U-boats Sentence Examples

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  • Both were torpedoed by German U-boats off the west coast of neutral Ireland.

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  • Tirpitz advances two contentions; first, that he would have sent the navy into decisive action at an earlier stage of the war; secondly, that he would have made an earlier and more ruthless use of the German U-boats; but his opponents traverse both these claims, and in particular assert that as Secretary of State he had neglected the construction of submarines, so that Germany entered the war with a comparatively small supply of these vessels.

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  • More than 28,000 German submariners were killed and 781 U-boats destroyed.

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  • More than 28,000 german submariners were killed and 781 U-boats destroyed.

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