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    U-boats were naval submarines operated by Germany, particularly in the First and Second World Wars. The term is an anglicized version of the German word...
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    Kriegsmarine (redirect from U-Boat Arm)
    Z was shelved in favour of a crash building programme for submarines (U-boats) instead of capital surface warships, and land and air forces were given...
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    lesser maximum diving depth than earlier U-boat designs. It was planned that final assembly of Type XXI boats would eventually be carried out in the Valentin...
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    The U-boat campaign from 1914 to 1918 was the World War I naval campaign fought by German U-boats against the trade routes of the Allies, largely in the...
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  • considered various submarine designs for specialized operations or improving U-boat performance. Many of these designs did not come to fruition for various...
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    Group 22.3 (TG 22.3), one of six U-boats that were captured at sea by Allied forces during the war. All but one of U-505's crew were rescued by the Navy...
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    Type VII U-boats were the most common type of German World War II U-boat. 703 boats were built by the end of the war. The lone surviving example, U-995, is...
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    Submarine pen (redirect from U-boat pen)
    Germany and its occupied countries, which were also known as U-boat pens (after the phrase "U-boat" to refer to German submarines). Among the first forms of...
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    U-boats. U-177 U-178 U-179 U-180 U-181 U-182 U-195 U-196 U-197 U-198 U-199 U-200 U-847 U-848 U-849 U-850 U-851 U-852 U-859 U-860 U-861 U-862 U-863 U-864...
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  • U-27 U-28 U-29 U-30 U-31 U-32 U-33 U-34 U-35 U-36 U-45 U-46 U-47 U-48 U-49 U-50 U-51 U-52 U-53 U-54 U-55 U-73 U-74 U-75 U-76 U-83 U-84 U-85 U-86 U-87 U-99...
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  • U-boat (German: U-Boot) is a German military submarine of World War I and II. U-boat or U-Boot may also refer to: Das U-Boot, computer software, a GNU...
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  • Atlantic, after sinking a merchant ship from an Allied convoy, the German U-boat U-571 has her engines badly damaged by depth charges from a British destroyer...
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    1943—the Italian Archimede and ten German boats: U-128, U-161, U-164, U-507, U-513, U-590, U-591, U-598, U-604, and U-662. By fall 1943, the decreasing number...
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    Wunderwaffe (section U-boats)
    were completed. Type XXIV U-boat – a planned U-boat designed to use air-independent propulsion. Type XXVI U-boat – a U-boat designed to use air-independent...
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  • The Rocket U-boat was a series of military projects undertaken by Nazi Germany during the Second World War. The projects, which were undertaken at Peenemünde...
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    The Type XIV U-boat was designed to resupply other U-boats, being the only submarine tenders built which were not surface ships. It was nicknamed in German...
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  • This is a list of boat types. For sailing ships, see: List of sailing boat types Contents A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z See also...
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    List of U-boat types contains lists of the German U-boat types (submarine classes) used in World War I and World War II. The anglicized word U-boat is usually...
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    Monsun Gruppe (redirect from Monsoon boat)
    The Gruppe Monsun or Monsoon Group was a force of German U-boats (submarines) that operated in the Pacific and Indian Oceans during World War II. Although...
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    Battle of the Atlantic campaign during World War II, when the German U-boat arm (U-Bootwaffe) suffered high casualties with fewer Allied ships sunk; it...
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    Q-ship (redirect from Q-boat)
    sailing alone in an area where a U-boat was reported to be operating. By seeming to be a suitable target for the U-boat's deck gun, a Q-ship was intended...
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  • tactic employed in the Second World War. It was used principally by the U-boats of the Kriegsmarine during the Battle of the Atlantic, and by the submarines...
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    German submarine U-38 was a Type IXA U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine that operated during World War II. Her keel was laid down on 15 April 1937,...
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    The 1st U-boat flotilla (German 1. Unterseebootsflottille) also known as the Weddigen flotilla, was the first operational U-boat unit in Nazi Germany's...
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    Karl Dönitz (category U-boat commanders (Imperial German Navy))
    ship before the rest of the convoy outran his U-boat, Dönitz began to formulate the concept of U-boats operating in attack groups Rudeltaktik (German...
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    List of successful U-boats contains lists of the most successful German U-boats in the two World Wars based on total tonnage. This list contains the 5...
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  • The 4th U-boat Flotilla (German 4. Unterseebootsflottille) was formed in May 1941 in Stettin under the command of Kapitänleutnant Werner Jacobsen. Nearly...
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  • The Last U-Boat (German: Das letzte U-Boot) is a 1993 German television film directed by Frank Beyer, starring Ulrich Mühe and Ulrich Tukur, and scored...
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  • U-Boote westwärts! (in English: U-boats Westward!) is a 1941 German war film promoting the Kriegsmarine. It centers on a U-boat mission in the Battle...
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    German submarine U-110 was a Type IXB U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine that operated during World War II. She was captured by the Royal Navy on 9...
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