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Danger's Hour
The Story of the USS Bunker Hill and the Kamikaze Pilot Who Crippled Her
Kennedy, Maxwell Taylor
Allied Warships
Check out our new extensive section on all the Allied Warships during WWII in all theatres of the war.Over 21,000 ships
U-boats sunk by Allied submarines
Germans lost many U-boats to the Allied submarine forces during 1939-1945. Several of those were lost with all hands. British submarines were the busiest with 13 kills. 4 U-boats were sunk in the Far East while they served as a part of the Monsun boats there and 5 more were sunk in the Mediterranean sea.
The war at sea was only 3 months old when Germany lost its first U-boat to the British submarine arm when HMS Salmon sank the U-36 outside Kristiansund in Norway.
The U-boats would be lost at a steady rate the entire war with the last one, U-183, being sunk by the USS Besugo on April 23, 1945, only 2 weeks before the German surrender.
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Allied Warships hit by U-boats.
24 boats (1034 total crews, 911 dead, 123 survivors).
* means the boat was sunk with all hands.