Thrasher incident
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thrasher-incident-188-2882114
title:
Thrasher incident
text:
The Thrasher incident, as it became known in US media, was a political and diplomatic incident in 1915, when the United States was still neutral in World War I. On 28 March 1915 the German U-boat U-28 sank the British steamship Falaba by torpedo, killing more than 100 people. One of the victims was a passenger from the US, Leon Chester Thrasher.
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
WWI-related death of a US citizen
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrasher_incident
date created:
2006-11-23T02:43:42Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T18:57:10Z
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