Diary June 7, 1919
World War One Diary for Saturday, June 7, 1919: Nothing much to report.
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World War One Diary for Saturday, June 7, 1919: Nothing much to report.
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World War One Diary for Tuesday, June 6, 1944: Sea War D-DAY – ALLIED INVASION OF NORMANDY (Operation Overlord): Operation Neptune amphibious phase of Overlord. At dawn 50 convoys begin
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World War One Diary for Friday, June 6, 1919: Finland: Government declares war on Soviet Russia, but of little practical effect.
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WW2 War Diary for Monday, June 5, 1944: Air War Western Europe – ‘Transportation Plan’: In preparation for D-Day, Allied Air Forces have flown 200,000 sorties delivering 200,000 t bombs
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World War One Diary for Thursday, June 5, 1919: France – Peace Process: Paderewski heard on Polish frontiers. Austro-Yugoslav armistice. North Russia: First Lake Onega flotilla action. Siberia: General Gadja’s
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WW2 War Diary for Sunday, June 4, 1944: Mediterranean Italy: 5th US ARMY ENTERS ROME. MAAF fighter-bombers decimate German columns retreating north along Highways 1, 2 and 3, destroying or
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World War One Diary for Wednesday, June 4, 1919: South Russia: Trotsky assures Kharkov, in no more danger than any other city including Moscow. Siberia: Red Fifth Army drives Kolchack’s
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WW2 War Diary for Saturday, June 3, 1944: Mediterranean ltaly: German forces evacuate Rome. Southeast Asia Burma: Japanese rearguard leaves Kohima. Air War Atlantic: Ju 290 lands in North Greenland
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World War One Diary for Tuesday, June 3, 1919: France – Peace Process: Germany protests vs French support for newly-independent Rhineland Republic. Britain: Asquith answers Lord French on 1915 shell
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WW2 War Diary for Friday, June 2, 1944: Mediterranean Italy: Americans capture Velletri and Valmontone; 2 German bastions south of Rome. Nearby stronghold of Lanuvio is hammered by US artillery.
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World War One Diary for Monday, June 2, 1919: Baltic States: Royal Navy occupy Bjorko Sound on Finnish coast (with permission), 30 miles northwest of Kronstadt. Red destroyer Gavriil sinks
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WW2 War Diary for Thursday, June 1944: Air War Mediterranean: ‘G Force Air HQ’ formed at Bari, Italy (renamed Balkan Air Force, June 7). Western Europe: RAF night raid on
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World War One Diary for Sunday, June 1, 1919: Russia: Red Army High Command estimates 657,000 foes including Poles and Finns (latter 100,000 men of which 25,000 north of Petrograd)
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WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, May 31, 1944: Sea War Pacific – Operation Kon: Japanese despatch 3 troop convoys to Biak, but only one lands troops (May 31-June 12). Merchant
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World War One Diary for Saturday, May 31, 1919: USA – Aviation: First Transatlantic air crossing completed at Plymouth by USN Curtiss NC4 flying-boat from Rockaway, New York (left May
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