WW2 War Diary for Monday, October 25, 1943: Eastern Front Southern sector: Russians recapture Dnepropetrovsk Dam. Occupied Territories Burma: Burma-Siam Railway (‘Death Railway’) completed by Allied PoWs and native coolies. […]
World War One Diary for Friday, October 25, 1918: Southern Fronts Piave: British overrun rest of Papadopoli Island (night October 25-26) but flooding river delays main crossing. Italian Grappa attacks
WW2 War Diary for Sunday, October 24, 1943: Sea War: North Sea: 32 German E-boats (2 lost) make unsuccessful attack on convoy off Cromer (night October 24-25).
World War One Diary for Thursday, October 24, 1918: Southern Fronts Italian Front: BATTLE OF VITTORIO VENETO (THIRD PIAVE; until November 4) begins in rain on Caporetto first anniversary at
WW2 War Diary for Saturday, October 23, 1943: Air War Germany: 486 RAF bombers attacking Kassel and dropping 1,824t of bombs. Mediterranean Italy: British 8th Army attacks across river Trigno,
World War One Diary for Wednesday, October 23, 1918: Western Front Selle – Third phase: Byng’s Third Army (including 6 tanks) attacks Forest and Ovillers, captures Grand Champ Ridge, Rawlinson’s
WW2 War Diary for Friday, October 22, 1943: Sea War Mediterranean: 3 Allied destroyers mined in Aegean (October 22-24).
World War One Diary for Tuesday, October 22, 1918: Sea War North Sea: Levetzow delivers verbal operational order (Operations Plan No 19) to Hipper at Wilhelmshaven: ‘High Seas Fleet shall
WW2 War Diary for Thursday, October 21, 1943: Occupied Territories Philippines: Japan grants ‘independence’ to Philippines. Malaya: SC Bose forms provisional government of ‘Free India’ at Singapore. Air War Mediterranean:
World War One Diary for Monday, October 21, 1918: Southern Fronts Italian Front: Diaz’s final orders for upcoming offensive stress aim ‘to separate the Austrian forces on the Trentino from
WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, October 20, 1943: Air War Germany: 285 RAF and RCAF Lancaster bombers raid Leipzig in severe weather (1,085t bombs dropped). Mosquitoe bombers attack Berlin. 17
World War One Diary for Sunday, October 20, 1918: Southern Fronts Serbia – Battle of Paracin (until October 23): Serb First Army attacks strong counter-attacking German rearguards in Upper Morava
WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, October 19, 1943: Air War Mediterranean: B-25 Mitchell bombers and Beaufighters attack convoys north of Crete (October 19 and 20). German prison ship Sinfra sunk
World War One Diary for Saturday, October 19, 1918: Western Front France: FOCH’S LAST GENERAL DIRECTIVE to his 14 armies. Britain: Haig visits CIGS and War Cabinet in London, considers
WW2 War Diary for Monday, October 18, 1943: Air War Germany: 349 RAF bombers attacking Hannover (night October 18-19) and dropping 1,697t of bombs. Home Fronts Germany: Hitler confers with
World War One Diary for Friday, October 18, 1918: Western Front Serre: Mangin’s French Tenth Army wins final victory breaking Hunding line astride river Serre (Czechs in action on October
WW2 War Diary for Sunday, October 17, 1943: Sea War Pacific: German disguised raider Michel sunk off Yokohama by US submarine Tarpon. Exchange of Japanese and Allied civilian internees aboard
World War One Diary for Thursday, October 17, 1918: Politics Austria: Czechs proclaim Republic at Prague (Council in Paris declares formal independence on October 18); Hungarian Parliament declares independence except
WW2 War Diary for Saturday, October 16, 1943: Occupied Territories Yugoslavia: Sixth German offensive against Tito’s Partisans in Bosnia (ends inconclusively, mid-January 1944). Eastern Front Southern Sector: Fierce fighting in
World War One Diary for Wednesday, October 16, 1918: Western Front Flanders: Last German shelling of Dunkirk. Corporal Hitler (16th Bavarian Reserve Regiment) wounded by BEF gas shell (evacuated half-blinded
