Diary June 7, 1917

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

Captured German trenches on the Messines Ridge.

World War One Diary for Thursday, June 7, 1917:

Western Front

Flanders – BATTLE OF MESSINES RIDGE (until June 14): 9 divisions of British Second Army (Plumer) attack on 9-mile front and capture Messines-Wylschaete ridge. Attack preceded at 0310 hours by devastating, 500t largest non-nuclear explosion of 19 mines (1 still unexploded); causes panic in Lille 15 miles distant. British take 6,400 PoWs. German Gruppe Wytschaete commander Laffert sacked (June 16).
Belgium: Petain impresses King Albert at first meeting, tells him ‘The French Army is no longer what it was’, Belgians to join Anglo-French Flanders advance at certain stage.

Sea War

Atlantic: U-boats begin offensive off US East Coast. Q-ship Pargust (Campbell, crew win 2 Victoria Cross) sinks UC-29 (Rose) off southeast Ireland.
Baltic: First Congress of the Baltic Fleet (until June 28) at Helsinki tries to clarify C-in-C’s authority.

Air War

Western Front: Mannock scores his first victory.

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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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