Diary February 5, 1915

02-1915, Diary WWI, War Diary, Year 1915 / 1 minute of reading

Diary for Friday, February 5, 1915:

Air War

Western Front: French pilot Pegoud in Morane ‘L’ scores 3 victories in single action: 2 German aircraft shot down, 3rd forced to land. Lieutenants Wadham and Borton of RFC in Morane ‘L’ force down Aviatik with rifle fire near Lille airfield. Some first Vickers FB 5 ‘Gun Bus’ two-seat pusher-engined fighters reach No 5 Sqn RFC.

Western Front

Flanders: Decreased shelling of British center and left (seaward) flank.

Eastern Front

East Prussia: Blizzards until next day. Russians capture – but ignore – documents from dead officer indicating German build-up. Hindenburg opens his headquarter at Insterburg.
Carpathians: Austrian attacks repulsed, the furthest progress made, Brusilov retakes Mezolaborcz rail junction. By February 6, Austrian Third Army had lost 89,000 men.

Home Fronts

Britain: Commons votes Army 3 million men, Navy voted another 32,000 men on February 8.
Austria: Korber (Prime Minister 1900-1904) returns as Finance Minister and Bosnia administrator.

About The Author

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.