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Archduke Franz Ferdinand was shot and killed along with his wife in Sarajevo, Bosnia. This is what sparked WWI
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The Battle of Dogger Bank was a naval engagement between Britain and Germany near Dogger Bank. The British navy came out victorious.
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The Battle of Somme was a joint operation between the British and French where they tried to make a decisive victory against the Germans. The British won the battle but only gained very little ground and had over 57,000 casualties.
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The United States joins the war and aids in the victory against Germany.
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At the age of 19, many people keep bothering Arthur Roland Keller about not going to war so he enlists into the Marines.
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Replacements start showing up to replace the losses of the war but some of them were ill with the flu and die within 24 hours of arriving.
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Arthur Roland Keller talks about how filthy he was and how he had to take care of himself while in Germany. He talks about how the lice were really bad and how he had to boil his clothing to clean them. He also had to live in a barn for a little bit.
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Arthur Roland Keller participates in the last battle of WWI; The Battle of the Argonne Forest. Arthur talks about how difficult it was battling against camouflage
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Germany, with their little supplies, left and their allies all defeated, finally gave up and surrendered to the allies, ending this long, brutal war.
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Arthur Roland Keller is honorably discharged after the war.
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