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Old 02-23-11, 01:18 AM   #2
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Originally Posted by Raptor1
Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière
Gets my vote as well. Among his many exploits was surviving hiding under a freighter he had torpedoed, only to have it sink on top of him. Pure luck, that escape was.

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Otto Kretschmer, without a doubt:
In all, he sank 56 ships to become the tonnage king of the German U-Boat service, with a total tonnage of 313,611 tons.
Only for World War 2.
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