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Originally Posted by JazzJR
Also i wonder the other U-Boat aces doesn't get more tonnage, maybe they were sunk?  |
Sunk or promoted and sent to safe desk jobs.
The Germans suffered a huge propaganda loss in losing their U-boat newsreel stars Kretschmer, Prien and Schepke in just a few days in 1941 and wanted to make sure their U-boat commander heroes would not meet a hero's death and the consequent nasty question for the Propaganda department: "how do we inform the nation that our U-boat hero has been sunk with all hands on board?" Therefore after 1941 commanders were promoted and sent to much safer leading and training assignments, if they got famous.
(A good reason for a war weary submarine commander to be aggressive too: "If I manage to sunk one fat tanker more, I might get a promotion and a ticket to safety".)