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Originally Posted by Matador.es

That is a need list. And indeed, most are Type IX.

Its funny to see, the first (correct me) ALL type VII commanders are very known.

only 4 out of 31 used a type VII
Otto Kretschmer
Günther Prien
Joachim Schepke
Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock

Eric Topp 3rd most succesful U-boot commander commanded type VII
And IIRC Robert Gysae commanded type VII too.

And statistically the third war patrol for U-boot was it's last. But that just an avarage. Many went down on their first.