Diary October 15, 1916

10-1916, Diary WWI, War Diary, Year 1916 / 1 minute of reading

A burning planes goes down after an air combat over the Western Front.

World War One Diary for Sunday, October 15, 1916:

Air War

Western Front: Lieutenant N Prince (5 victories), American creator of Esc Lafayette, dies of wounds.
Somme: 333 German aircraft support First Army against 293 aircraft of RFC (Western Front totals RFC 563, German c. 885 of which 451 against the French).

Western Front

Battle of the Somme: German gains near Schwaben Redoubt and Thiepval. Rawlinson inspects Longueval, Delville Wood and High Wood and discerns stiffening German resistance. In the south of the battlefield General Micheler (French Tenth Army) complains of being starved of reserves and ‘reduced to the role of a watchdog for Fayolle’ (Sixth Army).

Eastern Front

Russia: Alexeiev reports to Tsar only 1.4m reserves after November 1, ie under 5 months supply.
Brusilov offensive, Galicia: Südarmee’s Battle of Lower Narajowka (until October 22).
Rumania: General Berthelot arrives at Bucharest (French Military Mission left Paris October 1, eventually 1,200 strong); having seen Alexeiev (October 11) at Mogilev who urges Rumanians to hold river Sereth not the Carpathians.

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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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