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| | U-boat [Definition] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | It was the most extensive and costly armed conflict in the history of the world.... |
 | | The term derives from the German Navy's system of naming its submarines with U- followed by a number, where the U stands for Unterseeboot (literally, "undersea boat"), the German word for submarine. |
 | | The primary targets of the U-boat campaigns in both world wars were the merchant convoys bringing supplies from the United StatesThe United States of America, also referred to as the United States, U.S.A., U.S., US, America¹, the States, or (archaically) Columbia, is a federal republic of fifty states, mostly in central North America. |
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