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.

Monday, July 29, 2013

Air Bomb Wrecks Gunboat.

New York Times 100 years ago today, July 29, 1913:
Rebels Report Aviator Has Destroyed a Federal Warship.
NOGALES, Ariz., July 28.— The Mexican Federal gunboat Tampico was destroyed to-day by a bomb dropped from an aeroplane over Guaymas Harbor, says an official insurgent message. It was said that the aviator, Didier Masson, made three flights over the harbor before he succeeded in hitting the boat.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Monday, July 29, 2013

Air Bomb Wrecks Gunboat.

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