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E-boat

n
(Military) (in World War II) a fast German boat carrying guns and torpedoes
[C20: from enemy boat]
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The Government of India has launched the country's first e-boats to reduce rising levels of pollution in the highly congested city of Varanasi.
E-Solution
Ilsington was also used as a base for US top brass in the Second World War before the tragic rehearsal for D-Day at nearby Slapton Sands, when hundreds of GIs died after German E-boats attacked their landing craft.
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From there, the vital intelligence was gathered by tracking the movements of the German E-Boats sailing from France.
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Undetected by the Allied ships, a pack of German E-boats was watching the exercise unfold.
GIs 'invade' England
When German E-boats attacked US infantry divisions rehearsing for the Normandy landings, more than 600 men were lost in the darkness.
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Severely damaged, she was taken under tow by the tug Great Emperor and for four days she was attacked by E-boats and bombers as she struggled back to the Tyne at three knots.
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These little coal laden ships scuttled between the Thames and the North East rivers - never an easy trip, as by day and night they were a target for the Luftwaffe and by the E-boats of the Kriegsmarine.
Heroes of the war-time seas
We were attacked by dive bombers, U-boats and E-boats would fire torpedoes at us.
BACK TO ALAN GOES BATTLE SCENE OF
The original plan allowed that Force Z would turn back at about 1900 because it would have been foolhardy to have taken Rodney and Nelson (two 1920s battleships with very primitive anti-air and anti-E-boat capabilities) and the carriers Indomitable and Victorious (who did not have a night-fighter capability) into the relatively narrow waters of the Tunisian Straits, which were heavily mined and infested with Italian submarines and Italian and German E-boats, with shore-based enemy aircraft to the northeast and the west.
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A flotilla of nine German E-boats had been ordered to investigate unusual radio activity in the area and believed they had stumbled across several destroyers.
Hundreds of troops were killed rehearsing
There's a chapter about his war exploits in which he writes about searching for the survivors of sunken E-Boats - the German equivalent of MTBs - when aflight of RAF Beaufighters mistook them for the enemy injuring Colin, who was hit by 13 pieces of shrapnel.
THE KING FISHER
His sea duty was aboard the Tribal class destroyer HMCS Haida, escorting Murmansk convoys, fighting running battles with German E-boats in the English Channel, and escorting troop convoys to France for D-Day.
Investor and commander: Chuck Mawer was Calgary's most decorated sailor, then as an investment broker, supported its new naval museum

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