Diary January 7, 1944
WW2 War Diary for Friday, January 7, 1944: Eastern Front Southern Sector: Koniev’s 2nd UF breaks through in Kirovograd sector – creating a ‘bulge’ 40 km deep by 97 km […]
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Diary January 7, 1919
World War One Diary for Tuesday, January 7, 1919: France: US President Wilson arrives in Paris. Russia: British force sent to Caucasus. Siberia: 1/9th Hampshire Regiment (1,023 men) relieves 25th
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Diary January 6, 1944
WW2 War Diary for Thursday, January 6, 1944: Eastern Front Southern Sector: Rokitno (East Poland) captured by Russians. Air War Britain/USA: Joint RAF-USAAF statement discloses the hitherto secret development of
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Diary January 6, 1919
World War One Diary for Monday, January 6, 1919: Germany: SPD politician Gustav Noske made C-in-C Berlin garrison, he encourages the formation of 28 Freikorps nationwide by end January. Yugoslavia:
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Diary January 5, 1919
World War One Diary for Sunday, January 5, 1919: Germany: Spartacist revolutionary workers rise vs Government which they declare deposed at Berlin; 700,000 said to be in protest demo over
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Diary January 5, 1944
WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, January 5, 1944: Eastern Front Southern Sector: Russian 2nd UF drives salient into German lines at Kirovograd, south of Kiev (January 5-8). Mediterranean Italy: Lieutenant-General
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Diary January 4, 1944
WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, January 4, 1944: Eastern Front Southern Sector: Red Army cross Polish frontier near Olevsk; Byelaya Tserkov, 64 km southwest of Kiev, captured. Mediterranean Italy: 5th
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Diary January 4, 1919
World War One Diary for Saturday, January 4, 1919: Baltic States: 2 Royal Navy cruisers and 1 destroyer help Estonian Army smash Red Seventh Army. Estonia appeals arms from Britain
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Diary January 3, 1944
WW2 War Diary for Monday, January 3, 1944: Eastern Front Southern Sector: Red Army now 15 miles (24 km) from old Polish frontier. Air War Germany: 311 RAF bombers attacking
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Diary January 3, 1919
World War One Diary for Friday, January 3, 1919: Britain: Feisal-Weizmann Agreement in London (T E Lawrence present) welcomes Jewish settlement in Palestine. 19,000 soldiers protest at Folkestone over slow
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Diary January 2, 1944
WW2 War Diary for Sunday, January 2, 1944: Air War Pacific: First of 14 Allied bombing raids on airfields and shipping at Rabaul during the month. Germany: 386 RAF bombers
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Diary January 2, 1919
World War One Diary for Thursday, January 2, 1919: Russia: Reds advance on Reval and Riga; Ukraine fighting; White offensive in Caucasus. Danube: Czechs fight Hungarians at Pressburg. Britain: Trenchard
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Diary January 1, 1944
WW2 War Diary for Saturday, January 1, 1944: Air War Germany: RAF raids Berlin on six nights in January. Eastern Front Southern Sector: Russians capture Belokovorichi, only 43 km east
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Diary January 1, 1919
World War One Diary for Wednesday, January 1, 1919: Russia: According to its C-in-C Red Army has 600,000 rifles for 788,000 men; 8,000 MGs and 1,700 field guns in January.
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Diary December 31, 1943
WW2 War Diary for Friday, December 31, 1943: Eastern Front Southern Sector: Russians storm Zhitomir – routing German garrison – and sweep westwards towards pre-war Polish frontier. Home Fronts USA:
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Diary December 31, 1918
World War One Diary for Tuesday, December 31, 1918: Home Fronts Germany: Vorwaerts publishes draft German constitution. Landsturm demobilized and dissolved. USA: War Industries and Railroad Board dissolved. Britain: 288,438
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Diary December 30, 1943
WW2 War Diary for Thursday, December 30, 1943: Sea War North Sea: Battleships HMS Queen Elizabeth, Valiant, Renown and aircraft carriers Illustrious and Unicorn leave Scapa Flow and the Clyde
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Diary December 30, 1918
World War One Diary for Monday, December 30, 1918: Home Fronts Germany: German Communist Party founded. Eastern Front North Russia: Allies take Kadish. Siberia: Kolchak takes Birsk. Politics Britain: Wilson
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Diary December 29, 1943
WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, December 29, 1943: Eastern Front Southern Sector: New Russian offensive under way in Dnieper Bend, west of Zaporozhe.
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Diary December 29, 1918
World War One Diary for Sunday, December 29, 1918: Home Fronts Germany: Majority Socialist demo in Berlin vs Spartacists, but 3 Independent Socialists leave Government. France: Liberated Districts Ministry formed.
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