• She was launched on 18 May 1940 and commissioned on 27 June 1940 with Oberleutnant zur See Wolfgang Lüth in command. U-138 conducted five patrols, sinking...
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  • SM UB-138, a Type UB III submarine laid down but unfinished at the end of the war; broken up on the slip in 1919 German submarine U-138 (1940), a Type...
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    in 1943, the U-boat U-255 was sent to the East coast of Novaja Zemlya where it teamed up with a BV 138. The U-255 refuelled the BV 138 four times for...
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    Wolfgang Lüth (category U-boat commanders (Kriegsmarine))
    the U-boat service in 1936. In December 1939 he received command of U-9, which he took on six war-patrols. In June 1940 he took command of U-138 for two...
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  • June 1940 and commissioned on 24 September. She was armed with six torpedo tubes and a 10.5 cm SK C/32 naval gun. U-106 was assigned to the 2nd U-boat...
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  • submarines known as U-boats that were in action during World War II were built between 1935 and 1944, and were numbered in sequence from U-1 upwards. Numbering...
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    in Richlands was added to the state highway system in 1931 as State Route 138, and a further 4.11 miles (6.61 km) was added in 1932. The road was renumbered...
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    1940 U-65 sinks Tregenna from convoy HX 71. September 18, 1940 U-48 sinks Marina and City of Benares from convoy OB 213. September 20, 1940 U-138 sinks...
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    counter-blockade. The campaign peaked from mid-1940 through to the end of 1943. The Battle of the Atlantic pitted U-boats and other warships of the German Kriegsmarine...
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    Landesman, pp. 358–359. Landesman, pp. 35–37. Fagen, p. 40. Landesman, pp. 137–138. Fagen, p. 203. Landesman, pp. 352–353. Fagen, p. 422. Landesman, pp. 370–372...
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    The 1940 Tacoma Narrows Bridge, the first bridge at this location, was a suspension bridge in the U.S. state of Washington that spanned the Tacoma Narrows...
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    December 1997. Walker 1987, p. 138. Taylor 1984, p. 76. Bean 2013, p. 71. Capus 2003, p. 71. Crowther, Bosley (1940-05-17). "The Screen in Review". The...
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  • German submarine U-147 was a Type IID U-boat of the German Navy (Kriegsmarine) during World War II. She was laid down on 10 April 1940 at Deutsche Werke...
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  • through U-82 U-88 through U-98 U-132 through U-136 U-201 through U-212 U-221 through U-232 U-235 through U-291 U-301 through U-316 U-331 through U-394 U-396...
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    Karl Dönitz (category U-boat commanders (Imperial German Navy))
    total of 585,496 GRT that month. The first six months in 1940 cost Dönitz 15 U-boats. Until mid-1940 there remained a chronic problem with the reliability...
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  •   AMC 70,898   Lincoln 101,068 Excalibur 235   Excalibur 212   Excalibur 138 Avanti II 200   Avanti II 200   Avanti II 100 Production Figures for 1984...
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    National Archives. 24 May 1940. p. 312. Retrieved 21 July 2019. Jenkins 2002, p. 598. "War Cabinet Conclusions – Confidential Annex 138" (PDF). The Cabinet...
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  • The list of shipwrecks in October 1940 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during October 1940. For the loss of SS Haulerwijk on...
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    Submarine pen (redirect from U-boat pen)
    convinced protection for the expanding U-boat arm was required. A Royal Air Force (RAF) raid on the capital in 1940, the occupation of France and Britain's...
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    African campaign of World War II took place in North Africa from 10 June 1940 to 13 May 1943. It included campaigns fought in the Libyan and Egyptian deserts...
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  • German submarine U-556 was a Type VIIC U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II. She was laid down on 2 January 1940 at the Blohm & Voss...
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    Smith Act (redirect from Smith Act of 1940)
    18 U.S.C. § 2385 is a United States federal statute that was enacted on June 28, 1940. It set criminal penalties for advocating the overthrow of the U.S...
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  • coastline from the Bay of Biscay to the North Cape of Norway. German submarine U-138 was commissioned. Born: Anil Karanjai, artist, in East Bengal (d. 2001)...
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  • when considering U.S. urban areas or metropolitan areas. This table lists the 336 incorporated places in the United States, excluding the U.S. territories...
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    (Cornell UP, 2014). Divine, Robert A. Foreign policy and U.S. presidential elections, 1940-1948 (1974) online free to borrow pp 91 to 166 on 1944. Evans...
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    United Nations (redirect from U. N.)
    the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives. 4 June 1997. Archived from the original on 14 November 2022. Retrieved 13 November 2022. "H.Amdt.138 to H.R.1757"...
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    World War II was a military campaign in the Mediterranean theatre. From June 1940 to November 1942, the fight for the control of the strategically important...
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    World War II (category Conflicts in 1940)
    Eastern Europe; in 1940, the Soviets annexed the Baltic states and parts of Finland and Romania. After the fall of France in June 1940, the war continued...
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    Marshal Philippe Pétain as the successor to the French Third Republic in June 1940. The government remained in Vichy for four years, but fled to Germany in...
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    Purple Coat (1937) Le Rêve de 1940 (the dream of 1940) (1940) La Blouse Roumaine (1940) Interior with an Etruscan Vase (1940), Cleveland Museum of Art Le...
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