Diary for Saturday, November 23, 1940: Politics Rumania signs Tripartite Pact. (See September 27, 1940) US appoints Admiral Leahy Ambassador in Vichy (France). Air War Heavy night raids on Southampton […]
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Diary for Tuesday, November 23, 1915: Southern Fronts Serbia: Fall of Mitrovica and Pristina drives Serbs west of Kossovo Plain. Germans claim 17,000 PoWs and captured 35 guns. 200,000 Serbs
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Diary for Friday, November 22, 1940: Balkans Greeks capture Koritsa – important town in southeast Albania. Politics Willington Trade Mission arrives in Rio de Janeiro to promote British interests.
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Diary for Monday, November 22, 1915: Middle East Mesopotamia – Battle of Ctesiphon (until November 24, 22 miles southeast of Baghdad): Townshend’s 13,756 men with 30 guns take 1,300 PoWs
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Diary for Thursday, November 21, 1940: Secret War Dies Committee Report on German espionage and ‘fifth Column’ activity in Britain published.
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Diary for Sunday, November 21, 1915: Air War Mesopotamia: Major Reilly Royal Flying Corps shot down by MG fire and captured near Ctesiphon before he can report crucial Turk reinforcements
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Diary for Wednesday, November 20, 1940: Politics Hungary signs Tripartite Pact. (see September 27, 1940) Air War Air Marshal Boyd, RAF, captured by Italians when his plane makes forced landing
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Diary for Saturday, November 20, 1915: Western Front French artillery active at different points. Meuse: German set of mines exploded in Bois des Chevaliers (Meuse Heights). Southern Fronts Serbia: Bulgars
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Diary for Tuesday, November 19, 1940: Air War Heavy night raid on Birmingham by 350 aircraft; second raid, by 116 aircraft, on following night is unsuccessful; third raid (200 aircraft),
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Diary for Friday, November 19, 1915: Western Front Alsace: Lively fighting with artillery, trench mortars and grenades on Hartmannsweilerkopf and on Uffholz plateau. Southern Fronts Serbia: Bulgarian troops reach Tetovo
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Diary for Monday, November 18, 1940: Balkans All invading Italian forces have now been driven back over river Kalamas.
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Diary for Thursday, November 18, 1915: Sea War Mediterranean and Adriatic: Full German Cattaro U-boat Flotilla formed. Pacific: Fuso, Japan’s first true dreadnought, completed. Three more by April 30, 1918.
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Diary for Sunday, November 17, 1940: Air War Heavy night raids on Southampton by 150 aircraft. RAF’s Army Co-operation Command established. RAF Night raids on Gelsenkirchen (Ruhr) oil plant.
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Diary for Wednesday, November 17, 1915: Southern Fronts Italian Front: Italians attack and take Oslavia and Hill 188 (latter kept). Salonika: Sarrail sees Kitchener who tells him Joffre will not
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Diary for Saturday, November 16, 1940: Sea War Three German cargo ships leave Tampico (Mexico), but fail to break through the British blockade: Phrygia scuttled; Idarwald and Rhein return to
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Diary for Tuesday, November 16, 1915: Home Fronts Austria: Prime MInister writes ‘The English war of starvation, … three bad harvests … has brought us into the most difficult situation’.
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Diary for Friday, November 15, 1940: Air War Heavy night raids on London (350 aircraft).
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Diary for Monday, November 15, 1915: Middle East Gallipoli: Kitchener cables home evacuation might not be so costly. 52nd Division Helles bridgehead mining success near Krithia Vineyard. Persia: Central Powers’
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Diary for Thursday, November 14, 1940: Air War COVENTRY ‘BLITZ’ (Operation ‘Mondlicht Sonate’ = ‘Moonlight Sonata’): 440 aircraft (2 lost) led by He 111 ‘pathfinders’. City centre and Cathedral largely
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Diary for Sunday, November 14, 1915: Sea War Black Sea: Battlecruiser Goeben missed off Bosphorus by 2 Russian submarine torpedoes but taken off coal convoy route. Dardanelles: Cruiser Chatham brings
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