World War Three 1946 Series Boxed Set: Stalin Strikes First

by Harry Kellogg

  USSR Estimated at full war footing

  70% of oil production non-functional

  Estimated 5% increase per month despite current bombing campaign

  185 divisions currently in the field 50 in Western Europe

  30 on the Pyrenees Line

  2 in Italy

  2 in Greece

  10 spread out internally in Eastern Europe

  10 on the eastern border of Turkey with 30 more enroute

  35 on the Northeastern border of Turkey

  15 in Scandinavia

  10 internal Russia and Ukraine

  21 in Manchuria

  VVS units See Attached

  Yugoslavia 7 division in Greece

  8 divisions in Italy

  4 internal

  Eastern European nations 35 divisions internally

  United States See attachment

  Damn it I’ll be typing all day. Where the hell is the attach shit...Oh crap you’re kidding. Holy shit this is ridiculous. There must be 30 pages of double column figures. Oh man...

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  Actually the typist underestimated the number of pages. It was more than 120 pages all together and he was soon joined by others.

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  We leave you at this point with Stalin poised to invade Turkey the Levant and Iraq with two objectives in mind. First and foremost to prevent NATO from attacking his oil production facilities ever again and to enjoy the immunity the United States has from this calamity of modern war. Second is to deny NATO the oil in Iraq and to close the Suez Canal to all shipping and eventually make the Mediterranean a Soviet lake by wrestling Gibraltar from the British.

  END OF BOOK TWO

  End Note

  The

  Red White & Blue

  A Giant Re- a wakes

  Book Three of

  The World War Three 1946 Series

  First Edition

  ‘By

  Harry Kellogg III

  Co-Author Mary Margret Jotz

  Copyright © 2015 Harry Kellogg III

  All rights reserved.

  ISBN-13: 978-1516845576

  ISBN-10:1516845579

  Disclaimer

  This is a work of fiction. Many characters in the novel are based on historical individuals.

  The character’s imagined thoughts, and actions are purely fictional.

  A Note of Introduction and a Thank You, Are in Order

  I wish to introduce Mary Margaret Jotz to my readers. She and her partner Henry showed up one day in a big, old, camper while I was staying in a marina in Central California. Normally I was the only one camping there. I was initially irritated when my view of my favorite willow tree was blocked by their RV. The more we all got to know each other the more I forgot about the tree.

  She has made me a better writer as well as a better story teller. I’m sure you will agree, that through her tireless efforts at massaging my tortured prose, she has vastly improved the recounting of a fictitious World War Three. Her editing and re-writing skills have improved the excitement and readability of our offerings.

  Yes I said “our”. Her many hours of excision and coaching have earned her the title of Co-Author. Thank you Mary Margaret for all your time and effort. Thank you for hiding your dismay when confronted by my un-edited script. And finally thank you for your mind opening stories of being a professional woman in a “man’s world” before the glass ceiling was even invented.

  ( ( Mary Margaret did not edit this ) )

  Table of Figures

  Figure 1-Territory of the USSR September, 1946

  Figure 2-Locations of SAC atomic bomb attacks

  Figure 3 - View of the Bosporus 1946

  Figure 4 - Turkish Kilij circa 19th century

  Figure 5 - Turkish Tombak Pitcher

  Figure 6 - Supplying the SAC Bases in Egypt 1946

  Figure 7 - Typical Bomber Combat Box

  Figure 8 - Turkish Troops hours before the attack

  Figure 9 - Soviet Lend Lease DUKW

  Figure 10 - Soviet Mechanized Calvary Corps

  Figure 11 - Gaz 51

  Figure 12 - Doctor Marcel Junod at work for the Red Cross

  Figure 13 - One of the Clocks of Hiroshima

  Figure 14 - Spencer Crenshaw 1946

  Figure 15 - Pigeon in a Pelican Guided Bomb Warhead

  Figure 16 - Oakland, CA 1946

  Figure 17-Newspaper Ad for the Circus

  Figure 18 - Serbian officer on the grave of his son

  Figure 19 - Yak-9 and P-80

  Figure 20 - Banana Plantation 1946

  Figure 21 - Soviet PTRD – 41 AntiTank Rifle

  Figure 22 - T-34 on the move

  Figure 23 - Sedd El Bahr/Cape Helles - Defensive Positions

  Figure 24 -Truman reauthorizes the War Production Board

  Figure 25 – Near Ashburn

  Figure 26 - Meme left – Antoine right

  Figure 27-Amphetamines Poster

  Figure 28 - Member of the Arab Legion

  Figure 29 - General Sir Harold Alexander, General Truscott

  Figure 30 - Burt Post’s Diary

  Figure 31 - Advertisement for retread tires

  Figure 32 - General Eisenhower Receives Briefing

  Figure 33 - At the mouth of a Foibe, a True Hell Hole

  Figure 34 - Hand Drawn Map of The Soviet Empire 1947

  Figure 35 - Typewriter Copy Holder

  Figure 36 - Walton “Johnny” Walker

  Figure 37-Troy Middleton

  Figure 38 - Mulberry Harbor

  Figure 39 - Burrus Fredrick Skinner 1946

  Figure 40 - The Razzle Dazzle Paint Scheme circa 1916

  Prologue

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  A film clip was found in a vault in Istanbul by Soviet forces.

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  The Boy and the Porpoise

  The initial scene is a beautiful day on the Sea of Marma. You can see a number of unmistakable landmarks in the distance. The exact bay or inlet we are looking at is impossible to tell. The first couple of shots are just the sun and water so it must have been in the afternoon. The cameraman is obviously hiding from something that is across the water. He zooms in on one of the tanks, the Soviets have moved up in the night.

  All of a sudden, the camera jolts to the left as if the cameraman hears something and is trying to find it while looking through his viewfinder. Then we see it. What is it? At first, it’s just a ripple of something under the water, but very near the surface, like a fish gently feeding on a bug and sucking it into its mouth.

  It starts to move fairly fast and we see the dorsal fin of a harbor porpoise with something else trailing behind. That something else turns out to be a very small boy holding on to the fin and being dragged along by the porpoise. The child is so little that even the porpoise easily carries him. If you had to guess you would say the boy is about four years old at the most.

  You can see the boy take a breath of air, but it is not a breath of desperation but one of normal activity. Then, he turns his face towards the camera just as the photographer zooms in. You see a look of utter joy on the boy’s face. He obviously is having the time of his young life. He is enjoying himself like no one else ever has. The porpoise is willingly giving him a ride and they both are enjoying it.

  For a second he lets go and his playmate disappears and then suddenly leaps out of the water and over the boy’s elated face. The porpoise disappears from the surface again, subsequently leaps once more as the boy reaches up and touches his playmate’s belly when he comes into range and soars over him. It happens once again. The boy cannot swim too well so the porpoise comes along side and lets him catch his breath by holding on.

  It is a mesmerizing sight to behold and a wonder. Who was this boy? How had he and the porpoise become friendly? How long had they been doing this? Were they both still alive?

  The porpoise nuzzles the boy and he in turn pats its head and gives it a kiss that the animal seems to like. The porpoise sweeps around again and c
omes up under the boy letting him hold on once more, and they speed off, the porpoise in front and the boy almost flying behind. Once again, you can see the joy on the boy’s face. Then, they dive. The camera searches for them. It follows the path that they would have been on had they gone straight. After a few moments the operator zooms out and starts to pan first right then left searching for the pair. Nothing...it goes on like this for a couple of minutes.

  Such a small boy couldn’t have held his breath that long. Where was he? Had he drowned? The care the porpoise had shown for the boy led you to believe that it would never let him come to harm. But, where did they go? It is a film clip full of the joy and wonder of life, yet also full of questions, questions that have never been answered. After spending a few more seconds looking for the pair the cameraman pans back to the Soviet units moving in along the western shoreline

  You don’t feel sad when the movie ends, even though the boy and the porpoise have disappeared beneath the water. The final scene is of the enemy lining up for an assault. This should put you in a pensive mood. On the contrary, if you ask most who see this small clip they are filled with a feeling of joy and hope. The look on the boy’s face will stay with you forever and may even rekindle your love for mankind, it is just that powerful.

  No one knows where the clip came from. No one knows who the filmmaker was. However, anyone who sees the clip, doesn't seem to care.

  Foreword

  Synopsis Book One – The Red Tide –Stalin Strikes First

  Book ne - The Red Tide starts with the birth of Sergo Peshkova and ends with the Soviet Red Army in control of the majority of Western Europe. The Red Army is making slow, but steady, progress in breaking the NATO lines in the Pyrenees Mountains.

  Our real departure from history begins with Sergo’s birth in 1896. The ribbons of time start unraveling, slowly at first and then faster and faster until the fateful day in 1943. Sergo is bullied by Stalin at one of his infamous parties and a new future begins. It seems that Sergo has made himself an expert on all things aerospace, from gliders to rockets.

  Starting early in 1946 the Soviets had delayed the US production of atomic bombs by assassination. Stalin decides to fulfill his deepest ambition, once and for all ridding the world of Capitalism. He attacks Western Europe in May, 1946.

  In a lightning and classic Soviet Deep Battle, the Soviet Armed forces quickly break through the weak and untrained US, British and French occupying forces.

  The Red Army juggernaut continues its march to the Mediterranean Sea. The forces of NATO desperately gather behind the imposing peaks of the Pyrenees Mountains on the border of France and Spain and dig in.

  Meanwhile, the US is apparently having difficulties convincing its citizens and corporations to make the necessary sacrifices to once again fight for the liberation their European cousins. From Finland to Toulouse in France, the iron curtain of Communism has fallen on all of Western Europe as the NATO allies desperately try to counter the military might of the USSR.

  Timeline for Book One

  Figure 2-Territory of the USSR September, 1946

  Synopsis : Book 2 – Red Sky – The Second Battle of Britain

  The Soviets are making progress in their quest for world domination. The Second Battle of Britain is unlike the first. With almost real-time intelligence-gathering abilities, the VVS has overcome all the constraints that plagued the German Luftwaffe in the initial battle. Within weeks, the RAF is virtually destroyed by a combination of an attack on their “bone yards”, the Soviet use of captured US jammers and sheer overwhelming numbers on the order of five to one.

  Only an attack by the US SAC using atomic bombs saves the RAF . The attack on the oil fields of the USSR diverts the Stavka’s attention from the British Isles and the conquest of Iberia.

  At the end of Book 2, Stalin poised to invade Turkey and Egypt with two objectives in mind. First and foremost to prevent NATO from attacking his oil production facilities from bases in Turkey and Egypt. Second is to close the Mediterranean Sea by closing the Suez Canal and conquering Iberia and Gibraltar.

  Synopsis

  Book 2 – Red Sky – The Second Battle of Britain

  The Soviets are making progress in their quest for world domination. The Second Battle of Britain is unlike the first. With almost real-time intelligence-gathering abilities, the VVS has overcome all the constraints that plagued the German Luftwaffe in the initial battle. Within weeks, the RAF is virtually destroyed by a combination of an attack on their “bone yards”, the Soviet use of captured US jammers, and sheer overwhelming numbers on the order of five to one.

  Only an attack by the US SAC using atomic bombs saves the RAF. The attack on the USSR oil fields diverts the Stavka’s attention from the British Isles and the conquest of Iberia.

  At the end of Book 2, Stalin is poised to invade Turkey, the Levant and Iraq with two objectives in mind. First, and foremost, was to prevent future NATO attacks on his oil production facilities. He wants the protection of geography that the United States had experienced over the last century. His second goal is close the Suez Canal making the Mediterranean a Soviet lake by wrestling Gibraltar from the British

  Figure 3-Locations of SAC atomic bomb attacks

  Chapter One:

  Gathering Storm

  Figure 4 - View of the Bosporus 1946

  The Turks

  Nazik was staring at the biggest tank he had ever seen in his short terror-filled life. Despite the fact that his spotting telescope was magnifying it dozens of times he could still tell by the men standing near it that it was very large and very menacing looking. Its turret was like nothing he had ever seen. It looked like a soup bowl sitting on top of the tank’s body. The gun attached to this turret was huge and seemed too big for the vehicle. He had been a soldier since the age of 14, only six years ago. He had seen a lot of tracked vehicles and tanks, as he was drawn into many a skirmish and raid, while following his cousins who were notable pirates and robbers.

  Two years ago, he found religion in the form of the Turkish army. Caught red-handed, literally, stealing some pomegranates...a truckload to be exact, that crashed as he was trying to outrun the police. He had tried to hide among the smashed fruit but was caught when he ran. He was easy to spot being colored red by the crushed berries all over his clothes and skin.

  He was given a choice. Go to prison for five years or join the army for 10. He joined the army and had thrived ever since. He worked his way up from being the best scrounger in the First Division to now the youngest Cavus in the Turkish Army and proud of it. He was in command of a special squad of antitank experts who were expected to destroy enemy tanks. Looking at the Soviet IS-3 across the way. and the strange new tank next to it, that he learned later was the first T-54 to see action, he felt very intimidated to say the least.

  He was taught and believed what he was taught, that the US Bazooka, he was given to defeat these monsters would not up to the task. His plan was to disable the beasts by aiming at their tracks and then using the rather primitive but still effective Molotov cocktail to at least distract the occupants. The whole plan depended upon each squad attacking a tank to prevent them from supporting each other. The ordinary infantry was supposed to engage the Soviet soldiers who would be trying to defend their armor.

  The Yankee advisors tried to teach the Turkish soldiers to work together as a team. Some were to suppress the enemy with small-arms fire and heavy machine guns while others flanked the enemy. These maneuvers, unfortunately, were counter intuitive to the average Turkish warrior who wanted to join the enemy in hand-to-hand combat as soon as possible. The Turkish warrior wanted to use his modern version of the kilij that many soldiers secretly hid when going into battle. The bayonet was a close second to the kilij, with both requiring individual combat. No respectable warrior wanted to sit back and provide cover fire while his fellows closed the enemy and did the real fighting.

  The Turkish warriors’ zeal was a real problem for Yankee trainers and never
fully resolved. The US Army small unit tactics were based on cover fire and suppression. Such tactics were considered unmanly by most Turkish warriors. You crawled or crept up on the enemy until you could effectively charge him from close quarters. The Soviet practice of sniping seemed particularly repulsive to most soldiers. No one, but possibly the Gurka, equaled the Turkish warrior in hand-to-hand fighting.

  Nazik was told repeatedly that the old ways would not prevail against the tactics being brought to the battlefield by the hated Russian and his Armenian, and other Slavic lap dogs. The Red Army had not tasted defeat since 1944 using the tactics and strategies they were about to face.

  He was sure of his men but what about the troops around him. Some were good, but many were the dregs of the streets pressed into service and forced to dress and act like warriors. Oh, they acted like warriors when officers were watching, but he knew what they were planning if those tanks somehow got across the straits separating them. The conscripts would run and never look back. One on one, he would pit his men, and even the men from the streets against any. Against an organized and efficient killing machine that he had seen firsthand in the past, they would not last long. Just as the Romans had defeated all who stood barring their way by using small-group tactics, the Reds were masters at massive operations.

  You could very often stop them locally, but then they just went around you and swarmed you once a gap was found that they could pour their tanks through. The 1945 Soviet Deep Battle made the 1940 German Blitzkrieg look like child’s play. So far, no army had stood up to this new form of organized mayhem since the Soviets perfected it in 1944. It had cost the Soviets literally millions of deaths to perfect their original version of the Blitzkrieg, but they had done it.