u-boats a German submarine used in WW1 league of nations international organization established after World War I under the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles provisional temporary abdicate stand down from the throne reparations the making of amends for a wrong one has done, by paying money...
By 1914 they were all in the North Sea Patrol Flotillas, or in the Nore Flotilla. TB 4 and TB 24 illustrated themselves engaging their German peers of the Belgian Coast in 1915. By 1918 the four Denny boats went to the Mediterranean at Gibraltar and Malta. TB 15, Cricket class (IWM) ...
Before the infantry moved, the artillery had been called into action. Barrages in the past had depended on surprise and poor German bunkers for success; however, these conditions did not exist in the area of the Somme. To add to the difficulties involved in penetrating the German defences, o...
did much to "torment the Germans ... driving them with the fury of despair into the arms of the devil." The terms of the Armistice did allow food to be shipped into Germany, but the Allies required that Germany provide the ships. The German government was required to...
Lt. Theodore von Mallinckrodt of the German Army would be the first to fly it, finding some novelty in a metal aircraft. Much of the test team was critical of the new plane, nicknamed the ‘tin donkey’, feeling that it would be too heavy to fly, and that it was suicide to fly a...
asked the Japanese to loan all four Kongo class battlecruisers, which was flatly refused. Japanese ships secured traffic between Marseille, Taranto, and ports in Egypt until the end of the War, escorting 788 allied transports. One single loss, destroyer Akashi, was by a German U-Boat 11 June...
How German U-Boats Were Used in WWI—And Perfected in WWII After terrorizing trans-Atlantic ships in World War I, German U-boats grew even more fearsome in World War II. World War I 5 Advances That Followed Pandemics Diseases have devastated human populations, but they've also inspired soci...
11th Half Flotilla第11半支小舰队;1st L.C.S.(less Galatea),第1轻巡洋舰中队(缺加拉蒂亚号);1st S.G.,第1侦察组;1st Squadron,第1中队;2nd L.C.S,第2轻巡洋舰中队;2nd S.G.,第2侦察组;2nd Squadron,第2中队;3 Boats of 3rd Flotilla,第3小舰队的3艘小艇;3rd L.C.S.,第3轻巡洋舰中队;3rd...
German Navy's Flanders U-boat flotilla based in Bruges. The operation involved a large number of drifters, mine-laying trawlers, and minelayers, covered by two monitors, Dover patrol destroyers, and patrol boats. After the completion of the work, at around 8 o'clock, three German destroyers...