The stern of the German U-boat can be seen through the white veil after the being attacked by U.S. Navy carrier-based planes in April 1944
U.S. Navy Official photograph, Gift of Charles Ives, from the Collection of The National World War II Museum
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428.Photograph. 'File No: 209589 April 25, 1944 Navy planes sink U-Boat in two minutes! Another depth charge is dropped by the attacking U. S. Navy carrier-based planes. The stern of the submersible can be seen through the white veil after the explosion.' 25 April 1944
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The Charles Ives Collection consists of 719 photographs from the Pacific Theater of WWII. Many of the photographs were taken between 1944 and 1945. Mr. Ives inherited the photographs from a friend from Marblehead, Massachusetts who served as an aviator in the Army Air Corps and discharged as a Major in 1945.
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Submarines--German
Explosions