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W h at horses! What a pity, those decided to use the fight or flight
lovely beasts!?(von Spiegel).
tactic if a U-Boat periscope was
Lur k s When they launched the tor- seen. Then, the big innovation
pedo, Adolf watched in awe
that did much damage to the U-
in a mixed with pity until he Boats came. The depth charge.
couldn?t take it anymore, then
A depth charge is a bomb that
said ?At that point I could not you drop into the water that can
Submar ine bear the sight any longer, and I damage anything within a 140-

lowered the periscope and foot radius(Warfare History
Under dived deep?(von Spiegel). Network). Depth charges were
A U-Boat slightly out of water
U in U-Boats Stands the way that the allies fought the
t h e Sea? for Unrestricted underwater U-Boats.

The Germans realized A Farewell Note
they could just sink the ship
As you can see, U-Boats
itself instead of capture all
are very dangerous. They
the people on board. They
launched a new period of
decided to not take hostages,
war, and made everybody at
but just kill the people on the
Nazi U-Boats brought terrors to boat in general. The U-Boats the beach or out at sea scared.
sonar and their periscopes to
had an unfair advantage over The U-Boats terrorized town
World Wars I and II aim their torpedoes to get the British and American after town until they were
BY CASEY H U RR
maximum damage. They stopped. If you ever see a
Imagine you?re out surf- You watched a U-Boat attack. made people scared to even go ships. They could go under- The chaos at Cape Cod, caused by a periscope, chances are you?re
ing at the ocean. Your having so On second thought, where?s near the coast, in fear of being water. They had good arse- U-Boat dead. Moral of the story: If
much fun! You glide across the your surfboard? attacked by a U-Boat. The U- nals, except for the side fact The U-Boats? you ever see a U-Boat, swim like
waves as gracefully as a gazelle. Boats terrorized docks, and that their torpedoes were only
What Exactly are accurate to about 3200 Defeated? your life depends on it, because
It seems like all of the fish are some even chose to self-destruct it does.
swimming towards you. But U-Boats? to destroy a fleet around them. feet(Golson). They could easily Even through all the tac-
wait! They?re swimming past U-Boats, or known in sneak up on ships and leave tics the Germans used to deploy
U-Boats were very dan- devastating results in their
you! Suddenly, you see a large Germany as Unterseeboots(Ed- their U-Boats, the Allies still
gerous underwater sea crafts wake. They easily launched an
explosion coming from a boat itors of Encyclopedia Britan- managed to find a way
that the Germans used in com- era of unrestricted warfare.
about 100 yards away from you. nica), literally meaning undersea around it. They managed to
bat during World Wars I and II.
Suddenly, you?re lifted up and boat, are German submarines A Firsthand Expe- ?sink? the U-Boats, even
They could wreak havoc in
plunged underwater. You thrash that were heavily used by Nazis docks, out at sea, basically any- rience of a U-Boat though they were already
around, trying to find the sur- in WWI and WWII. They are submerged. They started off
where that they could get to, A ttack
face, but you can?t find a way very hard to spot because they they could cause massive dam- patrolling and looking for

around the large metal body on stay underwater most of the Adolf Spiegel was the periscopes, then attached
age. The Germans used this to
top of you. You finally find the time. They changed the inter- commander of a U-Boat in weighted bombs to their
their advantage, and used their
surface, and the boat is up in face of war from WWI to WWI. He admired one of the own periscopes, even though
stealth to make a deadly impact
flames, no visible survivors. You WWII. They used their sneaky Allies? ships, noticed their that did little damage(War-
on the opposing boat. A U-Boat being bombed by LTJG
realize what you just witnessed. design to sometimes skirt by horses, and said ?Oh heavens, fare History Network). They Vance Dawkins