Diary August 23, 1916

08-1916, Diary WWI, Year 1916 / 1 minute of reading

Diary for Wednesday, August 23, 1916:

Air War

Western Front: Germans form first regular fighter squadron Jasta 1 (Captain Martin Zander), Boelcke’s Jasta 2 (August 30), both and two more units assigned to Somme.
Britain: Army Zeppelin LZ97 scatters 34 bombs over Suffolk (night 23/24, no casualties).

Southern Fronts

Carnic Alps: Italian XVIII Corps begins advance to drive Austrians from Fassa Alp, captures Mt Cauriol (August 27).

Middle East

Mesopotamia, Persia – Battle of Rayat: Russians defeat Turks who lose 2,300 PoWs.

African Fronts

East Africa: Smuts’ main advance resumes from Dakawa, but 2nd SA Mounted Brigade checked at Mlali (August 24-26) though 2 German naval guns abandoned.

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My name is Norman 'Kretaner' and since my childhood I am interested in history and strategy games. Later, I have learned programming and the development of computer games, and finally with the Internet, also web design. I'm in the fortunate position to combine all my interests with my work and to live on a place of my choice, on Crete. All information, figures, specifications and statistics used here had been compiled from a variety of sources and the large, over decades collected, library of the author about military history, WW2 and weapons.