Timeline for answer to Once the USA started flying warplanes from Greenland, why didn't merchant ships sail more north, hug Labrador and Greenland for air cover? by Italian Philosopher

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yesterday	comment	added	T.E.D.♦		It seems possible that there would be dangers from this route of the more mundane kind too: Icebergs. At some point you'd get more ships taken out by those than by subs.
yesterday	comment	added	Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine		It’s also far from obvious that hugging Greenland would even have reduced overall risk at all. At best, that portion of the route would have had reduced risk from Axis attacks. But the added length and worse weather conditions carry their own non-negligible extra risks in return, and the rest of the route would still have been under Axis harrassment threat.
yesterday	comment	added	Italian Philosopher		@quarague Famously it was at 75%, mostly MIA/KIA, not wounded for U-Boat crews. And still 20% for the US submariners nps.gov/articles/000/submarines-in-world-war-ii.htm
2 days ago	comment	added	quarague		Note that while a 4% casualty rate was high for the American military services, the casualty rates where much higher for the European and the Russian military. I seem to remember rates in the range of 1/4 to 1/3 for both Russia and Germany.
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