Diary December 25, 1916

12-1941, Diary WW2, War Diary, Year 1941 / 1 minute of reading

The Sopwith Pup was Britains first true single-seat fighter.

World War One Diary for (day), (Datum):

Air War

Western Front: First RFC Sopwith Pup Squadron (No 54) arrives in France, now 38 active squadrons with 700 aircraft against 33 German Jagdstaffeln (establishment 14 planes each). No day flying possible.

Western Front

Christmas.
Germany: Major Wetzel and OHL estimate that US expeditionary force on Western Front not possible before spring 1918.

Eastern Front

Russia: Tsar‘s Order to Army and Navy stresses no thought of Peace till ‘final victory’

Middle East

Armenia: Fighting round Lake Van, Turks driven south on December 28.
South Persia – Action of Dasht-i-Arjan: c.400 British & Persians troops forced back to Shiraz (until December 28).

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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.