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Why did U Boats surface to capture small freighters?

April 26, 2017Arts boats capture freighters History Humanities small

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Why did U Boats surface to capture small freighters?

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U Boats could travel faster on the surface, could use their deck gun or board a small boat. They only carried limited amounts of torpedoes and once they were used it was mission over.