Dutch navy finds sunken(WWI)German submarine

AP-Forbes ^ | March 16, 2011

[greatdefender]

THE HAGUE, Netherlands – The Dutch navy says it has discovered the sunken wreck of a German World War I submarine off the island of Terschelling and will designate it a war grave.

The submarine was first discovered in October 2009, but the find was only announced Wednesday after the Dutch Defense Ministry authorities confirmed its identity with German authorities.

The Dutch navy initially believed the wreck was a Dutch submarine, 0-13, that went missing during World War II, but divers and remote cameras later confirmed it was the U-106.

[SunkenCiv]

I am surprised to find out that the Germans did have a couple of U-Boats in the first world war, I never knew that before

They did a lot of their best stuff with U-boats in WWI; it was a U-boat that sank the Lusitania in 1915 which caused the Wilson administration to immediately declare war. Oh sorry (that's a myth a lot of people believe). Anyway, there is actually some surviving motion picture footage of WWI U-boats in action. They didn't run very deep, would keep a lookout, then pop up, and use the deck guns to attack. Their use of torpedoes was also commonplace. The problem in both WWs for the Germans was that they had just that one answer to British sea power. It was perhaps even more effective in WWI than in WWII because there was no radar or sonar. There were however loads of mines (that's what got this one) and depth charges.

OTOH, the Germans -- contrary to still-waving British myth -- didn't get used up until after the Russians collapsed and the US entered the war. Pershing fought on his own terms and wouldn't just act as additional cannon fodder for idiot British generals. Wish we'd had him in WWII.

The British EF fed itself to German guns, as did the French army. Massed infantry assaults over open fields and against fortified positions AND under massive artillery superiority was the B&F story during WWI. The French caught on, realized their mistake, and sent their successful tacticians to train the US forces, something they get insufficient credit for.

[SunkenCiv]

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