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31st January 1942
A steady flow of reinforcements: troop transports to Africa
German Army continues its remorseless conquest: With Casablanca razed, North Africa is now under the brutal control of Axis powers.
In August, the German Oberkommando dispatched heavy Panzer divisions towards the African continent in support their Italian allies.

Since then, the German war machine has mercilessly overrun North Africa, leaving only devastation in their wake. After taking the fortress of El Agheila, they captured the port of Tobruk and advanced on Egypt. Only at El Alamein did the campaign stall briefly, heavy desert storms threatening to bring it to a halt.

Berlin headquarters have since announced their delight at the annexation of Egypt. Rumor has it that an archaeological task force was immediately deployed to search for lost ritual artifacts in the region while all the Egyptian Museum’s exhibits and records have already been shipped to Berlin. High profile historians from the United States have fiercely condemned this act of cultural aggression.

Following the conquest of the North African west, the Wehrmacht’s reach now extends as far as the Atlantic coast. Dawn bombing raids have left the old town center of Casablanca in ruins. Only a small number of freedom fighters managed to escape on the last plane. Countless are said to have already disappeared into Axis detention camps. The taking of the Moroccan port city marks the fall of the last sanctuary for refugees from oppressed Europe.
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In 1938, the Luftfahrtministerium (German Ministry for Aviation) ordered a “flight machine with novel jet propulsion” from Bavarian Messerschmitt AG. This year on July 18, the Messerschmitt ME 262 completed its first test flight – a landmark in the history of aviation. Thanks to its Junkerswerke jet engines, the aircraft is significantly faster than normal planes. However, with the quick surrender of France, Great Britain and Russia in 1940/41 (cp. back issues), the bomber was finished too late for its planned deployment over continental Europe. Nevertheless, the future indubitably belongs to “jet planes”. The Japanese military attaché in Germany showed great interest in the German patent and suggested that his country would immediately begin developing “a smaller and cheaper version” of the jet at Nakajima.
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