After all, German U-boats had killed more U.S. sailors in the north Atlantic than died at Pearl Harbor.
The Real Inglorious Bastards|Eric Dezenhall|July 19, 2011|DAILY BEAST
The Spanish authorities are expected to reply that if that is what the U-boats are after there is no need for them to leave home.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 153, Aug 15, 1917|Various
U-boats were reported early in the action, but there is no hint that they took any real part in the battle.
Current History: A Monthly Magazine of the New York Times, May 1918|Various
All parts of the German U-boats are made in standard sizes and from the same original pattern.
Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights|Kelly Miller
The submarines that did destruction in this region were the type that have gained universal fame as the U-boats.
The Victory At Sea|William Sowden Sims
Capelle rejected the proposal on the pretext "that nobody would know what to do with so many U-boats when the war was at an end."
In the World War|Count Ottokar Czernin
U-boats
German submarines during World War I and World War II. U-boat is a translation of the German U-boot, which is short for Unterseeboot, or “undersea boat.”
notes for U-boats
Lusitania was sunk by a U-boat. Eventually, U-boat attacks on neutral ships drew the United States into the war.
Words nearby U-boats
ubiquitous, ubiquity, ubi sunt, ubi supra, U-boat, U-boats, U bolt, UBR, Ubuntu, UBV photometry, u.c.