World War One Diary for Monday, March 12, 1917: Home Fronts Russia: FIRST RUSSIAN REVOLUTION (until March 15). Whole 17,000 Petrograd garrison joins crowds. Temperature 0°F. Duma prorogued but forms […]
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WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, March 11, 1942: Sea War Mediterranean: Cruiser Naiad (Admiral Vian) sunk by U-boat U-565. Home Fronts Britain: Maximum penalty for black-marketeering increased to 14 years’
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World War One Diary for Sunday, March 11, 1917: Middle East Mesopotamia: FALL OF BAGHDAD (population over 150,000). British troops enter before 0900 hours, find 600 sick and wounded Turkish
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WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, March 10, 1942: Far East China: Lieutenant-General ‘Vinegar Joe’ Stilwell, US Army, appointed CoS by Chiang Kai-shek. Sea War Pacific: US carrier planes strike Japanese
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World War One Diary for Saturday, March 10, 1917: Sea War North Sea: Royal Navy submarine G13 sinks UC-43 off Shetlands. Eastern Atlantic: Epic action between NZ Shipping Co SS
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WW2 War Diary for Monday, March 9, 1942: Southeast Asia Burma: Battle of Taukkyan. Japanese block line of retreat of British forces 32 km north of Rangoon; they defend formidable
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World War One Diary for Friday, March 9, 1917: Air War Western Front: Richthofen (petrol tank and engine hit) leads fighters that shoot down 4 of 9 No 40 Squadron’s
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WW2 War Diary for Sunday, March 8, 1942: Southeast Asia Burma: FALL OF RANGOON. Air War Western Europe: RAF daylight raid on Matford truck works at Poissy, near Paris. Germany
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World War One Diary for Thursday, March 8, 1917: Air War Germany: Dead of Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, aged 79, pioneer of giant metal-framed rigid airships (civil and military) since
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WW2 War Diary for Saturday, March 7, 1942: Air War Mediterranean: First squadron of Spitfire Mk V fighters lands in Malta after taking off from carriers Argus and Eagle south
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World War One Diary for Wednesday, March 7, 1917: Air War Occupied Belgium: New German Gotha bomber base of Scheldewindeke operational south of Ghent. Britain: 11 home air defence squadrons
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WW2 War Diary for Friday, March 6, 1942: Southeast Asia East Indies: Japanese occupy Batavia. Sea War Arctic: German battleship Tirpitz leaves Trondheim for unsuccessful sortie against Arctic Convoy QP.8
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World War One Diary for Tuesday, March 6, 1917: Air War Western Front: First DH4 fast, high-flying S/E bombers with first Constantinesco cc MG synchronizing gear (6,000 issued to December)
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WW2 War Diary for Thursday, March 5, 1942: Eastern Front Central Sector: Russians recapture Yukhnov, east of Smolensk. Southeast Asia East Indies: Dutch evacuate Batavia, which becomes ‘open city’. Burma:
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World War One Diary for Monday, March 5, 1917: Middle East Palestine: Kress evacuates Wadi Sheikh Nuran for Gaza-Beersheba line. Mesopotamia: Maude resumes advance; 13th Hussars’ charge foiled by second
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WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, March 4, 1942: Air War Mediterranean: 394 raids on Malta, by day and night, over previous 2 months. Pacific East Indies: Lieutenant General Hein ter
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World War One Diary for Sunday, March 4, 1917: Home Fronts Russia: Food riots in Petrograd (and on March 6 and 7), France: Tubercular Ex-Soldiers Flag Day. Britain: War Office
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WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, March 3, 1942: Air War Western Europe: Renault works at Billancourt (Paris) severely damaged in RAF night raid: some casualties among 3,000-strong French workforce. Avro
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World War One Diary for Saturday, March 3, 1917: Western Front Somme: British advance east of Gommecourt (until March 5). Aisne: German 51st Reserve Division raid south of Ripont and
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WW2 War Diary for Monday, March 2, 1942: Home Front Australia: All civilians now liable for compulsory war service. Air War Mediterranean: Wellington bombers destroy munition ship Cuma at Palermo
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