Diary April 2, 1916
Diary for Sunday, April 2, 1916: Air War Britain: German air ships L14 and L22 bomb Leith and Edinburgh (aiming for Rosyth naval base and Forth Bridge); 37 casualties from […]
War Diary
Diary April 2, 1941
Diary for Wednesday, April 2, 1941: Air War Maiden flight of Heinkel He 280 – world’s first experimental jet fighter – at Rostock, Germany. Blenheim bombers attack shipping off Dutch
Diary April 1, 1916
Diary for Saturday, April 1, 1916: Western Front German Army forms 200 independent MG units (16 guns each), 83 get 18 guns by October 1916. First 10,000 British gas shells
Diary April 1, 1941
Diary for Tuesday, April 1, 1941: Sea War Tankers San Conrado and Hidlefjord bombed and sunk by He 111 bombers in Bristol channel. East Africa British capture Asmara (Eritrea). Occupied
Diary March 31, 1916
Diary for Friday, March 31, 1916: Western Front In April German Army ration strength 6,767,144 soldiers and c.8,000 MGs in service. Verdun: French evacuate Malancourt and also lose ground at
Diary March 31, 1941
Diary for Monday, March 31, 1941: North Africa Rommel breaks through British defences at Mersa Brega, near El Agheila. British withdraw, abandoning 50 armoured cars and 30 light tanks. Sea
Diary March 30, 1916
Diary for Thursday, March 30, 1916: Western Front Verdun: German attacks at Fort Douaumont and Malancourt. France: British GHQ leaves St Omer for Montreuil. Sea War Black Sea: U33 sinks
Diary March 30, 1941
Diary for Sunday, March 30, 1941: Air and Sea War Blockade of Brest: 109 RAF bombers attack Gneisenau and Scharnhorst (night March 30-31) in first of 63 raids on the
Diary March 29, 1916
Diary for Wednesday, March 29, 1916: Home Fronts Russia: Reforming War Minister General Polivanov resigns after Tsarina and Rasputin’s intrigues; General Shuvaev succeeds. Japan: War Minister Lieutenant General Oka resigns,
Diary March 29, 1941
Diary for Saturday, March 29, 1941 East Africa South Africans occupy Diredawa, third city of Ethiopia, with important railway repair shops.
Diary March 28, 1916
Diary for Tuesday, March 28, 1916: Western Front Flanders: Haig writes ‘all reports agree as to the efficiency of the 3-in Stokes mortar’. Eastern Front Galicia: Russian success north of
Diary March 28, 1941
Diary for Friday, March 28, 1941: Sea War BATTLE OF MATAPAN: Italian Fleet is attacked by British torpedo-bombers while returning from unsuccessful sortie into Aegean Sea. Battleship Vittorio Veneto and
Diary March 27, 1916
Diary for Monday, March 27, 1916: Russian Front Western Russia: Front line totally waterlogged, Russian north wing ceases attacks (West Front losses 70,000 men). Western Front Flanders: British 3rd Division
Diary March 27, 1941
Diary for Thursday, March 27, 1941: Politics Yugoslavia: BLOODLESS COUP D’ETAT IN BELGRADE. Pro-Axis Prime Minister Tsvetkovich and Foreign Minister Cincar-Markovich arrested; Air Force CinC, General Simovic, forms all-Party anti-Nazi
Diary March 26, 1916
Diary for Sunday, March 26, 1916: Western Front Flanders: British success at Hohenzollern Redoubt Southern Fronts Carnia: Austrians surprise capture Pal Piccolo, but Italians retake it after four attempts with
Diary March 26, 1941
Diary for Wednesday, March 26, 1941: Sea War Mediterranean: Italian one-man explosive motorboats (barchini esplosivi), launched from destroyers, cripple British cruiser York and sink Norwegian tanker in Suda Bay, Crete
Diary March 25, 1916
Diary for Saturday, March 25, 1916: Air War Western Front: First British aircraft (Bristol Scout) with MG interrupter gear arrives in France. Eastern Front Western Russia: Baluyev’s first vain attack
Diary March 25, 1941
Diary for Tuesday, March 25, 1941: Politics YUGOSLAVIA SIGNS TRIPARTITE PACT in Vienna, allying herself with the Axis Powers. North Africa Marshal Graziani, CinC Italian Armies in Libya and Chief
Diary March 24, 1916
Diary for Friday, March 24, 1916: Sea War Channel: British Folkestone-Dieppe ferry Sussex torpedoed by coastal submarine UB29 (Flanders Flotilla) as suspected troopship, 50 dead, including 3 Americans and Spanish
Diary March 24, 1941
Diary for Monday, March 24, 1941: North Africa ROMMEL OPENS HIS FIRST OFFENSIVE in the Western Desert and captures El Agheila. Sea War Mediterranean: British submarine Rorqual lays mines west
