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Old 07-04-2018, 12:10 PM
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4 July 1918

Western Front
Somme: Battle of Le Hamel
: Australians and Americans re-capture village of Hamel and Vaire Wood (east of Amiens). US troops, brigaded with British, in action for first time. Tank-aided (62 Mk V tanks, 3 lost) Australian Corps (Monash, 775 casualties) and 1,000 men of 33rd US Division (134 casualties) capture Hamel south of Somme in model 93-minute all-arms operation (600-gun creeping barrage) on 3 1/2 mile front to 1 1/2-mile depth; 1,472 PoWs; 2 guns; 171 MGs and 26 mortars taken. Australians advance 2,000 yards northeast of Villers-Bretroneux (July 5).
Australian and American troops fighting together at the battle: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...452546474332161
First air supply in mobile battle. Aircraft of No.9 Squadron drop 93 boxes of small arms ammunition to attacking Australian troops on the opening day of the Battle of Hamel. The drops are conducted from an altitude of 200 feet and two of the twelve aircraft involved are shot down by German ground fire. (Overall, 5 RAF aircraft lost to 5 German fighters and a balloon).
British pilots at Clairmarais aerodrome, France inspecting a map before a mission: © IWM (Q 12067): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...144251930775552
Champagne: Foch and Petain bring in reserves to meet impending German offensive (confirmed by PoWs and deserters on July 5). GQG 2eme Bureau (Intelligence) correctly says German main effort will be on Marne.
Marne: US I Corps (Liggett) relieves French III Corps west of Chateau-Thierry.
Allied Vickers MG gunners have settled in a discontinued German position: https://i0.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...llung.jpg?ssl=1
British General Herbert Plumer decorating women ambulance drivers for their bravery during air raids: © IWM (Q 6790): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...174467969437696
Belgian troops march past and salute the US flag as part of American Independence Day celebrations: © IWM (Q 9037): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...437438272495617
A soldier of the King’s Own Scottish Borderers in a recently-taken German trench in France: © IWM (Q 6819): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...482749628002304

Southern Front
Continued Italian advance in Piave delta and in Grappa sector.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Siberia
: Czechosovaks defeat Bolsheviks near Nikolaievsk (50 miles north of Vladivostok) and occupy the town.

Naval and Overseas Operations
North Sea
: 7 German Zeebrugge seaplanes damage 4 Felixstowe flying boats (1 shot down), down another British seaplane (July 18).

Political, etc
Russia
: Siberian Council declare “Independence” (see 6th).
France: American troops marching through Place de la Concorde in Paris to celebrate American Independence Day: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...543154555518979
United Kingdom: British Government reiterates British right of search, but waives it re: Dutch Convoy to East Indies.
Churchill main speaker at Anglo-Saxon Fellowship, Central Hall, Westminster.
Baseball game is played by US Army and US Navy servicemen at the Stamford Bridge football ground in London. King George V is in attendance: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...512969512837120
Ireland: Lord Lieutenant of Ireland John French restricts the activities of Sinn Fein, Irish Volunteers, and the Gaelic League, labeling them as “dangerous organizations.”
Turkey: Proclamation at Constantinople of Vahid-ed-Din as Sultan.
The former Sultan, Ottoman Sultan Mehmed V: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...114048357650433
And the last of the Ottoman Empire, Mehmed VI: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...416034181337088
United States: At Mt Vernon Independence Day celebration Wilson proclaims Allies’ 4 great aims: 1) ‘Destruction of arbitrary power’; 2) national self-determination; 3) national morality to be like individual’s; 4) peace organization to prevent war.
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