Diary June 21, 1917

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

Richthofen's Fokker Dr I — Richthofen lands with his Fokker Dr I.

World War One Diary for Thursday, June 21, 1917:

Air War

Western Front: First operational Fokker Dr I triplane fighters delivered to Richthofen’s Jasta 11 at Courtrai.

Western Front

Flanders: British Fourth Army (Rawlinson) begins operations on Flanders coast (until November 18); they involve 8 divisions.

Eastern Front

Russia: Kerensky reviews on June 19 newly formed Women’s ‘Death Battalion’ at Petrograd. Denikin arrives at Minsk to take over Western Front.

Middle East

Mesopotamia, Persia: Turks by now reoccupy Kizil Ribat and Kasr-i-Shirin.

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Kretaner

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.