Diary September 13, 1916

09-1916, Diary WWI, Year 1916 / 1 minute of reading

Hindenburg, Kaiser, Ludendorff — The Kaiser (center) with Hindenburg (left) and Ludendorff (right) at a briefing at GHQ. The two generals are increasingly taking over also foreign and internal affairs.

Diary for Wednesday, September 13, 1916:

Western Front

Germany: HINDENBURG ACHIEVES DE FACTO COMMAND OF CENTRAL POWERS’ ARMIES. OHL (German Supreme Forces Command) for the purpose becomes OKL (Supreme War Command).
Battle of the Somme: French I Corps advance southeast of Combles; VII Corps repulses heavy counter-attacks at Bouchavesnes.
Verdun: At citadel President Poincare confers Legion of Honour on the fortress ‘against whose walls the highest ambitions of Imperial Germany have broken’; Petain, Joffre, Nivelle and Mangin all present.

Politics

Germany: Kaiser, Hindenburg, Bethmann, Enver and Tsar Ferdinand confer at Pless.

Southern Fronts

Salonika: British 65th Brigade (22nd Division) storms German 59th Regiment’s Machukovo village salient, taking c.70 PoWs and 9 MGs for 586 casualties but loses it again until September 14.

Air War

Adriatic: 22 Italian Caproni bombers with Italian-built Nieuport fighter escort bomb Trieste.

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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.