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Nazi Germany Once Tried to Build an Aircraft Carrier. It Didn’t End Well.
Unlike the Japanese carrier fleet, the Kriegsmarine envisioned using the Graf Zeppelin in a support capacity for the wider ...
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400 Years of Subs
Thus, the Navy needed a boat with good sea-keeping qualities ... most of them about the size of the German U-cruisers; the RO coastal boats, roughly the size of the German Type VII (see 1935 ...
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The Dramatic Rescue of the Citizen Sailors Who Patrolled the Atlantic Coast Looking for Nazi U-Boats
U.S. Navy and Coast Guard listening stations were picking ... Its primary objective in the Atlantic: to spot and report German U-boats, which were wreaking havoc on Allied ships.
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How Britain’s Secret Decoy Ships Outfoxed German U-Boats During World War I
Divers recently discovered the wreck of a German ... German Navy. “You can see that the metal is bent inward,” Termote says. “This is a kind of damage that could be fatal to a U-boat ...