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Aircraft of Coastal Command destroyed five U-boats in ten days during a period of
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Aircraft of Coastal Command destroyed five U-boats in ten days during a period of
Aircraft of Coastal Command destroyed five U-boats in ten days during a period of intensive submarine activity in the Atlantic.
As the German sub sank, survivors provided the aircraft crew with firm evidence of the destruction wrought by their depth charges. One of the attacks took place in the Bay of Biscay, when an Australian Sunderland sighted a U-boat ten miles away. The Nazi opened light ack-ack and machine gun fire, but the flying boat was
not hit and dropped its first stick of depth charge across the U-boat aft of the conning tower. Apparently seriously damaged, the U-boat" gradually stopped listing to listing to port.
A. second stick of depth charge straddled the submarine, and It began to settle
by the stern. The U-boats crew started to jump the water, then the sub sunk stem first, her bow reappearing twice at a sharp angle before finally going under.
Picture Shows; The tell stele patch of oil on the surface of the sea after the U-boat made its death dive.
May 1943
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