December 9, 2018
World War I Taught the U.S. Navy How to Fight Submarines
The hard way.
by Sebastien Roblin
When Congress voted on April 6, 1917 to declare war on Imperial Germany, the task before the U.S. Navy was clear: it needed to transport and supply over a million men across the Atlantic despite the Imperial German Navy’s ferocious U-Boat campaign, which reached its peak that month, sinking over 874,000 tons of shipping.
Indeed, Germany’s decision to recommence unrestricted submarine warfare in February was one of the decisive factors driving the United States, and later Brazil, into finally joining “the war to end all wars.â€
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/world-war-i-taught-us-navy-how-fight-submarines-38167
