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CCIP · 03-20-10, 11:07 AM

So, to put it in very quick mathematical perspective -

Between June 1943 and May 1945 (the part NOT included in SHV), what we have is
17.2% of total U-boat successes and 67.1% of U-boat losses.

If we do a quick-and-dirty correlation of this to the total lives lost in the Battle of the Atlantic as a whole, you are looking at around 5,200 merchant marine seamen, and 18,800 U-boat men who lost their lives during this time.

(*on the other hand, here's another sobering statistic for you - the total number of deaths on both sides in this tragic period of the Atlantic battle is less than 1/3 the number of people instantly killed by the bomb at Hiroshima, and about 1.7% of the total number of people killed at Auschwitz (i.e. 58 times less). Talk about perspective...)

03-20-10, 11:07 AM	#18
CCIP Navy Seal Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Waterloo, Canada Posts: 8,700 Downloads: 29 Uploads: 2	So, to put it in very quick mathematical perspective - Between June 1943 and May 1945 (the part NOT included in SHV), what we have is 17.2% of total U-boat successes and 67.1% of U-boat losses. If we do a quick-and-dirty correlation of this to the total lives lost in the Battle of the Atlantic as a whole, you are looking at around 5,200 merchant marine seamen, and 18,800 U-boat men who lost their lives during this time. (on the other hand, here's another sobering statistic for you - the total number of deaths on both sides in this tragic period of the Atlantic battle is less than 1/3 the number of people instantly killed by the bomb at Hiroshima, and about 1.7% of the total number of people killed at Auschwitz (i.e. 58 times less). Talk about perspective...) __________________ There are only forty people in the world and five of them are hamburgers. -Don Van Vliet* (aka Captain Beefheart) Last edited by CCIP; 03-20-10 at 11:30 AM.