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First, the question originally asked about "you-boats," since that is what it sounds like to anyone unfamiliar this type of vessel. But the word is actually the letter U, an abbreviation for a German word meaning "undersea"-- a submarine, in other words. U-boats were swift, stealthy, and dangerous, just to name three of the many adjectives that could describe these crafts which the Germans used during the war.

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