Diary November 18, 1940
Diary for Monday, November 18, 1940: Balkans All invading Italian forces have now been driven back over river Kalamas.
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Diary November 18, 1915
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 November 17, 1940
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 November 17, 1915
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 November 16, 1940
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 November 16, 1915
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 November 15, 1940
Diary for Friday, November 15, 1940: Air War Heavy night raids on London (350 aircraft).
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Diary November 15, 1915
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 November 14, 1940
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 November 14, 1915
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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Diary November 13, 1940
Diary for Wednesday, November 13, 1940: Air War RAF night raid on Berlin and Italian Taranto naval base.
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Diary November 13, 1915
Diary for Saturday, November 13, 1915: Western Front German official communiques of November 13 and 14 state nothing to report. Flanders: In Belgium effective bombardments silence German artillery batteries. Southern
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Diary November 12, 1940
Diary for Tuesday, November 12, 1940: Politics Molotov, Russian Foreign Minister, begins 3-day official visit to Berlin to discuss closer collaboration with Axis Powers. He is forced to take shelter
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Diary November 12, 1915
Diary for Friday, November 12, 1915: African Fronts Cameroons: c. 250 British soldiers occupy Gorori, cross Mban and take Bumbo (November 24). East Africa: Whitehall recommends, ‘conquest of this German
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Diary November 11, 1940
Diary for Monday, November 11, 1940: Sea War Mediterranean: THE TARANTO RAID (Operation Judgement): 21 Swordfish torpedo-biplanes (2 lost) from carrier Illustrious carry out surprise torpedo/bomb attack on Italian Fleet
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Diary November 11, 1915
Diary for Thursday, November 11, 1915: Home Fronts Britain – War Council of Five appointed: Asquith, Bonar Law, Balfour, Lloyd George, McKenna. Churchill resigns from Cabinet (public November 13), farewell
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Diary November 10, 1940
Diary for Sunday, November 10, 1940: Air War RAF bomb Danzig, Dresden, Krupp’s Works, Essen and many other targets in Germany, Occupied territory and Italy (night November 10-11) despite severe
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Diary November 10, 1915
Diary for Wednesday, November 10, 1915: Southern Fronts Italian Front – Fourth Battle of the Isonzo (until December 3): Italian 5assa Brigade prominent in Carso fighting (until November 12) after
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Diary November 9, 1940
Diary for Saturday, November 9, 1940: Home Fronts Britain: Death of Neville Chamberlain, aged 71. (Funeral in Westminster Abbey, November 14). Sea War Liner Empress of Japan (26,000 t) attacked
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Diary November 9, 1915
Diary for Tuesday, November 9, 1915: Southern Fronts Serbia: Putnik attacks Bulgars east of Pristina with 5 divisions, his defence on Morava line ends having extricated Timok Army survivors from
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