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Doughboy Foundation - first trip - first story
Doughboy Foundation - first trip - first story
Doughboy Foundation - first trip - first story
Doughboy Foundation - first trip - first story
2021-12-08 Houston National Cemetery
2021-12-08 Houston National Cemetery
2021-12-08 Houston National Cemetery
2021-12-08 Houston National Cemetery
2021-12-08 Houston National Cemetery
2021-12-08 Houston National Cemetery
The 3rd. donated statuette.
2021-12-08 Houston National Cemetery
The 3rd. donated statuette.
2021-12-08 Houston National Cemetery
The 3rd. donated statuette.
2021-12-08 Houston National Cemetery
2021-12-08 Houston National Cemetery
Me on my Harley Davidson that once served with the Police, this police officer on his Honda spaceship.
2021-12-13 San Marcos Commemorative Air Force Central Texas Wing
2021-12-13 San Marcos Commemorative Air Force Central Texas Wing
2021-12-13 San Marcos Commemorative Air Force Central Texas Wing
2021-12-13 San Marcos Commemorative Air Force Central Texas Wing
2021-12-13 San Marcos Commemorative Air Force Central Texas Wing
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2021-12-13 San Marcos Commemorative Air Force Central Texas Wing
2021-12-13 San Marcos Commemorative Air Force Central Texas Wing
2021-12-13 San Marcos Commemorative Air Force Central Texas Wing
2021-12-10 Galveston's World War I Memorial
Galveston’s World War I Memorial is located near the McGuire-Dent Recreation Center at 28th and Seawall Blvd.
2021-12-10 Galveston's World War I Memorial
Galveston’s World War I Memorial is located near the McGuire-Dent Recreation Center at 28th and Seawall Blvd.
2021-12-10 Galveston's World War I Memorial
Galveston’s World War I Memorial is located near the McGuire-Dent Recreation Center at 28th and Seawall Blvd.
2021-12-08 WW1 Memorial monument in the Heritage Society Plaza
Located : 1100 Bagby Street Houston.
2021-12-08 WW1 Memorial monument in the Heritage Society Plaza
Located : 1100 Bagby Street Houston.
2021-12-10 The Mexican Telegraph Company
The Zimmermann Telegram
The secret to the British interception began years earlier. In 1914, with war imminent, the British had quickly dispatched a ship to cut Germany’s five trans-Atlantic cables and six underwater cables running between Britain and Germany. Soon after the war began, the British successfully tapped into overseas cable lines Germany borrowed from neutral countries to send communications. Britain began capturing large volumes of intelligence communications.
British code breakers worked to decrypt communication codes. In October of 1914, the Russian admiralty gave British Naval Intelligence (known as Room 40) a copy of the German naval codebook removed from a drowned German sailor’s body from the cruiser SMS Magdeburg. Room 40 also received a copy of the German diplomatic code, stolen from a German diplomat’s luggage in the Near East. By 1917, British Intelligence could decipher most German messages.
Early in the war, the British Government obtained possession of a copy of the German cypher code used in the above message and have made it their business to obtain copies of Bernetorff’s cipher telegrams to Mexico, amongst others, which are sent back to London and deciphered here. This accounts for their being able to decipher this telegram from the German Government to their representative in Mexico and for the delay from January nineteenth until now in their receiving this information. ...
The copies of this and other telegrams were not obtained in Washington but were bought in Mexico.
Revelation of the contents enraged Americans, especially after German Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmermann publicly admitted on March 3 that the telegram was genuine, helping to generate support for the United States’ declaration of war on Germany in April. The decryption was described as the most significant intelligence
triumph for Britain during World War I, and one of the earliest occasions on which a piece of signal intelligence influenced world events.
The telegram was addressed to the German Legation (Embassy) in Mexico City.
We intend to begin on the first of February unrestricted submarine warfare. We shall endeavor in spite of this to keep the United States of America neutral.
In the event of this not succeeding, we make Mexico a proposal of alliance on the following basis: make war together, make peace together, generous financial support, and an understanding on our part that Mexico is to reconquer the lost territory in Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. The settlement in detail is left to you.
You will inform the President [of Mexico] of the above most secretly as soon as the outbreak of war with the United States of America is certain and add the suggestion that he should, on his own initiative, invite Japan to immediate adherence and at the same time mediate between Japan and ourselves. Please call the President’s attention to the fact that the ruthless employment of our submarines now offers the prospect of compelling England in a few months to make peace.
Signed, ZIMMERMANN
British code breakers worked to decrypt communication codes. In October of 1914, the Russian admiralty gave British Naval Intelligence (known as Room 40) a copy of the German naval codebook removed from a drowned German sailor’s body from the cruiser SMS Magdeburg. Room 40 also received a copy of the German diplomatic code, stolen from a German diplomat’s luggage in the Near East. By 1917, British Intelligence could decipher most German messages.
Early in the war, the British Government obtained possession of a copy of the German cypher code used in the above message and have made it their business to obtain copies of Bernetorff’s cipher telegrams to Mexico, amongst others, which are sent back to London and deciphered here. This accounts for their being able to decipher this telegram from the German Government to their representative in Mexico and for the delay from January nineteenth until now in their receiving this information. ...
The copies of this and other telegrams were not obtained in Washington but were bought in Mexico.
Revelation of the contents enraged Americans, especially after German Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmermann publicly admitted on March 3 that the telegram was genuine, helping to generate support for the United States’ declaration of war on Germany in April. The decryption was described as the most significant intelligence
triumph for Britain during World War I, and one of the earliest occasions on which a piece of signal intelligence influenced world events.
The telegram was addressed to the German Legation (Embassy) in Mexico City.
We intend to begin on the first of February unrestricted submarine warfare. We shall endeavor in spite of this to keep the United States of America neutral.
In the event of this not succeeding, we make Mexico a proposal of alliance on the following basis: make war together, make peace together, generous financial support, and an understanding on our part that Mexico is to reconquer the lost territory in Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. The settlement in detail is left to you.
You will inform the President [of Mexico] of the above most secretly as soon as the outbreak of war with the United States of America is certain and add the suggestion that he should, on his own initiative, invite Japan to immediate adherence and at the same time mediate between Japan and ourselves. Please call the President’s attention to the fact that the ruthless employment of our submarines now offers the prospect of compelling England in a few months to make peace.
Signed, ZIMMERMANN
2021-12-10 The Mexican Telegraph Company
The Zimmermann Telegram
The secret to the British interception began years earlier. In 1914, with war imminent, the British had quickly dispatched a ship to cut Germany’s five trans-Atlantic cables and six underwater cables running between Britain and Germany. Soon after the war began, the British successfully tapped into overseas cable lines Germany borrowed from neutral countries to send communications. Britain began capturing large volumes of intelligence communications.
British code breakers worked to decrypt communication codes. In October of 1914, the Russian admiralty gave British Naval Intelligence (known as Room 40) a copy of the German naval codebook removed from a drowned German sailor’s body from the cruiser SMS Magdeburg. Room 40 also received a copy of the German diplomatic code, stolen from a German diplomat’s luggage in the Near East. By 1917, British Intelligence could decipher most German messages.
Early in the war, the British Government obtained possession of a copy of the German cypher code used in the above message and have made it their business to obtain copies of Bernetorff’s cipher telegrams to Mexico, amongst others, which are sent back to London and deciphered here. This accounts for their being able to decipher this telegram from the German Government to their representative in Mexico and for the delay from January nineteenth until now in their receiving this information. ...
The copies of this and other telegrams were not obtained in Washington but were bought in Mexico.
Revelation of the contents enraged Americans, especially after German Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmermann publicly admitted on March 3 that the telegram was genuine, helping to generate support for the United States’ declaration of war on Germany in April. The decryption was described as the most significant intelligence
triumph for Britain during World War I, and one of the earliest occasions on which a piece of signal intelligence influenced world events.
The telegram was addressed to the German Legation (Embassy) in Mexico City.
We intend to begin on the first of February unrestricted submarine warfare. We shall endeavor in spite of this to keep the United States of America neutral.
In the event of this not succeeding, we make Mexico a proposal of alliance on the following basis: make war together, make peace together, generous financial support, and an understanding on our part that Mexico is to reconquer the lost territory in Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. The settlement in detail is left to you.
You will inform the President [of Mexico] of the above most secretly as soon as the outbreak of war with the United States of America is certain and add the suggestion that he should, on his own initiative, invite Japan to immediate adherence and at the same time mediate between Japan and ourselves. Please call the President’s attention to the fact that the ruthless employment of our submarines now offers the prospect of compelling England in a few months to make peace.
Signed, ZIMMERMANN
British code breakers worked to decrypt communication codes. In October of 1914, the Russian admiralty gave British Naval Intelligence (known as Room 40) a copy of the German naval codebook removed from a drowned German sailor’s body from the cruiser SMS Magdeburg. Room 40 also received a copy of the German diplomatic code, stolen from a German diplomat’s luggage in the Near East. By 1917, British Intelligence could decipher most German messages.
Early in the war, the British Government obtained possession of a copy of the German cypher code used in the above message and have made it their business to obtain copies of Bernetorff’s cipher telegrams to Mexico, amongst others, which are sent back to London and deciphered here. This accounts for their being able to decipher this telegram from the German Government to their representative in Mexico and for the delay from January nineteenth until now in their receiving this information. ...
The copies of this and other telegrams were not obtained in Washington but were bought in Mexico.
Revelation of the contents enraged Americans, especially after German Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmermann publicly admitted on March 3 that the telegram was genuine, helping to generate support for the United States’ declaration of war on Germany in April. The decryption was described as the most significant intelligence
triumph for Britain during World War I, and one of the earliest occasions on which a piece of signal intelligence influenced world events.
The telegram was addressed to the German Legation (Embassy) in Mexico City.
We intend to begin on the first of February unrestricted submarine warfare. We shall endeavor in spite of this to keep the United States of America neutral.
In the event of this not succeeding, we make Mexico a proposal of alliance on the following basis: make war together, make peace together, generous financial support, and an understanding on our part that Mexico is to reconquer the lost territory in Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. The settlement in detail is left to you.
You will inform the President [of Mexico] of the above most secretly as soon as the outbreak of war with the United States of America is certain and add the suggestion that he should, on his own initiative, invite Japan to immediate adherence and at the same time mediate between Japan and ourselves. Please call the President’s attention to the fact that the ruthless employment of our submarines now offers the prospect of compelling England in a few months to make peace.
Signed, ZIMMERMANN
Texas Military Forces Austin
The statue is on display in the main entrance of the military base
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