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Winning a Cause: World War Stories

John G. Thompson · Children_and_Young_Adult_Reading · 16 章

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AMERICA ENTERS THE WAR SPEECH BY LLOYD GEORGE, BRITISH PREMIER, APRIL 12, 1917 THE SOLDIERS WHO GO TO SEA NATIONS BORN AND REBORN [Illustration: Jeanne d'Arc, rising in her stirrups, holds on high her sword, as if to consecrate it for a war of Right. This inspiring statue, located near Grant's Tomb on Riverside Drive, New York City, overlooks the Hudson, where it bade Godspeed to all the American soldiers and sailors going overseas to deliver France from the Hun.]FIGHTING A DEPTH BOMB [Illustration: The British Cruiser Curacoa, Admiral Tyrwhitt's flagship, leading out one column of British cruisers at the surrender of the German navy. Overhead is a captive or "kite" balloon. As used in naval work, it is attached to an anchored or moving ship by a small steel cable, by which it is regulated for purposes of observation. The tubular surfaces which give the balloon the appearance of an elephant's head are not filled with hydrogen gas, but are inflated by the winds at high altitudes, thus keeping the balloon relatively steady like a kite with a long tail. The stationary balloon is such a good target for anti-aircraft guns that the observers are supplied with parachutes, the type of which appears on page 341.]THE UNSPEAKABLE TURK [Illustration: David Lloyd George.]UNITED STATES DAY THE UNITED STATES AT WAR—IN FRANCE [Illustration: Sergeant York wearing the French Croix de Guerre and the Congressional Medal of Honor.]THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16