A US destroyer fires a pattern of depth charges during a search for a German U-boat

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A US destroyer fires a pattern of depth charges during a search for a German U-boat

A US destroyer fires a pattern of depth charges during a search for a German U-boat. 9th November 1942
The depth charge was the main anti-submarine warfare weapon used against the German submarine threat during the Battle of the Atlantic. Invented in 1911 it is intended to destroy or cripple a submarine by subjecting it to a powerful hydraulic shock caused by the underwater detonation of the weapon

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