Diary for Thursday, May 3, 1945: Burma INDIAN TROOPS OCCUPY RANGOON without resistance. Western Front British capture Hamburg. 59 merchant ships and 600 small craft scuttled. Patton takes Braunau (Hitler‘s […]
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Diary for Thursday, May 2, 1940: Norway Evacuation of Namsos: British and French troops leave ruined town night May 2-3. Ju 87 Stukas attack May 3, sinking French destroyers Afridi
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Diary for Sunday, May 2, 1915: Western Front Flanders – Ypres: Gas attacks near St Julien-Fortuin. These and similar ones on next day are repulsed. Eastern Front Galicia: After 4-hours
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Diary for Wednesday, May 2, 1945: Russian Front STALIN ANNOUNCES FALL OF BERLIN in Order of the Day No. 359: ‘Troops of the 1st Belorussian Front, commanded by Marshal Zhukov
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Diary for Wednesday, May 1, 1940: Norway British troops evacuated from Alesund. Germans counter-attack near Narvik (and on May 2); attack repulsed. German forces link up between Oslo and Bergen.
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Diary for Tuesday, May 1, 1945: Russian Front Battle of Berlin: Goebbels and wife Madga poison their 6 children before committing suicide. Russians capture Charlottenburg and Schoeneburg districts. Home Fronts
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Diary for Saturday, May 1, 1915: Eastern Front Galicia – AUSTRO-GERMAN OFFENSIVE: BATTLE OF GORLICE-TARNOW (until May 5) starts with 610Â gun bombardment including gas shells. Baltic Provinces: Lauenstein occupies
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Diary for Tuesday, April 30, 1940: Norway British commence evacuation of Andalsnes, Molde and Alesund (completed night May 1-2). German columns from Oslo and Trondheim link up in central Norway.
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Diary for Friday, April 30, 1915: Middle East Enver Pasha orders Liman to ‘drive the invaders into the sea’; 2 divisions from Asia Minor transferred to Gallipoli. Allied losses now
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Diary for Monday, April 30, 1945: Western Front Munich captured by US 7th Army. Russian Front Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide in Führerbunker beneath Reichs Chancellery, Berlin, at 3.30
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