2nd French Imperial War

Second French Imperial War: 1936-1945

Xavier Lonace (1938-1950)

                In 1936, the fourteenth French Prime Minister took power. Following his election, he ordered production of the D19 Bonaparte Tank, the P9D Jackrabbit Monoplane, and two French Aircraft Carriers, bolstering the French fleet from three to five. He was a keen supporter of Anti-Eastern European Power Movements, and would remain so through the coming war. In 1937, he dispatched seven undercover agents of the French Integrated Intelligence Service (FIIS, oftentimes called Fish) to Germany. In 1938, they returned with disturbing news. Germans were exterminating their black population.

                In March 1939, 400,000 French Troops under the command of Durant Camonne attacked the German border tenaciously, commanding respect from the Italians, who would not enter this new war. This attack was supported by seventy Dive Bombers that streaked in from the FNS Bristol and the FNS Brussels. The dive bombers (D1K Kitty Hawk IIs) destroyed the Rhineland, blowing German Military Positions into oblivion.

                By May, the French Troops had seized the Rhineland in the center, and had linked up with 15,000 Alpine Infantrymen in the South, who had come through the Alps. In June, however, the Russians entered the war. This proved to be a huge mistake, however, as the Ottomans again attacked in the South. This diverted Russian strength to the south, where they were seeing a bigger threat than seen even previously in the First French Imperial War. This Second French Imperial War would become huge.

                In July 1939, 50,000 British Troops in the Netherlands attacked German Positions in the North, and by September, another 100,000 British Troops under Sir John Harris landed in theater, where they reinforced the previous 50,000 British Troops. In early October, French Troops liberated the first Black Extermination Camp. All of the occupants were sent back to the aid stations, and subsequently, to France.

                In January 1940, the allies’ advance was ground to a halt as the Germans took to the air, shelling and bombing the allies from their troop’s positions and airfields. In March, the French had finally drafted a plan for their next Operation. Operation Waterloo was to be in three phases. The pre-assault phase, the assault phase, and the advance phase.

                The pre-assault phase was to be conducted by D1K Kitty Hawks and P9D Jackrabbits, conducting strafing & bombing runs against German Airfields, trains, and railroad hubs. The other element of this phase was conducted by the B76 Thunderdog Heavy Bombers, bombing factories and troop positions extensively. This phase would start in May and end in August.

                The assault phase was to be conducted by 2,500 of the experimental Alpine Airborne Infantry in the South, 25,000 French Airborne Soldiers in the center, and then 25,000 more British Airborne Soldiers. These troops would be tasked with holding key objectives and key German Towns as French and British Mechanized and Armored Divisions linked up with these Soldiers, anywhere from 5 to 9 miles behind enemy lines. This would be conducted in little over a week.

                The advance phase would follow the link-ups. The Battle Group in the center would push onwards, hoping to be gaining at least 5-10 miles a day. The British would hope to gain 3-4 miles a day, as would the French in the south.

                Following the preassault phase, the airborne dropped in. In the center, the French Airborne and Glider borne Units were scattered, perhaps causing as much or more confusion to the Germans than it caused themselves. In the early morning, at about 0800 scattered reports of Companies, Battalions, and then Regiments seizing their objectives came in.

                A week later, the land troops began their forward movement through Germany, towards the Airborne Units besieged around their objectives. By the second week the Airborne were under siege, the reinforcements still hadn’t arrived. On Friday, August 17, 17 days after the airborne landings, the first Armored Units arrived to relieve the newly coined “Embattled Bastards of Berlin,” despite the unit was not around Berlin.

                This had broken an almost definite stalemate. On September 19, 1940, the French units successfully surrounded nineteen German Divisions, and annihilated them. This “Battle of the Siege” would be one of the bloodiest and hard fought by the Germans.

                By October, the allies had liberated only a quarter of the Extermination Camps, and began to realize most must be in Russia or East Germany. In early January 1941, P9Ds eliminated seven key Dark One officials.

                In March 1941, twenty thousand French Troops began an advance on Berlin. By June, Berlin fell, and Germany surrendered. In July, the Russians fell back into Poland as reserves for the French Army were called up once more.

                In September 1941, 500,000 Colonial Troops were called into active service with the French Army, and another 100,000 with the French Marines. Another 100,000 Colonial Troops remained in Alaska under the alias “National Guard”, despite in actuality they were Active Duty Army.

                By June 1942, all troops had been called up and put into the defensive lines. In October, French and French Canadian High Command began planning their assaults. They came to the decision that 100,000 Vietnamese and Chinese should be called into Active Duty Service to defend French Colonial Positions. The Ottomans would continue their slam into Russia from the South, and the French and Japanese would attack from the East, and again in the West.

                In July 1943, the attacks began. By the fourth week of this joint attack, French Troops had liberated Warsaw and were preparing for the thrust into Russia. French Troops in the East had seized more than 100 miles with a mechanized attack, and the Japanese in the Southeast had also seized roughly 150 miles, with little to no opposition. Total casualties in the East were 43 killed, 125 Wounded, and no one missing. The casualties in the west were far worst, although both advances remained deadly quick.

                By January 1944, the French and British and Ottomans had linked up for the final push on a besieged Moscow. In March, the attacks began. After three months of fighting, Moscow proper was surrounded. By July, the advance in the east was nearing Moscow. There would be a bloodbath. In October, the French and Japanese Task Force finally reached Moscow. Moscow was now fully surrounded.

                In January 1945, the Allies attacked Moscow viciously, but would only take ten blocks in the first month. In March, the Russians surrendered. The Second French Imperial War was over.