August 8 – November 11, 1918 · Western Front Theater
August 8 – November 11, 1918
The war-ending Allied offensive began on August 8 — 'the Black Day of the German Army,' as Ludendorff called it. Using tanks, aircraft, artillery, and infantry in coordinated combined-arms attacks, the Allies broke through German lines repeatedly. Germany's army disintegrated; soldiers surrendered by the hundreds of thousands. On November 11 at 11am, the guns fell silent.
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