Diary June 27, 1917

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

World War One Diary for Wednesday, June 27, 1917:

Air War

Western Front: First Sopwith Camel aerial victory of Royal Flying Corps (with No 70 Squadron first RFC unit to receive fighter, 3 more squadrons receive it July).

Western Front

Flanders: German ‘Long Max’ 15-inch gun at Luegenboom fires 55 shells at Dunkirk (24 mile range).

Middle East

Egypt: General Allenby becomes C-in-C EEF replacing Murray at Cairo.

Sea War

Biscay: French cruiser Kleber (42 lives lost) sunk off Brest by mines from UC-61.

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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.