Comments by "" (@VersusARCH) on "The Drydock - Episode 218" video.

  1. 00:38 I seriously object to failing to mention the French Navy's contribution to supplying the Macedonian (AKA Salonika) Front. Galipoli Campaign, an abject failure that everybody likes to talk about lasted for several months. The Macedonian campaign lasted for more than 3 years and resulted in the first armistice with a Central Power (Bulgaria) and contributed significantly to Turkey's and Austria-Hungary's decision to ask for an armistice (the latter also broke apart). Allied armies had to be transported there. Serbian Army needed to be evacuated from Albania in late 1915. having retreated there in the aftermath of the joint Central Powers' invasion, later being transpotrted to Salonika to fight on the Macedonian front. Allied armies on the said front needed to be supplied and serviced by hospital ships... French and Italian navies with some British and Japanese contribution maintained the security of the sea lanes (although Central powers' submarines caused quite a few losses), and their merchant fleet did the hard work of supplying the allied armies there.
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