Shortly after the outbreak of World War II, the Duke of Windsor was appointed Governor of the Bahamas, far away from the European continent, and completely disappeared from people's sight.
The Bahamas is located at the northernmost tip of the West Indies. It is remote and sparsely populated, which made the Windsors accustomed to the prosperous world very uncomfortable, so the Windsors often went to Florida in the United States for vacation.
As the former king of the United Kingdom, the U.S. government still attaches great importance to the Duke of Windsor. Roosevelt once ordered the FBI Director Hoover to send someone to absolutely ensure the safety of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Winston also reported this to President Roosevelt
Express gratitude.
Last month, a retired FBI staff member revealed some insider information to the media.
The FBI did send people to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, but their task was not only to protect the Duke and Duchess, but also to closely monitor every move of the Duke and Duchess, including everyone they came into contact with and everything they did.
This work was carried out secretly, and the Duke and Duchess were not aware of it. The staff member who retired from the FBI also revealed some private lives of the Duke and Duchess to the media, including the fact that the Duchess once told her friends that the Duke
Suffering from serious physical illness, only the Duchess can satisfy him.
The news spread and public opinion exploded.
In the past few years, the Duke and Duchess had been in a heated dispute due to their political leanings. The British government spent a lot of money to suppress the matter, which ultimately ended with the King's abdication.
Now that so-called secrets of the royal family have come out, and they point directly at the lower third parties, the British media is quite moral, but the American media on the other side of the ocean simply publicized this matter as a joke.
The jokes spoken by Americans sound extremely harsh to the British.
Even the king is not in good health. Does this mean that there is something wrong with British men?
It’s hard to say. The life of the British is so rotten. Doesn’t the Royal Navy have a mortar tradition?
What happened to the last king? The current king stutters. It seems that the genes of the royal family are not very good. The body is so weak. No wonder he needs American soldiers to save him.
During the period from late June to early July, tidbits about the royal family once suppressed the ongoing world war and occupied the front pages of all American newspapers.
It's hard to say whether there was any behind-the-scenes manipulation. After all, the U.S. military's performance after the Normandy landings was not very good and it was unlikely to win votes for Roosevelt. Roosevelt and the Democratic Party he led were in desperate need of breaking news to divert public attention.
The media in southern Africa still have a bottom line. Few people are hyping up tidbits about the British royal family. Only a few newspapers mentioned the political leanings of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor to remind people to keep themselves safe.
The focus is definitely still on the world war, and Operation Dragoon is the top priority.
There is no way around it, Normandy is lackluster, the Russian battlefield needs to be less intense, and the "Dragoon" is one of the few bright spots.
Of course, southern Africans are most concerned about the battlefield in East Asia.
To be honest, southern Africans don’t care too much about the grudges and grudges in the Old World. For the vast majority of southern Africans, the Old World is just a dumping market for southern African goods, and it is not irreplaceable.
Africans really don't care much about how many Hebrews the Germans burned. They only care about how many Japanese cities the Allied forces in East Asia bombed.
This seems very contradictory. They are both burning, but the focus is completely different. The Hebrews are just sympathetic at most, while the Japanese are just as much as possible.
In the past two years, the most popular Allied general among southern Africans was neither Patton nor Angel, but the American LeMay who devoted himself to studying incendiary bombs.
During the bombing of Tokyo, LeMay became famous in one battle and became the most popular American among southern Africans.
Li Mei's research on heavy bombers has reached its peak. In order to allow the bombers to load more incendiary bombs, he even removed the bomber's cannon and ammunition, and also limited the bomber's fuel. With many methods, Li Mei turned the heavy bomber into a
The bomb load has doubled, and the efficiency has also doubled.
Without the cannon, the bombers lost all self-defense capabilities. This was once opposed by all Allied pilots.
Li Mei's attitude was firm.
His reason is that Japan has lost its air defense capability, most of its aircraft have been converted into suicide aircraft, and there are very few aircraft left that can take off for combat, so the cannons of the bombers are just decorations and are of no use at all, so they might as well take off.
Make more space for incendiary bombs.
This judgment is correct. Japan not only has no fighter jets to protect its airspace, but also has very few anti-aircraft machine guns. Allied bombers even descended to an altitude of 3,000 meters to conduct low-altitude bombing of Japanese cities, and the effect was naturally extremely good.
"It's so tragic. If this continues, I doubt whether the country Japan will still exist after the war is over." Sidney Milner looked at the photos sent back by the Air Force and marveled.
It's really tragic. In the photo, the entire Tokyo has been burned to ashes. There isn't even a decent house. Only the criss-crossing streets prove how prosperous the entire city once was.
If you just look at the photos, the contrast is not clear enough.
The secretaries of the Palace of Justice very thoughtfully provided photos of Tokyo from the past. Comparing it with the current photos, it gives the impression that it has almost regressed directly from capitalist society to primitive society.
"There is no need for this country to exist anymore. Its existence is a shame for all of us." Owen can now understand Roque's mood. Even though the European countries are fighting so badly, the hatred between all countries combined may not be enough.
There is such a big gap between China and Japan.
A few years ago, an American missionary returned to the United States from East Asia and brought back some photos taken from the battlefields in East Asia.
Compared with written descriptions, photos convey emotions more directly. When the missionary handed the photos to the newspaper editor, the newspaper editor was depressed for a time and worried that publishing these photos in the newspaper would cause people's discomfort.
Since publishing it in the newspaper is not possible, then compile it into a book. After the Phyllis Foundation learned about this, it bought the original version of the photos from the missionaries, combined them with photos taken by some southern African military reporters, and published a book
Collection.
After the collection was officially released, it caused great social repercussions and made people all over the world have a deeper understanding of the brutality of the Japanese.
Compared with what the Japanese did, the German crematoriums were considered kind. After all, the Germans still knew how to destroy corpses and eliminate traces.
After committing the crime, the Japanese abandoned the corpses in the wilderness like red and red, and seemed not to worry about the influence of public opinion or the revenge of the victims.
Southern Africans are all victims because their spirits have been greatly impacted and their emotions have been greatly stimulated.
Prior to the release of the collection, the Allied forces' carpet bombing of Japanese cities in East Asia had also caused sporadic controversies in southern Africa.
Now that the controversy has completely disappeared, anyone who dares to express any sympathy for the Japanese will immediately be spurned by the whole society. For the first time in the decades since the founding of the country in Southern Africa, this kind of consensus has been reached among the people. It can be called
ever.
"As long as all the Japanese troops do not return to the country, the bombing of Japan will not stop." Roque said more simply that the southern African federal government's contribution to Le Mei's fame was indispensable.
When the Allied forces fought in France, they had to take into account the mood of their French allies to some extent and try not to harm civilians or cause more unnecessary casualties.
After Germany invaded Russia, it still blamed the Russian government's stubbornness for the casualties among Russian civilians. This means that if the Russian government had surrendered early, the civilian casualties would not have been so large.
It can be seen that all countries have basically the same attitude on this issue, and they have to face each other more or less.
Southern Africa also has a reputation, so the heavy casualties among Japanese civilians were all done by Americans and have little to do with us Southern Africans.
As for whether Japanese civilians are innocent, no one really cares about this issue.
When Japan's national power increased, all Japanese people enjoyed the benefits brought about by the improvement of their national status. At the very least, they received great spiritual comfort.
Now that Japan is defeated, the consequences must be borne jointly by all Japanese. Many Japanese women who married in southern Africa simply dare not go out on weekdays. Once their identities are known to their neighbors, the entire family will be ostracized by the community.
Their families are the real innocent ones.
"The news came back from the East Asian theater that the Japanese once again requested peace negotiations." Stoudemire brought the latest news and the negotiation text provided by the Japanese.
To put it bluntly, it is a document of surrender. As long as the leaders of all allied countries sign the document of surrender, the war in East Asia will end immediately.
"Tell them that there is no so-called peace negotiation. If you surrender, there is only one way, and that is unconditional surrender." Roque did not listen to the conditions at all. Now that he wants peace, why did he go there?
If you want peace, in addition to all war criminals being tried, Japan must give up all its rights as a country, open its borders, and accept allied troops.
To put it bluntly, it means turning Japan into a big prison. War criminals, including the highest-ranking dwarfs, will certainly not be amnesty.
Henry shook his head speechlessly and threw the negotiation text directly into the wastebasket.
Rock has no intention of negotiating at all.
Even if we talk about it, we have to burn it out enough before talking about it.
I just don’t know how many people will be left in Japan by then.
Anyway, those Japanese officers and soldiers overseas will probably have no chance to return to Japan.
As the Allies took control of Japanese airspace, the scope of air strikes continued to expand.
The Japanese were not willing to sit back and wait for death. The mainland was small and there was no way to escape, so Japan set its sights on the wider sea.
Last month, two Japanese immigration ships set off from Fukuoka and were sunk by the Allied forces shortly after leaving the port. The death toll was said to be in the thousands.
Because of this incident, the Japanese government tried to seek justice from the League of Nations, but the representatives they sent did not even enter the gate of the League of Nations. They were arrested by the federal police as soon as they disembarked from Port Edward.
The League of Nations has now moved to Los Angeles and is preparing for the preparation of a new international organization. Once the new organization is established, the League of Nations will come to an end.
From that day on, no ship could leave Japan during the day. Only sailing ships with smaller tonnage might be able to break through the Allied defense lines at night, and the chance of success was very small.
"Patton's telegram, he is going to the Lyon front line to personally direct the battle against the Germans." Martin hesitated. Since the outbreak of the war, many senior Allied generals had died on the front line, and Martin did not want Patton to take risks.
With more and more troops gathered in Caen and Lyon, large-scale battles are inevitable. Both the Allied and German forces are accumulating strength and preparing to deal a fatal blow to each other.
"He can go if he wants. North Africa is indeed far away from the front line." Roque is not worried. Lyon is actually also far away from the front line. The Germans cannot threaten Lyon unless they rebuild their train guns.
The few remaining train guns of the Germans were in Calais. It was almost impossible to move them to Lyon. Allied bombers would not give them a chance.
As for the German aircraft, there were not many left under the overwhelming attack by Allied fighter planes. The Allies now basically control the air superiority over southern France.
Patton was well prepared. In order to defeat the frontal German forces, Patton mobilized 21 divisions, including 9 armored divisions, with a total of 2,100 tanks and 6,400 combat aircraft. The scale far exceeded that of Operation Dragoon.
Opposite Patton are the remnants of the German 19th Army in southern France, with a total of seven infantry divisions and one tank division. This tank division is the 11th Armored Division that was repeatedly ravaged by the Allied air force in Toulon. Now there are less than six remaining
Ten tanks and a serious shortage of fuel.
In other respects, the Germans also have about 900 artillery pieces and 150 combat aircraft. The artillery here includes smaller-caliber mortars. The combat aircraft are not jet fighters, not even the latest model of BF109, but the 1941
Earlier model produced previously.
Through comparison, it is not difficult to see that there is no suspense about victory or defeat. The only difference is that the Allies were able to end the battle within a few days.
According to Rock's experience, if Patton delays the time for more than a week, his results will be unqualified.
On the day Patton arrived in Lyon, the Allied forces officially launched an attack on the German army.
Patton arrived in Lyon with de Gaulle, and the reception they received was completely different.
As the commander-in-chief of the Allied forces in the Mediterranean, Patton was warmly welcomed by people from all walks of life in Lyon. As soon as Patton arrived in Lyon, former Lyon mayor Anthony Veneto had already promised to erect a statue of Patton in the square in the center of Lyon.
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Veneto's attitude towards de Gaulle was indifferent and even vaguely hostile.
"This is normal. For some French people, Joseph is a traitor to France. His actions caused France to split into two. Now it seems that this behavior is not a problem. No one can predict it in the future." Oscar has insight into human nature, De Gaulle
It is also a great success for France.
Being the French Prime Minister has always been a very dangerous profession. Everyone takes turns to share the fruits, and everyone has a chance.
Now that De Gaulle has come to France as a "hero", who can compete with De Gaulle?
Originally it was a game that everyone had a chance to play. If you have completed your lifelong tenure, what else do others have to play?
