View Single Post
  #744  
Old 01-21-2018, 11:56 AM
gekkogecko's Avatar
gekkogecko gekkogecko is offline
Pixie's Resident Reptile
 
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Central MD, USA
Posts: 21,072
21 January 1918

Western Front
French trench raid in Argonne.
British bomb Thionville and Metz district. Royal Flying Corps bomb German Flanders airfields (and on January 23), Roulers (and on January 28), Menin, and Coutrai bombed (January 22).
Germany: Erich Ludendorff makes final decision to launch great spring offensive. D-Day to be March 14.
Lorraine: US 1st Division takes over 8 miles of trenches northwest of Nancy (first casualties January 30).
Flanders: Jan Smuts and Maurice Hankey visit GHQ (until Jnauary 26), find no alternative to Douglas Haig.
Paul von Hindenburg, Emperor Wilhelm II and Erich Ludendorff on the ordnance map: https://i2.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...dorff.jpg?ssl=1
German prisoners stacking trees in Eawy Forest, France, while members of the French Native Labor Corps watch over: © IWM (Q 10238): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...110264701177862

Southern Front
Salonika
: 3 Royal Flying Corps aircraft fly to Mudros to share in bombing of battlecruiser Yavuz Sultan Selim (aka Goeben); 7 more aircraft sent on January 22 and 28, return on January 29.

Naval and Overseas Operations
Transport H.M.S. Louvain torpedoed and sunk in Mediterranean by UC-22, resulting in 224 deaths and 16 survivors.
Mozambique: War Office reports ‘further progress’ in East Africa.
British occupy Mwembe.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Mesopotamia
: 12 Royal Flying Corps DH4s (1 lost to anti-aircraft guns) bomb German Kifri airfield. 2 German aircraft retaliate against Baghdad on January 24, Royal Flying Corps respond against Humr and Kifri airfields (night January 25-26).

Political, etc
Austria-Hungary
: Strikes reported at an end, but 7 divisons permanently recalled from fronts and news leaks to Germany. Factory workers to get extra bread rations, at Army’s expense.
Germany: Germany announces agreement with Ukraine.
Emil Jellinek, an entrepreneur at the Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft (later Mercedes-Benz) who introduced the Mercedes 35hp car (named after his daughter), passed away: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...095162086215680
Russia: Lenin discusses German peace terms with 63 Red leaders, 32 vote for ‘revolutionary war’
France: Ex-Interior Minister Louis-Jean Malvy’s Senate trial (until August 6).
United Kingdom: Sir E. Carson resigns.
Daily Mail attacks General Staff for squandering Britain’s manpower.
Man-power Bill passes Committee stage.
__________________
On the kinkometer, my kink measures as a sine wave.
Reply With Quote