Diary March 1, 1943
WW2 War Diary for Monday, March 1, 1943: Occupied Countries France: Lens-Bethune railway line closed following derailment of 40 wagons by French Resistance Group ‘Farmer’. Eastern Front Central Sector: Russians […]
Diary March 1, 1918
World War One Diary for Friday, March 1, 1918: Western Front France: In March French Army receives first Renault FT-17 light tanks. Britain: BEF strength 1,886,073 (including 293,264 Empire troops)
Diary February 28, 1943
WW2 War Diary for Sunday, February 28, 1943: Home Fronts Germany: GUDERIAN APPOINTED ‘INSPECTOR-GENERAL OF ARMOURED TROOPS’, responsible directly to Hitler and with wide-ranging powers to re-equip, re-train and re-vitalize
Diary February 28, 1918
World War One Diary for Thursday, February 28, 1918: Sea War Allied and neutral shipping losses to U-boats during February: 115 ships (68 British with 697 lives) worth 318,174t (British
Diary February 27, 1943
WW2 War Diary for Saturday, February 27, 1943: Africa Tunisia – Battle of Hunt’s Gap (February 27-March 2): Kampfgruppe Lang (‘battle group including Tiger tanks and Panzer-Grenadiers) attempts to drive
Diary February 27, 1918
World War One Diary for Wednesday, February 27, 1918: Western Front Germany: Ludendorff and Kaiser first see the A7V German tank (crew on February 16) and captured British Mk IV
Diary February 26, 1943
WW2 War Diary for Friday, February 26, 1943: Africa Tunisia – Operation Ochsenkopf (‘Oxhead’): Germans launch multi-pronged counter-offensive and attempt to encircle Medjez. Sea War Channel: German E-boats attack convoy
Diary February 26, 1918
World War One Diary for Monday, February 26, 1918: Eastern Front Soviet delegates return to Brest-Litovsk. Major-General Count Goltz put in command of 12th Landwehr or Baltic Division for projected
Diary February 25, 1943
WW2 War Diary for Thursday, February 25, 1943: Sea War Atlantic: Five-day battle of Convoy ON.166 ends, 15 out of 49 ships sunk; U-boat U-606 lost. Home Fronts New Zealand:
Diary February 25, 1918
World War One Diary for Monday, February 25, 1918: Eastern Front Estonia: Seckendorff’s Northern Corps takes Pernau, Reval with 626 guns, and Pskov. Ukraine: Linsingen reaches Zhitomir. Poland: Polish-German Military
Diary February 24, 1943
WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, February 24, 1943: Africa Tunisia: Allied planes harry German forces withdrawing through Kasserine Pass; Italian rearguards destroyed, many being captured.
Diary February 24, 1918
World War One Diary for Sunday, February 24, 1918: Eastern Front USSR: Soviets accept German peace terms after Central Executive Committee of Bolshevik Party votes 116-85 for Lenin after he
Diary February 23, 1943
WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, February 23, 1943: Sea War Atlantic: U-boat group Rochen (‘Castles’) torpedoes 7 tankers from Convoy UC.1 (February 23-24). Acoustic homing torpedoes used. Home Fronts USSR:
Diary February 23, 1918
World War One Diary for Saturday, February 23, 1918: Air War Mesopotamia: 3-10 Royal Flying Corps aircraft bomb Turk camps and airfield in Hit area (until February 27) forcing German
Diary February 22, 1943
WW2 War Diary for Monday, February 22, 1943: Sea War Atlantic: US Navy reveals 850 Americans killed or missing when U-boats sank 2 passenger-cargo ships.
Diary February 22, 1918
World War One Diary for Friday, February 22, 1918: Western Front Flanders: German trench raid on Ypres-Staden line. Africa Mozambique: Hawthorn NRFF column fights Captain Goering’s 5 coys at Mtende
Diary February 21, 1943
WW2 War Diary for Thurday, February 21, 1943: Sea War Pacific – Operation Cleanslate: Americans land on Russell Island, north of Guadalcanal.
Diary February 21, 1918
World War One Diary for Thursday, February 21, 1918: Western Front France: Patton writes from Langres ‘… I get requests … to transfer into tanks nearly daily’. Eastern Front USSR:
Diary February 20, 1943
WW2 War Diary for Saturday, February 20, 1943: Eastern Front Southern Sector: Manstein’s Panzers counter-attack in Pavlograd Sector. Africa Tunisia: British 8th Army takes Medenine in the East. Air War
Diary February 20, 1918
World War One Diary for Wednesday, February 20, 1918: Eastern Front Germans march into Minsk and Hapsal (Estonia, via Gulf of Riga ice), have now taken over 1,500 guns and
