Western Front
Kaiserschlacht: A claim that today, as opposed to several days ago:
Battle of the Aisne, 1918, ends (see May 27th). Germans capture village and height of Bligny (south-west of Reims); height re-taken by British; counter-attacks by Allies, especially in region nearest to Paris. Map of the battle area:
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Battle of Belleau Wood: US 2nd Division and 4th US Marine Brigade counter-attack west of Chateau-Thierry and capture Vaux, Bouresches and Belleau Wood (1,087 killed; 7,000 wounded). Crown Prince orders consolidation of line won. British recapture Fligny village height southwest of Reims until May 7. Clemenceau sacks Franchet d’Esperey from Northern Army Group, but sends him to Salonika on June 11. Allied Supreme War Council settles Haig-Foch tussle over reserves. Franco-US forces recapture Veuilly-La Poterie and Vinly.
US soldiers in battle, summer 1918:
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Gotha raid on Paris.
The first operational sorties are mounted by the Independent Force of the Royal Air Force. Ten de Havilland DH4s attacked Koblenz and five de Havilland DH9s attack Thionville.
RAF 9th Brigade (200 aircraft, squadron sent 3) reinforces 1,000 French aircraft in fierce air fighting over Roye, Montdidier and Noyon.
French Schneider tanks lined up before being loaded onto railway trucks at Conty:
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American soldier manning the trenches in Alsace: © IWM (Q 58200):
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A French refugee family at the Gare de Lyon railway station in Paris:
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British Army Service Corps preparing films for the soldiers’ entertainment: © IWM (Q 8885):
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Eastern Front
Josef Stalin arrives in Tsaritsyn by train with 2 armored cars and 400 Red Guards.
Southern Front
General Adolphe Guillaumat, Allied Commander-in-Chief, Salonika, recalled to Paris (see 15th and 18th and December 22nd, 1917).
Naval and Overseas Operations
Dutch hospital ship
Koningen Regentes sunk by torpedo from SM
UB-107:
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Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Siberia: Capture of Gurks (93 miles north-east of Borsia on Kharbin-Karimskaya Railway) by Semyonov.
Political, etc
Among Allied Powers: Britain, France, and Italy announce that they are committed in creating an independent Poland that has free access to the seas after the war.
Russia: Vladimir Lenin accepts German ultimatum for Black Sea Fleet’s return to Sevastopol.
United States: Belgian soldiers on parade in New York City:
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American soldiers training to use Ayrton or trench fans to clear poison gas from trenches at Camp Kearny, California:
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