Invasion of Freiga Proper

The Invasion of Freiga Proper was the German invasion of the Freigan Mainland in June 1940 to remove the last remaining presence of Aliied forced on 'continental' eorupe in preparation for operation sea lion, the invasion of Great Britain. In many ways the Germans used the landings on Freiga to test a supposed invasion of Britain using the same tactics as planned for Britain.

The Islands were defended by a mixture of Freigan, Dutch, Danish and British contingents that only managed to hold back the Germans for 4 days before the official Capitulation. Sporadic fighting did continue that later consolidated into the Freigan Resistance that operated until liberation in 1945. The war was characterised by fast moving mobil infantry movements by both sides over the flat terrain of southern Freiga and the heavy use of Artillery and Aerial Dive bombing to weaken Freigan strongholds. The war ended in the evacuation of Allied forces and the Occupation of Freiga.

Background
Freiga entered the second world war on the 9th April 1940 with the German invasion of Denmark and North Frisia leading to the a declaration of war by Freiga upon Germany. North Frisa had no military personnel from Freiga as defence was operated by Danish Armed Forces. A nearby Freigan vessel did manage to evacuate 53 Danish soldiers and some 20mm Madsen cannons that were later used in the defence of Freiga. Further to this a section of the Danish Navy and a contingent of the Army did escape after they received a release note from the King of Denmark which he later denied issuing. The order is presumed to be fake yet still some of the forces that escaped reached Freiga.

On 5th May Germany issued Fall Gelb the invasion of the Low Countries (Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Frisia) which saw the first engagement of Freigan soldiers against Germans. Freigan forces were easily out gunned by the mechanised German panzers and found the vintage WWI Streijke M03 rifles ineffective against armoured cars. 3,000 Freigan soldiers did make it to the coast where the Freigan navy which still had relative control over Freigan waters managed to evacuate most and some 2,500 Dutch personnel including a DAF M39 armoured car squadron.

The Blitzkrieg continued into France ending on the 25th of May. During this time Britain and Belgium had been obliterated. Britain in an attempt to counter german aggression did deploy an unknown amount of soldiers and heavy equipment on Freiga to help resist the inevitable invasion that started the day after France fell, the 26th.

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