James B Raper

The U-Boat Sanction James B Raper

In early 1915 German declared unrestricted U-Boat warfare against all shipping entering the war zone around the British Isles. The community of nations protested but did nothing. When on May 7, 1915, undersea boat U-20 fired a single torpedo into the RMS Lusitania, its secret cargo of munitions from America exploded in a sympathetic detonation. Within twenty minutes, the liner, 1,200 passengers and crew rested on the bottom of the Irish Sea. Millie Baker, a deep cover agent for a small island nation, drowned in cabin B 34. Again, the community of nations protested but did nothing. Only the secrets of Cabin 34 triggered a measured, calculated, decisive response. On July 12th, Das Meerwunder was unleashed with fire in its eyes. At its helm, Captain Edward Drake.
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