Aug 2nd, 1946 - Italy is abandoned by the NATO Allies and all forces are pulled back to Sardinia.
Aug, 15th, 1946 - The Soviet VVS demonstrates its newest aircraft by flying at great heights over the entire British Isles in an attempt to intimidate the British people. This demonstration proves that the entire British Isles can be attack from the air unlike the First Battle of Britain where the Luftwaffe was severely limited in range.
August 17th, 1946 - The Strategic Air Command is formed with Curtis LeMay named as commander.
August 20th, 1946 - The Soviet VVS continues a massive buildup of the Red Air Force on the Channel coast. It appears that a Second Battle of Britain is about to be fought.
Timeline for Book 2 – The Red Sky – The Second Battle of Britain
Once again a few brave men would be asked to do the impossible over the skies of Great Britain. This time the enemy was not lead by a buffoon in the form of Herman Goring. The Red Air Force VVS was led by a master of strategy in the form of one Alexander Alexandrovich Novikov, the man who ruled the skies over Mother Russia, Manchuria, East Germany and now most of Europe.
Sept. 1946 - Throughout the month of September the Soviet VVS feints and simulated massive air attacks on the Isles of Great Britain.
Sept. 1st, 1946 - The US Strategic Air Command or SAC, is created with Curtis LeMay named Commander.
Sept. 15th, 1946 - From two different direction massive air raids consisting of 2056 Tu2s, Lag 7s, Yak 9DDs approach the southern and northeast coast of the British Isles. The RAF is unsure of the Soviet targets. The targets are the “bone yards” and maintenance facilities of the British. The unexpected choice of targets and the effectiveness of the raids leave the RAF with very few serviceable fighter aircraft and few repair facilities.
Sept. 14th, 1946 - Scandinavia falls to a massive airborne assault.
Sept. 25th - The Second Battle of Britain begins. The VVS suffers from none of the constraints that the Luftwaffe encountered.
Using external drop tanks, the VVS planes have the range to hit every target in the British Isles.
They outnumber the RAF by five to one.
The RAF has very few replacement aircraft.
The Soviet spy network is in full play. There is no lack of intelligence on the exact location of targets and the effects of their previous raids on those targets.
The Soviets have used captured US jammers to spoof the vaunted “proximity or VT fuse”. During the first critical raids the RAF airbases are virtually defenseless.
The effects are almost immediate with the RAF on the losing end of the battle.
Within weeks the VVS is roaming freely over the British Isles and ravaging the transportation systems and storage depots of the RAF. Britain is virtually defenseless from air attack.
Sept. 30th, 1946 - The Soviets publish, in Pravda, an article and picture of what appears to be an intact atomic bomb from the Leningrad raid. The crew and the Silverplate B-29 appear to be in the background. The inference is that the crew and bomb have defected to the Communist cause.
Oct. 2nd - Four atomic bombs are dropped on the oil production facilities of the USSR. The B-29s were based in Egypt with their fighter escorts flying from bases in Turkey. These four bombs are the last of the atomic bombs in existence.
Oct. 18th, 1946 - William Perl, Joel Barr and Alfred Sarant have all defected to the USSR and bring with them unimaginable intelligence on American and British weapons systems.
Oct. 22nd, 1946 - The fast response by the VVS and the addition of the Stalin’s Fire SAMs start to deplete the B-29s of SAC.
The Soviets attention is diverted, and the Second Battle of Britain and the Battle for Iberia are severely curtailed. Stalin and the Stavka prepare for an invasion of Turkey, Iraq, the oil fields of Kuwait and the Levant. Their ultimate goal is to capture Egypt and Gibraltar.
End Notes Book Three
The Red Sea
Blood in the Water
Book Four
in the
World War Three 1946 Series
First Edition
By
Harry Kellogg III
Co-authored by Mary Margret Jotz
Copyright © 2017 Harry Kellogg III
All rights reserved.
ISBN-13: 9781521139639
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This is a work of fiction. Many characters in the novel are based on historical individuals.
The characters' imagined thoughts, and actions are purely fictional.
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World War Three 1946 Series
Synopsis – Book One - The Red Tide - Stalin Strikes First
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 is when Sergo is born in 1896. This is when the ribbons of time start to unravel; slowly at first and then faster and faster until the fateful day in 1943 when Sergo is bullied by Stalin at one of his infamous parties. 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 fulfil his deepest ambition and once and for all rid 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 sacrifices necessary to once again fight to liberate 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.
Figure 1-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 is poised to invade Turkey, the Levant and Iraq with two objectives in mind. First and foremost, was 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.
Figure 2 - Location of Atomic Bomb Attacks
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Synopsis – Book 3 – The Red White & Blue – A Giant Re-Awakes
The invasion of Turkey has begun. The air war over the Baku oil fields rages on. Loses are staggering on both sides.
Using the equipment mothballed after the aborted invasion of Japan, NATO traps millions of Soviet troops in a series of amphibious invasion.
Dr. B.F. Skinner and his team are playin
g a cat and mouse game with the mastermind behind the Wasserfal/Stalin’s Fire anti-ship missile. To lose this battle of wits would be to lose the war.
Contents
Synopsis – Book One - The Red Tide - Stalin Strikes First
Synopsis - Book 2 - Red Sky - The Second Battle of Britain
Synopsis – Book 3 – The Red White & Blue – A Giant Re-Awakes
Chapter One: People
Different Strokes
Following a Force of Nature
Operation Kydoimos D-day +3
Combat Savants
Dislike and Respect
Gentle Giant
Reporter – Reporting
Waving the Flag
Eye Witness Report -
Sergo Loses Control
Secrets in Jeopardy
The Reds React
Interdiction
One Time Pad and Fate
Commanding a Corps
Zhukov at the Ready
Beria’s Rage
Pattern Recognition
Stalin Calls
Chapter Three: The Levant
Utterly Ignored
Zhukov Gambles
The Barrage
NATO Dodges a Bullet
Konev Commits
Pain and Vindication
Beria’s Endgame
Operation Cutoff
Premeditation
Chapter Four: Inland
Tanks for the Memories
The Mechanic
Baghdad
The Beggar They Are
Sergo Underground
The Alley
Zhukov’s Second Life
Konev’s Forces Surrender
Shepherd’s Watch
Chapter Five: Changes
Bear Hug
To the Last
The Transplant
Missiles Miss
Big Brother
Chapter Six: Looking Up
Spy in the Sky
“Vertical Insertion”
“The Next Level”
Desmans Too
103 WPM
Rotor Wash
Brainstorming
Spoofing
Chapter Seven: Meanwhile Up North
Old Friends, New Enemies
Dead Corner in a Dead Sea
Maniacal Machinations
Doppelganger
Zhukov’s Caucasus
Something is Afoot
Preparations on the Pyrenees
Cosmo is Late
Copenhagen
Task Force 125 Redux
Feet Dry
Explosive Carpet
And Died
Sergo Waits
Backdoor Man
How to Lose a War
Down by Her Head
A Matter of National Pride
Life, Revenge and Liberty
One Less Nikita
One More Nikita
A Fleet’s Demise
Chapter Eight: Rebellion
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Insurgent Army
The Toad
The Beach Chair
When Spoons Attack
Stavka’s Plans
By Fiat
Power and Compulsion
Chapter Nine: How to Succeed or Try Dying
Deadly Dose
Joseph Jugashvili
That Bodes Well
Acceptance and Action
Fire, Flames and Cremation
Bleeding
Chapter Ten: Means to the End
Debating Unconditional Surrender
Armies Meet
New Tanks, New Tactics
What's New is Old
Resurrectio - Dux
Ursus Arctos Beringianus
Someday, Neither Them nor Us
The Offer
Three Stories
Winning and Influence
A Pain in the Ass
Just Dropping In, D-7 and Counting
Cousins
The Battle of The Sosna
Outside Man
Deaf, Smart and Blind
The Battle for Moscow 1947
Andrei Who?
Another Time Another Place
Trained to Kill
Viktor Nikolayevich Leonov
Regrets and Retaliation
Credit Where Credit is Due
101 WPM
Break Time
Mary
No Words
Sergo Arises
Beating the Odds Yet Again
Wham! and Double Wham!
A New Day a New Life
Epilogue
The Future
Timeline for World War Three 1946
Book One - The Red Tide - Stalin Strikes First
Timeline for Book Two
Chapter One: People
Figure 3-Unemployment in the US starts to hit home
Different Strokes
Private Phil Post knew nothing of the grand plan. He was just trying to survive this hell hole of a ship. His group had not even transferred to the smaller assault barges yet. If he was deathly ill on this larger transport, how would he survive a bobbing cork in the ocean? He missed his mom and dad, brothers, and even his sister. His big brother, Richard, was somewhere in this convoy as well. Because of his brother’s great physical size and strength, Phil was worried about Richard. He hoped they recognized how gentle he was. Richard was not a killer. Luckily, they had all received excellent training that he was sure he would initially forget.
Phil was a very smart man and was something of a savant when it came to human nature. He knew instinctively who the killers were going to be, that meant he knew exactly who to follow into combat. You picked the natural born killer and stayed on his tail for the first couple of hours of mayhem. He instinctively knew that Private Warren Johnson was going to survive and even thrive in the coming days.
Warren Johnson and Phil Post
Johnson was a natural born killer and was chomping at the bit to fulfil his destiny. Phil just wanted to remain close to Johnson. Phil would be able to concentrate on staying alive and not on keeping someone else alive. Johnson was one of those people with eyes at the back of their heads. He would have made corporal or even sergeant by now if he were not illiterate.
Phil had helped Johnson hide this fact, putting Johnson in Phil’s debt. You wanted a guy like Johnson to be in your debt when you were going into combat. Combat was Warren Johnson’s gift. Without organized combat and the legitimate permission to kill a fellow human, Phil was convinced that Warren would be in jail for murder. A man like Johnson just could not survive in peace time. He guessed that after the last war, Johnson had killed someone and had gotten away with it.
Phil Post and Warren Johnson were the men for this job. Whether Phil or Warren knew it or not, the combination of their skills, talents, and training made them uniquely equipped to play a major role in the coming attack. This unlikely pair were currently in the hold of the troop transport ship experiencing sea sickness and vomiting into their helmets.
The next morning they were still on the ship which puzzled Phil. From what he had heard and from the map he had seen they should have been on the coast of Sicily and offloading by now. Then, came the announcement over the ship’s intercom, piped in from the flagship. Some General named Walker was speaking. Whispers of “Johnny” and a few laughs were heard. The others quickly shushed the offenders up because they wanted to hear what Bull Dog Walker had to say. It was worth listening to.
They were not going to Sicily but to a port called Trieste. The trip would take 6 more days and at the end they would embark onto the continent of Europe. “This is the first step to the liberation of the European nations.” Boomed Walker’s disembodied voice. “Your hearts, guns, and boots will be the first to assault the godless communists. You will wade ashore and march into history. The day we hit the beaches will surpass D-Day in the annals of history. Stalin is a greater threat to freedom than Hitler ever was. Your attack will be the first in a series of blows that w
ill bring him to his knees”…It went on like that for quite a while.
It was a good speech Phil had to admit and Warren was transfixed. Weak minds and all that, Phil thought. This General Walker had a good speech writer and he read it well. He remembered that Walton Walker was the commander of the whole First Army and they were part of the VIII Corps led by General Middleton and so on down the line. All that mattered to him was Sergeant Sims and Corporal Beesly. These two men controlled his life and destiny as far as he could see. He spotted both of them and they were listening just as intently as Johnson. That’s good, Phil thought, at least someone believes this shit.
Six days later he was staring at Johnson’s butt, as he led the way down the landing nets to the landing craft below. You didn’t look down until you were almost ready to jump into the smaller boats. They lucked out. It was a DUKW. Maybe they would be able to ride to Moscow. At least, it would be a relatively dry ride to possible death. It was early May and still cool even here in the Adriatic Sea. That’s right, yesterday was May Day. Wasn’t that a special day for the Reds? Maybe May 2nd, 1947 will be a special day for freedom. Jees, now he was thinking like Bull Dog Walker.
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Private Warren Johnson was transfixed by the images being woven by the voice of General Bull Dog Walker over the intercom. He could just see himself single handedly killing Stalin after a long hard fight that allowed him to brutally kill hordes of Reds. He envisioned himself kicking faces in, crushing skulls, gouging eyes, and shooting Reds in the guts to just watch them die. God how he loved being a soldier. He was about to join the French Foreign Legion when the Reds attacked. It had come just in time for him. He was planning on killing his pretty neighbor within weeks of the war starting.
He had killed before. It was a man in a bar fight that he started and ended with a knife to the throat. He had loved every minute of killing that guy and wanted more. For some reason he liked his new best friend Phil. He had never had a friend before. Phil had kept his deepest, darkest secret from the army. He was basically illiterate. He could sign his name pretty well and read a few important words like stop, go and men’s, but that was about it. Even the Army did not take illiterate men. He wondered why all those who were so scared just didn’t pretend not to read.
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