Sunday, February 4, 2018

The Explorers' Club, № DXCVIII

Operation AXIOM: The World War
The S.S. George Washington, a German ocean liner of the Norddeutscher Lloyd line interned by the United States in 1914 then seized by the U.S. Government upon the declaration of war in 1917; a troopship for "doughboys" in 1918-1919, she twice ferried President Wilson to the Paris Peace Conference; her newspaper, The Hatchet, joked of "The largest circulation on the Atlantic Ocean."




Lest we forget.

Commentary: The Explorers' Club," № DXXII: The Wipers Times; or, Salient News.

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