Diary WWI

World War One Diary for Friday, June 1, 1917: Air War Western Front: Significant numbers of SE5, Sopwith Triplane, Bristol Fighter and Spad S 13 enable Allies to regain air […]

World War One Diary for Thursday, May 31, 1917: Home Fronts USA: Wilson subscribes $10,000 to Liberty Loan. Austria: Emperor Charles promises more liberal post-war constitution. Germany: ­118,000 (79,000 women,

World War One Diary for Wednesday, May 30, 1917: Sea War Allied and neutral shipping losses: 285 ships of 589,603t (German U-boat official history figure 616,316t including 170,626t in Mediterranean).

World War One Diary for Tuesday, May 29, 1917: Western Front Somme: Artillery duels and skirmishing near St Quentin. Champagne: Artillery actions and patrol activity. France: 80 mutinous incidents until

World War One Diary for Monday, May 28, 1917: Southern Fronts Italian Front: Italian guns within 10 miles of Trieste. Cadorna orders preparations for summer Isonzo offensive. Austrian counter-stroke on

World War One Diary for Sunday, May 27, 1917: Western Front Skirmishing on Champagne, Verdun and Alsace fronts. French 18th Infantry Regiment’s 2nd Battalion (844 casualties from May 4-8) mutinies

World War One Diary for Saturday, May 26, 1917: Western Front France: FIRST US TROOPS DISEM­BARK (1,308 US soldiers by May 31). Champagne: Three German counter-attacks fail. Southern Fronts Isonzo:

World War One Diary for Friday, May 25, 1917: Air War Britain – GOTHA BOMBING CAMPAIGN BEGINS: 21 of 23 Gotha bombers of Kagohl 3 (Brandenburg) fail to reach London

World War One Diary for Thursday, May 24, 1917: Sea War Atlantic: First homeward-bound British transatlantic convoy sails from Hampton Roads, Virginia, USA, arrives safely despite fog and rough seas,

World War One Diary for Wednesday, May 23, 1917: Southern Fronts Isonzo: Italian offensive on Carso from Kostanjevica to sea aided by 60 British guns and Royal Navy monitors begins

World War One Diary for Tuesday, May 22, 1917: Eastern Front Russia: Kerensky demands CoS Alexeiev resignation, replaces him with Brusilov. Sea War Eastern Mediterranean: British Malta­-Alexandria convoys begin (4

World War One Diary for Monday, May 21, 1917: Western Front Artois: British now hold advanced line of Hindenburg Line from Bullecourt to 1 mile east of Arras (with a

WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, May 20, 1942: Home Fronts Germany: Göring exhorts munitions workers and farmers to ‘rally and doing together. Like the front (line soldiers) welded together by

World War One Diary for Sunday, May 20, 1917: Eastern Front Russia: Kerensky begins visiting units. Brawl between Russian and Royal Navy armoured car unit at Tiraspol (Bessarabia), 1 killed

World War One Diary for Saturday, May 19, 1917: Western Front France: Several mutinies a day now reported in French Army. Southern Fronts Isonzo: Italians evacuate temporary Bodrez Isonzo bridgehead

World War One Diary for Friday, May 18, 1917: Home Fronts USA: Selective Conscription Act for men aged 21-31. US Base Hospital No 4 (243 staff) reaches Britain (first US

WW2 War Diary for Sunday, May 17, 1942: Eastern Front Ukraine: German counter-offensive against Barvenkovo Salient, which quickly forces Russians to abandon thrusts towards Kharkov and the Donbas (May 19).

World War One Diary for Thursday, May 17, 1917: Southern Fronts Isonzo: Italians hold gains with British 6-inch howitzer help despite repeated Austrian counter-attacks. Cadorna orders medium and heavy artillery

World War One Diary for (day), (Datum): Home Fronts Russia: Trotsky arrives in Petrograd (from April 3 internment in Canada). Cabinet reshuffle admits 6 Petrograd Soviet Menshevik members. USA: Aircraft

World War One Diary for Tuesday, May 15, 1917: Western Front France: NIVELLE DISMISSED AND REPLACED BY PETAIN (who assumes command on May 17). FOCH APPOINTED COGS in Paris. Artois: