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U-boat
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U-boat

German submarine. The term was used in both world wars when U-boat attacks posed a great threat to Allied shipping.



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The last German submarine sunk in World War I was betrayed when it triggered the glow of microbes in the Mediterranean Sea.
In this case, however, Germany revealed that, following the Lusitania sinking, German submarine commanders had been ordered not to sink liners without warning, and apologized and offered compensation.
When German submarines increase their activity off the coast of Venezuela, Philip's mother insists that the two of them leave the island of Curacao where his father works for an oil refinery, but she refuses to fly and they take passage on a ship.
 
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