First American citizen is killed in First World War

Sunday, March 28 The 87th day of the year 278 days left Today in History On March 28, 1915, the first American citizen is killed in the eight-monthold European conflict that would become known as the First World War. Leon Thrasher, a 31-year-old mining engineer and native of Massachusetts, drowned when a German submarine, the U-28, torpedoed...

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