Diary for Friday, March 2, 1940: Finland Winter War: Russians reach southern suburbs of Viipuri. Finnish fighters foil attempted raid on Helsinki. Air War Germany: High-flying RAF Supermarine Spitfire photographs […]
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Diary for Friday, March 2, 1945: Air War Germany: 2 RAF daylight raids on Cologne. 406 USAAF bombers attacking again Dresden. Western Front 9th US Army takes Krefeld, Venlo and
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Diary for Monday, March 1, 1915: Sea War Britain: Government declare it ‘WOULD PREÂVENT COMMODITIES OF ANY KIND ENTERING OR LEAVING GERMANY’. But, owing to fear of alienating USA and
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Diary for Tuesday, March 2, 1915: Eastern Front Poland: Russian Twelfth Army night attacks until March 4 west of river Bobr fail – 21,000 casualties and 2 armored cars were
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Diary for Thursday, March 1, 1945: Western Front München-Gladbach captured by US 9th Army.
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Diary for Friday, March 1, 1940: Finland Winter War: Russians within 6 km of center of Viipuri. Fierce aerial dog fights over city.
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Diary for Thursday, February 29, 1940: Finland Winter War: Battle of Viipuri begins. Russians make all-out effort to crush resistance in Karelian Isthmus by encircling city of Viipuri and reaching
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Diary for Wednesday, February 28, 1940: Finland Winter War: Finns storm entrenched camp of starving 34th Moscow Tank Brigade near Kitelae, capturing 105 tanks, 200 trucks and field cars. Home
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Diary for Wednesday, February 28, 1945: Western Front US 1st Army crosses river Erth, 10 km from Cologne. Politics Allied-occupied Iran declares war on Japan. Saudi Arabia declares war on
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Diary for Sunday, February 28, 1915: Air War Britain: Admiral Fisher demands small non-rigid airships with ‘good turn of speed’ for anti-submarine duties. Within 21 days prototype SS (Sea Scouts)
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Diary for Saturday, February 27, 1915: Western Front Champagne: Beausejour captured by French but only 1,000 German PoWs taken since February 16. Flanders: First Territorial division joins BEF, 46th (North
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Diary for Tuesday, February 27, 1940: Finland Winter War: Finns begin to withdraw to rear positions of Mannerheim Line.
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Diary for Tuesday, February 27, 1945: Russian Front Rokossovsky drives into Pomerania. Politics French-occupied Lebanon declares war on Germany and Japan.
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Diary for Friday, February 26, 1915: Western Front Meuse – First use of flamethrowers: 12 flamethrowers of Abteilung Reddemann support attacking infantry in Bois de Malancourt northeast of Verdun, first
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Diary for Monday, February 26, 1940: Finland Winter War: Finns announce evacuation of Koivisto coastal fortress, on right flank of Mannerheim Line. Sea War Atlantic: Liner Queen Elizabeth (83,700 tons)
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Diary for Monday, February 26, 1945: Air War Germany: 8th USAAF carries out 3,000 t. raid with 1,112 bombers on Berlin; 1/2 Million incendiaries dropped. Main targets: 3 railway stations
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Diary for Thursday, February 25, 1915: Sea War Dardanelles: Super-Dreadnought Queen Elizabeth (8 x 15-in guns) in first action joins 7 AngloÂ-French battleships in silencing outer forts. Battleship Agamemnon (hit
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Diary for Sunday, February 25, 1940: Air War First squadron of Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) reaches Britain.
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Diary for Sunday, February 25, 1945: Western Front 1st and 9th US Armies break German defenses at river Roer west of Cologne, capturing Düren and Jülich.
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Diary for Saturday, February 24, 1940: Western Front MANSTEIN PLAN ADOPTED by German Army High Command. Hitler accepts proposal by General von Manstein – backed by Generals von Rundstedt and
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