Diary July 22, 1916
Diary for Saturday, July 22, 1916: Southern Fronts Trentino: Alpini battalion and 154th Regiment night attack and gain footing north of Mt Cimone summit (July 23) dominating Arsiero to south […]
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Diary for Saturday, July 22, 1916: Southern Fronts Trentino: Alpini battalion and 154th Regiment night attack and gain footing north of Mt Cimone summit (July 23) dominating Arsiero to south […]
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Diary for Tuesday, July 22, 1941: Eastern Front Operation Barbarossa: German spearheads halt for rest and recuperation near lake Ilmen, south of Leningrad. Sea War Atlantic: German battlecruiser Scharnhorst transferred
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Diary for Friday, July 21, 1916: Eastern Front Pripet: Bezobrazov‘s Guard Army (11 divisions, 134,000 men and 396 guns) formed. Brusilov Offensive – Galicia: Austrians retreat and begin to evacuate
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Diary for Monday, July 21, 1941: Air War Operation Barbarossa: MOSCOW ‘BLITZ’ commences with raid by 127 aircraft (night July 21-22), led by He 111 pathfinders of KGr.100 and KGr.26.
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Diary for Thursday, July 20, 1916: Western Front Battle of the Somme: 778 surviving South Africans relieved at Delville Wood. 4 British divisions begin attacks on High Wood (until July
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Diary for Sunday, July 20, 1941: Home Fronts Russia: Stalin becomes People’s Commissar for Defence.
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Diary for Wednesday, July 19, 1916: Western Front Flanders: British First Army diversionary attack but inept daylight attack at Fromelles (until July 20) fails bloody, new 5th Australian Division has
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Diary for Saturday, July 19, 1941: Occupied countries Europe: ‘Colonel Britton’ initiates the ‘V for Victory’ campaign in midnight broadcast on the BBC: he calls on all the oppressed peoples
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Diary for Tuesday, July 18, 1916: Western Front Battle of the Somme: Strong German counter-attacks at Longueval and Delville Wood. Middle East Armenia: Russians occupy Gumusane, capture 800 Turks 15
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Diary for Friday, July 18, 1941: Politics RUSSO-CZECH AGREEMENT: Czech Government in London and government of Russia to exchange ambassadors. Czech National Army in Exile to be formed in USSR.
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Diary for Thursday, July 17, 1941: Neutrals Spain: General Franco makes speech condemning US refusal to sell urgently needed supplies of wheat to Spain and declaring that the Wehrmacht is
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Diary for Monday, July 17, 1916: Southern Fronts Macedonia: Serbs begin to move to take over 60 miles of front west of river Vardar. Sarrail told to be ready to
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Diary for Sunday, July 16, 1916: Home Fronts Britain: War Savings Week. Western Front Battle of the Somme: British 62nd Brigade relieved at Mametz Wood (night July 15-16). Since July
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Diary for Wednesday, July 16, 1941: Eastern Front Operation Barbarossa: Stalin‘s son, Lieutenant Jacob Dzhugashvili, captured by German soldiers. Sea War Baltic: Russian battleship Oktyabrskaya Revolutsiya and cruiser Kirov, with
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Diary for Saturday, July 15, 1916: Western Front Battle of the Somme – Battle of Delville Wood (until July 20): 3,153-strong South African Brigade, ordered to capture and hold wood
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