U-boat

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The first dog sled patrols began in eastern Greenland during World War II, when they discovered and helped destroy German weather stations, denying the Germans crucial information for their U-boat campaign in the Atlantic.

From Barron's • Jan. 28, 2026

The narrow Straits of Gibraltar was particularly harrowing for U-boat captains and crews.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 7, 2025

But as happened elsewhere in the country, much of L.A.’s public German community went to ground after May 1915, when a German U-boat sank the British ocean liner Lusitania.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 8, 2025

In the 1973 episode, The Deadly Attachment, platoon members guard some captured Nazi U-boat crew.

From BBC • Feb. 6, 2024

Britain was able to import sufficient food supplies until mid-1917, when the U-boat campaign intensified.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman