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HideousKojima
on Jan 17, 2024
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Which word begins with "y" and looks like an axe i...
U-boat nowadays is used almost exclusively for WW2 era German submarines
thaumasiotes
on Jan 18, 2024
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That's not a "nowadays" thing. That has always been the meaning of U-boat; it was an explicit propaganda goal to use different words for German submarines and American ones.
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