John Peterson
ASIN: B00HLPNMDY
Publisher: John Peterson
Pages: 55
Though the German Kriegsmarine had a force of just 65 U-boats at the outbreak of the Second World War there were more than 1100 U-boats built and commissioned over the course of the conflict. Of these nearly 800 had been destroyed by the Allies by the time the war was over and more than 200 of the remaining boats were scuttled or otherwise destroyed by their crews in the closing days of the war to prevent them falling into enemy hands. This left a total of 156 U-boats that were eventually captured by the Allies and gathered together for disposal. A certain number were divided up as war prizes between the UK, the USA and Russia while the vast majority, some 116 U-boats, were destroyed during Operation Deadlight and sunk in the deep waters around the coast of Northern Ireland. Of the small number of U-boats that had been divided up between the main Allied nations most were destroyed ...