Diary November 29, 1914
War Diary for Sunday, November 29, 1914: Western Front Somme: French advance around the village of Chaulnes. Argonne: French recapture Bagatelle. Vosges: French repulse attacks at Ban-de-Sapt. Bavarians forming first […]
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Diary November 29, 1939
War Diary for Wednesday, November 29, 1939: Politics Russia severs diplomatic relations with Finland.
Diary November 28, 1914
War Diary for Saturday, November 28, 1914: Western Front Artois: German attacks round Arras. French poet Jean de La Ville de Mirmont killed by landmine explosion at Verreiul, aged 27.
Diary November 28, 1939
War Diary for Tuesday, November 28, 1939: Politics Russia renounces Soviet-Finnish Non-Aggression Pact (signed 1932). Finns inform Moscow that investigations show that Russian artillery fired the 7 shells at Russian
Diary November 28, 1944
War Diary for Tuesday, November 28, 1944: Western Front 3rd US Army (Patton) holds now 42-km wide salient inside West Germany (Saar) – in front of the Siegfried Line. 9th
Diary November 27, 1914
War Diary for Friday, November 27, 1914: Eastern Front Hindenburg promoted to field marshal. Litvinov replaces Rennenkampf in command of Russian First Army due to Lodz fiasco. Western Front Champagne:
Diary November 27, 1944
War Diary for Monday, November 27, 1944: Air War Germany: Very heavy day and night raids on marshalling yards in Western Germany. Freiburg severely damaged in night raid. Pacific: Second
Diary November 27, 1939
War Diary for Monday, November 27, 1939: China Sino-Japanese War: Japanese capture Nanning, important rail head in southwest China. Sea War British Government orders seizure of German exports on the
Diary November 26, 1914
War Diary for Thursday, November 26, 1914: Western Front Flanders: German attack on Yser canal fails. BEF forms Trench Mortar Service (‘The Suicide Club’) near Bethune, 11 men with two
Diary November 26, 1939
War Diary for Sunday, November 26, 1939: Politics ‘Mainila Incident’: Russians accuse Finns of shelling village of Mainila, killing 4 soldiers, and demand immediate withdrawal of Finnish troops from vicinity
Diary November 26, 1944
War Diary for Sunday, November 26, 1944: Air War Germany: 8th USAAF attacks Misburg oil plant (Hanover), Hamm marshalling yards and Bielefeld railway viaduct; claims 138 fighters destroyed for loss
Diary November 25, 1914
War Diary for Wednesday, November 25, 1914: Eastern Front Poland: General Schaffer’s 3 German divisions and 140 guns from XXV Reserve Corps escape encirclement at Lodz, break out northwest through
Diary November 25, 1944
War Diary for Saturday, November 25, 1944: Air War Germany: Massive 8th USAAF raids on Leuna oil plant and Bingen marshalling yards. Britain: V-2 hits crowded Woolworth department store in
Diary November 25, 1939
War Diary for Saturday, November 25, 1939: Sea War Germans lay mines off South West Sweden, inside Swedish territorial waters. Sweden protests on November 27.
Diary November 24, 1944
War Diary for Friday, November 24, 1944: Sea War Atlantic: RCN corvette Shawinigan sunk by German U-boat U-1228 in Cabot Straits (between C. Breton Island and Newfoundland). 91 killed; no
Diary November 24, 1939
War Diary for Friday, November 24, 1939: Home Fronts Germany: Government takes in trust the property and financial interests of Fritz Thyssen. The iron and steel magnate and a key
Diary November 24, 1914
War Diary for Tuesday, November 24, 1914: Air War East Africa: Flt Sub-Lt Cutter, RNAS piloting dilapidated Curtiss flying boat, spots German cruiser Königsberg at secret anchorage 12 miles (ca.
Diary November 23, 1914
War Diary for Monday, November 23, 1914: Eastern Front Poland: Isolated Germans launch breakout against Russian line Rzgov-Koliuszki southeast of Lodz. Night temperature 10 °F. Lechitski’s Russian Ninth Army (14 divisions)
Diary November 23, 1939
War Diary for Thursday, November 23, 1939: Sea War Atlantic: British armed merchant-cruiser Rawalpindi overwhelmed by German battlecruiser Scharnhorst southeast of Iceland (265 dead). Scharnhorst and Gneisenau avoid pursuit and
Diary November 23, 1944
War Diary for Thursday, November 23, 1944: Western Front French and American forces enter Strasbourg. Russian Front Russians take Cop (Slovakia). Sea War Pacific: British Eastern Fleet abolished. Older ships
