Re: The best WW2 submarine force ? No wonder there were much more german subs then british ones. So the chance for a german sub to meet a british one was much less then for the british. There were more then 70 allied attacks on german subs by allied ones. The RN sank thirteen german subs with their own, but this number gets relativized if you consider that there were more then 1200 subs, which saw action. 4 Dec, 1939 U-36 * VIIA 40 20 Aug, 1940 U-51 * VIIB 43 25 Feb, 1940 U-63 IIC 1 28 Nov, 1941 U-95 VIIC 35 10 Aug, 1941 U-144 * IID 28 6 Oct, 1944 U-168 IXC/40 23 23 Apr, 1945 U-183 IXC/40 54 21 Jan, 1943 U-301 VIIC 45 21 May, 1943 U-303 VIIC 20 4 Jun, 1943 U-308 * VIIC 44 3 Aug, 1942 U-335 VIIC 43 12 Jan, 1942 U-374 VIIC 42 30 Mar, 1943 U-416 VIIC 36 12 Apr, 1945 U-486 * VIIC 48 9 Nov, 1944 U-537 * IXC/40 58 28 Aug, 1943 U-639 * VIIC 47 7 Apr, 1943 U-644 * VIIC 45 11 Nov, 1944 U-771 * VIIC 51 23 Sep, 1944 U-859 IXD2 47 9 Feb, 1945 U-864 * IXD2 73 19 Apr, 1944 U-974 VIIC 42 15 Jun, 1944 U-987 * VIIC 53 22 boats (1046 total crews, 918 dead - 128 survivors). Regards, Che.
Re: The best WW2 submarine force ? Perfectly true. Even today, the cause of loss of a number of American and British submarines remains a mystery, and likely always will.