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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
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measuring instrument using pulses of microwave radiation
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sonar
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a measuring instrument that send out an acoustic pulse in water and measures distances in terms of the time for the echo of the pulse to return
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convoy
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a collection of merchant ships with an escort of warships
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island hop
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traveling from one island to the next
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atomic bomb
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a nuclear weapon in which enormous energy is released by nuclear fission
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kamikaze
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a fighter plane used for suicide missions by Japanese pilots in World War 2
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ghetto
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a poor densely populated city district occupied by a minority ethnic group linked together by economic hardship and social restrictions
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U-boat
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a submersible warship usually armed with torpedoes
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