Another good read is "Iron Coffins", by Oberlutenant Herbert Werner, one of three German U-Boat Captains to fight through the entire WWII and survive. The attrition rate among the U-Boats and crews was over 90%.
In March of 1945, Werner's boat was damaged and had to go into drydock for repairs, with the estimated repair time at 8 weeks. During this time, he had time to think, and finally faced the fact that there was no way Germany was going to win the war.
He was single, both of his parents and his sister were collateral damage from the war, his major girlfriends were either dead or disappeared, so he hatched a plan. He began combing personnel files looking for reliable men in the same circumstances. His plan was he was going to assemble a skeleton crew, and when his boat was repaired, on the pretense of a trial run, he was simply going to scram to South American and accept what asylum he could find.
The war ended before his boat was fixed. As he had once been on a mining mission in Chesapeake Bay, his boat did have the range, though.
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