Administration, WWI

The Virgin Islands

                                                 31 MARCH 1917                                            THE VIRGIN ISLANDS World War I had been tearing Europe apart since the summer of 1914.  Here, we struggled to stay neutral, despite the sinkings of American merchant ships carrying cargoes to the Allies.  To most Americans, WWI Read More

Submarines, WWII Atlantic

U-604

                                                11 AUGUST 1943                                                          U-604 By November 1941, Britain was hanging tenuously, her economy smothering at the hands of German U-boats.  And on the 16th of that month, Germany’s position got incrementally better with the launch of yet another U-boat, U-604, in Read More