U-boat in WWII?

Question

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Could you please explain what u-boats are and their significance in WWII. What did they do that made them stand out in WWII.

Answer 1

U-boats were German submarines. U-boat is the translation of the German word U-Boot , U-boot literally meant Unterseeboot(under sea boat.) U-boats were powered by diesel engines. the U-boat usually only dived underwater when under attack or in rare day-time torpedo attacks on allied ships. the U-boat's torpedoes had problems with the fuse. they would ,early in the war, either explode prematurely or bounce off the hull of the target harmlessly.

Answer 2

A U-Boat now known as a submarine, were used in WW11 by the Germans off the coast of the U.S to sink ships with torpedo's. This stopped most trade goods from reaching port. I believe the count was just over 400 sinking's. One U-Boat was recently found after 60 years U 166 off the cost of Louisiana. It's mission was to set Mines at the mouth of the Mississippi River. Most of these craft were 240 long, their job was to stop all shipping of goods and or people. I noticed your question two days ago and it had no answers, now tonight that I answer it, people have come out of the woodwork to answer. When I started answering your question tonight it had 0 answes Now look.

Answer 3

They are a type of submarine. U boat means under sea boat, from the German word unterseeboot. Which means under sea boat.

Germany had the largest fleet of the U boats, because of the Versailles treaty which limited the amout of surface boats they were allowed to have.

U boats in WW11 were extremely effective in destroying allied shipping ranging from the Atlantic Coast to U.S. and Canada to Gulf of Mexico.

This includes a larger area than mentioned above.

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Answer 4

Well the U-boats were the German submarines. They patrolled the North Atlantic. and sunk ships coming in to supply England. They almost were able to bring England to it's knees as supplies were slowly running out.
The U-boats Hunted in what they dubbed the "wolf packs" and were extremely successful until the allies broke the Enigma code and knew where the U-boats would be.
Once the U.S. entered the war they used convoys of ships guarded by destroyers to protect supplies headed for England.

Answer 5

U-boats (German for unter-see boot -singular or unter-see boote -plural) took a significant role because of Germany's reliance on them to cut England's supplies coming acroos the Atlantic Ocean from USA - hence, the term "Battle of the Atlantic"

The U-boat commander-in-chief was Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz who was himself had commanded a U-Boat during WW1& he was the brains behind the wolfpack tactics to counter the convoys defended by destroyers.

The Germans at one point came close to winning the battle but eventually lost out due to
1)lack of impetus to develop new & implement new technologies - the snorkel came too late, too few
2)the Americans could build more ships than the Germans could sink
3)development of sonar, sea searching radar, accoustic homing torpedoes & nosie making decoys

Answer 6

"U-boat is the anglicization of the German word U-Boot (help·info), itself an abbreviation of Unterseeboot (undersea boat). 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".

The distinction between U-boat and submarine is common in English-language usage (where "U-Boat" is used to refer exclusively to the German naval submarines of the First and Second World Wars) but unknown in German where the term U-Boot refers to any submarine."


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Answer 7

U boats were German Submarines which were highly efficient in tracking down and destroying their targets. These U boats were highly specialized Submarines these were long and tubular and had 4 bases to launche the torpedos.

Answer 8

U-boats were german submarines famous/notorious for their exploits in WWII, but mostly used by germany against mercantile ships

Answer 9

u-boat stands for undersea boat or submarine!!!!the submarines of the u.s, navy sank more tonnage than the surface naval fleets and air forces combined nearly paralyzing the shipping and supply chain of the imperial japanese navy and her fine merchant marine vessels!!!as regards the german u-boats,they were quite successful attacking allied shipping early in the war until jeep carriers and advances in convoy systems made them better protectedand also a worthwhile contribution was made by dirigibles in sight and reporting u-boats off of american coastlines!!!the use of ship catapults to lauch various types of patrol and search aircraft to give convoys eyes into the depths ahead of them,dropping flares and spotting fior naval surface ships' gunnery defenses!!!although the stealth of the undersea boats was quite effective with depths of dives sometimes exceeding the crush depths of the ships' steel hulls at 300 to 500
feet under the surface;hundreds of ships and brave crews were lost without a trace or in combat situations to escort vessels,destroyers,air attacks and accidents by all sides during the second world war!!!!u-boat were used very effectively by thr germans in world war one also!!!the largest submarines were the excellent i-class ocean-going,aircraft carrying submarines of the imperial japanese navy with a cruising range of 12,000 miles!!!the japanese also had the best torpedo armament with the "long lance" which had a very long range ,a potent high explosive charge and left no detectable surface wake!!!german industry had also developed modular sectional constructional assemblies
to speed production and extremely hydrodynamic shape in the late war !!