After all, German u-boats had killed more U.S. sailors in the north Atlantic than died at Pearl Harbor. |
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Often, in the mid-Atlantic, after forcing U-boats to crash-dive, carrier planes dropped homing torpedoes on the submarines. |
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German U-boats, sometimes assisted by Italian submarines, were the main weapon of attack, but aircraft and surface raiders also participated. |
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In all, 55 ships, submarines, U-boats and airplanes were sunk in Narvik harbour and the surrounding fjord. |
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German U-boats sank the battleship Barham in the east and the carrier Ark Royal, which had helped keep Malta supplied with aircraft, in the west. |
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As part of the surrender terms, the Royal Navy received 176 U-boats as spoils of war. |
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Six months after Pearl Harbor, U-boats landed eight German marines on American shores for sabotage missions. |
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They recovered code-books and minefield plans from sunken German U-boats in World War One. |
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What if Germany's U-boats had won the Battle of the Atlantic and starved Britain into submission? |
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For eight days they ploughed on through waves and walls of bombs and torpedoes, through unending swarms of screaming Stukas and U-boats. |
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Many Allied ships were torpedoed during World War 2 by the dreaded German U-Boats, which actively patrolled up and down the Firth of Forth. |
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As bad luck would have it, nine German U-boats stumbled across the manoeuvres and torpedoed the ships, sinking two ships and damaging a third. |
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At sea German U-boats were sinking so many merchant ships that Britain was close to starvation. |
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In 1940, the U-boats started to take a real toll against merchant shipping. |
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This approach would be similar to that adopted to fight German U-boats in the Second World War. |
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During WWII, German U-boats sank more than 5000 merchant vessels and many Allied warships. |
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Just as in the First World War, U-boats nearly brought the UK to its knees. |
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In 1939 he was an officer sailing in convoys that faced German U-boats in the desperate bid to keep Britain supplied with food and vital raw materials. |
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German U-boats would wait silently in the firth for targets. |
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The war news was bad, including the bombing of English cities in the Battle of Britain and British naval losses to German U-boats in the Atlantic. |
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The German U-boats were shooting on the boats, so most of the niter they were trying to import to make nitroglycerin was at the bottom of the ocean. |
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Destroyers of the escort screen raced out and drove the U-boats off. |
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Similarly, he describes the use of the schnorkel by German U-boats, but he does not mention it by its now well-known name. |
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These were used alongside radar and the improved Asdic equipment to more efficiently detect U-boats. |
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It was in this air gap that U-boats were at their most effective. |
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