Black May (78 page)

WRENS (Women’s Royal Naval Service) adjust convoy and escort positions on the plot.
Bibliothek für Zeitgeschichte Stuttgart

A Hedgehog battery.
Imperial War Museum

A depth charge fitted to a thrower on H.M.S.
Sunflower. Imperial War Museum

The distinctive plumes created by the underwater explosions of depth charges dropped on a U-boat, in this case by an escort vessel.
U.S. Navy

A Fairey Swordfish Mark I equipped with searchlight and A.S.V. radar.
Imperial War Museum

A Vickers Wellington Mark XIII bomber fitted with A.S.V. aerials.
Imperial War Museum

A Consolidated B-24 V.L.R. Liberator bomber with matte white undersides, as recommended by Professor Patrick M.S. Blackett.
Imperial War Museum

A Consolidated PBY-5 Catalina flying boat moored to a buoy.
Imperial War Museum

Air Marshal Sir John C. Slessor (1897–1979), Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, RAF Coastal Command.
Imperial War Museum

Wing Commander Wilfrid Ewart Oulton (1911–1997), of 58 Squadron, Group 19, RAF Coastal Command, who was the leading scorer in the Bay of Biscay during May.
Imperial War Museum

Lt. (jg) William R. “Champ” Chamberlain, U.S.N.R., who dropped four D/Cs on U-569, which eventually surrendered and scuttled.
U.S. Navy

Captain D. V. Peyton Ward, R.N., Senior Naval Liaison Officer with RAF Coastal Command.
Imperial War Museum

Stephen Raushenbush.
Mrs. Stephen Raushenbush