Diary October 6, 1918

10-1918, Diary WWI, War Diary, Year 1918 / 1 minute of reading

Two of the last wounded Allied soldiers are evacuated on horse-carts in Syria or Palestine.

World War One Diary for Sunday, October 6, 1918:

Middle East

Syria: DMC occupies Rayak and Zahle (177 PoWs), 30 burnt planes at former.

Eastern Front

USSR: British Petrograd officials reach Swedish border.
Southern Russia: Trotsky recalls Stalin from Tsaritsyn to Moscow (until October 11), returns till October 19.

Air War

Western Front: US airmen Bleckley and Foettler posthumously awarded CMH (US Congress Medal of Honor) for suicidal supply-dropping mission to ‘Lost Battalion’ at Binarville on October 2, 1918.

Home Fronts

India: Record of 768 flu deaths in Bombay on this day.

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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.