Western Front
Second Battle of Noyon: French advance on Noyon, to Quierzy (south of Oise) and to River Divette from Evricourt to mouth (north of Oise).
Second Battle of the Somme: Albert and Bray-Albert road recaptured by British forces (see 21st, and March 26th). 1st Australian Division shatters 2 German counter-attacking divisions. Haig tells army commanders
‘It is no longer necessary to advance … step by step’. 32 Allied divisions have beaten 42 German divisions on 47-mile front since August 8.
Haig diary
‘Foch’s strategy is a simple straight forward advance by all troops … to keep the enemy on the move’.
Germany: No 104 Squadron loses 7 D.H.9s over Karlsruhe and Mannheim.
British troops duck as a German shell bursts near them: © IWM (Q 6963):
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A Scots Guardsman giving water to a wounded German prisoner: © IWM (Q 6983):
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French Renault FT-17 tanks advancing in the Aisne area:
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A New Zealand soldier reading a newspaper in a captured German trench near Puisieux:
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German prisoners being led through Bucquoy: © IWM (Q 11219):
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British Whippet tanks advancing towards the town of Achiet-le-Petit:
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Funeral ceremony for an American soldier in France:
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British Mark V (armed with machine guns or “female”) tanks advancing through Meaulte, France after its capture: © IWM (Q 7302):
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New Zealand troops in shell holes as German artillery lands in the distance at Achiet-le-Petit:
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Southern Front
Albania: Last Central Powers’ military success in full swing, regaining Devoli and Semeni river lines.
Austro-Hungarian Army stormtroopers on the Balkan Fronts in 1918: https//i1.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/oesterr-sturmtruppen.jpg?ssl=1
Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Siberia: Japanese detachment joins Grigori Semyonov at Manchuria Station.
Naval and Overseas Operations
Britain: Battlecruiser
Hood launched by John Brown yard on Clyde, completed May 1920.
North Sea: U-boat sinks US Belgian Relief Commission ship
Gasconier off Haugusemb in Norwegian waters, kills 6 and wounds others firing on lifeboats.
Political, etc
Russia: Statement of Allies at Archangel of aims.
United Kingdom: British Prime Minister Lloyd George states that without women’s help in the war effort, “
Great Britain, and, I believe, all the Allies, would have been unable to withstand the enemy attacks of the past few months.”