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The War to End All Wars Chapter Four World War I

Why Did War Begin?  Reasons for war –Alliance system in Europe –Imperialistic objectives –Militarism –Nationalism  Devotion to one’s nation and a desire to secure one’s national interests over the interests of other nations  Own national agenda competed –Economically –Diplomatically –Militarily

Why Did War Begin?  Assassination of heir to Austria-Hungary –Austria-Hungary blames Serbia –Declares war on Serbia  Germany declares war on Russia –Germany allied with Austria-Hungary –Germany declares war on Russia  Russia allied with Serbia –Germany declares war on France  France allies with Russia –Britain declares war on Germany  Germany invades Belgium

War Begins  Troops moved by:  Train, truck, car, horse, on foot  Aircraft  Observed situation  Reconnaissance  Recorded position and reported  Trench warfare

German Airships & Dirigibles  German Zeppelins –Pride of German people –Mostly reconnaissance, occasionally bomb –Vunerable  Large  Highly visible  Low-flying  Slow-moving

German Airships & Dirigibles  Flew about 250 Army missions –England first bombed 1915 – Yarmouth  hour round trip  Weather over seas  Searchlights  Anti-aircraft guns  Airplanes  Wire nets  Weather/ mechanical problems –Downed more than enemy  Army dismantled program

German Airships & Dirigibles  Navy continued program –Over 1,000 reconnaissance missions –Couple hundred bombing missions –Technology increased –6 weeks to build –Cost  80 airships to one battleship –Required  Large facilities  Large ground crews

German Airship Effectiveness  Army –Lost 26 of 52 airships –52 men  Navy –Lost 53 of 73 airships –389 men  Damage –52 raids –0ver 500 lives  Effectiveness?

Allied Airships & Dirigibles  France –All Army at start of war –Reconnaissance/artillery ranging –Suspended use for awhile  Instances of damage by friendly fire  Didn’t recognize nationality of airships –63 missions/ then transferred to Navy –Navy  Dirigible division  Protection for naval vessels  37 when war ended

Allied Airships and Dirigibles  British –Used as naval weapons –Reconnaissance/surveillance of sea coasts –Designs based on down German Zeppelins –103 airships at war end

Drachen Balloon  Kite balloon –Tethered to ground or naval vessel –Direct telephone line with ground –Very effective  Observation  Sector reconnaissance  Battery ranging  Artillery spotting  Verification of demolition –Later equipped with parachutes

Balloons  Modified Drachen Balloon –Barrage Balloon  Linked by horizontal cables  Additional cables dangled  Free Balloons –Bombs –Bombsights –Drift indicators

What damage was done? Shelters For All ! Raid on Antwerp Night after night during the bombing raids shleter became very much a necessity. The air raid siren would sound - the children would be woken and hurriedly ushered from their beds, and half asleep they would trudge wearily to the garden to spend yet another night huddled on some make shift bed in a dark, damp cold shelter - waiting for the all clear to sound and praying that the nearby explosions would not come any closer.

Early World War I  Military aircraft  Suitable for reconnaissance and scouting  Bi-planes  Two-seats  Low powered  Limited maneuverability/load-carrying capacity

Aircraft  Germany – 230 airplanes  Russia – 190 airplanes  Austria-Hungary – 110 airplanes  Great Britain – 80 airplanes  United States – 15 airplanes

Aircraft  Germany  15 Army flying schools  Goal of 1,000 airplanes  2 types  Taube - monoplane  Arrow - biplane  Austria-Hungary  Relied on German support  Mixture of monoplanes and biplanes

Aircraft  France  4 military airports  300 airplanes on order  3,500 military aviation personnel  Great Britain  British Royal Flying Corps – 1912  Not state-of-the-art  63 aircraft sent to France

Aircraft  Russia  50 airplanes combat ready  Italy  Small at start of war  Domestic production increased  Combat experience  Italo-Turkish War

Aircraft  United States  Army/Navy  Recruited  Trained  Transported airmen to Europe  Canadian Royal Flying Corps  British Royal Flying Corps  French Foreign Legion  Lafayette Escadrille  Transferred to U.S. Army  Eugene Bullard  First black American military aviator

Early World War I  Strategic Goal - ports on English Channel  Airfields  Created as they moved  “One night stands”  Expansion  Britain expanded the Royal Flying Corps  Wireless officers (Radio operators)  Reconnaissance photos  German development  Maintained dominant aerial position  Pilots carried pistols

Aviation Developments  Aerial Combat  France – first kill  Voisin biplane  Pivoting Hotchkiss machine gun  Shot down German reconnaissance airplane  Bombing  Consisted of small pocket bombs  Enemy trains were prime targets

Aviation Developments  Communications  Dropping message bags  Wireless communication (radios)  One-way  Sent in code  Radio problems  Weight  Danger of fire (sparks from equipment)  Required radio operator  Skilled in Morse Code  Lamps  Grubb reflector

Military Aviation Developments  Aerial Combat –Pilots carried pistols –Machine guns mounted on planes –Hotchkiss Machine gun

Military Aviation Developments  Forward firing –French pilot  Roland Garros –Metal deflector plates to propeller blades –Bullets ricochet off deflector plates –April 1915  Downed 5 German airplanes  First ace of war –Shot down  Germans captured airplane

Military Aviation Developments  Forward firing –Innovation turned over to Anthony Fokker –Improvement  Machine gun synchronized with propeller  Interrupter gear –Fokker scourge  Late 1915/Early 1916 –Allies captured German airplane

Aerial Combat  Gentleman’s Warfare –Classic dogfight –Fokker scourge  Max Immelman – 16 victories  Oswald Boelke – 40 victories  Manfred von Richthofen –80 victories –Allies  Rene Fonck – France (75 victories)  Edward Mannock – Great Britain (61 victories)  United States? –Eddie Rickenbacker – 26 victories

Ace  The Red Baron

Ace Eddie Rickenbacker (American Ace) “Fighting in the air is not a sport. It is a scientific murder.”

Aerial Combat  Gentleman’s Warfare –Pilots dropped message  News of captured, killed, missing  Upcoming bombings  Fighter Planes –Fly higher –Climb quicker –Turn sharper –Loop, circle, and dive –Survive and kill

Aerial Combat  New tactics –Formation flying  Germany first  Squadrons of up to 10 planes  Mass attacks  “Classic” dogfights declined  April 1917 –Allies lost 83 planes

Military Aviation Developments  Bombing  Artillery spotting  Bomber Still Meant…  Soldier tossing bombs from plane  Enemy Supply Trains main target  Recon to Bombing Missions

Bombers  Sikorsky  Ilya Mourometz (S-22)  Luxury commercial passenger transport  4 engine  Internal bomb bay  Bomb sighting device  Armor added to engines  Defensive weapons  Mythical status  First loss to 4 fighters  3 of 4 destroyed

Ilya Mourometz

German Bombers  Gotha  Unique  Steel used in construction  Fuselage, nacelle, landing gear, wings

German Gotha

Allied Bombers  British  Handley Page  One of largest in world  O/400 Model  Carry 1,650 pound bomb  Deployed in force  Up to 40 in a raid  Night missions  Established first independent Air Force  Royal Air Force  Royal Flying Corps  Royal Navy Air Service

Allied Bombers  France  Breguet XIV  First airplane mass produced  Metal instead of wood in structure  Fast and agile  5,500 produced

Allied Bombers  France  Most bombs dropped during war  Flew en masse  V Formations  3 – 5 planes  Missions involved hundreds  Caudron fighter provided support  Daytime raids

Allied Bombers  United States  None during war  Pilots flew French planes  Suffered heavy losses  Inexperience

Flying Boats/Seaplanes  Patrolled coasts, ports, convoys  Submarines  France  Expanded from 8 planes to over 1,200  Deployed aircraft carrier

Military Aviation Developments  Artillery –Battle of Neuve Chapelle –Artillery Spotting –Wireless Messages

Military Aviation Developments  Communications –Air to ground communication –Wireless equipment was too heavy –Danger of fire –Airborne radio operator had to know Morse code –Signaling by lamps/Grubb reflector

Military Aviation Developments  Forward firing  French pilot Roland Garros  First shoot-down by airplane firing through tractor propeller  Fokker impovement  Synchronization device  Led to Fokker Scourge  German aces  Immelmann – 16 kills  Boelcke – 40 kills  Von Richthofen – 80 kills

Military Aviation Developments  Early aircraft resembled Wright Flyer  Fighters  New technology  Formation flying Germans  Bombers  German - Gotha  French – Breguet XIV

Aircraft Production  War – stimulate to industry –Demand exceeded prewar capacity –Government contracts subsidized expansion  Build new wing on factory  Leading airplane producers? –France 51,700 airplanes –British 55,092 airplanes –Germany 48,537 airplanes –Italy 20,000 airplanes –U.S. 15,000 airplanes

U.S. Production  Concentrate on one airplane –De Havilland 4  British gave free use of license  French required royalties –Avoid confusion –Employed more than 200,000 –Run by inept people  No experience with aircraft  Contract awarded to companies without experience  Failed to place orders with established companies  Shipped less than 1,400 planes to Europe

U.S. Production  Curtiss –Produced 5,221 planes  1/3 of U.S. production  JN-4 Jenny trainer  Spruce production –Propellers/framework –Lightness and strength –Allied government relied on spruce –Wooblies on strike –Army established Spruce Production Division  Mobilized 25,000 men

U.S. Engine Production  Wanted one engine –Foreign engines  Not adaptable to machine tool production  All American engine –Compared designs and performances –First engine completed on 4 July 1917 –“Free of dependence on foreign engines” –24,478 produced/23 engine plants  6,000 to AEF in France

Peace  Armistice – agreement to stop fighting –Preliminary to peace  Negotiations follow –Series of agreements (Treaties)  Eastern Front – 8 Nov 1917  Bulgarian/Macedonian Line – 29 Sep 1918  Austria-Hungary – 3 Nov 1918  Germany – 11 Nov 1918

Peacetime Production  War supplies need disappeared –Governments cancelled:  Existing contracts  Pending orders  High wartime shortage prices  Negotiated settlements –Workers laid off –Factories closed –Companies out of business –Liquidating unneeded assets –War surplus equipment

Peace  Major peace conference –Paris Peace Conference –Big Four Nations attended  France  United States  Italy  Britain  Russia—did not attend

Peace  Treaty of Versailles –Germany June 1919  Treaty of St-Germain –Austria September 1919  Treaty of Neuilly –Bulgaria November 1919  Treaty of Trianon –Hungary June 1920  Treaties of Sevres and Lausanne –Ottoman Empire 1920 and 1923

Treaty Of Versailles  15 Parts –Germany accept responsibility for provoking war  Public humiliation for Germans –Germany lost:  Land –25,000 square miles  Colonies  Money –Reparations: 132,000 Marks –Contributed to economic depression  Rights  Freedoms  Alsace and Lorraine to France

Part V. Air Clauses  Harshest terms of treaty –German restrictions  No naval or military air force of any kind  Max size restrictions of military forces and equipment  Reduction of men, supplies, ships, aircraft  Prohibited conscription/all-volunteer force –Inter-Allied Commissions of Control received  15,000 airplanes/2,500 airplane motors  30% each to France and Great Britain  15% each to United States and Italy  5% each to Belgium and Japan

Aerial Navigation Clauses  Temporary restrictions on civil aviation –Open airways to aircraft of Allied and Associated Powers –Enforced until 1 Jan 1923

Summary  WW I 1914 – 1918  Airships  Race to the Channel  Military Development  Airplane Production  Treaty of Versailles