World War One Diary for Saturday, October 21, 1916: Air War Western Front: RFC helps engage 184 targets and bombs extensively. Germans bomb Querrieu, Gorbie and Amiens (night October 20-21). […]
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WW2 War Diary for Friday, October 20, 1941: Sea War Mediterranean: Italian torpedo boats Aldebaran and Altair sink off Athens in minefield laid by submarine Rorqual (night October 20-21). Vyazma-Bryansk
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World War One Diary for Friday, October 20, 1916: Western Front Verdun: Nivelle commits 603 guns (including two 15.7-in rail guns against forts) and 15,000t of shells to shelling 3
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WW2 War Diary for Sunday, October 19, 1941: Home Fronts Russia: ‘State of siege’ declared in Moscow. Eastern Front Operation Barbarossa: Germans capture Thgonrog (Donets Basin). Neutrals Afghanistan: All Axis
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World War One Diary for Thursday, October 19, 1916: African Fronts East Africa: Last German post north of Central Railway cleared. Deventer contacts Northey. German attacks in Iringa and river
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WW2 War Diary for Saturday, October 18, 1941: Eastern Front Operation Barbarossa: Snow, slush and deep mud hamper German drive towards Moscow. Neutrals Japan: GENERAL TOJO FORMS CABINET. Togo, Foreign
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World War One Diary for Wednesday, October 18, 1916: Politics Germany: Austrian Baron Burian suggests peace initiative to Bethmann at Pless, Kaiser approves it on October 25. Both ministers also
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WW2 War Diary for Friday, October 17, 1941: Home Fronts India: Arrangements completed to transport Moslem pilgrims to Mecca, despite war-time transportation problems.
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World War One Diary for Tuesday, October 17, 1916: Sea War Adriatic: Italian SS Bermuda rams and sinks Austrian U16, after latter sinks Italian destroyer Nembo off Albania. Eastern Front
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WW2 War Diary for Thursday, October 16, 1941: Home Fronts Russia: ‘MOSCOW PANIC’. Russian Government and the Diplomatic Corps leave for Kuibyshev on the Volga (Stalin remains in the capital).
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World War One Diary for Sunday, October 16, 1916: Middle East Arabia: Captain T E Lawrence of Arab Bureau lands at Jeddah from HMS Lama; meets Abdulla and Ali (October
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WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, October 15, 1941: Occupied Territories Russia: SS mobile extermination squad, Einsatzgruppe A, reports that it has shot 125,000 Jews and 5,000 Russians. Eastern Front Operation
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World War One Diary for Sunday, October 15, 1916: Air War Western Front: Lieutenant N Prince (5 victories), American creator of Esc Lafayette, dies of wounds. Somme: 333 German aircraft
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WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, October 14, 1941: Eastern Front Operation Barbarossa: Germans capture Mozhaysk, west of Moscow.
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World War One Diary for Saturday, October 14, 1916: Southern Fronts Macedonia: Allied frontal assault fails to take a single Bulgar trench despite gas shell use; French 1,490 casualties, Russians
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WW2 War Diary for Monday, October 13, 1941: Sea War Baltic: Russian submarine Shch-323 attacks German light cruiser Koeln and 7 merchant ships (October 13-November 5), but sinks only one
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World War One Diary for Friday, October 13, 1916: Eastern Front Transylvania: Rumanian Second Army checks pursuers in Predeal (town falls) and Badza Passes, but Falkenhayn advances through Torzburg Pass
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WW2 War Diary for Sunday, October 12, 1941: Sea War North Sea: German E-boats sink 2 ships in convoy off Cromer, England.
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World War One Diary for Thursday, October 12, 1916: Air War Western Front: Canadian RNAS aviator Collishaw scores first of 60 victories. Germany: No 3 Wing RNAS, first British strategic
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WW2 War Diary for Saturday, October 11, 1941: Home Fronts Russia: Mass evacuation of women and children from Moscow; thousands of workers and students dig anti-tank ditches in outskirts.
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