Diary July 8, 1918

07-1918, Diary WWI, War Diary, Year 1918 / 1 minute of reading

Ernest Hemingway in the hospital in Milan.

World War One Diary for Monday, July 8, 1918:

Southern Fronts

Piave: First American wounded in Italy is 18-year-old American Red Cross canteen driver Ernest Hemingway severely wounded at Fossalta di Piave with Arditi by Austrian heavy mortar; he receives Croce de Guerra and is hospitalized at Milan.

Western Front

Aisne: French advance east of Viliers-Collerets, taking 346 PoWs.
Flanders: British X Corps relieves last French corps.

Eastern Front

USSR: Left Socialist Revolutionary’s in Moscow disarmed by Colonel Vatsetis’ loyal Red Latvian riflemen whom Lenin visits after Red Guards mistakenly fire at his car.

Sea War

Adriatic: British monitors give gunfire support to FrancoItalian advances in south Albania.
Black Sea: German naval staff meeting has acute problems trying to crew ex-Russian Fleet. Ludendorff opposes any gifts to Ukraine or Bulgaria (July 10); gets Kaiser approval (July 12) to put 1 dreadnought, 5 destroyers and submarines into German service.

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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.