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:
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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:
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US troops march through a French village to the front:
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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):
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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:
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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):
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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Salonika: During June 10,000 French and 10,000 British withdrawn for Western Front (12 British battalions transferred from June 16); Greek 2nd (Athens) Division becomes operational (in line by June 26); 28 Bulgarians desert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.