NZ Truth Nov 4 1916 Australia escapes but Mars, God Of War, bags New Zealand paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZT…

Imperial German Navy U-boat SM U-20 famous for sinking RMS Lusitania runs aground at #Vrist, Denmark #OTD Nov 4 1916. She was scuttled the next day. The sub remained on the beach until 1925 when the Danish government blows it up in a spectacular explosion x.com/ThisDayInWWI/s…

Newsreel clip, IWM IWM 503 (Reel 3) shows US troops #OTD Nov 4 1918. At Corbei, France, they are displaying German body armour (Grabenpanzer) captured at Bellicourt. 3,000 were discovered, packed 6 to a bundle. Caption says they were used by German snipers x.com/ThisDayInWWI/s…

Chicago Tribune #OTD Nov 4 1915 reports on a "fierce" German Dog captured by the French. Stays in POW camp, wears an Imperial German uniform, including his Imperial spiked German helmet, the Pickelhaube x.com/ThisDayInWWI/s…

This newsreel clip, IWM IWM 508-34, released #OTD Nov 3 1917, shows French soldiers collecting shell casings. Possibly the battlefield after the Chemin des Dames offensive from the Aisne River iwm.org.uk/collections/it… x.com/ThisDayInWWI/s…

Omaha Daily Bee Nov 4 1914 publishes photo with caption: "Flight of Belgian goverment from Ostend to Havre-This cartload of public records, books and documents was but one of a long procession that hurried to get out of the way of the oncoming German army" x.com/ThisDayInWWI/s…

Nov 4 1918 #OTD About 140 New Zealand soldiers died in New Zealand's last major action of WWI. Those who fell were virtually the last of the 12,483, in #WWI, who were laid to rest far from home. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capture_o… x.com/ThisDayInWWI/s…

Oct 30 1915 The French Navy sub Turquoise (1908) takes a hit that prevents it from diving. It is captured and salvaged by the Ottoman Navy, Nov 3 1915 and renamed Müstecip Onbaşı en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_su… x.com/ThisDayInWWI/s…

Hawaiian Gazette Nov 3 1914 Martial rule declared in Egypt Corpus Christi Caller Nov 3 1914 Ottoman "Grand Vizir ... apologized ... for the Black Sea incidents warlike nature" Honolulu Star-Bulletin Nov 3 1914 German officers and other non-Moslems forced Sultan to declare war

Nov 3 1918 #OTD Captain Marcellus H. Chiles earns #medalofhonor for picking up the rifle of dead soldier and, calling on the men he was leading to successfully follow him across a stream, waist deep, in the face of machine gun fire en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcellus… x.com/ThisDayInWWI/s…

Seattle Star Nov 3 1914 Frenchman sold out comrades for 100 francs ($600 in 2024) Corpus Christi Caller Nov 7 1914 on French soldier trying to sell secret docs about Eiffel Tower Illustrated War News Dec 30 1914 Suspected German spy arrested, hooded x.com/ThisDayInWWI/s…

Oct 29 1917 Frank Hurley photo of a soldier retrieving the ID info from a dead comrade Dec 8 1916 Ernest Brooks photo of collecting the identity disc from the wrist of a Highlander Bisbee Daily Review Nov 3 1915 photo of a score of dead French and German soldiers are being loaded

Le Miroir Nov 4 1915 French cavalry greet General French and Joffre Le mal French a rendu visite au gal Joffre Le chef du corps expeditionnaire anglaise s'apprete a remonter en automobile x.com/ThisDayInWWI/s…

Le Petit Journal Nov 3 1912 covers pre-WW1 Balkan War: A touching Montenegrin tradition The King's kiss to the dead and wounded The dangers of reporting on war. Two war correspondents have a narrow escape x.com/ThisDayInWWI/s…

3 November 1914 Julian Grenfell writes to his parents ‘I have never felt so well, or so happy, or enjoyed anything so much. It just suits my stolid health, and stolid nerves, and barbaric disposition. The fighting excitement vitalizes everything, every sight and word and action.

Max Linder in Entente cordiale (1912)

The Cloth Hall, Ypres. Base of the belfry after bombardement November 1914. IWM 57288

The Ankara University Law School opens. Turkish Premier Mustafa Kemal performs the dedication.

Nov. 5, 1925: "The Big Parade" premieres in Los Angeles. The WWI epic will become the blockbuster movie of the decade, generating an eye-popping gross of $6 million. It sets a standard for realism and excitement in war films and makes a major star of its lead, John Gilbert. 1/6

Nov. 5, 1925: The Washington Senators' venerable pitcher Walter Johnson and his family at their new winter home in Daytona Beach, Fla. The hard-throwing ace, who turns 38 tomorrow, will shake off his tough Game 7 loss in the World Series and return for another season in 1926.