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U-boat |
a submersible warship usually armed with torpedoes |
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Ghetto |
formerly the restricted quarter of many European cities in which Jews were required to live |
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Kamikaze |
a pilot trained and willing to cause a suicidal crash |
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atomic bomb |
a nuclear weapon in which enormous energy is released by nuclear fission |
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island hop |
to travel from one island to the next |
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convoy |
the act of escorting while in transit |
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sonar |
a measuring instrument that sends out an acoustic pulse in terms of the time |
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Luftwaffe |
the German airforce |
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blitzkrieg |
a military offensive with intensive aerial bombardment |
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radar |
measuring instrument using pulses of microwave radiation |