Diary March 8, 1915
Diary for Monday, March 8, 1915: Sea War Dardanelles: 2 Royal Navy Air Service seaplanes lost, only 2 serviceable. Western Front Flanders: German attack near Dixmude. African Fronts Southwest Africa:
Diary March 8, 1945
Diary for Thursday, March 8, 1945: Burma Indian tanks enter Mandalay. Western Front British 2nd Army captures Xanten: Allied armies now stand along the Rhine from Nijmegen to Koblenz. Air
Portuguese Army
The Army of Portugal in World War One (1916-1918). Uniforms, strength and organization of the Portuguese Army in Europe and Africa, 1916 – 1918. Army of Portugal in World War
Diary March 7, 1915
Diary for Sunday, March 7, 1915: Western Front Champagne: French 64th Brigade secures small part of Sabot Wood, fighting until March 15. Sea War Dardanelles: 6 Anglo-French battleships (2 hit)
Diary March 7, 1940
Diary for Thursday, March 7, 1940: Finland Winter War: Fierce fighting continues in Viipuri Bay sector. Air War RAF aircraft, flying from bases in France, drop Polish language leaflets over
Diary March 7, 1945
Diary for Wednesday, March 7, 1945: Western Front LUDENDORFF BRIDGE CAPTURED INTACT. Bridge at Remagen over the Rhine near Bonn captured intact by US 1st Army, which immediately pours across.
Nieuport 11
French scout and single-seat fighter Nieuport 11 and 16 ‘Bebe’. History, development, service, specifications, statistics and pictures. Nieuport 11, 16 Type: single-seat fighting scout. History: The Nieuport 11 found its
Diary March 6, 1940
Diary for Wednesday, March 6, 1940: Politics Finnish government, faced with desperate military situation, sends peace delegation to Moscow.
Diary March 6, 1915
Diary for Saturday, March 6, 1915: African Fronts Southwest Africa: Deventer‘s South Force of 9,000 men invades at Schuit Drift, river Orange. Berrange’s East Force (2,500 mounted infantry with 2
Diary March 6, 1945
Diary for Tuesday, March 6, 1945: Russian Front Poland: Rokossovsky captures encircled fortress of Grudziadz. Operation Frühlingserwachen (‘Spring Awakening’): 6th SS Panzer Army attacks north of lake Balaton in attempt
Operation Torch
Operation Torch, the Allied landings in North Africa. Allied landings in North Africa 1942 Operation Torch was the code name for the Allied invasion of French North Africa during World
Diary March 5, 1915
Diary for Friday, March 5, 1915: Sea War Dardanelles: Battleship Queen Elizabeth fires 21,000 yards (ca. 19 km) over Gallipoli Peninsula at Narrows’ forts until next day. Aegean: 2 Royal
Diary March 5, 1940
Diary for Tuesday, March 5, 1940: Western Front Germans capture British outpost in Maginot Line (2 killed, 16 taken prisoner); outpost later recaptured. Finland Winter War: Russians cross ice-bound Viipuri
Diary March 5, 1945
Diary for Monday, March 5, 1945: Western Front Americans enter Cologne. Air War Germany: RAF daylight raid on Gelsenkirchen oil plant.
Diary March 4, 1915
Diary for Thursday, March 4, 1915: Home Fronts Britain: Admiralty decides the 29 PoWs of U8 cannot receive ‘honorable treatment’. Germany threatens reprisals on April 2. Shells and Fuses Agreement
Diary March 4, 1940
Diary for Monday, March 4, 1940: Finland Winter War: Finns repulse attacks east and west of Viipuri (in the West Russians attack across ice of Viipuri Bay).
Diary March 4, 1945
Diary for Sunday, March 4, 1945: Burma British 14th Army captures Meiktila, south of Mandalay. Western Front US tanks (1st US Army) reach the Rhine north of Cologne. Air War
German Orders of Battle at the armistice with France
German Orders of Battle from 25 June 1940 early, the day of the armistice with France. Schematic layout of the Wehrmacht, divisions and equipment. By 10 June the Germans had
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Diary March 3, 1940
Diary for Sunday, March 3, 1940: Finland Winter War: Hand-to-hand fighting in suburbs of Viipuri. Russians capture railway station.
Diary March 3, 1915
Diary for Wednesday, March 3, 1915: Eastern Front Galicia: Russians retake Krasna and next day also Stanislau, claim 19,000 PoWs since February 21. Western Front Flanders: 1st Canadian Division enters
