Air War
Germany: 250 RAF bombers attacking Duisburg and dropping 577t of bombs.
Home Fronts
India: Ban on Communist Party lifted.
Diary for Tuesday, July 17, 1945: Politics POTSDAM CONFERENCE (‘Terminal’) opens: Churchill, Attlee, Truman and Stalin confer near Berlin. Sea War Pacific: First joint US-British…
Diary for Saturday, July 17, 1915: Eastern Front Russian Corps report: ‘Superhuman efforts were required to keep the men in the trenches’. Middle East Gallipoli…
Diary for Wednesday, July 17, 1940: Politics Britain agrees (under severe Japanese diplomatic pressure) to close the Burma Road – a vital supply route for…