Diary November 24, 1916

11-1916, Diary WWI, War Diary, Year 1916 / 1 minute of reading

Originally built by Vickers for the Russian army, the Maxim machine-gun was soon being manufactured in the Imperial Arsenal of Tula, mainly unchanged until 1943.

World War One Diary for Friday, November 24, 1916:

Home Fronts

Britain: Death of Sir Hiram Maxim, 1889 inventor of modern machine gun, aged 76, London.

Air War

Germany: 9 RNAS bombers raid Dillingen air works and shoot down a German fighter near Trier (and on December 27).
Arabia – First bombing of Hejaz Railway: 2 RFC Martinsydes from Sinai cause only slight damage to targets north of Maan.

Politics

Russia: Prime Minster and Foreign Minister Stuermer resigns. Trepov succeeds.

Neutrals

Greece: Admiral Fournet demands 10 mountain batteries by December 1, sees King on November 26.

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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.