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):
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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:
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Oberleutnant Göring awarded Pour le Merite. Hermann Göring with the Pour le Merite (Blue Max) around his neck:
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Germans claim 38 Allied aircraft for loss of 17.
A Paris block damaged by an overnight German Gotha bomber raid:
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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):
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A British soldier wearing anti-mosquito clothing issued to soldiers on night duty during the summer: © IWM (HU 82035):
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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):
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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.