Saturday, November 4, 1944. Sir John Dill.

Self propelled U.S. 155 shelling German positions with captured German artillery projectiles, November 4, 1944.

Australian forces landed at Jacquiot Bay in New Britain.

The last major air raid on Bochum, German occured.  4,000 buildings and 1,000 people were lost in the raid by the RAF.

The Red Army took Szolnok and Cegled on the way to Budapest.

Royal Navy Minesweepers reached the port of Antwerp while the logistical tail continued to reach back principally to Normandy, a major problem for the Western Allies.

The 5th Indian Division took Kennedy Peak, south of Tiddim.

Field Marshall Sir John Dill died in Washington D. C. at age 63.  The British officer was immensely respected in Washington, and is buried at Arlington.

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Friday, November 3, 1944. Generals.

Labels: 1940s, 1944, George S. Patton, Kamikaze, Radio

Friday, October 13, 1944. Black Friday for the Black Watch.

L-R: Pfc. Edward J. Motyl, Scitico, Conn.; Pfc. Joseph Bukea, Merdon, Conn., and Cpl. Tony Marinaro, Waterbury, Conn., warm themselves at a fire near a wayside shrine. as Pfc. John Rogus of Merdon, Conn., gets acquainted with a French peasant girl of the vicinity. 13 October, 1944. Urcourt, Metz sector, Doncourt-Jarny vicinity.

A British-Greek force landed at Piraeus, Greece.

The British took Carpineta, Italy.

A patrol returning to Corretta, Italy. The soldier in the foreground has a toy wagon carrying his machine gun. 13 October, 1944. 1st Armored Division.

The Germans retreated from Rovaniemi.

The Red Army broke through German lines at Riga.

The Germans hit Antwerp with V1s and V2s for the first time.

German POWs in the UK.

The Black Watch of Canada attacks at Hoogerheide, Netherlands, with disastrous results.

Navy Task Force 38 hits Formosa again, with the Japanese attempting to counter attack by air.

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Thursday, October 12, 1944. Heroes and explorers.

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Monday, September 4, 1944. Reaching Antwerp.

The British entered Antwerp, Kortenberg and Leuven.  They failed to take the Antwerp canal crossings.

The 7th Army took Bourg-en-Bresse.

The Red Army took Brașov and Sinaia, Romania.

Fighting stopped between Finland and the Soviet Union.  German troops fall back to Norway or embark for Germany at Baltic ports.

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Sunday, September 3, 1944. An agreement to end the Continuation War.

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Friday, October 9, 1914. Antwerp surrendered.

Belgian civil administrators surrendered the city of Antwerp.

German troops arrived at the Vistula.

Boston one Game 1 against Philadelphia in the 1914 World Series.

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Thursday, October 8, 1914. An Air Raid.

Labels: 1910s, 1914, Aircraft, baseball, Germany, Lighter than air aircraft, Music, Royal Navy, World War One

Monday, September 28, 1914.

The Germans began bombarding the fortress protecting Antwerp.

The French stopped the German advance around Arras.

Cpl. Grault had a bad day.

Grault was a French reservist who attempted to sell the plans for the Eiffel Tower wireless station to the German, and was therefore stripped of his rank and paraded before his cohorts.

The Germans scuttled the SMS Cormoran, SMS Iltis, SMS Luchs, and SMS Tiger off the coast of Tsingtau, China.

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Sunday, September 27, 1914. Cossack barbarity.

Labels: 1910s, 1914, Battle of Albert, Battle of Buggenhout, Belgian Army, French Army, German Army, Judaism, Maine, Russia, Ukraine

Friday, September 25, 1914. Battle of Buggenhout.

The Belgians launched an offensive at Buggenhout, near Antwerp.  

French forces captured the German fort at Kousséri, German Cameroon.

Oregon's Pendleton Roundup was on.

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Tuesday, September 22, 1914. A big day for the German Navy.

Labels: 1910s, 1914, French Navy, German Kriegsmarine, Royal Navy, Tahiti

Sunday, September 13, 1914. Improved Allied Positions In The West.

British forces crossed the Aisne at night.

The French retook the villages Pont-à-Mousson and Lunéville bringing the Battle of the Frontiers  to an end.  Some of the front in the  northeast would thereafter remain stable until 1918.

Stallupönen (now Nesterov) fell to the Germans in East Prussia.

Belgian troops returned to Antwerp.

Irish nationalist Roger Casement, who at one time had been a British diplomat met with German diplomat Franz von Papen in Washington D.C. to seek Germany's support for Irish independence.

The survivors of the Karluk arrived in Nome.

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Saturday, September 12, 1914. French and British victory at the Marne.

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Thursday, September 10, 1914. Germans on the retreat.

The German Army retreated from Verdun to the Aisne.

French soldiers resting at Marne, which was ongoing on this date a century ago.  Note their antiquated uniform colors.   This is an original color photograph, not colorized.

British cavalry reached the city of Leuven, Belgium.

Rebel forces captured Durrës, capital of Albania.

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Wednesday, September 9, 1914. Germany loses World War One.

Labels: 1910s, 1914, Antwerp Belgium, Barbara Tuchman, Belloc, First Battle of the Marne, German Empire, New Guinea, World War One

Wednesday, September 9, 1914. Germany loses World War One.

Chief of the Imperial German General Staff Helmuth von Moltke suffered a nervous breakdown upon hearing German forces were retreating from the Marne. 

He informed Kaiser Wilhelm; "Your Majesty, we have lost the war!". 

He was quite correct. The German gamble had failed.

He was 66 years of age, not that old by World War Two German standards, but old by the standards of the Great War.  His health was already poor. Barbara Tuchman characterized him as a self doubting introvert.  He wouldn't outlast the war, dying in 1916.

German Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg laid out Germany's war aims, a little late in the day, in the Septemberprogramm.

The war aims were:

1. France should cede some northern territory to Germany.
2. France should pay a war indemnity high enough to prevent French rearmament for the two decades.
3. France would partially disarm by demolishing its northern forts.
4. Belgium should become a vassal state of Germany
5. Luxembourg should be annexed to Germany
6. Buffer states would be created in territory carved out of the western Russian Empire/
7. Germany would create a Mitteleuropa economic association
8. The German empire would be expanded in Africa.
9. The Netherlands should be brought into a closer relationship to Germany

They didn't' get that.

Belgian troops gained ground at Aarschot.

Australia took Nauru, German New Guinea.

Hilaire Belloc with y Land and Water to write articles on the war.

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Tuesday, September 8, 1914. French attack at Marne.

Labels: 1910s, 1914, First Battle of the Marne, French Army, German Army, North Dakota, panoramic, Photography, The Big Picture

Friday, September 4, 1914. No separate peace.

The Triple Entente declared that its members would not arrive upon a separate peace.

The Germans attacked Belgian fortressed at Antwerp, worried about the probable progress of the British who had landed in France and proceeded to Belgium.

The Russians seized Lemberg in Galicia (Poland).

Captain Robert Bartlett requested of  American fur trader Olaf Swenson that his chartered fur trade vessel King and Winge stop at Wrangel Island to look for the survivors of the Canadian Artic Expedition.

Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith encouraging military recruitment at Guildhall, London.

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Thursday, September 3, 1914. Pope Benedict XV starts his reign.

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