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The three articles that we've attached to the right collectively recall three different events by three different services within the American military, each claiming to have fired the opening salvo that served notice to Kaiser Bill that the U.S. of A. was in the war:

• The first article chuckles at the Army for insisting that the First Division fired the premiere shot on October 23, 1917 in the Luneville sector of the French front;

• The second article recalls the U.S. Merchant Marine freighter MONGOLIA that sank a German U-Boat on April 19, 1917 while cruising off the coast of England.

• following up with the absolute earliest date of American aggression being April 6, 1917 - the same day that Congress declared war - when Marine Corporal Michael Chockie fired his 1903 Springfield across the bow of the German merchant raider S.M.S COMORAN on the island of Guam.

Click here to read about the African-American soldiers who served in France.

     


America's First Shot (Various Sources, 1917 - 1937)

America's First Shot (Various Sources, 1917 - 1937)

America's First Shot (Various Sources, 1917 - 1937)

America's First Shot (Various Sources, 1917 - 1937)

America's First Shot (Various Sources, 1917 - 1937)

America's First Shot (Various Sources, 1917 - 1937)

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