Diary August 22, 1914
Diary for Saturday, August 22, 1914: WESTERN FRONT Belgium: North of the Ardennes three German armies are continuing to sweep through western Belgium and are beginning to advance to the […]
Diary August 22, 1944
WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, August 22, 1944: WESTERN FRONT Americans capture Sens, southeast of Paris. ITALY Polish and Italian Co-Belligerent forces of British Eight Army reach Metauro river, 48
Diary August 21, 1914
World War One Diary for Friday, August 21, 1914: WESTERN FRONT Belgium: BATTLE OF CHARLEROI (until August 23) along river Sambre. Bülow forces river and smash 6 French divisions counterattacks
Diary August 21, 1944
WW2 War Diary for Monday, August 21, 1944: RUSSIAN FRONT Germans retreat towards river Pruth in East Romania. WESTERN FRONT Allied forces cross the Seine, north and south of Paris.
Arctic convoys
Arctic convoys to Russia in 1941 and 1942. First convoys, the destruction of PQ-17 and losses of PQ-18, new tactics with JW-51 and the interruption between spring and winter 1943.
Diary August 20, 1944
WW2 War Diary for Sunday, August 20, 1944: RUSSIAN FRONT 2nd and 3rd Ukrainian Fronts attack German-Romanian Army Group South; Romanian 3rd Army broken. SEA WAR German heavy cruiser Prinz
Diary August 20, 1914
World War One Diary for Thursday, August 20, 1914: WESTERN FRONT Belgium: German forces occupy Brussels, the Belgian capital. Belgian Army withdraws into Antwerp fortress. von Kluck decides to send
Diary August 19, 1914
World War One Diary for Wednesday, August 19, 1914: SOUTHERN FRONTS Serbia: Battle of the Cer – decisive day. Serb Second Army captures whole ridge as 1st Sumadija Division engages
Diary August 19, 1944
WW2 War Diary for Saturday, August 19, 1944: OCCUPIED FRANCE UPRISING IN PARIS by FFI (Resistance). Vichy Government flees to Belfort. Petain arrested and taken to Germany. HOME FRONTS Britain:
Diary August 18, 1914
World War One Diary for Tuesday, August 18, 1914: WESTERN FRONT Belgium: King Albert orders the Belgian Army, some 75,000 men, to retreat to the port of Antwerp, which has
Diary August 18, 1944
WW2 War Diary for Friday, August 18, 1944: WESTERN FRONT Germans retreating through ‘Falaise Gap‘ are decimated by Allied Air Forces. SEA WAR Pacific: Japanese carrier Taiyo sunk by US
Diary August 17, 1944
WW2 War Diary for Thursday, August 17, 1944: WESTERN FRONT FALAISE CAPTURED by British-Canadian forces; Americans take Dreux, Chartres, Chateaudun and Orleans. RUSSIAN FRONT Russian guns bombard German territory –
Diary August 17, 1914
World War One Diary for Monday, August 17, 1914: EASTERN FRONT East Prussia: Two Russian forces, the First Army under General Pavel Rennenkampf and General Alexander Samsonov‘s Second Army, invade
Diary August 16, 1914
World War One Diary for Sunday, August 16, 1914: HOME FRONTS Germany: Austrian-born Adolf Hitler volunteers to fight with the German Army. He will serve throughout the conflict on the
Diary August 16, 1944
WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, August 16, 1944: WESTERN FRONT Allied seaborne and airborne forces link up in southern France. AIR WAR Europe: Me 163 rocket fighters intercept B-17 Fortress
Hitler Pictures
Collection of pictures about Adolf Hitler. Hitler was the driving force and uncontested leader of National Socialism, whose rise and design he caused. He led his ‘movement’ from the smallest
Diary August 15, 1944
WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, August 15, 1944: SEA AND AIR WAR Operation Anvil, later Dragoon: ALLIED 7TH ARMY LANDS IN SOUTHERN FRANCE between Nice and Toulon; airborne forces land
Diary August 15, 1914
Diary for Saturday, August 15, 1914: WESTERN FRONT Belgium: FALL OF LIEGE. Garrison Commander General Leman taken PoW in ruins of Fort Loncin. D’esperey’s I Corps (1,000 casualties) with Petain’s
Diary August 14, 1914
World War One Diary for Friday, August 14, 1914: WESTERN FRONT BATTLE OF LORRAINE (August 14-22): including Battles of Morhange (August 14-20) and Sarrebourg (August 14-20). Southeast of Metz two
Diary August 14, 1944
WW2 War Diary for Monday, August 14, 1944: WESTERN FRONT Canadians and Americans push towards Falaise, from North and South, supported by RAF.
