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SUBMARINES REVOLUTIONIZING NAVAL WARFARE

Germans Step Up Use of U-Boats; An ‘Ungentlemanly Weapon.’ First American Killed in the War. Special to The Great War Project (27-30 March) On March 28 precisely a century ago, the first American is killed in the First World War. His name is Leon Thrasher. He is a mining engineer, and he drowns when a…