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College
Kendall enrolled in the sub-class at the Georgia School of Technology. Over the next six years, he selected the captain of the sub-class football ream and played on the class basketball team. For the year Fielder spent working on his school work and was working towards qualifying to attend the university. -
Assassination of Franz Ferdinand
On this day in 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie are shot to death by a Bosnian Serb nationalist during an official visit to the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo. The killings sparked a chain of events that led to the outbreak of World War I by early August. -
Germany Invaded Belgium
On 2 August 1914, the day before Germany declared war on France, the German government wrote to the Belgian government demanding the right of free passage across Belgium for its troops, so that the latter could most efficiently invade France and reach Paris. -
Battle of Tannenberg
Allied with France and Britain, Grand Duke Nicholas, the Russian commander, agreed to help relieve the French, under attack from Germany, with an offensive in East Prussia. This required mobility and nimbleness; unfortunately the Russians had neither. Two Russian armies invaded German East Prussia in August 1914. -
First Battle of Marne
The First Battle of the Marne was conducted between 6, September 1914, with the outcome bringing to an end the war of movement that had dominated the First World War since the beginning of August. Instead, with the German advance brought to a halt, stalemate and trench warfare ensued. Germany's grand Schrieffer Plan to conquer France entailed a wheeling movement of the northern wing of its armies through central Belgium to enter France near Lille. -
Sinking of the Lusitania
The Lusitania made her maiden voyage from Liverpool to New York in September 1907. Construction had begun in 1903 with the goal of building the fastest liner afloat. Her engines produced 68,000-horse power and pushed the giant through the water at an verage speed over 25 knots. Dubbed the "Greyhound of the Seas" she soon captured the Blue Ribbon for the fastest Atlantic crossing. -
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Battle of Verdun
The Battle of Verdun is considered the greatest and lengthiest in world history. Never before or since has there been such a lengthy battle, involving so many men, situated on such a tiny piece of land. The battle, which lasted from 21 February 1916 until 19 December 1916 caused over an estimated 700,000 casualties. The battle degenerated into a matter of prestige of two nations literally for the sake of fighting. -
Battle of Jutland
Involving some 250 ships and 100,000 men, this battle off Denmark’s North Sea coast was the only major naval surface engagement of World War I. The battle began in the afternoon of May 31, 1916, with gunfire between the German and British scouting forces. When the main warships met, British Admiral John Jellicoe maneuvered his boats to take advantage of the fading daylight, scoring dozens of direct hits that eventually forced German Admiral Reinhard Scheer into retreat. -
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Battle of Somme
The Battle of the Somme, also known as the Somme Offensive, was one of the largest battles of the First World War. Fought between July 1 and November 1, 1916 near the Somme River in France, it was also one of the bloodiest military battles in history. -
Early Military Career
Fielder graduated with a bachelors-in-science degree in textile engineering in 1917. Before he settled in a science degree he felt that he could do better than that. World War I was in the making in Europe and he felt that he needed to be apart of that war. Fielder followed the course ancestors had long taken its times of war. Fielder was sent to the first U.S. Army Reserve Officers Training Corps course at Camp McPherson. -
US Declares War
On April 2, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson went before a joint session of Congress to request a declaration of war against Germany. Wilson cited Germany’s violation of its pledge to suspend unrestricted submarine warfare in the North Atlantic and the Mediterranean, as well as its attempts to entice Mexico into an alliance against the United States, as his reasons for declaring war. -
Australian-Hungarian Empire Declares War against Serbia
The union of Austria and Hungary, also known as the Dual Monarchy, was a related to state in which Austria and Hungary each had a parliament to manage their domestic affairs. A joint cabinet then handled foreign affairs, military affairs, and finances. This lasted 51 years before it was dissolved after World War I. -
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German Spring Offensive
¨In the spring of 1918, Luderndorff ordered a massive German attack on the Western Front. The Spring Offensive was Germany’s attempt to end World War One. With 500,000 troops added to Germany’s strength from the Russian Front, Luderndorff was confident of success.The offensive would bear on the British Army which the German strategists considered to be exhausted after fighting four bloody and fruitless offensives in the course of 1917 at Arras, Messines, Passchendaele and Cambrai. -
RAF formed
On April 1, 1918, the British Royal Air Force is formed as an amalgamation of the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service. The RAF took its place beside the British navy and army as a separate military service with its own ministry. The RAF underwent rapid expansion prior to and during the Second World War. During the war it was responsible for the aerial defense of Great Britain, the strategic bombing campaign against Germany and tactical support to the British Army around the world. -
Kaiser Abdicated
With Germany actively seeking an armistice and revolution threatening, calls for Kaiser Wilhelm II to abdicate grew in intensity. Wilhelm was himself deeply reluctant to make such a sacrifice, instead expressing a preference to lead his armies back into Germany from the Western Front. Upon being informed by his military advisers that the army could not be relied upon not to harm him Wilhelm abandoned the notion. -
World War I Ends
The final Allied push towards the German border began on October 17, 1918. As the British, French and American armies advanced, the alliance between the Central Powers began to collapse. Turkey signed an armistice at the end of October, Austria-Hungary followed on November 3.The Central Powers, tired of fighting, sign the armistice that ends World War 1 -
Australian-Hungarian Empire Surrenders
The Allied powers comprised the United Kingdom and the British Empire, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, South Africa, France, Belgium, Japan, the United States, and others.
The European Central powers were Germany, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria.
Following its surrender, the Austro-Hungarian Empire failed to unite its people and split into Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia. -
Post World War II
After the war was over his rank was reverted to colonel in 1946. Also in that year he was assigned duty in the Pentagon as the Assistant to the Chief of Public Information. In 1948, Fielder returned to Hawaii where he was again assigned to the Headquarters of the Army of the Pacific. Over the next few years he held several positions including, Commanding Officer of the Officers Reserve Corps, Public Information Officer, Deputy Commander for Civil Components, USARPAC Chief of Staff, then retired. -
USSR withdraws from War
The Russian military experienced negative outcomes from virtually the beginning of the war, according to the BBC. Even though they were able to mobilize faster than their enemies had anticipated, they were still unprepared, being outgunned and outclassed by their German adversaries. Despite a brief rebound in 1916, things managed to get worse for the Russians. Political disorder at home was exacerbated by charges of treason in the royal palace itself.
