Diary for Sunday, November 14, 1915: Sea War Black Sea: Battlecruiser Goeben missed off Bosphorus by 2 Russian submarine torpedoes but taken off coal convoy route. Dardanelles: Cruiser Chatham brings […]
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Diary for Wednesday, November 13, 1940: Air War RAF night raid on Berlin and Italian Taranto naval base.
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Diary for Saturday, November 13, 1915: Western Front German official communiques of November 13 and 14 state nothing to report. Flanders: In Belgium effective bombardments silence German artillery batteries. Southern
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Diary for Tuesday, November 12, 1940: Politics Molotov, Russian Foreign Minister, begins 3-day official visit to Berlin to discuss closer collaboration with Axis Powers. He is forced to take shelter
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Diary for Friday, November 12, 1915: African Fronts Cameroons: c. 250 British soldiers occupy Gorori, cross Mban and take Bumbo (November 24). East Africa: Whitehall recommends, ‘conquest of this German
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Diary for Monday, November 11, 1940: Sea War Mediterranean: THE TARANTO RAID (Operation Judgement): 21 Swordfish torpedo-biplanes (2 lost) from carrier Illustrious carry out surprise torpedo/bomb attack on Italian Fleet
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Diary for Thursday, November 11, 1915: Home Fronts Britain – War Council of Five appointed: Asquith, Bonar Law, Balfour, Lloyd George, McKenna. Churchill resigns from Cabinet (public November 13), farewell
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Diary for Sunday, November 10, 1940: Air War RAF bomb Danzig, Dresden, Krupp’s Works, Essen and many other targets in Germany, Occupied territory and Italy (night November 10-11) despite severe
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Diary for Wednesday, November 10, 1915: Southern Fronts Italian Front – Fourth Battle of the Isonzo (until December 3): Italian 5assa Brigade prominent in Carso fighting (until November 12) after
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Diary for Saturday, November 9, 1940: Home Fronts Britain: Death of Neville Chamberlain, aged 71. (Funeral in Westminster Abbey, November 14). Sea War Liner Empress of Japan (26,000 t) attacked
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Diary for Tuesday, November 9, 1915: Southern Fronts Serbia: Putnik attacks Bulgars east of Pristina with 5 divisions, his defence on Morava line ends having extricated Timok Army survivors from
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Diary for Friday, November 8, 1940: Air War Ju 87 Stukas attack shipping in Straits of Dover and Thames Estuary, sinking 1 ship. Hurricane fighter squadron drives off the raiders.
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Diary for Monday, November 8, 1915: Air War Turkey: 3 RNAS aircraft (2 x 112lb bombs each) from Imbros and Enos first attack Kuleli Burgas rail bridge and damage its
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Diary for Thursday, November 7, 1940: Air War Night raid on Essen by 50 aircraft. RAF make surprise low-level attack on Valona air base, Albania. Vichy France Free French troops
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Diary for Sunday, November 7, 1915: Southern Fronts Serbia: Mackensen reaches Kragujevac and forces river Morava at Kraljevo. Bulgars capture Leskovac south of Nis. Italian Front: General Peppino Garibaldi‘s Italians
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Diary for Wednesday, November 6, 1940: Air War Daylight raid on Southampton; 190 aircraft raid London by night. RAF raid Italian airfields in Albania. Sea War 7 German torpedo boats
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Diary for Saturday, November 6, 1915: Sea War Dardanelles: British submarine E20 torpedoed and sunk by Geramn coastal-submarine UB14 (Heimburg) thanks to Allied submarine rendezvous code capture (see October 30,
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Diary for Tuesday, November 1940: Neutrals USA: PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS. Roosevelt (Democratic), 27,241,939; Willkie (Republican), 22,237,226. Roosevelt carries 39 States and is re-elected for record third term. Five ‘fringe’ candidates (inc.
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Diary for Friday, November 5, 1915: African Fronts Western Desert: c. 130 Turks and munitions, landed from U35 at Bardia, reinforce Senussi. Sea War Eastern Mediterranean: U35 sinks RN armed
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Diary for Monday, November 4, 1940: Air War Sneak raiders active over southern and eastern England and London; second strafing attack on London streets in two days. 150 night bombers
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