would help allot if Belgium would join aside the three allied nations especially for the French who then have the Maginot line link with the Dutch main defense.
April 17th 1940
After meeting both the two major nation and the Netherlands ambassador the Prime Minister of Belgium informs the German ambassador to Belgium that it will join the allied nations due it having no guarantee the Germans will respect the neutrality of his country and a state war exist between them.
Several hours letter Hitler receive news of the Belgian government discussion of joining the allies in war against Germany, Hitler now more angry of this news is giving assuring that when the invasion of Norway is complete both the Low country s and the French republic will be next as the battle of Norway is not over yet Hitler orders the Luftwaffe to begin a terror campaign against both Belgium and the Netherlands.
April 19th 1940
British and Netherlands troops land in Norway near Trondheim and Narvik. the Netherlands army regiment is equipped with British gear and weapons and is fresh from having trained in the United Kingdom.
German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop informs the foreign press that Germany is not impress with Belgium joining the BFD and the would act and take steps to ensure the Dutch and Belgium people would be free of British and French control. The Belgian government calls on English and French troops to enter the country to aid in its defense the French 7th army who was station in Netherlands moves into Belgium to close the gap left when Belgium was natural.
The British Steamship City of Simla unloads war material in Antwerp, Belgium, for use by British troops who will arrive latter also British fighters from both French and Netherlands airfields begin operating over Belgium.
After two months of training the first Netherlands spitfire squadron become operation with 3 other becoming active as soon as the British can supply them.
April 26th 1940
Germans advance further north of Oslo.
More British troops are landed at Aandalesnes in Norway with the plan of co-operating with the British/Dutch and French troops already at Namsos to surround and then retake Trondheim however the Norwegian commander General Ruge persuaded the Aandalesnes force, to move south in order to give support to his troops still holding out at Lillehammer.
The Danish Army and navy are demobilized which did not got away is put under German control in total 3 Danish subs 4 mine sweepers and 3 torpedo boats managed to get to safely on board the ships were also 270 army soldiers aboard mostly all of them will be sent to increase the newly created Iceland defense force mad op of British and the already present Danish forces.
April 30th 1940
Luftwaffe bombers strike the Dutch city of Amsterdam with fifty aerial bombs mostly of the German bombers are destroyed by the RAF and Dutch army air force but the dead toll is high with over 400 people dead making it the worst bombing as yet the Netherlands government which request more British and French forces to be send to protect the country.
The first British troops arrive in Belgium and elements of the BEF station in France move into Belgium to strengthen the already present French 7th army and Belgian armed forces making a defense line running from Den Helder Netherlands to the Swiss border.
May 1st 1940
BFD troops are forced to withdraw north of Trondheim after sharp fighting.
Norwegian troops attack the Germans south of Narvik, but are beaten back the Dutch army sends another army regiment to the British forces in Namsos.
British troops are landed in the Faeroe Islands.
May 3rd 1940
The British stun the French, Norwegians and the Netherlands by deciding to evacuate southern Norway and to make a defensive line at Namsos.
Adolf Hitler sets May 20th as the date for Operation Sichelschnitt the invasion of western Europe.
May 6th 1940
British ships begin transporting soldiers off Trondheim, Norway and begin moving all British forces to the newly create Namsos line.
BFD and Norwegians forces are order to clear all German forces above Namsos and to capture Narvik from the Germans. Norwegians forces surrender in Lillehammer.
In the United Kingdom, the Labour Party leaders Arthur Greenwood and Clement Attlee refuse to form a unified government with the Conservatives so long as Neville Chamberlain is Prime Minister.
May 10th 1940
French mountain troops capture the port of Narvik, forcing the German defenders into surrendering and putting all of Norway above Namsos under allied control.
Czech agent and German military intelligence service member Paul Thümmel reports to French intelligence via The Hague that a German offensive against the West would begin May 20th.
May 11th 1940
The Romanian Government of Prime Minster George Tatarescu replaces several pro-German Ministers with pro-France officials. Prime Minster George Tatarescu declares the nation will continue its policy of neutrality, with friendship for Britain and France.
Hermann Goring demands that the Swedes allow passage of trains to Norway, filled with German artillery and other war supplies, Swedish negotiators refuse to allow it due the fact northern Norway is still under Norwegian control.
May 15th 1940
German units arrive at the outskirt of the newly created Namsos line and are faced with more than 20,000 defenders who have dug them self in the Luftwaffe is order to destroy the city and force the defenders in to surrendered while the rest of the German army waits for reinforcements Greece rushes troop reinforcements to the frontier with Italian-occupied Albania.
At Buckingham Palace, London, England, King George VI asks Winston Churchill to form a new government after nine days of failed negation to form a unified government, Churchill orders to increase the BFD forces in Norway who still are holding on in Namsos.
May 16th 1940
The British Admiralty reports it has created a vast new minefield in Norwegian waters, extending from Bergen to Namsos making it harder for the Germans to land forces behind allied forces in Norway. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill gives Bomber Command authority to attack Germany.
All Royal Netherlands Army leave is suspended due the information about a planned German attack on the 20 of May.
May 19th 1940
The Royal Netherlands Army Aviation Brigade Fokker T.V bombers escorted by British attack Emden, of the 12 T.Vs taking part in the attack five are shot down but the Netherlands have their revenge of the Amsterdam bombing (no further Netherlands bomber will go into Germany due the fact Netherlands only operated 16 of them).
The German planed invasion is halted due the increasing resistance of the BFD member nations, Hitler orders the invasion to begin as soon as Germany has full control of Norway and the Netherlands/British/French air forces station in the Netherlands and Belgium are destroyed, Herman Goring tells the Fuhrer he will get the job done in leas then a month in which Germany can launch their planed invasion of the west and no Allied force will be intact to resist them.
May 20th 1940
Siting alone in his dugout near the border with Germany, a Royal Netherlands Army soldier can only hear mortars and the occasion machine gun fire coming his way as it has been for the last 7 months but now that all leave has been suspended means something big but he hears no tanks coming his way and no German soldier charging his dugout the only thing he hear is the humming of German planes heading into his country.
May 21st 1940
No German invasion has taken place the day before but German bombers did struck several Netherlands and Belgian airfields that had RAF units on it and has begun striking other military and non-military target the 6th Division of the Norwegian army takes control over Narvik and the Norwegian High Command and government make Narvik the new seat of the government, in total more than 50,000 British French and Norway units now hold a line at Namsos with 2,400 Netherlands troops station there. While the city of Namsos is a ruin due the bombing of the Luftwaffe the line gets stronger each day with more forces arriving in Narvik.
May 29th 1940
The Luftwaffe tries to gain control of the low country's airspace but do the fact the United Kingdom can deploy fighters from its home island is making it harder for them to achieve their objection of having full control over the airspace before the end of the month June.
OVERVIEW
Both the British and French war machine are beginning to run at full level shipping weapons to the Belgian and Dutch army both of which now have link their defense line together and are more capable of defending their country then before joining the war, the Dutch have received all four squadron who are now being use to battle German planes over their country and Belgian also will receive their one planes.
The British have install a radar station in Amsterdam to aid the RAF and Dutch fighters but which are operate by RAF personnel a second radar station is set up in Brussels giving the allies a early warning against incoming Luftwaffe units several more are to be built with the intention of creating a radar screen covering all of the allied nations also the Dutch have purchase four radar sets to be placed in the Dutch-Indies.
Bomber Command has begun increasing it bombing campaign against German cities.
Germany is beginning to deploy more forces to the Norwegian front and putting its bombing campaign against the Low Countries in to a higher gear in hoping to defeat the allied air forces before the planed invasion in June 20.
On the high seas more German subs begin to operate in an effort to stop British supplies from reaching Norway and the Low countries.