Diary April 30, 1915
Diary for Friday, April 30, 1915: Middle East Enver Pasha orders Liman to ‘drive the invaders into the sea’; 2 divisions from Asia Minor transferred to Gallipoli. Allied losses now […]
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Diary for Friday, April 30, 1915: Middle East Enver Pasha orders Liman to ‘drive the invaders into the sea’; 2 divisions from Asia Minor transferred to Gallipoli. Allied losses now […]
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Diary for Tuesday, April 30, 1940: Norway British commence evacuation of Andalsnes, Molde and Alesund (completed night May 1-2). German columns from Oslo and Trondheim link up in central Norway.
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Diary for Monday, April 30, 1945: Western Front Munich captured by US 7th Army. Russian Front Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide in Führerbunker beneath Reichs Chancellery, Berlin, at 3.30
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Diary for Thursday, April 29, 1915: Air War Britain: First raid by German Army Zeppelin: LZ38 (Linnarz) drops IB’s at Ipswich and Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk (opportunity targets); some damage
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Diary for Monday, April 29, 1940: Air War Empire Air Training Scheme: training of pilots and air crews begins at schools in Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Norway British troops
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Diary for Sunday, April 29, 1945: Italy SURRENDER OF 1 MILLION GERMAN TROOPS IN NORTHERN ITALY AND AUSTRIA, signed in secret at Caserta, near Naples (effective May 2). Western Front
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Diary for Wednesday, April 28, 1915: Middle East Gallipoli – First Battle of Krithia: 14,000 Allies advance 2 miles (3,000 casualties). Anzac troops: 2 Royal Marines battalions to reinforce. YemenÂ:
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Diary for Sunday, April 28, 1940: Sea War Atlantic: Liner Queen Mary (81,200 t) arrives at Cape Town after record-breaking 12-day voyage from New York.
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Diary for Saturday, April 28, 1945: Occupied countries Italy: MUSSOLINI AND HIS MISTRESS, CLARA PETACCI, CAPTURED AND SHOT by Communist Partisan leader ‘Colonel Valerio’ (Walter Audisio) at Dongo (Lake Como).
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Diary for Tuesday, April 27, 1915: Western Front Ypres: Allies advance, French recapture Lizerne. Field Marshal French replaces SmithÂ-Dorrien by Plumer in command of British Second Army because of former’s
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Diary for Saturday, April 27, 1940: Occupied countries Norway: Terboven appointed Reichskommissar for Norway (formerly Gauleiter of Essen). Politics Germany officially at war with Norway. Ribbentrop attempts to justify German
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Diary for Friday, April 27, 1945: Russian Front Battle of Berlin: Russians capture suburbs of Potsdam, Spandau and Rathenow; central districts of Neuköln and Tempelhof. Western Front Bremen captured by
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Diary for Monday, April 26, 1915: Middle East Gallipoli: Hill 141 stormed and V Beach secured. Turk attacks on Anzac and Y Beaches repulsed but latter abandoned in panic. Western
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Diary for Friday, April 26, 1940: Norway Norwegians and British halt German advance along Gudbrandsdal Valley at Kvam. Norwegian CinC General Ruge issues optimistic Order of the Day: ‘now the
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Diary for Thursday, April 26, 1945: Russian and Western Front RUSSIAN AND AMERICAN FORCES LINK UP at Torgau on the Elbe. Western Front Patton crosses Danube in Regensburg sector. Russian
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