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wolf pack
The term wolfpack refers to the mass-attack tactics against convoys used by German U-boats of the Kriegsmarine during the Battle of the Atlantic, and by submarines of the United States Navy against Japanese shipping in the Pacific Ocean in World War II. The wolf pack attack system a group of ships would travel together with protection of escort warships |
convoys
Background to Naval Convoys. The convoy system, a group of ships sailing together for protection, was designed to help protect cargo in passenger ships during the First and Second World War. The system was created out of desperation. The merchant ships traveled in groups of between 10 and 50 ships. sinking of Lusitania
a British luxury liner sunk by a German submarine in the North Atlantic on May 7, 1915: one of the events leading to U.S. entry into World War I. 2. The sinking Lusitania sunk on may 7th, 1915 it was holding 1,200 people and a German submarine attacked with a torpedo without warning. |
U-boats
U-boats definition. German submarines during World War I and World War II. U-boat is a translation of the German U-boot, which is short for Untersee boot, or “undersea boat.” Note: Lusitania was sunk by a U-boat. The German U-boat were the beginning of unrestricted warfare. Role Of Women
Women's work in WW1. During WWI (1914-1918), large numbers of women were recruited into jobs vacated by men who had gone to fight in the war. New jobs were also created as part of the war effort, for example in munitions factories. |