General Discussions
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RE: Greatest U-Boat Battle / Confrontation?
Posted by:
Toni Horodysky
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Date: April 06, 2001 11:24PM
<HTML>From my reading I believe the greatest U-boat battle was the attack by 3 wolfpacks totalling 45 u-boats during March 1943 on Convoys HX229 and SC122. There were 88 merchant ships and 15 escorts. The u-boats fired 90 torpedoes, sinking 22 ships, and resulting in 372 dead. It was wartime Germany that called it the \"greatest convoy battle of all time.\"</HTML>