First American citizen is killed in First World War

First American citizen is killed in First World War
First American citizen is killed in First World War

Sunday, March 28

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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 the cargopassenger ship Falaba, on its way from Liverpool to…