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Old 08-17-2018, 12:06 PM
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17 August 1918

Western Front
Second Battle of Noyon
begins: French capture Caesar's Camp trenches (west of Roye) and Canny-sur-Matz (north-west of Lassigny).
New advance of French in angle between Oise and Lower Aisne, with c.2000 yards gained, and over 2,000 PoWs (until August 18).
British gunners watch a French battery firing their 75-mm mle 1897 field guns: https://i2.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...ttery.jpg?ssl=1
French advance 1 mile north of Autreches.
Patients at a convalescent depot playing in the sea at Trouville: © IWM (Q 11194): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...119515332464640
British soldiers watch a performance by a concert party on a stage set next to a ruined building: © IWM (Q 11503): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...134612457078790
Women workers making cloth to be used for sandbags at a factory in Dundee: © IWM (Q 110010): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...149728137355270
American troops on a rifle range: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...164818282598404
Wounded New Zealand soldiers at hospital in Wisques France: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...422765311074309
American, French, and British sailors with a performing dog: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...452975062446087
American troops riding on a donkey cart in Lucy, France: © IWM (Q 80261): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...483177419231237

Eastern Front
Reported defeat of Bolsheviks on Ussuri front by Czechoslovaks.
Northern Russia: 2/10th Royal Scots march through Archangel behind US Marine band, reach Bereznik on river Dvina by barge on August 31.

Eastern Front/West Asia Border Theater
Azerbaijan
: Dunsterville arrives at Baku in SS President Kruger, 2 battalions follow, inspects defenses on August 18 while defenders lose Fatmai village on northern flank.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Siberia
: Arrival of U.S. troops at Vladivostok.
Announcement of re-capture of Irkutsk by Czechoslovaks and Siberian troops.


Naval and Overseas Operations
US cargo ship USS West Bridge is hit by 2 torpedoes from the German submarine U-107, killing 4. However, the crew save the ship from sinking, and it is later towed to port and repaired: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...179910189559809

Political, etc
United States
: The Martin MB-1 biplane, the first purpose-built bomber by the U.S., makes its first flight: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...392562975162368
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