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Deadly Mine Barrage Turned Tide Against U Boat Threat
This account recounts the Allied mine barrage across the North Sea, its vast scale of 56,811 mines laid by U S and British forces, and the impact on German U boats. It credits Admiral Strauss and the American navy for the strategy, notes costs and ship movements, and highlights mine-sweeping dangers and heroism of destroyer crews.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Sea
Orkneys
British Isles
von Tirpitz
Moloch
Soprang
Fct
Navy
Ferror
Light Brigade
Thermopylae
Ely
Joseph Strauss
Bureau of Ordnance
George R. Marvel
Baltimore
Ia Warfare
Navy Department of the Limited States
Bureau of
Ordree
Germany
Atlanti
Wein Washington
Shere
Great Britain
Chase
Woodrow Wilson
Lieyd-George
Che
Aish Sen
Chorge
Hte
Schop
Perelong Tinw
General Board
The
Feet
Civlias
Justin Lie
Admiral Earle
Admiral Strauss
United States
Lyview
Bursau of
Ordnance
Strauss
Straits of Dover
Ming Barrange
Chesapeake Bay
Bay
San Francisco
Mediterranean
New Yerk
Isla
Kipling
Imore