View of the damaged stern of U.S. Navy destroyer escort USS <i>Barr</i> (DE-576), circa in June 1944. <i>Barr</i> was hit in the Atlantic Ocean by an acoustic torpedo from the German submarine <i>U-549</i> at 2030 hrs on 29 May 1944. <i>U-549</i> hat earlier torpedoed the escort carrier USS <i>Block Island</i> (CVE-21) and was itself sunk later that night.
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