WWI · SITE OF MEMORY ·
Sinking of the Lusitania (1915)
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7 May 1915 — U-20 torpedoes the liner off the Irish coast: 1,198 civilians drown, 128 of them American. The dead of the submarine war deserve their own memory — and the outrage begins the countdown on American neutrality.
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- Blockade and U-boat war in WWI (chapter 8 of WWI)
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- The Great War, 1871–1923
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