Diary January 2, 1918

01-1918, Diary WWI, War Diary, Year 1918 / 1 minute of reading

Stars and Stripes: In the US war loans are provided.

World War One Diary for Wednesday, December 2, 1917:

Politics

USA: War Mission in Europe urges speedy troop dispatch and merchant ship building; first 100 of 1,500 US farm tractors en route to France.

Home Fronts

USA: Outlook magazine article denounces anti-German hysteria especially forced flag kissing.
Britain: King gives Haig his Field Marshal’s baton at Buckingham Palace, latter urges clear war aims be announced to BEF.
Germany: Ludendorff and Hoffmann (effective Eastern Front commander as CoS) part company over latter’s plan to retain only small part of Poland.

Eastern Front

Brest-Litovsk: Bolsheviks denounce terms as ‘annexationists’. All-Russian Board formed for organizing Red Army. Kaiser in Berlin discusses new Russian frontier with Hindenburg and Ludendorff.

Air War

Britain: Air Ministry established. In January Royal Flying Corps stops enlisting American citizens.

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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.