Very cool! It looks like every one of these 10 U-Boats and 1 Italian boat was sunk by airplanes, Catalinas and Mariners mostly. It's amazing that every one of these losses occurred in 1943, and that 7 of them took place in July. Still, that is a small consolation for the 18 Brasilian ships and 56 Non-Brasilian ships sunk in the vicinity of Brasil's coast. A ratio of 7 to 1 and even higher than that from a tonnage standpoint. Another 18 Brasilian ships were sunk in other areas, further away in areas like the Caribbean and US coast.
My dad, pictured above, served on a USN Destroyer from mid-42 to mid-44, patrolling the Brasilian coast from Belem in the North down to Pelotas and Porto Alegre in the South. Their mission was to police the major shipping ports, looking for contraband and German spies, so they never faced off with a submarine during this time. EmeAzul
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