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    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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    and raids by cruisers of the Imperial Japanese Navy. A Kriegsmarine Monsun Gruppe of U-boats operated from the eastern Indian Ocean after the Persian...
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    personnel. Between 1943 and 1945, a group of U-boats known as the Monsun Boats (Monsun Gruppe) operated in the Indian Ocean from Japanese bases in the occupied...
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    the Germans, but not used. Of the first 11 U-boats assigned to the Monsun Gruppe at the base, only U-168, U-183, U-188, and U-532 arrived between October...
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    aircraft formed the East Asia Naval Special Service to assist the German Monsun Gruppe as well as local Japanese naval operations. Eight examples were operated...
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  • Normandy Campaign, as well as U-boats operating in the Indian Ocean (the Monsun Gruppe). The flotilla was disbanded in May 1945 after the German surrender...
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    contract and developed a marketing plan. Their first single, "Durch den Monsun" ("Through the Monsoon"), quickly rose in the charts, appearing on the German...
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    fewer merchant ships to sink. The far-away U-boats were called the Monsun Gruppe. Another tactical change was to try to counter Allied air power by fighting...
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    of German U-boats in World War II List of wolfpacks of World War II Monsun Gruppe, the German U-boat campaign in the Indian Ocean 1941–1945 1942–1945...
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  • cancelled. From there, U-219 departed Bergen with orders to join the Monsun Gruppe in the Indian Ocean and lay mines west of Cape Town and Colombo, Ceylon...
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    submarines and raiding ships in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, notably the Monsun Gruppe. Between 1942 and 1945, there were four main areas of conflict in the...
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    formed the new East Asia Naval Special Service to assist both the German Monsun Gruppe and Japanese naval forces in the area. The aircraft were painted in...
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    were built. Two of them, U-1062 and U-1059, were sent to support the Monsun Gruppe in the Far East; U-1060 and U-1061 remained in the Atlantic. Type VIIF...
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    intelligence on Allied shipping via radio to German U-boats of the Monsun Gruppe operating in the Indian Ocean. Once the British discovered this, the...
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    long-range U-boats operated as far as the Indian Ocean with the Japanese (Monsun Gruppe), and the South Atlantic Type X: long-range minelayers but mainly used...
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    ichiu Hokushin-ron and Nanshin-ron Italian imperialism under fascism Monsun Gruppe, German–Japanese naval cooperation in the Indian Ocean theatre New Order...
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  • operational or front outfits. U-183 was in the first wave of "Monsun boats" or Monsun Gruppe, which operated in the Indian Ocean from Japanese bases in the...
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    Enrico Tazzoli, and Luigi Torelli were converted for service with the Monsun Gruppe ("Monsoon Group"). The name of Comandante Cappellini was changed to...
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    of the Cape Verde Islands. U-1059 was transporting torpedoes to the Monsun Gruppe ("Monsoon Group"), a group of U-boats that operated in the Pacific and...
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  • expansion focuses on the German U-boat campaign in the Indian Ocean (the Monsun Gruppe). The U-boat Missions add-on features new strategic elements, new playable...
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  • during World War II. She was one of a select number of U-boats to join Monsun Gruppe or Monsoon Group, which operated in the Far East alongside the Imperial...
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    had a complement of fifty-five. U-848's first patrol was to join the Monsun Gruppe, based in the Indian Ocean. On 2 November 1943, she torpedoed and sank...
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    Maru was requisitioned from civilian service as depot ship for the Monsun Gruppe. HMS Bonaventure was the depot ship for X craft. USS Bushnell was depot...
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    assets in a secondary theatre. The U-boats involved were drawn from the Monsun Gruppe ("Monsoon Group"), and the two selected for this operation were U-168...
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    II Germany–Japan relations Germany–Soviet Union relations, 1918–1941 Monsun Gruppe Japan–Soviet Union relations Japanese military modernization of 1868–1931...
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  • U-boat duty in September 1943, sailing U-861 to Penang to join the Monsun Gruppe, and sinking another four ships. U-861 left Soerabaya, Dutch East Indies...
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  • 1944. Penang was the base for the 33rd U-boat Flotilla, code-named Monsun Gruppe ("Monsoon Group"). On the way there, she launched a T5/G7es Zaunkönig...
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    China. She also had some supplies for the Indian Ocean-based German Monsun Gruppe. U-511 successfully arrived in Penang, Japanese-occupied Malaysia, in...
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  • the boat from Kiel heading in to the South Atlantic as part of the Monsun Gruppe. 33 days later the boat was sunk with all hands, 66 men, on 20 December...
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  • Sea, they sailed her to the Indian Ocean during mid-1944 to join the Monsun Gruppe of U-boats prowling in the Indian Ocean and farther east, from Japanese-held...
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