Diary March 19, 1915
Diary for Friday, March 19, 1915: Middle East Dardanelles: Hamilton cables Kitchener: ‘It must be a deliberate and progressive military operation’. Admiral Robeck agrees on March 26. Western Front Vosges: […]
War Diary
Diary March 19, 1940
Diary for Tuesday, March 19, 1940: Air War 50 RAF bombers (1 lost) attack Sylt seaplane base, northwest Germany (night March 19-20) in reprisal for Scapa Flow raid of March
Diary March 19, 1945
Diary for Monday, March 19, 1945: Air War Pacific: Carriers Wasp and Franklin severely damaged by Japanese bombers (825 killed). Sea War U-boats withdrawn from Eastern Baltic. Home Fronts Germany:
Diary March 18, 1915
Diary for Thursday, March 18, 1915: Sea War Dardanelles: FINAL ANGLO-FRENCH NAVAL ATTACK ON DARDANELLES NARROWS BY 16 BATTLESHIPS FAILS, 3 sunk, 3 severely damaged: Irresistible, Ocean and French Bouvet
Diary March 18, 1940
Diary for Monday, March 18, 1940: Politics Mussolini meets Hitler at Brenner in Austro-Italian Alps (their first meeting since Munich, 1938). Mussolini declares readiness to join war against Britain and
Diary March 18, 1945
Diary for Sunday, March 18, 1945: Western Front US tanks enter Bad Kreuznach and Bingen. Air War Germany: 1,221 US bombers (25 lost) and 700 escorts (5 lost) drop 4,000
Diary March 17, 1940
Diary for Sunday, March 17, 1940: Sea War Atlantic: Shipping losses for week ending March 17 are 3 British, 1 French, 4 neutral, 3 German.
Diary March 17, 1915
Diary for Wednesday, March 17, 1915: Home Fronts Britain: Women’s War Service Register opened but only 8,500 of 40,000 registered employed to end 1915. Treasury Agreement: 34 trade unions accept
Diary March 17, 1945
Diary for Saturday, March 17, 1945: Western Front Ludendorff Bridge collapses following repeated raids by Ar 234 jet bombers; many US engineers killed. 3rd US Army enters Koblenz.
Diary March 16, 1915
Diary for Tuesday, March 16, 1915: Western Front Champagne: French storm crest north of Mesnil and repulse counter-attacks all along Fourth Army front, 48th Division gains Yellow Wood and in
Diary March 16, 1940
Diary for Saturday, March 16, 1940: Air War German air raid on Scapa Flow by 32 bombers (2 lost). Cruiser Norfolk damaged; 7 naval and 8 civilian casualties, including James
Diary March 16, 1945
Diary for Friday, March 16, 1945: Russian Front Hungary: Tolbukhin‘s 3rd Ukrainian Front launches major counter-attack against 6th SS Panzer Army and 3rd Hungarian Army (latter collapses). Air War Germany:
Diary March 15, 1940
Diary for Friday, March 15, 1940: Air War RAF aircraft drop leaflets over Warsaw (night March 15-16). A Whitley, low on fuel, lands by mistake in a field in West
Diary March 15, 1915
Diary for Monday, March 15, 1915: Western Front Flanders: British 27th Division regain lost ground at St Eloi, repulse fresh German attack on March 17. Aisne: General Maunoury of Sixth
Diary March 15, 1945
Diary for Thursday, March 15, 1945: Burma Japanese counter-attack at Meiktila (they retreat March 28). Air War Germany: Wehrmacht GHQ at Zossen, south of Berlin, pounded by 576 bombers of
Diary March 14, 1940
Diary for Thursday, March 14, 1940: Finland Winter War: Evacuation of 470,000 people from lost territories commences (completed March 26).
Diary March 14, 1915
Diary for Sunday, March 14, 1915: Sea War Pacific: German cruiser Dresden (24 casualties) blows herself up under white flag off Juan Fernandez after being trapped at anchor by RN
Diary March 14, 1945
Diary for Wednesday, March 14, 1945: Air War Germany: Bielefeld Viaduct smashed by 22,000-lb bomb, (‘Grand Slam‘), thereby preventing movement from the Ruhr to Remagen. Russian Front Slovakia: Russians capture
Diary March 13, 1915
Diary for Saturday, March 13, 1915: Western Front Flanders – Battle of Neuve Chapelle ends. British 7th Division makes ground towards Aubers Ridge; 612 PoWs taken. Eastern Front Galicia: Selivanov
Diary March 13, 1940
Diary for Wednesday, March 13, 1940: Finland Winter War: Cease-fire on all fronts at 11 a.m. Field Marshal Mannerheim’s last Order of the Day to Finnish Army: ‘A severe peace
