Fighting German U-boats, WWII. US Navy - 80-G-41877 (26907907076)

80-G-41877: Air Attacks on German Submarines, WWII. Crew of a PBY which destroyed a German submarine in West Indian waters by raking deck with machine gun fire and dropping 4 depth bombs from 100’. The u-boat broke in two with terrific explosion and sank. A life raft was dropped for survivors. “She just broke in the middle and sank,” says an Aviation Machine’s Mate Third Class J.F. Connelly, waist gunner, as he described the event to a Rear Admiral and a Brigadier General, commanding officers at the Atlantic base. The plane’s skipper was Lieutenant Junior Grade John Edwin Dryden, USNR, (standing next to Rear Admiral). Photographed May 1943. U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2016/05/10).