Western Front Association (Milton Keynes Branch)
Friday, 19th April 2024 from 7.30 to 9.30 pm
Wolverton Working Men’s Social Club, 49-50 Stratford Road, Wolverton MK12 5LS
Dr Graham Kemp’s presentation introduces the essential differences between U- boats and submarines and examines the different kinds of U boats used in the First World War. He then looks at how Germany first planned to use them and how they, almost by accident, developed them into a deadly raider. The talk will then cover the U boat Commerce campaign of 1917-18, its aims, hopes and intentions, before explaining why it was doomed to inevitable failure, and huge cost that Germany paid for that failure.