Western Front
Kaiserschlacht: Strong local attack by Germans between La Clytte and Voormezeele, making gains around Morlancourt.
Australians push forward.
Activity in Avre valley.
The Royal Air Force is reorganized. The designations of the newly established Areas are revised to reflect their geographical locations within the United Kingdom:
• No.1 Area became South-Eastern Area - Major General F.C. Heath-Caldwell
• No.2 Area became South-Western Area - Major General M.E.F. Kerr
• No.3 Area became Midland Area - Major General J.F.A. Higgins
• No.4 Area became North-Eastern Area - Major General the Honorable Sir F. Gordon
• No.5 Area became North-Western Area - Major General G.C. Cayley
Hugh Trenchard accepts command of Independent Air Force for bombing Germany.
The first heavy British strategic bombers is the Handley-Page 0/400, here in flight. But they arrive too late to see many operations before the armistice:
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Frenchwomen workers at a food warehouse for American soldiers: © IWM (Q 69425):
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British officer at Neulette, France feeding a canary rescued at the front: © IWM (Q 10948):
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Eastern Front
Russia: German forces occupy Rostov, on the Don.
Southern Front
Salonika: 6 RAF aircraft drop 4,500lb bombs (in 72 sorties) on Bulgarian Drama airfield, 24 aircraft bomb rail stations and dumps on May 13-14; 27 aircraft bomb Hudova airfield (repeated on May 21, 23, 29, 30); probable 8 Bulgarian aircraft shot down in May.
Naval and Overseas Operations
Mediterranean: Royal Navy convoy sloop
Wallflower depth charges and sinks veteran
U-32 attacking convoy 40 miles northwest of Malta.
Adriatic: 4 Austrian destroyers fail to land raiding party to cut coast railway north of Pescara (night May 8-9).
Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Mesopotamia: Operations continued on Baghdad-Mosul road.
Turkish troops attacked by British airmen on Tigris, north of Tekrit.
Political, etc
Russia: Red Army forms General Staff under Lenin’s friend Major-General Bonch-Bruevich with 5 fronts.