Quite an excellent documentary. I did not realize that 1944 was actually the most successful ship sinking year of the war for U.S. submarines... by nearly 2 to 1, outpacing the 350 ships sank in 1943, by nearly double with 600 ships sunk, including many warships!
This changes my perspective that things had thinned out by 1944, Instead it appears that there were plenty of targets for most of that year- and the success rate of that year spelled doom for the Japanese.
Also surprised to find that at the
end of the war, the Japanese still had well over 1 million GMT of merchant capacity available to her that had survived the onslaught.
Well worth the time to enjoy this video in it's entirety. Thanks for sharing!
