Diary April 3, 1918

04-1918, Diary WWI, War Diary, Year 1918 / 1 minute of reading

German and Finnish troops hold a parade in Helsinki.

World War One Diary for Wednesday, April 3, 1918:

Eastern Front

Finland: 9,445 German soldiers with 18 guns and 165 MGs land at Hango (until April 5). Mannerheim’s final assault on Tampere (until April 6).
Ukraine: Germans take Ekaterinoslav, northeast of Odessa.
USSR: All-Russian Bureau of Military Commissars formed, works when military regions created from April 8.

Western Front

Beauvais Conference: Foch further empowered to direct Allied strategy.
Somme: Local fighting in Scarpe and Hebuterne sectors.

Sea War

Baltic: 3 Russian and 7 British submarines blown up outside Helsinki harbour (latter by remaining 26 Royal Navy sailors) to avoid capture (until April 5) together with their mines and torpedoes; crews transferred to Murmansk via Petrograd. Captain Cromie stays behind to continue as Naval attaché and scuttle 3 small British merchantmen (April 9-10) trapped since 1914.

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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.

Eastern Front

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Sea War

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