World War One Diary for Friday, February 9, 1917: Western Front Somme – Operation Alberich: Germans begin demolitions with programmed removal of material and civilians between Hindenburg Line and actual […]
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WW2 War Diary for Sunday, February 8, 1942: Home Fronts Germany: Todt, Minister of Armaments and Munitions, killed in air crash at Rastenburg, East Prussia; aged 50. Professor Albert Speer
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World War One Diary for Thursday, February 8, 1917: Sea War Adriatic: Grand Admiral Baron Anton von Haus, C-in-C Austrian Fleet dies of lung disease aboard flagship Viribus Unitis aged
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WW2 War Diary for Saturday, February 7, 1942: Eastern Front Central Sector: Fierce fighting in suburbs of Rzhev, 209 km northwest of Moscow. Southern Sector: In Ukraine, Timoshenko recaptures Trosna,
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World War One Diary for Wednesday, February 7, 1917: Home Fronts Russia: 125,000 in Moscow and Petrograd political strikes (20 leaders arrested February 10-11). Britain: King opens Parliament. Petrol licence
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WW2 War Diary for Friday, February 6, 1942: North Africa Rommel’s offensive grinds to a halt west of Gazala. Politics Philippines: Emilio Aguinaldo, Filipino nationalist leader, broadcasts appeal to embattled
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World War One Diary for Tuesday, February 6, 1917: Home Fronts Germany: Ludendorff orders halt on all new factories (excluding nitrate plants) not completable by May. Western Front Somme: British
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WW2 War Diary for Thursday, February 5, 1942: Sea War Pacific: Troopship Empress of Asia (16,400t) sunk by Japanese bombers off Singapore. Politics USA: Government declares war on Thailand. Home
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World War One Diary for Monday, February 5, 1917: Home Fronts Britain: National Service volunteer scheme begins enrolling 18-61 year olds (100,000 by March 3, including 15,000 women in 3
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WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, February 4, 1942: Sea War Pacific: US cruiser Marblehead severely damaged by Japanese bombers. Southeast Asia Malaya: Japanese demand unconditional surrender of Singapore. Wavell declares
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World War One Diary for Sunday, February 4, 1917: Western Front Germany: KAISER SIGNS ORDER FOR RETIREMENT TO SIEGFRIED STELLUNG (Operation Alberich ). Whole zone between existing fighting front and
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WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, February 3, 1942: Eastern Front Southern sector: Russians recapture Lozovaya in Barvenkovo Salient, southwest of Kharkov. Air War Pacific: Japanese bomb Port Moresby (New Guinea)
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World War One Diary for Saturday, February 3, 1942: Sea War Eastern Atlantic: U-53 sinks US grainship Housatonic off Scilly Islands, British ship rescues the crew. Adriatic: Duke of Abruzzi
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WW2 War Diary for Monday, February 2, 1942: Secret War Britain: British Naval Staff reports that Gneisenau and Scharnhorst will probably attempt to leave Brest and pass up Channel through
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World War One Diary for Friday, February 2, 1917: Home Fronts Britain: Food Controller appeals for voluntary weekly rationing (London February meat consumption falls 15%). Germany: U-boat workers, railway men
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WW2 War Diary for Sunday, February 1, 1942: Occupied territories Norway: Quisling Government established in Norway. Sea War Pacific: US carriers Enterprise and Yorktown and cruisers Northampton and Salt Lake
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World War One Diary for Thursday, February 1, 1917: Sea War GERMANY BEGINS FINAL UNRESTRICTED SUBMARINE WARFARE CAMPAIGN: 105 U-boats in service (42 under repair, 51 lost to date –
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WW2 War Diary for Saturday, January 31, 1942: Eastern Front Siege of Leningrad: total number of deaths from starvation, typhus, dysentery, heart failure, etc., in January-February 1942 is more than
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World War One Diary for Wednesday, January 31, 1917: Sea War Germany: Government informs US Government it will not ‘leave any means whatever unturned [ie U-boat terror] to hasten the
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WW2 War Diary for Friday, January 30, 1942: Southeast Asia Malaya: British and Commonwealth forces withdraw to Singapore Island and blow up 1-km-Iong Causeway across Johore Street. Politics Eire: Government
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