Diary April 30, 1918
World War One Diary for Tuesday, April 30, 1918: Air War Western Front: 180 German triplanes available. Allied April losses 232 aircraft and 16 balloons to Germans’ 136 aircraft. Britain: […]
Diary April 29, 1943
WW2 War Diary for Thursday, April 29, 1943: Africa : Tunisia: British troops recapture Sidi Abdallah. Home Fronts Germany: Hitler receives Laval, last of 5 meetings with satellite and quisling
Diary April 29, 1918
World War One Diary for Monday, April 29, 1918: Air War Western Front: First of Rickenbacker’s 26 victories; an Albatros fighter at Baussant. German aircraft losses since March 21 are
Diary April 28, 1943
WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, April 28, 1943: Africa Tunisia: Panzers attack Djebel Bou Aoukaz; British forced to retreat, April 30. Air War Europe: Major RAF mine-laying operation in Baltic
Diary April 28, 1918
World War One Diary for Sunday, April 28, 1918: Home Fronts Austria: Death of Gavrilo Princip (the assassin of Sarajevo 1914), age 22, in hospital of tuberculosis, Theresienstadt. Western Front
Diary April 27, 1943
WW2 War Diary for Saturday, April 27, 1943: Africa Tunisia: Americans storm ‘Sugar Loaf Hill’ (Jebel Azag), near Mateur. Panzers expel British from Sidi Abdallah.
Diary April 27, 1918
World War One Diary for Saturday, April 27, 1918: Western Front France: First contingent of Italian II Corps arrives. Eastern Front USSR: Soviet Central Executive Committee abolishes rights of inheritance.
Diary April 26, 1943
WW2 War Diary for Monday, April 26, 1943: Africa Tunisia: British 1st Army captures Longstop Hill and Djebel Bou Aoukaz. Air War Germany: 557 RAF bombers despatched to Duisburg, but
Diary April 26, 1918
World War One Diary for Friday, April 26, 1918: Middle East Mesopotamia: General Egerton’s 10,500 men (5 columns) wrest Kifri-Tuz Khurmatli from 3,000 Turks (until April 29); 6th Indian Cavalry
Diary April 25, 1943
WW2 War Diary for Sunday, April 25, 1943: Air War Mediterranean: US bombers raid Bari airfield, southern Italy.
Diary April 25, 1918
World War One Diary for Thursday, April 25, 1918: Home Fronts Britain: Churchill reviews munitions work for Commons; losses since March 21 more than made good; 750,000 women working, doing
Diary April 24, 1943
WW2 War Diary for Saturday, April 24, 1943: Home Front Germany: Death of Lieutenant-General Kurt von Hammerstein-Equart, former COGS and leading anti-Nazi conspirator; aged 64. Britain: IRA leaders, McAteer and
Diary April 24, 1918
World War One Diary for Wednesday, April 24, 1918: Western Front Somme: 2 German divisions with 13 tanks (2 lost) capture Villers-Bretonneux (over 390 PoWs) and threaten Allied junction in
Diary April 23, 1918
World War One Diary for Tuesday, April 23, 1918: Sea War North Sea: LAST GERMAN HIGH SEAS FLEET SORTIE (until April 24). Vain bid from 0500 hours, initially undetected (Scheer
Diary April 23, 1943
WW2 War Diary for Friday, April 23, 1943: Africa Tunisia: After secret redeployment of 193 km behind Tunisian front, US 2nd Corps captures several wooded heights near Mateur and holds
Diary April 22, 1943
World War One Diary for Thursday, April 22, 1943: Air War Mediterranean: 16 giant Me 323 transports shot down over Gulf of Tunis by RAF and SAAF Spitfire and P-40
Diary April 22, 1918
World War One Diary for Monday, April 22, 1918: Sea War Νorth Sea – Zeebrugge Raid: St George’s Day Raid by British Dover Patrol 3 old cruiser blockships; 9 monitors;
Diary April 21, 1943
WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, April 21, 1943: Home Fronts USA: Roosevelt condemns beheading of US airmen captured by Japanese during ‘Doolittle Raid’. Air War Britain: Night raid on Aberdeen;
Diary April 21, 1918
World War One Diary for Sunday, April 21, 1918: Air War Western Front: RICHTHOFEN (the ‘Red Baron’) KILLED over Somme (aged 25). His bloodred Fokker Dr Ι Triplane shot down
Diary April 20, 1943
WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, April 20, 1943: Africa Tunisia: British 8th Army attacks Axis positions at Enfidaville, north of Sousse. Air War Germany: RAF night raids on Berlin and
