• number 582 and went into service on 17 December 1938 under the command of Günther Prien. During U-47's career, she sank a total of 31 enemy vessels, including...
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  • German submarine U-47 (1938), a Type VIIB submarine that served in the Second World War until she went missing after 7 March 1941 U-47 or U-XLVII may also...
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    launched on 14 May 1938, and commissioned on 4 August 1938 under the command of Kapitänleutnant Heinrich Schuch as part of the 6th U-boat Flotilla. Between...
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    Günther Prien's First Officer aboard U-47 when they had infiltrated Scapa Flow and sunk the battleship HMS Royal Oak. U-46 was to be his first command. Endrass...
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  • Germany. It was the seventh operational flotilla focused on U-boat activities. Founded on 25 June 1938 under the command of Korvettenkapitän Werner Sobe, it...
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    943. She was launched on 9 August 1938 and commissioned on 24 October with Kapitänleutnant Heinrich Liebe in command. U-38 conducted eleven patrols, as...
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    the time, Steven D’Angelo of ‘47 called the move “a natural next step for the brand, which has traditionally focused on U.S. sports leagues until now.”...
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    Kiel. She was launched on 11 June 1938 and commissioned on 6 August 1938. During her service in the Kriegsmarine, U-51 conducted four war patrols and...
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  • Cherry Hills Country Club The 1938 U.S. Open was the 42nd U.S. Open, held June 9–11 at Cherry Hills Country Club in Englewood, Colorado, a suburb south...
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    due to the June 17, 1938, death of three-term Democrat Royal S. Copeland. New York Republicans nominated John Lord O'Brian for the U.S. Senate. Democrats...
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    Georg von Trapp (category U-boat commanders)
    Magazine. 18 July 1949. Retrieved 7 January 2011. In 1938, the von Trapp family arrived in the U.S. with $4 in their pocket and a concert contract in...
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  • The U (2009) U, Bomsi n Me (2005) U, Me Aur Ghar (2017) The U Movie (2010) U pěti veverek (1944) U pokladny stál... (1939) U raskoraku (1968) U sredini...
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    between medium and large U-boats: Seven medium 500-ton type VIIB U-boats Five large 750-ton of the improved type IXB U-boats. During 1938 Hitler changed his...
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    Czechoslovakia by Nazi Germany began with the German annexation of the Sudetenland in 1938, continued with the creation of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia,...
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    United States dollar (redirect from U$S)
    distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies; referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, American dollar, or colloquially buck) is the official currency...
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    Data, U. S. Naval Vessels". US Naval Department. 1 July 1935. pp. 24–31. Retrieved 17 October 2015. Rickard, J (18 May 2015). "USS Boise (CL-47)". Historyofwar...
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    Günther Prien (category U-boat commanders (Kriegsmarine))
    Kiel, for construction training of the new Type VIIB U-47. He commissioned U-47 on 17 December 1938 which was part of the Wegener Flotilla. Prien was promoted...
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    The Type 1 47 mm anti-tank gun (一式機動四十七粍速射砲, Isshiki Kidō yonjūnana-miri sokushahō, "Type 1 mobile 47 mm rapid-firing gun") was an anti-tank gun developed...
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  • Swedish flagged, was sunk at 57°48′N 01°47′W / 57.800°N 1.783°W / 57.800; -1.783 while traveling with convoy HN-6. U-58's fifth patrol was really only a...
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    April 5, 2017. "Mass Hysteria in U.S.A. Radio Broadcast Panic". The Age (Melbourne: 1854 – ). Vic.: Fairfax. November 2, 1938. p. 8. Retrieved March 8, 2014...
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    United Kingdom (redirect from U-K)
    amounted to 18.6% (£4.595 billion) of the prewar wealth (£24.68 billion), at 1938 prices. The UK was one of the Big Three powers (along with the US and the...
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  • 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...
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    The 1938 United States House of Representatives elections was an election for the United States House of Representatives were elections for the United...
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    (Panzer Tracts No. 7-1) Boyds, MD: Panzer Tracts, 2004. ISBN 0-9744862-3-X Wikimedia Commons has media related to Škoda 47 mm Model 1938. v t e v t e...
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  • 1934/35 – 1938/39 Barkat Ali, 1925/26 T. T. Barodawala, 1921/22 – 1929/30 A. E. Bham, 1919/20 – 1922/23 A. Y. Botawala, 1918/19 – 1944/45 U. R. Chippa...
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    searches for German ships on 13 October, the day before Royal Oak was sunk by U-47. Afterwards she was transferred to Halifax, Nova Scotia, where she and the...
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  • ISBN 0-87021-715-1. OCLC 12214729. 18"/48 (45.7 cm) Mark 1, 16"/56 (40.6 cm) Mark 4, 18"/47 (45.7 cm) Mark A History of the U.S. Navy’s Only 18-inch Gun...
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    Flow in Orkney, Scotland, when she was torpedoed by the German submarine U-47. Of Royal Oak's complement of 1,234 men and boys, 835 were killed that night...
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    Uranium (redirect from U(IV))
    Uranium is a chemical element; it has symbol U and atomic number 92. It is a silvery-grey metal in the actinide series of the periodic table. A uranium...
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  • Union. Torpedoed on 26 December 1942 and sunk by U-356 at 47°30′N 24°30′W / 47.500°N 24.500°W / 47.500; -24.500 while a member of Convoy ON 154. Empire...
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