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Chonqing, HQ of the Kuomintang, October 8th, 05:00: Dai Li stood at the long table in the operations room to look on the map of Chongqing. Everything was going right so far. It was a situation, in which Chiang and his followers were completely surprised. Mrs Chiang and her brother Soong were...

Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek hadn't slept at all. Around 23:00 it was reported that Mao was dead. Mao's body was to be transported to him. It had been a secret mission, with only a few, who knew about this. So here he was, waiting for the moment of his triumph over the Japanese. Suddenly he...

Somewhere north of Yan'an, October 7th, 1944, 21:05: For Mao, the last few days had been a mess. The airstrike on Yan'an forced him to flee his former HQ. It wasn't safe anymore. Damn, it was a catastrophe. He had hoped to get out of the war without too many losses. Let Chiang take them, the...

Chongqing, Radio Station, October 3rd, 1944, 09:00: It had been two hours since Chinese radio stations had broadcasted the news, that Generalissimus Chiang would make an address to the nation at 9 o'clock. It was time. "For seven years we have been fighting Japanese aggression. For seven years...

Yan'an, Mao's flat, October 3rd, 1944, 05:38: Mao was sleeping well. He had two young girls with them, both not older than 14. His nightly activities had been thoroughly enjoyable. Suddenly a man hammered on his door. Mao awoke. The man hammering at the door, a servant, entered the room even...

Bismarck Sea, October 1st, 1944: U-183 under Kapitänleutnant Fritz Schneewind had left Penang for patrol approximately two weeks ago. He had received orders to patrol just as refuelling at Manila was complete. The orders were to patrol the Bismarck Sea, then the Coral Sea and lastly the area...

Near Chongqing, September 8th, 1944, 00:23 It was already after midnight. Generalissimo Chiang was standing on a cleared field near Chongqing, the capital city of the Republic of China. He was standing there with only a handful of men, people he could trust with his life. The coming meeting...

Liuchow, China, September 4th 1944, 08:35: Oberleutnant Michael Wittmann was driving his Tiger I tank on one of the many unnamed roads to the frontline. Wittmann was one of the few former Waffen-SS officers to be accepted by the Bundeswehr with their former rank. Most of them, if they were...

September 10th, Hotel Taj Mahal Palace, Bombay, 19:00: Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Mohandas "Mahatma" Gandhi were having a discreet meeting in one of the small rooms in the hotel. They wanted to speak about the current situation before earnest talks would start tomorrow. "So Muhammad, you must...

"It was clear that 'Z' was an outstanding pilot, definitely one from (Wolfram) von Richthofen's inner circle. A hundred times I examined my mind to find out different ways of attacking him—from above, from below, from the clouds or the sun. But these ideas always were countered and turned...

Lead Bomber of the first “Box” Rick Smedley, command pilot of “Suzy Dear”, was a veteran of the air war and flying into the sun made him nervous and cautious. Out of the blue, 3 bombers around him were cut in half with their flaming wrecks crashing to the water below. An attack? This early? The...

Haneda airport, second start lane The "Friederike" alarm (German military slang for an air attack alert) was still ringing, when Major Anton "Toni" Hackl made last pre-flight checks in his new Focke-Wulf 190-D9 "Black One". On his rear fuselage was the Winkel (chevron), the sign of the lead...

US Bomber formation nearing Japan, Autumn 1944 Lt. Gerald "Jerry" Johnson and his comrades were once again escorting the bombers attacking the Japanese Home Islands. In the Pacific theatre, the atmosphere and morale were still good, though less than half a year earlier. The disaster of...

October 10th, 1944 - 20,000 feet over Germany Since the Event and the subsequent battles the Western Allies were licking their wounds and had halted operations to recover their losses. The 8th USAAF, which had been badly beaten in the days following the Event, had been fully resupplied. Many...

September 1st, 1944, Sea of Japan, 08:34: Kaigun-shōsa Yamashita sat on the bridge of the destroyer Take. He commanded three Matsu class destroyers with the task to patrol the area between Hakodate and Aomori. Since the Event the Nihon Kaigun had ordered all carriers, battleships, cruisers and...

Tokyo, Imperial Palace, June 3rd, 02:04 It had been a long 4 days since the event. He couldn't sleep despite having worked hard together with Prime Minister Suzuki to forge this new or old, alliance with the Germans. They had promised much assistance but more time was needed for reforms. What...

Tokyo, Meiji-jingu, June 1st, 17:43: The shrine had been dedicated to the kamis of the Meiji Tenno and his wife. It was late, so there were few other visitors. Both men meeting "coincidentally" were glad about that. It should not look like the secret talk they wanted to start. Otherwise it...

Tokyo, Imperial Palace, June 1st, 04:26: The Tenno stood in the palace garden. Yesterday had been a long day and night even longer. Since the Event he hadn't slept. He felt tired, but still was unable to sleep. So he went to the gardens. The Event seemed to be divine intervention. He knew Japan...

Tokyo, Imperial Palace, May 31st, 11:08: For Prime minister Tojo the day had started like any other. But then some rumours came into his office, that something strange happened. Some buildings had vanished and reappeared elsewhere. And a new German embassy flying the old ensign had appeared...

Tokyo, May 31st, 2014, 06:59: Ambassador Hans Carl Freiherr von Werthern had been early in his office. There was much work to be done this morning. When he got up to get a cup of a coffee the room rumbled and an intense flash of light went across his vision. As suddenly as the flash of light...