Western Front
Kaiserschlacht: Flanders: Germans raid French positions south of Locre.
Aisne: 3 British divisions enter line to ‘rest’ (until May 15).
African American soldiers of the Harlem Hellfighters/Black Rattlers defending a trench near Maffrecourt: © IWM (Q 69943):
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Australian troops advanced 500 yards on a 2000-yard front against German troops at Morlancourt, France, taking 150 prisoners.
A British military traffic control signal post at Blendecques, France:
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A damaged German A.E.G. G IV aircraft brought down by anti-aircraft fire near Villers-Bretonneux:
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British troops erecting a camouflage screen besides a road at Abeele, Belgium to prevent German fire: © IWM (Q 8803):
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Eastern Front
Southern Russia: Max Hoffmann diary ‘…
OHL and Eichhorn are … driving the Ukraine back into the arms of Great Russia’. Russian ships shell German troops in Mariupol on Sea of Azov, General Haller’s Poles fight Germans at Kaniow. Denisov’s Anti-Soviet Cossacks capture Novocherkassk (reinforced by Drozdovski’s 900 Whites on May B), call Krug (Assembly) for the Salvation of the Don on May 11.
Southern Front
Salonika: British coy trench raid (81 casualties) west of Lake Doiran uses body shields, blows up pillbox (night May 6-7).
Naval and Overseas Operations
Sea of Azov: Russian ships bombard Germans in Mariupol Harbor.
Russian Black Sea Fleet arrives at Odessa, surrenders to local authorities.
Political, etc
Georgia: Turko-German delegates arrive at Batum to negotiate peace with the Georgians and Armenians (see April 22nd, May 26th, and June 8th).
United States:A street beneath the Brooklyn Bridge in New York:
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