The Axis dissolves the League of Nations. The Japanese fly their first jet fighter aircraft, the Nakajima Kikka. The Me-264 'Amerika bomber' is introduced into service. The German scientist Werner Heisenberg and his family are found to be missing from their home in Leipzig. A research lab at Gottow in Germany, run by a Professor Diebner under the Ordnance Department, is destroyed.
Japan invades Australia.
The city of Darwin is taken after a firestorm raid on the city. Australian forces, aided by many of the refugees from the north, who have been drafted, manage to stop the Japanese from invading much more than Arnhem Land. In a sea battle off the northern coast of Australia, a huge sea serpent appears and scatters the ships, destroying several of them. The American scientist Robert Oppenheimer and his family are found to have disappeared. Something huge, monstrous and apparently unstoppable forms, reportedly from thin air, in the Chelmno concentration camp in the General Government area.