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LATEST NEWS ALLIES DROP PARAS NEAR SVALBARD NORWAY...
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zzzzzzzziiiip zzzzippp a German radio operator rushed to the commanding office in Svalbard, Norway :

"Herr General, Allies has droped some paras near Svalbard and they are attacking us!"

https://www.traveller.com.au/svalbard-n ... eze-gtlkzi

Meanwhile just north of Narvik Allies landed even more paras and cut of whole Northern Norway from supply. But, not for long my dear readers, we have defenses in Norway so it will not be cakewalk for them....

Turn 24, June 11th 1947....
Allies land a lone HQ in Spain. Well...

This US task force got close to Turkish coast and just waits to be destroyed but they also have range 2 guns so maybe some air attack by some Stuka 187 squadrons...

This is last Allies forces in Iraq that will be destroyed this turn, they are surrounded.

Our brave laborers rail repair units, pioneers, even some HQ with railroad repair capability have repaired last stretch of rail
and connected Baghdad with Persia, and soon Levant as well...

Rat Patrol From Fort Bragg Turn 27, 25th June 1947 (beginning of second turn of my play so Elmer will have next time 2 turns in a row I guess)
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.....Meanwhile near Tel Aviv, there was lovely discussion on the situation between Feld. Rommel and Cruwell.... "Ah, my dear Cruwell we cannot break this stalemate in front of Jerusalem... Yes, we shell them non stop but for what use? And we cannot attack them directly! So, maybe some bold deception... Our ships discovered that We can make amphibious landing without oposition in the Enemys rear, El-Arish, Port Said and even Suez are undefended. But there is great risk that those troops will be destroyed because enemy is strong here in front line and in the rear. But we are counting on his withdrawing some troops from the front line and then we could struck also from the north.....

Baghdad - Kuwait area all clear, no enemy troops, all destroyed.

Eastern Front... Russians seems to be exhausted and bled to death... But, anyway we will send some more arty to shell them...[:D]

...And, Herr General, we have destroyed all paras in Norway... There is still some heavy allied naval presence, 2 CW Task Forces and we cannot attack them right now...

Waiting for invasion from UK... They have enough forces in UK to launch serious attack or more of them.... So, maybe soon they will try a real naval invasion....

This is South Spain, North Africa area... Still no naval invasion... Some naval action here as we try to destroy lone task force that have lost their battleships in Stuka attacks earlier...

This is Marseille, area... South France etc... No invasion in sight still...

And here is Scotland area....

Our naval forces from Crete naval bases, launch raids against Allied airfields on North African coast... Enjoy the fireworks [8D]

Operation Sonnenblue Sinai 1947 is in full swing.... At Rommel forward post at Gaza, feldmarshall was inspecting how troops were disembarking from their ships "this bridgehead is very shallow, we will have to defend here.... I am off to see how invasion of Suez and Port said was progressing..."

And bigger map of the start of the "OPERATION SONNENBLUE SINAI 1947" Codenamed [:D]

Meanwhile at forward HQ of Rommel SDAK (Sinai-Deutsche Afrikan Korps [8D]) at Port Said, Rommel was having brief conference with assembled staff of 11th Flak Division and 87 Infantry Division (that are now in fact garrison of Port Said after disembarking from the sea)...."Gentlemen, I really do hope that this operation will go well, because we took enormous risks in launching while still not quite ready... But, we hope to destroy enemy in this area. Of course we will have losses and even maybe some of our units will be destroyed but we took that risk and we don't know how enemy will react, operation is still in start and we need some more reinforcements later...."

"Your task here along with other units to defend line Port Said -Suez while we finish off Allied units in Sinai and front line at Jerusalem to the sea... It is difficult task but we need some time. Don't worry reinforcements will come by sea. Also we plan to use on Sinai two Falshirmjaeger Division and some Turkish commandos as well....But that in the later stage of this operation. So buys us some time, enemy will attack, prepare for defense..."

This is main front line that needs to be destroyed. Front attack is useless enemy is too strong for that... We hope that invasion will draw some of his forces out because they would be cut off and Elmer gets panicky then... [8D]
But, risky operation in all and I wouldn't dare against live opponent.