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To: Captain Walker

My boss back in the 70’s when I worked for a German company was a captured U boat commander who scuttled his boat but was captured by the Canadians early in the war. He became a Canadian citizen and was generally a good guy, but I think he suffered some grief by the other Germans for surrendering too easily. Most of the other German crews went to the bottom as the war went on.


7 posted on 08/17/2025 11:27:16 AM PDT by JeanLM (s )
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To: JeanLM
Most of the other German crews went to the bottom as the war went on.

Some 75% never came back.

The only military arm that suffered a casualty rate even close to that was the Allied bomber crews over Europe.

11 posted on 08/17/2025 11:57:57 AM PDT by Captain Walker ("Justice exalteth a nation: but sin maketh nations miserable." – Proverbs 14:34)
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