World War One Diary for Sunday, April 20, 1919: Ukraine: Red First Army surrenders to Ukrainians. France – Peace Process: Zaghlul Pasha, Egyptian nationalist, arrives in Paris. Montenegro: Skupshtina assembly […]
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WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, April 19, 1944: Sea War Indian Ocean: British Eastern Fleet planes attack Sabang harbour and airfields (Sumatra). Black Sea: Red fleet bombards Sebastopol. Air War
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World War One Diary for Saturday, April 19, 1919: Germany: General Robertson arrives at Cologne, relieves Plumer on April 22 as C-in-C, Rhine. France – Peace Process: Wilson refuses to
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WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, April 18, 1944: Eastern Front Southern Sector: 4th UF besieges Sebastopol. Panzers and Hungarian troops, with air support, begin series of counter-attacks between rivers Dniester
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World War One Diary for Friday, April 18, 1919: Western Russia: Poles invade, take Lida, then Vilna and Baronivichi (April 19). France – Peace Process: German Armistice Commission invited to
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WW2 War Diary for Monday, April 17, 1944: Air War Eastern Europe: B-17 Fortress and B-24 Liberator bombers attack Belgrade and Sofia. Sea War Channel and North Sea: 7,000 mines
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World War One Diary for Thursday, April 17, 1919: Russia: Allies refuse Dr Nansen’s food offer to Russia unless fighting ceases. North Russia: General Maynard’s Whites rout Reds at Lake
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WW2 War Diary for Sunday, April 16, 1944: Occupied Territories Hungary: Eichmann begins systematic concentration of 800,000 Hungarian Jews in ghettos prior to their deportation to Auschwitz. Concentration phase completed
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World War One Diary for Wednesday, April 16, 1919: Germany – Bavaria: ‘Red Victory of Dachau’; battalion of new Bavarian Red Army (c.20,000 strong) captures Dachau, northwest of Munich, routing
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WW2 War Diary for Saturday, April 15, 1944: Air War Southeast Europe: 15th US Air Force sends 500 sorties to Bucharest and Ploesti.
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World War One Diary for Tuesday, April 15, 1919: Siberia: Around this date White military control extended to railways and towns, but official in command of Urals industry resigns because
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WW2 War Diary for Friday, April 14, 1944: Eastern Front Southern Sector: 1st and 2nd UFs capture Tarnopol (southeast of Lvov) and reach the Carpathians – driving massive wedge between
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World War One Diary for Monday, April 14, 1919: Rumania: The country adopts the Gregorian calendar. Britain: Trade allowed with Yugoslavia, Montenegro, Albania, Latvia and Lithuania.
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WW2 War Diary for Thursday, April 13, 1944 Air War Western Europe: US and British TAFs carry out heavy attacks on German coastal batteries in Normandy. Germany: 2,000 USAAF bombers
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World War One Diary for Sunday, April 13, 1919: India: Amritsar Massacre; martial law declared (April 15 – June 9).
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WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, April 12, 1944: Eastern Front Southern Sector: 3rd Ukrainian Front captures Tirasapol, 97 km northwest of Odessa. Occupied Territories Italy: King Victor Emmanuel announces his
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World War One Diary for Saturday, April 12, 1919: South Russia: Reds occupy Yalta and Zhitomir. Churchill enlarging British Military Mission to Denikin to 1,500 men (340 already sailed). Siberia:
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WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, April 11, 1944: Home Fronts Southern Sector: Russians advance on Simferopol (Crimea). Air War Western Europe: 6 RAF de Havilland Mosquito bombers destroy Central Population
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World War One Diary for Friday, April 11, 1919: Switzerland: Emperor Charles writes to King George V thanking him for help; moves to Villa Prangins, Lake Geneva in May. France
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WW2 War Diary for Monday, April 10, 1944: Eastern Front Southern Sector: ODESSA CAPTURED by Russian 3rd Ukrainian Front and Partisans. Sea War Atlantic: U-boats U-515 and U-68 sunk by
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