Diary March 25, 1945
Diary for Sunday, March 25, 1945: Western Front Montgomery’s 4 bridgeheads over the Rhine merge into 48-km-wide salient. 3rd US Army captures Darmstadt and Hanau. Russian Front Hungary: Malinovsky breaks
Diary for Sunday, March 25, 1945: Western Front Montgomery’s 4 bridgeheads over the Rhine merge into 48-km-wide salient. 3rd US Army captures Darmstadt and Hanau. Russian Front Hungary: Malinovsky breaks
Diary for Thursday, March 24, 1915: Middle East Dardanelles: Liman von Sanders given command of Turk Fifth Army (he arrives at Gallipoli on March 26). African Fronts Tripolitania: 2 Italian
Diary for Sunday, March 24, 1940: Western Front French and German patrols active at various points.
Diary for Saturday, March 24, 1945: Russian Front Poland: Russians capture Zoppot, between Danzig and Gdynia. Hungary: Tolbukhin’s forces sweep forward to Szekesfehervar (Stuhlweissenburg), 58 km southwest of Budapest. Western
Diary for Saturday, March 23, 1940: Sea War British Malaya Force formed to shadow 17 German merchant ships trapped in Dutch East Indies ports.
Diary for Tuesday, March 23, 1915: Middle East Sinai: 2,000 British soldiers inflict 50 casualties on Turk raiders 10 miles (ca. 16 km) east of the Suez Canal. Western Front
Diary for Friday, March 23, 1945: Western Front MONTGOMERY’S 21st ARMY GROUP CROSSES THE RHINE AT WESEL (Operation Plunder): attack takes place in bright moonlight under cover of dense smoke
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Diary for Friday, March 22, 1940: Air War RAF bombers on recce/leaflet dropping operations over the Ruhr and northwest Germany have first encounters with German night fighters. Hampden slightly damaged
Diary for Monday, March 22, 1915: Eastern Front Galicia – Przemysl surrenders: 9 generals among 119,602 PoWs and 700 guns, 20% scurvy, 3 days rations left. Western Front Aisne: Germans
Diary for Thursday, March 22, 1945: Western Front US 3rd Army crosses the Rhine, west of Mainz. Russian Front In Silesia, Konev‘s forces break through west and south of Oppeln.
Deployment of the armed forces of the Red Army by theaters of war, summer 1942. Soviet divisions, strengths, equipment, planes and ships. Deployment of the armed forces of the Red
Diary for Thursday, March 21, 1940: Home Fronts France: PAUL REYNAUD FORMS NEW GOVERNMENT. Daladier appointed Minister of War. Sea War First German merchant ship (Heddernheim) sunk by British submarine
Diary for Sunday, March 21, 1915: Southern Fronts Serbia: German Chief of staff Falkenhayn suggests to Austrian Conrad quick strike against Serbia to open way for supplies to Turks, but
Diary for Wednesday, March 21, 1945: Air War Europe: Mosquito bombers destroy Gestapo HQ in Copenhagen; bombs accidentally dropped on nearby school kill 86 pupils and 17 teachers. 8th USAAF
German Orders of Battle from March 1, 1945 before the Allies crossed the Rhine. Army Groups, Armies, Corps and Divisions. The deployment and distribution of the divisions of the Wehrmacht
Diary for Saturday, March 20, 1915: Secret War Churchill approves 18 ‘landship’ (tank) prototypes, orders all haste. Western Front Artois: Germans storm trenches near Notre Dame de Lorette, but French
Diary for Wednesday, March 20, 1940: Home Front France: Prime Minister DALADIER RESIGNS, following severe criticism of his Finland policy. Germany: Dr. Todt appointed Minister of Armaments and War Supplies.
Diary for Tuesday, March 20, 1945: Russian Front Russians eliminate German bridgehead on lower Oder at Altdamm. Burma BRITISH CAPTURE MANDALAY. Home Fronts Britain: Death of Lord Alfred Douglas, poet
Diary for Friday, March 19, 1915: Middle East Dardanelles: Hamilton cables Kitchener: ‘It must be a deliberate and progressive military operation’. Admiral Robeck agrees on March 26. Western Front Vosges: