A WWI Diary That Never Was

WWI Diary was to have brought you the whole of World War I as it was reported in the papers of the day, exactly 100 years later. For a year I blogged news leading up to the big war, thinking if there was any real interest regular readers would trickle in. They did not. Count: zero. So I stopped blogging the war news. For students of the time, 1914-1918 editions are available on the Web as thousands of individual articles via a Times service called Spiderbites.

Friday, December 21, 2012

Brazil To Have Air Fleet.

New York Times 100 years ago today, December 21, 1912:
Purchase of Twenty-one Flying Machines Authorized by Bill.
Special Cable to The New York Times.
RIO JANEIRO, Dec. 20.—A bill was passed by the Chamber yesterday authorizing the purchase of three dirigibles, twelve aeroplanes, six hydro-aeroplanes, and a battery of guns to use against aeroplanes.
Brazil is the first nation in South America to provide for an extensive war air fleet.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Friday, December 21, 2012

Brazil To Have Air Fleet.

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