Diary December 26, 1917

12-1917, Diary WWI, War Diary, Year 1917 / 1 minute of reading

An Austro-Hungarian Brandenburg D.I before take-off, built by the Phoenix Works in Vienna.

World War One Diary for Wednesday, December 26, 1917:

Air War

Italy: Large air battle 18 miles north of Venice, 9 of 30-40 Austrian aircraft shot down bombing Istrana airfield (RFC hangars suffer minor damage, 2 Italian aircraft destroyed). Raids repeated nights December 29-30 and 30-31.

Eastern Front

Bolsheviks break off Brest-Litovsk talks when Germans say Poland and Baltic States will become independent.

Politics

Germany: Ukraine tells Berlin she wants separate status at Brest-Litovsk peace talks.

Africa

Jubaland: 502 King’s African Rifles and levies disperse Aulyehan at Hagagabli, capture 1,233 camels. By February 20, 1918 fines, 402 rifles and chiefs collected excluding the leader.

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Kretaner

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.