After the mysterious deaths of a number of government ministers, Turkey reluctantly allies itself with the Axis. The first civilian TV station since the start of the War begins broadcasting from Berlin. Berlin offers to send SS advisors to Washington to aid the US government in combating their superhuman problems. The offer is accepted but the advisors are attacked by the Black Flame when they disembark and they, along with a number of US soldiers, are killed. He flees there upon discovery.
Famine occurs in northern India and western China.
Soviet agents steal a Heinkel design for an advanced but cheap and easy to build jet fighter. Within months it appears in the Soviet Air Force as the 'Peoples Fighter'. From captured examples Japan also acquires the design. The advanced Ju-287 jet propelled bomber flies for the first time. An uprising against the Japanese occurs in Indonesia after many people are deported as labour for the Japanese war machine.