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|Description=IWM caption : [[:en:HMS Kite (U87)|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.

|Description=IWM caption : [[:en:HMS Kite (U87)|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.
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|Source={{IWM Collections|A 21989|4700-01}}
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|Source={{IWM Collections|A 21989|4700-01|nocat=1}}

|Date={{other date|between|1944-01-26|1944-02-26}}

|Date={{other date|between|1944-01-26|1944-02-26}}

|Author=Parnall, C H (Lt), Royal Navy official photographer

|Author=Parnall, C H (Lt), Royal Navy official photographer
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[[Category:Depth charge explosions]]

[[Category:Depth charge explosions]]

[[Category:Black and white photographs]]

[[Category:Black and white photographs]]

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[[Category:Collections of the Imperial War Museum]]

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