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U18[edit]

Maybe the German and the English section should try to consolidate their differing versions of the events involving the U18 submarine. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.43.106.44 (talk) 07:24, 19 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

New Material in the lead[edit]

User:Orkney Vole In my opinion the material put into the lead, (Revision as of 13:20, 6 May 2015), should be in the body of the article with a citation. SovalValtos (talk) 14:02, 6 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The last casualties of the World War I[edit]

I find this section tricky. First, Russia descended into a media blackout totalitarian state where Austro-Hungarian or German state actors may have had some killings into the 1920s or late 1919 or vice-versa against POWs, or far flung corners of theaters of war such as the remnants of the Ottoman Empire may be considered 'World War I casualties'? I don't know. I doubt anyone does. More importantly 1000s died undischarged since Nov. 1918 in hospitals in Germany, France, England etc. into the 1920s those are also such casualties. Their cause of death was not poor medical treatment.

Should we just say these nine deaths appear to be the last lethal blows against German forces of World War I - (albeit perhaps considered killings for purely economic i.e. anti-criminal damage reasons)?
Does anyone know what happened to the men who fired on those sinking the naval "stock" of ships? (if they were sentenced then these killings are among those tens of vengence murders and not World War I deaths per se)
Has a Human Rights writer exposed what appear to be barbaric killings, reflecting the propaganda, solidarity and entrenched hatred of the respective navies for the better part of a generation?

- Adam37 Talk 19:03, 29 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

WW2: seaplane base[edit]

There’s no mention in the article of Scapa Flow being used as a seaplane base. But I know it was as my father was stationed on it for many years during the war. There were Sunderlands and Catalinas. Boscaswell talk 10:19, 28 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]