Diary May 1, 1915
Diary for Saturday, May 1, 1915: Eastern Front Galicia – AUSTRO-GERMAN OFFENSIVE: BATTLE OF GORLICE-TARNOW (until May 5) starts with 610 gun bombardment including gas shells. Baltic Provinces: Lauenstein occupies […]
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Diary May 1, 1945
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
Diary April 30, 1915
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
Diary April 30, 1940
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.
Diary April 30, 1945
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
Diary April 29, 1915
Diary for Thursday, April 29, 1915: Air War Britain: First raid by German Army Zeppelin: LZ38 (Linnarz) drops IB’s at Ipswich and Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk (opportunity targets); some damage
Diary April 29, 1940
Diary for Monday, April 29, 1940: Air War Empire Air Training Scheme: training of pilots and air crews begins at schools in Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Norway British troops
Diary April 29, 1945
Diary for Sunday, April 29, 1945: Italy SURRENDER OF 1 MILLION GERMAN TROOPS IN NORTHERN ITALY AND AUSTRIA, signed in secret at Caserta, near Naples (effective May 2). Western Front
Diary April 28, 1915
Diary for Wednesday, April 28, 1915: Middle East Gallipoli – First Battle of Krithia: 14,000 Allies advance 2 miles (3,000 casualties). Anzac troops: 2 Royal Marines battalions to reinforce. Yemen:
Diary April 28, 1940
Diary for Sunday, April 28, 1940: Sea War Atlantic: Liner Queen Mary (81,200 t) arrives at Cape Town after record-breaking 12-day voyage from New York.
Diary April 28, 1945
Diary for Saturday, April 28, 1945: Occupied countries Italy: MUSSOLINI AND HIS MISTRESS, CLARA PETACCI, CAPTURED AND SHOT by Communist Partisan leader ‘Colonel Valerio’ (Walter Audisio) at Dongo (Lake Como).
Diary April 27, 1915
Diary for Tuesday, April 27, 1915: Western Front Ypres: Allies advance, French recapture Lizerne. Field Marshal French replaces Smith-Dorrien by Plumer in command of British Second Army because of former’s
Diary April 27, 1940
Diary for Saturday, April 27, 1940: Occupied countries Norway: Terboven appointed Reichskommissar for Norway (formerly Gauleiter of Essen). Politics Germany officially at war with Norway. Ribbentrop attempts to justify German
Diary April 27, 1945
Diary for Friday, April 27, 1945: Russian Front Battle of Berlin: Russians capture suburbs of Potsdam, Spandau and Rathenow; central districts of Neuköln and Tempelhof. Western Front Bremen captured by
Diary April 26, 1915
Diary for Monday, April 26, 1915: Middle East Gallipoli: Hill 141 stormed and V Beach secured. Turk attacks on Anzac and Y Beaches repulsed but latter abandoned in panic. Western
Diary April 26, 1940
Diary for Friday, April 26, 1940: Norway Norwegians and British halt German advance along Gudbrandsdal Valley at Kvam. Norwegian CinC General Ruge issues optimistic Order of the Day: ‘now the
Diary April 26, 1945
Diary for Thursday, April 26, 1945: Russian and Western Front RUSSIAN AND AMERICAN FORCES LINK UP at Torgau on the Elbe. Western Front Patton crosses Danube in Regensburg sector. Russian
Diary April 25, 1940
Diary for Thursday, April 25, 1940: Sea War British armed trawlers Bradman, Hammond and Larwood sunk by German aircraft off Andalsnes (they are subsequently raised and operated as German patrol
Diary April 25, 1915
Diary for Sunday, April 25, 1915: Middle East BRITISH LANDINGS ON GALLIPOLI PENINSULA: 33,000 Allies land round Cape Helles, at Anzac Cove (mistakenly) and Kum Kale in Asia (3,000 French
Diary April 25, 1945
Diary for Wednesday, April 25, 1945: Russian Front Battle of Berlin: Zhukov and Konev forces near Potsdam to complete their ‘iron ring’ around the city. Air War Germany: 381 RAF
