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The Type VII U-Boats, under the command of Admiral Doenitz, were the principle German weapons in the Battle of the Atlantic. In this battle, Germany hoped to cut off the convoy supply lines to Great Britain and force the British to sue for peace. The U-Boats caused great havoc to the Atlantic convoys during the early years of WWII, but by the end of 1943, they were outnumbered and outgunned. The Type VII submarines were eventually to be replaced by the vastly superior Type .....
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The Graf Spee and her sister ships Lutzow and Admiral Scheer were designed to get the maximum possible firepower in a ship of 10,000 tons - which was the largest ship Germany was allowed to build. She was also unique in that she was diesel poweredand equipped with an early form of radar. The Graf Spee operated in the South Atlantic from September through December 1939, when she was cornered in Montevideo Harbour by the Royal Navy. Unable to escape, and badly damaged, the .....
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The German battleship Bismarck is famous not so much for what she accomplished during WWII but that she was the target of possibly the most famous chase in Naval history. On her first commerce raiding mission in the North Atlantic the bulk of the Royal Navy set out in pursuit. Just as it seemed that the ship would escape to safety in France and attack by aircraft from HMS Ark Royal wrecked the Bismarck's steering. The pursuing Royal Navy ships were then able to catch up and .....
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