Diary November 24, 1939
War Diary for Friday, November 24, 1939: Home Fronts Germany: Government takes in trust the property and financial interests of Fritz Thyssen. The iron and steel magnate and a key
Diary November 24, 1914
War Diary for Tuesday, November 24, 1914: Air War East Africa: Flt Sub-Lt Cutter, RNAS piloting dilapidated Curtiss flying boat, spots German cruiser Königsberg at secret anchorage 12 miles (ca.
Diary November 23, 1914
War Diary for Monday, November 23, 1914: Eastern Front Poland: Isolated Germans launch breakout against Russian line Rzgov-Koliuszki southeast of Lodz. Night temperature 10 °F. Lechitski’s Russian Ninth Army (14 divisions)
Diary November 23, 1939
War Diary for Thursday, November 23, 1939: Sea War Atlantic: British armed merchant-cruiser Rawalpindi overwhelmed by German battlecruiser Scharnhorst southeast of Iceland (265 dead). Scharnhorst and Gneisenau avoid pursuit and
Diary November 23, 1944
War Diary for Thursday, November 23, 1944: Western Front French and American forces enter Strasbourg. Russian Front Russians take Cop (Slovakia). Sea War Pacific: British Eastern Fleet abolished. Older ships
Diary November 22, 1939
War Diary for Wednesday, November 22, 1939: Sea War Royal Navy experts defuse German magnetic mine dropped on Shoeburyness mud flats off coast of Essex. After examining its mechanism, they
Diary November 22, 1914
War Diary for Sunday, November 22, 1914: Air War Western Front: Lieutenant A Strange and F G Small of No 5 Squadron return from a reconnaissance mission in an Avro
Diary November 22, 1944
War Diary for Wednesday, November 22, 1944: Western Front Americans secure Metz. US 1st and 9th Armies capture Eschweiler. Air War Germany: 237 RAF bombers attacking Aschaffenburg and dropping 1,360
Diary November 21, 1939
War Diary for Tuesday, November 21, 1939: Sea War Atlantic: German battlecruisers Gneisenau and Scharnhorst despatched into North Atlantic. Mine victims off British East Coast include new cruiser HMS Belfast
Diary November 21, 1914
War Diary of World War One for Saturday, November 21, 1914: Air War Germany – First British long-range bombing raid: 3 Avro 504s of RNAS (Sqn Cdr Featherstone-Briggs, Flt Cdr
Diary November 21, 1944
War Diary for Tuesday, November 21, 1944: Sea War Pacific: Japanese Battleship Kongo sunk by US submarine Sealion II, near Formosa. Air War Germany: 247 RAF night bombers breach Dortmund-Ems
Diary November 20, 1939
War Diary for Monday, November 20, 1939: Sea War German seaplanes begin dropping the new magnetic mines in British East Coast shipping lanes (night 20-21).
Diary November 20, 1944
War Diary for Monday, November 20, 1944: Western Front Tanks of French 1st Army drive through Belfort Gap and reach upper Rhine. Sea War Pacific: Kaiten ‘suicide torpedo’ sinks US
Diary November 20, 1914
War Diary of World War One for Friday, November 20, 1914: Eastern Front Captured documents tell Russians Germans reading their cipher so key changed, but Austrian Captain Pokorny solves again
Diary November 19, 1914
War Diary of World War One for Thursday, November 19, 1914: Eastern Front South Poland: Austrian Second Army storms Mykanow and Klekoty but blocked by Russian Fourth Army. Conrad complains
Diary November 19, 1939
War Diary for Sunday, November 19, 1939: Occupied countries Poland: Germans erect barricades round Jewish quarter of Warsaw.
Diary November 19, 1944
War Diary for Sunday, November 19, 1944: Western Front British and US troops capture Geilenkirchen, north of Aachen. Occupied countries Albania: Hodja’s Partisans liberate Tirana. Home Fronts USA: Cost of
Diary November 18, 1914
War Diary of World War One for Wednesday, November 18, 1914: Eastern Front East Prussia: Russians beaten at Soldau. Poland: Russians retreat on Lowicz, 150,000 men near Lodz encircled on
Diary November 18, 1944
War Diary for Saturday, November 18, 1944: Air War Germany: 291 RAF bombers attacking Münster and dropping 1,694 t of bombs. Home Fronts USA: Cost of living has risen 29%
Diary November 18, 1939
War Diary for Saturday, November 18, 1939: Sea War Atlantic: Four merchant ships sunk by magnetic mines off British East Coast. 86 passengers killed on Dutch liner Simon Bolivar. Home
