80-G-41874:   Air Attacks on German Submarines, WWII.  Crew of a Consolidated PBY “Catalina” which destroyed a German submarine, U 156, in West Indies 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.  Pilot, Lieutenant Junior Grade John E. Dryden, Jr., USNR, describes the sinking.  The pilot sighted the submarine 8 miles away, and he went into a 45 degree dive.  As the submarine sank smoke and debris cascaded 40 feet into the air.  The oil slick spread until it was a quarter of a mile wide and three quarters of a mile long.   Photographed May 1943.  U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.  (2016/05/10).
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