Diary September 18, 1915

09-1915, Diary WWI, Year 1915 / 1 minute of reading

The ‘father of all dogfights’ is the dreaded German ‘ace’ hero Oswald Boelcke, who won 40 victories and dies in a flight accident.

Diary for Saturday, September 18, 1915:

Air War

Western Front: Immelmann and Boelcke share a victory, latter’s third.

Eastern Front

German Tenth Army (Eichhorn) takes Vilna and 22,000 PoWs.

Sea War

Holtzendorff withdraws all U-boats from Southwest Approaches and Channel due to US diplomatic protests. Pohl recalls High Seas Fleet U-boats as he refuses to operate under Prize Regulations: U-boat campaign virtually confined to Mediterranean.

Western Front

Flanders: French guns and Royal Navy shell German-held Belgian coast.

Southern Front

Italian Front: Slight Italian successes along whole front.

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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.