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Post by simon darkshade on Sept 6, 2022 13:47:34 GMT
Notes
May
- The five notes may be familiar to those who have viewed Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- The Viking is a very good, high performance fighter that has had a bit of difficulty getting new markets due to a little bit of extra cost. Getting Finland as a market would be a great boon. The stay behind cooperation, across NATO lines, reflects the close ties between Sweden and Finland
- Flood defences and preparations in Bengal means that the November 1970 cyclone will not be a biblical catastrophe
- Female police numbers in Britain are quite a bit smaller than in @ and more confined to niche roles. One reason for this is the range of threats even an ordinary bobby has to potentially deal with and their role in a mobilisation scenario; the different social attitudes and greater traditionalist views also play a big role
- Skiing off Mount Everest is an OTL event that isn’t as widely known as it might be
- The first large scale return home of US troops from Vietnam is met very differently than in @. The major victory parades will follow in July
- Formation of The Beatles, not as a pop group, but as something of an amalgam between The Goodies and DE Reverend Elvis. They will get their own television show…
- Scratchproof glasses are a small quality of life improvement
- The Queen’s Own Mountain Regiment’s creation reflects two things - the British Army evolving to fit its anticipated battle fronts in Scandinavia, Austria and India/Afghanistan; and being in a situation where new units are being established, rather than the insidious creeping process of amalgamation and force reductions. The Army has shrunk a little from its peacetime 20th century peak, but not hugely so. The general structure of 6 Guards regiments, 6 Rifle regiments and 100 Regiments of Foot has not changed since the late 19th Century, with variations being on the number of regular battalions; it grew from 236 in 1960 to 256 from 1965-70 with the shifting of 20 TA battalions to regular service as was done in the @ Boer War.
- In @, most 2nd Battalions went after India went independent, followed by further amalgamations and culling through the 50s and 60s
- The most significant difference is a toss up between the 100 Regiments of Foot vs 68 in 1900 post Childers Reforms and having 6 Rifle Regiments vs 2. This infantry force is augmented by the Paras, the Commandos, the Rangers and the Gurkhas, Sikhs and Zulus, as well as the new mountain troops
- Units from Malta and Gibraltar are being bought into the ‘home regimental system’ from the Imperial/colonial regiment grouping and there is some thought that Hong Kong and Singapore’s regiments will follow
- NYC in 1976 is a bit of a bicentennial gift
- Tornadoes will start to be less damaging if they are detected early
- Project Chamberlain (named after PM Joseph, rather than his second son) is a reaction to the growing Soviet surface fleet through the emplacement of 12 batteries of missiles around the British and Irish coast and a further 12 through the Commonwealth and Empire
- The Chronicles of Prydain join Narnia and LOTR in the fantasy boom
- The International Revolutionary Army camp was hit by British sub launched missiles with X series nerve agents (the deadlier follow on the V series)
- Superman saves a boy at a ball game from death and only being remembered as a trivia question
- The Ra expedition will be a higher profile success
- Vysotsky has a higher profile beyond the USSR
- The A-Team seeks refuge underground (literally)
- Women’s soccer no longer effectively banned in Britain
- The Lyonesse Regiment have quite the reputation for valour and ferocity that is partly the role of a centuries old faerie blessing
- School lunch reforms in the US hit just when there was more of a rise of junk and poor quality food in @. Within the decade, it will be the envy of the world, reflecting American wealth and affluence
- A green light to.a Channel Tunnel will result in a bit of a different project
- Bridging of the Darien Gap
- There is less of an MIA issue in Vietnam, given the exigencies of the end of the conflict and the Soviets wanting to build up some American goodwill and maybe a little detente
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Post by simon darkshade on Sept 7, 2022 5:35:04 GMT
April
- The Wombles meeting Wilf is a multi-layered Ark Royal-themed Easter Egg
- Sean Flynn survives the Vietnam War, rather than disappearing
- The US census using cutting edge technology will be the most detailed yet
- French Algeria is the antithesis of peaceful and ordered, but the FLN just lacks that extra edge that a regional supporter and more favourable numbers could bring
- The Danish King's car accident is largely historical
- The Return of the King secures a hat trick of Best Picture awards (The Two Towers tying with Oliver! and sparks a pop culture fantasy craze for several years. Heston's second Oscar is richly deserved and sparks a mid career renaissance
- A link between the Cape to Cairo Railway and the Cairo to Singapore Railway is now complete
- The man turning into a tree is an Eastern Egg/hat tip to Edge of Darkness
- The Dauphin's visit is an attempt to spark some measure of Franco-German rapprochement
- An RN battle squadron calling in Alex isn't the most earthshaking event, but quietly illustrates that (a) The Andrew still has multiple battle squadrons; (b) Egypt is trying to wriggle loose to some measure of independence; and (c) the process isn't a one way street, nor is it Egypt's only possible path
- Similarly, the sinking of K-8 is an OTL event, but the lost of all nuclear weapons on board is not. It shows how the Soviets are trying to counter the Western strategic nuclear advantage with tactical weapons, but that this entails some risky stacking of platforms
- The Indian boy and his tiger is a reference to Life of Pi; the more definitive existence of the tiger is a bit of an illustration of Dark Earth's theology
- The Orion 4 astronauts receive a rapturous reception and, after a short period of quarantine in May, get the beginnings of a proper public welcome in June. There are a lot more of them (a crew of 60), but the key stars will get the better part of the glory. Orion 5 has an even larger crew, being a larger ship
- Premier Alvares' madness is caused by a very nasty drug he has been infected with; being able to turn public figures stark raving mad with an injection is an advantage to some
- The mysterious white Shaolin master is Kane from Kung-Fu
- Rescue of the Venezuelan carrier prevents further embarassment
- The Morris Major is an entirely fictional car, looking like a Ford Granada Mark II and with a decently powerful and efficient engine. It will sell very well through the 1970s at home and abroad and provide decent competition to Austin, Rover, Rootes and the other British manufacturers
- The Colombian election is a cluster kerfuffle
- Legionnaires near Hoover Dam? The fallout from this mystery will be considerable...
- The Great Air Race is a sign of a bit of pre-WW1 nostalgia to match the rapidly changing world
- Tito goes early, without having the same role
- The old Robin Hood gets a new lease of life, shifting its role from a short range nuclear missile to a conventional strike missile with a ~35 mile range. It has the advantage of being faster and more accurate than the Soviet FROG-7, but is an interim measure
-The Wonders of the Natural World include a couple of DE specials - the Challenger Plateau being the Lost World of Arthur Conan Doyle and the Silver Mountain being a spectacular lonely mountain in Canada with rock formations that look like massive bodies of silver (but are in fact just an optical effect)
- The last installment of the British national debt is paid off, causing reaction in some circles
- Not only will the Adamsons have a nicer fate, but Elsa lives longer and visits frequently
- Jack Sexton and RESC will be heard of again; the Musa Protocol and Acacia Avenue Incident of 1967 are both references to Bananaman, whilst St. Swithins is a reference to the Doctor in the House series
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Post by simon darkshade on Sept 13, 2022 14:36:38 GMT
June
June 1: Commonwealth Police and ASIO raids across Australia arrest 25 suspected Soviet agents in a spying scandal that soon stretches across the Tasman to New Zealand.
June 2: Release of the ICM (Imperial Computing Machines) Mercury, what is later regarded as the first ‘personal computing machine’.
June 3: Death of Portuguese Great War veteran Aníbal Milhais, dubbed Soldado Milhões for his valour and value in the terrible conflict, in Murça, Portugal at the age of 74.
June 4: Opening of the ferrovia direttissima Firenze-Roma , Italy’s first substantive high speed railway line.
June 5: A deluded man is arrested for air piracy at Franklin D. Roosevelt International Airport in Washington D.C. after disguised FBI agents paralyse him with an invisible curare tipped dart.
June 6: Two extremely valuable paintings are stolen from a North London mansion in a mysterious burglary. They are to be recovered two months later in a raid by the Artistic Protection Commando Squad of the Italian Caribinieri in Turin.
June 7: A controversial referendum in Switzerland for the amendment of the constitution to force non-citizens to leave the country is passed narrowly on the popular vote, but fails due to not enough cantons being in favour. The intervention of Prince Albrecht in his strong disapproval of the measure is seen as decisive.
June 8: Argentine Premier Rodriguez declares a new Revolucion Nacional as loyal troops from the Armada Real Argentina and Real Fuerza Aerea Argentina flood Buenos Aires, taking over army headquarters and suppressing an alleged planned coup. He delivers a fiery speech on national television and radio, claiming that national destiny required a strong battle against communism, loyalty to the King and Argentine control of her unjustly suppressed greatness.
June 9: The Orion astronauts are honoured with a ticker tape parade through New York City in front of a crowd of an estimated 2 million people.
June 10: 60,000 troops of the Portuguese Exército Colonial launch Operation Gordian Knot, a large scale sweep and clear operation in the rebellious northern provinces of Portuguese Mozambique along the border with Azania and Tanganyika, supported by air and naval forces.
June 11: The Ministry of Information and the Empire Marketing Board’s successful joint ‘I’m Backing Britain’ campaign comes to an official conclusion, with it having resulted in an increase in exports of 9.6%, a 12% shift towards British and Commwealth imports away from foreign goods, increased personal savings and an estimated 5% increase in national productivity over the last 24 months.
June 12: The Soviet general election results in a turnout of 99.8%, with all 2487 CPSU candidates for the Supreme Soviet being elected unanimously and unopposed.
June 13: A Colonial Office paper estimates that the South Pacific Federation will be prepared for self governance with forty years.
June 14: England defeat Italy 3-2 in the World Cup quarter final in Munich, with Duncan Edwards, George Best and Geoff Hurst scoring and Gordon Banks making a crucial save just before the full time whistle.
June 15: Twelve Soviet ‘refusenik’ dissidents escape the USSR by taking over an Antonov An-2 biplane and flying to the Aland Islands at sea level. Their defection to Sweden leads to a minor diplomatic crisis with the Soviets demanding their return for trial and execution.
June 16: Rover unveil the Range Rover, an enlarged and up market four wheel drive vehicle designed for the full range of urban, rural and rough terrain environments.
June 17: Brazil defeat England 5-4 in a thrilling semi-final in Hamburg, thanks to a Pele hat trick, the last of which comes deep into extra time. In the other semi-final, Germany defeats Sweden 2-1 in Stuttgart.
June 18: Spanish Legion forces arrest dozens of separatist subversives in a crackdown on unrest in Spanish Sahara.
June 19: The doctor wife of the young police constable of the small village of Aidensfield, North Riding, having been grievously ill since giving birth, recovers miraculously from a seemingly terminal illness after a visitation from an unknown pair of American travellers.
June 20: American brothers David and John Kunst begin an epic walk around the world, departing from Waseca, Minnesota.
June 21: Brazil wins a thrilling 1970 World Cup final against Germany with a score of 4-3 in front of over 200,000 spectators at the Olympiastadion in Berlin.
June 22: Commencement of the British Army’s Summer Manoeuvres, Exercise Marlborough, with two field armies of the Regular Army and Territorial Army engaging each other across Southern England. In the largest military exercise since 1964’s Warhammer, a range of new armoured vehicles are utilised for the first time, including the Crusader main battle tank and the Anglo-American-German LARS 5” wheeled multiple rocket launcher, as well as the latest artillery in the form of the 375mm howitzer. Press coverage of Marlborough further highlights the new protective kilts worn by the Scottish regiments and the modern manifestation of the fearsome Highland charge.
June 23: HRH The Prince of Wales officially graduates from Oxford University with first class honours in classics, history and philosophy, politics and economics.
June 24: Death of the Maharaja of Jaipur, one of the most powerful members of the Indian House of States and a key figure in the defeat of proposed changes to the constitutional circumstances of the Princely states.
June 25: Publication of The Dawn of the Shadow, a 1984 page epic historical fantasy by Sir J.R.R. Tolkien. A prequel to his best known work, it describes the rise of the Dark Lord Sauron in the Second Age of Middle Earth, the creation of the Rings of Power, his war with the Elves and his defeat by the armies of High King Gil-Galad, the returned elflord Glorfindel and the hosts of Numenor.
June 26: Opening of the Queen Elizabeth Bridge in Glasgow, by Queen Elizabeth II, the 1406ft long twelve lane bridge providing for the future capacity for 250,000 vehicles to pass each day.
June 27: Completion of the final stage of the Sentinel Program, the fielding of a comprehensive anti-ballistic missile defence system across the United States, integrating the USAF’s Excalibur ABM and US Army’s Spartan and Sprint missiles.
June 28: A vacationing young boy is rescued from falling to his death in a scalding hot geyser in Yellowstone National Park by a quick thinking US Forest Service bear Ranger, who was visiting his distant cousin.
June 29: Mrs Jeremy Thorpe, wife of the rising Liberal MP, escapes a nasty automobile accident with minor injuries.
June 30: Italian mountaineer Gunther Messner is rescued by yeti after becoming lost whilst descending Nanga Parbat. The reclusive beasts deposit the shaken climber at his base camp after all hope had been thought lost.
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Post by simon darkshade on Sept 13, 2022 16:10:11 GMT
Things seem to have died in a ditch comment-wise since January 1970 was posted in mid July. Is it a matter of content or just time constraints for both readers?
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Post by stevep on Sept 13, 2022 20:26:17 GMT
Things seem to have died in a ditch comment-wise since January 1970 was posted in mid July. Is it a matter of content or just time constraints for both readers?
Partly for me a time issue. Been rather busy in a number of areas. As well trying to remember everything that has happened differently in TTL.
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Post by simon darkshade on Sept 14, 2022 1:09:46 GMT
On the first, I hope that your schedule opens up once more.
On the second, there is a great deal that is different to the point that now, in mid 1970, the @ events are few and far between. They are essentially limited to natural disasters and very big trends, with individual politics, wars and science diverging and popular culture doing the same at a greater rate. Now, 25 years after the end of the Second World War, it is a very open world, for all intents and purposes.
In the stats for this year, I’m going to provide a full world update of GDP and pops to align data. It makes for interesting initial reading.
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Post by simon darkshade on Sept 14, 2022 7:39:51 GMT
1970 Statistics
1970/71 Largest GDPs
1.) USA $10,608,144,009,891 (+ 5.29%)
2.) USSR $4,960,161,796,672 (+ 8.87%)
3.) Germany $4,093,122,180,171 (+ 4.97%)
4.) Britain $3,958,828,222,343 (+ 5.25%)
5.) Japan $3,538,247,610,571 (+ 9.62%)
6.) France $2,260,691,555,954 (+ 8.15%)
7.) India $1,966,967,043,165 (- 0.88%)
8.) Canada $1,957,853,379,512 (+ 7.84%)
9.) China $1,894,884,537,803 (-2.65%)
10.) Italy $1,443,231,408,096 (+ 4.57%)
11.) Austria-Hungary $1,233,186,607,912 (+ 10.75%)
1970/71 Population
1.) China: 982,236,905
2.) India: 686,183,926
3.) Soviet Union: 378,257,846
4.) USA: 331,262,928
5.) Japan: 256,450,985
6.) Indonesia: 245,035,111
7.) Germany: 192,495,335
8.) Brazil: 165,745,293
9.) France: 143,599,781
10.) Mexico: 139,512,364
11.) Britain: 136,978,142
12.) Austria-Hungary: 125,849,342
1970/71 Share of World Industrial Output
1.) USA: 23%
2.) Japan: 12.5%
3.) Soviet Union: 12.0%
4.) Germany: 11.6%
5.) China: 7.6%
6.) Britain: 6.9%
7.) India 5.2%
8.) France: 4%
9.) Italy: 3.2%
10.) Canada: 3%
11.) Austria-Hungary: 2.9%
Steel Production 1970/71 (millions of tons)
1.) USA 205
2.) Japan 187
3.) USSR 179
4.) Germany 111
5.) China: 93
6.) Britain 80
7.) AH: 69
8.) India 64
9.) Poland 61
10.) France 53
11.) Canada 50
Coal Production 1970 (millions of tons)
1.) USSR: 693
2.) USA: 675
3.) China: 536
4.) Germany: 529
5.) Britain: 487
6.) Poland: 480
7.) India: 410
8.) Austria-Hungary: 402
9.) France: 259
10.) South Africa: 214
11.) Australia: 192
Automobile Production 1970
1.) USA: 12,596,549
2.) Japan: 9,672,356
3.) Germany: 6,458,222
4.) Britain: 4,529,652
5.) France: 3,871,095
6.) USSR: 3,768,819
7.) Italy: 3,140,700
8.) Canada: 2,954,523
9.) Austria-Hungary: 2,399,872
10.) China: 2,074,355
11.) Mexico: 1,862,765
Merchant Shipbuilding 1970
1.) Japan: 10,373,584 tons
2.) Britain: 6,524,900 tons
3.) USA: 4,956,777 tons
4.) Germany: 2,163,568 tons
5.) USSR: 1,789,572 tons
6.) France: 1,682,965 tons
7.) Italy: 1,521,766 tons
8.) China: 1,344,854 tons
9.) Korea: 1,028,235 tons
10.) Sweden: 1,024,598 tons
Aircraft Production 1970
1.) USA: 5233
2.) USSR: 4962
3.) China: 3176
4.) Britain: 2989
5.) Germany: 1946
6.) France: 1598
7.) Japan: 1412
8.) India: 1086
9.) Canada: 975
10.) Italy: 721
11.) Austria-Hungary: 674
Tank Production 1970
1.) USSR: 9822
2.) USA: 5230
3.) China: 3892
4.) Britain: 3142
5.) Germany: 2546
6.) France: 1925
7.) Italy: 1639
8.) Japan: 1526
9.) Austria-Hungary: 1232
10.) India: 1185
11.) Canada: 853
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Post by simon darkshade on Sept 15, 2022 11:08:16 GMT
- China and India have recessions due to poorer harvests, driven by some bad weather events in the Far East - The next few years will see some ratcheting down of military production in the West post Vietnam - Japan will overtake Britain in GDP within 3-4 years as compared to 1964 in @. This reflects Japan copping it more in WW2 and Britain having a bigger edge pre war and better postwar performance - Coming up at the back end of the Top 11 is Austria-Hungary, which is entering a very big growth period after postwar reconstruction is complete and new expansion comes online. Despite losing a reasonable bit of population capacity post Great War, the combination of @ Austria, Hungary and Czechoslovakia as a solid core is starting to ‘pay off’. Whilst AH is not the equal of Germany in any substantive measure, it is strong. The concerning scenario for a number of states is some sort of resurgent Austro-German bloc or that entity falling under Communist control. The first would present a heck of a problem and the second would give the Soviets effective control of Europe; this is why there was a lot of effort put into defibrillating the Western Alliance - Tank production numbers include new vehicles, exports, specialist varieties and refurbished older ones, which goes some way to the numbers of the likes of Italy. In general, the Big 4 are building actual tanks and then it gets complicated - Japanese shipbuilding was really hitting its straps before now in @ (5 million GT in 1957 to 60 million GT in 1973), but here faced the issues of more military construction and more foreign competition. The Suez Canal has never closed, unlike @, keeping down the *general* average size of tankers, which went up by 400% 1957-73 www.cna.org/archive/CNA_Files/pdf/d0006988.a1.pdf- The biggest part of that rise occurred between 1970 and 73, seemingly unctad.org/system/files/official-document/rmt1970_en.pdf (see table on p18) - Japan and Britain particularly both have a lot of ships on order; Japan is further constrained by only just being allowed back into certain markets and industries - As container ships and ro/ro vessels start to grow past their first few generations, the size of orders will increase - Incidental to that issue, there hasn’t been the same move to Panamanian and Liberian flag ships and the British Merchant Navy is narrowly the largest in the world - A lack of an oil shock will have reverberations on shipbuilding, as well as everything else www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/japan/industry-shipbuilding-1970s.htm- Also raising shipbuilding numbers will be oil rig production - The largish rise in British car production came through the commencement of full operations of two new plants postulated back at the beginning of Stanley Barton’s first term in government back in 1964. I like to show connections between written accounts, subsequent economic history and the statistics - China is building a lot more steel than in @ 1970, but a fair bit of it is lower quality stuff for domestic construction rather than being a big export player. Coming up behind them is Britain, which is rising towards the limit of its capacity - The postwar Baby Boom in the USA and the West has come to an end, with population growth rates slipping back into second gear, as it were - 1971 was the year that France exceeded Britain’s GDP for the first time since a brief moment in 1843 (and before then preceding the French Revolution), but that isn’t on the cards here. If British growth were to slow and the French maintained, then there might be a crossover in the late 1980s, similar to Italy in @. However, the drivers aren’t necessarily present |
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Post by simon darkshade on Oct 10, 2022 17:31:01 GMT
July
July 1: Residents of halfling villages of the traditional English area of Hartshire complete a march to London with the presentation of a petition calling for their young males to be included in National Service.
July 2: The 3278th and final de Havilland Comet, a Super Comet 6 destined for Hyderabad Airlines, rolls off the assembly line at Hatfield, concluding the production run after 23 years.
July 3: France conducts an underwater semi-atmospheric hydrogen bomb test at Muroroa Atoll in French Polynesia.
July 4: Over 50,000 personnel from all of the US Armed Services take part in the Victory Parade in New York City in front of a crowd of several millions to mark the official victory in the Vietnam War. Clean up of the tickertape only takes two hours in the evening due to new cleaning enchantments.
July 5: Archaeologists discover ruins in Cyprus that appear to be over ten thousand years old.
July 6: Death of King Umberto II of Italy from injuries sustained in a fall whilst hunting.
July 7: Entry into Soviet Navy service of the Yakovlev Yak-36 'Forger', a VSTOL fighter-bomber developed in response to the British Harrier.
July 8: A feature article in The Manchester Guardian describes the impact of foreign and Imperial immigration on British food in the 1960s, approving of the expanded range of foodstuffs and restaurants, noting that the number of Indian restaurants alone had increased from under 60 to 300. The increased popularity of certain foreign dishes such as spaghetti bolognese is dealt with less positively, questioning if the Tommies who fought and died in North Africa and Sicily did so only to enrich the spaghetti farmers of the Po.
July 9: President Kennedy formally establishes the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the latest manifestation of growing awareness of man’s impact on the natural environment.
July 10: The Prime Minister of Iceland is presumed dead after a shock troll attack whilst on a countryside walk.
July 11: US Army troops and equipment are embarked at Da Nang for redeployment to Australia on the new fast sealift vessel USNS Paul Bunyan.
July 12: Thor Heyerdahl's Ra II raft successfully arrives in Barbados, where he is greeted by a reception of hundreds of civilian boats and the cruiser HMWIS Jamaica.
July 13: An RAF Germany HS.681 flight is forced to land at Bielefeld Airport in early morning fog and extremely confused circumstances, with air traffic controllers claiming that the airport did not exist.
July 14: Opening of the British Empire Games in Edinburgh.
July 15: The Premier of Argentina announces that the Argentine Army will be increased by 130,000 men over the next six years, in addition to being equipped with new modern weapons.
July 16: The state funeral of King Umberto II is held in Rome, with his successor, King Vittorio Emmanuele IV, being lauded for his stoicism.
July 17: The Imperial Governor of Oaxaca is assassinated by a gang of men clad in the costume of Aztec Jaguar Knights.
July 18: The Arab Union orders 300 Dassault Mirage F2 fighter-bombers as part of an economic investment deal with France.
July 19: The Royal Space Force and Ministry of Magic launch an experimental dimensional craft 300nm west of Easter Island.
July 20: Commencement of the annual Sky Shield air defence exercise in the United States and Canada, with RAF Bomber Command taking part for the twelfth year running as part of the opposing force.
July 21: A proposal to make USN ships ‘dry’ is resoundingly rejected by Secretary of the Navy Victor Henry
July 22: Britain and the new government of the Congo come to an agreement on autonomy for the Katanga border region for the next five years.
July 23: The Sultan of Oman is deposed by his son and heir in a well-organised coup d’état.
July 24: Completion of the rationalisation of the strength of the Territorial Army in accordance with the Barton government’s defence reforms, formalising the division between the first and second line TA and TA Reserve formations, completing the reassignment of former Anti-Aircraft Command regiments as it’s role transfers to the Home Guard and forming a number of new combat units, including the 5th Airborne Division. These expansive steps are somewhat overshadowed by the announcement of the contentious decision to form a number of Royal Flying Corps Harrier squadrons.
July 25: President Kennedy arrives in Moscow for a state visit and conference with General Secretary Sergeyev on superpower relations in the aftermath of the Vietnam War.
July 26: The National Technological Exposition at the Crystal Palace sees a number of new electronic devices unveiled to the public for the first time, including the British Electronic Industries portable radio/cassette player, the Albion video cassette recording machine, English Electric Watchman portable television and the IEC mobile cellular telephone.
July 27: Death of former Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio de Salazar, who served as premier between 1932 and 1948.
July 28: The General Assembly of the League of Nations passes a resolution calling for the protection of vulnerable marine species in the light of the extinction of the great white shark and extermination of the megalodon.
July 29: Sears, Roebuck & Company announce plans for a 1500ft tall skyscraper in Chicago.
July 30: Introduction of the Royal Ordnance L204 25pdr multirole airborne field/anti-tank/infantry support gun, a new lightweight weapon utilising advanced technology and materials to fulfill its different missions. It is also intended to be carried on the new FV625 Squire Lightweight High Mobility Tactical Vehicle in the light assault gun mission.
July 31: Tupamaro guerrillas kidnap Dan Mitrione, US Chief Public Safety Advisor to Uruguay.
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Post by lordroel on Oct 10, 2022 18:01:00 GMT
JulyJuly 1: Residents of halfling villages of the traditional English area of Hartshire So what would their job be in the armed services. |
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Post by simon darkshade on Oct 10, 2022 18:05:06 GMT
Quite a few things: cooking, services, maintenance, administration and various recce/surveillance units.
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Post by lordroel on Oct 10, 2022 18:06:16 GMT
Quite a few things: cooking, services, maintenance, administration and various recce/surveillance units. So we have to wait and see if they get accepted for NS. |
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Post by simon darkshade on Oct 10, 2022 18:10:20 GMT
It is a political question, given the different circumstances of their status compared to human subjects of the Crown.
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Post by simon darkshade on Oct 11, 2022 2:45:00 GMT
There are a few other developments that may be of interest or merit discussion:
- A USN that never went dry in 1914, with Josephus Daniels not getting anywhere near Secretary of the Navy on account of TR’s third term from 1912
- In Britain, the TA never losing its expansive combat division role that in @ developed from the 1957 White Paper (dropping from 10 to 2 divisions) and the late 1960s contraction. The first line units and strength have become smaller with the inactivation of AA Command, but there is still a reasonable level of capacity
- In general, there is a similar tripartite structure to the US Army with its National Guard and Army Reserve formations of the 1950s in the form of the TA and the Army Reserve, with the latter being a combination of the @ ‘Ever Readies’ and a bit of 1900-1945 structures
- There is still a strong push to reduce the active divisional strength of the British Army in light of the end of Vietnam, the continuing reduction of forward deployed forces in the Middle East and the capacity of a UK based strategic reserve combined with long range air lift
- The RFC getting Harriers after 8 years of debate and argument is a bit of a rebuff to the RAF’s desire to control everything that flies and will be followed by some more contentious developments across the Atlantic
- France hasn’t quite done a China and gone back to atmospheric tests, but there will be developments
- Lots of interesting tech, some of which being inspired by some…external…hints
- The FV625 Squire is a tracked successor to the old Oxford Carriers, being much smaller than the FV432; the size difference is similar to the M113:M114 ratio
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Post by stevep on Oct 11, 2022 11:14:22 GMT
JulyJuly 1: Residents of halfling villages of the traditional English area of Hartshire complete a march to London with the presentation of a petition calling for their young males to be included in National Service. July 2: The 3278th and final de Havilland Comet, a Super Comet 6 destined for Hyderabad Airlines, rolls off the assembly line at Hatfield, concluding the production run after 23 years. July 3: France conducts an underwater semi-atmospheric hydrogen bomb test at Muroroa Atoll in French Polynesia. July 4: Over 50,000 personnel from all of the US Armed Services take part in the Victory Parade in New York City in front of a crowd of several millions to mark the official victory in the Vietnam War. Clean up of the tickertape only takes two hours in the evening due to new cleaning enchantments. July 5: Archaeologists discover ruins in Cyprus that appear to be over ten thousand years old. July 6: Death of King Umberto II of Italy from injuries sustained in a fall whilst hunting. July 7: Entry into Soviet Navy service of the Yakovlev Yak-36 'Forger', a VSTOL fighter-bomber developed in response to the British Harrier. July 8: A feature article in The Manchester Guardian describes the impact of foreign and Imperial immigration on British food in the 1960s, approving of the expanded range of foodstuffs and restaurants, noting that the number of Indian restaurants alone had increased from under 60 to 300. The increased popularity of certain foreign dishes such as spaghetti bolognese is dealt with less positively, questioning if the Tommies who fought and died in North Africa and Sicily did so only to enrich the spaghetti farmers of the Po. July 9: President Kennedy formally establishes the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the latest manifestation of growing awareness of man’s impact on the natural environment. July 10: The Prime Minister of Iceland is presumed dead after a shock troll attack whilst on a countryside walk. July 11: US Army troops and equipment are embarked at Da Nang for redeployment to Australia on the new fast sealift vessel USNS Paul Bunyan. July 12: Thor Heyerdahl's Ra II raft successfully arrives in Barbados, where he is greeted by a reception of hundreds of civilian boats and the cruiser HMWIS Jamaica. July 13: An RAF Germany HS.681 flight is forced to land at Bielefeld Airport in early morning fog and extremely confused circumstances, with air traffic controllers claiming that the airport did not exist. July 14: Opening of the British Empire Games in Edinburgh. July 15: The Premier of Argentina announces that the Argentine Army will be increased by 130,000 men over the next six years, in addition to being equipped with new modern weapons. July 16: The state funeral of King Umberto II is held in Rome, with his successor, King Vittorio Emmanuele IV, being lauded for his stoicism. July 17: The Imperial Governor of Oaxaca is assassinated by a gang of men clad in the costume of Aztec Jaguar Knights. July 18: The Arab Union orders 300 Dassault Mirage F2 fighter-bombers as part of an economic investment deal with France. July 19: The Royal Space Force and Ministry of Magic launch an experimental dimensional craft 300nm west of Easter Island. July 20: Commencement of the annual Sky Shield air defence exercise in the United States and Canada, with RAF Bomber Command taking part for the twelfth year running as part of the opposing force. July 21: A proposal to make USN ships ‘dry’ is resoundingly rejected by Secretary of the Navy Victor Henry July 22: Britain and the new government of the Congo come to an agreement on autonomy for the Katanga border region for the next five years. July 23: The Sultan of Oman is deposed by his son and heir in a well-organised coup d’état. July 24: Completion of the rationalisation of the strength of the Territorial Army in accordance with the Barton government’s defence reforms, formalising the division between the first and second line TA and TA Reserve formations, completing the reassignment of former Anti-Aircraft Command regiments as it’s role transfers to the Home Guard and forming a number of new combat units, including the 5th Airborne Division. These expansive steps are somewhat overshadowed by the announcement of the contentious decision to form a number of Royal Flying Corps Harrier squadrons. July 25: President Kennedy arrives in Moscow for a state visit and conference with General Secretary Sergeyev on superpower relations in the aftermath of the Vietnam War. July 26: The National Technological Exposition at the Crystal Palace sees a number of new electronic devices unveiled to the public for the first time, including the British Electronic Industries portable radio/cassette player, the Albion video cassette recording machine, English Electric Watchman portable television and the IEC mobile cellular telephone. July 27: Death of former Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio de Salazar, who served as premier between 1932 and 1948. July 28: The General Assembly of the League of Nations passes a resolution calling for the protection of vulnerable marine species in the light of the extinction of the great white shark and extermination of the megalodon. July 29: Sears, Roebuck & Company announce plans for a 1500ft tall skyscraper in Chicago. July 30: Introduction of the Royal Ordnance L204 25pdr multirole airborne field/anti-tank/infantry support gun, a new lightweight weapon utilising advanced technology and materials to fulfill its different missions. It is also intended to be carried on the new FV625 Squire Lightweight High Mobility Tactical Vehicle in the light assault gun mission. July 31: Tupamaro guerrillas kidnap Dan Mitrione, US Chief Public Safety Advisor to Uruguay.
July July 1: Residents of halfling villages of the traditional English area of Hartshire complete a march to London with the presentation of a petition calling for their young males to be included in National Service. - Question is can the army afford to feed them. 
July 2: The 3278th and final de Havilland Comet, a Super Comet 6 destined for Hyderabad Airlines, rolls off the assembly line at Hatfield, concluding the production run after 23 years. - That quite a long run and much better than OTL.
July 3: France conducts an underwater semi-atmospheric hydrogen bomb test at Muroroa Atoll in French Polynesia. - Ugh  July 5: Archaeologists discover ruins in Cyprus that appear to be over ten thousand years old. - Interesting July 8: A feature article in The Manchester Guardian describes the impact of foreign and Imperial immigration on British food in the 1960s, approving of the expanded range of foodstuffs and restaurants, noting that the number of Indian restaurants alone had increased from under 60 to 300. The increased popularity of certain foreign dishes such as spaghetti bolognese is dealt with less positively, questioning if the Tommies who fought and died in North Africa and Sicily did so only to enrich the spaghetti farmers of the Po. - Hang on do they have the wrong date? Their a couple of months late with that one.
July 9: President Kennedy formally establishes the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the latest manifestation of growing awareness of man’s impact on the natural environment. - Good. July 12: Thor Heyerdahl's Ra II raft successfully arrives in Barbados, where he is greeted by a reception of hundreds of civilian boats and the cruiser HMWIS Jamaica. - 
July 13: An RAF Germany HS.681 flight is forced to land at Bielefeld Airport in early morning fog and extremely confused circumstances, with air traffic controllers claiming that the airport did not exist. - Interesting?
July 15: The Premier of Argentina announces that the Argentine Army will be increased by 130,000 men over the next six years, in addition to being equipped with new modern weapons. - Probably not a good thing for the economy.
July 17: The Imperial Governor of Oaxaca is assassinated by a gang of men clad in the costume of Aztec Jaguar Knights. - Some sort of Aztec/Mexican nationalist revival or just simply an handy disguise for political criminals?
July 19: The Royal Space Force and Ministry of Magic launch an experimental dimensional craft 300nm west of Easter Island. - Does this mean its meant to try and reach another dimension or is there a typo there?
July 21: A proposal to make USN ships ‘dry’ is resoundingly rejected by Secretary of the Navy Victor Henry -
July 22: Britain and the new government of the Congo come to an agreement on autonomy for the Katanga border region for the next five years. -
July 23: The Sultan of Oman is deposed by his son and heir in a well-organised coup d’état. - Based on the OTL one when a very reactionary sultan was removed?
July 24: Completion of the rationalisation of the strength of the Territorial Army in accordance with the Barton government’s defence reforms, formalising the division between the first and second line TA and TA Reserve formations, completing the reassignment of former Anti-Aircraft Command regiments as it’s role transfers to the Home Guard and forming a number of new combat units, including the 5th Airborne Division. These expansive steps are somewhat overshadowed by the announcement of the contentious decision to form a number of Royal Flying Corps Harrier squadrons. July 26: The National Technological Exposition at the Crystal Palace sees a number of new electronic devices unveiled to the public for the first time, including the British Electronic Industries portable radio/cassette player, the Albion video cassette recording machine, English Electric Watchman portable television and the IEC mobile cellular telephone. -
July 27: Death of former Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio de Salazar, who served as premier between 1932 and 1948. - Was he not the dictator of OTL?
July 30: Introduction of the Royal Ordnance L204 25pdr multirole airborne field/anti-tank/infantry support gun, a new lightweight weapon utilising advanced technology and materials to fulfill its different missions. It is also intended to be carried on the new FV625 Squire Lightweight High Mobility Tactical Vehicle in the light assault gun mission. -
July 31: Tupamaro guerrillas kidnap Dan Mitrione, US Chief Public Safety Advisor to Uruguay. - An OTL event. Vaguely remembered it but didn't realise he's reported to have been training assorted dictatorships in torture methods.  |
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