sentences:  For the rest of their peacetime careers, they spent much of the year out of service but were reactivated for the annual fleet maneuvers every August and September.For the exercises, they formed III Squadron, with "Kaiser Wilhelm II" serving as the squadron flagship.Following the outbreak of World War I in July 1914, the five "Kaiser Friedrich III"-class ships were reactivated to form V Battle Squadron, with "Kaiser Wilhelm II" again as the flagship.