Diary September 20, 1944
WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, September 20, 1944: Western Front Allied ground and airborne forces link up at Nijmegen. Polish Division reaches river Scheldt along 10-km front.
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Diary September 20, 1939
WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, September 20, 1939: Air War Western Front: RAF’s first clash with Luftwaffe. Me 109 s attack 3 Battle recce-bombers over Siegfried Line. One Messerschmitt fighter
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Diary September 20, 1914
War Diary of World War One for Sunday, September 20, 1914: Western Front Meuse: Crown Prince William launches 3 corps from west of Metz in drive towards St Mihiel (until
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Diary September 19, 1939
WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, September 19, 1939: Poland Bzura Battle ends. 100,000 officers and men from defeated Polish Pomorze and Poznan Armies surrender. Germans surround Lvov, Eastern Poland. Home
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Diary September 19, 1944
WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, September 19, 1944: Western Front Siege of Brest ends. Allies capture Eindhoven. Air War Europe: RAF night raids on Rheydt and München-Gladbach – key traffic
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Diary September 19, 1914
War Diary of World War One for Saturday, September 19, 1914: Western Front Champagne: French Fifth Army engaged around Reims until September 21. Sea War North Sea: Royal Marines Brigade
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Diary September 18, 1944
WW2 War Diary for Monday, September 18, 1944: Western Front Armored spearheads of British 2nd Army make contact with the first airborne forces in Holland. Occupied Countries Romania: Antonescu arrested
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Diary September 18, 1914
War Diary of World War One for Friday, September 18, 1914: Western Front Aisne: Joffre orders Maunoury to halt at Soissons-Bailly, pending formation of new Second Army (Castelnau) northwest of
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Diary September 18, 1939
WW2 War Diary for Monday, September 18, 1939: Poland Russian Forces now 60 miles (ca. 97 km) inside Poland. Virtually no resistance. Sea War Atlantic: SS Kensington Court shelled and
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Diary September 17, 1944
WW2 War Diary for Sunday, September 17, 1944: Air War Europe – BATTLE OF ARNHEM. 1st Allied Airborne Army (2 US and 1 British divisions with Polish Parachute Brigade) transported
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Diary September 17, 1914
War Diary of World War One for Thursday, September 17, 1914: Western Front Belgium: Battle of Mallnes-Aerschot ends. BELGIAN ARMY RETIRES ON ANTWERP. General Beseler’s ‘Antwerp Army Group’ formed. Somme:
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Diary September 17, 1939
WW2 War Diary for Sunday, September 17, 1939: Poland RUSSIAN INVASION OF POLAND against negligible defenses. German Army Groups North and South link up at Wlodawa, on river Bug, Eastern
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Diary September 16, 1939
WW2 War Diary for Saturday, September 16, 1939: Poland German ultimatum to Warsaw Garrison and civil population rejected. Polish air force bombers make final sorties. Politics Russia informs Poland that
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Diary September 16, 1944
WW2 War Diary for Saturday, September 16, 1944: Russian Front Guderian counter-attacks near Gulf of Riga with troops brought from far south of the Front, spearheaded by scratch Panzers divisions
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Diary September 16, 1914
War Diary of World War One for Wednesday, September 16, 1914: Air War Far East: First attack on warship by sea-based aircraft. Japanese Farman launched from seaplane tender Wakamiya Maru
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Diary September 15, 1939
WW2 War Diary for Friday, September 15, 1939: Poland Germans surround Warsaw and occupy Galician oilfields (southeast Poland). Sea War Atlantic: First British trans-Atlantic convoy sails from Kingston, Jamaica. Politics
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Diary September 15, 1914
War Diary of World War One for Tuesday, September 15, 1914: Western Front First Battle of the Aisne: At 0115 hours Joffre cables to army commanders: ‘It seems … the
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Diary September 15, 1944
WW2 War Diary for Friday, September 15, 1944: Western Front Americans break through Siegfried Line, east of Aachen. FFI and Americans capture Nancy. Russian Front Polish 1st Army of 1st
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Diary September 14, 1914
War Diary of World War One for Monday, September 14, 1914: Western Front Aisne: Despite major efforts (BEF I Corps captures 12 guns), Allies unable to enlarge much their shallow
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Diary September 14, 1939
WW2 War Diary for Thursday, September 14, 1939: Poland Fall of Gdynia, Poland’s only seaport, and the city of Brest-Litovsk, Eastern Poland. The Citadel of Brest-Litovsk still holds out. Sea
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