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.

Thursday, April 18, 2013

Fly Over The Sahara.

New York Times 100 years ago today, April 18, 1913:
Four French Army Aeroplanes Complete 500 Mile Round Trip.
    BISKRA, Algeria, April 17.— Four military aeroplanes, piloted by Lieuts. Reimbert, Cheutin, Jolain, and Benoist of the French Army arrived here today after a 500-mile round trip over the Sahara Desert.
    One of the machines carried Col. Boutteaux as a passenger.
    The entire flight was made without an escort.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Thursday, April 18, 2013

Fly Over The Sahara.

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