Diary March 2, 1941
Diary for Sunday, March 2, 1941: North Africa Tripoli propaganda military parade of the Afrika Korps. Air War BOAC begin regular, clandestine, night flights between Northern Scotland and Stockholm, using […]
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During the first half of the twentieth century, engineers across many fields worked with the same mechanical problems. They had to control motion, manage stored energy in springs, regulate timing
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Stalin’s Reign of Terror and its Victims in the Soviet Union
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Diary March 1, 1916
Diary for Wednesday, March 1, 1916: Air War France: Only Royal Flying Corps Martinsyde G.100 (nicknamed the Elephant) unit arrives, No 27 Squadron. Britain: Two hit-and-run raids on East Kent
Diary March 1, 1941
Diary for Saturday, March 1, 1941: Politics BULGARIA JOINS THE AXIS. German troops enter Sofia. see also: Bulgarian Armed Forces Air War Europe: 100 RAF bombers raid Cologne (night March
Diary February 29, 1916
Diary for Tuesday, February 29, 1916: Western Front Verdun: Bloody struggle round Fresnes and salient. Falkenhayn finally agrees to attack on west bank of Meuse, releases 4 divisions and 84
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Diary February 28, 1916
Diary for Monday, February 28, 1916: Western Front Verdun: Sudden thaw after long cold spell turns battlefield into a sea of mud but Voie Sacree kept open with gravel by
Diary February 28, 1941
Diary for Friday, February 28, 1941: Air War The Blitz in February 1941: 789 dead and 1,068 seriously wounded British civilian casualties. Blenheim bombers and single-engined Wellesleys bomb Asmara (Eritrea).
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Diary February 27, 1916
Diary for Sunday, February 27, 1916: Western Front Verdun: Petain reorganizes defences, halts withdrawal from Woevre. French retake La Feuille wood (night 27/28), defend Soupple village and d’Eix-Abaucourt station. On
Diary February 27, 1941
Diary for Thursday, February 27, 1941: Sea War Italian armed merchant raider Ramb I (3,700 t.) catches fire and blows up during engagement with RNZN cruiser Leander off the Maldives.
Battleship HMS Orion
Class ship of the British dreadnoughts of the Orion class (1910): Orion, Monarch, Conqueror, Thunderer. HMS Orion HMS Orion, the trailblazer of her namesake class of dreadnought battleships (Monarch, Conqueror
Diary February 26, 1941
Diary for Wednesday, February 26, 1941: Air War 60 German bombers and Ju 87 Stukas (7 lost) with fighter escort, raid airfields on Malta, destroying or damaging 13 Wellington bombers
Diary February 26, 1916
Diary for Saturday, February 26, 1916: Western Front Verdun: GQG admits loss of Ft Douaumont. Recapture attempt fails. Petain orders ‘… retake immediately any piece of land taken by the
Second World War overview 1941-42
Second World War, overview of the course of the ‘Axis high tide’ from 1941 to 1942 (Part II). Mediterranean theater, Russian campaign, the global conflict and ideological war. Course of
Diary February 25, 1916
Diary for Friday, February 25, 1916: Home Fronts French Army orders 400 Schneider tanks by November 25, 1916. Western Front Verdun: Castelnau arrives at 0700 hours. Germans take Louvemont, but
Diary February 25, 1941
Diary for Tuesday, February 25, 1941: Sea War Italian fast cruiser Armando Diaz sunk by British sub Upright in Mediterranean. Escort destroyer Exmoor sunk by German E-boat off Lowestoft. East
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Hermann Göring
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