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@ 1943 - The Turing Test
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The eighth Doctor met the British spy/novelist Graham Greene in Sierra Leone, where they encountered pale-skinned humanoids.

Rachel Jensen, a future scientific adviser to the Intrusion Counter Measures Group, worked with cryptographer Alan Turing on codebreaking.
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The Reverend Foxwell, a friend of the Doctor, was a leading mind at the Naval Cryptographic Section at Bletchley, and worked with Alan Turing.
 [1631]
The Philadelphia Experiment created a rift that interacted with the upper dimensions containing fairy creatures: the Sidhe.
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1943 (26th October) - The Macros
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American military researchers applied Einstein’s unified field theory in an attempt to bend light around the USS
Eldridge
, hoping to develop invisibility for use in the war. The sixth Doctor and Peri went to Washington, D.C., where they tried, and failed, to retroactively prevent the effort - dubbed the “Philadelphia Experiment” - from proceeding. The
Eldridge
was caught in a time-looping rift, and would remain stuck there until 2010.

Later, the American government covered up the loss of the USS
Eldridge
by claiming it had been renamed the
Leon
and given to Greece.

1944

In 1944, Belgium, Honoré Lechasseur was caught in a German booby trap in Belgium and severely injured. He spent the next few years in a Dorset hospital, proving his doctors wrong by walking again. He rarely slept, and began having strange visions.
 [1634]

John Benton’s brother Christopher accidentally fell to his death while the two boys were out playing.
 [1635]
The boys’ father, an army sergeant, was blown to pieces by a grenade in a town in Normandy.
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The Doctor visited a set of rooms beneath Cadogan Castle, and there saw Winston Churchill work on Operation Daylight, a covert operation that worked toward the liberation of France.
 [1637]

1944 (February) - Resistance
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The second Doctor, Polly, Ben and Jamie became separated in German-occupied France following a scuffle with the Milice (the French Gestapo). Polly found herself face to face with a downed British pilot: her father’s brother, Randolph Wright, who was historically slated to die in a German POW camp. She abandoned her friends in a bid to save her uncle from his fate, only to realise that her “uncle” was a spy. The real Randolph Wright had already been captured, and the spy had been using his biographical details as a cover story. A French resistance member shot the spy dead, and Polly was reunited with her friends.

1944 / (=) 1944 - Colditz
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The seventh Doctor and Ace were quickly captured when the TARDIS landed at Colditz Castle.

(=) The Doctor realised that one of his interrogators, Klein, had travelled back from a future where the Nazis had developed laser technology from the components of Ace’s walkman, won the war by dropping nuclear bombs on New York and Moscow, and secured the TARDIS. Ace had been killed, but the Doctor had given himself a second chance by regenerating and posing as “Schmidt” - a scientist who helped Klein determine how to operate the TARDIS.

In one version of events, the Doctor’s manipulations caused Klein to keep Ace alive, averting the errant history. The Doctor and Ace escaped Colditz while Klein, now the only survivor of her timeline, fled to South America. She sheltered with a colony of National Socialists, and requalified for medicine.

Owing to events in 2044, the version of Klein who visited Colditz was erased from history - and the Colditz paradox was somehow resolved without her involvement.
 [1640]

The eleventh Doctor took part in a failed breakout from a World War II POW camp.
 [1641]

@ The eighth Doctor met Joseph Heller, an American pilot, in a military hospital.
 [1642]

1944 - Deadly Reunion
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Second Lieutenant Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart served in Intelligence during World War II. He was assigned to update the British army’s maps of the Greek islands.

On the island of Zante, Lethbridge-Stewart encountered the Greek gods Demeter, Persephone and Hermes, who were attempting to lead quiet, domestic lives. The Greek god Hades hoped to provoke a world conflict even more devastating than World War II, which would cripple humanity and allow him to rule Earth. The god Poseidon, at Persephone’s request, ended Hades’ scheme and cast him back into the underworld. Persephone and Lethbridge-Stewart became lovers, but she used water from the River Lethe to make him forget these events.

During the Normandy landings, Jason Kane’s grandfather was killed when a sniper hit his lucky crucifix and it became lethal shrapnel.
 [1644]
Captain Davydd Watson saw visions during the Normandy landings, an effect of an experiment by the organic computer Azoth.
 [1645]

During the nineteen-forties, two Gaderene scouts - members of an insectoid race whose homeworld was dying - arrived on Earth via an unstable transmat process. One of them matured into the calculating Bliss, but her brother mutated into a dragon-sized Gaderene that covered itself in mud and went dormant. Bliss lost the ninth key - a small jade shard - to the Gaderene transmat, but British Wing Commander Alec Whistler discovered it in the aftermath of an explosion at Culverton Aerodrome. Without the key, Bliss could only bring Gaderene embryos, not adults, through to Earth.
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In 1944, the Toymaker kidnapped US Marine Mark Conrad.
 [1647]

1944 - The Shadow in the Glass
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On 17th May, 1944, a British fighter plane shot down a Vvormak spacecruiser as it passed over Turelhampton, England. The Vvormak were in stasis, but the ship’s gravitational field rendered it immobile. Unable to relocate the ship, the British military sealed off the area for fifty years as part of a cover story.

Private Gerrard Lassiter stole the Vvormak ship’s main navigation device as a talisman. It could project images of the future, and became known as the Scrying Glass. Gunther Brun, a German trooper, killed Lassiter in France and took the device, only to lose it to Colonel Otto Klein in a game of cards. Two weeks later, Reichsfuher Heinrich Himmler learned of the device and ordered Klein to hand it over to him. Himmler then gave it to a group of Tibetan mystics for study.

In July 1944, the sixth Doctor persuaded Churchill to help smuggle him into France, and infiltrated the Reich Records Department as “Colonel Johann Schmidt”. In August 1944, Hitler became curious about other items left at the Turelhampton site, and authorised the Doctor, as “Schmidt”, to participate in a raiding party. The raid occurred on 18th August.

1944 (December) - Autumn Mist
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The eighth Doctor, Sam and Fitz were split up when they arrived during the Battle of the Bulge. Sam was injured, the Doctor served as a medic, and Fitz found himself serving as a corporal in the German army. Sam’s injuries were fatal, but she was rescued by the Sidhe. A rift had formed between our realm and theirs, but the Doctor trapped the anarchic King of the Sidhe, Oberon, aboard the dephased USS
Eldridge
. Oberon perished as the Doctor deployed the
Eldridge
into the rift, sealing it. It was expected that another aspect of Oberon would take his place. The rift’s closure enabled the Beast to arrive on Earth and begin feeding upon humanity.

George Woods enlisted in the Army when he was 16, and fought in the Battle of the Ardennes, a.k.a. the Battle of the Bulge. He survived, and would work in the field of radar development in the 50s and 60s.
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@ 1944/5 - The Turning Test
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The cryptographer Alan Turing intercepted a unique code transmitted from Dresden, concluding that it was alien in origin. The eighth Doctor had befriended Turing, and suggested they contact the signal’s originator. They allied themselves with the spy Graham Greene. The Doctor also approached American pilot Joseph Heller, promising to get him out of the army if he flew the Doctor and Turing to Dresden. An English officer, Elgar, was revealled as an assassin out to kill the mysterious pale-skinned aliens. The Doctor killed Elgar and the aliens beamed away from Earth, leaving the Doctor behind as the Allied bombing of Dresden began.

w - Eleonora Albertova Kruger, one of the iterations of Cousin Anastasia, died in Bulgaria in 1944.
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1945

Evelyn Smythe, a companion of the sixth Doctor, was born around 1945.
 [1653]
Harry Sullivan, a companion of the fourth Doctor, was born around the same time.
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On 13th February, 1945, the seventh Doctor and Bernice witnessed the destruction of Dresden.
 [1655]
Charles Arthur Cromwell joined Torchwood in 1945.
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In March, the Doctor flew a Mark VIII Halifax bomber.
 [1657]
The Tibetans charged with keeping the Scrying Glass were murdered on 25th April, 1945. In the years to follow, it would fall into the hands of Adolf Hitler’s son.
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In 1945, members of
homo peculiar
, fearing that evolution would go the route of exterminating them or
homo sapiens
, took to living in seclusion at a number of retreats.
Peculiar Lives
, a “scientific romance” by Erik Clevedon based upon his meeting with Percival, one of
homo peculiar
, was published.
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1945 (Monday, 30th April) - The Shadow in the Glass
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The sixth Doctor, the Brigadier and journalist Claire Aldwych arrived from 2001 with Hitler’s adult son, and the men entered Hitler’s bunker. The Doctor easily portrayed Hitler’s son as a madman, and Hitler, failing to recognise his offspring, shot him dead. The Nazis disposed of the body in a nearby water tower. The Allies would later mistake the corpse for a double of Hitler, killed for an unknown reason.

Martin Bormann, one of Hitler’s aides, killed Claire and substituted her body for that of Eva Braun. Hitler committed suicide. A pregnant Eva was flown to a submarine in Hamburg. She later gave birth to a son named Adolf. He was raised at the secret Nazi base in Antarctica.

1945 (9th May) - Forty-Five: “Casualties of War”
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Joey Carlisle, a thief, stole a cache of alien tech belonging to the Forge, and came into possession of a bracelet called a Truthsayer. The Deons, lawkeepers from the Anurine Protectorate, used such devices to make suspects tell the truth. The seventh Doctor, Ace and Hex tracked the bracelet’s psychic emissions during the VE Day celebrations. Carlisle and his mother lived next door to Ace’s mother and grandmother on Old Terrace in Streatham, and so Ace briefly visited her mother, who was currently age three.

Lucia Moretti of Torchwood was born on 18th June, 1945.
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A reservoir of pain and suffering, possibly representing humanity’s darker nature, became concentrated in an area of England during perihelion: a point in mid-August when our reality and its reality became closest. The dark force was believed to have manifested in dozens of murderous individuals throughout the centuries - and on 13th August, 1945, it compelled young Daniel O’Kane to kill his parents and two sisters.
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= 1945 - Atom Bomb Blues
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The seventh Doctor and Ace arrived in Los Alamos, where the Manhattan Project was about to culminate in the detonation of the first atom bomb. The Doctor identified one of the scientists, Ray Morita, as someone from the twenty-first century of a parallel universe. The Doctor made contact with a jellyfish-like alien, Zorg, and went to Los Angeles to confront the Chapel of the Red Apocalypse: a cult that had been a front for a spy ring.

Ace learned that
she
was in a parallel universe, and that Ray was from her reality, lured to the alternate history by a love of Duke Ellington music. In the proper timeline, a musicians’ union strike meant much of his work was never recorded, but the strike didn’t take place in the other universe.