Re: Which was worse? The WW1 U Boat Campaign or the WW2 one
- From: azb@xxxxxxxxxx (Andrew Robert Breen)
- Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2007 15:40:33 -0400
In article <udKdnV2UMvWIUorbnZ2dnUVZ_qarnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
Mike Piacente <mpiacente@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
WW II -- they lost more merchants (both their own and US) and warships and
men; not to mention the cost of building/manning the vast number of
merchants and warships to escort the convoys.
"Wily Wilde" <sniper968@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:ev87qg$85a$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Which U Boat campaign was the worse? The WW1 U Boat campaign or the WW2
campaign - for the British.
OTOH the WW1 campaign probably came much closer to defeating Britain. In
WW2 the level of supplies (food, fuel) at home and for the armies abroad
never became seriously constricted, but in 1917 this wasn't the case. Of
course, a lot of the reason for this was that the RN had learned from 1917
that you need to convoy ships (a lesson, one would have thought, that
previous wars would have taught adequately - and if they hadn't, then the
success of the Austro-Hungarians with convoys from 1915 or so should have
done it..).
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