Diary August 10, 1941
Diary for Sunday, August 10, 1941: Politics Britain and Russia pledge themselves to assist Turkey if she is attacked.
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Diary for Sunday, August 10, 1941: Politics Britain and Russia pledge themselves to assist Turkey if she is attacked.
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Diary for Wednesday, August 9, 1916: Southern Fronts Salonika – Local Allied offensive: Allies shell Bulgar line south of lake Doiran, French 17th Colonial Division (15,000) occupies abandoned station and
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Diary for Saturday, August 9, 1941: Sea War German destroyers make sortie to Kola Inlet (August 9-10), sinking Russian patrol ship, but withdraw under heavy air and artillery bombardment.
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Diary for Tuesday, August 8, 1916: Eastern Front Brusilov offensive, Pripet: Russian Guard and Third Armies attack towards Kovel, make no gains (until August 9). Guard losses 55,292 men; July
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Diary for Friday, August 8, 1941: Occupied Territories Russia: Marshal Timoshenko issues proclamation to all Russians in enemy-occupied areas, urging them to join partisans, carry out Stalin’s scorched-earth policy and
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Diary for Monday, August 7, 1916: Western Front Battle of the Somme: German attacks north and northeast of Pozieres. British attack outskirts of Guillemont. Eastern Front Galicia: Lechitski resumes offensive
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Diary for Thursday, August 7, 1941: Air War France: RAF carries out repeated sweeps over north France: 10 fighters lost, 7 Me 109Fs shot down. Douglas Bader‘s aircraft collides with
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Diary for Sunday, August 6, 1916: Southern Fronts Isonzo: Main Italian assault at 1600 hours after 9 hours intensest artillery barrage yet against Austrian 58th Division (General Zeidler on leave),
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Diary for Wednesday, August 6, 1941: Russian Front Operation Barbarossa: Special communique issued by German High Command claims that Wehrmacht has inflicted ‘annihilating blows unique in history’; 895,000 prisoners taken;
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Diary for Saturday, August 5, 1916: African Fronts East Africa – Smuts resumes main advance through Nguru Mountains on Morogoro (Central Railway): 7,000 men and 36 guns against c.2,000 Germans.
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Diary for Tuesday, August 5, 1941: Eastern Front Operation Barbarossa: Guderian liquidate Smolensk–Orsha ‘pocket’. SIEGE OF ODESSA by Rumanian-German forces begins (ends October 16). Rumanians suffer heavy casualties.
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Diary for Friday, August 4, 1916: Middle East Sinai – Battle of Romani (until August 5): Turkish troops (Kress) with 30 guns and 38 MGs drive back 2 Australian Light
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Diary for Monday, August 4, 1941: Air War South African Air Force bombs Gondar – last Italian stronghold in East Africa (and also on August 4, 5 and 6).
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Diary for Thursday, August 3, 1916: Sea War Britain: First of 17 accident-prone, fast steam-powered K-class large submarines comes into Royal Navy service. North Sea: 4 Royal Navy C-class submaÂrines
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Diary for Sunday, August 3, 1941: Sea War Atlantic: Focke-Wulf Condor shot down in mid-ocean by Hawker Hurricane catapulted from converted CAM ship SS Maplin (‘Catafighters’ destroy 4 more Fw
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