Diary May 8, 1918

05-1918, Diary WWI, War Diary, Year 1918 / 1 minute of reading

The first heavy British strategic bombers is the Handley-Page 0/400, here in flight. But they arrive too late to see many operations before the armistice.

World War One Diary for Wednesday, May 8, 1918:

Air War

Britain: Trenchard accepts command of Independent Air Force for bombing Germany.
Salonika: 6 RAF aircraft drop 4,500lb bombs (in 72 sorties) on Bulgar Drama airfield, 24 aircraft bomb rail stations and dumps on May 13-14; 27 aircraft bomb Hudova airfield (repeated on May 21, 23, 29, 30); probable 8 Bulgar aircraft shot down in May.

Eastern Front

Southern Russia: Germans occupy Rostov-on-Don.
USSR: Red Army forms General Staff under Lenin’s friend Major-General Bonch-Bruevich with 5 fronts.

Sea War

Mediterranean: Royal Navy convoy sloop Wallflower depth charges and sinks veteran U-32 attacking convoy 40 miles northwest of Malta.
Adriatic: 4 Austrian destroyers fail to land raiding party to cut coast railway north of Pescara (night May 8-9).

Politics

Nicaragua: Government declares war on Germany and Austria.

About The Author

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.