Diary May 1, 1940
Diary for Wednesday, May 1, 1940: Norway British troops evacuated from Alesund. Germans counter-attack near Narvik (and on May 2); attack repulsed. German forces link up between Oslo and Bergen. […]
Diary May 1, 1915
Diary for Saturday, May 1, 1915: Eastern Front Galicia – AUSTRO-GERMAN OFFENSIVE: BATTLE OF GORLICE-TARNOW (until May 5) starts with 610 gun bombardment including gas shells. Baltic Provinces: Lauenstein occupies
Diary May 1, 1945
Diary for Tuesday, May 1, 1945: Russian Front Battle of Berlin: Goebbels and wife Madga poison their 6 children before committing suicide. Russians capture Charlottenburg and Schoeneburg districts. Home Fronts
German Military Passport
German military passport from the Kaiser’s period. Entries from 17 October 1898 to 25 September 1917 during World War One. Complete German Military Passport from the Kaiser’s period of the
Diary April 30, 1915
Diary for Friday, April 30, 1915: Middle East Enver Pasha orders Liman to ‘drive the invaders into the sea’; 2 divisions from Asia Minor transferred to Gallipoli. Allied losses now
Diary April 30, 1940
Diary for Tuesday, April 30, 1940: Norway British commence evacuation of Andalsnes, Molde and Alesund (completed night May 1-2). German columns from Oslo and Trondheim link up in central Norway.
Diary April 30, 1945
Diary for Monday, April 30, 1945: Western Front Munich captured by US 7th Army. Russian Front Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide in Führerbunker beneath Reichs Chancellery, Berlin, at 3.30
Thompson submachine gun
US submachine guns Thompson M1A1, M1, M1928. History, development, service, specifications, statistics, pictures and 3D model. Thompson M1A1, M1, M1928 Thompson M1A1, M1, M1928. Type: Sub-machine gun The Thompson submachine
Diary April 29, 1915
Diary for Thursday, April 29, 1915: Air War Britain: First raid by German Army Zeppelin: LZ38 (Linnarz) drops IB’s at Ipswich and Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk (opportunity targets); some damage
Diary April 29, 1940
Diary for Monday, April 29, 1940: Air War Empire Air Training Scheme: training of pilots and air crews begins at schools in Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Norway British troops
Diary April 29, 1945
Diary for Sunday, April 29, 1945: Italy SURRENDER OF 1 MILLION GERMAN TROOPS IN NORTHERN ITALY AND AUSTRIA, signed in secret at Caserta, near Naples (effective May 2). Western Front
Hungarian Armed Forces 1942
Strength and Organization of the Army and Air Force of Hungary in 1942. Hungarian Army, Orders of Battle, divisions and equipment, planes of the Air Force. Hungarian Armed Forces Overvoew
Diary April 28, 1915
Diary for Wednesday, April 28, 1915: Middle East Gallipoli – First Battle of Krithia: 14,000 Allies advance 2 miles (3,000 casualties). Anzac troops: 2 Royal Marines battalions to reinforce. Yemen:
Diary April 28, 1940
Diary for Sunday, April 28, 1940: Sea War Atlantic: Liner Queen Mary (81,200 t) arrives at Cape Town after record-breaking 12-day voyage from New York.
Diary April 28, 1945
Diary for Saturday, April 28, 1945: Occupied countries Italy: MUSSOLINI AND HIS MISTRESS, CLARA PETACCI, CAPTURED AND SHOT by Communist Partisan leader ‘Colonel Valerio’ (Walter Audisio) at Dongo (Lake Como).
Turkish Army World War One
Turkish Army in World War One – uniforms, strength, organization. History, disposition and Orders of Battle of Turkish forces in November 1914, soldiers and casualties (November 12, 1914 – October
Diary April 27, 1915
Diary for Tuesday, April 27, 1915: Western Front Ypres: Allies advance, French recapture Lizerne. Field Marshal French replaces Smith-Dorrien by Plumer in command of British Second Army because of former’s
Diary April 27, 1940
Diary for Saturday, April 27, 1940: Occupied countries Norway: Terboven appointed Reichskommissar for Norway (formerly Gauleiter of Essen). Politics Germany officially at war with Norway. Ribbentrop attempts to justify German
Diary April 27, 1945
Diary for Friday, April 27, 1945: Russian Front Battle of Berlin: Russians capture suburbs of Potsdam, Spandau and Rathenow; central districts of Neuköln and Tempelhof. Western Front Bremen captured by
Dardanelles Operation 1915
Dardanelles Campaign 1915: Key Strategies and Failures of the Allied Naval Assault. The Dardanelles campaign and Gallipoli The Dardanelles Campaign, launched in February 1915, was a bold but ultimately unsuccessful
