World's War Events

Nineteen dispatches from the war's last two years, told by the people who were there — a destroyer officer's diary, Pershing's own report, the raid on Zeebrugge, the fighting Czecho-Slovaks — ending with the Armistice terms and the treaties that redrew the map.

A Destroyer in Active Service

8 pages in this part of World's War Events.

A Destroyer in Active Service

Life on a destroyer is simple.

A Destroyer in Active Service: British

We are being somewhat overhauled, refitted, etc., in the British dock-yard here. Navy yards are much the same the world over, I guess. I…

A Destroyer in Active Service: Time

Time is passed navigating, standing watch, sleeping. JULY 16. Things are the same as before with us. Time passes quickly, with navigating…

A Destroyer in Active Service: Danger

Danger, but little action or variety.

A Destroyer in Active Service: U-boat

U-boat score against destroyers is zero.

A Destroyer in Active Service: Don't

Don't you remember the days when you thought son was dying if he cried--or if he didn't? Well, that's it!

A Destroyer in Active Service: Zealander

A veteran New Zealander for dinner.

A Destroyer in Active Service: Spanish

All this time we were drifting merrily to leeward at a rate that I hated even to guess at, with the certainty, unless matters mended, of…

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