Diary August 17, 1916
Diary for Thursday, August 17, 1916: Home Fronts Germany: Meat ration fixed. Western Front Battle of the Somme: British capture trench northwest of Bazentin. German counter-attack held northwest of Pozieres. […]
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Diary August 16, 1916
Diary for Wednesday, August 16, 1916: Air War Somme: Second Lieutenant Ball in Nieuport 17 attacks 5 Rolands, forcing 2 down, destroys 2 more on August 22 in 11 Squadron
Diary August 16, 1941
Diary for Saturday, August 16, 1941: Sea War Atlantic: 8 U-boats Type VII and 3 Italian submarines make repeated, but unsuccessful, attempts to attack Convoy HG.69 northwest of Gibraltar (August
Diary August 15, 1916
Diary for Tuesday, August 15, 1916: Eastern Front Brusilov offensive: Brusilov has received 26 extra divisions since June 12 (but Austro-Germans 33 1/2, including 23 German). Galicia: Lechitski reaches Solotwina
Diary August 15, 1941
Diary for Friday, August 15, 1941: Politics POLISH-RUSSIAN MILITARY AGREEMENT signed in Moscow.
Diary August 14, 1916
Diary for Monday, August 14, 1916: Southern Fronts Isonzo: General Italian attack all along line (until August 17) without appreciable gains but heavy losses. Eastern Front Germany; Hoffmann diary: ‘Continual
Diary August 14, 1941
Diary for Thursday, August 14, 1941: Sea War Baltic: Russian transport Sibir, carrying 2,500 wounded from Tallinn (Estonia) to Kronstadt (Leningrad), sunk by German bombers. Russians evacuate Nikolayev dockyard and
Diary August 13, 1941
Diary for Wednesday, August 13, 1941: Occupied territories Poland: Russia releases ‘all’ Polish PoWs taken in September 1939 (of course, except the murdered Polish officers and PoWs).
Diary August 13, 1916
Diary for Sunday, August 13, 1916: Western Front Battle of the Somme: British 15th Division captures Munster Alley. Artillery duels north and south of the river on August 14. Eastern
