Western Front
Germany: 8 FE2s (1 lost) of No 100 Squadron bomb Trier, start fire at central station; town receives 3 British raids (February 18-19, 2 day and 1 at night). Damaging FE2 raid on Thionville blast furnaces and gasworks.
France: Germans bomb Calais causing false alert in southeast England, 55 sorties (night February 18-19) and 2,599 anti-aircraft shells.
Western Front, General: 95th Aero (Pursuit) Squadron arrives in France; first ‘homegrown’ US fighter unit, begins patrols on March 14.
A South African soldier with “Nancy,” a Springbok mascot of the 4th South African Regiment, at a memorial service at Delville Wood: © IWM (Q 10675):
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Champagne: German troops raid French lines, but are thrown back and 30 prisoners are captured by the French.
Eastern Front
Brest-Litovsk: Armistice terminates on Russian front. Hostilities resumed by German armies (see 10th and 19th).
Dvinsk taken by German forces; they continue march on Lutsk, advancing down railways 30 miles per day.
Ukraine: A second German army advances into Ukraine against Bolsheviks.
German soldiers pursue Red troops:
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Soviet lines, plagued by desertions and low morale, collapse under the Central Powers offensive.
Finish Civil War: Southern Finland now in hands of Bolsheviks.
General Mannerheim (commanding Constitutional forces, "White Guards") gathers an army together in the north.
German officers captured in the first American trench raid on the Western Front:
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Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Russians evacuate Armenia.
Turks within eight miles of Trebizond.
Mesopotamia, Euphrates: British advance 14 miles from Ramadi to occupy Khan Abu Rayan and position 10 miles south of Hit.
Political, etc
United Kingdom: Labour Ministry announces demobilization arrangements. Churchill attributes munitions increase to 12% bonus. Road Transport Control Board founded.
Finland: For Mannerheim Senate makes military training compulsory for men of age 21 to 40 (effective February 28).