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Description: Off Point Judith, Rhode Island. The US Coast Guard-manned frigate USS Moberly lands a circular pattern of Hedgehog depth charges against German submarine U-853. Working with three navy vessels, the Coast Guard ship destroyed the submarine. The Moberly operated as a unit of the Atlantic Fleet. See File:U-853-sinking2.jpg for the depth charges exploding simultaneously underwater several seconds later.
Title: U-853-sinking1
Credit: US Coast Guard Photo No. 4557. Downloaded from http://www.uscg.mil/history/webcutters/PF63_Moberly.pdf
Author: Unknown photographer
Permission: This image or file is a work of a United States Coast Guard service personnel or employee, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image or file is in the public domain (17 U.S.C. § 101 and § 105, USCG main privacy policy and specific privacy policy for its imagery server).
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Battle of Point Judith

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