• Thumbnail for Federal Express Flight 705
    On April 7, 1994, Federal Express Flight 705, a McDonnell Douglas MD-10-30 cargo jet carrying electronics equipment across the United States from Memphis...
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  • Thumbnail for Type VII submarine
    was powered by two AEG GU 460/8-276 (except in U-45, U-46, U-49, U-51, U-52, U-54, U-73 to U-76, U-99 and U-100, which retained the BBC motor of the VIIA)...
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  • Thumbnail for German submarine U-705
    submarine U-705 was a Type VIIC U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II. Commissioned on 30 December 1941, she served with the 5th U-boat...
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  • Thumbnail for German submarine U-995
    German submarine U-995 is a Type VIIC/41 U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine. She was laid down on 25 November 1942 by Blohm & Voss in Hamburg, Germany...
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  • German submarine U-1206 was a Type VIIC U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II. She was laid down on 12 June 1943 at F. Schichau GmbH...
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  • Thumbnail for German submarine U-96 (1940)
    German submarine U-96 was a Type VIIC U-boat of the German Navy (Kriegsmarine) during World War II. It was made famous after the war in Lothar-Günther...
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  • German submarine U-571 was a Type VIIC U-boat built for the Kriegsmarine of Nazi Germany for service during World War II. U-571 conducted eleven war patrols...
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  • German submarine U-47 was a Type VIIB U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II. She was laid down on 25 February 1937 at Friedrich Krupp...
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  • Thumbnail for USS Wasp (CV-7)
    sole ship of a class built to use up the remaining tonnage allowed to the U.S. for aircraft carriers under the treaties of the time. As a reduced-size...
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  • Thumbnail for Uppland Runic Inscription 705
    This runestone, designated as U 705 in the Rundata catalog, is located at Mobacka in Uppland, Sweden. This runestone was depicted by Johan Hadorph during...
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  • Thumbnail for USS O'Brien (DD-415)
    maritime incidents in September 1942 Shipwrecks 1 Sep: U-756 2 Sep: U-222 3 Sep: U-162, U-705 4 Sep: Kashino, Kaimei Maru 5 Sep: USS Gregory, USS Little...
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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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  • Thumbnail for Laconia incident
    torpedoed and sunk by U-156, a German U-boat, off the West African coast. Operating partly under the dictates of the old prize rules, the U-boat's commander...
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  • Thumbnail for German submarine U-977
    final design of mount used on U-boats and is only known to be installed on (U-249, U-826, U-1023, U-1171, U-1305 and U-1306).[citation needed] The 3.7 cm...
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  • German submarine U-352 was a Type VIIC U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II. The submarine was laid down on 11 March 1940, at the...
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  • German submarine U-559 was a Type VIIC U-boat built for Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine for service during World War II. Laid down on 1 February 1940 at the...
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  • Thumbnail for RMS Laconia (1921)
    troopship. She was sunk in the South Atlantic Ocean on 12 September 1942 by U-156 (Korvettenkapitän Werner Hartenstein). Some estimates of the death toll...
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  • Thumbnail for Interstate 705
    Interstate 705 (I-705), also known as the Tacoma Spur, is a short Interstate Highway in Tacoma, Washington, United States. It is a spur route of I-5 that...
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  • Thumbnail for German submarine U-29 (1936)
    German submarine U-29 was a Type VIIA U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II. She was laid down on 2 January 1936, launched on 29 August...
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  • Thumbnail for German submarine U-48 (1939)
    German submarine U-48 was a Type VIIB U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II, and the most successful that was commissioned. During...
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  • Thumbnail for December 1941
    weeks, Churchill exclaimed, "Some chicken! Some neck!" German submarines U-705 and U-756 were commissioned. American socialite and art collector Peggy Guggenheim...
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  • Thumbnail for German submarine U-166 (1941)
    Maschinenbau AG, Deschimag) at Wesermünde (modern Bremerhaven) as yard number 705, launched on 1 November 1941, and commissioned on 23 March 1942 under the...
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  • Thumbnail for SS Manhattan (1931)
    Mercantile Marine Company, Roosevelt Lines, and the Dollar Lines. The ship was 705 ft (214.9 m) length overall, 666 ft (203.0 m) length between perpendiculars...
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  • maritime incidents in September 1942 Shipwrecks 1 Sep: U-756 2 Sep: U-222 3 Sep: U-162, U-705 4 Sep: Kashino, Kaimei Maru 5 Sep: USS Gregory, USS Little...
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  • Thumbnail for Timeline of the Battle of the Atlantic
    submarine U-132 sinks three freighters off the Gaspé coast August 8, 1942 U-boats sink eleven ships from convoy SC 94. August 15, 1942 U-705 sinks Balladier...
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  • Thumbnail for USS Gregory (DD-82)
    seen again; for his conduct, he posthumously received the Silver Star. The U.S. Navy subsequently named a ship, Harry F. Bauer, in recognition of his gallant...
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  • German submarine U-331 was a Type VIIC U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II, famous for sinking the battleship HMS Barham. The submarine...
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  • German submarine U-691 was a Type VIIC/41 U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II. Her construction by Howaldtswerke of Hamburg was ordered...
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  • Thumbnail for Japanese munition ship Kashino
    maritime incidents in September 1942 Shipwrecks 1 Sep: U-756 2 Sep: U-222 3 Sep: U-162, U-705 4 Sep: Kashino, Kaimei Maru 5 Sep: USS Gregory, USS Little...
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  • Machine from American Merchant Marine at War – U.S. Maritime Service Veterans Gallant Ship Award Citation from U.S. Department of Transportation, Maritime...
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