Trenches to Foxholes: This Day in World War History-August 21 1915 The Battle of Scimitar Hill is the last offensive mounted by the British at Suvla during the Battle of Gallipoli. It is also the largest single-day attack ever mounted by the Allies at Gallipoli. The purpose of the attack is to remove the immediate Ottoman threat from the exposed Suvla landing and to link with the Anzac sectors to the south. Launched to coincide with the simultaneous attack on Hill 60, it is a costly failure, in which the Turks are forced to use all their reserves in severe and bloody fighting far into the night, with some Turkish trenches lost and retaken twice. 1941 Adolf Hitler directs the transfer of units away from the Moscow area in order to bolster the siege on Leningrad and aiming to the link up with Finnish forces, as well as pulls forces from the battles in Ukraine to focus on the oil fields in the Caucasus region. 1942
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