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Old 05-13-07, 10:43 AM   #3
Beery
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Originally Posted by Kpt. Lehmann
Roughly one third of frontline U-boats were lost to enemy action on their first patrol.
Yeah, but roughly a third of all U-boats put to sea on their first patrol in the last year and a half of the war when putting to sea in a U-boat was suicide.
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