U-Boats Destroyed: German Submarine Losses in the World WarsIn both World Wars I and II, the German U boat was the Allies' scourge, and in the latter conflict it very nearly won the day for the Nazis. Over a thousand of these powerful ships were destroyed in air and seaborne attacks, by surface vessels and submarines, in tough head to head encounters, chance meetings, and after extensive chases and hunts. Here is unprecedented detail of these sinkings and obliterations, of casualties on a massive scale, and of