Western Front
Second Battle of Noyon:
Second Battle of Noyon ends (see 17th) with Noyon being retaken by French forces (see March 25th). French also cross River Ailette.
Second Battle of the Somme: Bapaume retaken by New Zealand forces (see March 24th).
New Zealand troops capture the commune of Bapaume, France from the Germans:
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Battle of the Scarpe 1918: Canadians advance nearly 1,000 yards, taking 2 villages on river Sensee.
A British tank stuck in the Scarpe marshes near Fampoux: © IWM (Q 7037):
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Sniper kills British war poet Lt H L Simpson at Hazebrouck. CIGS telegram warns Haig ‘
the War Cabinet would become anxious if we received heavy punishment in attacking the Hindenburg Line without success’.
German cemetery of honor for soldiers killed in the Flanders battles of 1914, at which the marching back soldiers said ‘It seems they are well lying there, because they have overcome it’:
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Western Front, Air: 16 RAF D.H.9s cause fires at Cambrai and Valenciennes stations, but 20 German fighters (4 lost) thwart 12 D.H.9s (2 lost) from bombing Somain station and their 15 escorting Sopwith Camel fighters lose 5. Germans claim 40 aircraft for loss of 4.
A Senegalese veteran writes a letter with his prosthetic arm, Paris:
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Canadian troops on the advance east of Arras as a shell bursts near them:
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A French soldier looking at German signposts at the newly recaptured village of Tilloloy: © IWM (Q 78991):
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An American wounded soldier learns to operate a typewriter at the Walter Reed Hospital in Washington DC. A special device attached on his arm shifts the keys:
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A tractor pulls a RAF Handley Page O/400 bomber into position before a mission near Ligescourt, France:
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French FT-17 tanks move up to support French troops near Juvigny: © IWM (Q 69945):
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Naval and Overseas Operations
Spanish S.S
Casara torpedoed and sunk by German submarine.
Political, etc
Russia: British Embassy at Petrograd attacked by Bolshevist troops; Captain Cromie, Naval Attache, killed.
Bulgaria: Visit of Kaiser Wilhelm to Tsar Ferdinand of Bulgaria at Nauheim.
United States: Mr. John Ryan to be Assistant Secretary of War, with title and functions of Director of Air Service.