U-boat

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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

It became synonymous with German military power, producing the Big Bertha gun during World War I, and later building tanks and U-boat components for the Nazis.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 20, 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 ship had encountered a German U-boat, they claimed, and the platypus had been shaken to death amid a barrage of blasts.

From BBC • Aug. 2, 2025

For more than one year, Bert lived as a U-boat, as Jewish fugitives were called, harbored among kind and not-so-kind Germans and living in bombed-out buildings.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti