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The Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand
The Archduke was riding through the town in a motorcade when there was a bomb thrown at his car. The bomb bounced off the roof of his car and rolled under another car exploding. The explosion missed him and rather than flee he continued on his trip to city hall. After his event at city hall, he was on his way to visit the wounded soldiers when their car went onto the same street an assassin was on. The assassin Phillip shot him in the neck and he died minutes later. -
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First Battle of Ypres
The First Battle of Ypres was the first of three battles to control the Belgian city of Ypres. Ypres was a very important area for both sides in the war with it having access to ports of the English channel ports and the Northern Sea. Meanwhile, the Germans prepared their first attack which aimed to capture the city and the ports. On October 19, the fighting started and with it came heavy losses until November 22 when winter brought the fight to a halt. -
First Veteran Event
While doing a solo flight he had to land in a field. While flying he was going towards a silo and his motor stopped working. He couldn’t fly over it or to any landing strip so he had to land in the farm. He landed in a wheat field and had to wait for his instructor. -
Second Veteran Event
While he was taking off from the airport another squad member crashed. The member named Captain Hobie Baker attempted to make a 180-degree turn to land back on the runway. His flying was bad and he crashed into the ground and was killed in an instant. -
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Gallipoli Campaign
The Gallipoli campaign was a military campaign from WWI. The purpose of the campaign was to weaken the Ottoman Empire and expose the capital. The attack would be done by Britain, France, and The Russian Empire. They would take control of the Ottoman straits so the allied battleships could bombard the capital. Their plan failed due to bad leadership, faulty tactics, inexperienced troops, and a shortage of shells. -
Third Veteran Event
He was flying an artillery observer for a mission and he completed it. After the mission still in the sky the observer wanted to fly and he had flown before so he let him have control. The observer for some reason took the stick and pulled it back into his gut as hard as he could. It caused the plane to go vertical and then it went into a spin. De’spain took the stick back and flattened it out narrowly missing the tents where others were. -
Fourth Veteran Event
While flying he noticed his plane seemed to freeze up on him so he had to land. He landed safely in a prairie and contacted his artillery observer and the observer said someone would come and find out what was wrong with it. He waited a few hours and thought of something that would maybe fix it so he did it and flew back to his camp. -
Final Veteran Event
He was flying over towns in his plane when he spotted a place where there were a lot of other landed planes so he went to land. He then realized that there was something wrong with the throttle so he overshot the field. He realized he had enough speed and power to turn around and attempt to land again so he tried. On the third attempt of him trying to land the throttle came loose and the throttle alarm was no longer connected to the engine. -
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Battle of Cambrai
Battle of Cambrai was a British offensive on the western front and the first large-scale use of tanks. The British attacked with complete surprise on November 20, The tanks tore through the Germans and they took over 7,500 prisoners with low casualties. Bad weather made it to where their advance was slowed significantly. On November 30, The Germans launched a successful counter-attack and by December 5 the British were pushed back almost to their original position. -
Armistice
In the West Germany's army failing made them want to pursue an armistice. The Germans were given very harsh terms to make sure they didn’t continue fighting. They were given 72 hours and on November 11, 1918, at 5 am the armistice was agreed upon. Word was sent to the Allied commanders that fighting would stop on the entire front at 11:00.