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U-Boats and the Lusitania: The War at Sea

May 8, 2015 | 19:01 GMT

The front page of the New York Herald newspaper carrying the news of the sinking of the British liner RMS Lusitania by a German U-boat on May 7, 1915.
The front page of the New York Herald newspaper carrying the news of the sinking of the British liner RMS Lusitania by a German U-boat on May 7, 1915.

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In World War I, Germany deployed U-boats in an attempt to stifle the flow of essential supplies to Britain and other Allied nations, without success. ...

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