These are 40 of the best and most exciting WW2 submarine adventures, following the day-to-day actions of the most successful combat submarine skippers. Watch with them as the big freighters go down, listen to the sound of shearing metal, and wait out the depth charge attacks in close, airless quarters, hundreds of feet underwater.
Share the thoughts and perceptions of legendary commanders like “Mush” Morton, Charles Kirkpatrick, J.R. “Dinty” Moore, Thomas Klakring, N.G. Ward, C.R. Burlingame, John S. Coye, and Dick O’Kane as they stalk their prey, wait in ambush, and face the rigors of failing equipment, unpredictable torpedoes, and ramming attempts by freighters and escorts. All these great stories, and more, are told in detail here.
1008 U boats were built and made at least one cruise during the Second Battle of the North Atlantic, 1939-45; 775 were sunk; 600 by the Royal Navy and the rest by the US………..and one by the Free Polish Navy!
I think around 450 were made during ww2.
damn,looks like I am wrong,lol…I think 450 is the number of VII types which were the "workhorse" of Kriegsmarine.
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1008 U boats were built and made at least one cruise during the Second Battle of the North Atlantic, 1939-45; 775 were sunk; 600 by the Royal Navy and the rest by the US………..and one by the Free Polish Navy!
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amateur naval historian