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U-boat

[yoo-boht] / ˈjuˌboʊt /


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The first dog sled patrols began in eastern Greenland during World War II, when they discovered and helped destroy German weather stations, denying the Germans crucial information for their U-boat campaign in the Atlantic.

From Barron's Jan. 28, 2026

The German U-boat force maintained a fearsome reputation.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 7, 2025

But as happened elsewhere in the country, much of L.A.’s public German community went to ground after May 1915, when a German U-boat sank the British ocean liner Lusitania.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 8, 2025

The team's research involved going back to data from the time such as the U-boat commander's day journal which gave an indication of where it had been when it fired the torpedo.

From BBC Aug. 15, 2024

They had learned the hard way that the U-boat, which was about the size of a school bus inside, traveled mostly above water across the Atlantic.

From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple




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