A Century On: A Diary of the Great War

- The head of the Directorate of Military Aviation at the War Office in London today authorizes the expansion of the Royal Flying Corps, whi...

- Senator René Besnard, undersecretary of state of aviation in the War Ministry, publishes today a revised plan for aircraft production, whi...

- Colonel Hermann von der Lieth-Thomsen, chief of German field aviation, informs OHL today that the air arm will require a thousand aircraft...

- At the outbreak of the First World War, the British Royal Flying Corps had been a small unit whose pilots were drawn from the upper classe...

- Today Conrad achieves one of the great objectives of the war, one that however has nothing to do with the battlefield; instead it is marri...

- Near Loos the Germans launch a counterattack that catches the British and French largely by surprise, as poor weather has prevented aerial...

- In Artois French aircraft bomb railways running between Lille, Valenciennes, Douai, and Cambrai in an effort to disrupt the movement of Ge...

- Three wings of the Royal Flying Corps, comprising twelve squadrons, begins an aerial bombing campaign today in support of the forthcoming ...

- Recently-promoted Brigadier-General Hugh Trenchard is appointed today to command the Royal Flying Corps on the Western Front.  Having lear...

- Realizing that efforts to dissuade the French from insisting that the British Expeditionary Force attack south of La Bassée Canal are futi...

- In an effort to expand aircraft production, the French government orders that skilled workers from aircraft factories who had enlisted or ...

- At Ypres the French line near the Yser Canal has been reinforced by elements of 152nd and 153rd Divisions, and a French counterattack agai...

- After the loss of Hill 60 yesterday evening, the Germans have moved up 19th Saxon Regiment, and at 630 launch a desperate counterattack.  ...

- The German industrialist Walther Rathenau resigns today as head of Kriegsrohstoffsamt (KRA), the government agency overseeing the allocati...

- After the directive of the 29th regarding the defensive of current positions, today OHL issues a second directive regarding the training o...

- A meeting of the War Council in London today includes discussion regarding Entente strategy on the Western Front, and communications from ...