by Clay Blair
* See Plates 12 and 13, and Appendices 3,9, and 20.
# Excerpted from the Foreword of Volume I, pp. x-xi.
* September through December inclusive. Assuming an average fifty ships per convoy. Source: Metcalf (1949); Rohwer, Critical Convoy Battles and Successes; British Monthly Anti Submarine Reports.
† January through May, inclusive.
‡Merchant ships in convoy or straggling.
§September through December, inclusive. Source: Metcalf (1949); Rohwer and British Monthly Anti Submarine Reports.
#January through May, inclusive.
**Merchant ships in convoy or straggling.
‡‡ September through December, inclusive. Source: As above.
‡January through May, inclusive.
§§Merchant ships in convoy or straggling.
##September through December, inclusive. Source: Fisher.
***January through May, inclusive.
‡‡‡ Seventeen times the losses (272) on the combined North Atlantic and Middle Atlantic runs, both eastbound and westbound.
‡‡‡In millions.
*September through December, inclusive; all classes in all areas. Sources for lost U-boats: German, Japanese and Italian Submarine Losses [in] World War II (US. Navy Dept., 1946), Tarrant (1989), and Niestlé (1998); number of men captured: NAVOPARCH, GNR, Box T-76.
† January through May, inclusive. All classes in all areas, but not counting U-boats scuttled or surrendered. For those figures, see Appendices 18 and 19.
§Assuming 45 men per boat.
‡Apart from those captured. A few of these men were rescued by German forces, but exact figures have not been calculated.
§Excerpted from the Foreword of Volume I, pp. x-xi.
* Hereafter OCMH.
* Hereafter USNIP.
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