Diary June 1, 1917

06-1917, Diary WWI, War Diary, Year 1917 / 1 minute of reading

Variety of types on an allied airfield — Variety of types on an Allied airfield. From front to back is a Morane-Saulnier P, S.E.5, D.H.5, F.E.2 and S.E.5a. The fast development of the aircrafts does not allow for uniformity.

World War One Diary for Friday, June 1, 1917:

Air War

Western Front: Significant numbers of SE5, Sopwith Triplane, Bristol Fighter and Spad S 13 enable Allies to regain air superiority.
USA: In June Major Raynal C Bolling Mission leaves USA for two-month tour of Allied aircraft manufacturing in Europe and remit to conclude licence production agreements.
Adriatic: In June No 6 Wing Royal Navy Air Service begins anti-U-boat patrols from Otranto.

Western Front

Britain: BEF has taken 76,067 PoWs to date.
Germany: During June Rupprecht transfers 10 divisions from Lens-Lille sector to Flanders.
Aisne: Up to 2,000 men of French 23rd and 133rd Infantry Regiments (43rd Division) mutiny until June 2 at Ville-en-Tardenois and Chambrecy (southwest of Reims), display red flag. German 4-coy local dawn attack preluded by 3-minutes mortar shelling and indirect MG fire behind French first line.

Sea War

Britain: During June Convoys being regularly run, 113 destroyers available for escort in Home Waters, 37 in Mediterranean, average of 55 U-boats at sea per day.
Mediterranean: 18 German and 3-4 Austrian U-boats on operations (until June 15).

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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.

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