From: Jack Lee (milveh@dslextreme.com)
Date: Mon Feb 06 2006 - 12:00:38 PST
Rick, you always seem so quick to find fault with America (absent any
Here we have a civilian passenger vessel sunk by a U-boat, innocent lives
By the way, for the rest of you guys...here is a great site that gives
http://www.uboatarchive.net/U-515INT.htm
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> Probably was carrying war material to Europe despite
facts), whats your problem?
lost and you turn it around and say they were probably carrying munititions
to Europe so its America's fault? lol Man, that's just plain bullsh-- and
I am getting sick of liberals like you finding fault with America.
incredible insight into the life a WWII German sub...
From: "Rick v100" <rickv100@yahoo.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Monday, February 06, 2006 5:48 AM
Subject: Re: [MV] history - WWI 1917 German sub sinks U.S. passenger ship
California
> the Neutrality Act.
>
> Rick
>
>
> --- Everette <194cbteng@bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
>> February 6
>>
>> 1917 German sub sinks U.S. passenger ship California
>> Just three days after U.S. President Woodrow
>> Wilson's speech of February 3,
>> 1917-in which he broke diplomatic relations with
>> Germany and warned that war
>> would follow if American interests at sea were again
>> assaulted-a German
>> submarine torpedoes and sinks the Anchor Line
>> passenger steamer California
>> off the Irish coast.
>>
>> The explosion of the torpedo was so violent and
>> devastating that the
>> 470-foot, 9,000-ton steamer sank just nine minutes
>> after the attack. Despite
>> desperate S.O.S. calls sent by the crew to ensure
>> the arrival of rescue
>> ships, 38 people drowned after the initial
>> explosion, for a total of 43
>> dead.
>> This type of blatant German defiance of Wilson's
>> warning about the
>> consequences of unrestricted submarine warfare
>> drove Wilson and the United
>> States to take the final steps towards war. On April
>> 2, Wilson went before
>> Congress to deliver his war message; the formal
>> declaration of U.S. entrance
>> into the First World War came four days later.
>>
>> Everette
>> Deo adiuvante
>>
>>
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