Was being an U-Boat crewman during WW2 the shittiest experience ever?
This shit just scares me like hell, even more than Eastern Front.
>spend months in a tin can, reeking of diesel and sweat
>nothing to do, just waiting while you pick up a convoy or enemy ship
>constant danger of aircraft spotting you and sinking you with little chance to fight back
>even if you spot a convoy, there is a chance you get killed by destroyers bombarding you with depth charges for hours
>if your boat gets damaged, you have basically no chance to survive
>no one can even mark your grave
>you just disappear in the Atlantic with your comrades
>Allies get so good at killing U-Boats that you basically die as soon as you exit your port at later stages during the war
Shit's fucked up, not to mention that 75% U-Boat crews died in the war.
I was about to answer your very first line... with your very last one!
musta bin hell m8
Either that or being in the IJN in general. Certain defeat and suicide sounds pretty rotten.
>>449057
>75% U-Boat crews died in the war.
Damn. Source?
ALAAAAAAAARM!
>>449248
http://www.uboataces.com/boa-uboat-end.shtml
>Of the 1,155 U-boats Germany sent into combat, 725 had been sunk in the longest battle of the war. Lasting nearly six years, over 35,000 German sailors had put to sea, with 28,744 never returning – a death rate of 82 percent, the highest casualty rate of any armed forces of any conflict in the history of modern war.
Was a bit wrong, it's 82%, not 75%.
>>449339
>82%
Christ.
Literally BTFO.
Can you imagine months on a tin can with really nasty, sweaty, SMELLY, young men with no showers, little soap, and sometimes, when submerged, living off stinky air and diesel engines that smell like death and then getting depth charged and dying?
>>449460
Doesnt sound that bad desu if you skip the part where youre being depth charged
>>449057
Favorite film of all time desu.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rC03c9rUzDs
The B-52 crews had a pretty atrocious causality rate
>>449511
no they don't and no they didn't
>>449057
Thanks OP now you made me install Silent Hunter 3 again
>>449460
>tfw almost took sub orders, but got a gallbladder infection and lost them
>At the American Premiere of Das Boot the opening information about how 40,000 men who served on German submarines, 30,000 never returned received thunderous applause from the audience.
>At the end of the movie much of the audience left in tears
>>449511
B-52's were rarely, if ever, shot down.
maybe you meant B-29's, since that is what the planes in your image are.
>>449880
Even then B-29s had a high loss rate from mechanical issues and the way they did bombing runs early in their use. Their losses went down when they started going low and using fire bombs.
