Synopsis

Between America and the firing line, there are three thousand miles of submarine infested water. Every American soldier, before encountering the dangers of the battle-front, must first overcome the dangers of the deep. Geographically, America is almost four thousand miles from the war zone, but in fact every American soldier bound for entered the war zone one hour out of New York harbour. made an Ally out of the dark depths of the Atlantic. That three-thousand-mile age represented greater possibilities for the destruction of the United States overseas forces than any strategical operation that 's able military leaders could direct in the field. made use of that three thousand miles of water, just as she developed the use of barbed wire entanglements along the front. Infantry advancing across No Man's Land were held helpless before the enemy's fire by barbed wire entanglements. , with her submarine policy of ruthlessness, changed the Atlantic Ocean into another No Man's Land across which every American soldier had to at the mercy of the enemy before he could arrive at the actual battle-front. This was the peril of the...