Diary December 1, 1944
War Diary for Friday, December 1, 1944: Western Front 3rd US Army reaches river Saar. Occupied countries Crete: Germans on Crete abandon all areas except large towns. Air War Germany: […]
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Diary December 1, 1914
War Diary for Tuesday, December 1, 1914: Air War Western Front: First German aircraft with radio equipment on artillery spotting duties. French aviators Garros and Saulnier make first airborne firing
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Diary December 1, 1939
War Diary for Friday, December 1, 1939: Finland Winter War Finland: Helsinki bombed (80 killed, November 30 – December 1). Finnish coalition government formed, including Ryti (Prime Minister) and Tanner
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Diary November 30, 1944
War Diary for Thursday, November 30, 1944: Air War Germany: 8th USAAF encounters severe flak during raids on oil plants in Leipzig area (53 planes lost). RAF drops 2,000 t.
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Diary November 30, 1939
War Diary for Thursday, November 30, 1939: Finland WINTER WAR: RUSSIAN INVASION OF FINLAND. 26 divisions attack on four fronts at Karelian Isthmus, North of lake Ladoga, in the ‘Waist’,
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Diary November 30, 1914
War Diary for Monday, November 30, 1914: Western Front Flanders: Artillery duels. King George V first visits BEF, now 200,000 strong. Artois: Artillery duels. Eastern Front Poland: Battle of Lowicz-Sanniki
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Diary November 29, 1944
War Diary for Wednesday, November 29, 1944: Russian Front Russian and Yugoslav forces capture Mohacs and Pecs, after crossing river Danube south of Budapest. Sea War Pacific: Giant Japanese aircraft
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Diary November 29, 1914
War Diary for Sunday, November 29, 1914: Western Front Somme: French advance around the village of Chaulnes. Argonne: French recapture Bagatelle. Vosges: French repulse attacks at Ban-de-Sapt. Bavarians forming first
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Diary November 29, 1939
War Diary for Wednesday, November 29, 1939: Politics Russia severs diplomatic relations with Finland.
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Diary November 28, 1914
War Diary for Saturday, November 28, 1914: Western Front Artois: German attacks round Arras. French poet Jean de La Ville de Mirmont killed by landmine explosion at Verreiul, aged 27.
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Diary November 28, 1939
War Diary for Tuesday, November 28, 1939: Politics Russia renounces Soviet-Finnish Non-Aggression Pact (signed 1932). Finns inform Moscow that investigations show that Russian artillery fired the 7 shells at Russian
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Diary November 28, 1944
War Diary for Tuesday, November 28, 1944: Western Front 3rd US Army (Patton) holds now 42-km wide salient inside West Germany (Saar) – in front of the Siegfried Line. 9th
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Diary November 27, 1914
War Diary for Friday, November 27, 1914: Eastern Front Hindenburg promoted to field marshal. Litvinov replaces Rennenkampf in command of Russian First Army due to Lodz fiasco. Western Front Champagne:
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Diary November 27, 1944
War Diary for Monday, November 27, 1944: Air War Germany: Very heavy day and night raids on marshalling yards in Western Germany. Freiburg severely damaged in night raid. Pacific: Second
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Diary November 27, 1939
War Diary for Monday, November 27, 1939: China Sino-Japanese War: Japanese capture Nanning, important rail head in southwest China. Sea War British Government orders seizure of German exports on the
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Diary November 26, 1914
War Diary for Thursday, November 26, 1914: Western Front Flanders: German attack on Yser canal fails. BEF forms Trench Mortar Service (‘The Suicide Club’) near Bethune, 11 men with two
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Diary November 26, 1939
War Diary for Sunday, November 26, 1939: Politics ‘Mainila Incident’: Russians accuse Finns of shelling village of Mainila, killing 4 soldiers, and demand immediate withdrawal of Finnish troops from vicinity
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Diary November 26, 1944
War Diary for Sunday, November 26, 1944: Air War Germany: 8th USAAF attacks Misburg oil plant (Hanover), Hamm marshalling yards and Bielefeld railway viaduct; claims 138 fighters destroyed for loss
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Diary November 25, 1914
War Diary for Wednesday, November 25, 1914: Eastern Front Poland: General Schaffer’s 3 German divisions and 140 guns from XXV Reserve Corps escape encirclement at Lodz, break out northwest through
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Diary November 25, 1944
War Diary for Saturday, November 25, 1944: Air War Germany: Massive 8th USAAF raids on Leuna oil plant and Bingen marshalling yards. Britain: V-2 hits crowded Woolworth department store in
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