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U-boat

noun as in submarine

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The crew spotted the U-boat ahead of them and went on the offensive with a bombing run during heavy gunfire.

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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.

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The ship had encountered a German U-boat, they claimed, and the platypus had been shaken to death amid a barrage of blasts.

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The German U-boat had been spotted earlier that morning, but a crew member mistook it for a small fishing vessel.

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It was on 14 May 1945 that the first of the German U-boats made their way up the Foyle to the port of Lisahally where they were formally ordered to surrender.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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