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Originally Posted by Tullaian
Historically Uboats by 1943 were taking huge casualties and heading past 80% loss rates. Suffice to say as the war goes on, it becomes increasingly difficult to survive. By the end of the war something like 95% of all Uboats had been sunk in action.
Without snorkel and radar, uboats took to travelling on the surface in daytime trusting the lookouts to spot planes in time to crash dive to escape and travelling submerged at night where they couldn't see the planes in time. Just give up trying to shoot the enemy planes down, and crash dive as soon as you see one.
But yes, it gets quite hard.
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No way that 95% of U-Boots were sunk in action. Around 230 were sunk by planes, and some 200 by DC, the rest of them did survive. Germans build 568 VIICs so at least 200 of them survived and were then scuttled.