"The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril."

Winston Churchill

 

German "U-Boat" submarines sank some 3,500 Allied merchant vessels and 175 Allied warships during the war, but it was expensive - some 30,000 German submariners lost their lives in the process.

AFV Club #73503, 1/350 German U-Boat Type VIIC