During the Second World War, United States Submarines operating in
the Pacific sank 201 Japanese warships totalling 540,192 tons, including
one battleship, four large carriers, four small carriers, three heavy cruisers,
eight light cruisers, 43 destroyers, and 23 submarines.

Of greater importance to the war's outcome, the submarines sent to the
bottom 1,113 Japanese merchant ships of more than 500 tons each, for a
total tonnage of 4,779,902, only a million tons less than the entire
prewar Japanese merchant fleet.

Submarines sank 55 percent of all Japanese ships lost in the war,
more than the U.S. surface navy, its carrier planes,and the
Army Air Corps combined.

3,505 men and 52 submarines were lost.

The boat with the greatest number of sinkings was USS TANG, 24 ships 
for 93,824 tons.

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