Diary August 25, 1914
World War One Diary for Tuesday, August 25, 1914: WESTERN FRONT France: The British Expeditionary Force continues to retreat southward across northeast France, fighting almost continuous rearguard actions against General […]
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Diary August 24, 1914
World War One Diary for Monday, August 24, 1914: EASTERN FRONT Galicia: While the Germans are preparing to take on the Russians in East Prussia, their Austro-Hungarian allies launch an
Diary August 24, 1944
WW2 War Diary for Thursday, August 24, 1944: WESTERN FRONT French 2nd Armored Division enters Paris. Allied forces take Cannes. HOME FRONTS Germany: All theaters, music-halls and cabarets to be
Diary August 23, 1914
World War One Diary for Sunday, August 23, 1914: WESTERN FRONT Belgium – Battle of Mons: At Mons, in the final of the encounter of the Battle of the Frontiers,
Diary August 23, 1944
WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, August 23, 1944: WESTERN FRONT Allied forces capture Evreux (Normandy), Melun (southeast of Paris) and Marseilles; Americans reach Grenoble. Eisenhower vetoes Montgomery’s plan for bold
Diary August 22, 1914
Diary for Saturday, August 22, 1914: WESTERN FRONT Belgium: North of the Ardennes three German armies are continuing to sweep through western Belgium and are beginning to advance to the
Diary August 22, 1944
WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, August 22, 1944: WESTERN FRONT Americans capture Sens, southeast of Paris. ITALY Polish and Italian Co-Belligerent forces of British Eight Army reach Metauro river, 48
Diary August 21, 1914
World War One Diary for Friday, August 21, 1914: WESTERN FRONT Belgium: BATTLE OF CHARLEROI (until August 23) along river Sambre. Bülow forces river and smash 6 French divisions counterattacks
Diary August 21, 1944
WW2 War Diary for Monday, August 21, 1944: RUSSIAN FRONT Germans retreat towards river Pruth in East Romania. WESTERN FRONT Allied forces cross the Seine, north and south of Paris.
Diary August 20, 1944
WW2 War Diary for Sunday, August 20, 1944: RUSSIAN FRONT 2nd and 3rd Ukrainian Fronts attack German-Romanian Army Group South; Romanian 3rd Army broken. SEA WAR German heavy cruiser Prinz
Diary August 20, 1914
World War One Diary for Thursday, August 20, 1914: WESTERN FRONT Belgium: German forces occupy Brussels, the Belgian capital. Belgian Army withdraws into Antwerp fortress. von Kluck decides to send
Diary August 19, 1914
World War One Diary for Wednesday, August 19, 1914: SOUTHERN FRONTS Serbia: Battle of the Cer – decisive day. Serb Second Army captures whole ridge as 1st Sumadija Division engages
Diary August 19, 1944
WW2 War Diary for Saturday, August 19, 1944: OCCUPIED FRANCE UPRISING IN PARIS by FFI (Resistance). Vichy Government flees to Belfort. Petain arrested and taken to Germany. HOME FRONTS Britain:
Diary August 18, 1914
World War One Diary for Tuesday, August 18, 1914: WESTERN FRONT Belgium: King Albert orders the Belgian Army, some 75,000 men, to retreat to the port of Antwerp, which has
Diary August 18, 1944
WW2 War Diary for Friday, August 18, 1944: WESTERN FRONT Germans retreating through ‘Falaise Gap‘ are decimated by Allied Air Forces. SEA WAR Pacific: Japanese carrier Taiyo sunk by US
Diary August 17, 1944
WW2 War Diary for Thursday, August 17, 1944: WESTERN FRONT FALAISE CAPTURED by British-Canadian forces; Americans take Dreux, Chartres, Chateaudun and Orleans. RUSSIAN FRONT Russian guns bombard German territory –
Diary August 17, 1914
World War One Diary for Monday, August 17, 1914: EASTERN FRONT East Prussia: Two Russian forces, the First Army under General Pavel Rennenkampf and General Alexander Samsonov‘s Second Army, invade
Diary August 16, 1914
World War One Diary for Sunday, August 16, 1914: HOME FRONTS Germany: Austrian-born Adolf Hitler volunteers to fight with the German Army. He will serve throughout the conflict on the
Diary August 16, 1944
WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, August 16, 1944: WESTERN FRONT Allied seaborne and airborne forces link up in southern France. AIR WAR Europe: Me 163 rocket fighters intercept B-17 Fortress
Diary August 15, 1944
WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, August 15, 1944: SEA AND AIR WAR Operation Anvil, later Dragoon: ALLIED 7TH ARMY LANDS IN SOUTHERN FRANCE between Nice and Toulon; airborne forces land
