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Old 07-21-2016, 07:25 AM
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21 July 1916

Western Front
4 German bombers of Fl Abt 40 attack Andruicq munitions dump on Calais-St Omer railway: 23 sheds and 8,000t ammunition, 1 mile of track destroyed (night July 21-22). Lieutenant Otto Parschau, one of the first flying aces, is killed after being wounded over Grévillers: http://imgur.com/kCCU81M
Battle of the Somme: British advance into Foureaux wood (High Wood).. German counterattack, supported by gas shells, recaptures part of wood, but British hold most gains. Heavy bombing attacks by Germans south of Thiepval on Leipzig Redoubt. French repulse counter-attacks on their new front at Soyecourt; also south of Chaulnes.

Eastern Front
Brusilov Offensive:
Pripet:
Bezobrazov‘s Guard Army (11 divisions, 134,000 men and 396 guns) formed.
Galicia: Austrians retreat and begin to evacuate Brody. Heavy rain (July 23-28) delays Brusilov’s Seventh and Ninth Armies’ resumed offensive. Russian forces advance south of the Lypa River, capturing 15 miles of Austro-Hungarain lines.

Naval and Overseas Operations
A U.S. Navy torpedo boat destroyer flotilla off Eastport, Maine: http://imgur.com/wYBYwQd

Political, etc.
Russia:
Russia warns the Ottoman Empire that hospital ships will be sunk, in retaliation for the sinking of the Russian hospital ship Portugal.
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