Western Front
Second Battle of Passchendaele phase of the
Third Battle of Ypres: French continue progress in Belgium. Canadian losses since October 26 2,481 soldiers, but 370 German PoWs taken.
Verdun: Germans gain footing from Chaume Wood to Bezonvaux.
Aisne: French attack on Oise-Aisne Canal and German counter-attack both fail. German “attack” in Champagne repulsed.
Lieutenant Gontermann, top-scoring German ‘balloon buster’ (39 victories since April 8; see picture on June 24, 1917), dies when his Jasta 15 Fokker Dr I breaks up in flight; shortly after all German triplanes temporarily grounded. First 5 of 12 fighter Jagdgruppen (36-75 aircraft each) made permanent.
French troops at a captured German war cemetery near Bixschoote: © IWM (Q 78977):
https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...209138686660608
Eastern Front
Operation Albion: Germans bring the operation to a close, having accomplished all their objectives.
Southern Front
Isonzo: Twelfth Battle Of Isonzo, aka, the Battle of Caporetto (until November 9): Gorizia retaken by Austro German forces, and continue until eight miles further west.
Italian 2nd and 3rd Armies retreat. Italians retreat from Carnia front.
Germans claims now reach 100,000 prisoners.
Despite rain and snowstorms German 200th Division crosses river Torre at 0400 hours and occupies Udine (now Venetia) 20 hours after Comando Supremo and Second Army headquarters evacuate, latter formation split in two.
Infantry crosses a river in Northern Italy during the Battle of Coporetto:
https://i2.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...alien.jpg?ssl=1
Abandoned Italian equipment at Cividale del Friuli, as the Germans and Austro-Hungarian advance continues: © IWM (Q 85982):
https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...968845827764224
Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Palestine: Third Battle of Gaza: Allied forces continue their bombardment of Turkish positions.
Political, etc
France: French newsreel showing recent advances from the Aisne River to the Chemin des Dames:
http://www.iwm.org.uk/embed/?id=106...media_id=379430 [note: won’t play for me, you might have better luck]
Italy: Signor Vittorio Orlando Italian Prime Minister.
United States: U.S. second Liberty Loan: $1,000,000,000 has been subscribed.