06-1918

World War One Diary for Monday, June 10, 1918: Sea War Adriatic: 2 Italian MAS boats attack and MAS 15 (Rizzo) capsizes and sinks Austrian battleship Szent Istvan (89 die) […]

World War One Diary for Sunday, June 9, 1918: Western Front (FOURTH) GERMAN GNEISENAU OFFENSIVE VS FRENCH ON RIVER MATZ (until June 14) between Noyon and Montdidier (also known as

World War One Diary for Saturday, June 8, 1918: Sea War Britain: US Ambassador’s wife launches 26,000t carrier HMS Eagle (ex-Chilean dreadnought Almirante Cochrane redesigned by end 1917 as first

World War One Diary for Friday, June 7, 1918: Eastern Front USSR: First Congress of Red Military Commissars. Northern Russia: 250 Royal Marines land at Kern on White Sea. Lenin

World War One Diary for Thursday, June 6, 1918: Western Front Marne – Battle of Belleau Wood (until June 25): US 2nd Division and 4th US Marine Brigade counter-attack west

World War One Diary for Wednesday, June 5, 1918: Air War France: Independent Force formed (officially on June 6) under Trenchard begins operations from Nancy. Organized as 8th Brigade RAF,

World War One Diary for Tuesday, June 4, 1918: Home Fronts France: Clemenceau to Chamber ‘I shall fight before Paris … in Paris … behind Paris.’, wins vote 337-110. Britain:

World War One Diary for Monday, June 3, 1918: Western Front Churchill visits BEF GHQ, Paris and Front until June 13. Fierce fighting between Soissons and Noyon. French retake Choisy

World War One Diary for Sunday, June 2, 1918: Air War Western Front: Oberleutnant Goering awarded Pour le Merite. Germans claim 38 Allied aircraft for loss of 17. Western Front

World War One Diary for Saturday, June 1, 1918: Western Front Marne: Germans held between the Oise and Marne (US 3rd Division MG battalion in action, with 5 more divisions