Location Confirmed: Battleship Strausberg, New Berlin.
Neural Net ID: Hauptfeldwebel, Heinrich Kraus.
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[color=#FFFF00]I'm reporting on the events occuring on the 26th of may, 818 A.S.
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Today's report is a genuine pleasure to write. I began my patrol with Vizeadmiral Voelkel and along with us came Hauptfeldwebel Weddigen. We began our standard route through Rheinland until we came upon an Interspace vessel with the callsign "MasterTrader". He was attempting to bring Rheinland goods into Liberty and of course we stopped him immediately. The Vizeadmiral kept a cool head about him and calmly questioned the trader. After several glib remarks, not even my placid superior could take any more. He commanded myself and Weddigen to drop the trader's shields. This seemed to have sunk into his thick skull and he proceeded to return back from whence he came to sell his Rheinland cargo back to us.
Long range sensors detected a small contingent force amassing inside of Hudson. I was commanded to issue forth a call to summon all available units to fend off this possible threat to Rheinland airspace. As we approached the Hudson gate, we spotted two Spa and Cruise liners near Hamburg. One was in possession of diamonds and the other merely had passengers. Weddigen instructed the liner with diamonds that he was to dock on Hamburg and hand them over immediately. I enforced this when he left Hamburg with the diamonds still on his ship. I closed down the nearby tradelanes and reminded him of the penalty for disobeying Rheinland law.
Once these fools were sorted out we continued on to our primary objective. Over a period of time, Major Krupinski joined us and Flieger Wotan Steiner came as well. A member of our secondary fleet, Guntram Koehler joined as well. We rendezvoused at Hamburg and made our way together into Hudson. The area where we had previous detected hostiles was empty for now. We made our way into the outskirts of Texas and sure enough, we'd caught our fish.
Three gunboats and a cruiser against our Wraiths was daunting for me, but under the command of the Vizeadmiral, we were assured victory. Just how clean that victory would be was uncertain to me at the time, though I found myself pleasantly surprised. Initially the Vizeadmiral was taking heavy fire from two gunboats while we whittled one down and slowly, one by one, we destroyed each vessel. The cruiser ran off while we cleaned up the gunboats. Then, the RNC-Munster came to assist us. Another way of Liberty dogs clashed against us in battle, but cool heads and quick trigger fingers assured us yet another victory with no losses.
A battleship and some fighters and bombers came at us in a final attempt to destroy us, but between the Munster's awesome firepower and the direction by the Vizeadmiral, we made short work of these foes as well. Only one lone fighter fled to a nearby battleship to tell the tale of his massacred countrymen. What a pitiful dog, it was almost delicious to watch him fly away amongst the rubble of his fleet and bodies of his comrades.
Truly it felt as though we were immortal and the banner of Rheinland was raised high that day. That we should live and serve to see such glory makes my heart swell with pride for the strength of our nation.
Pictures will speak far more than my words ever shall and I'm pleased to present these to any eyes that would care to see.
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