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    The Atlantic U-boat campaign of World War I (sometimes called the "First Battle of the Atlantic", in reference to the World War II campaign of that name)...
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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. It took place...
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    U-boats were naval submarines operated by Germany, particularly in the First and Second World Wars. The term is an anglicised version of the German word...
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  • Thumbnail for Mediterranean U-boat campaign of World War I
    The Mediterranean U-boat Campaign in the Mediterranean Sea was fought by Austria-Hungary and German Empire (with some support by the Ottoman Empire) against...
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    The Battle of the Atlantic, the longest continuous military campaign in World War II, ran from 1939 to the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945, covering a...
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  • Thumbnail for Mediterranean U-boat campaign of World War II
    The Mediterranean U-boat Campaign lasted from about 21 September 1941 to 19 September 1944 during the Second World War. Malta was an active British base...
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    List of U-boat types contains lists of the German U-boat types (submarine classes) used in World War I and World War II. The anglicized word U-boat is usually...
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    to a period (May 1943) in the Battle of the Atlantic campaign during World War II, when the German U-boat arm (U-Bootwaffe) suffered high casualties with...
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    submarines were a class of German diesel–electric Elektroboot (German: "electric boat") submarines designed during the Second World War. One hundred and eighteen...
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  • This is a list of World War II U-boat commanders. Only sunk merchant ships are counted in the totals; warships and damaged ships are not. Submariners suffered...
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    Submarine pen (redirect from U-boat pen)
    constructed during World War II, particularly in Germany and its occupied countries, which were also known as U-boat pens (after the phrase "U-boat" to refer to...
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    List of successful U-boats contains lists of the most successful German U-boats in the two World Wars based on total tonnage. This list contains the 5...
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  • Atlantic campaign of 1806 fought between Britain and France as part of the Napoleonic Wars The Atlantic U-boat campaign of World War I The Battle of the...
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  • This is a list of World War I U-boat commanders in the Imperial German and Austro-Hungarian Navies. Only sunk and captured merchant ships are counted...
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  • The Rocket U-boat was a series of military projects undertaken by Nazi Germany during the Second World War. The projects, which were undertaken at Peenemünde...
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  • named in honour of Kapitänleutnant Bernd Wegener. Wegener, a U-boat commander during World War I, died on 19 August 1915 after his submarine U-27 was sunk...
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  • During World War II, Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine considered various submarine designs for specialized operations or improving U-boat performance. Many of these...
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  • List of U-boat flotillas contains lists of the German U-boat flotillas in the two World Wars. The bases shown here are the ones at which the flotillas...
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    Type VII U-boats were the most common type of German World War II U-boat. 703 boats were built by the end of the war. The lone surviving example, U-995, is...
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  • generally used U-boats stationed in Norway to extend its range of operation in the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans. The Norwegian bases housed U-boats that took...
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    of Mudros on 30 October 1918, as part of the Middle Eastern Theatre of World War I. The fighting also involved local Persian units, who fought against...
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    The Type XIV U-boat was designed to resupply other U-boats, being the only submarine tenders built which were not surface ships. It was nicknamed the...
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  • the planned mass scuttling of the German U-boat fleet, to avoid surrender, at the end of World War II. At the beginning of May 1945 Nazi Germany was collapsing...
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    The Type I U-boat was the first post–World War I attempt to produce an oceangoing submarine for Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine. The type was based on the...
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    Unrestricted submarine warfare (category U-boat Campaign (World War I))
    unrestricted submarine warfare, one in World War I and three in World War II: The U-boat campaign of World War I, waged intermittently by Germany between...
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  • Wolfpack Seewolf (category Wolfpacks of 1941)
    was the name of three separate wolfpacks of German U-boats that operated during the Battle of the Atlantic in World War II. The first U-boat group code-named...
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    combat ready U-boat, U-213, reached the Brest base on 20 March 1942. The flotilla operated mostly various marks of the Type VII U-boat and it concentrated...
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    of U-boats cover U-boats, military submarines operated by Germany, particularly in the First and Second World Wars. List of German U-boats List of U-boat...
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    J. Abbatiello, Anti-submarine Warfare in World War I: British Naval Aviation and the Defeat of the U-boats (Oxford: Routledge, 2006), 109–11. Paul E...
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