Le Unterseeboot 222 (ou U-222) est un sous-marin allemand (U-Boot) de type VII.C utilisé par la Kriegsmarine (marine de guerre allemande) pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale
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German Submarine U-222 was a Type VIIC U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II.
She was laid down at the F. Krupp Germaniawerft yard in Kiel as yard number 652 on 16 June 1941, launched on 28 March 1942 and commissioned on 23 May under Oberleutnant zur See Ralf von Jessen. She was part of the 8th U-boat Flotilla, a training organization.
She was lost on 2 September 1942 after a collision with U-626 in the Baltic. 42 men died; there were three survivors.
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The Vistula Spit is an aeolian sand spit, or peninsular stretch of land, separating Vistula Lagoon from Gdańsk Bay, in the Baltic Sea, with its tip separated from the mainland by the Strait of Baltiysk. The border between Poland and Kaliningrad Oblast, an exclave of Russia, bisects it, politically dividing the spit into two pieces between the two countries. The westernmost geographical point of Russia is located on the Vistula Spit. The Polish part contains a number of tourist resorts, incorporated administratively as the town of Krynica Morska.
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The Krynica Morska Lighthouse is an active lighthouse in the town of Krynica Morska, Pomeranian Voivodship, Poland.
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Krynica Morska [krɨˈɲit͡sa ˈmɔrska] is a resort town and coextensive municipality on the Vistula Spit in northern Poland with 1,172 inhabitants as of 2023. It has been part of Nowy Dwór County in Pomeranian Voivodeship.
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Przebrno is a neighborhood of the town of Krynica Morska on the Vistula Spit in northern Poland, located in the western part of the town.
The village has sandy beaches on the shores of the Bay of Gdańsk on the northern side of the spit, and the Vistula Lagoon on the southern side.