The destruction of the Italian airship, City of Ferrara by an Austro-Hungarian seaplane on June 8, 1915.
Vernichtung des italienischen Luftschiffes 'Città di Ferrara' durch einen österreichischen-ungarischen HydroplanDestruction of the Italian airship 'Città di Ferrara' by an Austrian-Hungarian seaplaneHarry Heugger 1915City of FerraraReverse:Postkartenverlag Brüder Kohn, Wien I.B.K.W.I. 259-145
"Italy struck first, along a five-hundred-mile front. Her armies quickly spread over the Trentino and, on the [east], crossed the Isonzo River, and reached Montfalcone within four days of the declaration of war. It seemed for the time as though there were to be no effective resistance by the Austrians, who had indeed been forced by a Russian menace to send to their eastern front an army of 700,000 men . . ."
Italy declared war on Austria-Hungary on May 23, 1915, while the Austro-Hungarian Army was advancing against Russia in its northeast province of Galicia in the Gorlice-Tarnow Offensive. Despite the strain of opening a new battle front, Austria-Hungary benefited from natural defenses against Italy, holding the high ground along their shared border, and having the Isonzo River as a barrier in Italy's northeast.
The Nations at War, a Current History by Willis John Abbot, page 250, copyright © 1917, Doubleday, Page & Company, publisher: Leslie-Judge Co., publication date: 1917
1915-06-08, 1915, June, City of Ferrara
