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    U-571 (Submarine, 1941-1944)

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    U-571, a 749-ton Type VIIC submarine, was built at Hamburg, Germany. Commissioned in May 1941, she operated against Allied shipping in the Arctic, Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico, sinking and damaging several merchant ships. On 28 January 1944, an Australian patrol plane sank U-571 west of Ireland.
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