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Word: prien (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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...ships at Dunkirk, had to content them selves with grumbling that the British should have marked the ship so that it would not be attacked. The British announced that the U-boat commander who struck the blow was Germany's Scapa Flow hero, Lieut. Captain Günther Prien...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Germans Against Germans | 7/15/1940 | See Source »

...hold by electric impulse from shore. Workmen had replaced steel plates with wooden planking in sections of the ship's bottom. The hull settled into place to help block a Scapa inlet and avert another submarine slip-up shot like Lieut. Commander Günther Prien's on the Royal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Conquering Heroes | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

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