Diary March 5, 1915

03-1915, Diary WWI, War Diary, Year 1915 / 1 minute of reading

Battleship 'Queen Elizabeth' bombarded Turkish forts — Battleship ‘Queen Elizabeth’ bombarded Turkish forts of the Dardanelles.

Diary for Friday, March 5, 1915:

Sea War

Dardanelles: Battleship Queen Elizabeth fires 21,000 yards (ca. 19 km) over Gallipoli Peninsula at Narrows’ forts until next day.
Aegean: 2 Royal Navy battleships and cruiser Euryalus shell Smyrna (and on March 7 and 28). Turks sink 5 block ships making Smyrna Port unusable to U-boats (Allied fear).

Western Front

Argonne: Three unsuccessful German counter-attacks at Hill 263.
Flanders: In private letter Sir J French laments ‘Silent Army’ of dead.

Eastern Front

Poland: Germans mass between Thorn and Mlava in North.
Carpathians: Russians cross river Bistritza in east and threaten Austrian flank. Austrian Second Army vainly attacks until March 10.

African Fronts

Anglo-Portuguese protocol defines Angola-Rhodesia border.
Southwest Africa: 43,000 South African soldiers massed in 4 forces against 9,000 Germans.

Air War

Western Front: German Army airship L233 shot down by anti-aircraft fire; crashes near Ostend.

Politics

Germany: Government replies to US protest on war zone.

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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.