Timeline (Rediterranean)

This is the timeline for Third Road South.

June
6th: the D-Day landings in Normandy

August
11th: Philippe Petain, Chief of State of Vichy France, along with Fernand de Brinon and Pierre Laval, along with other government officials and guards, are killed by a truck bomb.

13th: No successor to Petain has yet been nominated. With indecision from above, riots begin across France.

14th: Street fighting between communist elements of the Free French and government forces in Vichy.

15th: Operation Dragoon is launched in the south of France. In Moscow, Andre Marty pleads with Stalin to support the communist uprising.

16th: French communists claim to have secured Vichy. The city soon falls under siege from French and German forces. Over 2,000 communists are killed in Limoges in a Nazi execution.