April 26, 1998
After hiding in an abandoned building in New York City and dodging patrols of his erstwhile compatriots, deserter Nathan Snyder joins up with an Upper East Side marauder gang called Hell's Own.
Of prewar population of Silesia of 3m, less than 100,000 survive, felled by bombings, invasion, nuclear strikes, famine and plague.
Kenyan and American forces drive the last organized Tanzanian units back to the border, forcing them back to their start lines.
Unofficially,
X Corps in Alaska is awaiting confirmation that the remaining infiltrators from the 2nd Infantry Brigade (Arctic Recon) have crossed the Alaska Range and are overlooking the 110th Guards Motor-Rifle Division's supply lines.
Soviet troops approach the Yukon-British Columbia border after linking up with friendly forces (the 22nd Motor-Rifle Division) that have crossed the coastal mountains from Skagway, Alaska.
In Lithuania, Party officials, rebuffed by the commander of the 1st Byelorussian Front, dispatch an emissary to the commander of the Reserve Front to beg for the removal of the renegade Colonel Skrebys from Trakai Castle.
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I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for 12 hours. When it was all over, I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like... victory. Someday this war's gonna end...
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