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    Kriegsmarine (redirect from U-Boat Arm)
    Z was shelved in favour of a crash building programme for submarines (U-boats) instead of capital surface warships, and land and air forces were given...
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    In World War II, Karl Dönitz, supreme commander of the Kriegsmarine's U-boat arm (Befehlshaber der Unterseeboote), was convinced the UK and its convoys...
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    Battle of the Atlantic campaign during World War II, when the German U-boat arm (U-Bootwaffe) suffered high casualties with fewer Allied ships sunk; it...
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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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    Submarine pen (redirect from U-boat pen)
    Various factions in the navy were convinced protection for the expanding U-boat arm was required. A Royal Air Force (RAF) raid on the capital in 1940, the...
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    court-martialling him. If the knowledge that a U-boat had been captured had reached Germany, the U-boat Arm would have made changes to tighten Enigma security...
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  • for the U-boat Arm was to gather U-boats similarly into attacking formations. In early 1917 Hermann Bauer, the Commander of the High Seas U-boats (Führer...
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  • Thumbnail for Atlantic U-boat campaign of World War I
    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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  • U-boat Arm was capable of continuing the fight. The Kriegsmarine had approximately 470 U-boats remaining. Some 170 of these were operational U-boats (Front...
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    Karl Dönitz (category U-boat commanders (Imperial German Navy))
    Dönitz was supreme commander of the Kriegsmarine's U-boat arm (Befehlshaber der Unterseeboote (BdU)). In January 1943, Dönitz achieved the rank of Großadmiral...
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  • Befehlshaber der Unterseeboote or BdU (Eng: "Commander of the U-boats") was the supreme commander of the German Navy's U-boat Arm (Ubootwaffe) during the First...
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    head of Germany’s U-boat Arm, Konteradmiral Karl Dönitz, was keen to use the French Atlantic ports as forward bases for his U-boat force then engaged...
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    longer had the advantage and that month became known as Black May in the U-boat Arm (U-Bootwaffe). The turning point was the battle centred on slow convoy...
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    Ace (military) (redirect from U-boat ace)
    heightened the features that earlier cults of the hero [of the German U-boat arm] had promoted. This was the era of the "grey wolves" and "steel sharks"...
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  • or "Huff Duff"). It is maintained by some historians[who?] that the U-boat Arm came close to winning the Battle of the Atlantic; that the Allies were...
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    uneventful, as she trained crews and officers in the rapidly expanding U-boat arm of the Kriegsmarine following the abandonment of the terms of the Treaty...
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  • camouflage clothing Befehlshaber der U-Boote, head of the German Navy's U-Boat arm in WWI and WWII Bizkaia–Durango, a cycling team based in Spain Broadcast...
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  • Convoy TS 37 (section U-boat)
    Fandango. U Boat Command (BdU) had organized a force of three U-boats, with a supply boat for logistical support off the coast of West Africa. U-515, skippered...
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  • three of the six U-boats had been destroyed, some 10% of the available Type VII (sea-going) and Type IX (ocean-going) vessels the U-boat Arm had. The original...
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    the Battle of the Atlantic. Karl Dönitz, then supreme commander of the U-boat Arm, moved his staff into the Kernevel villa, just across the water from Keroman...
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