Diary January 4, 1941
Diary for Saturday, January 4, 1941: North Africa The Murzuk Raid: A small force of Tuareg and Tibesti tribesmen under Free French officers cross 485 km of desert from Chad […]
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Diary January 3, 1916
Diary for Monday, January 3, 1916: Home Fronts France: General Press Relations Directorate formed. Britain: Clydeside Socialist newspaper Forward suppressed for 4 weeks. Western Front Brigade-General J Charteris becomes BEF
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Diary January 3, 1941
Diary for Friday, January 3, 1941: Balkans Italians launch unsuccessful counter-offensive in Albania. Air War Britain: Night raids on Bristol by 170 aircraft: 8,000 t. of grain destroyed. Neutrals Vichy
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Diary January 2, 1916
Diary for Sunday, January 2, 1916: Sea War Dardanelles: British submarine E2 recalled; end of Allied submarine campaign. Half Turk merchant fleet now sunk and warships immobilized by coal shortage.
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Diary January 2, 1941
Diary for Thursday, January 2, 1941: Air War Britain: 100 German bombers raid Cardiff (night January 2-3); many fires started. Llandaff Cathedral badly damaged.
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Diary January 1, 1916
Diary for Saturday, January 1, 1916: Sea War British introduce depth charges; but only 2 per anti-submarine vessel, insufficient supply till June 1917. Royal Navy now has 35 paddle-minesweepers (24
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Diary January 1, 1941
Diary for Wednesday, January 1, 1941: Air War Germany: 95 RAF bombers raid Bremen (night January 1-2).
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Diary December 31, 1915
Diary for Friday, December 31, 1915: African Fronts East Africa: Lettow writes to Kaiser listing Gouverneur Schnee’s interferences (Berlin receives it in August 1916 and reprimands). He now has 14,298
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Diary December 31, 1940
Diary for Tuesday, December 31, 1940: Air War RAF daylight raids on Cologne, Rotterdam (oil supplies), Ijmuiden (docks) and bridge over Rhine near Emmerich. Valona (Albania) and Assab (Italian East
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Diary December 30, 1915
Diary for Thursday, December 30, 1915: Southern Fronts Salonika: First Zeppelin raid. Air War Salonika: First German air raid (by Zeppelins), a Greek shepherd killed on outskirts, but incident does
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Diary December 30, 1940
Diary for Monday, December 30, 1940: Home Front Britain: Royal Engineers and Pioneers dynamite fire-gutted buildings in City of London.
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Diary December 29, 1915
Diary for Wednesday, December 29, 1915: Western Front First conference between Joffre and Haig: summer 1916 (Somme) offensive mooted. Joffre proposes great combined offensive by 65 divisions on a 60-mile
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Diary December 29, 1940
Diary for Sunday, December 29, 1940: Air War Britain: SECOND GREAT FIRE OF LONDON. 136 aircraft drop 30,000 incendiaries – great conflagration in ‘City’ area; Guildhall and 8 Wren churches
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Diary December 28, 1915
Diary for Tuesday, December 28, 1915: Home Fronts Britain: Cabinet decides for conscription. Western Front Last of Indian Corps leaves France. Artillery activity near Armentieres and Ypres. Eastern Front Baltic
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Diary December 28, 1940
Diary for Saturday, December 28, 1940: Secret War The Gelsenkirchen Report: RAF photo-reconnaissance mission of Ruhr synthetic oil plant, flown December 24, shows it not destroyed.
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Diary December 27, 1915
Diary for Monday, December 27, 1915: Eastern Front Galicia and Bukovina: Ivanov Offensive with 18 infantry and 4 cavalry divisions + 1,000 guns (1000 shells each) along 90-mile front from
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Diary December 27, 1940
Diary for Friday, December 27, 1940: Air War Britain: Night raids on London by 100 aircraft.
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Diary December 26, 1915
Diary for Sunday, December 26, 1915: Sea War North Sea: Disguised raider Möwe (Dohna-Schlodien) leaves Bremen, bluffs her way through Northern Patrol. On January 16 she captures British liner Appam
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Diary December 26, 1940
Diary for Thursday, December 26, 1940: Air War RAF daylight raids on airfields in Brittany; night raid on Bordeaux.
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Diary December 25, 1915
Diary for Saturday, December 25, 1915: African Fronts Uganda Railway: Germans repulsed from Ndi station (until next day); 17 British cause 24 German casualties in cross-border raid. Cameroons: British reject
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