MAPS OF HISTORY · ON THIS DAY · August 8
THE DAY IN HISTORY · AUGUST 8
August 8 in history
1918 — Amiens
8 Aug 1918 — 530 tanks, 800 aircraft, dominated artillery and total surprise: the German line breaks in hours and 15,000 surrender. Ludendorff calls it “the black day of the German Army” — not for the ground lost, but because the men gave up.
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