Diary May 16, 1917

05-1917, Diary WWI, War Diary, Year 1917 / 1 minute of reading

Lev Davidovich Bronstein, called Trotsky.

World War One Diary for (day), (Datum):

Home Fronts

Russia: Trotsky arrives in Petrograd (from April 3 internment in Canada). Cabinet reshuffle admits 6 Petrograd Soviet Menshevik members.
USA: Aircraft Production Board set up.

Western Front

Artois – Battles of Arras end: BEF has regained 61 sq miles, taken 20,834 PoWs and 252 guns in 38 days. British repulse counter-attacks north of Gavrelle.

Eastern Front

Russia: Kerensky War Minister; he is visited at Petrograd by all the C-in-Cs.
Austria: CoS Arz (to Czernin) believes Russian Army collapse will obviate need for armistice talks.

Sea War

Adriatic: Austrian U-5 mined and sunk off Pola but raised and reused.

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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.