Western Front
Western Front at its longest, with 532 miles.
Second Battle of the Marne (German:
Unternehmen Friedensturm): Germans advancing on Epernay, reach Montasin-Chare la Rare (French later recapture. Chare) between Marne and Reims.
East of Reims French defeat Germans south of Prunay.
South-west of Reims French retake and lose Montvoison.
South-east of Villers-Bretonneux Australians advance line.
Germans reach Nanteuil-Pourcy but Italians counter-attack successfully.
General Max von Boehn, Commander of the German Seventh Army:
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30 German divisions engaged.
17 D.H.s attack Thionville (alternate target for Stuttgart).
German fighter units airborne 7 times trying to stem Allied air attacks on Marne bridges, claim overall 23 aircraft for loss of 6.
General John Pershing, commanding U.S. Army, made (Honorary) G.C.B., and Generals Tasker Bliss and Peyton March (Honorary) G.C.M.G.
At the 2nd Battle of the Marne, German troops continue advancing up the Marne, but lose ground to French and American counterattacks west of Épernay. German soldiers riding on a A7V tank:
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British troops targeting German aeroplanes near Les Essarts, France:
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Naval and Overseas Operations
RMS
Carpathia sunk by a German U-Boat in the Atlantic. This was the same ship which had rescued survivors from the RMS
Titanic in April 1912 and which rescued Moina Michael and hundreds of other stranded Americans in Naples at the outbreak of the war in 1914.
Political, etc
United States: Definitive US memo on Siberian intervention proclaims the principle of political non-interference (Japan approves on July 18).