Event anniversary

Hundred Days Offensive

Took place on August 8, 1918

108

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The 109th anniversary falls on August 8, 2027, in 288 days.

The Hundred Days Offensive (8 August to 11 November 1918) was a series of massive Allied offensives that ended the First World War.

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