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Submarines and War
Grattan, C. Hartley | December 11, 1929 issue

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This article focuses on the book "When the U-Boats Come to America," by William Bell Clark. When the submarines crossed the ocean in 1916 the general reaction was one of amazement. For the fact remains that when the war broke out in Europe the great objection to the submarine among naval experts was that it was not adapted to long-distance cruising. Von Tirpitz had refused for years to spend much of the German naval appropriation on underseas vessels. The transformation of the submarine into a vessel that could operate at a distance from its base for a considerable length of time was one of the many technical developments that made the World War unprecedented.

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WHEN the U-Boats Come to America (Book); CLARK, William Bell; WAR; SUBMARINES (Ships) -- Germany; OCEAN; GERMANY
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