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
Diary February 19, 1943
WW2 War Diary for Friday, February 19, 1943: Air War Western Europe: Special equipped RAF Army Co-op. Cmnd. planes (Lysander) bomb electrical transformer stations in Loire Valley. Germany: 181 RAF
Diary February 19, 1918
World War One Diary for Tuesday, February 19, 1918: Middle East Palestine: British XX Corps plus Anzac Mounted Division (6,800 men with 54 guns) gain 2 miles on 15-mile front
Diary February 18, 1943
WW2 War Diary for Thursday, February 18, 1943: Home Fronts Germany: Goebbels calls upon German people to wage ‘Total War’ in histrionic speech at Berlin Sportpalast. Hans and Sophie Scholl,
Diary February 18, 1918
World War One Diary for Monday, February 18, 1918: Eastern Front GERMANS RESUME WAR (until March 2): Operation Faustschlag with 52 divisions, which take Dvinsk and Lutsk, advancing down railways
Diary February 17, 1943
WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, February 17, 1943: Sea War North Sea: 15 German E-boats lay mines off Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft; S-71 rammed and sunk by destroyer Garth (night
