02-1918

World War One Diary for Thursday, February 28, 1918: Sea War Allied and neutral shipping losses to U­-boats during February: 115 ships (68 British with 697 lives) worth 318,174t (British […]

World War One Diary for Wednesday, February 27, 1918: Western Front Germany: Ludendorff and Kaiser first see the A7V German tank (crew on February 16) and captured British Mk IV

World War One Diary for Monday, February 26, 1918: Eastern Front Soviet delegates return to Brest-Litovsk. Major-General Count Goltz put in command of 12th Landwehr or Baltic Division for projected

World War One Diary for Monday, February 25, 1918: Eastern Front Estonia: Seckendorff’s Northern Corps takes Pernau, Reval with 626 guns, and Pskov. Ukraine: Linsingen reaches Zhitomir. Poland: Polish­-German Military

World War One Diary for Sunday, February 24, 1918: Eastern Front USSR: Soviets accept German peace terms after Central Executive Committee of Bolshevik Party votes 116-85 for Lenin after he

World War One Diary for Saturday, February 23, 1918: Air War Mesopotamia: 3-10 Royal Flying Corps aircraft bomb Turk camps and airfield in Hit area (until February 27) forcing German

World War One Diary for Friday, February 22, 1918: Western Front Flanders: German trench raid on Ypres-Staden line. Africa Mozambique: Hawthorn NRFF column fights Captain Goering’s 5 coys at Mtende

World War One Diary for Thursday, February 21, 1918: Western Front France: Patton writes from Langres ‘… I get requests … to transfer into tanks nearly daily’. Eastern Front USSR:

WW2 War Diary for Saturday, February 20, 1943: Eastern Front Southern Sector: Manstein’s Panzers counter-attack in Pavlograd Sector. Africa Tunisia: British 8th Army takes Medenine in the East. Air War

World War One Diary for Wednesday, February 20, 1918: Eastern Front Germans march into Minsk and Hapsal (Estonia, via Gulf of Riga ice), have now taken over 1,500 guns and

World War One Diary for Tuesday, February 19, 1918: Middle East Palestine: British XX Corps plus Anzac Mounted Division (6,800 men with 54 guns) gain 2 miles on 15-mile front

World War One Diary for Monday, February 18, 1918: Eastern Front GERMANS RESUME WAR (until March 2): Operation Faustschlag with 52 divisions, which take Dvinsk and Lutsk, advancing down railways

World War One Diary for Sunday, February 17, 1918: Air War Britain: Giant R25 bombs St Pancras Station and hotel (42 casualties from total 53) in solo London raid (night

World War One Diary for Saturday, February 16, 1918: Air War Britain: Moonlight raid on London (18 casualties). Giant R12 (Seydlitz-Gerstenburg) rams balloon aprox. 10,000ft over Woolwich and plunges 1,000ft,

World War One Diary for Friday, February 15, 1918: Sea War Channel: 11 German destroyers (2nd Flotilla) raid Dover Straits Barrage (night February 15-16), sink trawler and 7 drifters (4

World War One Diary for Wednesday, February 13, 1918: Western Front Germany: Ludendorff promises Kaiser victory in proposed spring offensive. Champagne: ­French finally eliminate Tahure­-Butte du Mesnil Salient, US guns

World War One Diary for Tuesday, February 12, 1918: Middle East Armenia: Turk Offensive (45,000-50,000 in 8 divisions with 160 guns) begins with taking Cardakli on Zara-Sivas road and advance

World War One Diary for Monday, February 11, 1918: Politics USA: Wilson adds four war aims points in Congress address, says no general peace obtainable by separate negotiation. Sea War

World War One Diary for Sunday, February 10, 1918: Eastern Front Brest-Litovsk: Trotsky (before leaving talks for 4th time) announces ‘no peace, no war’ against Central Powers though demobilization ordered.