Top-scoring U-boat aces of World War II
| Captain
| Tonnage
| Ships
| Cruises
| Fate
| Boat
|
| Otto Kretschmer
| 238,327
| 42.5
| 16
| Scuttled U-99 and captured after depth charging by HMS Walker in March 1941. Post-war, rose to high rank within NATO
| U-23, U-99
|
| Günther Prien
| 211,393
| 32.5
| 10
| Sunk the battleship HMS Royal Oak, October 1939. Missing with all hands, March 7 1941. Cause unknown.
| U-47
|
| Wolfgang Luth
| 229,000
| 47
| 15
| Promoted to shore command, January 1944. Failed to respond to a challenge and shot dead by a naval sentry 4 days after the war ended.
| U-9, U-138, U-43. U-181
|
| Johann Mohr
| 135,067
| 29
| 6
| Lost with all hands, April 2 1943 after depth charging by HMS Stonecrop and HMS Black Swan
| U-124
|
