Tuesday, March 30, 1915. Germans fighting Arabs.

Germans and Bedouins fought for perhaps the first time in World War One when a party of stranded German marines from the SMS Emden was ambushed while being escorted to Jeddah.

German medicts with wounded man in Belgium, March 30, 1915.

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Sunday, March 28, 1915. The first lost American.

Labels: 1910s, 1915, boats and ships, German Kriegsmarine, Thrasher Incident, World War One

British QF 3-inch 20 cwt anti aircraft gun. National Museum of Military Vehicles.

This is a British QF 3-inch 20 cwt anti aircraft gun. Entering service in 1914, they remained in service in various uses, including naval, until 1947.

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Japanese Type 95 Ha-Go light tank. National Museum of Military Vehicles.

Labels: 1930s, 1940s, Armor, Imperial Japanese Army, National Museum of Military Vehicles, World War Two, Wyoming (Dubois)

Sunday, March 28, 1915. The first lost American.

The British registered Falaba was sunk by the U-28 in St. George's Channel with American citizen Leon Thrasher on board, leading to a diplomatic crisis.

Thrasher was the first American killed in World War One.

The British ferry Brussels tried to ram the German submarine U-33 after it tried to stop and board her.  The submarine had to dive to evade being hit.  Submarines were being treated as criminal vessels by the British due to unrestricted submarine warfare.

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Friday. March 26, 1915. A view of Alsace.

Labels: 1910s, 1915, Alsace-Lorraine, Battle of Hartmannswillerkopf, Florida, French Army, German Army, World War One

Friday. March 26, 1915. A view of Alsace.

The French took Hartmannswillerkopf  giving them an observation post for Alsace.

The town of Miami Beach, Florida was established.

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Thursday, March 25, 1915. Loss of the F-4.

Labels: 1860s, 1864, 1910s, 1915, boats and ships, Civil War, Confederate Navy, Hawaii, U.S. Navy

Saturday, March 26, 1910. The Immigration Act of 1910.

The Immigration Act of 1910 passed prohibiting entry into the United States of criminals, paupers, anarchists and diseased persons.

Court House Square, Shreveport, La.  March 26, 1910.

 

Panoramic view of San Antonio, Texas, March 26, 1910.

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Wednesday, March 23, 1910. End of the Spanish Rif War, Kurosawa.

Labels: 1900s, 1910, Akira Kurosawa, Alaska, Japan, Morocco, Movies, National Park Service, Rif War, Spain, Spanish Empire

Thursday, March 25, 1915. Loss of the F-4.

The US submarine USS F-4 sank off of Hawaii with the loss of all 21 hands.  It was the U.S. Navy's first submarine loss, discounting of course the CSS H. L. Hunley, the Confederate submarine.

The SS Tamar was sunk by the SMS Kronprinz off of Brazil.

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Tuesday, March 23, 1915. Advances at Hartmannswillerkopf.

Labels: 1910s, 1915, Battle of Hartmannswillerkopf, boats and ships, French Army, Oregon, panoramic, Railroads, World War One

Tuesday, March 23, 1915. Advances at Hartmannswillerkopf.

Great Northern Pacific Steamship Co.'s terminals, Flavel, Or.

French attacks on Hartmannswillerkopf got them within 150 metres of the summit.

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Monday, March 22, 1915. The Imperial Russian Army captured Przemyśl

Labels: 1910s, 1915, Austro Hungarian Army, Imperial Russian Army, Siege of Siege of Przemyśl, World War One

Monday, March 22, 1915. The Imperial Russian Army captured Przemyśl

Imperial Russian Army captured Przemyśl ending the longest siege of the Great War.  They took over 117,000 Austro-Hungarian POWs which included  nine generals, 93 senior staff officers, and 2,500 other officers.

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Friday, March 19, 1915. The Defense of India Act.

Labels: 1910s, 1915, British Empire, India, It was because of World War One, law, Outer space, World War One

Friday, March 19, 1915. The Defense of India Act.

The Defence of India Act was enacted to provide the colonial government in British India with sweeping powers to enforce the law during the Great War, including independence activities.

Pluto was photographed for the first time.

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Thursday, March 18, 1915. Disaster off the Dardanelles.

Labels: 1910s, 1915, 1919, boats and ships, Dardanelles, French Navy, Imperial Russian Army, Royal Navy, World War One

Thursday, March 18, 1915. Disaster off the Dardanelles.

The French battleship Bouvet, British battleship HMS Irresistible and the HMS Ocean struck mines and sank off of the Dardanelles.  The Gaulois was beached after striking a mine.

Loss of life was heavy.

The battleship HMS Dreadnought rammed and sake the U-29.

Russian fighter pilot Alexander Kazakov used a grapnel hook to hook his aircraft to a German Albatros in flight.  The mechanism didn't work and he ended up ramming the plane.

In spite of stunts like that, Kazakov survived the war only to die in an airshow in 1919.

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Saturday, March 13, 1915. Worries over Japan.

Labels: 1910s, 1915, China, Gunboat Diplomacy, Japan, Open Door Policy, William Jennings Bryan

Saturday, March 13, 1915. Worries over Japan.

United States Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan issued a letter revealing the American government's concerns over Japan's rejection of the Open Door Policy and further encroachments on Chinese sovereignty.

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Thursday, March 11, 1915. The Bluff War ends. Carranza promises protection to foreigners.

Labels: 1910s, 1915, boats and ships, Colorado, Diplomacy, Mexican Revolution, Mexico, Native Americans, Paiute, Utah, Venustiano Carranza, World War One

Saturday, March 12, 1910. The first star.

Actress Florence Lawrence became "the first movie star", after movie mogul Carl Laemmle of Independent Moving Pictures announced in advertisements that he had signed the leading lady who had only been billed as "The Biograph Girl" by Biograph Studios. 

Prior to that time movie studies did not release the names of their actors.

She'd act up until her death by suicide in 1938, at age 52, at which time she was suffering from chronic illness.

The Montreal Wanderers retained the Stanley  Cup.

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Tuesday, March 8, 1910. First pilot's license issued to a woman.

Labels: 1910, 1910s, Aircraft, France, Women

National Museum of Military Vehicles. World War One Display.

 

Inside of Renault tank.

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Punitive Expedition Display, National Museum of Military Vehicles, Dubois Wyoming

Labels: 1910s, 1916, 1917, Army, Clothing, Dubois Wyoming, George S. Patton, Mexican Border War, National Museum of Military Vehicles, Pancho Villa, The Punitive Expedition, Weapons, Wyoming (Dubois)

Wednesday, March 7, 1945. The Bridge at Remagen taken.

The United States Army took the bridge over the Rhine at Remagen intact, and by surprise.

The Battle of Remagen commenced.

The failure of the Germans to have destroyed the heavy railroad bridge, last used by U.S. forces in 1918, was a major failure and the bridge's capture a major event in the advance of the U.S. Army into Germany.

Romania declared war on Japan.

The U-1302 was sunk in the St. George's Channel by the Canadian frigates Strathadam and Thefford Mines.

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December 13, 1918. Crossing the Rhine

Labels: 1910s, 1918, 1940s, 1945, Army, Canadian Army, Germany, Occupation of Germany 1918-1919, World War Two

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Tuesday, March 6, 1945. Soviet murders in Poland and Eagle 7.

Labels: 1940, 1940s, 1945, Burma, German Wehrmacht, Hungary, Nationalist Chinese Army, Operation Springi Awakening, Petroleum, Polish Government in Exile, Polish Home Army, Romania, USSR, War Crimes

Punitive Expedition Display, National Museum of Military Vehicles, Dubois Wyoming

This is a smaller display, adjacent to the larger World War One display.  

The first displayed item is the typical field uniform worn by soldiers in the Border War.  This sweater pattern is unique to the period, the M1910 sweater. The campaign hat is the long serving M1911 campaign hat. Some National Guard units that served on the border were not yet equipped with it.  The saber is the M1913 "Patton" Saber, which was designed, based on a British pattern, by George S. Patton.  For the most part, enlisted men were not allowed to carry their sabers into Mexico, following a tread that had started during the Indian Wars.

The car is a Dodge touring car, perhaps most famously associated with a raid conducted by Patton.  Automobile use was heavy during the Punitive Expedition in spite of it being largely a horse cavalry effort.  Indeed, the Army's 1st Provisional Aero Squadron was committed to the effort largely due it being the only U.S. Army unit that was completely  motorized.

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Equipment of the Vietnam War, National Museum of Military Vehicles, Dubois Wyoming.

Labels: 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 4x4, Aircraft, Armor, Artillery, Automobiles, boats and ships, National Museum of Military Vehicles, The Cold War, Transportation, Vietnam War, Wyoming (Dubois)