U-boat

:"U-boat" is also a nickname for some diesel locomotives built by GE; see List of GE locomotives

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Diesel locomotive - GE - List of GE locomotives

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A U-boat (German: {{Audio|De-U-Boot-pronunciation.ogg|U-Boot}}) is a German submarine of World War I, World War II or later. 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 Canada and the United States to Europe. Austrian submarines of World War I were also known as "U-boats".

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German - German - Submarine - World War I - World War II - Canada - United States - Europe - Austria

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