More American Deaths in U-Boat Attack. American Bankers Seek Huge Loan for Britain and France. Special to The Great Project. (4-7 November) The United States is struggling, unsuccessfully, to maintain President Woodrow Wilson’s policy of neutrality. More Americans are killed in a German submarine attack on a passenger ship, prompting louder calls for the U.S.…
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SUBMARINES REVOLUTIONIZING NAVAL WARFARE
by Mike Shuster
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…