Diary August 16, 1914
World War One Diary for Sunday, August 16, 1914: HOME FRONTS Germany: Austrian-born Adolf Hitler volunteers to fight with the German Army. He will serve throughout the conflict on the […]
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World War One Diary for Sunday, August 16, 1914: HOME FRONTS Germany: Austrian-born Adolf Hitler volunteers to fight with the German Army. He will serve throughout the conflict on the […]
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WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, August 16, 1944: WESTERN FRONT Allied seaborne and airborne forces link up in southern France. AIR WAR Europe: Me 163 rocket fighters intercept B-17 Fortress
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WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, August 15, 1944: SEA AND AIR WAR Operation Anvil, later Dragoon: ALLIED 7TH ARMY LANDS IN SOUTHERN FRANCE between Nice and Toulon; airborne forces land
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Diary for Saturday, August 15, 1914: WESTERN FRONT Belgium: FALL OF LIEGE. Garrison Commander General Leman taken PoW in ruins of Fort Loncin. D’esperey’s I Corps (1,000 casualties) with Petain’s
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World War One Diary for Friday, August 14, 1914: WESTERN FRONT BATTLE OF LORRAINE (August 14-22): including Battles of Morhange (August 14Â-20) and Sarrebourg (August 14-20). Southeast of Metz two
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WW2 War Diary for Monday, August 14, 1944: WESTERN FRONT Canadians and Americans push towards Falaise, from North and South, supported by RAF.
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World War One Diary for Thursday, August 13, 1914: WESTERN FRONT Belgium: 3 Liege forts surrender to Germans (one blows up) as Austrian 12inch (ca. 30 cm) Skoda howitzers join
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WW2 War Diary for Sunday, August 13, 1944: WESTERN FRONT Americans reach Argentan. AIR WAR Western Europe: 1,000 Allied heavy bombers attack roads leading to river Seine, from Paris to
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World War One Diary for Wednesday, August 12, 1914: SOUTHERN FRONTS AUSTRIAN INVASION OF SERBIA: Advancing across the border into Serbia from the north and northwest, some 200,000 Austro-Hungarian troops
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WW2 War Diary for Saturday, August 12, 1944: WESTERN FRONT German 7th Army withÂdrawing from Mortain-Vire sector towards Argentan and Falaise. PLUTO pipeline in operation between Island of Wight and
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World War One Diary for Tuesday, August 11, 1914: WESTERN FRONT Alsace: Germans retake Mulhouse. Belgium: ÂBelgians fight near Tirlemont, St Trond and Diest. SOUTHERN FRONTS Serbia: Austrian 2nd, 5th
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WW2 War Diary for Friday, August 11, 1944: WESTERN FRONT Americans capture Angers and Nantes. ITALY German forces evacuate Florence. SEA WAR Germans scuttle 26 warships and 28 merchant vessels
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World War One Diary for Monday, August 10, 1914: SEA WAR Mediterranean: The German warships ‘Goeben’ and ‘Breslau’ pass through the Dardanelles seaway and their British pursuers call off the
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WW2 War Diary for Thursday, August 10, 1944: NEW GUINEA Japanese withdraw from Aitape sector towards Wewak. AIR WAR: PACIFIC USAAF begins 7 month bombardment of Iwo Jima. MARINAS Americans
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World War One Diary for Sunday, August 9, 1914: WESTERN FRONT France: LANDING OF THE BEF. British I and II Corps land at Le Havre and Boulogne (complete on August
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