Topic 1: Warfare at the end of WW1.
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- Topic 1: Warfare at the end of WW1.
- Sea Warfare:
- U-boats (Unterseeboot)
- 1:) Feb 1915 - Germans announced unrestricted U-boat warfare.
- 3:) This was resumed again in Feb 1917.
- Anti-U-boat measures:
- 1:) Q-boats. Carried powerful but hidden guns. Sank 14 U-boats at a cost of 27 Q-boats.
- 2:) Convoy System. Ships would travel in large numbers under the protection of naval destroyers. June 1916, 16,539 ships sailed in convoy-154 torpedoed.
- 3:) Raids on U-boat bases. Attempted in early 1918 by British(by blocking U-boat bases)-limited success.
- 4:) Hydrophones. Listening devices. Very successful. Didn't always pick up U-boats.
- U-boats (Unterseeboot)
- Air Warfare:
- 1:) 1914-planes still undeveloped.Mainly used for reconnaissance(spying)
- 2:) 1918-began to attack enemy trenches and civilians.
- 3:) August 1914-only 37 planes taken to France. By 1918 Britain ended war with 22,000 planes
- Fighter Planes:
- German advances meant that machine guns could fire between the propeller blades.
- Used to attack enemy trenches
- Bombing:
- Huge airships the length of two football fields to bomb Britain-1900 casualties.
- Germans developed Gotha-a heavy bomber.
- Sea Warfare:
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