Diary December 20, 1914
War Diary World War One for Sunday, December 20, 1914: Secret War Western Front: 21 of 28 carrier pigeons sent from BEF GHQ to Belgium since November 2 have returned. […]
Diary December 20, 1944
War Diary WW2 for December 20, 1944: Western Front German Panzers reach Noville, north of Bastogne and Stavelot, north of St. Vith.
Diary December 20, 1939
War Diary WW2 for Wednesday, December 20, 1939: Secret War British expert examines radar equipment on board the wreck of German pocket-battleship Admiral Graf Spee.
Diary December 19, 1914
War Diary World War One for Saturday, December 19, 1914: Western Front Flanders: Indian Corps (1,672 casualties) heavily engaged by German counter-attack with mining near Cuinchy and Givenchy until next
Diary December 19, 1944
War Diary WW2 for Tuesday, December 19, 1944: Western Front Montgomery to command all Allied forces north of the ‘Bulge’, including US 1st and 9th Armies; Bradley to command US
Diary December 19, 1939
War Diary WW2 for Tuesday, December 19, 1939: Politics Fourth meeting of Allied Supreme War Council in Paris.
Diary December 18, 1914
War Diary World War One for Friday, December 18, 1914: Western Front First German trench mortar unit formed (6 light mortars per pioneer company from January 1915). Flanders: British 7th
Diary December 18, 1944
War Diary WW2 for Monday, December 18, 1944: Air War Europe: RAF night bombers sink old battleship Schleswig-Holstein and 8 other ships at Gotenhafen (Gdynia). Pacific: B-29 Superfortress bomb Mitsubishi
Diary December 18, 1939
War Diary WW2 for Monday, December 18, 1939: Air War Battle of the Heligoland Bight: 50 Me 109s and Me 110s destroy 12 of 22 Wellington bombers despatched on armed
Albatros B
German two-seat reconnaissance planes Albatros B types of World War One. History, development, service, specifications, pictures and model. German Two-seat reconnaissance plane Albatros B.I, B.II, B.III Albatros B.I, B.II, B.III
Diary December 17, 1944
War Diary WW2 for Sunday, December 17, 1944: Western Front Germans capture 9,000 Americans at Echternach, on extreme left flank of the ‘Bulge’. THE MALMEDY MASSACRE: Waffen-SS soldiers murder at
Diary December 17, 1914
War Diary World War One for Thursday, December 17, 1914: Home Fronts Britain: Coast property war insurance rates raised after Hartlepool raid. Western Front Artois – First Battle of Artois
Diary December 17, 1939
War Diary WW2 for Sunday, December 17, 1939: Sea War Atlantic: ADMIRAL GRAF SPEE SCUTTLED in River Plate Estuary; her wreck burns for a week. Later the British bought the
9th SS-Panzer-Division Hohenstaufen
Creation and Campaigns of the 9th SS-Panzer-Division Hohenstaufen. Designations, commanders, formation in 1943, first action Russia in spring 1944 and in Normandy from June. The history of the 9th SS-Panzer-Division
Diary December 16, 1944
War Diary WW2 for Saturday, December 16, 1944: Western Front BATTLE OF THE BULGE: Rundstedt and Model, under Hitler‘s direct command, launch surprise counter-offensive into the Ardennes on weakest sector
Diary December 16, 1939
War Diary WW2 for Saturday, December 16, 1939: Finland Winter War – First Battle of Summa: waves of Russian infantry and tanks, with air support, attempt to overrun the Summa
Diary December 16, 1914
War Diary World War One for Wednesday, December 16, 1914: Sea War North Sea: 100 mines laid off by cruiser Kolberg near Scarborough. 20 of them swept on December 19,
Diary December 15, 1914
War Diary World War One for Tuesday, December 15, 1914: Southern Fronts Serbia: Serb patrols reoccupy Belgrade at 1000 hours and gunners hit Austrian pontoon bridge. END OF THIRD AUSTRIAN
Diary December 15, 1939
War Diary WW2 for Friday, December 15, 1939: Finland Winter War – Battle of Suomussalmi: Finns destroy 163rd (Tula) Division and 44th motorized Division in the ‘Waist’. Russian losses: 6,000-plus
Diary December 15, 1944
War Diary WW2 for Friday, December 15, 1944: Air War Europe: Lancaster bombers escorted by Spitfires drop 12,000-lb. bombs on E-boat pens at Ijmuiden (Holland). Western Front 7th US Army
