Diary for Tuesday, May 18, 1915: Middle East Gallipoli: Hamilton gets pessimistic Kitchener telegram, interprets as instruction not to encourage evacuation. Eastern Front Galicia: Austrians re-occupy Galician oilfields northeast of […]
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Diary for Saturday, May 18, 1940: Western Front Guderian‘s tanks reach Peronne, on river Somme. Hoth’s tanks reach Cambrai (scene of first British tank attack in 1917). Germans capture Antwerp.
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Diary for Friday, May 18, 1945: Okinawa Sugar Loaf Hill captured by US Marines. Home Fronts Britain: Avro Lancaster ‘Aries’ flies over North Magnetic Pole for first time in history
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Diary for Monday, May 17, 1915: Western Front Ypern – Festubert: 450 Germans surrender during BEF shelling after which ‘Quadrilateral’ strong point captured, but rain and mist hamper exploitation. German
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Diary for Friday, May 17, 1940: Western Front Germans enter Brussels. Colonel de Gaulle‘s 4th Armored Division counter-attacks Guderian‘s XIX Panzer Corps at Montcornet, but is repulsed. General von Kleist
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Diary for Thursday, May 17, 1945: Okinawa Lieutenant-General Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr., commanding general of US 10th Army, takes personal command of operations. Marines reach crest of Sugar Loaf Hill,
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Diary for Sunday, May 16, 1915: Eastern Front Battle of the San (until May 23): Austro-Germans cross river by 15 bridges, take Sieniawa on May 18. Western Front Ypern –
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Diary for Thursday, May 16, 1940: Western Front By nightfall Guderian‘s leading tanks are 60 miles (ca. 97 km) west of Sedan. Anglo-French-Belgian armies commence withdrawal from Dyle Line to
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Diary for Wednesday, May 16, 1945: Occupied countries Channel Islands: British forces liberate Alderney. Okinawa US 6th Marine Division suffers heavy casualties.
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Diary for Saturday, May 15, 1915: Western Front Ypres – Battle of Festubert (until May 25) begins at 2330 hours: first British major night attack with 3 divisors takes 3
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Diary for Wednesday, May 15, 1940: Western Front Hoth’s tanks defeat French 1st Armored Division west of Dinant; latter loses 125 of its 175 tanks. By nightfall, shattered French 9th
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Diary for Tuesday, May 15, 1945: Sea War Japanese cruiser Haguro trapped and torpedoed by 5 British destroyers in Malacca Strait (night May 15-16). Occupied countries Yugoslavia: Surrender of last
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Diary for Tuesday, May 14, 1940: Air War DESTRUCTION OF ROTTERDAM. In attempt to crush stubborn Dutch resistance – and bring tentative ceasefire negotiations to a speedy conclusion – 100
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Diary for Friday, May 14, 1915: Eastern Front Galicia: German Guard Corps capture Jaroslav (93 miles (ca. 150 km) from Gorlice). English novelist Hugh Walpole becomes Russian officer in Otriad
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Diary for Monday, May 14, 1945: Air War Pacific – DAYLIGHT FIRE RAID ON NAGOYA: In order to further undermine Japanese moral and industrial output, following severe psychological blow of
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Diary for Thursday, May 13, 1915: Western Front Ypres: Battle of Frezenberg Ridge ends. Heavy German bombardment. BEF MG crews get first primitive flannel-bag gas masks. French complete capture of
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Diary for Monday, May 13, 1940: Western Front BATTLE OF THE MEUSE: Panzer corps of Guderian, Hoth and Reinhardt, with strong air support, establish bridgeheads over river Meuse at Sedan,
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Diary for Sunday, May 13, 1945: Okinawa Americans take Conical Hill at east end of Shuri Line. Occupied countries Germany: Scots Guards occupy Heligoland. Home Fronts Britain: Thanksgiving Service in
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Diary for Wednesday, May 12, 1915: Eastern Front Poland: Woyrsch occupies Kielce in general Austro-German advance. Western Front Artois: French 70th Division takes Carency with 1,000 PoWs. Ypres: British 1st
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Diary for Sunday, May 12, 1940: Western Front French light mechanized units withdraw and all the bridges over river Meuse are blown up, except those at Mezieres, where French fortress
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