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Wolfpack Delphin II

military unit

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ107389498 ↗
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Delphin II (Dolphin) was the name given to a wolfpack of German U-boats that operated during the Battle of the Atlantic in World War II, from 26 December 1942 to 14 February 1943.

The group was responsible for sinking 10 merchant ships and damaging one ship; 2 of the pack's U-boats were sunk.

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“Wolfpack Delphin II” enters the record as military unit. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Wolfpack, Delphin and military can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Wolfpack Delphin II” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.