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USA - Decision In Venezuela? OSS Success - 20 Aug to 17 Sep 1940

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20 Aug 1940: The Focus Main Battle Tanks  has been completed. 22 Aug 1940: Get well, Lloyd. He commands the Training Army. We are now applying pressure in NW Mexico where we have a tactical superiority. 26 Aug 1940: My next Focus is Income Tax Reform . The removal of slow economic growth should boost my Construction effort. We shot down 4 more Japanese Torpedo Bombers but they appear to have a lot of reserves because their losses are always replaced. 29 Aug 1940: Research has completed on the 1940 Carrier Hull . I decide upon the M4 Sherman Medium Tank next. My Research projects. 02 Sep 1940. Another four aircraft are shot down. At least our crews are getting practice. I guess that this time we are going to Beijing. 03 Sep 1940: Germany has 'liberated' the Poles from the Soviet Union. 05 Sep 1940: The Nazis have finalized the Anti-Comintern Pact. 08 Sep 1940: We have researched Concentrated Industry III which allows more building slots in each state. I select Advance Machine

USA - Venezuela and Intervention in Papua - 18 Jul to 16 Aug 1940

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18 Jul 1940: This is looking promising but.... ....reinforcements block the attack. So I attack south over the River Orinoco. Research has completed on the M1919 Browning MG & M1 Mortar . 22 Jul 1940: I select Improved Infantry Equipment II next. My current Research. I cancel my Recruitment of Infantry divisions. I need the new production of Infantry Equipment and Artillery for reinforcements of existing divisions. 24 Jul 1940: Oops! Japanese aircraft sink a Destroyer near Kwajalein. 27 Jul 1940: I send 3 Infantry divisions from Army Philippines to the only free port in Papua. We barely have enough supply. I move down the coast looking for a larger port. 02 Aug 1940: That means he still around and hopefully plotting a takeover. We lost a few Merchants in the South China Sea. Where are my Convoy Escorts? In China we are about to liberate Beijing. Good. My Battleship Squadron shoots down another 5 Japanese Torpedo Bombers. I add more more Military Factories to my Construction schedu

USA - Mexican and Venezuelan Battles and the Soviets - 12 Jun to 12 Jul 1940

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12 Jun 1940: I obtain Military Access rights from Dutch East Indies. 15 Jun 1940: Well that has saved the UK from an Operation Sea Lion. Now the Germans will have their work cut out. 18 Jun 1940: I continue my attack to take that Venezuelan port. Columbia is also under attack from Peru but the front is holding. 21 Jun 1940: Admiral Halsey's Fleet shoots down another 3 Japanese Torpedo Bombers. 23 Jun 1940: Germany's Eastern Front. Spain which is also a Comintern nation is attacking in the SW of the Reich. The Axis frontline in the Middle East. The Iberian Front. Spain (green) is at war with Portugal, Germany and the French Commune in Africa. Italy has annexed Eastern and Central Switzerland. 29 Jun 1940: A second division has arrived to defend that port so I attack further south instead where the terrain is less mountainous. 30 Jun 1940: Another nation capitulates - this time it is Palestine. 03 Jul 1940: Finally a success story against Axis ground forces. We are poised to capt