DeSotoSky
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Hello and welcome to the Sunday Picture Show. Share your Buck knives with others by posting pictures of them here. New or old, plain or custom, user or safe queen, one or a collection, we love to see them all. This weekly tradition was started in 2010 by ItsTooEarly (Armand Hernandez) and Oregon (Steve Dunn). Help keep the tradition alive. Feel free to click that 'LIKE' but lets not let it replace discussing and complimenting each others knives. DeSotoSky (Roger Yost)
President Woodrow Wilson addressing joint session April 2, 1917
On this Day, April 6th, 1917, The United States declares war on Germany and enters World War I
Although officially neutral and sentiment was generally against joining the war, America was providing a great amount of materials to Britain thru trans Atlantic trade. Germany was determined to cut off this supply thru unrestricted submarine warfare, even against American ships. The sinking of the Lusitania in 1915 with great loss of life including Americans, stories of atrocities being committed in Europe, and increased attacks on American shipping slowly changed opinion. Germany knew that attacking our shipping might provoke our entry into the war but calculated (mistakenly) it would be too little, too late. Germany felt America was militarily weak and if they pushed the war could be won before we could provide any significant assistance.
The First Shot. On April 19th, the SS Mongolia was attacked by a German submarine. She fired on the submarine wrecking the periscope and conning tower, and forced the submarine to submerge. This action, utilizing a 6" gun, was the first between U.S. Navy and Germany after the declaration of war. By June 1917 the first American troops were arriving in France.
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Casualties By the time the war ended in 1918 there were about 10 million military and 10 million civilian deaths, as well as about 40 million casualties. The US suffered 116,000 killed and 204,000 wounded. The U.S. Merchant Marine suffered significant losses with over 700 ships sunk and over 8,000 mariners lost.
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What started it (in Europe). World War I started in 1914 after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria. Tensions had been brewing throughout Europe—especially in the troubled Balkan region of southeast Europe—for years before World War I actually broke out. Russia, Belgium, France, Great Britain and Serbia had lined up against Austria-Hungary and Germany, and World War I had begun.
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Interesting tidbit. In January 1917, British cryptographers deciphered a telegram from German Foreign Minister Arthur Zimmermann to the German Minister to Mexico. In the Zimmermann Telegram, Germany offered Mexico a military alliance and financial support in exchange for Mexico joining the war against the United States, promising to help Mexico regain the territories of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona.
American entry into World War I - Wikipedia
World War I: Summary, Causes & Facts | HISTORY
World War I started in 1914, after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and ended in 1918. During the confl...
927 Slimline Skinner with Turquoise handle. Original Custom Shop.
The 3-Buck snap happens about 1989 which might help place this knife in the '89-'92 time period if original to the knife but it does not seem like a good fit. The grind of the blade (sharp vertical next to the tang) was more common in the early Custom Shop, say pre '84.... perhaps I should just say I dunno.
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I do too!!!
