Western Front
Liege and Metz railways bombed by British airmen; Mannheim again attacked. 11 F.E.2s and 5 Handley Page bombers attack Kreuzwald electric power station.
Raid attempted on Paris by about 30 German machines, but only one reaches capital. 72 bombs cause 23 casualties.
A downed German Friedrichshafen G-III bomber at Villers-au-Bois being salvaged by British soldiers: © IWM (Q 12047): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...569125801840640
Canadian ace Billy Bishop returns, as Commander of No 85 Squadron (SE5s, with 3 American pilots), scores 27 more victories until June 19. Billy Bishop checks the Lewis machine gun, here still in his old Nieuport fighter: https://i1.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...uport.jpg?ssl=1
British 13-pounder anti-aircraft guns in action at Villers-au-Bois: © IWM (Q 8810): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...538921431748608
A U.S. Marine barrack camouflaged to hide it from German aerial surveillance: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...599329899274241

Southern Front
Italy: Increased artillery fighting along Piave; an attack at Capo Sile bridgehead repulsed.
Allied airmen active.

Naval and Overseas Operations
North Sea: HMS Vega picking up a ditched Sopwith Camel aircraft during anti-Zeppelin operations: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...508724087087105
Air-raids on Zeebrugge; a German torpedo boat sunk in harbor.
Mozambique: In East Africa British engage Germans between Nanungu and Mahua; capture guns and ammunition, (60 casualties including 11 Germans, 67 shells and 70,000 bullets), drive Germans westward.
Belgian Congo: Katanga Railway (Bukama – Cape Town) completed.

Political, etc
United States: U.S. Sedition Bill passed, and $300,000,000 voted for ordnance.

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Western Front
Kaiserschlacht: One source labels infantry fighting “unimportant”: Successful local raids round Arras. French raids on Kemmel front.
Artillery active south of the Avre.
A British soldier demonstrating to Americans on boxing at Moulle, France: © IWM (Q 9076): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...879915347992577
British soldiers giving instructions to Americans on camouflage at Moulle, France: © IWM (Q 10315): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...895014796316673
British and captured German soldiers carrying a wounded soldier back from the frontlines: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...925218637901826
A hospital in Paris destroyed by a German long-range cannon: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...198368378257409
A British soldier using a hose to extinguish a fire after an ammunition dump exploded at Saigneville: © IWM (Q 11479): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...243732397457408
Destroyed remains of a British ammunition dump at Saigneville, France after it caught fire: © IWM (Q 11478): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...228576573554692
Two French veterans showing off their prosthetic legs at an American Red Cross facility at St. Maurice. In the middle is a French boy who also lost a leg due to a grenade: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...274048742977536

Southern Front
Italy: Infantry fighting on Italian mountain front increases; much aerial activity.

Naval and Overseas Operations
Channel: British armed mercantile cruiser Moldavia, carrying American troops, torpedoed and sunk in Channel; one source says 56 lost, another says 64 lost.
Adriatic: Royal Navy submarine H.4 sinks returning coastal submarine UB-52 40 miles south of Cattaro.
UB-52 sunk on the way back to Cattaro: https://i1.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...UB-52.jpg?ssl=1
Belgian Congo: Katanga Railway (Bukama – Cape Town) completed.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Arabia: Arabs successfully attack Turks near Abu Naam (80 miles north of Medina).
Armenia: Movses Silikov retakes Sardarabad and drives Turkish 11th Division 30 miles north until May 24 while other Armenian units drive Turkish vanguard back to Amamli.

Political, etc
Russia: Factory delegates in Moscow call for strike against Soviet Government.
United Kingdom: War Cabinet decides to send 560-man military mission to Archangel to train Whites and 600 troops to Murmansk; they decide large scale intervention inevitable on May 29.
Robert Lockhart sends Foreign Office Savinkov plan ‘to murder all Bolshevik leaders on night of Allied landing and form a Government … in reality a military dictatorship’.
United States: U.S. National Conscription (fight or work) after 1 July decided on.
U.S. Army in France announces it will issue its troops 0.4 ounces of tobacco and 10 rolls of cigarette papers as part of daily rations.
Minor Allies: Costa Rica declares war on Germany (see September 21st, 1917).

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Western Front
Kaiserschlacht: Many raids by both sides.
Flanders: British at Nieppe Forest bombed by gas shells.
Aisne: 12 tanks from German lines unable to cross French ‘Bardooelles Trench’.
A German captured tank Mk IV is rolling to Allied lines: https://i1.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...-Tank.jpg?ssl=1
Germany: Thyssen blast furnaces and iron/steel works Hagendingen attacked by 8 DH9s of No 99 Squadron (which shoot down 1 fighter).
A nursery room at an American Red Cross hospital near Paris damaged by German bombs. There was no loss of life in this attack at the nursery: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...561907194417154
Britain: BEF Tank Corps Lieutenant-Colonel JFC Fuller writes ‘Plan 1919’ for Allied tank (4,992 requested) and all-vehicle breakthrough on broad front. Haig receives revised version July 21. Foch agrees in principle August 6. Further refinements of this plan served as the basis for the Blitzkrieg operations by the Germans in World War II.

Southern Front
Josef Kiss, the most successful flying ace of the Austro-Hungarian Empire with 19 victories, is killed in action over Italy: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...637419610857472

Naval and Overseas Operations
Cruiser USS Olympia joins Royal Navy squadron in Murmansk.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Palestine: British Field Marshal Edmund Allenby, commander of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, being greeted by members of the Jewish community in Jerusalem: © IWM (Q 13211): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...592111178739713
Mesopotamia: Kirkuk evacuated by the British forces (see 7th and October 25th).
Siberia: General F.C. Poole lands at Murmansk to organise the North Russia Expeditionary Force (see June 4th, 8th and 23rd).
General Grigory Semyonov makes steady progress, organising anti-Bolshevist forces in Siberia.

Political, etc
United Kingdom: Government issues statement exposing Sinn Fein intrigues with Germany and the revolutionary movement in Ireland.
Canada: Canada passes an Act granting women the right to vote in federal elections. Asian and aboriginal women are excluded.

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Western Front
Kaiserschlacht: Day and night trench raids by British.
Heavy shelling by Germans of Villers-Bretonneux area.
British air raid on Bruges docks.
The Royal Scots Greys doing drills at Brimeaux, France: © IWM (Q 8948) © IWM (Q 8948): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...955764042223619
British and French troops cheering on top of a captured German A7V tank near Saleux: © IWM (Q 65533): (Isn’t this photo a repeat?) https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...046369372024833

Eastern Front
Western Russia: Germans arrest 60 conspirators in Dvinsk.

Southern Front
Italian Alpini troops advancing on Mount Zigolon and Cima Bresena in the Alps: © IWM (Q 65333): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...985958236942336
Austro-Hungarian prisoners captured by the Italians at Tonale Pass: © IWM (Q 65331): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...016167585579010
Piave: Bersaglieri and Arditi surprise more Austrian Capo Sile positions and repel two counter-attacks (night May 25-26).
Trentino: Alpini attack in Tonale-Adamello region (west of Lake Garda) and capture line of five major peaks commanding upper Val Carnonica.
Austria-Hungarian position in the Alps 1918: https://i0.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...-1918.jpg?ssl=1

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Arabia: Arabs raid El Hasa and Ferafrai stations (Hejaz railway, north of Maan).
Persia: 1,600 British (51 casualties) with 4 guns defeat Saulat’s 4,800 tribesmen (estimated 600-700 casualties) at Deh Shaikh 11 miles west of Shiraz and return there on May 27.
Armenia: Heavy fighting continues between Ottoman and Armenian forces, with the Ottomans attacking at Karakilisa and Armenians counterattacking at Bash Abaran. Armenian 2nd Cavalry Regiment charge Turks successfully. Dro’s troops hold Bas-Abaran Defile north of Erevan (May 29) against Turkish 3rd Regiment of 11th Division.
Siberia: c.60,000-strong Czech Legion begins revolt against Reds.

Political, etc
Russia: First Congress of Councils of National Economy in Moscow.
Canada: Canadian workers in Toronto constructing a Felixstowe F5 Flying Boat: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...668881579966464
Belgium: King Albert thanks U.S.A.

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Western Front
Kaiserschlacht: No infantry actions of importance; increased artillery activity at certain points north and south of the Avre.
A shop in Amiens, France covered by sandbags to protect it from German bombs and artillery: © IWM (Q 11011): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...329463341764608
Aisne: 2 German PoWs reveal offensive next day, Duchene’s Sixth Army mans overdense first line from 16:15 hours.
Members of the Chinese Labour Corps in France entertaining British and American troops at Samer: © IWM (Q 8855): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...359665253969920
American, British, Canadian, and Australian soldiers playing a baseball game in France: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...389865698099201
African American soldiers in the US Army performing in a jazz band at Camp Upton in New York state: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...420063806140416

Southern Front
Good progress made by Italian troops in mountain passes between Lake Garda and Swiss frontier (Monticello and Adamello region).

Naval and Overseas Operations
H.M. Transport Leasowe Castle sunk in Mediterranean by enemy submarine, 101 lost.
North Sea: US Mine Squadron 1 (Captain Reg Belkap’s 19 minelayers with 5,530 mines) arrives at Invergordon to help lay Northern Barrage with 57,000 US-made mines in next 5 months, about 5% explode prematurely. Often 1 minelayer laid over 43 miles in 3 1/2 hours.
Grand Fleet cruises off Heligoland Bight minefields while Harwich Force goes through, but no German response. Destroyer Shakespeare mined but towed home by cruiser Centaur.
A mine of the type used in the Allied North Sea barrage built during 1918: https://i1.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...perre.jpg?ssl=1
Channel: Royal Navy patrol yacht Lorna depth charges and sinks coastal submarine UB-74 in Lyme Bay.
Mozambique: In Portuguese East Africa Germans driven south towards Upper Lurio river.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Armenia: Battle of Karakilise (until May 28): Nazarbekov, outflanked north and south by Turks, escapes via mountain paths and covers Delljan from west with 5,000 survivors (until May 29).

Political, etc
Russia: Trans-Caucasian Federal Government (see September 20th, 1917 and April 22nd, 1918), dissolved.
Georgia: The Democratic Republic of Georgia declares itself independent. The National Council Meeting in Tbilisi, Georgia declaring independence: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...298004455321600
Armenia: Armenian National Council assume charge of Armenian affairs (see June 8th).
Azerbaijan: Tatar National Council proclaim establishment of a "Republic of Azerbaijan."

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Western Front
Kaiserschlacht: Operation Blücher-Yorck begins (see June 6th). Known to the Allies as Battle of the Aisne 1918 or Third Battle of the Aisne on Chemin des Dames. 4000 German artillery pieces fire on Allied lines. German infantrymen then attack on a 25-mile front. Craonne again taken by German forces (see May 4th, 1917 and October 12th, 1918). Four tired French and 4 weak British divisions on river Aisne are attacked between Soissons and Reims, river first reached in under 6 hours. Germans capture Chemins des Dames and Craonne in record advance up to 12 miles destroying 4 divisions. 1 million German rounds phosgene and diphenyl-chlorarsine vs French troops; 4,980 gassed (71 deaths) until June 5. There is also a smaller attack between Locre and Voormezeele.
German stormtroopers cross a makeshift bridge during the drive against Chemin des Dames: https://i1.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...dames.jpg?ssl=1
Wounded British and French troops returning from the frontlines at Muscourt: © IWM (Q 6661): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...752248236990470
German troops reach the Aisne and Vesle Rivers, advancing 15 km against Allied lines. German troops on the advance: © IWM (Q 88094): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...782450623119360
Kaiser Wilhelm Geschuetz (long-range gun; aka Pariskanone) bombard Paris (104 shells until June 11).
German troops watching their artillery fire at British lines at Berry-au-Bac: © IWM (Q 55007): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...661649026666501
British troops defending against the new German offensive at the Aisne River at Maizy: © IWM (Q 6659): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...691851056304128
Germany: 12 F.E.2s (1 lost) of No 106 Squadron raid Kreuzwald power station and Metz-Sablon railway. An F.E.2 force-lands in enemy lines, crew escape and rejoin squadron on May 30. 3 Handley Pages attack Mannheim and Kreuzwald (night May 27-28).
Western Front: JG1 and 3, 5 Jagdstaffeln, 14 Schlachtstaffeln, 23 Fliegerabteilungen and 2 Bombengeschwader support Ludendorff’s Aisne offensive after lavish air reconnaissance, 19 planes lost until May 30, mainly to anti-aircraft fire; 3,323 fighter sorties until June 18.
France: 15 German aircraft (1 lost) raid Paris (4 bombs).
An American soldier training to use an anti-aircraft gun by aiming at a model aerocraft: © IWM (Q 108878): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...722051303342080

Southern Front
Italians storms Austrian positions at Capo Sile, north-east of Venice.

Naval and Overseas Operations
British air raid on Durazzo (Albania); Austrian torpedo-boat sunk.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Armenia: Battle of Karakilise (until May 28): Battle is ongoing, but no particular developments today.
Siberia: Czechs take over Chelyabinsk and refuse to surrender arms at Penza, take town on May 28 (400 Red casualties) but evacuate it on May 31.

Political, etc
United Kingdom: Parliamentary Paper (Cd. 9059) published on methods used by Germany in the past to influence British trade.
Finland: Carl Mannerheim resigns as C-in-C over future army organization (excessive German influence), leaves for Stockholm on June 1.

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Western Front
Kaiserschlacht: Operation Blücher-Yorck. Known to the Allies as Battle of the Aisne 1918 or Third Battle of the Aisne: Germans cross the Aisne on 18-mile front; battle of plateau between Aisne and Vesle, Allies fall back, Germans force passage of Vesle. Allies left and right wings make stand at Vregny plateau and heights of St. Thierry. Germans now have 40-mile wide, 15-mile deep bridgehead across Aisne, also cross the Vesle. Ex-BEF GHQ liaison officer General des Vallieres, French 151st Division Commander, killed by German machine-gun at Juvigny. Allied stand at Vregny plateau and heights of St Thierry as 3 reserve divisions arrive. German officer reports ‘regrettable excesses … serious drunkenness’. Germans capture Magneux airfield on Aisne with all its aircraft. A second French bomber group joins Aisne air battle.
German troops on the advance: © IWM (Q 88094): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...782450623119360
German troops advancing on Fismes during the 3rd Battle of the Aisne: © IWM (Q 55017): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...123499329642498
Tired British soldiers sleep in a ditch while a French soldier stands guard: © IWM (Q 6681): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...153695915167744
Line restored south of Ypres.
Battle of Cantigny: First AEF offensive operation, by US 28th Infantry Regiment (3,874 men; 823 casualties), 1st Division captures village and beats off 3 counter-attacks by German 82nd Reserve Division (c.1,000 casualties) until May 29.
US troops supportted by French Schneider tanks advance during the Battle of Cantigny: https://i0.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...tigny.jpg?ssl=1 and https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...138599985909761
“Big” British R.A.F. raids into Germany: 10 DH9s of No 99 Squadron attack rail targets at Bensdorf.
A British soldier in a ditch with his pet dog at Guyencourt: © IWM (Q 6682): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...078189832265729
British tank captured by the Germans: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...093297375465473

Eastern Front
The Cossacks of the Don notify Ukraine Government of their opposition to the Soviets and of independence of the rest of Russia.

Southern Front
Italy: Two Austro-Hungarian counter-attacks repulsed at Capo Sile. General Armando Diaz informs Ferdinand Foch and CIGS Sir H Wilson that he has postponed his own offensive (towards Valsuguna) to deal with imminent Austrian one.
British aeroplanes bomb Cattaro.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Palestine: British advance two miles north from Jaffa.
Armenia: Battle of Karakilise (until May 28): Severe fighting near Alexandropol (90 miles south of Tiplis).
Siberia: Colonel Grigory Semyonov forced by Bolsheviks to retire to right bank of Onon (Mongolia).

Political, etc
Between warring powers: British Government opens negotiations with Germany for direct exchange of prisoners on lines of Franco-German Convention.
Armenia: Armenia declares her independence. The documents of Armenia and Azerbaijan's declaration of independence: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...046691049541636

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Western Front
Kaiserschlacht: Operation Blücher-Yorck. Known to the Allies as Battle of the Aisne 1918 or Third Battle of the Aisne: Soissons again taken by German forces (see 27th and August 2nd). Further Allied retreat. On left, the Germans sweep over Vregny Plateau, take Soissons; in center gain heights south of the Vesle, make progress towards the Marne, and cross river Ourcq. French forced off ‘Paris Line’. Duchene tells Clemenceau his army ‘simply marching to the rear’. On right, Allied troops covering Reims fall back behind Aisne Canal.
French PoWs who were captured at the opening stages of the German offensive: https://i1.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...rz-KG.jpg?ssl=1
Germans repulsed near Kemmel.
Bombs on Metz and Thionville; Half of 12-strong formation of No 99 Squadron return with engine trouble.
Four French Spad fighter patrols (1 lost) first encounter new Fokker D-VII and claim to shoot 5 down.
French and British troops defending an open field near Courville: © IWM (Q 6656): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...376371954933760
A French refugee family at Reuil fleeing the German offensive: © IWM (Q 6690): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...409076948029440
German troops enjoying fresh milk from a cow they captured in the French countryside near Soissons: © IWM (Q 55335): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...440592197545989
French and British soldiers on the retreat, along with a pig they brought with them, at Romigny: © IWM (Q 6692): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...470811964891138

Southern Front
Artillery actions on the Doiran-Vardar front and in Serbian sector.
Bad weather hampers activity.

Political, etc
Austria-Hungary: Peace Treaty signed at Vienna between Austria-Hungary and Finland.
Russia: Central Executive Committee decrees partial conscription for Red Army and forms Supreme Revolutionary Tribunal. Martial law in Moscow; Lenin sends Stalin to Tsaritsyn to organize food supplies.
United Kingdom: Report of Food Production Department issued, showing that four million acres have been added for tillage; and that four-fifths of country's food for the year will be home-grown.
United States: U.S. communique sympathising with Czecho-Slovaks and Yugo-Slavs.
Finland: Government forms special 5-man courts to try Reds (67,000 convicted, 265 executed); 11,783 Red PoWs die of disease until August.

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Western Front
Kaiserschlacht: Operation Blücher-Yorck. Known to the Allies as Battle of the Aisne 1918 or Third Battle of the Aisne: French hold Germans up south of Soissons, preventing further advance. Fère-en-Tardenois taken by German forces (see 27th and July 28th): in center Germans capture Fere-en-Tardenois and Vezilly, and increase their pressure towards Ville-en-Tardenois, reach the Marne near Jaulgonne, and gain some forts north-west of Reims. Germans claim capture of 35,000 prisoners and much war material. Germans reach river Marne in strength, capturing Chateau-Thierry and Dormans and advance on Compiegne but 8 Allied divisons arriving including US 3rd Division. French retire from river Ailette. British form Gater’s Force (until June 19) from 21st Division remnants. Foch gives Petain reserve Tenth Army (Maistre) from Picardy.
Banks in Sopwith Camel of No 43 Squadron destroys Friedrichshafen night bomber; RAF bomb towns behind German lines in occupied France and Belgium.
Germany: 16 D.H.4s attack Thionville; direct hits on officers’ billet (10 casualties), rail station, tracks and rolling stock.
France: 6 German bombers raid Paris (and on May 31), 17 bombs cause 6 casualties.
North Sea: 5 German seaplanes (from Borkum) destroy Yarmouth-based flying boat (3 PoWs including US NCF Ensign JJ Roe)
German troops in the ruined streets of Soissons: © IWM (Q 87661): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...501022228025346

Southern Front
Macedonia: Franco-Greek success at Srka di Legen, 1,500 prisoners taken (11 miles west of River Vardar). At 0455 hours Greek Crete and Archipelago divisions (2,659 casualties) storm fortified Bulgarian 49th Regiment salient, rocky outwork of their line 10 miles west of the Vardar, in a morning behind Anglo-French creeping barrage and after diversionary operations since May 28; 1,812 Bulgarian-German PoWs (800 killed), 50 MGs and 60 mortars taken. Brilliant limited military success of great political value in Greece for Venizelos, makes war fashionable. Bulgarian afternoon and night counter-attacks fail.
Greek Evzones in May 1918. The five elite Evzone regiments are used as assault troops, but incurred such heavy losses in the two Balkan and World Wars that they were disbanded in 1944, leaving just the Royal Guard: https://i1.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...zones.jpg?ssl=1
Trentino: 35 Royal Flying Corps Sopwith Camels bomb (1t) and strafe (9,000 rounds) Austro-Hungarian huts north of Val d’Assa.
Italian Voisin lands air observer Lieutenant Camillo de Carlo behind Austrian lines for 3 months; he discovers date of Piave offensive.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Mesopotamia: British bomb Turks at Fatha (Tigris, above Tekrit) and at junction of Lesser Zab river.

Political, etc
Japan: Publication of Chino-Japanese Note re: military agreements.

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Western Front
Kaiserschlacht: Operation Blücher-Yorck. Known to the Allies as Battle of the Aisne 1918 or Third Battle of the Aisne: Germans reach Marne river from Chateau Thierry to Dormans and advance on Compiegne. French retire from River Ailette, drive Germans east of Sempigny, and recover Thillois (west of Reims).
Battlefield debut of French Renault FT-17 light tank: 30 (3 lost) in Retz Forest helps stem German advance as do 4 more divisions.
French light FT-17 with Hotchkiss machine-gun passes Allied soldiers in the summer 1918: https://i0.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...-17-1.jpg?ssl=1
A British soldier taking cover as German artillery shells burst near him at Achicourt, France: © IWM (Q 11038): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...136371165892608
During May 250,000 US troops sail for France, record of 9 divisors land.
British bomb Karlsruhe, (78 casualties) and stop factory production for 1 hour.
Air-to-air combat over river Aisne costs 12 German and 17 French aircraft. Lieutenant Duncan Campbell (94th Aero Squadron) becomes first American air arm ace with his 5th victory. Total Allied May losses 362 aircraft and 24 balloons. German non-combat loss 175 aircraft and 201 in action.
A crashed RAF Sopwith F.1 Camel aircraft in France: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...863415860748289
French refugee woman with her dog at Dormans fleeing the German offensive: © IWM (Q 6689): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...772759028989953
American cavalryman at Rennes, France: © IWM (80360): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...802995447881728
The statue of St. Luke decapitated by the German bombing of the Madeleine church in Paris: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...833205346062336

Southern Front
Greek and French troops capture Bulgarian positions at Skra, taking over 2000 prisoners. Bulgarian prisoners of war: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...104953706635264

Naval and Overseas Operations
British destroyer HMS Fairy sunk in collision with SM UC-75, which also sinks. The Fairy: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...166578698387457
President Lincoln, U.S. transport, torpedoed by U-90; 26 dead.
During May Allied and neutral shipping lost to U-boats: 112 ships (59 British with 407 lives lost) worth 294,019t (192,432 British including ship mined). U-boat figure 139 ships worth 296,558t including most successful 1918 month in Mediterranean, 56 ships worth 122,7175t of which 12 (9,923t) to Austrians. Record of 14 U-boats sunk (3 in Mediterranean).
Mozambique: Fighting near Imagu Hills (160 miles north-east of Blantyre).

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Arabia: British bomb Turkish camps near Amman (Hejaz railway).

Political, etc
France: Paris munition plants: ‘Morale of the workers is excellent’.
United Kingdom: War Savings certificates reach 2 million. In May Labour Ministry creates Appointments Department for officers. May’s 197,274t new merchant shipping a record.
Turkey: Great fire at Constantinople for 27 hours, causes 520,000 Turkish Pounds damage. Maximum prices abolished, trade made free.
Belgium: Gérard Cooreman succeeds Charles, Baron de Broqueville as Prime Minister.
United States: War Secretary can conscript conscientious objectors for unpaid farm work.
Frederick Trump, German-American businessman born in Kallstadt, Kingdom of Bavaria, has passed away in Queens, New York: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...878502524772357
Netherlands: Dutch Government refuses to tolerate British examination of convoyed ships.

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164 Days to Armistice

Western Front
Kaiserschlacht: Operation Blücher-Yorck. Known to the Allies as Battle of the Aisne 1918 or Third Battle of the Aisne: Germans advance down River Ourcq, taking Chouy and Neuilly St. Front.
Marne: Germans held between the Oise and Marne (US 3rd Division MG battalion in action, with 5 more divisions arriving including US 2nd) but reach edge of Villers-Cotterets Forest 40 miles from Paris.
Champagne: French lose and retake Fort de la Pompelle (dominating Reims-Chalons Railway, south-east of Reims); French retreat between Oise and Aisne to line Carlepont Wood (south of Noyon) - Fontenoy (north of Soissons).
Map of the latest German advance: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...242081174310913
German bombardment of, and air raid on, Paris. 3 German bombers raid Paris (14 bombs, 28 casualties), single aircraft raids (June 3-7, 15,26) and three more (June 27, 2 lost, 25 casualties).
A chart for recognizing German military airplanes: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...483660375945218
US troops march through a French village to the front: https://i0.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...stadt.jpg?ssl=1
The Royal Air Force Nursing Service is formed.
Germans claim 32 Allied aircraft for loss of 12. Captain P L Weiller made Commander of Groupe des Escs de Grande Reconnaissance (Breguet recon, artillery spotter and bomber units).
A Handley Page Type O/400 bomber preparing to takeoff at Dunkirk Aerodrome for a mission: © IWM (Q 11547): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...544057187487745
Germany: During June 1,000-2,000 flu cases per German division.
An American Red Cross nurse serving water to a badly wounded British soldier at Montmirail, France: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...196783743864834
Allied military officials meet in Versailles to coordinate the war. General Herbert Studd, Chief of Staff of the British section of the Supreme War Council, arriving: © IWM (Q 78174): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...513858211262464

Southern Front
Salonika: During June 10,000 French and 10,000 British withdrawn for Western Front (12 British battalions transferred from June 16); Greek 2nd (Athens) Division becomes operational (in line by June 26); 28 Bulgarians desert to British in mid month warn of offensive, but cancelled due to mutiny. 80,000t of supplies per week being landed at Salonika (10,109 British casualties in hospital).
During June Anglo-French claim to destroy 12 Bulgarian aircraft.
Italian Front: Diaz warns his 7 army commanders not to repeat recent Anglo-French Western Front mistakes with their reserves. During June Czechoslovak Division formed.
Adriatic: In June Germans send 6 seaplanes for courier and postal work.

Naval and Overseas Operations
Mozambique: Germans retreat in East Africa, crossing River Lurio (to east of southern end of Lake Nyassa).
Fighting near Imagu Hills (160 miles north-east of Blantyre, Nyassaland).

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Mesopotamia: Withdrawal of British in Kirkuk area (east of Tigris, between Mosul and Baghdad).

Political, etc
Germany: Krupp’s Essen Works now has 75,000 men and 23,000 women. During June 1920 conscript class called up.
France: Food rationing cards compulsory. In June Andre Maurois publishes Les Silences of Colonel Bramble.
United Kingdom: IN JUNE FLU PANDEMIC BEGINS IN INDIA AND BRITAIN. Required farm production 108% (February level). Sugar production cut to 25% of 1915 for year. OW Griffith’s Hearts of the World(starring Lillian Gish) opens in London in June.
United States: Food Administrator warns v boycotting sauerkraut (‘liberty cabbage’). War Secretary Baker authorizes inquiry into conscientious objectors, 130 Mennonites jailed.
At Pittsburgh, expatriate Czech and Slovak leaders sign an agreement to form a united, independent country after the end of the war.

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Western Front
Kaiserschlacht: Operation Blücher-Yorck. Known to the Allies as Battle of the Aisne 1918 or Third Battle of the Aisne: Violent battle on Ourcq; Germans take and lose Longpont, Corcy, Faverolles (again retaken) and Troesnes.
German attack on Chateau-Thierry road, south-east of Bouresches (north-west of Chateau-Thierry), repulsed.
French troops patrolling the damaged streets of Chateau-Thierry: © IWM (Q 58199): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...589361869918208
French capture Champlat (12 miles south-west of Reims).
Fierce fight at Choisy Hill, south of Noyon.
End of Third Battle of the Aisne.
Battle of Belleau Wood begins as American reserves are rushed to the woods to cover a gap created in the French lines by the German offensive.
(Listed for yesterday): Roderic Dallas, the 2nd most successful Australian ace with 39 victories, is killed in action over Liévin, France: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...574259707895815
Oberleutnant Göring awarded Pour le Merite. Hermann Göring with the Pour le Merite (Blue Max) around his neck: https://i0.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...erite.jpg?ssl=1
Germans claim 38 Allied aircraft for loss of 17.
A Paris block damaged by an overnight German Gotha bomber raid: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...830950995283969
Pershing to ask for 250,000 men per month in June and July.
A British soldier of the 6th Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment with the regiment’s cat mascot in a trench near Cambrin: © IWM (Q 8463): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...891343574847488
A British soldier wearing anti-mosquito clothing issued to soldiers on night duty during the summer: © IWM (HU 82035): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...921544623026177

Eastern Front
In the aftermath of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk and Russia's exit from the First World War, the Allied Supreme War Council sanctions joint intervention to secure the existing Allied presence in Russia's northern ports. The excuse is that Allied intervention is undertaken in an effort to inhibit the transfer of German troops between the Eastern and Western Fronts, to deny Russian resources to the Germans and to prevent the German Navy from using the ports as bases from which submarines could threaten transatlantic shipping.

Southern Front
An Italian Obice da 305/17 modello 16 self-propelled heavy howitzer at Sandrigo: © IWM (Q 78085): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...861145689116672

Naval and Overseas Operations
U.S.N. has 150 vessels in European waters.
At Allied Supreme War Council Admiral Revel says with pride no major Italian warship has left harbor for 6 months and no losses incurred!

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Siberia: Defeat of Bolsheviks by Semyonov in east Siberia.

Political, etc
Sweden: Publication in Politiken (Swedish Socialist paper) of Secret Convention between Germany and Finland.

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I'm not sure I'd ever heard the Allied reasoning for stationing troops in Russia's northern ports. Interesting tidbit. Thanks. So much good stuff in this series. Thanks, GG!

Western Front
Kaiserschlacht: Choisy Hill retaken by French for 5th time.
Germans capture Pernant (west of Soissons).
Petain organizes reinforced French cordon round Aisne salient. 27 Allied divisons have arrived since May 28. Legion stiffens French defense northwest of Villers-Cotterets (night June 5-6 until around June 14). French check German attempts to enter Forest of Villers-Cotterets, re-capture Faverolles.
French and US soldiers rush ammunition supplies to the front at the Aisne: https://i0.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...Aisne.jpg?ssl=1
Battle of Belleau Wood: After 30-mile advance Germans reach the Marne: French and Americans force Germans back over Marne at Jaulgonne (north-east of Chateau-Thierry). US 2nd and 3rd Divisions block the advance at Chateau-Thierry, ‘Retreat hell! We just got here’ attributed to Captain Lloyd S Williams USMC, Belleau Wood. Franco-American troops eliminate German Jaulgonne bridgehead (100 PoWs).
American soldiers manning a trench near Baccarat, France: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...253732707045377
Churchill visits BEF GHQ, Paris and Front until June 13.
Le radiogramme de la victoire’: French intercept German Eighteenth Army ammo delivery message, hints at Montdidier offensive (June 9).
Funeral for nurses killed in a air raid at a hospital at Etaples, France: © IWM (Q 11035): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...283932824121346
French and American troops inspect a German AEG G.IV bomber shot down near Catillon, France: © IWM (Q 65566): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...315393249890306

Naval and Overseas Operations
German submarines off New Jersey (U.S.A.) sink nine vessels. Six of them are by U-151: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...951743100149760 in a single day.
SS Pinar del Rio sunk off Maryland on June 8.
Mozambique: German retreat in East Africa; Germans dislodged from crossings of Upper Lurio.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Palestine: British air-raid on Amman (on Hejaz railway, 25 miles north-east of Jericho). Limited imports allowed through Egypt.
Siberia: Retreat of Semyonov on Borsia (120 miles from Karimskaya on Siberian Railway); similarly captures Gurks, 93 miles northeast on June 6, but retreats on June 10.

Political, etc
Among Allied Powers: British, French, and Italian Governments make declarations supporting national aspirations of Poles, Czecho-Slovaks, and Yugo-Slavs (see February 20th, June 29th, August 13th, September 25th and November 16th).
United Kingdom: The Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Force Cross, Distinguished Flying Medal and Air Force Medal are instituted for acts of gallantry in the air.
British Government admits recognition of Czecho-Slovak aims.
King George V fires all men up the age of 35 in the service of the royal household so that they can serve in the military.
Ireland: Proclamation of Lord French re: Irish recruiting.
Japan: Government approves Allied intervention in Siberia.
United States: U.S. Secretary of War Baker announces military deaths due to suicide, homicide, and military execution will not be disclosed and cause of death will be listed under “accidents and other causes.”

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Western Front
Kaiserschlacht: Germans capture Veuilly-la-Poterie (half-way between Ourcq and Chateau-Thierry).
Battle of Belleau Wood: Americans check Germans at Veuilly Wood.
Map showing the extent of the German advance at the Third Aisne Battle: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...558244026081280
France: Dover Patrol given 82nd Wing (7 squadrons) for continued bombing of Belgian coast. Germans bomb Dunkirk airfields (nights June 4-5, 5-6); 200 bombs from 24 aircraft disable 52 RAF aircraft on June 6 and 7 and force Couderkerque airfield’s abandonment.
North Sea: Large 50-minutes seaplane action off Terschelling Island, 2 of 5 RAF planes lost after action with 10 German seaplanes (1 washed ashore).
Western Front: Commander Vuillemin’s 120 French bombers (GB6 and GB9) break up German Ninth Army attack east of Retz Forest. Germans claim 18 Allied aircraft for loss of 1.

Eastern Front
British Marines land at Pechenga (North Russia) (see May 24th).

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Palestine: British air raid on Amman.
Persia: Lionel Dunsterville at Kazvin, leaves with Anglo-Russian force on June 5; 1,000 motorized troops and 2 guns with 500 vans forming at Hamadan (2 Duncars arrive on June 6).

Political, etc
Among Central Powers: Ukraine Government recognized by Central Powers.
Germany: German article on main Continental idea.
Russia: Robert Lockhart to British Foreign Office ‘If you do not intervene within … days or weeks … we shall have lost a golden opportunity’.
Lithuania: Lithuania proclaims royal constitution, Duke of Wurttemberg accepts throne (elected August 31).
Ukraine: The Don Cossacks declare independence.
France: M. Georges Clemenceau praises armies of French and Allies:, addresses French Chamber ‘I shall fight before Paris … in Paris … behind Paris.’, wins vote 337-110.
The old ‘Tiger’ Clemenceau (second from left) visits a French aviator unit: https://i0.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...nceau.jpg?ssl=1
United Kingdom: Men of 18 generally lose military service exemption.
Turkey: Government sign peace with Armenians, Azerbaijanis and Georgians.
Belgium: M. Gérard Cooreman succeeds Baron Charles de Brogneville as Belgian Prime Minister.
United States: Renewal of Anglo-American Arbitration Treaty.

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