Originally Posted by
PDR1
There are far worse stats. The most startling [for me] was to discover that 75% of all the men who went to sea in a german submarine during WW2 died in a submarine. That's a shockingly high number,
My father said of his cohort who joined Bomber Command (Halifaxes) together with him, the loss rate by the end of their FIRST tour (fortunately his only one) had been the same.