Diary February 28, 1915
Diary for Sunday, February 28, 1915: Air War Britain: Admiral Fisher demands small non-rigid airships with ‘good turn of speed’ for anti-submarine duties. Within 21 days prototype SS (Sea Scouts) […]
War Diary
Diary February 27, 1915
Diary for Saturday, February 27, 1915: Western Front Champagne: Beausejour captured by French but only 1,000 German PoWs taken since February 16. Flanders: First Territorial division joins BEF, 46th (North
Diary February 27, 1940
Diary for Tuesday, February 27, 1940: Finland Winter War: Finns begin to withdraw to rear positions of Mannerheim Line.
Diary February 27, 1945
Diary for Tuesday, February 27, 1945: Russian Front Rokossovsky drives into Pomerania. Politics French-occupied Lebanon declares war on Germany and Japan.
Diary February 26, 1915
Diary for Friday, February 26, 1915: Western Front Meuse – First use of flamethrowers: 12 flamethrowers of Abteilung Reddemann support attacking infantry in Bois de Malancourt northeast of Verdun, first
Diary February 26, 1940
Diary for Monday, February 26, 1940: Finland Winter War: Finns announce evacuation of Koivisto coastal fortress, on right flank of Mannerheim Line. Sea War Atlantic: Liner Queen Elizabeth (83,700 tons)
Diary February 26, 1945
Diary for Monday, February 26, 1945: Air War Germany: 8th USAAF carries out 3,000 t. raid with 1,112 bombers on Berlin; 1/2 Million incendiaries dropped. Main targets: 3 railway stations
Diary February 25, 1915
Diary for Thursday, February 25, 1915: Sea War Dardanelles: Super-Dreadnought Queen Elizabeth (8 x 15-in guns) in first action joins 7 Anglo-French battleships in silencing outer forts. Battleship Agamemnon (hit
Diary February 25, 1940
Diary for Sunday, February 25, 1940: Air War First squadron of Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) reaches Britain.
Diary February 25, 1945
Diary for Sunday, February 25, 1945: Western Front 1st and 9th US Armies break German defenses at river Roer west of Cologne, capturing Düren and Jülich.
Diary February 24, 1940
Diary for Saturday, February 24, 1940: Western Front MANSTEIN PLAN ADOPTED by German Army High Command. Hitler accepts proposal by General von Manstein – backed by Generals von Rundstedt and
Diary February 24, 1915
Diary for Wednesday, February 24, 1915: Eastern Front Germans cross river Niemen near Sventsiansk. Western Front Meuse: French artillery in successful counter-battery operations. Fighting at Les Eparges. Sea War Adriatic:
Diary February 24, 1945
Diary for Saturday, February 24, 1945: Philippines Americans crush desperate Japanese resistance in the Intramuros old walled quarter of Manila. Air War Germany: Colonel Ivan Kojedub, top scoring Russian (and
Diary February 23, 1940
Diary for Friday, February 23, 1940: Home Fronts Britain: 700 officers and men of cruisers Ajax and Exeter march through cheering crowds to London’s Guildhall to celebrate River Plate Battle
Diary February 23, 1915
Diary for Tuesday, February 23, 1915: Western Front Flanders: Field Marshal French refuses to relieve 2 French corps north of Ypres due to 29th Divisions going to Salonika, Joffre replies
Diary February 23, 1945
Diary for Friday, February 23, 1945: Pacific Iwo Jima: Marines take Mt Suribachi. Hoisting of US flag captured in classic photograph by Joe Rosenthal. Russian Front Poland – Siege of
Diary February 22, 1915
Diary Monday, February 22, 1915: Eastern Front East Prussia – Winter Battle of Masuria ends: Germans claim 100,000 PoWs and 300 captured guns until February 23. First Battle of Przasnysz:
Diary February 22, 1940
Diary for Thursday, February 22, 1940: Neutrals Tibet: six-year-old Dalai Lama, Jampel Ngawang Lobsang Yishey Tenzing Gyatso (‘Tender Glory, Mighty in Speech, Excellent Intellect, Absolute Wisdom, Holding to the Doctrine,
Diary February 22, 1945
Diary for Thursday, February 22, 1945: Air War Europe – OPERATION CLARION: 9,000 Allied bombers and fighters from bases in England, France, Belgium, Holland and Italy attack rail and road
Diary February 21, 1915
Diary for Sunday, February 21, 1915: Home Fronts Britain: Cabinet Munitions Production Committee formed. Western Front Champagne: French progress near Perthes. Vosges: Huchrod and Strossweiler taken by Germans, but French
