Tags
1918, aeroplanes, air raid, Allies, Battle of Soissons, Chateau-Thierry, Denmark, France, Germany, Grand Fleet, Great Britain, HMS Furious, Lys, Marne, Meteren, Montvoisin, prisoners of war, Royal Air Force, Royal Navy, Second Battle of the Marne, Soissons, Tonder, Tondern, United States of America, weapons, Zeppelin
Further French and American progress towards the Soissons-Château-Thierry road; 16,000 prisoners and 50 guns taken to date; south of the Marne Allies retake Montvoisin, with 400 prisoners and four guns; Germans claim 20,000 prisoners since July 15. British retake Meteren, on the Lys front, with 300 prisoners. Airship base at Tondern, Schleswig-Holstein, bombed by British airmen, escorted by a detachment of the Grand Fleet; two Zeppelins believed destroyed; four British machines fail to return, three landing in Danish territory.