Diary April 3, 1917

04-1917, Diary WWI, War Diary, Year 1917 / 1 minute of reading

German Lieutenant Emil Meinecke poses beside his Halberstadt fighter after a hard air combat with British aircraft in the Middle East. Meinecke was flying for the Turks.

World War One Diary for Tuesday, April 3, 1917:

Air War

Mesopotamia: Royal Flying Corps BE2c damaged by German Fokker E (9 aircraft newly arrived). Another BE2c (flown since November 1915) shot down by Halberstadt fighter over Samarra (April 15), but RFC new Bristol Scout destroys a Halberstadt on April 22.

Western Front

France: GQG moves north from Beauvais to Compiegne.
Somme: French occupy 7 villages south and southwest of St Quentin (until March 4).

Eastern Front

Pripet: Linsingen’s Germans cross river Stokhod, take 10,000 PoWs in Russian Tobol bridgehead.

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My name is Norman 'Kretaner' and since my childhood I am interested in history and strategy games. Later, I have learned programming and the development of computer games, and finally with the Internet, also web design. I'm in the fortunate position to combine all my interests with my work and to live on a place of my choice, on Crete. All information, figures, specifications and statistics used here had been compiled from a variety of sources and the large, over decades collected, library of the author about military history, WW2 and weapons.

Air War

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