Top tonnages sunk on single U-boat cruises?

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Troy Tempest
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Nice Simon! Where did you get these documents mate?

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Hello from sunny Port Macquarie
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They came up for sale last year over on Wehrmacht Awards. The group came with 3-4 photos as well. At the same time the seller put a fantastic photoalbum to the same man up on E-bay.

The EKII and U-boat doc were awarded when he was with U-37.

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=10890&hl=hempel
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Generalderpanzertruppen wrote:Hi JASGripen, I have a book at home with USN Submarine totals, I'll check it out for you and post later. The US submarine service racked up huge tonnage scores against the Imperial Japanese Merchant fleet, totally decimating it. Until I read a history of the Pacific War, I had no idea just how much carnage American subs inflicted on Japanese tankers. It's huge.

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Thanks, please do post about it. My understanding is alos that many US U-boats sunk a very high number of tonnage. But it isn't really comparable with the German numbers as the allies were far better at ASW, convoy, etc than the japanese were. Actually I don't think the US U-boats faced much of a challenge.
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