Diary May 11, 1918

05-1918, Diary WWI, War Diary, Year 1918 / 1 minute of reading

submarine cruiser 'U-154' — The submarine cruiser ‘U-154’ was originally designed as a transport submarine and received later torpedo tubes and two 15-cm and two 8.8-cm guns.

World War One Diary for Saturday, May 11, 1918:

Sea War

Eastern Atlantic: Royal Navy submarine E35 torpedoes and sinks U-154, 150 miles off Cape St Vincent.

Middle East

Hejaz Railway: Arab regulars (+ 3 RAF planes) capture Jerdun Station with 140 PoWs, but another attack cut short by Turk train arriving on May 17. Nasir destroys 2 stations to north (May 23-24) without loss. Partial Arab success against bridges 80 miles northwest of Medina on May 23.
Persia: Dunsterville cables Baghdad that Baku’s seizure possible, leaves Hamadan for Kazvin and Tehran visits (May 12-18).
Armenia: Peace Conference resumes at Batumi, Turk delegates arrive (May 6) and demand Aleksandropol’s evacuation within 24 hours (May 14). Ludendorff gets Chancellor’s agreement to sending a few battalions from Crimea to Caucasus.

Air War

Western Front: First ‘Liberty Plane’ (US-built DH4) reaches AEF.
Adriatic: First of 12 RAF raids on Cattaro (only 4 Austrian Phoenix fighters, Italians bomb on May 12) and 7 on Durrazo (until August 31). U-boat Commander at former requests 2 squadrons of German fighters.

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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.

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