• September 1938 and commissioned on 26 November under the command of Kapitänleutnant Wilhelm Zahn. U-56 was initially assigned to the 5th U-boat Flotilla...
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  • Spain, on 24 May 1918. UC-56 sank the British hospital ship Glenart Castle on 26 February 1918. German submarine U-56 (1938), a Type IIC submarine that...
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  • yard number 582 and went into service on 17 December 1938 under the command of Günther Prien. During U-47's career, she sank a total of 31 enemy vessels...
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    943. She was launched on 9 August 1938 and commissioned on 24 October with Kapitänleutnant Heinrich Liebe in command. U-38 conducted eleven patrols, as...
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    Transylvania as armed merchant cruisers. On 10 August 1940 German submarine U-56 (1938) torpedoed and sank Transylvania in the North Atlantic off Malin Head...
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  • September 1938 and commissioned on 29 December under the command of Oberleutnant zur See Claus Korth. U-56 was initially part of the 5th U-boat Flotilla...
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    German submarine U-46 was a Type VIIB U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II. She had a highly successful career during the war. German...
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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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    Kiel. She was launched on 11 June 1938 and commissioned on 6 August 1938. During her service in the Kriegsmarine, U-51 conducted four war patrols and...
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    due to the June 17, 1938, death of three-term Democrat Royal S. Copeland. New York Republicans nominated John Lord O'Brian for the U.S. Senate. Democrats...
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  • The year 1938 in film involved some significant events. The top ten 1938 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: January –...
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  • 1938 January February March April May June July August September October November December Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1938. 1938 (MCMXXXVIII)...
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    between medium and large U-boats: Seven medium 500-ton type VIIB U-boats Five large 750-ton of the improved type IXB U-boats. During 1938, Hitler changed his...
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    The 1938 United States House of Representatives elections was an election for the United States House of Representatives were elections for the United...
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    and Yard]. Schip en Werf (in Dutch). Vol. 56, no. 10. Rotterdam: Wyt & Zonen. pp. 352–358. ISSN 0036-6099. "U class". uboat.net. "Untiring to Urge". British...
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    MAS-49 rifle (redirect from FSA MAS 49/56)
    variant, the MAS-49/56, was mass-produced (275,240 units) and issued to all branches of the French military. Overall, the MAS-49 and 49/56 rifles gained the...
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  • Shyamala Gopalan (category 1938 births)
    Shyamala Gopalan (December 7, 1938 – February 11, 2009) was a biomedical scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, whose work in isolating...
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    legislators to the state and to the U.S. Congress and electing the executives at the state (U.S. state governor) and national (U.S. President) level. Throughout...
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    stages of the Battle of the Atlantic. U-48 was built at the Germaniawerft in Kiel as yard number 583 during 1938 and 1939, being completed a few months...
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    enhance U.S. economic competitiveness, thereby sparking possible FARA concerns. Chronology of amendments to the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938. Alien...
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  • Volunteer. Torpedoed on 15 September 1940 and sunk by U-48 at 56°43′N 15°17′W / 56.717°N 15.283°W / 56.717; -15.283 while a member of Convoy SC 3. Empire...
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  • Q R S T U V W X Y Z David Abel (1883–1973), cinematographer (aged 90) Joseph Achron (1886–1943), musician (aged 56) Walter Ackerman (1881–1938), actor...
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    in the antitrust division of the U.S. Department of Justice to act, but Arnold was not effective. In February 1938, Congress passed a new AAA bill, the...
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    Mitchell, Horatio Seymour of New York, Harvard University Press, 1938, pg. 23 Mitchell (1938), Horatio Seymour, pp. 448–449 William E. Parrish, Frank Blair:...
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    Patriot Act (redirect from Act 107-56)
    107-56), Title IX, Sec. 905. USA PATRIOT Act (U.S. H.R. 3162, Public Law 107-56), Title IX, Sec. 903. USA PATRIOT Act (U.S. H.R. 3162, Public Law 107-56)...
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    rate In 1800 the average U.S. woman had 7.04 children; by the first decade of the 1900s, this number had already decreased to 3.56. Since the early 1970s...
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    United Kingdom (redirect from U-K)
    amounted to 18.6% (£4.595 billion) of the prewar wealth (£24.68 billion), at 1938 prices. The UK was one of the Big Three powers (along with the US and the...
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    Dominica (redirect from Dominica Act 1938)
    dominated by the fallout from Category Five Hurricane David, which caused 56 deaths and untold damage across the island. Hurricane Allen the following...
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    Alfonso, Prince of Asturias (10 May 1907 – 6 September 1938), was heir apparent to the throne of Spain from birth until the abolition of the monarchy in...
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    hours of 12 December, U-96 attacked the Swedish steamer Stureholm of 4,575 GRT, sinking her with a single torpedo launched at 01:56 in position 57°50′N...
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