Diary November 5, 1939
War Diary for Sunday, November 5, 1939: Home Fronts Germany: THE ZOSSEN CONSPIRACY. Generals von Brauchitsch (Army C in C), Halder and Beck plot to stop Hitler’s planned Western Front […]
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War Diary for Sunday, November 5, 1939: Home Fronts Germany: THE ZOSSEN CONSPIRACY. Generals von Brauchitsch (Army C in C), Halder and Beck plot to stop Hitler’s planned Western Front […]
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War Diary for Sunday, November 5, 1944: Air War Boeing B-29 Superfortress bombers attack Singapore.
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War Diary for Thursday, November 5, 1914: Western Front Somme: German attack at Le Ouesnoy-en-Santerre fails. Flanders: BEF 7th Division withdrawn from line only 2,380 men strong. Foch tells Sir
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War Diary for Saturday, November 4, 1944: Russian Front Russian long-range guns bombard Budapest. Western Front Allies capture Flushing. Balkans LIBERATION OF GREECE completed. Air War Germany: 8th USAAF raids
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War Diary of World War One for Wednesday, November 4, 1914: African Fronts East Africa: IE ‘B’ (517 casualties) repulsed by Lettow’s 1,000 men (148 casualties) flank counter-attack after Lettow’s
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War Diary for Saturday, November 4, 1939: Secret War ‘Oslo Report‘: revealing secrets of German long-range rockets and radar – sent anonymously (probably by anti-Nazi German scientist) to British naval
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War Diary for Friday, November 3, 1939: Politics Embargo on export of arms lifted by US Senate. Neutrality Bill amended. Britain and France now able to obtain supplies on ‘cash
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War Diary for Friday, November 3, 1944: Western Front Canadians cross from Beveland to join British on Walcheren. US 1st Army captures Schmidt, near Aachen (Germans recapture it next day).
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War Diary of World War One for Tuesday, November 3, 1914: Sea War North Sea: 3 German battlecruisÂers (Hipper) briefly shell Yarmouth to cover cruiser Kolberg which is laying 130
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War Diary of World War One for Monday, November 2, 1914: Eastern Front East Prussia: The German province re-invaded by Russians (Sivers’ Tenth Army with 20 divisions). Galicia: Battle of
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War Diary for Thursday, November 2, 1944: Air War Germany: Great air battle over Leuna synthetic oil plant at Merseburg: 8th AF claims 183 fighters (including 4 jets) for loss
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War Diary for Thursday, November 2, 1939: Occupied countries Poland: Western White Russia (Russian-occupied Poland) incorporated in Belorussian SSR.
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War Diary for Wednesday, November 1, 1939: Home Fronts Germany: Flight of world’s first jet aircraft. Heinkel He 178 experimental jet aircraft displayed to senior Luftwaffe officers. Occupied Countries Poland:
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War Diary of World War One for Sunday, November 1, 1914: Sea War Pacific – Battle of Coronel: Cradock’s outgunned cruiser squadron defeated by Spee’s squadron (3 men wounded from
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War Diary for Wednesday, November 1, 1944: Sea War British infantry and Commandos land on Walcheren (Operation Infatuate): German garrison surrenders on November 8. Air War Pacific: First of 9,000
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