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80-G-319661 HMS Malcolm

Photo #: 80-G-319661 HMS Malcolm
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Title: HMS Malcolm
Description: (British Destroyer, 1919) lower left Receiving the surrender of German submarine U-541 in the South Atlantic, west of Cape St. Vincent, Spain (position 36-20N, 11-30W) on 11 May 1945. Photographed from a PBY-5A Catalina of Patrol Bombing Squadron 63 (VPB-63), piloted by Lieutenant W.D. Ray, from Naval Air Station Port Lyautey, Morocco. Note the retrobomb anti-submarine rockets under the plane's wing, mounted to fire backwards. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
Catalog #: 80-G-319661
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