Word: rudelsystem
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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...when they are members of a British convoy." But as U.S. strength showed up in British convoys, Karl Doenitz changed his mind, shrewdly withdrew a large part of his U-boat fleet into his native Baltic, emerged with a new, radical offensive technique known to the Germans as the Rudelsystem, to the Allies as the "wolf pack": a number of submarines attack the center of a convoy, preferably at night, loose torpedoes in every direction, slip away at top surface speed. (In a wolf-pack attack the Reuben James was sunk...
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