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.

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Turned Into Howitzers.

New York Times 100 years ago today, March 13, 1913:
Field Guns Can Be Transformed by a French Officer's Invention.
PARIS, March 12.— The Minister of War, who has been studying the tests of a mechanism invented by Major Mandrin, by which an ordinary 7.5-inch field gun may be transformed into a howitzer, announces that the results have been so favorable that it will be possible at an early date to discontinue the manufacture of field howitzers.
By this means an economy of $15,000,000 will he effected.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Turned Into Howitzers.

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