Diary June 23, 1918

06-1918, Diary WWI, War Diary, Year 1918 / 1 minute of reading

The German light tank LK II with 5.7 cm (2.24in) gun. The characteristics of a captured British Whippet tank were built into a modified chassis, but until the armistice only prototypes were ready.

World War One Diary for Sunday, June 23, 1918:

Home Fronts

Germany: 580 LK II light tanks ordered from Daimler, none ever delivered before armistice.

Eastern Front

North Russia: British ‘Syren’ and ‘Elope’ forces (600 men under Major-General Maynard) join North Russian Expedition Force at Murmansk; Maynard and 30 men head down Murmansk Railway (June 27), seize it to Soroka (June 29-30) sending back 3 Red troop trains.
Volga: Civilian Voroshilov put in command of 1,000-strong Red Tsaritsyn Group (probably by Stalin).
Siberia: White Provisional Siberian Government formed at Omsk, general mobilization soon proclaimed.

Southern Fronts

Piave: Italian Eighth Army reoccupies Nervesa at 1300 hours and then whole of Montello; Third Army captures 2,000 PoWs in Candelu-Zenson sector (Middle Piave).

Air War

Italian Front: First capture of intact Austrian Berg D I fighter (best indigenous Austrian combat type), forced to land at Treviso by Italian fighters. Up to 50 RAF aircraft help harry Austrian retreat.

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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.