Diary April 6, 1945
Diary for Friday, April 6, 1945: Sea War Pacific – Operation Kikusui (‘Floating Chrysanthemum’): first of 10 massed Kamikaze attacks on US invasion fleet off Okinawa (April 6-7 to June […]
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Diary April 5, 1940
Diary for Thursday, April 5, 1940: Sea War First captured German merchant ship – the Uhenfels (renamed Empire Ability) – brought up river Thames. Politics Anglo-French note to Norway: warning
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Diary April 5, 1915
Diary for Monday, April 5, 1915: Western Front Meuse-Argonne: French First and Third Armies attack in very bad weather, aiming to flatten out St Mihiel salient. Little progress against MG
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Diary April 5, 1945
Diary for Thursday, April 5, 1945: Western Front Allied forces cross river Weser. 18 US divisions begin clearance of Ruhr Pocket. Okinawa US forces, pushing south, encounter first line of
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Diary April 4, 1915
Diary for Sunday, April 4, 1915: Western Front Flanders: General Putz takes over Detachement de Belgique (aka Groupement d’Elverdinghe). General Bülow of German Second Army put on retired list after
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Diary April 4, 1940
Diary for Thursday, April 4, 1940: Home Fronts Britain: Chamberlain tells Conservative Party meeting in London that, by not taking maximum advantage of Germany’s military superiority over Britain in September
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Diary April 4, 1945
Diary for Wednesday, April 4, 1945: Russian Front Slovakia: Bratislava captured by Malinovsky. Western Front Allied forces at Kassel, Gotha, Karlsruhe and Aschaffenburg.
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Diary April 3, 1940
Diary for Wednesday, April 3, 1940: Sea War First German Norway invasion ships sail. Air War Sunderland flying boat disperses formation of 6 Ju 88s attacking convoy in North Sea
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Diary April 3, 1915
Diary for Saturday, April 3, 1915: Eastern Front Hoffmann diary: ‘Every day Russian airmen throw down proclamations on us: Surrender, lay down your arms, your wives and children are starving
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Diary April 3, 1945
Diary for Tuesday, April 3, 1945: Russian Front Austria: Tolbukhin captures Wiener Neustadt. Okinawa US Artillery spotter planes begin operating from Kadena airfield. Air War Germany: RAF bombers attacking Nordhausen.
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Diary April 2, 1915
Diary for Friday, April 2, 1915: Western Front First full-scale German gas trial behind lines, mildly gases the scientists responsible. Argonne: German attack at Bagatelle. Eastern Front Bukovina: No Austrian
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Diary April 2, 1940
Diary for Tuesday, April 2, 1940: Air War German aircraft raid Scapa Flow; on return flight they attack lighthouses, at Duncansby Head and Stroma Island.
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Diary April 2, 1945
Diary for Monday, April 2, 1945: Western Front Montgomery’s forces capture Rheine Me 262 jet fighter-bomber base and Münster.
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Diary April 1, 1915
Diary for Thursday, April 1, 1915: Air War Dardanelles: In April first German airmen in action. Western Front: Lieutenant R Garros of Escadrille MS 23 in Morane ‘N’ shoots down
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Diary April 1, 1940
Diary for Monday, April 1, 1940: China Sino-Japanese War: Japanese-sponsored ‘Central Government of China’ established at Nanking, under Wang Ching-wei, a former colleague of Chiang Kai-shek. The Government is not
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Diary April 1, 1945
Diary for Sunday, April 1, 1945: Sea War Pacific: US 10th ARMY LANDS ON OKINAWA (Operation Glacier); captures Kadena and Yontan airfields. Russian Front Russians take Sopron, southeast of Vienna.
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Diary March 31, 1940
Diary for Sunday, March 31, 1940: Home Fronts Britain: A large proportion of people evacuated from cities in September 1939 have now drifted back home; only 300,000 schoolchildren, out of
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Diary March 31, 1915
Diary for Wednesday, March 31, 1915: Western Front German Army ration strength 5,029,672 men. Sea War Germany: U-boats sank 29 ships (161 British lives lost) worth 89,517t in March, more
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Diary March 31, 1945
Diary for Saturday, March 31, 1945: Western Front French start crossing the Rhine near Speyer. Russian Front Russians take Ratibor on Upper Oder. Sea War Merchant shipping losses in March
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Diary March 30, 1915
Diary for Tuesday, March 30, 1915: Western Front Flanders: Intelligence officers of XV Corps, French Tenth Army, learn from PoWs that extensive German preparations near Zillebeke east of Ypres to
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