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    Second World Wars. The term is an anglicized version of the German word U-Boot [ˈuːboːt] , a shortening of Unterseeboot (under-sea boat), though the German...
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    During February 1915, she carried out acceptance trials at Kiel, and was attached to the 2d Half-Flotilla in the North Sea in March. Type U 31 submarines...
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    the American imagination. U of Minnesota Press, 2003. Williamson, Gordon. Knight's Cross and Oak-Leaves Recipients 1939? 40. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012...
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    August Maus (category U-boat commanders (Kriegsmarine))
    August Maus (7 February 1915 – 28 September 1996) was a German U-boat commander in World War II and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of...
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    market or else rethink and modernise their operations. For example, the boot and shoe industry faced increasing imports of American footwear; Americans...
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    the later commander of U-9 and Paul Clarrendorf, the commander of U-boot-Abnahme-Kommando in Kiel which enlisted U-boat crews. U-3 began her World War...
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    Georg von Trapp (category U-boat commanders (Austro-Hungarian Navy))
    the opportunity to transfer to the navy's newly formed submarine arm, or U-boot-Waffe, receiving promotion to Linienschiffsleutnant (ship-of-the-line lieutenant...
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    The United States occupation of Haiti began on July 28, 1915, when 330 U.S. Marines landed at Port-au-Prince, Haiti, after the National City Bank of New...
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    Otto Hersing (category U-boat commanders (Imperial German Navy))
    February 18, 2018. Åkerberg, Dani J. "U-boot Archiv y U-Boot Museum" [U-boot Archives and U-Boot Museum]. www.u-historia.com (in Spanish). Retrieved February...
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    Q-ship victory was on 23 June 1915, when the submarine HMS C24, cooperating with the decoy vessel Taranaki, sank U-40 off Eyemouth. The first victory...
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