As strange as it may seem, the very first shot fired by the United States in the First World War did not occur anywhere near the battlefields of Europe. Instead, as Commander Owen Bartlett, USN related in the following excerpts from his August, 1931 Proceedings*article, the shot was made nearly half a world away in the harbor of Guam. “The first violent hostile act of the war between the United States and Germany probably was the destruction of the S.M.S. Cormoran by her own commander in Apra Harbor, Guam. To those actively participating, the episode loomed large in interest,...
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10-03-2015, 11:23 AM
The Destruction of the S.M.S. Cormoran and the First U.S. Shot Fired in the First Wor
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