Diary June 2, 1917
World War One Diary for Saturday, June 2, 1917: Air War Western Front: Canadian ace Captain Bishop flies dawn raid on German airfield near Cambrai, destroying 3 Albatros fighters that […]
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World War One Diary for Saturday, June 2, 1917: Air War Western Front: Canadian ace Captain Bishop flies dawn raid on German airfield near Cambrai, destroying 3 Albatros fighters that […]
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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
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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: Â118,000 (79,000 women,
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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).
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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
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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
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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
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World War One Diary for Saturday, May 26, 1917: Western Front France: FIRST US TROOPS DISEMÂBARK (1,308 US soldiers by May 31). Champagne: Three German counter-attacks fail. Southern Fronts Isonzo:
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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
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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,
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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
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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 MaltaÂ-Alexandria convoys begin (4
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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
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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
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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
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