Diary September 10, 1917
World War One Diary for Monday, September 10, 1917: Sea War North Sea: US Atlantic Fleet C-in-C Admiral Mayo visits Grand Fleet (since September 9). Mediterranean: German U-boats ordered not […]
Diary September 9, 1942
WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, September 9, 1942: Air War Western Europe: ‘Whirlibombers’ (Whirlwind 2-engined fighter-bombers) sink 2 German armed trawlers near Alderney Island. Occupied Territories France: Germans introduce military
Diary September 9, 1917
World War One Diary for Sunday, September 9, 1917: Western Front France: c.2,000 British troops mutiny at Etaples Infantry Base Depot (until September 14) due to poor conditions and Third
Diary September 8, 1942
WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, September 8, 1942: Sea War Channel: British MGBs engage German coastal convoys off Cherbourg and in Straits of Dover. German shore batteries open fire at
Diary September 8, 1917
World War One Diary for Saturday, September 8, 1917: Western Front Verdun: French troops capture Fosses, Caurieres and Chaume Woods with 800 PoWs. Eastern Front Russia: ABORTIVE KORNILOV PETROGRAD COUP
Diary September 7, 1942
WW2 War Diary for Monday, September 7, 1942: Air War Germany: 185 RAF bombers attacking Duisburg and dropping 491t of bombs. Politics Italy: Government declares war on Brazil.
Diary September 7, 1917
World War One Diary for Friday, September 7, 1917: Southern Fronts Albania: General Jacquemot’s mixed French division begins advance on Austrian-held Pogradec, having been joined by Essad Pasha’s 500 Albanians
Diary September 6, 1942
WW2 War Diary for Sunday, September 6, 1942: Home Fronts Britain: British and German cross-Channel guns exchange fire for an hour. Air War Britain: Debut of Me 210 fighter-bomber: 2
Diary September 6, 1917
World War One Diary for Thursday, September 6, 1917: Air War Western Front: 6 Squadrons of newish German Halberstadt CLII ground-attack aircraft decimate British division reserves crossing Somme bridges. Eastern
Diary September 5, 1942
WW2 War Diary for Saturday, September 5, 1942: Sea War Pacific: JAPANESE EVACUATE MILNE BAY (New Guinea). Japanese fast destroyers land reinforcements and essential supplies on Guadalcanal (night 5-6). US
Diary September 5, 1917
World War One Diary for Wednesday, September 5, 1917: Home Fronts Russia: Grand Dukes Michael and Paul arrested. USA: Federal agents raid IWW offices in 23 cities (168 arrests). 687,000
Diary September 4, 1942
WW2 War Diary for Friday, September 4, 1942: Eastern Front Stalingrad: Fierce fighting on outskirts of the city from September 4 to 13: Germans reach then Volga south of city,
Diary September 4, 1917
World War One Diary for Tuesday, September 4, 1917: Air War Britain: 5 of 11 Gotha bombers sent (1 lost due to anti-aircraft fire) bomb London (night September 4-5, 90
Diary September 3, 1942
WW2 War Diary for Thursday, September 3, 1942: Home Fronts Australia – ‘Austerity Campaign’: new restrictions on entertainments and sports; increased taxes on alcoholic drinks and tobacco. Neutrals Spain: Pro-Axis
Diary September 3, 1917
World War One Diary for Monday, September 3, 1917: Eastern Front Baltic Provinces: German 2nd Guard and 1st Reserve divisions enter Riga, claim many thousand PoWs and 150 guns, but
Diary September 2, 1942
WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, September 2, 1942: Home Fronts Germany: German High Command threatens to put all British prisoners captured at Dieppe in chains, as a reprisal for murdering
Diary September 2, 1917
World War One Diary for Sunday, September 2, 1917: Air War Adriatic: Pola bombed by 148 Caproni bombers and 11 flying boats; Austrians bomb Venice (September 7) which has balloon
Diary September 1, 1942
WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, September 1, 1942: Sea War Atlantic: USN and RAF Catalinas defeat all attacks on Convoy SC.97 by U-boat group Vorwaerts (‘Onward’); U-756 sunk. Home Front
Diary September 1, 1917
World War One Diary for Saturday, September 1, 1917: Eastern Front Baltic Provinces: HUTIER’S GERMAN RIGA OFFENSIVE (until September 5) begins with 2-hour Bruchmueller gas shelling (116,400 gas shells inflict
Diary August 31, 1942
WW2 War Diary for Monday, August 31, 1942: Sea War Pacific: Carrier Saratoga torpedoed by Japanese submarine I-26 in Solomons. Merchant shipping losses in August 1942: 106 Allied ships with
