Diary August 13, 1944
WW2 War Diary for Sunday, August 13, 1944: WESTERN FRONT Americans reach Argentan. AIR WAR Western Europe: 1,000 Allied heavy bombers attack roads leading to river Seine, from Paris to
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Diary August 12, 1914
World War One Diary for Wednesday, August 12, 1914: SOUTHERN FRONTS AUSTRIAN INVASION OF SERBIA: Advancing across the border into Serbia from the north and northwest, some 200,000 Austro-Hungarian troops
Diary August 12, 1944
WW2 War Diary for Saturday, August 12, 1944: WESTERN FRONT German 7th Army withdrawing from Mortain-Vire sector towards Argentan and Falaise. PLUTO pipeline in operation between Island of Wight and
Diary August 11, 1914
World War One Diary for Tuesday, August 11, 1914: WESTERN FRONT Alsace: Germans retake Mulhouse. Belgium: Belgians fight near Tirlemont, St Trond and Diest. SOUTHERN FRONTS Serbia: Austrian 2nd, 5th
Diary August 11, 1944
WW2 War Diary for Friday, August 11, 1944: WESTERN FRONT Americans capture Angers and Nantes. ITALY German forces evacuate Florence. SEA WAR Germans scuttle 26 warships and 28 merchant vessels
Diary August 10, 1914
World War One Diary for Monday, August 10, 1914: SEA WAR Mediterranean: The German warships ‘Goeben’ and ‘Breslau’ pass through the Dardanelles seaway and their British pursuers call off the
Diary August 10, 1944
WW2 War Diary for Thursday, August 10, 1944: NEW GUINEA Japanese withdraw from Aitape sector towards Wewak. AIR WAR: PACIFIC USAAF begins 7 month bombardment of Iwo Jima. MARINAS Americans
Diary August 9, 1914
World War One Diary for Sunday, August 9, 1914: WESTERN FRONT France: LANDING OF THE BEF. British I and II Corps land at Le Havre and Boulogne (complete on August
Diary August 9, 1944
WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, August 9, 1944: WESTERN FRONT Americans capture Le Mans. AIR WAR Captain A de Saint-Exupery disappears during reconnaissance mission from Corsica over occupied France; aged
Diary August 8, 1914
World War One Diary for Saturday, August 8, 1914: WESTERN FRONT France: In accordance with a prewar strategic blueprint for war against Germany known as Plan XVII, France’s Army of
Diary August 8, 1944
WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, August 8, 1944: WESTERN FRONT Canadians push towards Falaise, supported by 600 US bombers. HOME FRONT: GERMANY FM von Witzleben and 7 other ‘July Plotters’
Diary August 7, 1944
WW2 War Diary for Monday, Augfust 7, 1944: WESTERN FRONT Panzers counter-attacking east of Avranches are decimated by Allied bombers and rocket-firing Typhoons; but Germans continue attacking. Canadian 1st Army
Diary August 7, 1914
World War One Diary for Friday, August 7, 1914: SEA WAR Mediterranean: German Vice Admiral Wilhelm von Souchon, pursued by Vice Admiral Sir A. Berkeley-Milne‘s two British battlecruisers, continues to
Diary August 6, 1914
World War One Diary for Thursday, August 6, 1914: POLITICS: SERBIA The government declares war on Germany. WESTERN FRONT Belgium: General Erich Ludendorff of the German Second Army wins great
Diary August 6, 1944
WW2 War Diary for Sunday, August 6, 1944: WESTERN FRONT German Panzers counter-attack US forces in Mortain-Vire sector (begins night August 6- 7). AIR WAR: PACIFIC B-24 Liberators bomb Davao
Diary August 5, 1914
World War One Diary for Wednesday, August 5, 1914: POLITICS: AUSTRIA-HUNGARY Austria-Hungary declares war on Russia at 1200 hours. Austrian Lt Pokorny solves first Russian cryptogram of war. Letter from
Diary August 5, 1944
WW2 War Diary for Saturday, August 5, 1944: WESTERN FRONT US Armour reaches Redon (Brittany). British capture Villers Bocage. AIR WAR: EUROPE RAF blast open U-boat pens at Brest, using
Diary August 4, 1914
World War One Diary for Tuesday, August 4, 1914: POLITICS: BRITAIN The government declares war at 2300 hours as the Germans reject the British ultimatum requesting that their troops leave
Diary August 4, 1944
WW2 War Diary for Friday, August 4, 1944: WESTERN FRONT British 2nd Army tanks reach Villers Bocage, for second time since ‘D-Day’. AIR WAR Gloster Meteor jet fighter in combat
Diary August 3, 1914
World War One Diary for Monday, August 3, 1914: POLITICS: BELGIUM The Belgian government rejects the German ultimatum (0700 hours) demanding that its forces have free passage through Belgian territory
