The Sextant
By Dennis Conrad, Ph.D., Histories and Archives Division, Naval History and Heritage Command For the United States Navy, the first “engagement” of World War I was marked by kindness rather than violence, and humanitarianism as opposed to pugnacity. S.M.S. Cormoran, a Russian passenger liner captured by the Germans and converted …
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