Diary August 13, 1914
World War One Diary for Thursday, August 13, 1914: WESTERN FRONT Belgium: 3 Liege forts surrender to Germans (one blows up) as Austrian 12inch (ca. 30 cm) Skoda howitzers join […]
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Diary August 13, 1944
WW2 War Diary for Sunday, August 13, 1944: WESTERN FRONT Americans reach Argentan. AIR WAR Western Europe: 1,000 Allied heavy bombers attack roads leading to river Seine, from Paris to
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Diary August 12, 1914
World War One Diary for Wednesday, August 12, 1914: SOUTHERN FRONTS AUSTRIAN INVASION OF SERBIA: Advancing across the border into Serbia from the north and northwest, some 200,000 Austro-Hungarian troops
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Diary August 12, 1944
WW2 War Diary for Saturday, August 12, 1944: WESTERN FRONT German 7th Army withdrawing from Mortain-Vire sector towards Argentan and Falaise. PLUTO pipeline in operation between Island of Wight and
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Diary August 11, 1914
World War One Diary for Tuesday, August 11, 1914: WESTERN FRONT Alsace: Germans retake Mulhouse. Belgium: Belgians fight near Tirlemont, St Trond and Diest. SOUTHERN FRONTS Serbia: Austrian 2nd, 5th
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Diary August 11, 1944
WW2 War Diary for Friday, August 11, 1944: WESTERN FRONT Americans capture Angers and Nantes. ITALY German forces evacuate Florence. SEA WAR Germans scuttle 26 warships and 28 merchant vessels
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Diary August 10, 1914
World War One Diary for Monday, August 10, 1914: SEA WAR Mediterranean: The German warships ‘Goeben’ and ‘Breslau’ pass through the Dardanelles seaway and their British pursuers call off the
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Diary August 10, 1944
WW2 War Diary for Thursday, August 10, 1944: NEW GUINEA Japanese withdraw from Aitape sector towards Wewak. AIR WAR: PACIFIC USAAF begins 7 month bombardment of Iwo Jima. MARINAS Americans
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Diary August 9, 1914
World War One Diary for Sunday, August 9, 1914: WESTERN FRONT France: LANDING OF THE BEF. British I and II Corps land at Le Havre and Boulogne (complete on August
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Diary August 9, 1944
WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, August 9, 1944: WESTERN FRONT Americans capture Le Mans. AIR WAR Captain A de Saint-Exupery disappears during reconnaissance mission from Corsica over occupied France; aged
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Diary August 8, 1914
World War One Diary for Saturday, August 8, 1914: WESTERN FRONT France: In accordance with a prewar strategic blueprint for war against Germany known as Plan XVII, France’s Army of
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Diary August 8, 1944
WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, August 8, 1944: WESTERN FRONT Canadians push towards Falaise, supported by 600 US bombers. HOME FRONT: GERMANY FM von Witzleben and 7 other ‘July Plotters’
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Diary August 7, 1944
WW2 War Diary for Monday, Augfust 7, 1944: WESTERN FRONT Panzers counter-attacking east of Avranches are decimated by Allied bombers and rocket-firing Typhoons; but Germans continue attacking. Canadian 1st Army
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Diary August 7, 1914
World War One Diary for Friday, August 7, 1914: SEA WAR Mediterranean: German Vice Admiral Wilhelm von Souchon, pursued by Vice Admiral Sir A. Berkeley-Milne‘s two British battlecruisers, continues to
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Diary August 6, 1914
World War One Diary for Thursday, August 6, 1914: POLITICS: SERBIA The government declares war on Germany. WESTERN FRONT Belgium: General Erich Ludendorff of the German Second Army wins great
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Diary August 6, 1944
WW2 War Diary for Sunday, August 6, 1944: WESTERN FRONT German Panzers counter-attack US forces in Mortain-Vire sector (begins night August 6- 7). AIR WAR: PACIFIC B-24 Liberators bomb Davao
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Diary August 5, 1914
World War One Diary for Wednesday, August 5, 1914: POLITICS: AUSTRIA-HUNGARY Austria-Hungary declares war on Russia at 1200 hours. Austrian Lt Pokorny solves first Russian cryptogram of war. Letter from
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Diary August 5, 1944
WW2 War Diary for Saturday, August 5, 1944: WESTERN FRONT US Armour reaches Redon (Brittany). British capture Villers Bocage. AIR WAR: EUROPE RAF blast open U-boat pens at Brest, using
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Diary August 4, 1914
World War One Diary for Tuesday, August 4, 1914: POLITICS: BRITAIN The government declares war at 2300 hours as the Germans reject the British ultimatum requesting that their troops leave
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Diary August 4, 1944
WW2 War Diary for Friday, August 4, 1944: WESTERN FRONT British 2nd Army tanks reach Villers Bocage, for second time since ‘D-Day’. AIR WAR Gloster Meteor jet fighter in combat
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