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Originally Posted by IceGrog
so in order for the 60% fate at the end of the war it was just plain short of suicide to be on patrol in a u-boat towards the end years
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You really get a sense of that when you read Werner's Iron Coffins and Peter Cremer's U-boat Commander (which I'm in the middle of now). I haven't reached the part where Cremer gets his XXI (eagerly looking forward to that...man, what a boat that must have been) but he's just been sent back out in the summer of '43 after being on Donitz's staff. He paints a very very grim picture.