War Diary World War One for Saturday, December 12, 1914: Eastern Front Carpathians: Austrians retake Dukla Pass and Nowy Sacz. Southern Fronts Serbia: Austrian Sixth Army recrosses Sava at Sabac […]
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War Diary WW2 for Tuesday, December 12, 1939: Finland Winter War – Battle of Tolvaajarvi: Finns destroy two divisions north of Lake Ladoga, killing 4,000 Russians, capturing 30 guns, 60
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War Diary WW2 for Tuesday, December 12, 1944: Western Front US 1st Army battles its way through the Hürtgen Forest to within 2 km of Düren. Air War Germany: Lancaster
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War Diary World War One for Friday, December 11, 1914: Air War Western Front: RFC and RNAS adopt roundel national marking following example set by French Aviation Militaire. This supersedes
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War Diary WW2 for Monday, December 11, 1944: Western Front US 7th Army enters Haguenau (Alsace). Air War Europe: 2,000 bombers of 8th and 15th USAAFs attack rail targets in
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War Diary World War One for Monday, December 11, 1939: Politics League of Nations urges Russia to cease hostilities in Finland within 24 hours and accept mediation (Russian rejection on
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War Diary WW2 for Sunday, December 10, 1944: Air War Germany: Americans bomb rail targets at Coblenz and Bingen. Politics Franco-Soviet 20-year Treaty of Alliance signed in Moscow. Occupied countries
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War Diary WW2 for Sunday, December 10, 1939: Sea War Atlantic: First Canadian troop convoy sails from Halifax, with 5 liners under heavy escort (arrives Britain, December 23). Baltic: Russian
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War Diary World War One for Thursday, December 10, 1914: Air War Eastern Front: World’s first heavy bomber unit formed at Yablonna, near Warsaw (Russian Poland). The EVK (‘Flying Ship
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War Diary WW2 for Saturday, December 9, 1939: Western Front Corporal Thomas Priday of King’s Shropshire Light Infantry, killed leading a patrol, is first British soldier to be killed in
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War Diary WW2 for Saturday, December 9, 1944: Air War Germany: Stuttgart raided by the 8th USAAF. Western Front 3rd US Army repels German counter-attack at Saarlautern.
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War Diary World War One for Wednesday, December 9, 1914: Sea War Britain: Commissioning of first purposeÂ-built (from keel up) seaplane carrier HMS Ark Royal II (launched September 5). First
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War Diary WW2 for Friday, December 8, 1944: Western Front Americans occupy undefeated Fort Driant after its surrender after the fall of Metz. Air War Germany: RAF daylight raids on
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War Diary World War One for Tuesday, December 8, 1914: Sea War Atlantic – Battle of the Falkland Islands: Sturdee with battlecruisers Invincible (hit 22 times, no casualties) and Inflexible
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War Diary WW2 for Friday, December 8, 1939: Air War Polish exile-squadrons to be attached to the RAF. Polish Forces in Exile
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