How many U-Boats were sunk in WW2? #shorts

Added: 2026-05-05

[00:00:00]Serving on a yubot was the deadliest job in World War II. Period.

[00:00:05]Germany built 1,162 Yubot.

[00:00:09]The Allies destroyed 785 of them.

[00:00:13]Early on, they dominated. Yubot sank nearly 2800 Allied merchant ships, 14 million tons. Then came May 1943, Black May.

[00:00:27]In 31 days, the Allies killed 41 Yubot.

[00:00:32]A quarter of the entire operating fleet gone in one month.

[00:00:38]40,000 men served in the Yubot arm.

[00:00:41]30,000 of them never came home. That's the highest death rate of any branch of any military in the war.

[00:00:50]When Germany surrendered, 221 crews scuttled their own boats.

[00:00:55]154 gave up. Two vanished and surfaced months later in Argentina.

[00:01:02]Deadliest job in the war. And they kept volunteering until the last day.