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, March 15, 2013

To Give Army Aeroplanes.

New York Times 100 years ago today, March 15, 1913:
Newly Formed Italian Trans-Aerial Society Will Build 200.
TURIN, March 14.— The newly formed Italian Trans-Aerial Society has undertaken to build a large number of aeroplanes for the Italian Army. With the $600,000 subscribed during the Libyan war for aeroplane construction, this will provide about 200 aeroplanes.
The first flotilla of seven aeroplanes will be delivered to the Government March 15. Seven monoplanes and sixteen biplanes are to be delivered in April.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Friday, March 15, 2013

To Give Army Aeroplanes.

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