Image: HMS Kite depth charge attack 1944 IWM A 21989

Description: IWM caption : HMS Kite (U87) on anti-submarine patrol with the 2nd Escort Group. HMS Kite joins in the depth charge attack and is dwarfed by the column of water which rises six-times her height. Captain Walker's 2nd Escort Group, consisted of the sloops, HMS Starling (U66), Kite, HMS Wild Goose (U45), HMS Magpie (U82) and HMS Woodpecker (U08), with the escort carriers HMS Activity (D94) and HMS Nairana (D05). In January 1944 it left from Liverpool with orders to protect convoys and intercept U-Boats in the Atlantic just southwest of Ireland. By their return in February 1944 they had managed to sink 6 U-boats.
Title: HMS Kite depth charge attack 1944 IWM A 21989
Credit: This is photograph A 21989 from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 4700-01)
Author: Parnall, C H (Lt), Royal Navy official photographer
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