To put some perspective into this topic:
According to JANAC, US subs:
- sunk a total of 5,586,400 tons of merchant & naval shipping in the Pacific. Out of this, over 5m tons were merchant shipping, 1,178 ships of which were over 500 tons displacement.
- total naval tonnage: 577,626 tons. 214 naval ships sunk, including 1 BB, 4 CVs, 4 CVEs, 3 CAs, 8 CLs, 43 DDs, 23 SSs.
Source: Pg 538, "Red Scorpion - The War Patrols of the USS Rasher" by Peter Sasgen, Pocket Star Books Feb 2005 ed
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