Diary February 26, 1917

02-1917, Diary WWI, War Diary, Year 1917 / 1 minute of reading

World War One Diary for Monday, February 26, 1917:

Air War

Macedonia: 20 aircraft of KG 1 (transferred from Bucharest) surprise bomb French Gorgop airfield; 8 French aircraft destroyed, 4 damaged. KG 1 later bombs Yanesh airfield (RFC), British dumps and camps (28 casualties).

Middle East

Mesopotamia: British 13th Division belatedly drives Turk rearguard from Sheikh Ja’ad, but 3 Royal Navy gunboats (2 hit) destroy Turk flotilla (4 ships and 1,500 PoWs) and recapture HMS Firefly.

Politics

France: Allied Calais War Conference (February 27) fixes next Western Front offensive.

Neutrals

USA: Wilson asks Congress for power to arm merchant ships (Bill introduced on February 28, but filibustered in Senate to session’s end, March 3).

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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.