Hi!
You think 90,000 tons after nine patrols is
bad? 10,000 more tons and you get the
Ritterkreuz! There are plenty enough U-boat commanders who didn't get to say that (let alone survive 9 patrols)!
Pablo
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"...far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat."
- Theodore Roosevelt,
speech before the Hamilton Club, Chicago, April 10, 1899