The Great War: 100 Years Ago

On 7 May, 1915, Walther Schwieger, the commander of submarine U-20, was on war patrol off the cost of Ireland when he spotted a large liner.  Liners at the time where not the neutral targets the press made them out to be - they were often pressed into… more »

The traditional date marking the start of the Armenian Genocide with the deportation of Armenian intellectuals by Ottoman officials in Constantinople. more »

Adolphe Pégoud becomes the first war ace by shooting down his fifth aircraft (he would shoot another aircraft down later this month).  Few pilots in the war would become aces, and it was generally recognized as a significant accomplishment. more »

On 28 March, 1915, a British steamship, the RMS Falaba, was torpedoed during the unrestricted submarine warfare campaign by German U-Boat U-28 operated by Commander Freiherr Georg-Günther von Forstner.  An early ocean-going U27 class boat, U-28 was a… more »