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Untimely Designs

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by gerald hall


  Lieutenant Arthur Wallace: Australian Army Commando

  Commander Edwin Sampson: Australian Navy Officer

  Eric Poole: Cavill Industries Chief Weapons Designer

  Lieutenant William Scott: First Officer aboard the Australian Navy submarine A1 aka ‘HMAS Barramundi’

  Sonarman Michael Curry: Chief Sonarman for HMAS Barramundi

  Lieutenant Mark Stevens: First Officer aboard the Australian Navy submarine A1 aka ‘HMAS Bandfish

  Able Seaman Alan Carns: Sonarman for HMAS Bandfish

  Staff Sergeant Richard Oswald: Duty NCO for Derby Militia

  George Baines: Australian Coast Watcher

  Captain Jeffrey Pike: Commander of Derby Coastal Artillery Battery A

  Flying Officer Ted Reilly: Royal Australian Air Force Beaufighter Pilot

  Flying Officer Toby Matthews: Dragonfly Fighter-Bomber Pilot

  Flying Officer Oliver Windale: Dragonfly Fighter-Bomber Pilot

  Lieutenant Carl Winton: Derby Naval Militia Torpedo Boat Commander

  Captain Edgar Cowens: Cassowary Heavy Bomber Pilot

  Lieutenant Phillip Mills: Cassowary Heavy Bomber Co-Pilot

  Sergeant Terrance Christopher: Cassowary Heavy Bomber Bombardier

  Sergeant Adam Sikes: Cassowary Heavy Bomber Gunner

  Colonel Ronald Bailey: Parliament House’s Liaison to the Ministry of Defense’s Defense Production Office

  Captain Nigel Asheboro: Cassowary Heavy Bomber Pilot

  Captain Howard Shaw: Cassowary Heavy Bomber Pilot

  Sergeant Theodore Wellington: Cassowary Heavy Bomber Bombardier/Navigator

  Theodore Rosewood: Cavill Aviation Aeronautics Program Manager and Chief Engineer

  Admiral Patrick Edwards: Australian Navy Senior Officer and Member of the Australian War Ministry

  Brigadier Charles Wilkes: Australian Army Senior Officer and Member of the Australian War Ministry

  The British:

  Winston Churchill: Wartime Prime Minister

  Rear Admiral Tarleton Grey: Royal Navy Senior Officer

  Captain Joseph Hawkins: aide-de-camp for Rear Admiral Tarleton Grey

  Colonel Thomas Stewart: Liaison from British War Ministry

  Admiral Sir Andrew B. Cunningham: Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Navy’s Mediterranean Fleet

  Assistant Ambassador William Blevins: Assistant Ambassador from England to Australia

  Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound: Senior Royal Navy Officer

  Field Marshall Sir John Greer Dill: Chief of the Imperial General Staff

  Lieutenant-General Arthur Percival: Commander of the Singapore Garrison

  Lieutenant-General Archibald Wavell: Commander of the Middle Eastern Command

  Major Clive Hamilton: Singapore Port Quartermaster

  Vice-Admiral Lancelot Holland: Commander of Royal Navy Battle Group hunting Bismarck

  Captain Ralph Kerr: Captain of the battle cruiser HMS Hood

  Captain John Leach: Captain of the battleship HMS Prince of Wales

  Admiral John Croyn Tovey: Commander of the Royal Navy Home Fleet

  Admiral Thomas Phillips: Commander of Royal Navy Force Z

  Captain Allan Tremaine: Royal Navy Officer

  Captain Earl Williamson: Churchill’s military liaison from the Admiralty

  Lieutenant Commander Julian Oxford: Captain of the Australian Navy submarine A1 aka ‘HMAS Bandfish

  Lieutenant Commander Winston Alexander: Captain of the Australian Navy submarine A1 aka ‘HMAS Barramundi’

  Captain George Robinson: Senior Australian Navy Staff Officer

  Captain William Tennant: Commander of the battle cruiser HMS Repulse

  Major Scott Canterbury: Military Liaison to Peace Negotiations

  Colin Adams: Foreign Office Negotiator

  Major Jonathan Wilkins: British Army Intelligence Analyst on the Middle East

  Major Simon Taggart: British Army Intelligence Analyst on the Balkans

  Sir Allen Torville: Aide to Winston Churchill

  The Germans:

  General Erwin Rommel: Commander of the Afrika Korps

  General Heinz Guderian: Senior Wehrmacht Officer.

  Admiral Gunther Lutjens: Commander of the Kriegsmarine Raiding Force

  Kapitän (Captain) Ernsk Lindemann: Captain of the battleship Bismarck

  Captain Theodor Detmers: Captain of the Disguised Raider Kormoron

  Lieutenant Hermann Wetmer: Officer aboard the Disguised Raider Kormoron

  Major Herbert Koln: Afrika Korps Officer

  Admiral Eric Raeder: Commander of the Kriegsmarine

  Albert Speer: Minister of War Production

  Adolf Hitler: Nazi Leader and Fuhrer

  Hauptmann Fredrick Klausman: Pilot of Hitler’s Personal Condor Transport

  General Hubert Lanz: Army Group B’s Chief of Staff

  Colonel Count von Strachwitz: Commander of the Grossdeutschland Tank Regiment

  Major General Dr. Hans Speidel: Senior Wehrmacht Officer and Conspirator against Hitler

  Martin Reichmann: Overseer to Mohammed Amin al-Husseini

  Colonel Ernst Strudel: Conspirator against Hitler

  Admiral Karl Donitz: Commander of Kriegsmarine U-Boat Force

  Field Marshall von Rundstedt: Senior Wehrmacht Officer

  Field Marshall Albert Kesselring: Senior Luftwaffe Officer

  Admiral Wilhelm Canaris: Commander of Abwehr, German Intelligence Service

  Kapitän zur See Werner Kruptmann: Kriegsmarine Technical Liaison to Japan

  Sigismund von Braun: German Diplomat and older brother of Werner von Braun

  Field Marshall Walter Model: Senior Wehrmacht Officer

  Heinrich Strassberg: Military Leader of German Peace Delegation

  General Adolf Galland: Commander of Luftwaffe Fighters

  Field Marshall Erich von Manstein: Senior Panzer Force Commander

  Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop

  Colonel Maximillian Arndt: German General Staff’s direct representative to the peace negotiations

  The French:

  Amiral de la flotte Francois Darlan: Senior Commander of French Navy

  Admiral Marcel-Bruno Gensoul: Commander of French Mediterranean Fleet

  Admiral Emile Henry Muselier: Commander of French Naval Forces in Indochina

  Major Francois Mercador: French Army Officer in Indochina

  Capitaine de vaisseau Jean-Paul Amiel: Captain of the French battle cruiser Dunkerque

  Captaine de frigate Francois Combs: French Navy Officer at the Port of Toulon

  Captaine Pierre Dassault: French Navy Officer at the Port of Toulon

  Colonel Francois Mureau: French Army Colonel travelling aboard the French ocean liner Île de France

  The Japanese:

  Taishō (Admiral) Isokoru Yamamoto: Commander of the Imperial Japanese Combined Fleet

  Prime Minister Hideki Tojo: Leader of the Imperial Japanese Government

  Captain Gendu Isokoro: Captain of the Japanese battleship Yamato

  Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai: Prime Minister

  Minister of Foreign Affairs Masayuki Tani

  Minister of the Navy Kaigun-taishō Shigetarō Shimada

  Kaigun-chūshō Nagumo Chūichi: Senior Japanese Admiral

  Kaigun-daisa Ichiro Ono: Captain of the Japanese battleship Yamashiro

  Kaigun-chūshō, Hiroaki Abe: Commander of the Japanese Invasion of Australia

  Kaigun-daisa Izawa Ishinosuke: Commander of the Japanese aircraft carrier Shoho

  Kaigun-shōshō Kakuji Kakuta: Commander of Carrier Division Four

  Captain Omo Kinugara: Japanese Imperial Navy Engineer

  Captain Hiro Yamaguchi: Captain of the Japanese submarine I-400

  Vice-Admiral Atsushi Kodai: Senior Japanese Admiral

  Munitions Minister Shigeru Yoshida

  General Sadao Araki: Senior Imperial Japanese Army Officer

  The Americans:

  President Franklin De
lano Roosevelt

  Secretary of State Cordell Hull

  Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson

  Harry Hopkins: Administrator of the Lend Lease program

  Rear Admiral Walter S. Anderson: Commander Battleships, Battle Force, Pacific Fleet

  Admiral Husband E. Kimmel: Commander in Chief, US Navy and US Pacific Fleet

  Captain Mervyn S. Bennion: Captain of the battleship USS West Virginia

  Captain Milton Campbell: Admiral Anderson’s Chief of Staff

  Captain Paul ‘Pappy’ I. Gunn: Former Naval Aviator and Aircraft Maintenance Chief

  Admiral Thomas C. Hart: Commander of the United States Navy’s Asiatic Fleet

  Captain Michael Teach: Admiral Hart’s Operations Officer

  Polly Gunn: Pappy Gunn’s wife

  Lieutenant Jack Sommers: USN Naval Intelligence Analyst

  Captain Allen Morrison: Lieutenant Sommer’s supervisor

  Eleanor Roosevelt: FDR’s wife

  President Thomas E. Dewey: President elected in 1944

  Colonel William Howard: President Dewey’s Military Liaison from the War Department

  Arthur Connelly: President Dewey’s Chief of Staff

  The Israelis:

  Itzak Metzembaum: Polish Refugee from Dachau relocated to Palestine

  Stefan Klaczko: Clerk assisting Jewish Refugees coming to Palestine from German Concentration Camps

  Simon Silverman: Member of Jewish paramilitary unit in Palestine

  Menachen Begin: Senior member of Irgun Jewish militia.

  David Ben-Gurion: First President of Israel and leader of the Zionist Movement

  Ariel Sharon: Member of Jewish paramilitary unit

  Moshe Dayan: Member of Jewish paramilitary unit

  The Arabs:

  Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Mohammed Amin al-Husseini

 

 

 


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