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  2. U-boat - Wikipedia

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    U-995, a typical VIIC/41 U-boat on display at the Laboe Naval Memorial. U-boats were naval submarines operated by Germany, particularly in the First and Second World Wars.The term is an anglicized version of the German word U-Boot ⓘ, a shortening of Unterseeboot (under-sea boat), though the German term refers to any submarine.

  3. Battle of the Atlantic - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of the Atlantic, the longest continuous military campaign [11] [12] in World War II, ran from 1939 to the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945, covering a major part of the naval history of World War II. At its core was the Allied naval blockade of Germany, announced the day after the declaration of war, and Germany's subsequent counter ...

  4. Monsun Gruppe - Wikipedia

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    The Gruppe Monsun or Monsoon Group was a force of German U-boats that operated in the Pacific and Indian Oceans during World War II.Although similar naming conventions were used for temporary groupings of submarines in the Atlantic, the longer duration of Indian Ocean patrols caused the name to be permanently associated with the relatively small number of U-boats operating out of Penang ...

  5. List of German U-boats in World War II (1-599) - Wikipedia

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    The German military 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 was according to the sequence in which construction orders were allocated to the individual shipyards, rather than commissioning date; thus some boats carrying high numbers were commissioned well before boats with ...

  6. U-boat campaign - Wikipedia

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    The U-boat campaign from 1914 to 1918 was the World War I naval campaign fought by German U-boats against the trade routes of the Allies, largely in the seas around the British Isles and in the Mediterranean, as part of a mutual blockade between the German Empire and the United Kingdom.

  7. List of U-boat flotillas - Wikipedia

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    U-boat flotillas of World War II Name Type Base 1st U-boat Flotilla: Combat Brest: 2nd U-boat Flotilla: Combat Lorient: 3rd U-boat Flotilla: Combat La Rochelle: 4th U-boat Flotilla: Training Stettin: 5th U-boat Flotilla: Training Kiel: 6th U-boat Flotilla: Combat St. Nazaire: 7th U-boat Flotilla: Combat St. Nazaire: 8th U-boat Flotilla ...

  8. Black May (1943) - Wikipedia

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    Neistle, Axel: German U-boat Losses during World War II (1998). ISBN 1-85367-352-8; Roskill, S. W. (1956). The Period of Balance. History of the Second World War United Kingdom Military Series: The War at Sea 1939–1945. Vol. II. London: HMSO. OCLC 174453986 – via Hyperwar Foundation. Stern, Robert C. U-Boats in action. Squadron/Signal pub ...

  9. German submarine U-92 (1942) - Wikipedia

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    German submarine U-92 was a Type VIIC U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II. She was laid down at the Flender Werke in Lübeck as yard number 296, launched on 10 January 1942 and commissioned on 3 March 1942. On 4 October 1944, U-92 was damaged by aerial bombing off Bergen at .