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Title: Simsadus: London; The American navy in Europe
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Leighton, John Langdon. (from old catalog)
Subjects: United States. Navy World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: New York, H. Holt and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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The little dots represent the Allied vessels sunk by submarines inSeptember, 1918; iive or six dots in place of each of these wouldrepresent the losses of April, 1917. The two ships sunk off ourcoast (see insert) were destroyed by the U-117, the last of the fourGerman submarines to visit our coasts.
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END OF THE SUBMARINE CAMPAIGN 147 the War, and by efficient cooperation with the Brit-ish, for many a submarine officer had seen Englishand American destroyers with the same convoy, hadincreased the difficulty of the submarines task. Alsothe convoy system had made the destruction of aship by a submarine an extremely difficult and haz-ardous task. And every time they went to seathey had to encounter a great danger, the NorthernMine Barrage, because the still greater danger, theDover mine-fields, had closed the Straits to them.And when at sea, their encounters with Allied patrolcraft were ever growing more numerous. Theirmortal enemy had sunk over 150 submarines andapparently watched the activities of every subma-rine commander with intelligence and interest. And,finally, in spite of their efforts, the Allied tonnagelosses were being more than replaced by new construc-tion, although there were more submarines readyfor operations than ever before. To what hopescould they now turn.? Or wh

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